Action comedy (often listed with a hyphen as action-comedy ) is a genre that combines aspects of action and comedy .
6-644: Old Guy is a 2024 American action comedy film directed by Simon West , written by Greg Johnson, produced by Martin Brennan and Jib Polhemus, and Dark Castle Entertainment . Filmed on location in Northern Ireland and starring Christoph Waltz , Lucy Liu , and Cooper Hoffman . Old Guy premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 17, 2024. In January 2023, it was announced that Highland Film Group were co-financing
12-400: The decade included The Blues Brothers (1980) and the films of actor and martial artist Jackie Chan . In the 1990s, action comedy films "became more violent, with fiery deaths and emphatic shootings increasingly used as punchlines". Rotten Tomatoes wrote that Rush Hour (1998) revitalized the genre's formula and that Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was a highlight from
18-546: The film, to be produced by Jib Polhemus, and Martin Brennan with Hal Sadoff and Norman Golightly producing for Dark Castle Entertainment . Additionally, Christoph Waltz joined the cast. In April 2023, Lucy Liu , Cooper Hoffman and Desmond Eastwood were revealed to have joined the cast. Principal photography began in Belfast in mid-2023. In March 2024, The Avenue acquired the North American distribution rights to
24-432: The film. The film premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 17, 2024, at Fashion Island . Action comedy film AllMovie describes action comedy films as those with "fast and furious" action yet being "mostly lighthearted", rarely having death or serious injury. The Script Lab wrote, "[The genre] relies on the characters to bring out the humor, while the action scenes tend to be less intense than in
30-489: The first action comedy film. Other early forms of action comedy films were swashbuckler films from the 1930s. Allmovie wrote that its "stars combined wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts". In the 1980s, the genre became commonplace, and buddy cop films emerged as an extension of action comedy films such as Midnight Run (1988) and the Lethal Weapon film series . Other action comedies from
36-484: The traditional action movie." Action comedies often have " fish out of water " themes; for example, using a starring actor's celebrity to contrast the setting, such as how comedian and actor Eddie Murphy 's "streetwise, sarcastic persona clashes with conventional police procedures in the Beverly Hills Cop films" in the late twentieth century. The 1926 film The General starring Buster Keaton may be
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