Ike Barinholtz says he was writing the film, but the plans were scrapped following the death of Michael Brown. The new Police Academy would have been a "dirty, rated-R, modern" version. "As we were ...

When Police Academy hit cinemas in 1984, few could have predicted that it would launch one of the era's most unlikely comedy franchises. With its slapstick mayhem and goofball charm, the film's ...

A reboot of the cult-comedy franchise Police Academy was scrapped after the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Comedy writer Ike Barinholtz revealed on the Funny You Ask podcast that he was hired ...

Steve Guttenburg, the star of the Police Academy movies, has confirmed that another is in the pipeline. Guttenberg, who played the wise-cracking Officer Carey Mahoney, revealed the plans in a Twitter ...

“Animal House for cops”: was never a great, sensitive pitch, but it did fuel one of the 19’80s’ most notorious franchises: Police Academy. Thankfully, despite reboots and legacy sequels of other ’80s ...

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Ike Barinholtz says he was writing a "dirty, rated-R, modern" version. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were set to star in a new Police Academy movie, until the 2014 killing of Michael Brown led ...