Adam McKay says one of the common threads among experts they consulted for his new movie, “The Big Short,” is that it was “absolutely ridiculous that no one went to jail and there is almost ...

Adam McKay has gone from directing laffers like “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights” to “The Big Short.” But as he explained to Variety, it’s not such a leap from absurdist farce to ...

Adam McKay played to his strong suit to adapt the Michael Lewis book The Big Short as a movie. Adam McKay On 'The Big Short', 2008 Collapse & Laughter In Storytelling ...

While watching the recently released film The Big Short, a movie loosely based on Michael Lewis’s book of the same name, I couldn’t stop thinking about another book directly from McKay's world ...

So when Adam McKay first set out to bring Michael Lewis’ 2010 nonfiction bestseller “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” to the big screen, he figured he’d face an uphill battle.

'Anchorman' director Adam McKay gets serious with 'The Big Short' Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 54°F. Friday, April 25th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. News. News; ...

Adam McKay Of 'Funny Or Die' Dissects The '08 Economic Crash In 'The Big Short' Not only do the characters in McKay's Oscar-nominated film warn about the collapse of the global economy — they ...

Adam McKay, the writer-director of such classics as “Anchorman” and “Step Brothers” and co-founder of Funny or Die finds himself a dual Oscar nominee for co-writing and directing “The ...

Jeff Labrecque is a former senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2018. The Big Short will premiere as the closing-night gala film at AFI Fest on Nov. 12, before a limited opening in ...

You don't have to look too closely to realize that Adam McKay's work has always been at least a little bit political. But the director, writer and producer, best known for broad comedies like ...

The Big Short director Adam McKay is in a daze over his film’s five Oscar nominations, but that hasn’t gotten in the way of his celebrating. “There are some mimosas going on, I’m not going ...

Adam McKay, writer and director of "The Big Short," says that the conversation around the movie is more exciting to him than the Oscar nominations.