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CelebrityYahoo Movies'Breakfast Club' stars Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy reunite for dinner nearly 38 years after film's release
"My Gen X heart just skipped a beat!" one fan gushed on the reunion.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKPlanes, Trains and Automobiles: Legendary deleted scenes finally released
A new 4K re-release includes over 75 minutes of previously unseen deleted and extended footage that, until this year, was thought lost.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' director responds to 'highly exaggerated' alternate director 'myth'
“That story is highly exaggerated. I never had any inkling he was even being considered,” reveals director Jeremiah S. Chechik.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKAnthony Michael Hall: John Hughes comedies were 'inappropriate to a degree' (exclusive)
Anthony Michael Hall says he understands why the likes of 'The Breakfast Club' are being reappraised amid changing moral standards.
CelebrityYahoo Movies UK'Ferris Bueller's Day Off': Why Matthew Broderick hesitated to take one of his best roles
The actor worried about how starring in the 1986 John Hughes film would affect his career.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' teacher ad-libbed his iconically boring economics lesson
Ben Stein was the monotone economics teacher at Ferris Bueller's high school, somehow delivering one of the most memorable scenes in the entire film.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies'Pretty in Pink' director Howard Deutch on film's famous lost ending and Molly Ringwald's theory that Duckie was secretly gay
"Pretty in Pink" director Howard Deutch shares behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the Brat Pack classic.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK'The Breakfast Club' would be completely different if made today, says star Ally Sheedy
She said the cast would be more diverse and the film would have a different perspective.
NewsBen BusseyFerris Bueller At 30: American Hero, Or Psychotic Super-Villain?
11 June 1986 saw the cinema release of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ and 30 years on it’s still one of the best-loved comedies of its decade. ‘Ferris Bueller’ was the fourth film from writer-director John Hughes, following on from 1984′s ‘16 Candles,’ and 1985′s ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Weird Science,’ and it marked the culmination of the 80s icon’s run of teen-oriented comedy hits. Whilst all Hughes’ teen comedies remain popular today, there’s a particular fascination with ‘Ferris Bueller.’ This would seem to be primarily down to the title character himself, memorably performed by a near-constantly fourth-wall breaking Matthew Broderick.
NewsBen BusseyWatch This Hilarious (NSFW) Deadpool/Ferris Bueller Mash-Up
It just so happens that this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ opening in cinemas for the first time, and it may be with this in mind that an enterprising soul on Youtube decided to take the ‘Deadpool’ connection that bit further. Darth Blender edited a new mash-up trailer, ‘Deadpool’s Day Off’ - and the results impressed Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds enough for him to share it with followers on Twitter.
