Barry Sonnenfeld

Date of Birth

1953-04-01

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Addams Family Values, Blood Simple, Big Trouble, Nine Lives, Men in Black 3

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Pop Culture

Men in Black director says Will Smith’s farts forced them to evacuate the stage for three hours

Posted 2 years ago

Barry Sonnenfeld says Will Smith's farts on the set of Men in Black actually forced them to evacuate the set for three hours.

Bonus feature on the 4K Blu-ray release of 1991's The Addams Family reveals Christina Ricci saved film by suggesting the ending be changed

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The Addams Family is now on 4K Blu-ray; clip details how Christina Ricci saved the film

Posted 5 years ago

When we first heard that Paramount would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of director Barry Sonnenfeld’s The Addams Family with a 4K release of the film, the street date given for the physical media edition was November 9th. That changed along the...

Movie News

Barry Sonnenfeld’s Metal Men movie is back in development

Posted 5 years ago

Here’s a blast from the past: It’s been nearly a decade since it was first announced that Barry Sonnenfeld would be directing a big-screen adaptation of DC’s Metal Men. We haven’t heard all that much about the Metal Men movie...

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F. Gary Gray in talks to helm the Men in Black spinoff

Posted 8 years ago

Be sure to polish up your Ray Bans and bring your sharpest, blackest suit to the cleaners, because Sony and Amblin Entertainment's MEN IN BLACK reboot is picking up steam. It's been announced that FRIDAY and SET IT OFF director F....

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Dunkirk, Predator, Robocop, Scarface

Posted 8 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Oscar Isaac in talks to voice Gomez in animated The Addams Family movie

Posted 9 years ago

The Addams Family has been laying dormant for quite some time, but at long last, the delightfully morbid family will be returning to the big-screen. MGM got the ball rolling on the animated feature in the wake of the cancellation...

Sausage Party’s Conrad Vernon to direct The Addams Family

Posted 9 years ago

You can't keep a good family down, especially one as delightfully morbid as The Addams Family. Close to four years ago, MGM began moving ahead with an animated Addams Family film in the wake of the cancellation of Tim Burton's...

Transformers: The Last Knight writers to pen Men in Black spin-off for 2019

Posted 9 years ago

Sony Pictures has been keen to keep the MEN IN BLACK franchise going after the third film, but when the series does return, it will likely be without major roles, if any, for Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. As...

Making movies is a rough business in these clips for Epix’s Get Shorty

Posted 9 years ago

I've never come across a single person who has told me that making movies is easy, though I would imagine that dealing with dead bodies, pre-madonnas, and itchy trigger-fingered thugs is a whole other kettle of fish. Do you remember...

The F*ckin Black Sheep: Men In Black (1997)

Posted 9 years ago

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...

Top 10 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Based on Comics (Video)

Posted 9 years ago

Comic book movies are the hot ticket items that are getting the kids jazzed these days. They’re the bee’s knees, as it were. In fact, they’re the bee’s knees in the cat’s pajamas. Anyway, we all know this applies especially...