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    “Naked Gun” reboot set for 2025, with Liam Neeson to star

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    Actor Liam Neeson appears at the premiere of the film "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" in London. Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of “Naked Gun,” the studio announced Wednesday. Neeson will star as the bumbling police detective Debin in the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, file)
    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Lt. Frank Drebin is back on the case.

    Paramount Pictures is moving ahead with a long-gestating remake of "Naked Gun," the studio announced Wednesday. Liam Neeson will star as the bumbling police detective Drebin in the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen.

    Akiva Schaffer ("Hot Rod," "Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping") will direct the film, set for release in July 2025. The script is by Dan Gregor, Doug Man and Schaffer, who collaborated on 2022's "Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers."

    The "Naked Gun" films, derived from the TV series "Police Squad!", were high-water marks for slapstick comedy. They ran over six years: "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad" (1988), "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear" (1991) and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (1994).

    Nielsen died in 2010 at the age of 84. Before playing Lt. Drebin, Nielsen had been largely a dramatic actor.

    "It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type," Nielsen once said, "and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."

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    VML’s Kaleeta McDade and Industry’s Oved Valadez win 2025 ADCOLOR | One Club Creative Award

    Monday, November 17, 2025
    Kaleeta McDade

    Kaleeta McDade, VML global chief experience officer, based in Atlanta, and Oved Valadez, executive creative director and founding partner at Industry in Portland, are the recipients of this year’s ADCOLOR | ONE CLUB Creative Award, presented at the annual ADCOLOR Awards ceremony on Friday (11/14) in Orlando.

    Now in its 16th year, the ADCOLOR | One Club Creative Award is given to a professional in a creative field from a historically excluded community who has demonstrated extraordinary talent and achievement within the media, creative, digital, and traditional advertising disciplines.

    The honor is presented jointly by The One Club for Creativity and ADCOLOR, an organization dedicated to celebrating and promoting professionals of color and diversity in the creative industries.

    “Our work at The One Club--whether through ONE School, Creative Boot Camps, or annual Where Are All The Black people conference and career fair--is about nurturing creativity that reflects the world we live in,” said Adrienne Lucas, global head of strategic partnerships & DEI at The One Club for Creativity. “Kaleeta and Oved represent the creative excellence and leadership our industry needs. They are visionaries who remind us what’s possible when inclusion is built into innovation.”

    At VML, McDade helps companies drive intimacy at scale while harnessing the power of innovation, design, data, and technology. Her 20 years of experience span numerous industries and geographies, holding notable leadership and creative roles with Google Brand Studio, Apple, Sapient Shanghai, Deloitte Digital, and Ogilvy.

    McDade, who serves on The One Club Board of Directors, has a proven ability to drive impact for brands, helping them shape a creative vision... Read More

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