In August 2008, Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder ignited the box office… and stoked serious controversy. The showbiz send-up follows a ragtag group of narcissistic, often drug-addled actors (Stiller, Jack ...

A Tropic Thunder sequel is long overdue, but a spinoff with Tom Cruise seems more likely. The 2008 action-comedy was a critical and commercial success, despite some controversy over Robert Downy Jr.'s ...

Ben Stiller doesn’t think ‘Tropic Thunder’ could be made today because “edgier comedy is harder to do”. The 58-year-old actor starred in and directed the 2009 satirical action comedy - which also ...

Tropic Thunder star and director Ben Stiller has revealed the bizarre requests Tom Cruise had for his character. Cruise played Les Grossman in the movie, a studio executive with a bad temper who was ...

Elon Musk used an insensitive slur to ridicule Ben Stiller for his support of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. On Wednesday (November 27), a tweet from former investment ...

Of course, that’s largely nonsense. The use of blackface in the movie was specifically designed to ridicule both the practice of blackface generally and the way some “method” actors overcommit to ...

Ben Stiller isn't sure he would have "ventured" to make "Tropic Thunder" in today's comedy environment. "I doubt it," Stiller told Collider, when asked if "Tropic Thunder" could be made today.