Etan Cohen

Etan Cohen

1974-01-01 Jerusalem, Israel 13 Credits

Biography

Etan Cohen is an Israeli-American screenwriter and film director, best known for writing the scripts to Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Men in Black 3.

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Brothers

Brothers

2024

Story

6.0
Writing

A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a li...

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

2022

Additional Writing

8.2

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one li...

The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys

2022

Screenplay, Executive Producer

7.6
Writing Producing

When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a...

Holmes & Watson

Holmes & Watson

2018

Writer, Director

4.3
Writing Directing

Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case...

Get Hard

Get Hard

2015

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his...

Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

2012

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes ...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008

Writer

6.5
Writing

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired cra...

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

2008

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the fru...

My Wife Is Retarded

My Wife Is Retarded

2007

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

A man learns the secret behind his perfect marriage.

Idiocracy

Idiocracy

2006

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and s...

Recess: All Growed Down

Recess: All Growed Down

2003

Additional Dialogue

6.5

T.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class.

Waverly

N/A

as Friend

9.0
Acting

A patron dressed up like a person and a creature instead of itself

Blood Brothers

N/A

Writer

Writing

After a century of friendship, smoking opium with Genghis Khan and having orgies in Michelangelo’s studio, two inseparable vampire buddies are on the ...