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* The [[Rat Pack]].
* The [[Brat Pack (actors)|Brat Pack]].
* The [[Frat Pack]]. Established at the beginning of the 2000s with [[Ben Stiller]], Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, [[Will Ferrell]], Vince Vaughn appearing in comedies like ''[[Zoolander]]'', ''Old School'', ''[[Starsky and Hutch (film)|Starsky and Hutch]]'', ''[[Dodgeball]]'' and ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]''. The latter brought attention to the likes of [[Steve Carell]], [[Judd Apatow]], [[Paul Rudd]] and [[Seth Rogen]], who took up the mantle in these kinds of comedies when the original Frat Pack members started to become too expensive. And with 'Team Apatow' movies that grew from this, such as ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', ''[[Superbad]]'', ''[[Pineapple Express]]'' and ''[[Funny People]]'', we often see Jonah Hill, Leslie Mann, [[Jason Bateman]], and Gary Cole.
** In fact, there's a whole stable of big time stars like Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell, supported by many actors (usually because of Second City connections) that could be from ''[[The Office]]'', ''[[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]'', or ''[[The Daily Show]]''. [[Judd Apatow]] probably plays behind the scenes.
** Any movie produced or directed by Judd Apatow is almost guaranteed to have one or more of the following actors in it—Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jason Segel, Leslie Mann (his wife) and, more recently, his daughter Maude Apatow.
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** Don't Forget Sandler's Personal Assistant Jonathan Loughran who appears in most of his movies.
* The [[Kevin Smith]] gang include [[Ben Affleck]], [[Matt Damon]], Jason Lee, himself, his wife and Jason Mewes. Of course, most of his movies took place on [[View Askewniverse|the same universe]], which meant there were some actors playing multiple characters.
** Not to mention Scott Mosier, Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Joey Lauren Adams, and Ethan Suplee. And behind the camera, Smith has sworn that after problems with ''[[Dogma]]'', ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', and ''[[Jersey Girl]]'', he will never again work with a Director of Photography other than Dave Klein.
** In addition, he has worked several times with [[George Carlin]], [[Chris Rock]], Tracy Morgan, Joey Lauren Adams, Guinevere Turner and Dwight Ewell.
* Where [[Tim Burton]] is, [[Danny Elfman]] is sure to follow, and [[Johnny Depp]] will probably not be far behind. Softer members of the posse include current significant other (Lisa Marie and [[Helena Bonham Carter]]) and Paul Reubens. [[Christopher Lee]] or [[Christopher Walken]] (Or both) could also feature in there. Burton likes his horror vets.
** In the early days, [[Michael Keaton]] filled the role that Depp fills now. Who else but Burton would've entrusted [[Batman (film)|Batman]] to [[Beetlejuice]]?
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* Say what? [[Darren Aronofsky]] is making a movie? Expect [[Clint Mansell]] to do the score, Matthew Libatique to be the cinematographer and Mark Margolis to appear in it.
* When [[Steven Soderbergh]] and [[George Clooney]] got the idea to remake ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'', they went on to form a pretty tight A-List clique themselves. When a movie is directed, or at least produced by the two, it's pretty common to see Clooney, [[Matt Damon]], or [[Brad Pitt]] starring opposite [[Julia Roberts]], [[Angelina Jolie]] or strangely enough, [[Cate Blanchett]]. [[Don Cheadle]], [[David Strathairn]], and [[Casey Affleck]] are commonly in supporting roles.
* The [[
** And yet, somehow, he was nowhere to be seen in ''[[Speed Racer]]''. Huh.
* [[Edgar Wright]], [[Simon Pegg]], Nick Frost and Joe Cornish.
** A whole host of British (or in Dylan Moran's case, Irish) comedians are usually not very far behind.
* [[The Mighty Boosh|Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding]], [[Snuff Box|Matt Berry, Rich Fulcher]], [[Man to Man With Dean Learner|Richard Ayoade]] and [[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace|Matthew Holness]].
* Any given ''[[Star Trek]]'' TV series is likely to share a significant portion of its crew with any other ''Star Trek'' series. ''Trek'' directors are especially likely to have started out as ''Trek'' actors. They also have a pool of actors that they like to pull from for recurring or one-shot characters, such that there are five actors who have played seven or more different ''Trek'' characters: [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vaughn_Armstrong Vaughn Armstrong] (12 characters! 13, if you include that [[Mirror Universe]] character), [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Thomas_Kopache Thomas Kopache] (7), [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Jeffrey_Combs Jeffrey Combs] (9), [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414230417/http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/J._G._Hertzler J.G. Hertzler] (8), and [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Randy_Oglesby Randy Oglesby] (7). [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Joseph_Ruskin Joseph Ruskin]'s only got six, but he's got the distinction of having appeared in five ''Star Trek''s.
** Relatedly, a pizza trophy for the late Majel Barrett, the First Lady of Star Trek, who (unless the [[Star Trek (film)|2009 pre-boot]] gets a [[Spin-Off]] of its own) will go down in history as the only person to be involved in all seven versions of the franchise (TOS Nurse Chapel and pilot episode's Number One; TAS Lt. M'ress; TNG & DS9 Lwaxana Troi; TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, ''and'' ST2K9 Computer Voice).
** One suggested reason for this is that when you need a [[Rubber Forehead Alien]], you've already got this guy's face-cast on file and you know he's fine with spending hours in makeup...
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* Clive Doig's puzzle-based [[Edutainment]] shows for [[The BBC]] generally featured one or more of Janet Ellis, Sylvester McCoy, Mark Speight, Phillip Fox and Wilf Lunn.
* [[Makoto Shinkai]] has not been involved in any project that does not have the name of composer [[wikipedia:Tenmon (composer)|Tenmon]] in it.
* A special award should go to Richard Elfman for this in ''[[Forbidden Zone]]''; many of the characters are played by friends and family, including the film's accountant and the director's brother Danny, whose Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo play the Devil and his croneys.
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