Didn't Stargate have a show inside the show called Wormhole Extreme or something like that? And Peter DeLuise who directed Stargate was the director on the fake show as well.
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Spike Jonzes's Adaptation shows Charlie Kaufman writing the screenplay for the movie in itself.
And Kaufman's twin brother writing an arguably better screenplay.
The race of horse versus bike!
Adaptation was my first thought, one of my favourite movie
Yes!
The entire Muppet Movie is about going to Hollywood to make The Muppet Movie.
And of course, the ending of Holy Mountain.
The Japanese film One Cut of the Dead: I don't want to explain too much, but if you want a movie that takes this concept to the furthest degree then you should check it out.
Yes! This movie is brilliant
Episodes (starring Matt LeBlanc as himself) is very much up this alley. It's a show about two British TV writers adapting their big BBC hit for American TV. It's also one of the more underrated shows out there, I don't see a lot of people talking about it and frankly it's excellent.
How many seasons was the British show?
Four.
How many episodes per season?
Six.
Great, so we can do your entire run in season 1. What're we doing for season 2?
Fantastic show
I thought it was interesting that Modern Family was sort of presented as a reality show, but as far as I can remember, they never showed any of the crew/interviewers.
Not exactly what you asked for, but Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog had a director's commentary track that was also a musical.
One Cut of the Dead is one that comes to mind, you can watch the zombie movie at the start, and then the rest of the movie is the crazy things that went on in the background to make the movie. It's a lot of fun.
Oh, also the Human Centipede trilogy. I haven't seen it, but my understanding is
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the second film has the first one in its universe, then the third one includes the second film and immediately leads up to the first one again
The third one also includes the director of the series, Tom Hopper, being invited to see the “real life” human centipede, only to be horrified by what his movies inspired in “real life.”
Astroid city by wes anderson is very meta. The lead talks to the director in the movie asking about his motivation etc.
The Muppet Movie is all about the Muppets meeting and trying to get to Hollywood to become movie stars. At the beginning and end you see the Muppets in a theater watching their own movie.
Actually a lot of other Muppet content is similarly meta.
The Wizard of Speed and Time is a feature-length indie film about the creator's struggles with creating the original short film that inspired the movie.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is about the Teen Titans going to Hollywood to try and get their own movie.
Funeral Parade of Roses is intercut with interviews with the actors.
Synecdoche, New York
maybe? A movie about a theatre piece explaining the life of the author making this show.
Or best of all, Troll 2, and its explanation movie « Best Worst Movie ».
Clerks 3 is about Kevin Smith's heart attack and then making of a movie very similar to Clerks.
Trailer park boys regularly address the film crew. In one of the later seasons Tom Arnold plays himself as a superfan of the show, and geeks out over the characters