Last week, cinephiles found a horse’s head in their bed when The Hollywood Reporter announced that no one in Hollywood has the guts to release Francis Ford Coppola’s latest passion project, Megalopolis. Even though Hollywood is releasing a film called Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, the lack of clear good guys and bad guys made Megalopolis a tough sell in the eyes of Hollywood executives. Others commented that a scene featuring Jon Voight’s character in bed “with what looks like a huge...
The director readies his self-funded epic 'Megalopolis' for the Croisette, with echoes of his 'Apocalypse Now' journey 45 years ago accompanying him.
BILLIONAIRE philanthropist Julia Rausing has died aged 63. She passed away peacefully on Thursday morning surrounded by her family following an “extended illness”. Julia was the wife of
Julia Rausing passed away peacefully on Thursday morning. The couple had donated £330million in more than 1,000 grants
Shock and sadness are spreading following the sudden death of Eleanor Birrittella, a well-known corrections officer in Westchester. Birrittella died on Saturday, April 20, according to Hector Lopez, the president of the New York Hispanic American Law Enforcement Organization. A cause of death had not yet been released. Online records show Birrittella was 40 years old and lived in Yonkers. "Officer Birrittella had a smile that lit up the place," Lopez said in announcing her death. "She loved...
Samantha Davis, the wife of Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis, has died aged 53. Samantha co-founded the dwarfism charity Little People UK and featured in the final Harry Potter film, alongside Warwick. Warwick announced the news in a statement shared to the BBC, revealing she had died on 24 March. "Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs. "She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life she had a wicked sense of humour and always...
Influential documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, who used her art as social activism to illuminate the struggles of the working class, has died. The Mexico native, who made "The Devil Never Sleeps" in 1994, and received an Oscar-nomination for her 1985 film, "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo," died Saturday morning at her home in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow filmmaker Soco Aguilar. Portillo, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several months ago, was 80. "She...
Lourdes Portillo, the Mexican-born, Chicana-identified filmmaker who crafted nuanced film and video works that center the emotions and circumstances of diverse Latinx experiences, died on Saturday, April 20 at her home in San Francisco. She died peacefully, surrounded by her three sons and a younger sister, according to a friend. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presented […]
The Harry Potter star has since paid tribute to his 'favourite human'
Francis Ngannou is in mourning. The former UFC Heavyweight Champion shared on April 29 that his 15-month-old son died April 27. While Francis didn't share his cause of death, he paid tribute to
A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father's remains didn't make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received the remains of another man.
A Montreal-area woman is asking Canadian authorities to help locate her father's body in Cuba after a devastating mix-up that saw her family receive a stranger's remains instead. Funeral services for Miriam Jarjour's father, Faraj Allah Jarjour, were supposed to happen Sunday and Monday. But instead of laying her father to rest, Jarjour is desperately calling and emailing as many officials as she can, trying to find his body. "Up until now we have no answers," she said in a phone interview...