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James Caan wasn’t exactly acting when he seemed annoyed with Will Ferrell while filming Christmas classic Elf. In an interview with Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler's Messy podcast, Ferrell revealed that his late co-star Caan didn't "get" his humor at first. Instead, Ferrell drove Caan…

Another broadcast series of the the pre-streaming era has found its way to SVOD. All five seasons of the 2003 NBC drama Las Vegas, starring James Caan and Josh Duhamel, will be available on Peacock starting Dec. 29, the NBCUniversal streamer announced Friday. Produced by Peacock's sibling NBCU TV…

Rasty and nasty with a cherry on top, Fast Charlie is a down-home Southern gangster yarn with a staggering body count but a sweet taste awaiting the survivors at the end of the day. This adaptation of Victor Gischler's 2003 novel Gun Monkeys is an inelegant…

EXCLUSIVE: James Caan’s final film, the action thriller Fast Charlie, has been snapped up for U.S. distribution by Vertical ahead of its October 7th world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Caan died in Los Angeles in July 2022, aged 82, following a decorated career of six decades. Specifics…

UPDATED, 4:15 PM: A Los Angeles judge today denied a motion to dismiss a screenwriter’s lawsuit stemming from a dispute over credits for James Caan’s upcoming final film, Fast Charlie, finding that the case did not infringe on the defendants’ First Amendment rights. Boomtown Media Partners and Fast…

SAG-AFTRA has told its members that they can't work on hitman thriller Fast Charlie because the film’s producers are "in default of the SAG-AFTRA agreement for independent producers of theatrical motion pictures." Directed by Phillip Noyce, the film stars Pierce Brosnan and James Caan in his final film rol…

James Caan, whose remarkable performances in The Godfather, Elf and Misery made him a screen icon, has had his cause of death revealed. The 82-year-old Caan died this month of a heart attack and coronary artery disease, according to the death certificate signed by his doctor. His family announced his death earlier in…

Benicio del Toro paid tribute to James Caan at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday. "I call him The Dream," he said of his The Way of the Gun co-star, who died this week at age 82. "When I met him, I walked up to him and I said 'Mr Caan, it's an honor to be here working with you.' He said, 'You can…

When Oscar nominee James Caan died Wednesday in Los Angeles at 82, he left behind one final performance opposite Pierce Brosnan in the hitman thriller Fast Charlie, for which he’d wrapped production in New Orleans. The film from director Phillip Noyce is based on Victor Gischler’s Edgar Award-nominated novel Gun Monkey…

The late, great James Caan who died today had a career that spanned 55 years and included classic films such as Howard Hawks’ El Dorado, Michael Mann’s Thief, Rob Reiner’s Misery, Jon Favreau’s Elf and, of course, Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, The Godfather. Almost from the start, Caan was working opposite…

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, stars of the Francis Ford Coppola classics The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, remembered their castmate James Caan today as a great actor and friend. "Jimmy was my fictional brother and my lifelong friend,” Pacino said in a statement. “It's hard to believe that he won't be in the…

Francis Ford Coppola, who first directed James Caan in the 1969 feature film The Rain People and would reunite three years later for the Hollywood masterpiece The Godfather, remembered his old friend in a statement provided exclusively to Deadline. "Jimmy was someone who stretched through my life longer and closer…