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The implosion of talks between David Ellison's Skydance and Shari Redstone has cast a pall on the town. Beyond Paramount Global's share price inching down to below $10 a share, enthusiasm does not seem high over the rival bidders or Redstone relying on a troika of George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian…

Oscar-nominated producer Albert S. Ruddy, who died at the end of May 2024, was one of only nine producers to earn two or more Best Picture Academy Awards, and he won them within the longest historical interval of 32 years. Ruddy was awarded for his work on The Godfather (1972) as well as Million Dollar Baby…

Albert S. Ruddy, who earned two Best Picture Oscars for producing The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby and co-created TV shows including Walker, Texas Ranger and Hogan’s Heroes, died May 25 at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center after a brief illness, a family spokesman said. He was 94. Ruddy is one…

Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning The Godfather Part II producer and longtime executive producer for Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, died Saturday in Beverly Hills at 89, four days shy of his 90th birthday. The news about Roos, who won his Godfather Part II Oscar and later was nominated for…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Zane portrays Marlon Brando in the upcoming film Waltzing With Brando on set in the late 1960s and early ’70s when Brando purchased the private atoll Tetiaroa in the South Pacific. It was a time when Brando needed to keep working to fund the environmental projects that he and…

"I despise auditions," Marlon Brando barked as he launched into the audition for his role in The Godfather. It was his idea, I reminded him, so he himself had caused his actors angst, not the studio. (It was, of course, a great audition.) Actors’ angst…

The angriest filmmaking fights that I've witnessed over the years have not been about cost or cast; they were about length. The movies were too long but so were the fights. I re-lived some of them this week when I saw Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flo…

Will the Hollywood studio become extinct? One hundred years ago, Louis B. Mayer unfurled his grand idea to mobilize "all the stars in heaven" for his filmmaking adventure. His dream factory, once prolific, now seems adrift amid the economic debris of…

With festivals beckoning and box office wobbling, this obnoxious question looms ever larger: What's next? The strikes will end and a new season will begin but where's that next cycle of movies and streaming content that represent groundbreaking ideas…

There it was in my email, right on the dot, at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning– the digital equivalent of a dreaded question that follows every industry screening. As the old joke puts it: "How did you love my movie?" I had (finally) visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Tuesday afternoon…

The annual Oscar melee always reminds us of this mandate: Never believe the “buzz.” Every important movie arrives with an aura – and it's usually wrong or misleading. The advance buzz on The Godfather was so disastrous even Francis Coppola sensed it was…

Gray Frederickson, an Oscar-winning co-EP on The Godfather films and Apocalypse Now who was one of the busiest and most respected producers and production executives of the 1960s through the '80s, died November 20 of prostate cancer in Oklahoma City. He was 85. His wife, Karen, confirmed his…