Producers

The Karate Kid and Ocean’s Eleven producer Jerry Weintraub has died. Also worked with Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley.

Teresa Wright and Samuel Goldwyn had an ugly parting in 1948, when the producer publicly fired and berated his Oscar-winning contract star.

Howard Hughes Movies: From Leonardo DiCaprio to (almost) Jim Carrey plus Hell’s Angels, Katharine Hepburn and wrecking RKO.

Meryl Streep in Into the Woods: Oscar date and several early predictions. Oscar date & early predictions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC has announced the…

Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19,…

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese nominated as ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ producers: Oscar nominations According to a press release from the…

Amy Adams in The Master: “Classy” NSFC win. What Batman Awards? WGA snubs latest ‘Dark Knight’ movie The WGA Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier today. Expect the Academy Awards…

Johnny Lewis: Sons of Anarchy actor falls to his death after allegedly killing octagenarian landlady Johnny Lewis, best known for playing Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps in the FX series Sons…

Bette Davis sings “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” About two decades later, Davis herself would be the subject of a song: Kim Carnes sings “Bette Davis’ Eyes.” Bette Davis…

Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Two Moon Junction Producer Zalman King dead at 69: Best-known for risqué dramas Actor-director-producer-screenwriter Zalman King, among whose credits are “scandalous” sex dramas such as 9½…

Nov. 10 update: Billy Crystal will be replacing Eddie Murphy as Oscar host, who quite the show after Oscarcast co-producer Brett Ratner officially resigned from his post. There has been…

Howard Hughes: Billionaire spent a number of years in Hollywood. If all goes as planned, Warren Beatty will be the next big-screen Howard Hughes, following The Aviator‘s Leonardo DiCaprio. In…

Geoffrey Rush gets career award while Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Firth are Critics’ Winners plus Pixar vs. Animated Film Society fight to worsen?

Some will remember Dino De Laurentiis, who died in Los Angeles at age 91, as the producer of Serpico (1973), King Kong (1976), and Dune (1984). The Sidney Lumet-directed Serpico,…

Penthouse founder Bob Guccione died on Oct. 20 at a hospital in Plano, Texas. He was 79. Best known for the explicit sexual content found in his magazine, a Playboy…

Jeff Bridges’ The Dude is back, now as a country music singer. This year’s probable Best Actor Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, who plays troubled country singer Bad Blake in Scott…

David Brown, who co-produced modern cinema classics and/or blockbusters such as Jaws, The Verdict, The Player, and A Few Good Men, died on Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan.…

“I’m looking forward to being ‘onstage’ Sunday at the Egyptian. I love talking about Irving, Norma, and Joan.” That’s author Mark A. Vieira, commenting on Allan Ellenberger’s post about his…

Author and photographer Mark A. Vieira (right), who has been a friend for a number of years, has recently written no less than two books on Irving G. Thalberg, the…

Gay Murder and political life that rocked California + awards season juggernaut top WGA Awards plus Academy names Holocaust-themed drama producers.

Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will…

Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball - 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film…

June Mathis / © Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today’s filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine…

Iraq war disaster: Iraq in Fragments. Below is an open letter (dated March 2) that producer John Sinno sent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sinno co-produced…