Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died at age 53.
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“The Fall Guy,” the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened below expectations with $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
His characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd.
He won his Oscar for his performance as the intimidating Marine drill instructor in “An Officer and a Gentleman” opposite Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker for the Raiders who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star has died.
“Barbie,” with more than $1.4 billion in ticket sales, was nominated for eight awards, including best picture.
She also played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins.”
His work spanned TV, theater and radio, and he starred in dozens of films from “Gosford Park” to “The King’s Speech” and the animated family movie “Paddington.”
His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV.
The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend.
A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, he was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.”
Prosecutors plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film ” Rust.”
The news was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.
She also starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 film “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.
Actor Jeremy Renner says he is out of the hospital after being treated for serious injuries from a snow plow accident.
