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Dennis Hopper was the Oscar-nominated performer who experienced many ups-and-downs throughout his career, with his off-screen antics often overshadowing his onscreen talent. Yet many of his movies have stood the test of time. Let's take a look back at 15 of Hopper's greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1936, Hopper made his movie debut at the age of 19 in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), where he became fast friends with James Dean. He had an even bigger role in "Giant" (1956), which would be Dean's last film before his untimely death in 1955. Hopper struggled for several years trying to find his voice, making small appearances in such films as "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) and "True Grit"(1969).

He burst onto the scene with the counterculture phenomenon "Easy Rider" (1969), which he also directed and co-wrote (with co-star Peter Fonda and Terry Southern). The story of two bikers (Hopper and Fonda) traveling across the country...

At the 50th AFI Life Achievement Awards ceremony on Saturday, Hollywood icons Steven Spielberg and George Lucas united to honor Francis Ford Coppola, presenting him with the accolade. Spielberg and Coppola met in 1967, and in 1971 Coppola screened Spielberg's Duel at his home. Lucas was present, and that marked the beginning of Spielberg's relationships with both filmmakers. That same year, Coppola produced Lucas' first directorial project, Thx 1138. Spielberg lauded Coppola as "a warrior for independent artists" and someone "fearless in how open you are to ideas, opinions and inspiration."

Reflecting on Coppola's impressive filmography, Spielberg fondly recalled watching an early cut of Apocalypse Now, along with other filmmakers (via Variety):

"When the film ended, you asked us to tell you what we saw, how we felt. You invited all of us in, so one by one, we told you where we were lost and where we were found, and I sat there in awe,...

Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Diane Lane and more sang the praises of Francis Ford Coppola at the 50th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award tribute event Saturday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Spielberg called Coppola “peerless” while Lucas said, “You’re our hero, Francis, the first university student to make it in the industry.” Son Roman Coppola was also on hand, as was Gia Coppola, while Sofia Coppola shared a pre-taped video interview with her father.

Throughout the emotional evening, Coppola was celebrated as a true Hollywood outsider who made the system work for him and someone who launched dozens of careers, as with the cast of his 1983 film “The Outsiders.” Here are some of the highlights from the ceremony:

Steven Spielberg moved Coppola to tears

In his moving tribute to his longtime friend, Spielberg had his fellow filmmaker...

The first celebrity to take to the Dolby Theatre stage to celebrate filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola becoming the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award was an actor that has actually never worked with the iconic director. Still, Morgan Freeman, himself an AFI Life Achievement Award winner in 2011, set the tone for what the rest of Coppola’s colleagues and family members would highlight from his storied career.

“Francis Ford Coppola is still the independent filmmaker, believer of dreams on a dime, teller of tales that cost and lost millions,” said Freeman. “But tonight, fuck the bankers and the backers. We’re here to celebrate art.”

Though she was not at the event in person, his daughter Sofia Coppola, an Oscar-winning filmmaker in her own right, filmed a retrospective interview with the AFI honoree that served as a framework for the event.

One of the first films to get...

Laurence Fishburne is recalling just how “disappointed” Francis Ford Coppola was in part of his “Apocalypse Now” performance.

Fishburne, who later reunited with Coppola for “Rumble Fish,” “The Cotton Club,” “Gardens of Stone,” and 2024’s Razzie winner “Megalopolis,” said during the Apple TV+ documentary “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood” that while filming 1979’s “Apocalypse Now,” his own lack of real-life “sexual experience” impacted his acting ability.

Fishburne was age 14 when he was cast in the film; a scene cut from the original theatrical release (and later re-added in Coppola’s 2001 redux cut) included Fishburne’s soldier character detailing sex. However, Coppola did not find Fishburne convincing. A source close to production told IndieWire that Fishburne misrepresented his age in his audition to land the role. IndieWire has reached out to Fishburne’s representatives for additional comment.

“There’s a scene in ‘Apocalypse Now’ that...

Laurence Fishburne is recalling an incident while filming 1979’s Apocalypse Now that he said left director Francis Ford Coppola “disappointed.”

In Apple TV+’s new documentary Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood, the actor said his lack of “sexual experience” as a teenager impacted a scene in the American epic war film.

“There’s a scene in Apocalypse Now that got cut from the original film, and then it’s been put back in the redux,” the Matrix star recounted. “I was 14, 15, whatever, trying to do this scene talking about sex and I had no sexual experience. Like, none.”

Fishburne continued, saying the Oscar-winning filmmaker “couldn’t figure out how to get me to be any more experienced than I am, but he kept asking me to do it over and over again. I did something like 40 takes. It was really bad. And I could tell that he was disappointed.

David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife, Pamela Bach, 61, died by suicide on Wednesday when she shot herself in the head.

Bach was born in Oklahoma and started modeling at 16. She debuted on-screen in the 1983 film Rumble Fish and two years later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Following a year in L.A., Bach moved to New York City and signed with the Ford Petite Modeling Agency. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared in 14 episodes of her then-husband Hasselhoff’s hit show Baywatch.

In 2015, Hasselhoff moved on to marry girlfriend Haley Roberts.

Bach’s neighbor, Hiromi Osiecki, spoke to The Daily Mail about when she last saw Bach, taking out the trash on Monday. She remembered, “I felt she looked sad.”

Osiecki recounted how the paramedics arrived at roughly 9:00 p.m. while Hasselhoff and the daughter he shared with Bach, Hayley, 32, were in the throes of grief.

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The Young and the Restless alum Pamala Bach has died. The actress who originated Mari Jo Mason was 62 years old.

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TMZ reported that Bach, who was David Hasselhoff’s (Snapper) ex-wife, was found in her home. Family members hadn’t heard from her in a while, so they asked the police to check. They found her there dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities did not find a note.

Bach was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 16, 1963. After high school at Tulsa East Central High School, Bach studied Engineering/Theatre Arts at Northeastern Oklahoma A&m College. In 1985, she moved to Los Angeles.

In addition to Y&r, Bach appeared in Baywatch and Knight Rider, in which Hasselhoff also had roles on. The two did not appear on Y&r at the same time. Other credits include Rumble Fish, Cheers, Baywatch Nights, Viper, and Missing. Her last role came in 2015’s Mansion of Blood.

According to TMZ, Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, former actress and ex-wife to Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, has passed away at the age of 62, due to suicide.

The woman was found at her home in Hollywood Hills with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the evening of Wednesday, March 5. As per the report, no suicide note was left.

Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff’s Tumultuous Marriage

Pamela was married to David, now 72 years of age, from 1989 to 2006. She filed for divorce from her husband, noting irreconcilable differences.

The two had a difficult divorce as they battled over spousal support until 2017, over 11 years after they initially ended their marriage.

They also shared two daughters, Taylor Ann and Hayley, and the couple also had a massive custody battle over the girls, as well. In 2007, when Taylor was 17 and Hayley was 14, David was awarded “primary, physical and sole custody”.

This happened after a video emerged of The Hoff, shirtless, and drunk,...

Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff has sadly passed away at 62.

The actress and ex of David Hasselhoff has died due to suicide, via TMZ.

Police told the outlet that family had not heard from Pamela, and tried to check on her out of concern.

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Paramedics were called to her mom on a report of an unconscious female shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday (March 5). She was pronounced dead at the scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

There was no note left behind, according to the police. Her final posts on social media are now gaining attention.

“Our family is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Pamela Hasselhoff. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support during this difficult time but we kindly request privacy as we grieve and navigate through this challenging time,” David said in a statement to the outlet.

Is there a kernel of truth to the notion that "popcorn stars" don't win Oscars? It certainly felt that way to fans hoping to see Demi Moore pull off a Best Actress victory at the 2025 Oscars. Her daring performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance had earned her a Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and SAG Award, putting her in frontrunner position as she arrived at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2. But suddenly, those hopes were dashed when Emma Stone read out the winner: Mikey Madison in Anora.

It wasn't unfamiliar to see one of the biggest box-office draws from decades past lose the big one. Perhaps the Academy couldn't see past what Moore had once been told she was — a popcorn actress. She addressed the demeaning title in her Golden Globes acceptance speech nearly two months prior, stating that a producer called her a “popcorn actress” 30 years ago, which...

Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is a road movie on opioids. Its characters are nomadic drug addicts who roam the Pacific Northwest in search of pharmacies and hospitals to raid, but the thrill they get from thieving is as fleeting and mocking as the highs they get from speed and other drugs.

The leader of this pack is Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon), who’s developed a kind of gambler’s intuition about their robberies. When he feels “hot,” he’ll hit a location at the drop of a hat, no matter the time of day. But when he senses the group’s luck turning south, he’ll hole up in their dilapidated house and face withdrawal rather than risk capture. Compared to Bob, the others in the group—his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his best friend Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick’s teenage girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham)—see...

Laurence Fishburne left CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for a specific reason. The show, which premiered on CBS in 2000, was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and ran for 15 seasons, in the process spawning half a dozen spinoffs including CSI: Miami, which ran for 10 seasons, and CSI: NY, which ran for nine. The flagship show, which followed a Las Vegas Police Department crime scene investigation team, featured a rotating cast of stars over the years, which included William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric Szmanda, Robert David Hall, Louise Lombard, and Elisabeth Shue.

Laurence Fishburne joined the CSI franchise in 2008, first appearing on the flagship show in season 9 as former medical doctor Raymond Langston and becoming a main cast member two episodes later, after the departure of Petersen's longtime character Gil Grissom, who had been a part of the series since the pilot. During his tenure,...

Francis Ford Coppola is responsible for half a century of onscreen leading men. The greatest Hollywood actors of the later 20th century, from Al Pacino to Robert De Niro to Robert Duvall? They also got their big break in one of the first two "Godfather" films. That's not to say these actors wouldn't have been stars without Coppola's movies (none of them are exactly one-hit wonders), but the New Hollywood truly put several artists in the right place at the right time to produce classic films.

In 1983, Coppola did it again with "The Outsiders," adapting S.E. Hinton's 1967 coming-of-age novel about several low-class teenage "Greasers" in 1960s Oklahoma. The main ensemble was played by several then up-and-comers, now-stars: Ralph Macchio as the sensitive Johnny Cade, Matt Dillon as wannabe tough guy Dallas "Dally" Winston, and Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze as brothers Sodapop and Darrel "Darry" Curtis. Diane Lane also appears as Cherry,...

Francis Ford Coppola is nothing if not nostalgic. His work, from “The Godfather” to “Megalopolis,” echoes not only past periods of history, but also the cinema that’s influenced him since he was a child. In entering the Criterion Closet, Coppola didn’t come to simply select a few films to take home, but to also pay homage to those helped shape him and to his own work that took time to find appreciation. He started his visit by grabbing the Complete Jacques Tati set and comparing Tati’s experience financing “Playtime” to his own recent gamble on “Megalopolis,” acknowledging that many didn’t consider it a “masterpiece” at the time, whereas now they do.

“More than a masterpiece because it’s a gift of a really good time,” said Coppola, “a lot of fun for everybody.”

Coppola went on to take his own film, “Rumble Fish,” starring a young...

We can debate whether or not we take the masters of cinema for granted or not, but there is always hope in the future filmmakers to build on what they did. Maybe some of the legends dismiss things like Marvel as not being true cinema but it all came from somewhere; that is, influences carry on through generations. And that will be true forever, whether we can imagine it or not.

Francis Ford Coppola recently stopped by The Criterion Collection’s famed closet to not only take home a tote bag full of movies but give his thoughts on the state of cinema and where it might be headed. Speaking on influences and where he sees the next generation of filmmakers headed, Coppola stated, “All of us are on the shoulders of giants. And hopefully will provide that same kind of inspiration to the wonderful young people coming along. And...

Prior to turning to acting in the mid-70s, Mickey Rourke was a notable prodigy in the amateur boxing landscape in Miami. But to the shock of his peers, the Robert Downey Jr-led Iron Man 2 star opted to leave boxing behind for Hollywood fame, and it didn’t take him long to garner notoriety on the silver screen with releases, Diner, Rumble Fish, among others.

Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2 | Credit: Marvel Studios

However, his rise to stardom in the ’80s was far from smooth sailing, as only a decade after his breakthrough, Rourke returned to his roots, which resulted in his face getting thrashed.

Mickey Rourke’s return to boxing took a toll on his face 9½ Weeks | Credit: 20th Century Fox

While the ’80s were a roaring period for The Wrestler star, Rourke confessed that he was surrounded by “guys from the street, goofballs and villains,...

Nicolas Cage, a formidable force in Hollywood, has graced the screen in over 110 films, showcasing a career that spans decades with unwavering dynamism. Known for his distinct blend of brilliance, controversy, and originality, Cage’s performances stand out in the realm of cinema. In this article, we delve into the crème de la crème of Nicolas Cage movies, highlighting his exceptional talent that has captivated audiences worldwide. From his early works to recent masterpieces, each film in our list not only leverages Cage’s remarkable versatility but also promises an enthralling viewing experience. Join us as we explore the top 15 Nicolas Cage movies, each a showcase of his enduring prowess and unique flair.

1. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Cage got many of his early acting roles thanks to his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him in supporting parts in both “Rumble Fish” and “The Cotton Club.” While being the relative...

A Nicolas Cage movie with a 62% Rotten Tomatoes score receives a glowing review from a mafia expert. Cage began his career in the 1980s by appearing in films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Rumble Fish, and Moonstruck. Cage won the Academy Award for Best Actor in recognition of his starring role in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, which is widely considered Nicolas Cage's best 1990s' movie. The 1990s also saw Cage starring in several action movies, including The Rock, Con Air, and Face/Off.

The quality and reception of his movies varied significantly through the 2000s and 2010s, ranging from the popular National Treasure films to the critically panned Ghost Rider movies. The perception surrounding Cage and his movies began to change in more recent years, especially with his performances in Pig, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and Longlegs all garnering critical acclaim. He has many projects currently in the works,...

David Korda, the British film producer and financier who hailed from a family of notable filmmakers including his father Zoltàn Korda, has died. He was 87.

Korda’s death was disclosed Nov. 16 by film historian Charles Drazin via social media. Korda died Sept. 18 at Cromwell Hospital in London following a battle with cancer, according to Drazin who wrote a 2011 biography of Korda’s uncle, producer-director Alexander Korda. News of David Korda’s death was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.

Korda’s father was the director of films such as 1939’s “The Four Feathers” and 1951’s “Cry, the Beloved Country.” His mother was actress Joan Gardner, known for roles in such films as 1934’s “The Scarlett Pimpernel” and 1937’s “Dark Journey.” His uncle Alexander Korda founded London Films, owner of British Lion Films, which produced the 1933 feature “The Private Life of Henry VIII” and 1949’s “The Third Man.” His uncle Vincent Korda...

David Korda, a prominent member of the Korda family movie dynasty who served as a producer and important film financier in a show business career that spanned more than 60 years, has died. He was 87.

Korda, chairman of the British company Film Finances Ltd., died Sept. 18 at Cromwell Hospital in London, author, editor and film historian Charles Drazin told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in poor health after a battle with cancer.

Korda’s parents were Zoltan Korda, director of the Ralph Richardson-starring epic The Four Feathers (1939), and actress Joan Gardner (Dark Journey, The Scarlet Pimpernel).

One of his uncles was Alexander Korda, the founder of London Films, the owner of British Lion Films, a producer of such classics as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Third Man (1949) and the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood. Another uncle, Vincent Korda, was a painter and Oscar-winning art director.

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild said Thursday that Buffy the Vampire Slayer make-up artist Todd McIntosh and Terminator hair stylist Peter Tothpal will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the 2025 Muahs Awards.

The honors will be bestowed at the ceremony set for February 15 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel.

McIntosh, who won Outstanding Makeup Emmys for Buffy and later Pushing Daisies among his 12 overall nominations, has a list of credits that also includes the films Memoirs of a Geisha, Venom, The Brady Bunch Movie and The Clan of the Cave Bear, and series including Dark Shadows, Star Trek: Enterprise and Legion in a career in its sixth decade.

Tothpal created looks for all three of James Cameron’s Terminator movies, and his MCU credits include both Avengers movies, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Iron Man 3, along with Cameron’s True Lies, Eraser and Another 48 Hrs.

There’s no stopping Tom Cruise from conquering Hollywood’s box office even in his 60s, and that’s all thanks to one movie he did when he was 20 – Paul Brickman’s Risky Business (1983). The film catapulted the actor to stardom and it paved the way for him to become a major leading man material.

Credits: Francis Ford Coppola via Jake’s Takes / YouTube

When he took the offer to do the movie, he was also working on another project with veteran director Francis Ford Coppola. To team up with such an esteemed filmmaker would be an honor, but Cruise shockingly left the rehearsals for Brickman’s movie.

Tom Cruise Left a Francis Ford Coppola Movie for Risky Business

Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola in the 1983 crime thriller film The Outsiders, and at the time, the actor was not yet a big name. Still, the director...

Francis Ford Coppola has a date with American Film Institute next year.

The filmmaker has been selected to receive the 50th installment of the organization’s highest honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, at a ceremony scheduled to take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on April 26, 2025. He will be 86 at the time. The tribute will air on TNT with encore presentations on Turner Classic Movies. All proceeds from the gala will support AFI’s education and arts initiatives.

The AFI Life Achievement Award is presented to an honoree “whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art, whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public, and whose work has stood the test of time.”

“Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist, one who has created seminal works in the canon of American film, and has also inspired generations of filmmakers who...

Matt Dillon will be feted at the 65th edition of Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival, where he will present his recent film “Being Maria,” in which he plays Marlon Brando.

Dillon will receive the festival’s honorary Golden Alexander award on Nov. 4, before a screening of his 2002 film “City of Ghosts,” which was his debut as a film director and screenwriter.

Other honorees at the festival, which runs Oct. 31-Nov. 10, include Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, as previously announced.

“Being Maria,” which will screen at Thessaloniki on Nov. 3, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Jessica Palud, it revolves around the troubled life of Maria Schneider, played by Anamaria Vartolomei.

When Schneider, a young, struggling actress with promise, is offered the lead role in “Last Tango in Paris,” playing opposite Brando, her dreams seem to be coming true. But what seems like a big break turns...

For over fifty years, Francis Ford Coppola has been a towering, and often controversial, figure in American Cinema. His filmography is one of the most legendary of all time and includes some of the greatest movies ever made like The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), and more. It also includes wild swings—One from the Heart (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)—which sometimes paid off, but sometimes did not. This year, his forty-year-in-the-making passion project Megalopolis finally hit screens for the general public after a festival run that provoked a mixed critical response to say the least. It is a gigantic movie made on a huge budget with vast, and sometimes impenetrable, ideas. His very first film, however, was a much more modest project, made on a minuscule budget, and…it was a horror movie.

Dementia 13 (1963) is very much a...

Francis Ford Coppola has enjoyed a long and storied career, but his movie Rumble Fish is often overlooked. Coppola directed legendary movies, including The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979). He has earned five Oscars in his career, alongside Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and two Directors Guild of America awards. His recent September 27 release, Megalopolis, proved to be a box office disappointment, having earned just $7.5 million on a budget of over $120 million.

In a Megalopolis Twitter thread devoted solely to Coppola answering questions from viewers, he elected to answer one question about the best movie in his filmography. While he was reluctant to name one, as he loves them all, Coppola admitted that Rumble Fish is his favorite:

That's like asking someone with 7 kids, who's the best? I love them all, but if scratched deeper I might say Rumblefish. https://t.co/FakT9KbuVP Megalopolis (@megalopolismov) October 4, 2024

The 1983 release was a box office disappointment,...

Francis Ford Coppola has revealed the movie he is most proud of. The answer may surprise some.

In a Q&a session on X (formerly Twitter) today, the legendary filmmaker was asked by one fan: “Out of all the films that you’ve made, which one would you say you are the most proud of having made, or which one do you feel best captures your ideas of film as an art form?”

Few living filmmakers have a catalogue to rival Coppola: The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, to name a few of his most acclaimed.

But those weren’t his choice today. The filmmaker was torn, but replied: “That’s like asking someone with 7 kids, who’s the best? I love them all, but if scratched deeper I might say Rumblefish”.

Interesting choice for sure. 1983 drama Rumble Fish is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton,...

Normally, we would ask y'all to respectfully keep your memes away from Francis Ford Coppola. The man is 85 years old, the man is occasionally cantankerous, the man has his own problems to worry about: Don't bug him with your various online jokes. Still, there is one meme we would genuinely...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a grand experiment. A frustrating but enthralling dive into Coppola’s vision of what film are, have been and could be.

After nearly thirty years of development and an influx of his own personal resources to ensure maximum creative freedom, Francis Ford Coppola’s potentially final film is as deliberate and obvious an agglomeration of its creator’s view on film (and life) as any director has ever committed to the screen.

That view is one that emphasizes family and charity versus the self-annihilation of greed and consumption, themes which he approached regularly in both his career (this is essentially what The Godfather is about) and his own personal life. Bundling that with all his hopes and aspirations for cinematic experimentation — this is the Coppola of One From the Heart and Rumble Fish in full flourish — produces an experience both frustrating and mesmerizing in...

October 25 will mark 62 years since the release of the first film directed by Francis Ford Coppola: “Come on Out” (later retitled “Tonight for Sure”), a re-edited feature version of three different shorter nudie films he made while a film student at UCLA. It debuted in 1962, right in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis.

With “Megalopolis” opening, he likely has the longest feature film directorial career ever, ahead of Manoel de Oliveira (61 years), Jean-Luc Godard (58), Jerzy Skolimowsky (58), and Frederick Wiseman (56). Clint Eastwood, whose latest film “Juror #2” premieres next month, spans a mere 53 as a director.

To sustain a career that long necessitates a lot of success, which Coppola has had, led by “The Godfather.” But it has been a perilous journey, elongated (“Megalopolis” the most extreme) by his willingness to spend money to keep directing. Of note, his last studio-financed film was “The Rainmaker,” 27 years — and nearly half his career — ago.

Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most famous directors of all time. His vast portfolio covers every genre, while his casting connections span the breadth of modern filmmaking. To most, hes the mastermind behind The Godfather. Alternatively, avid fans of 1980s cinema best remember Coppola for directing The Outsiders. It doesnt matter which film hes known for, though; both are massively influential. However, one of his most memorable films is a forgotten gem. That film is

Rumble Fish, an avant-garde crime drama in a bite-sized hour-and-a-half package, uses drab black-and-white footage to hide a vibrant heart, while its remarkable cast brings the riveting tale to life. So, why isnt Rumble Fish more famous? Part of its obscurity comes from its release schedule. Rumble Fish crashed into theaters in 1983, the same year as its more famous sibling, The Outsiders. It, too, was an adaptation of S. E. Hintons work, although...

Its always exciting to see Hollywood actors make major comebacks after a long time away from the spotlight. In some cases, actors have taken a step back intentionally, and in other instances, it's forced upon them due to a string of commercial failures, but no matter the circumstances, a career comeback reminds viewers what was great about the performer in the first place. Whether its silent-era starlets reviving their careers in the age of sound or modern movie stars overcoming personal problems to lead multi-billion dollar franchises, a Hollywood comeback represents the very best of Tinseltown.

Some of the best actors working today had major career setbacks that led to them shying away from the spotlight only to make a grand return several years later. Occasionally, these comebacks were so impressive that the actors gained widespread accolades and Academy Awards for their achievements. Witnessing a movie star reclaim their past...

Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most important filmmakers of all-time, as classics like The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Conversation, Bram Stokers Dracula, and Rumble Fish are often cited when discussing the greatest films ever made. Although Coppolas catalog of classics have certainly inspired multiple generations of young and aspiring filmmakers, his work has also had a significant influence on the development of modern television.

Laurence Fishburne is reflecting on his time in Apocalypse Now, and he believes it helped to kickstart his career. Fishburne is a renowned actor who made his name with The Matrix (1999), The Color Purple (1985), Boyz n the Hood (1991), and more. His career truly exploded with his partnership with Apocalypse Now's director Francis Ford Coppola, as the 1979 war movie helped to establish him in Hollywood. He is preparing to reunite with Coppola for the upcoming Megalopolis movie.

Because his next work with Coppola is on its way to theaters, Fishburne spoke with Variety about the impact that the movie had on his career. Having been an "impressionable" young actor when he joined the cast, he spent two years learning from the incredible cast and crew. He specifically cites Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, and Francis Ford Coppola as influential forces. Check out his full quote below:

I was...

After a busy August with the Season 2 premiere of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which continues throughout September with new episodes through Oct. 3, “Batman: Caped Crusader,” and more, Amazon streaming services Prime Video and Freevee will have a comparably quiet September.

Most of the action for the month will come from Prime Video’s sports options. After the Sept. 5 Kickoff Game at Arrowhead Stadium with the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs going up against the Baltimore Ravens, Prime Video’s third season of Thursday Night Football begins with AFC East champs Buffalo Bills taking on the Miami Dolphins in Miami. The WNBA and Nwsl also continue their seasons on Prime Video, with matches all month long from New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Angel City Fc, and more top teams.

But Prime Video will welcome a few new series this month, including the highly publicized...

In one of his usual tweets on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, Stephen King reposted a list of bleak coming-of-age films put together by a famous filmmaker while adding his own peculiar take. King's contribution was the 1986 adventure drama Stand by Me, directed by Rob Reiner, a film that most would think is anything but bleak.

The original list was published by Scott Derrickson on X; the director behind The Black Phone (based on a story from Stephen King's son) certainly knows bleak coming-of-age movies. Derrickson (who also directed Sinister) included a variety of masterpieces in his list, such as Elephant, Kids, Christiane F, Rumble Fish, and others. They're certainly bleak, but when King reposted the list and added Stand By Me, Derrickson replied to his post, saying, "I don't think of that film as bleak."

Stand By Me. https://t.co/cKGG7n2bIO Stephen King...

Nicolas Cage comes from one of film’s most esteemed families. His uncle is Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”) and his aunt is actress Talia Shire. Not wanting to appear like his career was the productive of nepotism, when he started acting he took the name Cage from one of his favorite comic book characters, Marvel’s Luke Cage.

Cage’s film career started off quite auspiciously with a small role in the popular comedy “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” when he was just 18 years old. He followed that up with a lead role in the cult classic “Valley Girl.” Both films interestingly dealt with the life of teenagers in the Los Angeles suburbs of the San Fernando Valley.

For his third film Cage would finally agree to work with his uncle when he appeared in Coppola’s “Rumble Fish,” followed the following year by Coppola’s “The Cotton Club.

Nicolas Cage has turned around his film career in recent years, starring in more indie films. He was recently seen in one of the most terrifying films of the year, Longlegs. Cage earlier starred in Dream Scenario, which earned him a nomination at this year’s Golden Globes. Cage’s script selection has been receiving praise ever since the critical acclaim for 2018’s Mandy.

Nicolas Cage in a still from Pig | Neon

Cage revealed that his experiments with his roles usually scared the big studios, which pushed him to the indie film scene. The Moonstruck actor must have realized that his role as a melancholic truffle forager in Pig would’ve never sat well with these big studios.

Nicolas Cage Likes To Try Different Things Which Makes Indie Films A Better Option For Him Nicolas Cage in a still from Mandy | Rlje Films

Nicolas Cage‘s roles in his recent...

Matt Dillon shares a close "bond" with his 'Outsiders' co-stars.The 60-year-old actor starred in the coming-of-age crime drama alongside the likes of Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane, and Matt has admitted that he remains close to a lot of his former co-stars.The actor told Total Film magazine: "I am always happy to see Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise and C. Thomas Howell; I felt I developed a bond with the actors who came on that journey with me."Matt still has fond memories of shooting the movie, likening it to "being in college".He said: "I remember there were high jinks in the hotel we were staying in but I was not the instigator. You get a bunch of young guys in their late teens and early 20s and of course it's going to be like being in college."The 1983 movie...

In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, Synchronicity, was almost immediately the best-selling LP released that year.

The record, now octuple platinum, was a cultural force: The New York Times likened it to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for pairing highbrow conceptualism (can you explain psychiatrist Carl Jung’s 1960 theory of “synchronicity”?) with tunes you could hum (who cares!

Brats focuses on the impact of the "Brat Pack" nickname on young actors of the 1980s, honing in on three central films. McCarthy's documentary features conversations with former co-stars and social experts, exploring the collective experience of the actors. Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, and The Breakfast Club are highlighted in Brats for their significance in Brat Pack culture.

A new documentary on Hulu by director Andrew McCarthy called Brats explores the impact of the nickname the "Brat Pack" on a group of young actors whose careers took off in the 1980s McCarthy himself was a member, referencing several movies in the process. Other actors in the Brat Pack included Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Alley Sheedy, Demi Moore, and Molly Ringwald. The actors would be grouped with the Brat Pack label for the rest of their careers. Rather than explore every film that members of the Brat Pack created,...

There are few filmmakers in history who have had a run of films as successful as Francis Ford Coppolas output in the 1970s. Each of the four films helmed by Coppola would go on to be an all-time classic. The Godfather was a cultural landmark that brought respect to the gangster genre, The Conversation was a brilliant conspiracy thriller that related to current political anxieties, The Godfather: Part II was the rare sequel that surpassed its predecessor, and Apocalypse Now was the definitive film about the Vietnam War. The success Coppola earned allowed him to finance a series of personal projects in the 1980s. While he turned to making intimate coming-of-age dramas like Rumble Fish and The Outsiders, Coppola also made the crowd-pleasing romantic comedy Peggy Sue Got Married.

Fred Roos, the longtime producing and casting collaborator of Francis Ford Coppola, has died at age 89.

Roos famously found Jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford, launching both actors’ respective careers, and even helped cast Carrie Fisher alongside Ford in “Star Wars.” He is credited for also boosting the careers of Kirsten Dunst, Diane Keaton, Laurence Fishburne, Frederic Forest, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Bob Thorton, Marshall Bell, and more.

Roos later served as the casting director for Coppola’s “The Godfather,” leading auteur Coppola to deem Roos “one of the great casting talents in the last 40 years of American movies” in a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune.

Roos produced follow-up film “The Godfather: Part II,” “Apocalypse Now,” and Coppola’s recent “Megalopolis,” for which he also helped cast the star-studded ensemble. In 1974, both Roos and Coppola earned two Oscar...

Fred Roos, casting director for landmark films such as “American Graffiti” and who went on to have a close relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, including producing best picture winner “Godfather Part II” and “Apocalypse Now,” died Saturday in Beverly Hills. He was 89.

Roos was both casting director and executive producer on Coppola’s most recent film “Megalopolis” which premiered last week at the Cannes Film Festival. Last year, Coppola posted a photo of Roos with Adam Driver on Instagram and thanked him for his work on the long-gestating epic.

Roos was instrumental in helping stars including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Carrie Fisher and Richard Dreyfuss get their early notable roles.

His long collaboration with Coppola as producer or co-producer included “The Conversation,” “One From the Heart,” “The Outsiders,” “Rumble Fish,” “The Cotton Club,” “The Godfather Part III,” “Tetro,” “Youth Without Youth” and “Tucker: The Man and His Dream.”

Roos was not credited,...

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 Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, comes as Francis Ford Coppola is here at the Cannes Film Festival, 45 years after winning the Palme d’Or for Apocalypse Now. Coppola is in town with his $120 million passion project Megalopolis, which had its world premiere last week. Roos is billed as producer on Megalopolis.

The news also comes after Coppola’s wife of 61 years, Eleanor, died April 12. Roos was an executive producer on Hearts of Darkness, her famed documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now that won them both an Emmy in 1992.

Roos was Francis Coppola’s co-producer on The Conversation, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now,...

The character in Megalopolis played by Adam Driver with idealistic passion, Cesar Catilina, is a visionary genius intent on saving New York City by building a utopian future, dislodging the elite ruling class in the process. In many ways, Cesar’s mission, both noble and egomaniacal, seems a direct reflection of the dogged determination of Francis Ford Coppola to get this movie made at any cost. The “fable” could almost be an allegory for the pursuit of a dream in which an auteur can still make a monumental epic without compromise in a Hollywood that marginalizes art to focus purely on economics.

The first sparks of the idea came to Coppola in the early 1980s, and he’s been developing it on and off ever since — doing table reads with major-name actors, shooting 30 hours of second unit footage in Manhattan in 2001 and then almost abandoning the project six years later when funding proved elusive.

Rumble Fish is overlooked despite being a deeply moving coming-of-age film that shaped Sofia Coppola's filmmaking voice. Coppola's experimental use of black-and-white film and handheld camera creates a unique, artful aesthetic in Rumble Fish. Sofia Coppola's praise of Rumble Fish as an art film about teenagers reflects her own career focus on young characters and mood over story.

For a director as endlessly celebrated as Francis Ford Coppola, choosing one movie as his masterpiece is a daunting prospect. Obviously, The Godfather still stands as one of the defining works of the New Hollywood movement, and Part II arguably holds together as a better film, even if its not as iconic. However, one could make just as convincing an argument that Apocalypse Now is his opus in that it uses the template of a war film to dive into the human psyche and uncover the darkness within. And still others think The Conversation,...

Francis Ford Coppola has officially shared the teaser of his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. The sci-fi epic, which is set to have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month, follows the attempts to rebuild a city struck by a devastating disaster. The filmmaker has poured over $100 million of his own funds into the movie.

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In a touching tribute to his late wife, Eleanor Coppola, who passed away on April 12, 2024, the legendary filmmaker has dedicated the film to her memory, sharing the teaser as a heartfelt gesture on what would have been her 88th birthday.

Francis Ford Coppola Dedicates Megalopolis to His Late Wife

Francis Ford Coppola has dedicated his upcoming epic sci-fi drama to his late wife, Eleanor Coppola, as he shared the teaser of the film on her birthday, May 4. Sharing the brief teaser on Instagram, the filmmaker stated that the movie...

The Outsiders adapted beautifully to film, capturing the essence of 1950s youth and creating iconic characters like Sodapop and Dally. Behind-the-scenes of the 1983 movie involved intense auditions, a young star-studded cast, and Coppola's method for authenticity. From real feuds between actors to a dedication to passionate fans, The Outsiders is a timeless classic with a heartfelt backstory.

The Outsiders behind the scenes story details the interesting path the book adaptation took to becoming a classic. The Outsiders is considered one of the most romantic, heroic interpretations of 1950s youth to ever be brought to a film screen. Author S.E. Hinton created a world that would transform the way teens saw themselves with characters like Sodapop, Ponyboy, and Dally becoming icons of young adult fiction and visual media in the 1980s to the present. The story centers around a group of disenfranchised teenagers, their struggles with identity, and the pressures that come with it.