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Acclaimed actor James Caan’s official cause of death has been revealed.

Christopher Vourlias Two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund will receive an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 28th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which will open Aug. 12 with the Swedish director’s 2022 Cannes winner “Triangle of Sadness.”Östlund’s English-language debut, which earned a rowdy eight-minute standing ovation in Cannes, is a provocative social satire starring Harris Dickinson as a male model struggling with his shallow industry and the unchecked capitalism he benefits from, and Woody Harrelson as the rabid Marxist captain of a cruise for the super-rich.

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.

The 2022 Oscars took a moment during Sunday night’s broadcast to pay tribute to "The Godfather" film series.  Director Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro took the stage at the 94th Annual Academy Awards to celebrate the iconic crime-drama’s 50th anniversary.  After Sean "Diddy" Combs introduced the three stars, Coppola, 82, Pacino, 81, and DeNiro, 79, all joined together on stage to thank the "legends" that brought the film together years ago. Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert DeNiro took the stage at the 2022 Oscars to celebrate "The Godfather's" 50th year anniversary.  (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) "I feel moments like this should be sincere and brief, and I'm so grateful for my wonderful friends to come here to help me celebrate with you," the film's director, Coppola, said of Pacino and DeNiro.  "This project that we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends and so many of them that I can't take the time to list them all, but you know them all well," he continued.

Reuniting stars from classic movies has been an Oscar tradition, creating memorable moments like Bonnie and Clyde‘s Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announcing the wrong Best Picture winner at the 2018 ceremony.

Sasha Urban editorPublicists for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Ted Lasso” won the top awards at the 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Friday.Director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was also honored with a lifetime achievement award in honor of the 50th anniversary of his film “The Godfather.” In his speech, Coppola called out Russian president Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, saying, “It breaks my heart … what is happening in the world, this absurd reality of this world today, and I can’t not speak about that.”Each year, the International Cinematographers Guild awards honors the best in film and television publicity. This year’s awards luncheon was helmed by Paramount Pictures publicist Tim Menke and unit publicist Sheryl Main.

The union publicists who worked on behalf of the publicity campaigns for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Apple’s Ted Lasso took home top honors today at the 59th annual International Cinematographers Guild’s Publicists Awards. See the full winners list below.

Nicolas Cage was once one of Hollywood's most bankable box office stars, amassing a net worth, at one time, of $150 million... before he squandered almost all of it.His massive debts, along with a string of box office flops like The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, lead to the 58-year-old actor to start taking literally any role he could, many in low-budget indie movies that went straight to video-on-demand (VOD).Now promoting his highly-anticipated ultra-meta movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - where he plays a version of himself - Cage admitted in an interview with GQthat he did take these VOD roles to pay off his debts...

The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, criticised the similarities among big studio films in an interview with GQ.“There used to be studio films,” Coppola said. “Now there are Marvel pictures.

Francis Ford Coppola has said big studio films including Dune and No Time to Die feel interchangeable. The Apocalypse Now director spoke critically about the nature of blockbusters today. He also expressed concern that great filmmakers are having their talents wasted.

EXCLUSIVE: You might have heard of the guy who’s getting the ICG Publicists Guild’s career honor next month.

The first trailer for The Offer - a miniseries about the making of Frances Ford Coppola's landmark gangster film The Godfather - was released Tuesday.The short clips shows actors Miles Teller as producerAlbert S. Ruddy, Juno Temple as talent managerBettye McCartt, andDan Fogler as Coppola.Paramount+ has described the ten-episode series as giving fans a 'never-before-seen experiences of making The Godfather' from the eyes of the Oscar-winning producer Ruddy.

Nicolas Cage, 56, became a married man for the fifth time in Feb. 2021, tying the knot with his girlfriend of just over a year, Riko Shibata, 26. His rep tells HollywoodLife.com that “On February 16, 2021, Nicolas Cage married twenty-six year old Riko Shibata in a very small and intimate wedding at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The date was chosen to honor the birthday of the groom’s late father.” Nic’s dad, academic, author and arts supporter August Coppola, was born on Feb. 16, 1934. He sadly passed away from a heart attack in Oct. 2009. August was the brother to famed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who is Nic’s uncle.

Scott Glenn was cast inApocalypse Now after a series of events that included savingFrancis Ford Coppola's life. Breaking down his career for a GQ video published Wednesday, the veteran actor told the story of how he was initially cast in 1979 war epic and then had his pick of role — for the most part.

The Godfather: Part III.Released in 1990, critics were not kind to the director’s third instalment in the legendary mafia franchise, which featured a turn from a 19-year-old Sofia Coppola.Winona Ryder had originally been cast in the role of Michael Corleone’s daughter, Mary, but the character was ultimately played by Sofia – now a highly regarded filmmaker in her own right, having directed award-winning movies including The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Lost In Translation (2003).Speaking to Vulture about the decision, Francis said: “I asked her to come in, and she tested for it. She didn’t particularly want to do it.

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