James Caan: Last News

The Godfather,Misery, Brian’s Song, Eraser, Elfand more, has died. He was 82.The actor's verified Twitter account released a statement on Thursday, which reads, «It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6.

Elf, died on July 6, according to a statement posted to his verified Twitter account. He was 82.«It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6,» the statement read. «The family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.»Following news of the Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor's, tributes poured in on social media.«Rest In Peace James Caan,» filmmaker James Gunn tweeted.

official Twitter account read.No cause of death was immediately given.Caan, who was best known for playing Santino “Sonny” Corleone, the brother to Al Pacino’s Michael, reflected on the iconic Francis Ford Coppola film for its 50th anniversary earlier this year.“One of the things that made ‘The Godfather’ successful, besides brilliant directing and writing and wonderful actors … was that everyone really enjoyed making it, and that comes off on the screen,” Caan told The Post in March 2022. “And I think the audience can tell that we were having a good time doing what we were doing up there.”Caan, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the movie based on the Mario Puzo book, also called his co-star Brando “great” and suggested he had a significant sense of humor.“Marlon was great,” Caan said of Brando.

James Caan, who scored an Oscar nom as mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and an Emmy nom for playing NFL running back Brian Piccolo in Brian’s Song among a host of big film and TV roles including Elf and Las Vegas, died Wednesday night. He was 82. His family confirmed the news on Caan’s Twitter page.

Legendary actor James Caan, known for his work as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, Paul Sheldon in Misery, and Walter (Buddy the Elf’s dad) in Elf, has passed away.

The Godfather, has died at the age of 82.The news was confirmed via a message posted on actor’s social media.

Whether it be fans, critics, actors or filmmakers, rarely has one film gotten similar reactions from people who are in agreement about its brilliance.And that's exactly what's gone down in the 50 years since Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather premiered in theaters across the U.S.In honor of the 50th anniversary, leading man Al Pacino, who played eventual head of the Corleone family Michael Corleone, and Robert De Niro, who portrayed the young version of his father Vito Corleone in the sequel, attended a special tribute and screening at the Tribeca Festival in New York City. Classic: Robert De Niro, 78, and Al Pacino, 82, took part in a special 50th anniversary tribute and screening of The Godfather at the Tribeca Festival in New York CityThe Tribeca Festival, an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions and co-founded by De Niro, screened arestoration of the film on Thursday night.Ahead of showtime at the United Palace, Pacino sat down on stage withMichael Hainey to discuss the movie, which earned 10 Academy Award nominations, and its lasting impact.

following the sad death of Hilary Devey, aged 65. The businesswoman, who appeared on the BBC One show between 2011 and 2013, died following a long illness. She was in Morocco at the time, where she had a property.

Dragons Den star Hilary Devey has passed away at the age of 66, her agent has confirmed. According to The Sun, the fan-favourite star of the hit programme was staying in Morocco, in her holiday house, when she died on Saturday 11 June.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA trio of veteran film financiers and producers are launching a new venture.Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a film and TV financing venture, backed by an alternative investment fund with assets under management of $1.85 billion. From its offices in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to close upwards of 25 deals in the next 12 months, with plans to further expand its operations beyond the U.S.

Mads Mikkelsen will star in new action-thriller The Black Kaiser, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel Polar by Victor Santos.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee James Caan (The Godfather) and Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) will star alongside Pierce Brosnan in hitman thriller Fast Charlie, to be directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt).

Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly Hills.Pacino, 81, was dressed in his customary all black look as Rourke, 69, brought in more flair with a brown Gucci belt and matching shoes with shirt his unbuttoned just so to reveal his many chest tattoos.In 2020 Mickey shared with a podcast that the two may be working together on a project soon but so far nothing has been announced. Buddies:Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly HillsThe Hollywood icons were leaving a lunch date at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.Mickey, who stands at 5ft11in, also towered over Al who is 5ft6in.Thursday marked The Godfather's 50th Anniversary.

The 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood not only honored the best in film for 2021, but also paid tribute to The Godfather trilogy.In recognition of the 50th anniversary celebration, the film's legendary director and co-writer Francis Ford Coppola took the stage with leading man Al Pacino and The Godfather II star Robert Di Niro.While Coppola would give thanks to the audience and the fans at home, he made a point of singling out only two people who helped make the three iconic films possible, one of which he claimed he had never thanked publicly. Iconic: The 94th Academy Awards paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of The Godfather by having director and co-writer Francis Ford Coppola and stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro give thanks for all of the accolades over the years Legendary: The Godfather premiered at Loew's State Theatre on Broadway in New York City on March 14, 1972 , and was widely released in the United States on March 24, 1972; stars James Caan, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino andJohn Cazale are pictured from the opening senesSean 'Diddy' Combs would first take to the stage, and do his best at givingthe trilogy its due justice on the impact its had film, but also popular culture as a whole.And then, following an edited piece complete with some of the trilogy's most iconic scenes and lines, Pacino, 81, Coppola, 82, and De Niro, 78, made their grand entrance on to the stage together for the ABC telecast.

Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly Hills.Pacino, 81, was dressed in his customary all black look as Rourke, 69, brought in more flair with a brown Gucci belt and matching shoes with shirt his unbuttoned just so to reveal his many chest tattoos.In 2020 Mickey shared with a podcast that the two may be working together on a project soon but so far nothing has been announced. Buddies:Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly HillsThe Hollywood icons were leaving a lunch date at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.Mickey, who stands at 5ft11in, also towered over Al who is 5ft6in.Thursday marked The Godfather's 50th Anniversary.

Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly Hills.Pacino, 81, was dressed in his customary all black look as Rourke, 69, brought in more flair with a brown Gucci belt and matching shoes with shirt his unbuttoned just so to reveal his many chest tattoos.In 2020 Mickey shared with a podcast that the two may be working together on a project soon but so far nothing has been announced. Buddies:Al Pacino and Mickey Rourke looked like old friends as they were seen walking side-by-side on Thursday in Beverly HillsThe Hollywood icons were leaving a lunch date at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.Mickey, who stands at 5ft11in, also towered over Al who is 5ft6in.Thursday marked The Godfather's 50th Anniversary.

the first installment of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” hit theaters on March 24, 1972, revitalizing the career of Marlon Brando and making a star out of Al Pacino. To celebrate the momentous occasion, the film was just re-released in theatres, and the entire trilogy had been painstakingly restored and will be out in 4k Ultra HD for the first time in March.“We felt privileged to restore these films and a little in awe,” said Andrea Kalas, the senior vice president of the archive for Paramount Pictures. “We were able to witness first-hand how the brilliant cinematography, score, production design, costume design, editing, performances, and, of course, screenwriting and direction became famously more than the sum of their parts.”Here, cast and crew recall some memorable moments from behind the scenes of the cinematic masterpiece.“Robert Duvall, Jimmy Caan, and even Marlon participated in a lot of pranks and fun on the set.

The Godfather after Francis Ford Coppola cut one of his scenes.The actor recalled the incident in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, noting the deleted scene was one of his largest in the film.He explained: “When Michael [Al Pacino] tells me he is going to take care of the cop and Sollozzo [Al Lettieri], I say, ‘You’ll get brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.’“There was a scene before in the same room that I had with Bobby [Duvall] that was like 10 pages long — and Francis cut all of it out! I was so pissed off, I couldn’t watch the rest of the film.”He adds with a laugh, “But otherwise, he gave me a great honor.”Caan also addressed a rumour claiming he disliked Gianni Russo, who played Carlo Rizzi, and that they had got into a fight.“He had a fight with someone else. Not me,” Caan said.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt’s hard to believe, but it’s been 50 years since Francis Ford Coppola’s”The Godfather” made moviegoers an offer they couldn’t refuse.The film was a sensation when it debuted in March 24, 1972, setting box office records, revitalizing the career of Marlon Brando, launching the likes of Al Pacino, Robert Duvall and James Caan onto the A-list, and scoring an Oscar for Best Picture. But things could have gone very differently. Coppola, an up-and-coming director tasked with bringing Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel to the screen, was hardly the studio’s first choice for the task (Paramount production chief Robert Evans preferred Costa-Gavras).

doomed Santino “Sonny” Corleone, the eldest son of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) and brother to Fredo (John Cazale), Connie (Talia Shire) and Michael (Al Pacino).Prior to his breakout, Oscar-nominated role in “The Godfather,” The Bronx-born Caan was best-known for roles on a slew of ’60s-era television series — including “The Untouchables,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Get Smart,” “Wagon Train,” “Naked City” and “Route 66” — and for playing cancer-stricken Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo opposite Billy Dee Williams (as Gale Sayers) in “Brian’s Song,” ABC’s tearjerking Movie of the Week which aired in November 1971.(He also appeared in several movies, including “The Rain People” in 1969, directed by Coppola — Caan’s classmate at Hofstra — and co-starring Robert Duvall, aka Corleone Family consigliere Tom Hagen.)Caan, who turns 82 on Saturday (March 26), spoke to The Post in a wide-ranging interview about his memories of filming “The Godfather,” which airs somewhere on television virtually every day — in all of its iterations — and will be re-released Tuesday (March 22) in a comprehensive 4K ultra-high-definition Blu-ray package.“One of the things that made ‘The Godfather’ successful, besides brilliant directing and writing and wonderful actors … was that everyone really enjoyed making it, and that comes off on the screen,” Caan said. “And I think the audience can tell that we were having a good time doing what we were doing up there.“Marlon was great,” Caan said of Brando.

Francis Ford Coppola was front and center at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary ofThe Godfather held Tuesday at theParamount Theatre inLos Angeles.The Oscar-winning director, 82, was clad in a grey checkered suit over a yellow button-up shirt with a yellow patterned tie.The famed filmmaker, who also made the film's two sequels as well asApocalypse Now, sported a light beard as he was joined by friends and family to honor the golden anniversary of the iconic motion picture. The latest:Francis Ford Coppola, 82, was front and center at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather held Tuesday at the Paramount Theatre in Los AngelesAlso in attendance was James Caan, 81, who played the role of Sonny Corleone in the famed film.