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RIP: Spellbinder and Christine star Kelly Preston has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

We have some very sad news to share this morning, as John Travolta revealed on Instagram that his wife Kelly Preston has passed away after a two year battle with breast cancer. She was 57.         View...

R.I.P.: Composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at age 91

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Cinema has lost one of its most legendary composers, as Ennio Morricone passed away this morning at the age of 91. According to Morricone's lawyer, who confirmed his passing to CNN, he died in a hospital in Rome "after falling...

Video Tribute. RIP Ian Holm of Alien & The Lord of the Rings.

Posted 6 years ago

Ian Holm had a screen acting career that lasted sixty years and earned him nearly 140 credits, but there are two roles that stand tall among the many: the man who played the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's THE...

R.I.P.: Friday the 13th Part 2 writer Ron Kurz has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

Victor Miller was the primary writer on the original FRIDAY THE 13TH, which is why he has taken director/producer Sean S. Cunningham to court in a battle over the U.S. copyright to that film. But Miller wasn't the only writer...

R.I.P.: Child’s Play 2 and Man’s Best Friend director John Lafia

Posted 6 years ago

CHILD'S PLAY originated as a spec script written by Don Mancini, who has been the main creative force behind all of the sequels (and didn't have any involvement with last year's remake), but it wasn't Mancini who created the idea...

R.I.P.: G.I. Joe artist Hector Garrido has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

I never knew his name until I saw the news that he had passed away, but the work of artist Hector Garrido had a major impact on my childhood, because it was his artwork that was featured on the packaging...

Sylvester Stallone pays tribute to First Blood co-star Brian Dennehy

Posted 6 years ago

We lost one of our greatest character actors when Brian Dennehy passed away from natural causes Wednesday night at the age of 81. Over the course of a career that lasted more than forty years, Dennehy earned acting credits on...

R.I.P.: Bloodsucking Freaks director Joel M. Reed

Posted 6 years ago

Director Joel M. Reed made a handful of genre movies over the course of his career – the 1975 anthology BLOOD BATH, the 1981 Nazisploitation/zombie movie combo NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES, the 1971 action movie THE G.I. EXECUTIONER – but...

R.I.P.: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome co-director George Ogilvie

Posted 6 years ago

George Miller has directed three of the four MAD MAX films himelf, but when tragedy struck during pre-production on the third film and his producing partner Byron Kennedy was killed in a helicopter accident, Miller felt the need to bring...

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