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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Bogdanovich, who died January 6 at age 82, had one final creative project that just got set for release. Weeks before his death, the disruptive filmmaker made LIT Project 2: Flux, which stars Kim Basinger in the first NFT collaboration between a legendary director and Oscar-winning actress created…

A pained observation: The only intriguing stories on Hollywood this week consisted of obits – all kinds of obits. There were obits reminding us of the remarkable lives of Sidney Poitier, Peter Bogdanovich and Betty White. Also speculative obits about the Golden Globes, sentimental obits about the extinct 20th Century…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the fifth episode of Two Shot, a video series in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for when we asked them to do…

Cybill Shepherd, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges and Cher – stars of the Peter Bogdanovich films The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask – remembered the late director today. “Having Peter Bogdanovich as my first acting teacher in my first film, The Last Picture Show, was a blessing of enormous proportion,&#8221…

The movie world is mourning the death of Peter Bogdanovich, the revered filmmaker behind such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask and What’s Up, Doc? Check out a photo gallery of his career by clicking on the image above. Bogdanovich was a critic and aspiring film historian when he first came to…

Tributes are pouring in after director and standard-bearer for classic Hollywood moviemaking Peter Bogdanovich died today at 82. Francis Ford Coppola gave the following statement to Deadline: Oh dear, a shock. I am devastated. He was a wonderful and great artist. I'll never forgot attending a premiere for THE LAST…

Tatum O’Neal, who became the youngest Oscar-winning actress at age 10 for her performance in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, paid tribute to the director who died today, calling him her “heaven & earth.” In a poignant Instagram post, O’Neal, who starred in the director’s 1976 film Nickelodeon three years after Paper Mo…

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor, film historian and critic-turned-director of such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask, died today of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. Family members, who were by his side, said paramedics were unable to revive him. His daughter…

Drive-in movies are back, and it took the deadly COVID-19 virus to resurrect them. With cinemas closed and large public gatherings not a good idea no matter what some bikers, party-types and comb-over presidents might think, some adventurous souls have met with success in recent months by rejuvenating the largely…

Lore in my wife’s family says that her mother, a beautiful Jewish immigrant fleeing grief in the Ukraine about a century ago, ran into someone named Carl Laemmle on a ship crossing the Atlantic. As the story goes, Laemmle asked her to check in with his still-young Universal film company, as she might have a future in…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Bogdanovich’s The Great Buster: A Celebration, his documentary about movie pioneer Buster Keaton, is winding its was from a world premiere at Telluride and then Venice before landing this week at the place where Keaton plied his trade: Hollywood. The pic is set to screen Sunday afternoon in the Buzz…

EXCLUSIVE: The mission of the filmmaker should be "to preside over divine accidents," Orson Welles once told me. Indeed, his career and lifestyle seemed designed to foster accidents, divine or otherwise. A case in point was his final film, The Other Side of the Wind, which took 48 years to complete. It will finally…