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When Oliver Stone interviewed for a Deadline The Film That Lit My Fuse timed with the release of his memoir Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game, the three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker gave Deadline permission to provide our readers with…

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual selection of 25 films added to the National Film Registry, with an unprecedented seven titles directed by women, the most in a single year since the inaugural registry in 1989. (Scroll down for the full list.) Among those making the cut for 2019 are Kimberly Peirce's…

Arnold Kopelson, the producer of films including the Oscar-winning Platoon and The Fugitive, and a CBS Corp board member from 2007 until last month, died at his home in Beverly Hills today. He was 83. His death was announced by his wife and business partner, Anne Kopelson. CBS confirmed the news. "Arnold was a man of…

For this week’s chapter of my video series The Actor’s Side, Willem Dafoe traverses his wide-ranging career that has taken him from playing villains to playing nice, and everything in between. In our conversation, he talks about his early days in theater; being fired from his first film, which  turned out to be a…

UPDATED with Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone quotes: Marion Billings, a publicist who worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Oliver Stone, has died. Billings, who retired in 2007, died Sunday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New…