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The writer seated across from me seemed at once pleased but tense. "I want to be sure you understand that I have no personal knowledge of the characters I've written about," he cautioned. "I have never met a member of the Mafia. I come from an Italian family but we talk about books, not hit jobs…. My insight into the…

Longtime international marketing consultant to Steven Spielberg, Gerry Lewis has died. Amblin Partners shared the news today that Lewis, 91, passed in London on January 5. Lewis was an international movie marketing, publicity and distribution consultant who worked in both the British and Hollywood industries for the…

Robert Evans, the colorful, Oscar-nominated Chinatown producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief during the late 1960s and ’70s, has died at age 89, a source has confirmed to Deadline. Evans passed away at his Los Angeles home after suffering a series of strokes in recent months. Evans began at Paramount…

He seemed like a serious young filmmaker at the time, but his career was a mess. I decided to be candid with him. "Why does it always seem like you are in trouble?" I asked him, knowing that he was looking for a new gig. "Is it that you like trouble?" He shook his head emphatically. "I like to learn," he told me…

Morgana King, who is best known for playing Marlon Brando’s wife in Godfather I & II, died March 22 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was 87. According to the Washington Post, her death was not previously reported. The Riverside County coroner's office confirmed her death. Born Maria Grazia Messina on June 4, 1930, in…

It looks like someone stole some memorabilia from The Godfather hoping to get an offer that they can’t refuse. Replicas of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather Notebook” which include items from the production of the legendary film have gone missing. Publishing and media company Regan Arts says that tens of thousands of…

The latest episode of The Deadline Podcast with Peter Bart today explores the off-camera intrigues that shape movies but never make headlines — how great lines are improvised (or blown), and last-minute scenes added or changed in new films and classic ones. A key scene in The Godfather is changed at the eleventh hour…

Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in: Al Pacino will reunite with Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and the man who mobbed them up, Francis Ford Coppola, in a rare reunion for the Tribeca Film Festival’s closing-night screenings of The Godfather and The Godfather P…

Filling out my Academy ballot this week, I find myself indulging in an exercise in Oscar futility: re-living my list of Oscar "should-haves." Brokeback Mountain should have won over Crash in 2005, Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and ET over Gandhi in 1982. The Academy is, well, the Academy, but some 683…

In Episode 6 of The Bart & Fleming Podcast, Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. share stories about Francis Ford Coppola and the creation of The Godfather films. It comes on the heels of Coppola’s recently released The Godfather Notebook that offers an unprecedented in-depth look at the making of the iconic movie. Listen…

This week, in Episode 3 of The Bart & Fleming Podcast, Deadline’s Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr talk about the plethora of great films out this fall (too many films?) as studios ramp up their awards-season game plans. Also up for discussion: Fleming’s personal favorite, The Godfather. Listen…

EXCLUSIVE: The Godfather, the book about power, brothers, and ‘la famiglia’ written by Mario Puzo and then adapted and directed for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola, is widely considered one of the best films of all time. Many lines from The Godfather have also become part of the American lexicon. The film was…