Meat Loaf, singer known for his huge best-selling album “Bat Out of Hell” and actor in such films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Stage Fright has died at 74. Reports are that he died on Thursday night, after contracting COVID.
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RIP. Finnish Documentary Filmmaker Jarmo Jääskeläinen Dead at 84
Jarmo Jaaskelainen (with umbrella), Tadzio Wosiński, Jacek Czerwiński, Michal Bukojemski (Krakow Film Festival) Krakow Film Festival announced that Finnish documentary filmmaker Jarmo Jääskeläinen died on 2 January 2022. He was 84 years old. He was to receive the most valuable statuette Dragon of Dragons of the Krakow Film Festival in May for his contribution to global documentary cinema.
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Cameron Bailey Named CEO of TIFF
Cameron Bailey (Credit Luis Mora) Cameron Bailey has been named CEO of Toronto International Film Festival® (TIFF) and as a veteran of TIFF, he is set to lead the organization into a new chapter with an immediate focus on building a Toronto International Film Festival for the future while offering audiences a transformative TIFF experience all year round. Bailey’s new position comes on the heels of the announcement of Jeffrey Remedios, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada, as TIFF’s new Chair of the Board.
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Lily Tomlin and Angela Bassett to Receive AFI Honorary Doctorate Degrees
Lily Tomlin, Angela Bassett (AFI) The American Film Institute (AFI) will confer Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees honoris causa upon Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Lily Tomlin and Academy Award®- and Emmy®-nominated actress Angela Bassett.
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Julie Andrews AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute Gets New Date
Julie Andrews The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that Julie Andrews will be presented with the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, at a Gala Tribute on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. The event was originally scheduled for April 25, 2020 but postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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RIP. Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award-Winning Actress Dies at 89
Olympia Dukakis rides up Market Street as one of the Celebrity Grand Marshals in the LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 26, 2011, from the film, Olympia directed by Harry Marvomichalis (credit: Harry Marvomichalis) Olympia Dukakis, winner of the Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck (1987) and the subject of the documentary about her life, titled Olympia, died today in New York City. She was 89.
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RIP: ‘Up’ Series, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ Filmaker Michael Apted Dies at 79
Michael Apted at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Michael Apted, the British filmmaker known for directing the Up series, along with Coal Miner’s Daughter, Nell, and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, has died at the age of 79.
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RIP: Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin, Featured in Documentary “House of Cardin” Dies at 98
Pierre Cardin at Maxim’s de Paris, which he purchased in 1981. (Photo : still from HOUSE OF CARDIN/The Ebersole Hughes Company) (House Of Cardin, directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes) Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, profiled in the 2019 documentary House of Cardin, died on Tuesday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. He was 98.
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Tyler Perry to Receive “The People’s Champion of 2020” Award at “E! People’s Choice Awards”
Tyler Perry Tyler Perry will be honored with “The People’s Champion of 2020” award at the “E! People’s Choice Awards.” Perry will be recognized for his trailblazing work in entertainment, unwavering commitment to support multiple charitable organizations, and inspiring empathy and progress for humankind.
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Toronto Film Festival and International Film Organizations Call for Release of Sudanese Filmmaker Hajooj Kuka
Hajooj Kuka Toronto International Film Festival and the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR*) and its founding institutions, the European Film Academy, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and International Film Festival Rotterdam have issued calls for the Sudanese authorities to release filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and the four artists imprisoned with him.
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RIP Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dies At 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in RBG by Betsy West and Julie Cohen Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and profiled in the 2018 award winning documentary RBG died Friday. She was 87. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
