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Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on Wednesday, doctors said.

Sidney Lumet, 86, a versatile and influential movie director whose films included “12 Angry Men,” “The Pawnbroker,” “Serpico” and “Network,” died Saturday at his home in New York City.

After the physical punishment he put himself through while making THE EXPENDABLES, director/star Sylvester Stallone had implied that if the gang returned for a sequel, he wanted to hand directing duties off to someone else so he could just concentrate on slaughtering in front of the camera instead of multitasking the mayhem.
Sly has apparently decided not to bother getting a replacement, and will reportedly...

It looks like the Deadpool film is moving forward with a first-time director.

Quiet Earth says they have received a tip from an "insider" over at Lionsgate indicating that British director Christopher Smith (Severance, Creep, Triangle, Black Death) is next up to helm 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' after Mike White dropped out of the project earlier this week. 

The New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner is traditionally a festive, elegant affair honoring the filmmakers and actors voted best in their category each year by one of the most prestigious critics’ groups in the country. But after last night’s edition — the 76th in the group’s proud history — all talk of the pleasures of Colin Firth’s charming acceptance speech as Best Actor or Michelle Williams’ sweet presentation to Mark Ruffalo as Best Supporting Actor was drowned out by chatter about critic Armond White and director Darren Aronofsky.

British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in "Bullitt," has died at the age of 81.

Acclaimed South Korean film director Park Chan-wook is wielding a new cinematic tool: the iPhone.

Tells Collider he hesitated before signing onto Stieg Larsson adaptation, confirms ''Leagues'' could be his next project.

Blake Edwards, director of The Pink Panther and Breakfast at Tiffany's, dies in southern California at the age of 88.