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Yellowstone actor Jefferson White has officially joined the cast of the JFK thriller November 1963. White will portray Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Deadline broke the news of White's casting, with Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) also announced to be playing Jack Ruby in the film. Set to begin shooting this spring in Canada, November 1963 explores the "true version" of the events surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roland Joffé is set to direct.

Joining White and Carlyle in the movie's cast will be John Travolta, Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), and Dermot Mulroney. The film promises to examine the mystery and intrigue behind the devastating moment in American history from an in-depth and "fresh" perspective, with a script based on firsthand accounts.

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Sam Giancana, the American mobster who was the boss of the Chicago Outfit, had close ties to John F. Kennedy at the time. The film's script was written by Nicki Celozzi,...

Exclusive: Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) and Jefferson White (Yellowstone) have joined the cast of JFK thriller November 1963 in the roles of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.

The film, which is gearing up for a spring 2025 shoot in Canada, delves into the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As we previously revealed, starring the movie are John Travolta, Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding).

Directed by two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields), November 1963 will examine the mystery and intrigue that enveloped one of the most significant moments in American history, promising an in-depth, fresh perspective directly from the individuals whose lives were forever changed by the intense 48 hours surrounding the assassination.

Pic is being produced by Kevin DeWalt of Mind’s Eye Entertainment and Nicki Celozzi of Le Monde Productions. Celozzi also serves as the film’s writer. International sales...

John Mulaney is bringing his chaotic live talk show back to Netflix this week, with sidekick Richard Kind along for the ride, thank goodness. From all accounts, Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney will be very much like last year’s limited series John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A., and is not, as the trailer would have you believe, a 1970s political conspiracy theory thriller.

To promote the show, Mulaney has been making the interview rounds, which has entailed a lot of discussions about his personal life, including his children and marriage to actress Olivia Munn in July 2024.

While celebrity wedding reports are usually boring as hell, one of the most intriguing details to emerge from Mulaney and Munn’s private ceremony was the fact that it was officiated by Sam Waterston, aka Jack McCoy from Law & Order. Thankfully, the wedding didn’t begin with someone randomly finding a corpse behind a dumpster,...

The Academy Awards are one of the biggest celebrations of film and art that everyone looks forward to! But even the biggest night of the year faces a few hilarious blunders that make the event memorable for years.

From La La Land mistakenly being announced as Best Picture instead of Moonlight to John Travolta’s infamous mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name, these moments have left audiences stunned, amused, or outright baffled. But these are a few instances that add flavor to the award night. As everyone comes together to honor incredible talents, a few accidents are bound to happen.

Without further ado, let’s take a quick stroll down memory lane and reminisce about these hilarious moments.

10. In Memoriam confusion Jan Chapman’s image displayed instead of Janet Patterson during 2017 Oscars | Credits: The Academy Awards

The 2017 Oscars were not only a breakthrough year for cinema, but it is also...

No streaming service does a director retrospective like the Criterion Channel, and March offers two masters at opposite ends of exposure. On one side is Michael Mann, whose work from Thief through Collateral (minus The Keep) is given a spotlight; on the other is Alain Guiraudie, who (in advance of Misericordia opening on March 21) has five films arriving. (2001’s duet of That Old Dream That Moves and Sunshine for the Scoundrels have perhaps never streamed in the U.S. before.) Meanwhile, three noirs from Douglas Sirk are programmed alongside a Lee Chang-dong retrospective that features three new restorations.

Showcases will be staged for Dogme 95, Best Supporting Actor winners, and French Poetic Relaism. Welles’ The Trial gets a Criterion Edition alongside Demon Pond; Horace Ové’s newly restored Pressure makes a streaming premiere alongside spruced-up copies of Amadeus, Love Is the Devil, Port of Shadows, and Burning an Illusion, as...

Exclusive: Two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Emmy and Tony winner Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), and SAG nominee Dermot Mulroney (August Osage County) have been set to headline JFK thriller November 1963 from two-time Oscar nominee Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields).

K5 International has boarded international sales ahead of next week’s European Film Market in Berlin.

November 1963 unfolds within the intense 48-hour period surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film sheds light on crime group the Chicago Outfit’s alleged involvement in the assassination and draws directly from first-hand accounts, including insights from the family of crime boss Sam Giancana.

John Travolta will star as Johnny Roselli, a key figure in organized crime and the Outfit’s man on the West Coast and Vegas. Mandy Patinkin will star as Anthony Accardo, a powerful and calculating head of the Chicago Outfit, considered one of the most powerful crime...

In Cult Of Criterion, The A.V. Club highlights a new release from The Criterion Collection each month, examining the films entering an increasingly accessible film canon.

Only Sammo Hung could inject a grim Vietnam war movie with the kind of bouncy humor that always seems to accompany his regular troupe of acrobatic action heroes.

War films continue to be one of the most popular genres in cinematic history, producing epic films that capture the very best and worst of humanity. Many films about war focus on the most significant conflicts, like World Wars I and II and the Vietnam War, but some of the best war films of all time shed a spotlight on some lesser-known wars that are just as impactful and compelling. These films show the harrowing atrocities committed around the globe and educate viewers on battles and wars they may know very little about.

Films such as The Killing Fields showcase the brutal realities of the Cambodian Civil War and genocide, offering an unflinching look into one of Asia's most gruesome conflicts in a war film that is still as impressive today. Classics like Waltz with Bashir examine the Lebanon War that started in 1982 in a unique format, with a graphic...

For a brief period, over 1982-86, the U.K. enjoyed a remarkable film renaissance. Four films – “Chariots of Fire,” (1982) “Gandhi,” (1983) “The Killing Fields” (1985) and “The Mission” (1986) – won a total 19 Academy Awards, including Best Picture two years running. All of those films, save “Gandhi,” were produced by David Puttnam.

To this day, few figures are more associated with a national film revival. “The British are coming,” “The Chariots of Fire” screenwriter Colin Welland famously said in his Oscar speech. The main Brit Hollywood had on their radar was Puttnam. He was appointed CEO of Columbia Pictures in 1986, becoming the first and only foreigner ever, he notes, to serve on the board of the MPA.

Knighted in 1995, Puttman ended his film career in 1997, at 56, when he was appointed a life peer. “When I finished ‘Memphis Belle,’ I kind of knew that I was never going to make better films than the ones I’d already produced,...

Starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, The Karate Kid (1984) is where it all started. As the first installment in the franchise, the film acted as the first step in a domino effect, effectively changing cinema with its release. Not only did it result in a few more films and a couple of television shows, but it also helped in popularizing karate in the United States.

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in The Karate Kid (1984) | Credits: Columbia Pictures

Apart from commercial and critical success, The Karate Kid also refreshed the career of Pat Morita who played the role of Daniel Larusso’s mentor, Mr. Miyagi. The film also holds the record for being the first ever mainstream movie for showing the story of internment camps and a non-American soldier – a role that got Pat Morita his first and only nomination at the Academy Awards.

The Karate Kid and Mr. Miyagi Pat...

Una historia basada en hechos reales protagonizada por Kerry Washington. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de Seis Triple Ocho, la película escrita y dirigida por Tyler Perry (Diario de una chiflada), que narra la motivadora historia real de las increíblemente valientes mujeres del primer y único cuerpo del Ejército de Estados Unidos integrado exclusivamente por mujeres negras que sirvió en el extranjero en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Seis Triple Ocho sigue a estas valientes que se enfrentaron al sexismo y la discriminación, a un entorno desconocido y un país asolado por la guerra, pero se mantuvieron firmes y ordenaron más de 17 millones de cartas en solo 3 meses, gracias a lo cual los soldados estadounidenses pudieron retomar el contacto con sus familiares y seres queridos. Su lema para motivarse a diario era: «Sin correo, no hay moral». Y es que las mujeres del batallón 6888 del Directorio Postal no solo ayudaron a repartir el correo,...

Una historia basada en hechos reales protagonizada por Kerry Washington. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el primer tráiler de Seis Triple Ocho, la película escrita y dirigida por Tyler Perry (Diario de una chiflada), que narra la motivadora historia real de las increíblemente valientes mujeres del primer y único cuerpo del Ejército de Estados Unidos integrado exclusivamente por mujeres negras que sirvió en el extranjero en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Seis Triple Ocho sigue a estas valientes que se enfrentaron al sexismo y la discriminación, a un entorno desconocido y un país asolado por la guerra, pero se mantuvieron firmes y ordenaron más de 17 millones de cartas en solo 3 meses, gracias a lo cual los soldados estadounidenses pudieron retomar el contacto con sus familiares y seres queridos. Su lema para motivarse a diario era: «Sin correo, no hay moral». Y es que las mujeres del batallón 6888 del Directorio Postal no solo ayudaron a repartir el correo,...

Leo Chaloukian, a multi-Emmy Award-winning sound designer and former chair of the Television Academy, died July 18. He was 97.

During his 60-year career in sound, Chaloukian won four national Emmys and two regional Emmys —working at Ryder Sound Service, a company he’d eventually become the sole owner of for most of his career.

He worked on sound for National Geographic specials, David Wolper Productions documentaries and classic television shows like “Lassie,” “Death Valley Days,” “Sea Hunt,” “Maverick,” “Route 66,” “Gunsmoke” and Jacques Cousteau specials.

Chaloukian also oversaw the sound design for the 1967 film “The Graduate” and, with his staff of audio engineers, created the sound design for 1969’s “Easy Rider.”

The company also contributed to the recording, rerecording and mixing for “Love Story,” “The Godfather,” “Chinatown,” “Saturday Night Fever” and the first Star Trek movies, as well as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Tootsie” and “The Killing Fields.”

Chaloukian led...

Leo Chaloukian, the multiple Emmy- and Oscar-winning sound designer, sound executive and former chair of the Television Academy, died July 18, the Academy announced Wednesday. He was 97.

Active professionally into his 80s, Chaloukian began his sound career at Ryder Sound Service in 1954, becoming an award-winning re-recording mixer and eventually the sole owner in 1976. He sold the company to the Soundelux Entertainment Group in 1997 and became the company’s SVP.

In 2000, Liberty Media Group acquired Soundelux, which became Ascent Media Group, Creative Sound Services, and later a division of Discovery Communications known as Css Studios LLC. Chaloukian continued as the company’s VP Business Development, representing its divisions for features and TV and retiring shortly after the company’s 2014 spinoff to become Todd Soundelux.

During his 60-year career in sound, Chaloukian and his staff at Ryder Sound won four national Emmys and two regional Emmys. He also was honored with the Syd...

Clarence Maclin gives a star-making performance in his feature film debut, playing himself in A24’s Oscar hopeful “Sing Sing.” Following its premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, the movie directed by Greg Kwedar was released July 12 in the United States. The scene-stealing actor brings his own story to the big screen, earning Oscar buzz for his emotional portrayal as “Divine Eye,” an incarcerated drug dealer who finds hope in Rehabilitation Through the Arts (Rta), a nonprofit founded by Katherine Vockins at Sing Sing in 1996.

Colman Domingo stars as John “Divine G” Whitfield, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit. He finds purpose by acting in the theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

See ‘Sing Sing’ reviews: Colman Domingo is ‘stupendous’ in ‘rare and precious’ film

Should Maclin earn a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance,...

Exclusive: Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner Sam Waterston has signed with Paradigm for representation.

It was the end of an era for NBC’s Law & Order earlier this year when Waterston said goodbye to his longtime character District Attorney Jack McCoy, whom he portrayed in more than 400 episodes, earning three Primetime Emmy nominations for his performance during his run. He earned an additional three Emmy nominations and won a Golden Globe for his role in drama series I’ll Fly Away, which aired on NBC from 1991-1993. He is an Academy Award nominee for his role as journalist Sydney Schanberg in 1984’s The Killing Fields. He won an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Informational Series for Lost Civilizations.

In addition to his Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG award wins, he also was honored with Obie and Drama Desk theater awards.

Waterston co-starred alongside Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer...

Quick Links Oh, The Places You'll Go! Latest News Oh, The Places Youll Go! Production Status Oh, The Places Youll Go! Story Details Oh, The Places Youll Go! Is Part Of A Dr. Seuss Cinematic Universe Oh, The Places You'll Go!: Further News & Info Warner Animation Group will turn Dr. Seusss "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" into an animated film with original music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The film is set to be released in 2027 and includes a second director, Jill Culton, known for her work on Disney/Pixar films. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" will be part of a Dr. Seuss cinematic universe alongside The Cat in the Hat and a Thing One and Thing Two spin-off.

Warner Animation Group is set to bring the Dr. Seuss classic Oh, the Places Youll Go! to the big screen, and there's already a ton of exciting updates about the book-to-movie adaptation.

What really happened during the 48 hours leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — at least according to mob bosses — is heading to the big screen in the upcoming film “November 1963: The Killing of a President.”

The mob’s version of events were passed down to Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana’s nephew, Nicholas Celozzi, by Sam’s brother, the late Joseph “Pepe” Giancana, who drove around with his brother Sam during those two days.

“The reason why there’s this fascination or anxiety is because people know that what they’ve heard so far doesn’t make sense,” Celozzi tells Variety of the ongoing interest in the circumstances surrounding JFK’s assassination, even 60 years later. “They keep talking about it because they’re waiting to hear something that makes more common sense.”

Celozzi, whose film producing and writing credits include “The Legitimate Wiseguy,” “The Class” and...

Earlier this year, I looked back at Shirley MacLaine’s Best Actress Oscar win for 1983’s “Terms of Endearment.” Just to quickly recap, she had everything working in her favor. She was a beloved and overdue veteran with a showy role in the year’s Best Picture. She had a couple of killer scenes. And there was just no one in the lineup who could challenge her. Shirley surely had it in the bag.

But the Best Supporting Actor win by MacLaine’s co-star Jack Nicholson is slightly more intriguing. He was already in possession of a Best Actor Oscar for 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He risked splitting votes with a fellow cast mate (John Lithgow). And he was the only previous winner in the category. Wouldn’t it have made sense for the academy to try and spread the wealth?

To mark the 40th anniversary of his triumph,...

Get ready to journey back to the 1980s with Netflix's curated selection of iconic films screening in select theaters and available to stream. From classic 80s staples like Beverly Hills Cop to cult classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street, there's something for every movie buff to enjoy. Netflix's Milestone Movie Collection celebrates cinema milestone years, with 1984 films lined up for April and May screenings, including The Natural and This is Spinal Tap.

If you're feeling nostalgic for the 1980s, Netflix has got you covered. As part of their Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection, the streamer is sending over two dozen 1984 movies to Netflix-owned theaters for a limited time. The films will screen at the Paris Theater in New York, The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and The Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades, California, throughout select dates in April and May (via Variety). The films will also be available to stream.

Netflix kicked off their Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection initiative back in January with a 50th anniversary collection paying tribute to the movies of 1974, which notably included Larry Cohen’s horror movie It’s Alive. We were also promised collections celebrating 1984, 1994 and 2004 in the coming months, and the 1984 collection is now live.

Netflix’s 1984 Collection is now streaming, and it includes Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street alongside the original adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter!

The 1984 collection also includes the following films:

2010: The Year We Make Contact Against All Odds Amadeus A Nightmare on Elm Street A Passage to India Beverly Hills Cop Birdy Body Double Conan the Destroyer Falling in Love Firestarter Firstborn Footloose Iceman Joy of Sex The Killing Fields Moscow on the Hudson Micki & Maude Places in the Heart Repo Man The River Sixteen Candles Starman Top Secret!

You can browse the full collection over on Netflix now.

For the past six years in a row, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor has gone to men with more than 35 minutes of screen time in their respective films. Although four of last year’s nominees could have bucked that trend, the academy chose to keep things consistent by honoring Ke Huy Quan’s especially lengthy performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” By appearing in a whopping 58 minutes and 33 seconds (or 42.03%) of the Best Picture winner, he more than comfortably surpassed his category’s screen time average and came within nine minutes of outpacing every previous supporting male victor.

Quan’s performance is the second longest in his film, as he and his Best Actress-winning on-screen wife, Michelle Yeoh, are separated by 36 minutes and 43 seconds (or 26.35%). Directly below him is Stephanie Hsu – who earned a supporting bid as his character’s daughter – at 42:18 (30.36%). Considering all 87 featured male turns that have merited Academy Awards,...

In a post-Barbie universe, it’s a strange feeling to have pity for extremely wealthy, famous, and attractive heterosexual men. Yet this has been the predominant sentiment following actor Charles Melton’s Oscar snub for his turn as a traumatized sexual assault survivor in May December.

Directed by Todd Haynes, May December is a portrait of the relationship between Melton’s Joe Yoo and his wife, Gracie (Julianne Moore), whom he met while he was a 13-year-old working in the then-36-year-old Gracie’s pet store. The story is told...

Julian Senior, the veteran Warner Bros. marketing and publicity executive in Europe who enjoyed close relationships with filmmakers including Oscar winners Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, David Puttnam and Neil Jordan, has died. He was 85.

Senior died Jan. 1 of pneumonia and heart failure in a hospital near his home in Borehamwood, England, Conor Nolan, his friend and onetime Warner Bros. colleague, told The Hollywood Reporter.

A native of South Africa, Senior joined Warner Bros. in 1970 after an eight-year run at MGM, where he was an advertising and publicity consultant in its European Regional Office, and he stuck with the studio through 2000.

At the start, Senior helped mastermind the advertising and publicity campaign for the landmark Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971), and he also worked with the famed director on The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

“He taught me how publicity, advertising and marketing operates,” Senior once said of Kubrick.

Julian Senior, a veteran international marketing executive for Warners and MGM who enjoyed a long working relationship with Stanley Kubrick and many other notable filmmakers, died Jan. 1. He was 85.

His death was announced by former Warners executive Conor Nolan.

Born in South Africa, Senior was at MGM for eight years before joining Warners in 1970 as an advertising and publicity consultant in Europe, and soon after was appointed VP of European advertising and publicity.

He became senior VP of European regional advertising and publicity in 1993, and oversaw dozens of Warner Bros. film campaigns. Senior retired in 2000 and handed over the marketing and publicity reins to Con Gornell and Nolan.

His friendship with Kubrick began in 1970 when the director finished “A Clockwork Orange.” Senior oversaw the advertising and publicity campaigns for “The Shining,” “Full Metal Jacket” and Kubrick’s final film, “Eyes Wide Shut” with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Senior once...

Julian Senior, former Warner Bros European marketing and publicity executive, passed away on January 1, 2024 at the age of 85.

Senior joined Warner Bros in 1970, after an eight-year stint at MGM, as an advertising and publicity consultant in the studio’s European region office. He was soon appointed vice president of European advertising and publicity at the studio and, in 1993, was promoted to senior vice president.

The South Africa-born executive had a close working and personal relationship with Stanley Kubrick and worked with the filmmaker on the campaigns for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

During his career,...

As she strolls comfortably toward multiple Oscar nominations for “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig is on track to set several Academy Awards records tied to her age, gender and the movie’s financial success. In terms of more general achievements, perhaps the most impressive one in her reach is becoming the first filmmaker to have all of her initial three solo features contend for Best Picture. Over the past 95 years, many directors have had shots at earning that distinction and a few have come remarkably close, but none of their chances have been quite as strong as hers.

Since Gerwig did not produce her first two independently-directed films – “Lady Bird” (2017) and “Little Women” (2019) – and, per academy rules, cannot officially share in a “Barbie” Best Picture nomination due to her screen credit of “executive producer” (rather than the qualifying “producer” or “produced by”), she does not and will not soon have any bids...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Netflix’s “May December”

In Netflix’s “May December,” one of the most memorable scenes features Joe Yoo (played by Charles Melton) arriving at the hotel to deliver a letter from his wife Gracie (Julianne Moore) to actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman). Their encounter leads to a brief yet intense sexual liaison on the floor, culminating in a conspicuous silhouette shot of Joe’s penis.

Amid Samy Burch’s narrative brilliance and Todd Haynes’ tantalizing direction, one might imagine Melton — known for his role in The CW’s “Riverdale” — felt immense pressure acting opposite Oscar winner Portman, who also produced the film. This pivotal scene was among the final ones shot in Savannah, Ga.

“It was very professional,” Melton tells Variety. “The whole thing. Natalie, Todd, and I met to discuss the scene, walking through it and ensuring everybody was comfortable. There were...

Joanna Merlin, who created the role of the daughter Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and served as a casting director for Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince and Bernardo Bertolucci, has died. She was 92.

Merlin died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disorder, her daughters, documentary filmmaker Rachel Dretzin (Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey) and actress Julie Dretzin (The Handmaid’s Tale), announced.

Merlin also portrayed the dance teacher Miss Berg in Alan Parker’s Fame (1980) and recurred as Judge Lena Petrovsky for more than a decade on NBC’s Law and Order: Svu.

Her acting résumé included the films Hester Street (1975), All That Jazz (1979), Baby It’s You (1983), The Killing Fields (1984), Mystic Pizza (1988), Class Action (1991) and City of Angels (1998) and such TV shows as Naked City, The Defenders, East Side/West Side, Homeland and The Good Wife.

Merlin cast the original Broadway productions of Sondheim’s Company,...

Exclusive: Signature Entertainment has acquired rights to shark attack thriller The Last Breath from Metro International.

Written by Nick Saltrese (A Prayer Before Dawn) and directed by Joachim Hedén (Breaking Surface), the film is produced by Andrew Prendergast (Shark Bait), and Chris Reed (Shark Bait).

The pic stars Julian Sands (A Room with a View) in his last film role alongside Jack Parr (Peaky Blinders), Kim Spearman (As I Am), and Alexander Arnold (Yesterday). The movie shot in late 2022, just a few months before Sands went missing while hiking in California. The actor’s remains were found in June on Mount Baldy.

Related: Julian Sands Dead At 65: ‘Smallville’ & ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ Actor’s Body Found Near Mount Baldy, Sheriff Confirms

In the film, a group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the...

For his debut film performance in 1984's historical drama, The Killing Fields, actor and physician Haing S. Ngor took home an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first Asian-American to win in the category and an overnight household name in entertainment. Having survived the genocidal horrors that plagued his native Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, Ngor immigrated to the United States and, in addition to his career in film and television, became a prolific and outspoken critic of his home country's brutal Khmer Rouge government and its tyrannical leader, Pol Pot. But on February 25, 1996, Ngor's life was cut tragically short at age 55 when he was murdered outside his Los Angeles home. While his death was ultimately deemed the result of a botched robbery, more details eventually emerged suggesting the possibility of more powerful and shadowy forces at play.

Understandably, there has been a lot more interest in the life and times of J. Robert Oppenheimer after Christopher Nolan's biographical drama has taken cinemas by storm. Nolan's all-encompassing film, based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's Pulitzer-winning novel "American Prometheus," gives a detailed reconstruction of what it was like to head the team that would go on to create the atomic bomb. In all likelihood, "Oppenheimer" will stand as the definitive account of the Manhattan Project and its aftermath. 

Over the years, there have been multiple attempts to tell Oppenheimer's story, including the 1989 war drama "Fat Man and Little Boy" starring Paul Newman and John Cusack. The modern stage retelling, "Doctor Atomic," by the Metropolitan Opera even delves into the physicist's private life while still managing to deliver a show-stropping recreation of the first detonation of the A-bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. 

But there's also...

One month after actor Julian Sands was confirmed dead, the corner report delivered the grisly and unsettling news that the cause of his death cannot be determined.

As per an officer in the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Coroner Department, “The cause is ‘Undetermined’ due to the condition of the body and because no other factors were discovered during the coroner’s investigation, this is common when dealing with cases of this type. This is the final determination.” Such wording only adds to the haunting and tragic scenario, conjuring images that are difficult to shake.

Julian Sands first went missing back in January while he was hiking in the Mount Baldy portion of the San Gabriel Mountains, an area noted for its dangerous conditions, especially in the winter when Sands was first reported missing. This led to several searches and hundreds of volunteer hours which ultimately turned up nothing. In late June,...

Actor Julian Sands specific cause of death may never be officially determined, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner.

A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department told multiple media outlets that the coroner’s conclusion regarding the cause of Sands’ passing is “undetermined due to the condition of the body and this is common when dealing with cases of this type.” CNN reported that the spokesperson also added, “This is the final determination.”

About a month ago, the San Bernardino County Sheriffs office confirmed that the human remains had been found in a remote wilderness area by hikers and were, indeed, those of the actor.

At the time, the Sheriff’s office issued a statement that said in part, “On Saturday, June 24, 2023, at about 10:00 a.m., civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station after they discovered human remains in the Mount Baldy wilderness. Fontana Station deputies,...

As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been accompanied by great anticipation and has brought renewed attention to the fascinating career and life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, most people are unaware of, or have forgotten, Fat Man and Little Boy, which was the last feature film to cover the creation and launch of the world’s first atomic bomb.

Released in October 1989, when Nolan was still a teenager, Fat Man and Little Boy, like Oppenheimer, arrived with great fanfare. Directed by Roland Joffe, the director of the Oscar-nominated films The Killing Fields and The Mission, and starring the legendary Paul Newman, and with such a compelling story to tell, Fat Man and Little Boy was regarded as a prestigious Hollywood project with serious Academy Award potential.

However, Fat Man and Little Boy, which grossed less than $4 million at the domestic box office against a production budget of $30 million, quickly became a commercial and critical failure.

Decades before Christopher Nolan set his sights on a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a science-obsessed BBC executive ventured to America in 1979 to make a $1.5 million TV show about the father of the atom bomb.

Peter Goodchild began his career at the BBC in radio drama, but eventually migrated to the storied “Horizon” science unit to put his chemistry degree to some use. The division began experimenting with factual dramas in the 1970s, and after delivering a hit series on French-Polish physicist Marie Curie, Goodchild set his sights on the New York-born Oppenheimer.

“I’d seen a play on J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Hampstead Theatre Club way back in 1966,” the 83-year-old tells Variety from his home in Exeter, southwest England, where his Zoom background reveals a room teeming with books on heaving shelves.

“It was an amazing story, and I’d always wanted to do it,” Goodchild continues. “Someone...

Julian Sands had a lustrous career as an actor, from his early work in notable roles in big films like The Killing Fields, embracing gothic charm playing Percy Shelley in Gothic, frightening audiences as the Warlock, and sweeping Helena Bonham Carter off her feet in A Room with a View. The actor was famous in both the mainstream and as a cult icon, which made his untimely passing in early 2023 a tragedy felt by many movie aficionados.

Looking back at the actor's diverse career, it can be hard to pick one stand-out role. But for us, Julian Sands' best performance will always be Naked Lunch. Here is why.

An Important Part of Film History

To understand the significance of Naked Lunch, one has to go back to the controversial work that inspired the film. William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch was published in 1959 and instantly sparked controversy worldwide for its depiction of sex and violence.

James Ivory has long specialized in British period dramas, successfully adapting works by esteemed English writers like E.M. Forster and Kazuo Ishiguro. His directorial debut, A Room With A View (1985) –– starring Julian Sands as the free-spirited George Emerson and Helena Bonham Carter as the bourgeois but passionate Lucy Honeychurch –– is both a stellar adaptation of Forster's 1908 novel and one of the greatest romantic films of all time. Sands, who disappeared while hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains in January, and whose body was sadly found this week, emerged from the film as one of Britain's most iconic male actors, charming viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with his brooding but sympathetic portrayal of a young Englishman at loose ends in a foreign country. His eclectic body of work, from The Killing Fields (1984) to the Warlock horror film series (1989-1993), to Dario Argento's adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera...

The search for Arachnophobia and Warlock star Julian Sands has come to a tragic end. The English actor went missing on January 13 while hiking in the Mount Baldy region in the San Gabriel Mountains. After eight different search and rescue missions took place in the following months, human remains were discovered in the area on June 27.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, those remains have now been positively identified as Sands. The late actor would have been 65 years old, as the hike began fewer than two weeks after his birthday. The exact nature of his death is still being investigated by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department.

The Onscreen Legacy Julian Sands Leaves Behind

An English actor, Sands was largely known in the U.S. as something of a character actor. Perhaps his most notable role in a Hollywood production was playing the notorious titular son of Satan in 1989's Warlock, in...

Julian Sands was found dead today after being missing since mid-January. The English actor had a prolific career in television and film. His breakout role was in Jame Ivory’s A Room with a View opposite Helena Bonham-Carter in the film released in 1985.

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Other notable films in which Sands appeared in were The Killing Fields (1984), Warlock (1989), Arachnophobia (1990), Naked Lunch (1991), Boxing Helena (1993), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Medallion (2003), among many others.

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In television, Sands participated in shows like 24, Castle, and in Smallville where he played the role of Jor-El. Sands also voiced Valmont in the Jackie Chan Adventures animated series and Purrbles in Bobbleheads: The Movie.

Scroll through the photo gallery below and take a look at Julian Sands’s career in TV and film.

The search for missing actor Julian Sands is over. Back in January, Sands had ventured to the Mt. Baldy area in Southern California for a solo hike, as he was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed spending time alone in the area. When he failed to return home on Jan. 13, his family reported him missing. Cops were able to locate his vehicle, but over the next five months, no trace of the Warlock star was found, despite extensive searches.

Earlier this month, around 80 volunteers assembled to again scour the Mt. Baldy area hoping to find some new clues as to what happened with Sands. That search, unfortunately, came up empty, but one week later, hikers happened to stumble across human remains just outside of the search zone. At the time, authorities confirmed that a body was located and that further details would be announced pending identification. On Tuesday, the San Bernardino...

British actor, 65, went missing on California mountain hike in January.

Authorities in California have confirmed the human remains discovered in the Mount Baldy mountainous region in the south of the state are those of the British actor Julian Sands.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department issued the following message on Tuesday (June 27): “The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results.”

Sands was reported missing on January 13 after he did...

Julian Sands has officially been pronounced dead nearly five months after he went missing during a hike in California. Authorities confirmed the identification of his remains on Tuesday. Sands was 65.

“The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results,” the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. “We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr.

The worst has been confirmed by THR: Julian Sands, the unforgettable star of the horror classic Warlock, is dead. The actor vanished in January when hiking in the Mount Baldy wilderness outside of L.A. Recently, hikers found a body, and, as expected, its identity was confirmed as Sands. It’s a sad but not unexpected end for one of the most high-profile missing persons cases in recent years, and hopefully, his remains being identified will give his family peace. It sounds like a tragic accident, with Sands being a renowned outdoorsman and avid hiker. It took this long to find and identify him because, until recently, the area suffered the effects of unusually severe weather.

Of course, Sands is an icon to the horror community thanks to his star role in Warlock and its sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon. He also had roles in many other movies, with him initially...

Six months after going missing in the Mount Baldy wilderness outside Los Angeles, it has been confirmed today that veteran actor Julian Sands has passed away at the age of 65.

The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in an official statement today, “The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results.

“We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr. Sands,” this afternoon’s statement continued.

Here in the horror world, Julian Sands is best known for playing the titular Warlock in the 1989 horror movie Warlock, reprising his role in 1993’s Warlock: The Armageddon.

Sands played Dr. James Atherton in 1990’s Arachnophobia, also starring in Gothic (1986), Naked Lunch (1991), The Turn of the Screw...

Actor Julian Sands, whose four-decade career encompassed TV (24) and film (A Room With a View), is confirmed to have died in a January hiking accident. He was 65 years old.

On June 24, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office announced that human remains had been found by civilian hikers in the same area where the actor had reportedly gone missing. On Tuesday, the office confirmed that the remains belonged to Sands, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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“The identification process for the body located on Mt.

Julian Sands, the actor best known for “A Room With a View” and “Warlock,” died while hiking Mount Baldy earlier this year, authorities confirmed Tuesday.

Human remains recovered at the site on Saturday were, as suspected, identified to be those of the 65-year-old actor, who had been missing since January.

“The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood,” the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department shared in a statement on Tuesday. “The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr. Sands.”

Hikers found Sands’ remains on Saturday, and they were then transported by authorities to San Bernardino County to be identified. Sands’ family reported that the British actor went missing on Jan. 13 after...

Julian Sands, the British actor who pivoted from the romantic lead in “A Room With a View” to playing sinister characters in films like “Warlock,” was confirmed dead Tuesday after being reported missing near Mt. Baldy in Southern California on Jan. 13. He was 65.

On Saturday morning, hikers found human remains in the Mt. Baldy wilderness and contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station.

“The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr. Sands,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department wrote in a statement.

Sands had gone hiking in the snow-covered Baldy Bowl area, about 45 miles east of Los Angeles. He was an experienced mountaineer, but...

After six months of searching, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office confirmed today that the human remains found earlier this week by hikers were, indeed, those of actor Julian Sands. He had been missing since mid-January.

The statement (read it below) says his cause of death is still pending, but Sands was an experienced hiker who loved the outdoors.

The positive identification comes less than a week after Sands’ family issued their first statement on the matter, saying they are “deeply grateful to the search teams and coordinators who have worked tirelessly to find Julian.”

Of the actor himself — known for his roles in The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Leaving Las Vegas, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena, 24, Smallville and Banshee — the family statement said, “We continue to hold Julian in our hearts, with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts,...

Human remains recently discovered by hikers in the Mount Baldy wilderness outside Los Angeles were identified as those of British actor Julian Sands, who had been missing since January, authorities announced Tuesday.

On Saturday morning, civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station after they found the remains, which were then taken to the San Bernardino County Coroner for identification.

“The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood,” the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. “The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results. We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr. Sands.”

An avid outdoorsman, Sands was reported missing by his family Jan. 13 after he had gone hiking in the Baldy Bowl Trail area of the San Gabriel Mountains that day.