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Beatty To Receive AFI Honor
5 October 2007 (WENN)
Legendary actor/director Warren Beatty will be honored with the 36th American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award next year. The Oscar winner, famous for movies including Bonnie And Clyde, Shampoo, Reds and Bugsy, will receive the award at a gala tribute ceremony in Los Angeles on 12 June. AFI chief Sir Howard Stringer says, "Warren Beatty has charmed movie-goers as a dynamic leading man from his first moment on screen and continues to do so today. He is also a master filmmaker, a writer, producer and director of such artistry and influence that his movies, from Bonnie And Clyde to Reds, have left an indelible mark on the cultural legacy of American film."

Arthur Penn To Be Honored in Berlin
18 December 2006 (StudioBriefing)
Legendary director Arthur Penn has been selected to receive the Berlin Film Festival's lifetime achievement award on February 15. Penn, whose films include Bonnie and Clyde, The Miracle Worker, The Missouri Breaks and Night Moves, was selected because of the way his films "reanimated the crisis-ridden American cinema" in the late '60s and early '70s, festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement.

Actor Cranshaw Dies
3 January 2006 (WENN)
Veteran character actor Patrick Cranshaw, who appeared in movies including Old School and Bonnie and Clyde, has died of natural causes at the age of 86. Cranshaw worked for nearly half a century right up until an appearance in last year's Herbie: Fully Loaded. He also starred in movies including The Hudsucker Proxy and Best in Show. Cranshaw also appeared in TV shows including CHiPS and The Dukes of Hazzard. He passed away at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, and is survived by three children.

Movie Reviews: 'First Daughter'
24 September 2004 (StudioBriefing)
First Daughter ought to be called Worst Daughter, Lou Lumenick puns in the New York Post. Most other critics appear to agree that it is worse than Chasing Liberty, which came out in January with pretty much the same plot about a presidential daughter falling for a Secret Service bodyguard -- and quickly faded. In fact, says Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe, the movie "is such a phony-cutesy fairy tale that it makes the European gallivanting in Chasing Liberty seem like Bonnie and Clyde." Writes Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "In a year glutted with teenage movie heroines who are either hereditary or civic royalty, First Daughter is the second presidential-child film. Is there a limit to this incessant princessitude?"

'Psycho' Shower Scene Voted "Best Movie Death"
21 May 2004 (StudioBriefing)
The shower-scene murder in Psycho was the "best movie death" of all time, according to a critics poll published today (Thursday) by the British magazine Total Film. Deputy editor Simon Crook remarked, "It's the sheer violence of the edit rather than any explicit gore -- 70 different angles, over 90 cuts and those shrieking violins. It's a master class in montage and audience manipulation." Other movies making the list include: Dr. Strangelove (second place), in which Slim Pickens rides out of an airplane attached to an atomic bomb; King Kong (third place), in which the ape topples to his death; Die Hard (fourth place), in which the villain played by Alan Rickman falls from a 30-story building; and Bonnie and Clyde (fifth place), in which the lead characters are riddled with bullets at the end.

Thriller?
13 June 2001 (StudioBriefing)
The American Film Institute released its list of the "100 Most Thrilling American Films" Tuesday, and, like similar lists the AFI has issued in recent years, this one drew immediate criticism. New York Daily News film critic Jack Mathews commented that the main problem with the list is its definition of "thriller." Although finding no fault with the list's top ten, Mathews questions the inclusion of such films as High Noon, Lawrence of Arabia and The Wizard of Oz in the top 100, noting that they should more reasonably be included in a list of the best Westerns, biographical dramas, and children's movies. "Essentially, the institute has redefined the thriller, broadened it and, in the process, made the term -- and the new list -- moot."

The top thirty films on the AFI's "thriller" list: 1. Psycho; 2. Jaws; 3. The Exorcist; 4. North by Northwest; 5. The Silence of the Lambs; 6. Alien; 7. The Birds; 8. The French Connection; 9. Rosemary's Baby; 10. Raiders of the Lost Ark; 11. The Godfather; 12. King Kong; 13. Bonnie and Clyde; 14. Rear Window; 15. Deliverance; 16. Chinatown; 17. The Manchurian Candidate; 18 Vertigo; 19. The Great Escape; 20. High Noon; 21. A Clockwork Orange; 22. Taxi Driver; 23. Lawrence of Arabia; 24. Double Indemnity; 25. Titanic; 26. The Maltese Falcon; 27. Star Wars; 28. Fatal Attraction; 29. The Shining; 30. The Deer Hunter.

Cinemafantastique Publisher Takes His Life
9 November 2000 (StudioBriefing)
Frederick S. Clarke, 51, founder, editor and publisher of the sci-fi/horror movie magazine Cinefantastique committed suicide on Oct. 17, the New York Times reported today (Thursday). Clarke was said to be suffering from depression. The newspaper said that the magazine will continue to be published by Clarke's wife, Celeste, its business manager.

NOTE: In Wednesday's edition, in reference to the re-release of Wonder Boys (1999), we noted that Paramount vice chairman Rob Friedman has acknowledged that no studio has ever successfully re-released a movie that originally flopped. We received a note from Tim Morris at Warner Bros. who said that when the studio released Bonnie and Clyde (1967) in August 1967, it flopped. "But as critics rallied around the film, Warren Beatty pressured the studio to re-release it a few months later--and the rest is history."

Arthur Penn To Oversee Law & Order
1 May 2000 (StudioBriefing)
Veteran director Arthur Penn whose film credits include Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and Missouri Breaks, The (1976), will be returning to television, the medium in which he gained his initial reputation, to become executive producer of Law & Order, the New York Daily News reported today (Monday). Penn was a director on Philco Playhouse, a live dramatic series that went on the air in 1948 presenting TV adaptations of famous Broadway plays.

Faye Dunaway To Star In Diana Movie
31 March 2000 (WENN)
American actress Faye Dunaway is to star in a British film - THE BIOGRAPHER - about DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER says the film details the events surrounding the writing of the best-selling biography of Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in August 1997. Dunaway, star of such films as Bonnie and Clyde (1967), plays a journalist covering Britain's Royal Family