You’ll have to time travel in the DeLorean to relive “Back to the Future.” According to franchise screenwriter Bob Gale, there won’t be any more films following up the 1985 classic, the 1989 sequel “Back to the Future Part II” and 1990’s “Back to the Future Part III.” After the “Cobra Kai” finale featured an … Read more
Celebrated for his mastery of dialogue, he also contributed (though without credit) to the scripts of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Godfather.” Source link #Robert #Towne #Screenwriter #Chinatown #Dies
“Nobody ever wins a fight.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its parent company, Amazon Studios, has been hit with a lawsuit over its 2024 remake of the 1989 action flick “Road House.” The off-screen drama began Tuesday when the original film’s screenwriter, R. Lance Hill, filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement for refusing to license his 1986 … Read more
Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who moved to Europe in the late 1940s rather than be subject to the congressional investigations and professional ostracism that overtook her industry for a decade, died on Dec. 17 at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 103 and widely considered to be one of the last surviving victims … Read more
Herman Raucher, who turned his memories of a summer as a teenager on Nantucket, Mass., which included a sexual encounter with a young war widow, into the screenplay for the nostalgic 1971 film “Summer of ’42,” died on Dec. 28 in Stamford, Conn. He was 95. His daughter Jenny Raucher confirmed the death, in a … Read more