Alan Metter, Director of Rodney Dangerfield's 'Back to School,' Dies at 77

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorAlan Donnes, who worked as a stand-up comic before producing films, acting, doing radio, writing about sports and running National Lampoon, died July 8 of bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles. He was 57 and had been hospitalized for three weeks.

Maximilian B. Bryer, who directed episodes of the soap operasAs the World TurnsandThe Edge of Night, died June 16 at his home in Las Vegas, his family announced.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Director Ciro Guerra has denied allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by eight women against one of Colombia’s most prominent filmmakers.Accusations of harassment and abuse were raised in a June 24 report by Volcanicas, a Latin American feminist journal.

Dominic Patten, Nellie Andreeva Embrace of the Serpent director Ciro Guerra is vehemently denying the sexual harassment and assault allegations made against him earlier this week. Seven women are claiming the Oscar nominated filmmaker harassed them and an eighth is asserting that Guerra raped her, according to an article published on June 24 in the online magazine Volcanicas.

Jamie Lang Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival” will world premiere this September as it opens the 68th edition of the San Sebastian Intl Film Festival where it will play out of competition.San Sebastian’s Kursaal building hosted the film’s initial announcement 11 months ago where, apart for a boycott by the leftist Basque party EH Bildu of a reception thrown for Allen by the mayor of San Sebastian, the reception in Spain for Allen has largely been warm.“Rifkin’s Festival” was shot last summer in

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” Ubisoft told TheWrap.The game publisher would not comment on Ismail’s replacement as creative director or if his removal will impact the game’s planned release this holiday.Also Read: San Diego Comic-Con at Home: Here's All the Must-See Virtual Panels and ScreeningsIsmail’s alleged misconduct was brought to light by Twitch streamer Dani Porter Bridges, a California resident who said she was in a relationship with Ismail “for a year on and off” that was consensual

NEW YORK -- Joel Schumacher, the flamboyant journeyman director who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo's Fire” and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin,” has died.

Bekah Martinez is officially a momma of two!

Bekah Martinez's family just got a little bigger. The former contestant and her boyfriend, Grayston Leonard, welcomed their second child together, a baby boy, on Friday.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAlan Metter, the director for the 1980s pop culture films Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Back To School, died on June 7, according to the New York Film Academy, where he taught. Details on the cause or location were not provided.Metter was born in Sharon, Mass., on Dec.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAlan Mettler, the director for the 1980s pop culture films Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Back To School, died on June 7, according to the New York Film Academy, where he taught. Details on the cause or location were not provided.Metter was born in Sharon, Mass., on Dec.

Ellise Shafer editorAlan Metter, best known for directing the 1980s films “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Back to School,” died on June 7, his family confirmed to Variety. He was 77.Metter was born in Sharon, Mass., on Dec.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEgyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky has resigned from his post as artistic director of the Cairo International Film Festival after past controversial social media posts re-emerged.Shawky had been acting as the event’s artistic director since its 2019 edition and had only recently taken over the role on a permanent basis.

the AP. He was appointed to the position this year after serving as acting artistic director for 2019’s festival.Shawky drew criticism when in 2014 he referred in a blog post to a 2012 soccer riot in Egypt that left 70 people dead.

Dominic Patten, Anthony D'Alessandro EXCLUSIVE: Randall Miller’s lenient interpretation of his probation is about to face some hard truths in a Georgia courtroom.Nearly six and a half years after Sarah Jones was killed on the set of Midnight Rider, Miller and his lawyers are going to be figuratively back in front of a Peach State judge in a hearing to determine if the director violated the conditions of his probation when he helmed the comedy Higher Grounds last year.Partially at the Wayne

Dade Hayes Finance EditorVirgil Films has acquired the U.S. and Canadian digital rights to Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, a feature-length look at Alan Ladd Jr.

NeNe Leakes just praised Marlo Hampton for putting together an amazing video about the BLM movement. This emotional clip managed to become viral on social media, and you’ll see why if you check it out below.