Tom Pollock, Former Universal Pictures Chairman, Dies at 77

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJack Sherman, who was the guitarist on the first Red Hot Chili Peppers album and contributed to the group’s second, has died. He was 64 and no cause of death has been determined.“We of the RHCP family would like to wish Jack Sherman smooth sailing into the worlds beyond, for he has passed,” the group said on Instagram.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe Orange County Health Care Agency announced the county’s first pediatric death related to COVID-19 on Thursday, a teenage girl with significant underlying medical conditions.Since the start of the pandemic, three people 18 to 24 years old have died of coronavirus complications in Orange County, but this was the first death of a person under 18.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Joker and The Matrix co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned and is looking to fast-track The Prize, a spec feature written by Buried and Greenland scribe Chris Sparling with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales co-helmer Espen Sandberg aboard to direct.The conspiracy thriller follows an American private investigator who travels to Stockholm after the suspicious death of an old friend, a ranking member of the Nobel Prize

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the worldwide rights, excluding Canada, to Lance Oppenheim’s documentary feature debut “Some Kind of Heaven.”The film, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, was produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa and Los Angeles Media Fund, which also financed the film.“Some Kind of Heaven” profiles The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, located in Central Florida.

Tim Minchin has announced that he’ll release his debut album ‘Apart Together’ later this year.The Australian comic recorded the album over the last two years, and explained that the title track was inspired by a story he heard on US radio about an elderly couple in their mobile home who died of hypothermia in each other’s arms.Minchin said: “From the outset, if you enter marriage wholly accepting that it’s a commitment to watching each other decay, there’s something far more beautiful in that

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorLorenzo Soria, who was in his third nonconsecutive term as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globe Awards, died today at his home in Los Angeles, He was 68.The Argentina-born, Italy-raised Soria was elected HFPA president in June 2019, following stints in the top post from 2003-05 and 2015-17.

Spike Lee, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Martin Scorsese and AFI chief Bob Gazzale pay tribute to Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures, who died Saturday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack. Pollock, who was 77, also served as chairmanof the American Film Institute and co-founded the Montecito Picture Co.

Mark David Independent film and documentary writer, producer and director Tim Disney (“American Violet,” “Jim Allison: Breakthrough”), a showbiz scion of the Disney family — he is the grand-nephew of Walt Disney and the son of late billionaire Roy E.

Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute, died Saturday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack. He was 77.

Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute, has died at the age of 77, TheWrap has learned from longtime law partner Alan Hergott and screenwriter Nicholas Meyer.As an entertainment lawyer and later a producer and studio head, Pollock helped several iconic filmmakers get their start and oversaw the release of some of the most famous blockbusters ever released.

revealed in early May that Cruise was working on the space-set action-adventure and that he was serious about doing it and that Musk was involved.

In a recent interview with US Weekly, Leah Remini is all guns blazing as she attacks Tom Cruise for his involvement in the Church of Scientology along with David Miscavige (leader of Scientology) and Tommy Davis (Senior Vice President at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre). Leah stated that it's time for people to start waking up to the real facts which is Tom manipulating his image to be the "good guy" for years.

it wasn’t canceled, of course.“This is where the Trump administration and the Republican Party are at: whining about cartoons and Legos while sending secret police to gas moms and vets and arguing that slavery was a ‘necessary evil.’ A sitting United States senator said that. At least I think Tom Cotton is a senator.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorYou might have detected a whiff of discord in the American Experiment of late. As citizens, groups, politicians and most everyone digests, deals with and/or takes a side on the racial issues roiling the country, one prominent politician went on record last week to label slavery a “necessary evil.”Actually, GOP Sen.

"@ritawilson @tomhanks are now proud Greek citizens," Mitsotakis wrote alongside a photo with his wife Mareva Grabowski and the Hollywood couple showing off their brand new passports. @ritawilson @tomhanks are now proud Greek citizens! A post shared by Kyriakos Mitsotakis (@kyriakos_) on Jul 25, 2020 at 11:02pm PDTWilson, though born in the United States, is of Greek descent and was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith.

Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson are now officially dual citizens of both the USA and Greece. The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis revealed this exciting news over the weekend on his Instagram account as he posed with Tom, Rita and his own wife, Mareva Grabowski.