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The angriest filmmaking fights that I've witnessed over the years have not been about cost or cast; they were about length. The movies were too long but so were the fights. I re-lived some of them this week when I saw Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flo…

Stanley Kubrick's great apocalyptic Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove is being brought to the stage by Armando Iannucci, best known for more recent shows Veep and Avenue Five.  And the director of the upcoming show, Sean Foley, is seeking an actor who shares the versatility of Peter Sellers – star of…

Director James Cameron responded today to rumors that he’s in talks on a film about the ill-fated voyage of the Titan submersible, which sank attempting to visit the Titanic wreckage. Five people died when the submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion. “I don’t respond to offensive rumors…

The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations. OceanGate Expeditions announced the move with a small website banner that said it was suspending all commercial and exploratory operations. The move comes two weeks after its diving vessel…

Wreckage brought ashore today from the Titan submersible that imploded last week contained “presumed human remains,” according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Related Stories Controversial ‘Ex…

Lew Palter, who played Isidor Straus in James Cameron’s Titanic and a Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October, has died. He was 94. Palter died of lung cancer May 21 at his Los Angeles home. CalArts, where Palter was a longtime faculty member, shared news of his death on Twitter…

The search for a submersible sent to tour the remains of the Titanic dominated coverage across cable news networks all week, along with the tragic news that the vessel most likely suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing all five on board. According to the latest figures from Nielsen, all three…

In multiple interviews yesterday, Titanic director James Cameron harshly criticized the OceanGate, the company that designed, built and operated the small submarine Titan, which officials now believe suffered a “catastrophic implosion” as it dove down to tour the wreck of the Titanic. Five people were…

UPDATED with network’s statement: NewsNation responded to Deadline’s inquiry about the criticism of a running “Oxygen Counter” the network displayed onscreen yesterday while covering the unfolding tragedy of the sub that went missing near the Titanic wreck. According to a NewsNation…

UPDATED: Titanic filmmaker James Cameron spoke out Thursday about the loss of the Titan submarine that had dived to explore the historic shipwreck. "Many people in the [deep-submergence engineering] community were very concerned about this sub, and a number of you know of the top players in the…

UPDATED with latest: The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed at a news conference today that “a debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic” is, in fact, from the Titan submersible. The five people aboard are feared dead after what one official termed as a debris field consistent…

The search for the OceanGate submarine is nearing a critical stage with the submersible’s oxygen supply due to expire this morning. The Titan sub went missing hours after setting off for the Titanic wreckage off the coast of Canada earlier this week. Rescue teams using high-tech robotic equipment…