Batman crew member dies in film shoot
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A crew member involved in the filming of the new Batman movie has died in a car accident on the set, police said on Tuesday. The special effects technician was killed when his 4x4 vehicle crashed into a tree during a dummy film run involving the "Batmobile".
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An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in what police said was American military action and which witnesses described as a helicopter attack.
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Patrice Walsh, Christine Webb (Rochester, NY) 10/11/04 -- Actor/director Christopher Reeve died Sunday from heart failure triggered by an infected pressure wound.
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Christopher Reeve, star of the &quot;Superman&quot; movie series, died on Sunday of heart failure, according to Reuters. He was 52.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A filmmaker who was the great-grandnephew of the painter Vincent Van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street today after receiving death threats over a movie he made criticizing the treatment of women under Islam
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AMSTERDAM, Nov 2: Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who recently made a controversial short film about women and Islamic culture, was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday, police said.
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This past Saturday (November 13th), the rapper known as Olâ Dirty Bastard died after collapsing in a New York recording studio. Just 35-years-old, the cause of death is at this time unknown, but earlier
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Rap artist Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, whose demented rhymes and wild lifestyle made him one of the most colourful characters in hip hop, has died in a recording studio.
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Noted film maker Gulshan Rai died here on Monday after a prolonged illness.
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The actor who became famous playing Superman, then turned into an icon for quadraplegics after he was left paralysed by a 1995 riding accident, died of a heart attack at his home on Sunday night.
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A Dutch film director, who was making a controversial film, was killed in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam Tuesday morning. Theo van Gogh was killed after being stabbed and shot, Radio Netherlands reported.
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An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad on Thursday, the international news and information company said.
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The actor behind controversial spoof reporter Borat has killed him off, he said in an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper published on its website Friday.
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Herman Brix, 100, an Olympic shot-put medalist who became a screen Tarzan in the mid-1930s and went on to act in more than 100 other films under the name Bruce Bennett, died Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He had complications from a broken hip.
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The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment owned by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, according to the New York City police.
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Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker whose movie about violence against women in Islamic societies was broadcast on local television this year, was shot and killed in Amsterdam today, the NOS broadcaster said on its Web site.
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The man who soared to fame as the star of the Superman films and was grounded by a paralyzing accident in mid career has died at the age of 52.