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CBC
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
James Foley, director of Glengarry Glen Ross, dead at 71
Social Sharing James Foley, a journeyman director best known for Glengarry Glen Ross, has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, said Friday. In his long and varied career, Foley directed music videos for Madonna, 12 episodes of House of Cards and the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels, but it was his 1992 adaptation of David Mamet's foulmouthed Pulitzer Prize winning play that stood above the rest. Although it wasn't a hit at the time, Glengarry Glen Ross wormed its way into the culture and grew into an oft-quoted cult favourite, especially Alec Baldwin's "always be closing" monologue, which was unique to the film version of the play. Critic Tim Grierson wrote 20 years after its release that it remains "one of the quintessential modern movies about masculinity." "While there are many fine Mamet movies, it's interesting that the best of them was this one — the one he didn't direct," Grierson said. Hal Ashby took an early interest Born on Dec. 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley studied film in graduate school at the University of Southern California. Legend has it that Hal Ashby once wandered into a film school party where his short happened to be playing at the time, and he took a liking to him. Foley would later attribute his ability to make his first feature, Reckless, a 1984 romantic drama about mismatched teenagers in love starring Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Adam Baldwin, to the Ashby stamp of approval. It was also the first screenplay credited to Chris Columbus, though there were reports of creative differences. He followed it with the Sean Penn crime drama At Close Range, the Madonna and Griffin Dunne screwball comedy Who's That Girl and the neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, with Jason Patric. Critic Roger Ebert included After Dark, My Sweet in his great movies list, calling it "one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir" despite having been "almost forgotten." He also directed several music videos for Madonna, including Papa Don't Preach, Live to Tell and Who's That Girl, and an episode of Twin Peaks as well as an episode of Hannibal. Foley adapted John Grisham and worked with Gene Hackman on The Chamber and made the Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg teenage love-gone-scary thriller Fear. He worked with Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz on the 2003 American crime drama Confidence and helmed the largely derided Halle Berry and Bruce Willis psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, which was released in 2007. Bored by car chases and stunts It would be a decade before his next film was released, when he was given the reins to the Fifty Shades of Grey sequels: Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. "For me, what's most challenging is stuff that doesn't involve the actors, oddly enough. In three, there's a big car chase and there's different stunts and stuff, and that stuff really bores me," he told the Associated Press at the U.K. premiere of Fifty Shades Darker. "So, when the actors aren't around, that's difficult because the actors give me so much energy and kind of engagement and a car driving by doesn't do the same thing." Foley was not an easily definable director, but that was by design. In 2017, he told the Hollywood Reporter that he had no interest in repeating himself. "I've always just followed my nose, for better or for worse, sometimes for worse," he said. "What's best and what's worst [about the industry] are almost the same to me. What's worst is you get pigeonholed, and what's best is I haven't been. It means that I'm still making movies, despite hopping all over the place."
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dance Moves: Skrillex, 2hollis, PinkPantheress & More Debut on Dance Charts With New Projects
Billboard's Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard's many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more. This week on charts dated April 19, Skrillex, 2hollis, PinkPantheress and others achieve new feats. Check out key movers below. More from Billboard Actress Michelle Trachtenberg's Cause of Death Revealed Daryl Hannah Claims Neil Young's Citizenship Process Was Hindered by 'Every Trick in the Book' Tracy Chapman's Debut Album Hits Top 10 on Billboard's Album Sales Chart After Vinyl Reissue The influential DJ-producer dropped his fourth studio album, F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3, on April 1 amid Billboard's Friday-Thursday (March 28-April 3) chart tracking week. The 34-cut set debuted at No. 4 on Top Dance Albums and No. 124 on the Billboard 200 on the April 12-dated charts after just three days of tracking with 11,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Luminate. Following its first full week of tracking (April 4-10, for the latest charts dated April 19), the set rises to No. 3 on Top Dance Albums and No. 69 on the Billboard 200 with 14,000 units. The project is Skrillex's eighth career entry on Top Dance Albums and seventh on the Billboard 200. Here's a look at his history on the former: Peak Position, Title, Peak Date: No. 1 (10 weeks), Bangarang, Feb. 11, 2012 No. 1 (five weeks), Recess, April 5, 2014 No. 1 (three weeks), Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü, March 14, 2015 No. 2, Quest for Fire, March 4, 2023 No. 3, F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3, April 19, 2025 No. 3, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Sept 10, 2011 No. 5, More Monsters and Sprites, July 9, 2011 No. 6, Don't Get Too Close, March 4, 2023 Skrillex concurrently debuts five tracks from the new album on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs: 'Voltage' (No. 11); 'Spitfire,' with HAWAII SLIM (No. 18); 'Recovery,' with Space Laces (No. 21); 'Andy' (No. 22); and 'While You Were Sleeping VIP,' with Virtual Riot and Nakeesha (No. 25). He has charted 69 total entries on the chart, fourth-best after only David Guetta (94), Marshmello (75) and Kygo (70). Before Billboard launched Hot Dance/Electronic Songs on Jan. 26, 2013, Skrillex logged four songs on the Billboard Hot 100: 'First of the Year (Equinox)' (No. 85 peak in January 2012); 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' (No. 69, 2012); 'Kyoto,' featuring Sirah (No. 74, 2012); and 'Bangarang' (No. 72, 2012). 'Bangarang' also reached No. 19 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay. (He has added six Hot 100 entries since.) Thanks to their guest appearances, HAWAII SLIM and Nakeesha both score their first Billboard chart hits. Space Laces tallies his fourth entry on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, after 'Destroid 1 Raise Your Fist,' with Excision and Downlink (No. 50 peak in 2013), and two collaborations with Marshmello in 2024: 'Conquer' and 'Rave Repeater' (Nos. 25 and 36, respectively). Virtual Riot makes his first Billboard chart visit in nine years, since his EP Chemistry reached No. 20 on Top Dance Albums in 2016. F*CK U SKRILLEX is comprised of 34 tracks, 11 of which are less than one minute in length. The opening track notes that the album is best listened to from start to finish, as it plays at 46 minutes long as a continuous mix. It has more than two dozen collaborators, including Bibi Bourelly, Boys Noize, Dylan Brady of 100 gecs, G Jones, Jónsi of Sigur Rós and Wuki. The Los Angeles-based artist debuts on Billboard's album charts for the first time with his new LP, Star. Released April 4 on Interscope Records as his major-label debut, the set arrives at No. 11 on Top Dance Albums (5,000 units). 2hollis had appeared on Billboard's charts once before this week: on Oct. 19, 2024, 'Gold' (which is included on Star) debuted and peaked at No. 31 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. He also reached No. 26 on the now-defunct TikTok Billboard Top 50 in November with 'Jeans.' 2hollis served as the opening act for Ken Carson's The Chaos Tour last year. He performed at Coachella last weekend and is slated to perform at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza Chicago and Outside Lands. The multifaceted singer-songwriter-producer returns to Billboard's charts with her new single 'Tonight.' Released April 4 via Parlophone/Warner Records, the song debuts at No. 5 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs with 3.6 million U.S. streams in its first week. 'Tonight' is the lead single off her upcoming second mixtape, Fancy That, due May 9. PinkPantheress previously charted two tracks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs: 'Way Back' with Skrillex and Trippie Redd reached No. 13 in January 2023, and Kaytranada's 'Snap My Finger' featuring PinkPantheress hit No. 40 last June. Her breakthrough collaboration with Ice Spice, 'Boy's a Liar, Pt. 2,' climbed to No. 3 on the Hot 100 in March 2023 and also spent a week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart. Rudimental and Khalid's new collaboration, 'All I Know,' debuts at No. 17 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs thanks almost entirely to its streaming sum: 958,000 in its first week, after it arrived April 4 via Rudimental/Room Two Recordings. The song earns British trio Rudimental its eighth entry on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, and first since 'Waterslides,' with Tiësto and Absolutely, last year. Notably, Rudimental appeared on the inaugural Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in 2013 with 'Feel the Love,' featuring John Newman. 'All I Know' earns Khalid his seventh entry on the chart, and first since 'The Hard Way,' with Pnau, in 2023. All three artists debut at No. 34 on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart with their collaboration 'Act of God.' Layton Giordani and Sarah de Warren claim their first-ever Billboard chart appearances and Linney her second, after her team-up with Tritonal, 'Electric Kids,' in 2020 (No. 32 peak on Dance/Mix Show Airplay). Released Jan. 24 on Experts Only, 'Act of God' arrives thanks to a 70% increase in plays (among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations' mix show hours). Giordani hails from New York City, with his catalog centered on techno music. He has released two full-length albums: Where It Begins in 2017, and New Generation in 2020. He has collaborated with Anyma, deadmau5, Dom Dolla and Oliver Heldens, among others. Singer-songwriters Linney and de Warren have both lent their voices to other dance/electronic tracks. Linney has been releasing music for more than a decade and dropped her latest EP, We Dance (via Helix Records), in September. Warren's catalog also stretches back that long and includes collaborations with the likes of Hardwell, HI-LO and Weird Genius. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
South Wales Guardian
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Fifty Shades sequels director James Foley dies aged 71
The American filmmaker, known for Glengarry Glen Ross, Fear, and The Corruptor, died peacefully in his sleep earlier this week, a statement from a rep confirmed. His work spanned across music videos, television and film, making his directorial debut in 1984 with Reckless, starring American actor Aidan Quinn and Blade Runner's Daryl Hannah. In 1986 he directed music videos for pop star Madonna, including for the hit songs Papa Don't Preach, Live To Tell and True Blue. He more recently directed the two sequels to the Fifty Shades romantic thriller trilogy – Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018) – which starred Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, and also directed for television, including 12 episodes of the hit Netflix thriller series House Of Cards. The filmmaker worked with Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz on the 2003 film Confidence, which follows Jake Vig, played by Burns, a grifter whose con plan to avenge his friend's murder goes awry, leaving him indebted to a mob boss and his enforcer. He also directed the psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, starring Halle Berry as a journalist who goes undercover to investigate businessman Harrison Hill, played by Bruce Willis, who she suspects killed her childhood friend. He is survived by his brother, Kevin Foley, sisters Eileen and Jo Ann Foley, and his nephew Quinn Foley and is also predeceased by his brother, Gerard Foley.
Western Telegraph
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Western Telegraph
Fifty Shades sequels director James Foley dies aged 71
The American filmmaker, known for Glengarry Glen Ross, Fear, and The Corruptor, died peacefully in his sleep earlier this week, a statement from a rep confirmed. His work spanned across music videos, television and film, making his directorial debut in 1984 with Reckless, starring American actor Aidan Quinn and Blade Runner's Daryl Hannah. James Foley arriving for the Fifty Shades Darker European premiere at Odeon Leicester Square (Ian West/PA) In 1986 he directed music videos for pop star Madonna, including for the hit songs Papa Don't Preach, Live To Tell and True Blue. He more recently directed the two sequels to the Fifty Shades romantic thriller trilogy – Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018) – which starred Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, and also directed for television, including 12 episodes of the hit Netflix thriller series House Of Cards. The filmmaker worked with Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz on the 2003 film Confidence, which follows Jake Vig, played by Burns, a grifter whose con plan to avenge his friend's murder goes awry, leaving him indebted to a mob boss and his enforcer. He also directed the psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, starring Halle Berry as a journalist who goes undercover to investigate businessman Harrison Hill, played by Bruce Willis, who she suspects killed her childhood friend. He is survived by his brother, Kevin Foley, sisters Eileen and Jo Ann Foley, and his nephew Quinn Foley and is also predeceased by his brother, Gerard Foley.
The Herald Scotland
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Fifty Shades sequels director James Foley dies aged 71
His work spanned across music videos, television and film, making his directorial debut in 1984 with Reckless, starring American actor Aidan Quinn and Blade Runner's Daryl Hannah. James Foley arriving for the Fifty Shades Darker European premiere at Odeon Leicester Square (Ian West/PA) In 1986 he directed music videos for pop star Madonna, including for the hit songs Papa Don't Preach, Live To Tell and True Blue. He more recently directed the two sequels to the Fifty Shades romantic thriller trilogy – Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018) – which starred Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, and also directed for television, including 12 episodes of the hit Netflix thriller series House Of Cards. The filmmaker worked with Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz on the 2003 film Confidence, which follows Jake Vig, played by Burns, a grifter whose con plan to avenge his friend's murder goes awry, leaving him indebted to a mob boss and his enforcer. He also directed the psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, starring Halle Berry as a journalist who goes undercover to investigate businessman Harrison Hill, played by Bruce Willis, who she suspects killed her childhood friend. He is survived by his brother, Kevin Foley, sisters Eileen and Jo Ann Foley, and his nephew Quinn Foley and is also predeceased by his brother, Gerard Foley.
