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David Breashears, whose mountaineering led him to climb Mt. Everest five times, died at his Massachusetts home on Thursday. He was 68 and no cause has been determined.

Breashears co-directed and co-produced a 1998 Imax documentary for Universal, Everest, about climbing the fabled mountain. Footage from that expedition to the peak made him a celebrity in the outdoors world.

“He combined his passion for climbing and photography to become one of the world’s most admired adventure filmmakers,” his family said in a written statement.

In 2007, Breashears founded GlacierWorks, which describes itself on Facebook as a nonprofit organization that “highlights changes to Himalayan glaciers through art, science, and adventure.”

“With GlacierWorks, he used his climbing and photography experience to create unique records revealing the dramatic effects of climate change on the historic mountain range,” his family said.

In 1983, Breashears transmitted the first live television pictures from the summit of Everest, according to his website.

In today’s film news roundup, a directors’s cut of “Everest” has been scheduled for release, “John Lewis: Good Trouble” has been set for international sales, RightsTrade hires Bill Lischak, Gerard Butler’s “Greenland” is scheduled and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film gets a release.

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MacGillivray Freeman Films has set a February release for a special director’s cut edition of the 1998 giant-screen documentary “Everest.”

The new version will be released in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the historic 1996 storm on the world’s highest mountain. The original film is the highest-grossing giant-screen documentary of all time, earning more than $152 million in worldwide ticket sales.

Narrated by Liam Neeson, “Everest” centers on the team of four climbers who ascended Mount Everest just days after fellow

mountaineers and friends died in the 1996 disaster. Produced and directed by Greg MacGillivray, with co-directors Stephen Judson and David Breashears, the director...

The story of the disastrous 1996 expedition on the world’s highest mountain – which cost the lives of 12 people, is told in a spectacular new film starring Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal as rival team leaders battling dreadful weather conditions. Paul MacInnes talks to Clarke, Everest director Baltasar Kormákur, and celebrated mountain documentary-maker David Breashears about what it was like reliving and reconstructing the tragedy.

• Everest is released on 18 September in the Us and UK

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Director Baltasar Kormákur on Everest, reviews, and creating a mountain on screen...

Now in wide release in UK cinemas, following a week-long IMAX-exclusive presentation is Everest. The film is directed by Baltasar Kormákur, who previously gave us the hugely enjoyable 2 Guns. And he spared us some time to talk about his new movie...

Obviously this is based on the 1996 climbing accident. Shortly after that happened, we had the documentary, Everest, which was directed by David Breashears. We’ve had several other films looking at this incident, particularly documentaries; what’s the advantage of something that’s fictionalised?

First of all, to be able to create the mountain, we need quite a budget. And to be able to shoot high up, and be able to capture the mountain the way we wanted to capture it. I’m not saying they didn’t get shots of the mountain, but that’s a different,...

The actors in new drama Everest clearly go to extremes in bringing to the screen the true-life drama of an expedition gone wrong. The film looks authentic, and that’s largely thanks to the input of David Breashears, a mountaineer with decades of experience. Not only that, but David was also on Everest during the fateful

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Update with details from gala screening: Jan and Sarah Arnold-Hall, Helen Wilton, David Breashears and Sherpa Ang Dorje were all on the Lido this afternoon, attending the press conference for Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest which opened the Venice Film Festival tonight (after a false start in the gala screening). Each of them is depicted in the Working Title film, with real and tragic events from their lives playing out on screen. Being true to them was one of the major…...

Entourage: The Movie

Haley Joel Osment has scored a supporting role in Doug Ellin's film adaptation of the HBO comedy series "Entourage" at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Details on his role are unknown. Osment joins a cast that includes Jeremy Piven, Billy Bob Thornton, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara. [Source: Deadline]

Vanishing Angle

Rachel Dratch, Trevor St John, Wendy Moniz, Oona Laurence, Jeremy Shinder, Sonya Harum and Mike Faist have all joined the cast of "In the Family" filmmaker Patrick Wang's second directorial effort "The Grief of Others".

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Everest

Micah Hauptman ("Parker," "Silver Skies") has joined the cast of Baltasar Kormakur's currently filming action adventure drama "Everest" at Working Title and Universal. Hauptman will play filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears,...

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• Christian Bale is in talks to star in Baltasar Kormákur’s (The Deep) Everest. Based on the harrowing ordeal of a group of climbers in 1996 famously documented in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, Everest will source from a variety of books and first-person interviews. Filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears also made a famous Frontline documentary about the tragic climb that claimed eight lives, that included footage from the storm and interviews with survivors. [Deadline]

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