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James Foley, best known for directing the 1992 black comedy drama Glengarry Glen Ross and several episodes of the Netflix hit House of Cards, has died. A rep told The Hollywood Reporter that the director, producer, and writer died earlier this week of brain cancer. He was 71. Foley directed the two sequels of Fifty Shades of Grey: Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018). In addition, he worked with some of the biggest stars, including Sean Penn, Halle Berry, Madonna, and Al Pacino, making his signature style noir-esque stories.

A New York native, Foley made his directorial debut with the romance drama Reckless, starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn in 1984. The film follows an outcast teenager and football player, Johnny Rourke (Quinn), who falls for popular cheerleader Tracey Prescott (Hannah). In 1986, Foley directed the American neo-noir crime drama At Close Range, led by Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. Mary Stuart Masterson,...

James Foley has sadly passed away.

The 71-year-old filmmaker, who helmed two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels and directed multiple Madonna movies and music videos, has died at the age of 71, his family confirmed.

The family’s rep confirmed that he died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, via Deadline.

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James made his directing debut with Reckless, the 1984 romantic dramedy with Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. He also directed 1986′s At Close Range with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken.

The film featured Madonna‘s “Live to Tell,” and James would direct and produce the accompanying music video. She also worked with the director on the “Dress You Up” video and concert film Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, and later did the videos for “Papa Don’t Preach” and “True Blue” with him. He also directed Who’s That Girl? and helmed the video for the title song.

James Foley, the filmmaker best known for directing Glengarry Glen Ross, has died at the age of 71. According to his rep, Foley died “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a yearslong struggle with brain cancer.” Very sad news.

Foley made his feature directorial debut with Reckless, a romantic drama starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. From there, he moved to working with Madonna and directed several of her biggest music videos, including Live to Tell, Papa Don’t Preach, and True Blue. He also directed her in Who’s That Girl, a screwball comedy released in 1987.

He also directed At Close Range, After Dark, My Sweet, Two Bits, The Chamber, Fear, The Corruptor, Confidence, Perfect Stranger, and took over the Fifty Shades franchise from Sam Taylor-Johnson, helming the final two movies, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

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Acclaimed director James Foley has died at age 71. A representative for the Foley family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the filmmaker passed “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long struggle with brain cancer.” It is unclear when Foley was diagnosed and for how long his illness was.

Foley most famously helmed the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and Kevin Spacey. Foley would later reunite with Spacey for 12 episodes of Netflix’s first-ever series, “House of Cards.”

Foley made his feature directorial debut in 1984 with “Reckless” starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. He was best known for working in the domestic thriller genre, despite defying filmmaker labels. His features include directing Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon in “Fear,” Halle Berry and Bruce Willis in “Perfect Stranger,” and “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed...

James Foley, director of films including “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “At Close Range” and “Fear,” died at his home in Los Angeles earlier this week.

He died after a year-long struggle with brain cancer, according to a rep.

Foley worked with stars including Sean Penn, Madonna, Al Pacino and Halle Berry, and specialized in atmosphere-soaked, noir-adjacent stories.

His first feature was 1984’s musical romance drama “Reckless,” starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. Foley followed that with “At Close Range,” starring Penn and Christopher Walken in a neo-noir that included the Madonna song “Live to Tell.” Madonna was married to Penn at the time, and Foley went on to work with Madonna several times, directing music videos and her feature “Who’s That Girl.” The screwball comedy bombed, and Foley told FilmInk, “It was a major life experience. That first failure is so shocking.”

“Glengarry Glen Ross” was one of his most high-profile films,...

James Foley, who directed the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels and several others films including Glengarry Glen Ross and At Close Range, along with Netflix’s House of Cards and multiple Madonna movies and music videos, has died. He was 71.

His family told Deadline through a rep that Foley died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Born on December 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley made his directing debut with Reckless, the 1984 romantic dramedy starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah and penned by first-time feature scribe Chris Columbus. Foley’s next movie was At Close Range, the 1986 crime thriller toplined by Sean Penn and Christopher Walken, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for its Golden Bear prize.

The film featured “Live to Tell,” a chart-topping single by Penn’s then-wife Madonna, with whom Foley had worked on the “Dress You Up” video and concert...

James Foley, the Brooklyn-born filmmaker who collaborated with A-list stars like Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Madonna and Mark Wahlberg across a 30-plus-year career in film, TV and music videos, has died. He was 71.

Foley’s rep said Thursday he died “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a yearslong struggle with brain cancer.”

Born on Dec. 28, 1953, and raised in New York, Foley graduated from high school and went on to study film at New York University followed by USC in Los Angeles. It was during his final year of film school that a chance meeting would change the course of his life and jump start his career behind the camera.

“I was very lucky, and in the perverse calculus of Hollywood I was in the last year of film school and shared a house with a guy. There was a woman who was pursuing my friend so we had this film school party,...

Madonna‘s free concert on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drew 1.6 million fans to its famed Copacabana Beach. The concert marked the final show of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, which started in October.

The 65-year-old pop singer’s last concert included her classic hits like “Like A Virgin” and “Hung Up.” Fans packed the area and pushed against barriers, cheering on. House parties in apartments and hotels started to join the festivities while others watched from boats in the bay.

“Here we are in the most beautiful place in the world,” Madonna said on stage. “This place is magic.”

According to Madonna’s official website, the Brazil show was the biggest of her four-decade career. It ten-fold exceeded the record attendance of 130,000 fans at her 1987 show at Paris’ Parc dex Sceaux.

Key moments from the show included Brazilian artists Anitta and Pabllo Vittar joining the singer on stage. During...

Madonna brought her “Celebration Tour” to a close with the biggest show of her career.

The pop icon held a free concert on Saturday, May 4th, at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, drawing upwards of 1.6 million attendees.

Madonna’s performance spanned 26 songs and included guest appearances from Brazilian pop stars Anitta (who joined for “Vogue”) and Pabllo Vittar (who took part in the tour debut of “Music”). Check out the full setlist and watch performance footage below.

Previously, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach massive concerts from The Rolling Stones, who played to a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006, and Rod Stewart, who broke the world record for most-attended concert of all time with an audience of 4.2 million people in 1994.

Beyond being a big night in live music history, Madonna’s performance also closed out her “Celebration Tour,” which saw her honor her long, multi-faceted career with “reverence and joy,...

Alex Garland has been busy creating the polarizing narrative of Civil War, but the filmmaker is already lining up an impressive cast for his next feature, Warfare. According to Deadline, Noah Centineo, Michael Gandolfini, Henrique Zaga, Evan Holtzman, Taylor John Smith and Adain Bradley have joined the cast of the upcoming project, which will be produced through A24. Garland will be co-directing alongside Ray Mendoza, the filmmaker who previously worked on titles such as The Warfighters and Live to Tell. The duo co-wrote the screenplay for Warfare after working together in Civil War, setting the stage for them to combine their talents once again in the upcoming film.

I received Madonna’s fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, on cassette for my 10th birthday. The liner notes were scented with patchouli oil to evoke the sensory experience of walking into a Catholic church, and you could smell it even through the shrink wrap. After devouring some cake, I rushed to my room to listen to the album.

It wasn’t like anything I’d grown up hearing on Top 40 radio, including Madonna’s own past hits, which I was only peripherally aware of. “Oh Father” sounded familiar, a cousin to “Live to Tell,” but it was darker and weirder. “Till Death Do Us Part” was more my speed, but the song’s lyrics were confusing and unsettling to my unrefined ears. Rolling Stone called it “as close to art as pop music gets.”

Despite its obvious lineage to classic pop and soul, Like a Prayer served as my...

“This isn’t a flip-flops and shorts show!” yelled Madonna on Monday night, marking her Celebration Tour’s arrival in Los Angeles.

For the first time in close to a decade, the Material Girl returned to the Inglewood Forum in a breathless two-hour, forty minute-plus mammoth, visually enthralling, techno-savvy concert covering her 40-year career. The last time she played this L.A. haunt was October 2015 with her Rebel Tour.

And by the way, for those keeping count: Madge hit the stage early at 9:40 Pm, versus her standard 10 Pm start time.

“I’m about to tell you the story of my life. It’s like reading from my personal diary through music, through dance, through art, through videos. I hope you can handle it,” she exclaimed to the 17,500-filled venue, aged teen to 70-something.

With nods in its production design and costumes by Donatella Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even...

Madonna has taken down a photo of singer Luther Vandross from an AIDS tribute segment of her Celebration tour after a request from his estate.

Throughout her tour, Madonna has paid tribute to renowned stars who have succumbed to AIDS through a heartfelt photo montage synchronized with her performance of “Live to Tell.”

However, at a recent tour stop in Sacramento, California, Vandross’ image was unexpectedly included in the montage, which caught the late singer-songwriter’s estate off guard.

A representative for Vandross’ estate clarified the situation, “Luther Vandross passed away in 2005 due to complications from a stroke suffered two years earlier… While we appreciate Madonna’s recognition of those lives lost to AIDS, Luther was Never diagnosed with AIDS or the HIV Virus. We’re not sure where she or her production team received false medical information claiming otherwise.”

Upon being informed by Vandross’ estate, Madonna’s management promptly...

Madonna’s Celebration tour takes a moment each night to pay tribute to artists who suffered or died from AIDS. During “Live to Tell,” her 1986 single about persevering through trying times, a montage of images flash across the screen. Among them are photos of Keith Haring, Herb Ritts, and Freddie Mercury, who all battled the disease. Also pictured was Luther Vandross, whose estate requested that Madonna remove from the tribute because he “was Never diagnosed with AIDS or the HIV Virus.”

Reps for Madonna have now told Rolling Stone that...

Madonna has officially launched the U.S. leg of her The Celebration Tour and we have the setlist from opening night.

The legendary entertainer performed a sold-out show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Wednesday night (December 13) and she added a special song to the set list for the New York City crowd.

The tour launched in London back in October and the start date for the tour was delayed by several months due to Madonna‘s hospitalization earlier this year for a serious bacterial infection.

Madonna‘s setlist for the tour includes more than 25 songs, some of which had not been performed onstage in decades.

Head inside to check out the set list…

Keep scrolling to check out the full set list…

**This set list is representative of the first show and might not be completely accurate for every show.

1. Nothing Really Matters

2. Everybody

3. Into the...

“It’s so great to be home … I mean that in a way that only New Yorkers know,” Madonna, who adopted New York as her hometown in 1978, told the Brooklyn audience present for the North American kickoff of her Celebration Tour on Wednesday. “New Yorkers can identify with just-not-giving-a-fuck motherfuckers. We do shit our way. New York is not for little pussies who sleep.”

Madonna certainly wasn’t tired, and that was the point of the whole show, a tour de force of some of her biggest hits paired with...

Elton John is praising Madonna for her activism on tour.

During her ongoing Celebration Tour, the legendary 65-year-old pop star shares photos of people who have died of AIDS when she sings her 1986 anthem, “Live to Tell.”

The 76-year-old “I’m Stil Standing” singer took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the touching moment in the show.

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On Thursday (October 26), Elton posted a photo of Madonna singing in front of all the photos, and thanked her in his caption.

“We’re deeply moved by the heartfelt tribute from @madonna during her Celebration Tour performance of ‘Live to Tell’, honouring the 40.4 million people we’ve lost to AIDS,” he wrote.

Elton continued, “Thank you, Madonna, for your advocacy and compassion, and for raising important awareness of the ongoing mission to end AIDS. With 39 million people living with HIV today, 9.4 million of whom...

Los Angeles, Oct 22 (Ians) Pop icon Madonna paid an emotional tribute to her children when she kicked off her electric Celebration tour – with five of her six children taking the stage alongside her.

Rocco Ritchie did not embrace the superstar’s return to stage with the same enthusiasm as his siblings, reports Mirror.co.uk. In the wake of her dramatic collapse and rush to hospital in June, Rocco has told his friends he worries she will push herself too hard and fall ill again.

One of his friends told Mirror.co.uk: “Madonna is a notorious perfectionist and Rocco remembers her previous tours well – she has a habit of exhausting herself by pushing too hard because she cares so much. He is really worried that her health will suffer if she does the same thing again.”

Rocco’s fears are justified after the ‘Material Girl’ hitmaker contracted a serious...

Los Angeles, Oct 22 (Ians) Pop icon Madonna paid an emotional tribute to her children when she kicked off her electric Celebration tour – with five of her six children taking the stage alongside her.

Rocco Ritchie did not embrace the superstar’s return to stage with the same enthusiasm as his siblings, reports Mirror.co.uk. In the wake of her dramatic collapse and rush to hospital in June, Rocco has told his friends he worries she will push herself too hard and fall ill again.

One of his friends told Mirror.co.uk: “Madonna is a notorious perfectionist and Rocco remembers her previous tours well – she has a habit of exhausting herself by pushing too hard because she cares so much. He is really worried that her health will suffer if she does the same thing again.”

Rocco’s fears are justified after the ‘Material Girl’ hitmaker contracted a serious...

Madonna kicked off “The Celebration Tour” with the first of four performances at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.

A true retrospective performance, the career-spanning setlist touched on all eras of Madonna’s career and featured numerous songs that hadn’t been performed in decades. The show opened with only the second performance ever of “N0thing Really Matters” from Ray of Light. A few songs later, she dusted off “Live to Tell” from True Blue for the first time since 2006.

Songs like “Justify My Love,” “Bad Girl,” and “Rain” were performed for the first time sine 1993, while “Bedtime Story” was dusted off for the first time since 1995. Other noteworthy performances included “Like A Prayer,” in which she was accompanied by topless dancers, an acoustic cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” and “Like a Virgin,” which was interpolated elements of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”

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There’s a moment late on in the first night of Madonna‘s Celebration Tour when the Queen of Pop, acoustic guitar in hand, leads The O2 Arena in a solo rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s seminal disco hit ‘I Will Survive.’

It would be a fitting choice for any 65-year-old pop star who can still play a staggering six nights at an arena that fits 20,000 people, but for Madonna, the song seems even more appropriate. This tour, a career-spanning look back at 40 years at the top, was originally set...

Madonna has officially kickstarted her Celebration Tour, and it was well worth the wait!

The 65-year-old Queen of Pop took the stage on Saturday night (October 14) at The O2 Arena in London, England for the first date of her long-awaited tour. The start date is several months later than expected after Madonna was hospitalized earlier this year for a serious bacterial infection.

With a discography that spans 40 years, there were so many songs that fans were hoping to hear from the superstar as she travels the country.

Now that opening night has come and gone, we can reveal that she delivered an evening full of beloved hits and two surprise covers!

Head inside to check out the setlist from opening night of Madonna’s Celebration Tour…

@justjared @madonna kicks off the #CelebrationTour ♬ original sound – Just Jared

Madonna‘s setlist for opening night included 28 songs, some of which had not been performed onstage in decades.