Death Wish

Dino De Laurentiis, Prolific Italian Film Producer, Dies at 91

• Nov 11, 2010 12:48 PM ET
• by Robyn Ross

Dino De Laurentiis

Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis died in Los Angeles on Friday, The New York Times reports. He was 91.

"Cinema has lost one of its greats," Walter Veltroni, former mayor of Rome and the founder of the Rome Film Festival, said in a statement. "The name of Dino De Laurentiis is tied to the history of cinema."

Movie News: Sylvester Stallone's Death Wish, and More

• Nov 5, 2007 03:13 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Sly Stallone is in talks to direct and star in an MGM remake of 1974's Death Wish, Variety reports.... Jessica Biel is a small-town receptionist who has wild sexual urges unleashed when she is errantly shot in the head with a nail gun in Nailed. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a congressman who takes advantage of her sex drive (well, yeah) and her crusade on behalf of the bizarrely injured.... Also per the Reporter, Hayden Christensen is the rookie attorney who defended Japanese general Masaharu Homma in the true-story-based Beast of Bataan. read more