James Foley dies 71 years previous
Bang Showbiz – Might eight, 2025 / 6:24 pm | Historical past: 549360
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James Foley has died on the age of 71.
The director was higher recognized for being accountable for movies comparable to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey: Fifty Shades Darker’ and ‘Fifty Shades Freed’, in addition to ‘Who’s That Lady’ starring Madonna, however was confirmed on Thursday (08.05.25) that he had after a battle with mind most cancers.
His publicist defined to The Hollywood Reporter that James “died peacefully whereas sleeping earlier this week” after a “combating of years” with the illness.
Along with his cinematographic work, James additionally labored with the pop queen in her ‘Dwell to Inform’, ‘Pope Do not Predach’ and ‘True Blue’ musical movies below the identify of Peter Percher and was the most effective man at his wedding ceremony with the now extra coach husband Sean Penn in 1985.
After graduating from the College of New York after which USC in Los Angeles, he was in a position to enhance his profession because of an off-the-cuff assembly.
He advised Freak Central Freak: “I used to be very fortunate, and within the perverse calculation of Hollywood I used to be within the final 12 months of the movie faculty and shared a home with a boy. There was a lady who chased my pal, so we had this social gathering on the movie faculty, which consisted of people that projected their scholar movies on a white wall and stoned.
“And this lady got here. Hal Ashby was chasing her: I used to be chasing my pal and Hal was chasing her, and Hal known as her and requested her to go to this social gathering stuffed with movie college students. Simply when he walked by way of the door, my film was displaying on the wall. I’ll by no means know if I used to be being educated or one thing, however she advised me that she appreciated it and issues and issues that may kind an organization that may produce an organization that may I needed me to say.