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02/28/2025

Iconic actor Gene Hackman and his wife now classified as a suspicious death. Authorities are now saying he may have been dead days to weeks.

Gene Hackman died at least 9 days before his, wife’s bodies found mummified at New Mexico home, sheriff says

Legendary Hollywood actor Gene Hackman was dead at least 10 days before maintenance workers found the two-time Oscar winner, his wife and one of their dogs inside their sprawling New Mexico home, police said.

The last “event” recorded on “The French Connection” star’s pacemaker was Feb. 17, Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday afternoon.

“That was his last day of life,” he told reporters.

Hackman, 95, his classical pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, and one of their German shepherds were found Wednesday afternoon in the couple’s multi-million dollar home.

The maintenance workers in the couple’s gated community hadn’t seen them in about two weeks — and were alarmed when there was no answer when they came to do work at the home. Police said earlier Friday they suspected the couple had likely been dead for “several days” — or even weeks — by the time their bodies were found.

Hackman was discovered near a pair of sunglasses in what police believe was the mudroom — with officials stating that it appeared he had “suddenly fallen.”

Arakawa’s body was found decomposed, mummified and bloated on the bathroom floor near an open prescription bottle and scattered pills. The iconic “French Connection” star’s body also showed obvious signs of death, police said.

Police have since seized Tylenol, a thyroid medication and Diltiazem, a high blood pressure pill, along with two green cellphones and a 2025 planner.

Medical records from MyQuest and patient portal from Quest Diagnostics were also taken, according to the search warrant’s inventory list released Friday.

It was not clear who the seized medications belonged to and if they were the ones found near Arakawa.

Police don’t suspect foul play but said the deaths were suspicious enough to launch an investigation, which is continuing with autopsy and toxicology reports underway.

Fire officials have since ruled out a carbon monoxide leak.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

02/28/2025

Legendary singer, songwriter Bob Dylan to attend Oscars this weekend. The biopic A Complete Unknown, based on his life, is up for 8 nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet, who portrays the Hibbing Minnesota superstar. Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars Sunday night from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

02/27/2025

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, wife found dead in Santa Fe home

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was found dead alongside his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday afternoon.

Hackman was 95 at the time of his death and his wife 63. The office confirmed that foul play is not suspected as a factor in the deaths at this time, but the cause of death has not been determined.

"On February 26, 2025 at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95 and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found deceased," the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office told Fox News Digital early Thursday morning.

Hackman was best known for his Oscar-winning performances in "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven."

He also had a breakout performance in "Bonnie and Clyde," a comic interlude in "Young Frankenstein," a turn as the comic book villain Lex Luthor in "Superman" and the title character in Wes Anderson’s 2001 "The Royal Tenenbaums."

"The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity," Francis Ford Coppola, who wrote and directed the 1974 film "The Conversation" – in which Hackman starred in – wrote on Instagram. "I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution."

Eugene Alden Hackman was born Jan. 30, 1931, in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in Danville, Illinois, where his father worked as a pressman for the Commercial-News. His parents fought repeatedly, and his father often used his fists on Gene to take out his rage, according to the Associated Press. The boy found refuge in movie houses, identifying with Errol Flynn and James Cagney as his role models.

When Gene was 13, his father waved goodbye and drove off, never to return. The abandonment was a lasting injury to Gene. His mother had become an alcoholic and was constantly at odds with her mother, with whom the shattered family lived (Gene had a younger brother). At 16, he "suddenly got the itch to get out." Lying about his age, he enlisted in the U.S. Marines.

An article on the Department of Defense's website said doing that "was a fairly common practice before the advent of computer records" and that Hackman served from 1947 to 1952 as a field radio operator and broadcast journalist.

"In the 1940s, he was stationed in Qingdao, China, and then Shanghai. Part of his duties, he said, was destroying Japanese military equipment so that the communists couldn't obtain it," the article also reads.

In 1956, Hackman married Fay Maltese, a bank teller he had met at a YMCA dance in New York. They had a son, Christopher, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Leslie, but divorced in the mid-1980s. In 1991 he married Betsy Arakawa, a classical pianist of Japanese descent who was raised in Hawaii.

When not on film locations, Hackman enjoyed painting, stunt flying, stock car racing and deep sea diving. In his latter years, he wrote novels and lived on his ranch in Sante Fe, on a hilltop looking out on the Colorado Rockies.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza originally told the Santa Fe New Mexican that at the time of the initial report they were conducting a preliminary death investigation.

This investigation into his death is ongoing.

02/27/2025

Breaking: legendary actor Gene Hackman found dead with his wife and dog at home. Developing story. He was 95.

02/27/2025

Famed comedian and podcaster Roseanne Barr And Michael Richards Unite For New Sitcom Championing Traditional Values And Rejecting ‘Woke’ Culture

02/26/2025

Breaking: Michelle Trachtenberg, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' star, dead at 39

The 39-year-old actress was found dead in a New York City apartment, Fox News Digital can confirm.

Authorities found Trachtenberg at a residence after responding to a 911 call around 8 a.m. local time. The actress was unconscious and unresponsive, according to the New York Police Department. Trachtenberg's death is not being investigated as suspicious and the cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner. Police sources told ABC7 that Trachtenberg had recently undergone a liver transplant and may have been experiencing complications.

Trachtenberg's representative also confirmed the actress' death. "The family requests privacy for their loss," Gary Mantoosh told Fox News Digital. "There are no further details at this time."

Trachtenberg began her career in Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." In 1996, she made her film debut, playing the title role in "Harriet the Spy."

The actress moved on to star as Dawn Summers in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for three years. The series ran from 1997 until 2003.

Trachtenberg had met Sarah Michelle Gellar, the show's lead, while working on "All My Children" in 1994, and the two remained close before the actress joined "Buffy" in its fifth season.

"I had known Sarah since we worked together on 'All My Children,'" she previously told the BBC. "We worked together for about two and a half years, and we had kept in touch through the years when she moved to Hollywood and began building her career from that point."

"I kept in touch with Sarah through the years, and because ‘Buffy’ had become my real favorite show, I had always tried to think of ways for me to guest star on the show, and I heard about the call one day. Sarah was always very supportive."

Trachtenberg gained more fame as Georgina Sparks in "Gossip Girl." She starred alongside Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley in the hit drama series.

Despite her career taking off at a young age, education remained important for Trachtenberg.

"I have to always have a teacher on set. Education’s very important to me. I believe that, god forbid, if this acting thing doesn’t work out for me, I have to have a solid background behind me, and I’ve been raised believing that education is very enriching and very important, and that’s the moral that I’ve applied to my life," she once said in an interview, per the Hollywood Reporter.

"I want to go to university one day, I want to go to college and I want to major in the behind-the-camera stuff. I want to learn how to make movies, because I already know what to do if I’m in a movie, and I want to know what to do if I’m trying to make one."

Trachtenberg continued to act, landing roles in "Sexy Evil Genius," "The Scribbler" and "Sister Cities." Her most recent role was in the 2021 revival of "Gossip Girl."

02/22/2025

Robert Davi ‘concerned’ he won’t get role in ‘Goonies 2’ because of his conservative views

When “Goonies” actor Robert Davi was asked about the sequel to the cult 1980s classic, he shared some concerns about whether he was going to get the call to revive his character Jake Fratelli.

The 1985 adventure comedy, which follows a group of kids who discover a map to hidden treasure, is beloved to this day.

Davi’s Fratelli is the criminal son of Mama Fratelli and the brother of Francis and Sloth.

He has a few memorable scenes in the movie, including when he attempts to sing an Italian opera.

Fans of the original were thrilled this week when new reports seemed to confirm a sequel was now squarely in the works, with Steven Spielberg at the helm as producer.

But Davi’s politics may complicate things, he suggested in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

He has been one of the relatively few outspoken conservatives in Hollywood in recent years, and it’s that same outspokenness that Davi says could cost him a spot on the “Goonies 2” cast.

“We shall see if they revive Jake Fratelli, or the Fratelli brothers in some way,” he told Fox Digital. “I hope. I would love to be part of it because it’s such an iconic film that people all over the world still reach out to me on ‘Goonies.’ It’s interesting. It’s become beyond cult status, I think.”

Fans of the film still come up to him today, he said, before worrying how his conservatism could work against him in the future of the franchise.

“And the funny part about it is Dick Donner, the director, originally said when we did the film, he told me, he says, ‘This is going to be like the modern day ’Wizard of Oz,'” Davi added.

“And it’s become that for many, many people. And I get multiple generational families that come up to me and tell me how much they love ‘Goonies’ and how much they love Jake Fratelli because they put the singing in there. So I do hope I’m part of it. I hope that they don’t hold my politics against me and keep me from that project.”

Davi explained that not getting the call was a concern because it had happened before.

“I’m concerned about it, yes,” he said. “Because it’s happened on other issues, other projects. And it’s just, you know, I believe in free speech and not being politically correct all the time.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment for comment.

Davi told Fox Digital he’s been proudly pro-President Donald Trump since the current president started his political career.

“I’ve written about it since 2015, since the day he announced, I was pro-Trump,” he said.

Davi continues to cheer the president today, commending Trump for his choice of ambassadors for Hollywood.

“It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform in January.

“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

Davi, who said he’s friendly with all three actors, welcomed the commission.

“And I think it’s a terrific thing to have a committee,” he said. “I also was frustrated for my own selfish reasons, of course, because I had wanted something like that. And I had mentioned it to some of the administration or in the campaign, to have a committee in Hollywood. Now, what the president has said is to bring back business, too, because we’re losing so much business in Hollywood, which is true.”

Davi said the political issues that drive most of his passion today are supporting Israel, bringing awareness to the war in Ukraine and, above all, calling for transparency and slashing government waste.

The actor added that President Trump especially mastered the last item, recently unveiling the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Elon Musk at the helm.

“Trump has been talking about getting under the hood for decades in terms of the waste that’s happening in our government and around the world,” Davi said. “And now we have someone that’s saying, wait a second, how much better off will the American people be if we can cut out all this?”

Warner Bros. has reportedly hired Potsy Ponciroli — a film director known for the film, ‘Old Henry,’ — to write the script for the “Goonies” sequel.

, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment with Chris Columbus, while Lauren Shuler Donner will executive produce, according to Variety.

The film has not announced a director.

02/22/2025

Phil Collins Says He’s Been ‘Sick, I Mean, Very Sick,’ Describing His Disinterest in Recording Since Genesis’ Final Tour

It’s been established for years that Phil Collins won’t be returning to the drum kit, as he spent the final Genesis tour several years ago singing from a seated position and letting his son handle percussion duties. But in a new interview with Mojo magazine, Collins makes it clear that he has no inclination to return to a recording studio in any capacity, due to physical limitations that have taken away the desire to create new music.

“I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens. But I’m not hungry for it anymore,” he tells the magazine, before pausing and adding: “The thing is, I’ve been sick, I mean, very sick…” The writer says Collins’ voice “tails off” before he elaborates any more on his condition.

A spinal injury in 2007 caused Collins to undergo severe nerve damage, and after a back operation he was subsequently described as suffering from from “drop foot,” a condition which makes it difficult to walk. He further suffered a head injury in 2017. His son Nic played drums when Genesis did a final tour that ended in 2022.

Peter Gabriel, who preceded Collins as the frontman for Genesis, says he went to see his former bandmates bow out as a band three years ago, in their final performance at the O2 Arena in London. “Phil wasn’t in as great a shape as he used to be, but they did a great job,” Gabriel told Mojo. “Me going was a rite of passage, really. I’d been part of the creation of Genesis, so I wanted to be there at the end.”

Collins does have a project to talk about with the British magazine, but it’s a retrospective one. The just-published cover story on Genesis includes interviews with all of the group’s “classic lineup” members — Collins, Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett — talking about a lavish new boxed set commemorating the 50th anniversary of “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.” It was the group’s last to have been recorded with Gabriel as frontman before he quit the group and was replaced by Collins in the lead singer role.

In 2021, Collins let the world know that he would not be drumming on the group’s farewell tour, telling an interviewer, “I can barely hold a stick with this hand. I’m kind of physically challenged a bit, which is very frustrating.” In a documentary filmed after Genesis’ final shows that just came out last year, “Phil Collins: Drummer,” he said: “It’s still kind of sinking in a bit. I’ve spent all my life playing drums. To suddenly not be able to do that is a shock. … If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks, then I’ll have a crack at it. But I just feel like I’ve used up my air miles.”

Collins last released an album, the covers collection “Going Back,” in 2010. His last album of original material, “Testify,” was released in 2002.

Collins looks back at Gabriel’s resignation 50 years ago and his misassumptions about how it might be possible for Genesis to go on, prior to the realization he had frontman chops himself. “I honestly thought we could just carry on and be an instrumental group,” Collins says of the transitional period. “Of course, the others didn’t!”

Genesis became the rare band to actually become more successful after the loss of an accomplished lead singer and visionary: “People often imply that we planned to go more commercial. We didn’t. We just couldn’t write hit singles before…”

The members of Genesis have apparently not been the most emotionally demonstrative musicians over the years. Physical displays of affection among the remaining members were apparently unheard of, over the years… until the final show, when there was at least a modicum of a PDA among the very reserved Brits.

Although Collins had previously left immediately after the show on every other night of the farewell tour, after that final gig at the O2, Collins admits that he lingered “and we all had some drinks and a curry. As I was going to leave, Tony Banks hugged me, and I don’t think he’d ever done that before. I remember thinking how sweet that was.”

Banks laughs when told of Collins’ fondness for that moment. “Well, I’m a repressed public schoolboy,” he tells the magazine. “We didn’t do a lot of hugging, so it’s not a totally natural gesture. A few years after he left the group, Pete (Gabriel) met me and gave me a hug but it was like a sideways hug, as if he couldn’t quite commit.” Turning to the subject of Collins, Banks says, “I’m not totally comfortable with it, but it’s nice if Phil remembers that one time.”

02/20/2025

James Bond shocker! Amazon MGM Studios is set to take creative control of the 007 franchise as longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli step back.

As per details of the arrangement, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights. The three parties will remain co-owners of the iconic franchise but Amazon MGM will have creative control.

02/20/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Great news for fans — one of the beloved police drama’s signature characters, ’s Danny Reagan, will be back on CBS with a new cop show in a new city that may still have Blue in the title.

CBS has given a straight-to-series order to ‘Boston Blue’ (working title), a universe expansion of the long-running ‘Blue Bloods,’ for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

Great news for Blue Bloods fans — one of the beloved drama’s signature characters, Donnie Wahlberg’s Danny Reagan, will be back on CBS with a new ‘Blue’ cop show in a new city. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Boston Blue (working title), a universe expansion of the long-running Blue Bloods, for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

In the new series, from writers Brandon Sonnier & Brandon Margolis (S.W.A.T.), Wahlberg will reprise his role as NYPD Detective Danny Reagan as he takes a position with Boston PD. Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family.

Boston Blue is produced by CBS Studios in association with studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Sonnier and Margolis will serve as showrunners and will executive produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of JBTV as well as Wahlberg.

While CBS and CBS Studios, which produced Blue Bloods, had explored spinoffs from the popular procedural drama, including one that would’ve had Danny Reagan move to Texas and another one with Tom Selleck, Boston Blue was not conceived as a Blue Bloods offshoot.

It originated with Sonnier and Margolis, along with JBTV, pitching CBS Studios and CBS a drama, then called Jamaica Plain, that follows a family of police officers in Boston whose eldest daughter is partnered with a new transfer from LAPD. The network ordered a script based off that pitch, sources said.

The script was well received at both the network and the studio whose executives saw the Boston family police drama project as an opportunity to make it part of the Blue Bloods universe by bringing in a character from the New York family cop drama.

Given Boston native Wahlberg’s deep ties to the city, CBS and CBS Studios zeroed in on Danny Reagan and approached the Boston Blue creative team about changing the LAPD transplant character to a NYPD one, Danny.

At the time, the network also ordered backup scripts while Wahlberg was approached about reprising his role, I hear. By early December, Jamaica Plain, named after a Boston neighborhood, was heating up for a pickup with Wahlberg in talks to join. His deal to star and executive produce just closed, and, with him on board and based on the creative, CBS made the decision to order now-titled Boston Blue to series for the 2025-2026 broadcast season.

Boston Blue joins Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, also from CBS Studios and JBTV, which is on deck for next season. The new series, as well as Fire Country, fall under JBTV’s overall deal at CBS Studios.

Additionally, CBS is exploring potential FBI, The Equalizer and The Neighborhood spinoffs for 2025-26.

Finding a way to expand the Blue Bloods franchise has been a priority for the network and parent Paramount Global, with potential extensions teased at the company’s shareholder meeting last June. The popular series, starring Selleck, Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes and Len Cariou, ended its 14-season run in December while maintaining a devoted fan following. In the series finale, Danny finally asked his longtime NYPD partner, Det. Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez), out.

Sonnier and Brandon Margolis started in the NBC Writers on the Verge program. After five seasons on the long running NBC hit The Blacklist, they developed and showran L.A.’s Finest, the Sony and JBTV produced Bad Boys spinoff starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba for Spectrum. The duo are executive producers on the upcoming third season of Fox’s procedural Alert: Missing Persons Unit.

02/19/2025

‘Coyote Ugly’ Cast Reuniting For 25th Anniversary Screening & Q+A Benefitting Wildfire Relief: “We’re All Gonna Get Back On Stage”

It’s time to pull out those leather pants and jeweled tank tops for a good cause as Coyote Ugly prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Deadline has learned that the cast of the 2000 David McNally-helmed film is hosting a reunion screening and Q&A on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, benefitting Global Empowerment Mission’s California wildfire relief efforts.

Tickets and more details are available online for the 35mm screening, which is described as “a rare chance to relive the magic of Coyote Ugly on the big screen, hear untold stories from the cast and support a great cause.” The event will reunite producer Jerry Bruckheimer with cast members Piper Perabo, Tyra Banks, Maria Bello, Bridget Moynahan, Izabella Miko, Melanie Lynskey and LeAnn Rimes.

Lynskey, who played Jersey girl Gloria in the film, previously told me about the anniversary screening as she walked the red carpet at last week’s Season 3 premiere of her hit Showtime series Yellowjackets. “We’re all gonna get back on stage,” she said.

Diane Warren, who wrote four original songs for the film including ‘Can’t Fight the Moonlight’, will also be in attendance.

The event comes after Banks was one of many Angelenos to lose her home in the wildfires that caused at least 29 deaths and destroyed thousands of buildings in Los Angeles County.

Written by Gina Wendkos, Coyote Ugly stars Perabo as aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, who moves from New Jersey to Manhattan to chase her dreams of music fame. But as she struggles to break out, she finds a job at the titular women-run NYC bar (which actually exists in the East Village), where she learns to come out of her shell while serving drinks and performing for patrons.

02/03/2025

All smiles for Shaboozey and Miley Cyrus on the red carpet.

02/03/2025

Jaden Smith on the red carpet.

02/02/2025

Norah Jones, winner of the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "Visions", poses in the press room. Congratulations Norah!

02/02/2025

Billie Eilish on the red carpet.

02/02/2025

Kacey Musgraves on the red carpet.

02/02/2025

Chappell Roan making an impression on the red carpet.

02/02/2025

Country princess Kelsea Ballerini looking ravishing on the red carpet!

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