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Wes Craven Dies: Veteran Director Of ‘Scream,’ ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Was 76
Director Wes Craven died this afternoon in Los Angeles. Craven was 76 and passed away after battling brain cancer.
From his first feature film The Last House On The Left in 1972, Craven immediately made his mark as a genre-bending, bracingly innovative horror director with a biting sense of humor. Craven also consistently demonstrated that he was a filmmaker with heart.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic and very scary A Nightmare on Elm Street, which also introduced a then-unknown Johnny Depp. The movie spawned several sequels, most of them directed and written by others.
In 1996 Craven reached a new level of success with the release of Scream, which was written by Kevin Williamson. Scream sparked a phenomenal trilogy and was the winner of MTV’s 1996 Best Movie Award and grossed more than $100 million domestically, as did Scream 2.
Craven took a breather from horror between Scream 2 and Scream 3, and seized an opportunity to direct a non-genre film for Miramax, Music of the Heart (1999), which earned star Meryl Streep an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. That same year he completed his first novel, The Fountain Society.
Remaining creatively engaged and working until his death, Craven had signed an overall TV deal with Universal Cable Productions. He had a number of TV projects in development including The People Under the Stairs and We Are All Completely Fine with Syfy, Disciples with UCP, and Sleepers with Federation Entertainment.
He also was serving as exec producer on the Scream series for MTV.
Craven also recently wrote and was scheduled to direct “Thou Shalt Not Kill” segment for The Weinstein Company/WGN’s Ten Commandments miniseries. Additionally he was working on a graphic novel series based on his original idea “Coming of Rage” for Liquid Comics in collaboration with Steve Niles.
He also served as an executive producer of the upcoming feature The Girl in the Photographs which will premiere next month the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. — MORE —
Wes Craven Dies: Veteran Director Of ‘Scream,’ ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Was 76
Director Wes Craven died this afternoon in Los Angeles. Craven was 76 and passed away after battling brain cancer.
From his first feature film The Last House On The Left in 1972, Craven immediately made his mark as a genre-bending, bracingly innovative horror director with a biting sense of humor. Craven also consistently demonstrated that he was a filmmaker with heart.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic and very scary A Nightmare on Elm Street, which also introduced a then-unknown Johnny Depp. The movie spawned several sequels, most of them directed and written by others.
In 1996 Craven reached a new level of success with the release of Scream, which was written by Kevin Williamson. Scream sparked a phenomenal trilogy and was the winner of MTV’s 1996 Best Movie Award and grossed more than $100 million domestically, as did Scream 2.
Craven took a breather from horror between Scream 2 and Scream 3, and seized an opportunity to direct a non-genre film for Miramax, Music of the Heart (1999), which earned star Meryl Streep an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. That same year he completed his first novel, The Fountain Society.
Remaining creatively engaged and working until his death, Craven had signed an overall TV deal with Universal Cable Productions. He had a number of TV projects in development including The People Under the Stairs and We Are All Completely Fine with Syfy, Disciples with UCP, and Sleepers with Federation Entertainment.
He also was serving as exec producer on the Scream series for MTV.
Craven also recently wrote and was scheduled to direct “Thou Shalt Not Kill” segment for The Weinstein Company/WGN’s Ten Commandments miniseries. Additionally he was working on a graphic novel series based on his original idea “Coming of Rage” for Liquid Comics in collaboration with Steve Niles.
He also served as an executive producer of the upcoming feature The Girl in the Photographs which will premiere next month the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. — MORE —