By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Academy To Salute Richard Donner
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo and many more
The Academy will pay tribute to director-producer Richard Donner with an evening of personal anecdotes, film clips spanning his prolific career and special appearances by friends and colleagues on Wednesday, June 7, at 730pm at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Guests include actors Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Jeff B. Cohen, Carol Kane, Joseph Mazzello, David Morse, Ke Huy Quan and John Savage; producer and president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige; writer, president and chief creative officer at DC Entertainment Geoff Johns; writer Brian Helgeland and Lauren Shuler Donner, producer and Donner’s wife for more than 30 years.
Donner’s work is wide-ranging, from relative independents (“Inside Moves”) to childrens classics (“The Goonies”), superhero origin stories (“Superman”) to medieval romances (“Ladyhawke”), and thrillers (“The Omen”) to comedies (“Scrooged”) and the buddy action series, “Lethal Weapon.”
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