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Kevin Turen, the producer of HBO shows Euphoria and The Idol, died from multiple heart issues, according to a medical examiner’s report.

The official cause of death was acute cardiac dysfunction and hypertrophic heart disease, with coronary artery disease also cited.

Turen was driving his Tesla on a California freeway when stricken. His 10-year-old son managed to stop the car and take it to the side of the road. Turen was then taken to the hospital and died there.

Turen first produced Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers, and later went on to work with Sam Levinson to produce Malcolm and Marie, Trey Shultz’s Waves, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, Kornel Mondruczo’s Pieces of a Woman, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, and Ti West’s X trilogy.

The 44-year-old producer is survived by his wife, Evelina, and his two sons, Jack and James.

Michele Civetta is the director of feature films “Agony” and “The Gateway” and music videos for Lou Reed, Sean Lennon, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

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With aspirations of what cinema is as an art form, what it can do to provoke change, illuminate dreams of individual stories, and propel cultural narratives. Inspired by the American New Wave of Cinema, living under the banner of the Cahiers du Cinema auteur theory, a world where writers, directors, and producers created stories in the emerging screen revolution colliding between world cinema and the 90s independent film boom. Looking inside the cinematic kaleidoscope, imagining how to penetrate the dream factory, Kevin Turen was born to be a maverick as he surmounted this unpaved road for our generation of friends and filmmaking talent. As New York City Kids, we crossed the threshold into our professional years. Kevin helped out...

Kevin Turen, producer of Euphoria and The Idol, has died. He was 44.

Turen died suddenly over the weekend. His cause of death is not known at this time. The producer is survived by his wife, Evelina, and his two sons, Jack and James.

His father Edward Turen said in a statement Sunday night: “Kevin was so incredibly special, this world is going to be less without him.”

Turen first produced Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers and later went on to work with Sam Levinson and produce Malcolm and Marie, Trey Shultz’s Waves, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, Kornel Mondruczo’s Pieces of a Woman, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes and Ti West’s X trilogy.

Turen’s work in television included Levinson’s Euphoria and The Idol as well as Olivier Assayas’a Irma Vep.

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If Larry Clark had ever found his way onto the Pine Ridge Reservation, he probably would have come away with a film like “War Pony,” which observes its young Native American characters hustling, skating and stealing drugs from otherwise distracted adults. Presenting such behavior without judgment, first-time directors Gina Gammell and Riley Keough developed this unvarnished portrait in collaboration with their actors, capturing something at once tragic and true about these kids, who are torn between Oglala Lakota traditions and the consumer culture around them.

A few years older than the hero of Chloé Zhao’s recent “The Rider” — a movie this one can’t help but resemble, at least superficially — Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is like the slacker version of that American dreamer. He siphons gas from strangers’ tanks and goes around asking people if they want to buy a stolen PlayStation. He already has two kids by two different women.

In today’s film news roundup, “Whitney” filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is partnering with Docsville, “Marfa Girl 2” is getting distribution, and a Dave Gurney mystery series is heading into development.

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Documentary streaming service Docsville has signed a partnership with “Whitney” filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, Variety has learned exclusively.

Macdonald’s credits include “Touching the Void,” “One Day in September,” “The Last King of Scotland,” the thriller “State of Play,” “How I Live Now,” and the upcoming Whitney Houston documentary “Whitney,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

He won an Academy Award for best documentary in 2000 for “One Day in September,” working with Docsville co-founder Nick Fraser on the film.

“It’s been a joy to work with Kevin over many years, from our collaboration on ‘One Day in September’ up until our most recent efforts with Docsville,” Fraser said. “Having such a talented director on board will surely...

Uggie: 'The Artist' dog star. Uggie, 'The Artist' scene-stealing dog star, has died The biggest non-human movie star of the 21st century, Uggie, whose scene-stealing cuteness helped to earn Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist the 2011 Best Picture Academy Award, has died. According to his official Facebook page, Uggie had been suffering from prostate cancer; he was euthanized last Friday, Aug. 7, '15. Born in 2002, Uggie was 13 years old. An announcement posted on Tuesday night, Aug. 11, on the Fb page Consider Uggie read: We regret to inform to all our friends, family and Uggie's fans that our beloved boy has passed away. We were not planning on posting anything until we healed a little more but unfortunately somebody leaked it to TMZ and they will be announcing it. In short, Uggie had a cancerous tumor in the prostate and is now in a better place not feeling pain.

Days Go By: Clark Returns to Apathetic Adolescence for Latest

After having won the top prize at the 2012 Rome Film Festival, controversial filmmaker Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl was available for streaming directly from his official website. Now, nearly three years later, Breaking Glass Pictures is distributing the title in limited theatrical release. For those familiar with Clark’s work, the title doesn’t feel like anything new from the director, navigating a milieu of loosely connected adolescents and the peripheral adults in their environment as they conquer their all-consuming boredom with illicit drugs and promiscuity. The customarily blatant yet generally believable crude conversations revolving around sexuality present in all of Clark’s work is full force here.

Seeing as this is the filmmaker’s first feature in seven years, following 2005’s Wassup Rockers (though it should be noted a 2014 title The Smell of Us premiered in last fall’s...

Kids, sex, drama, consequences... yep, it's another movie from Larry Clark, who specializes in narratives about young people living dangerously on the cusp of adulthood (see "Kids," "Ken Park," etc). But for "Marfa Girl," Clark took a slightly more anarchic approach to putting it together. "What happened was the last two films I wrote myself — 'Wassup Rockers' and 'Marfa Girl.' I‘d been talking to writers and I found out that all these writers have these rules, there are certain ways they do things, and I probably should have snapped to this earlier but I don’t need no fucking writers, and I hate rules, and so I said I wanna make a film where I only put in what I’m interested in," he told Jessica Kiang at the Rome Film Festival in 2012. "And I don’t care about getting from here to there, only what I’m interested in,...

Filmmaker Fanny Veliz talks about her film Homebound and the struggle to find a place in Hollywood.

Once upon a time, independent filmmaking consisted largely of unestablished filmmakers and actors who struggled to get their cinematic vision in front of the viewing public. Not any more. Today, independent filmmaking has been hijacked by A-list stars who use crowdfunding to raise millions for their movie. Even the Spirit Awards, originally founded to recognize independent filmmaking, are now obsessed with celebrities and films released by big-studio subsidiaries that enjoy mainstream success.

However, there are still true independent filmmakers out there, who still endure the challenges of filmmaking outside of the Hollywood machine. Filmmakers who offer something other than the usual mainstream fare. Filmmakers like Fanny Veliz.

Veliz is an actress whose filmography includes roles in the film Wassup Rockers and the TNT series Southland, but she found her calling behind the camera.

“Maybe I was straitjacketing myself because even back when I was doing Tulsa or Teenage Lust, I wouldn't go see movies about teenagers. I wouldn't look at books if they were about teenagers, because I was afraid that either I would be influenced or that someone had already done something that I had done, or someone was doing it better. I was just afraid to look at anything, because I didn't want any ideas. I don't know why, but I didn't. Just frightened. Scared to death.”

—Larry Clark

“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”

—Jules Michelet

When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...

Editor's Note: The retro is being rebooted for runs in Philly, Toronto and New York through February. We're revisiting our reviews/write-ups/interviews on the series (from Brandon Wilson and Nijla Mumin) when it begun in Los Angeles over a year ago... here's another. The overview and complete lineup speak for themselves, so click Here to head over to the home site for the series. There are two filmmakers named Larry Clark, and this is Not about the Larry Clark whose ephebophiliac imagination has given us films like Kids, Bully, and Wassup Rockers! Just so we’re clear, this Larry Clark is Black, a Cleveland native who went to UCLA along with Charles...

When Rolling Stone met Larry Clark in Rome, he was sitting in the bistro section of the art-house film club Kino, chewing through his vegetable platter and sipping on freshly squeezed fruit juices as part of a new, vegan cleanse. It wasn't exactly what one would expect from the controversial director of Kids and Bully.

However, things are changing for the cult filmmaker, who was preparing that day to talk with director Claudio Giovannesi before an audience of independent film fans as part of the Rome Film Festival. One week later,...

Before Matthew Lillard begins his first interview ever as a director (this interview took place in March 2012 at SXSW), he calms down the clowning around (“Check out my boner!”) carried on by the two leads of his directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules the World.

“Guys, I’m trying to be serious,” Lillard says.

Such a call for control from a man with a post-party rasp in is voice doesn’t just ring with authority, but poignancy to the “metamorphosis” that Lillard is experiencing. Lillard may be most known for Scooby-Doo or Slc Punk!, but now he has a pivotal supporting role in The Descendants, and work in Trouble With the Curve on his resume. His biggest declaration of artistry so far is his movie Fat Kid Rules the World, starring Jacob Wysocki (Terri) as an overweight teen who befriends another lost adolescent, played by Matt O’Leary. The film celebrates...

For a filmmaker, being lost in the woods of development or financing is never fun. We always lament the absence of a filmmaker who’s spent far too much time away from the game trying to get a labor-of-love project off the ground (you can see examples of such features here, here and here); the purgatory must be a frustrating type of hell. One filmmaker who hasn’t made a feature-length effort in seven years is Larry Clark of “Kids” fame. While he’s clearly worked in the interim -- he made some shorts in the portmanteau pictures "Destricted" (2006) and "42 One Dream Rush" (2009) -- his last feature was 2005’s “Wassup Rockers,” which saw the often controversial director deliver another film based on the teenage experience, but one in a more jovial mood. The 69-year-old’s latest, “The Marfa Girl” (read our review here), just made its world debut at the Rome International Film Festival,...

Tonight, Larry Clark premieres "Marfa Girl" at the Rome Film Festival, his first full-length feature in seven years -- his last was 2005's "Wassup Rockers" -- and a picture that is boldly embracing the changing landscape of movie distribution. And we've got a peek behind the curtain with an exclusive clip from the film along with several behind-the-scenes photos from the production. Starring Adam Mediano, Mercedes Maxwell, Drake Burnette, Mary Farley, Jessie Tejada, Elizabeth Castro and more, the film follows the intersecting lives of the residents of the tiny town of Marfa, Texas with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, art, violence and racism all coming into play. In this scene from the movie, we get to see both the spiritual and sexual themes that seem to run through the film. "Marfa Girl" premieres tonight 10 p.m. in Sala Sinopoli, where it's screening in competition. And you won't have to wait...

The directorial equivalent of that creepy guy at your family reunion is back! Although some of his work has generated dicsussion to this day, Larry Clark hasn’t made a standalone film since 2006′s little-seen Wassup Rockers, and his public profile — something that was never all too high to begin with — has been reduced to virtually nothing. To put it simply: the guy disappeared.

But MK2 (via ThePlaylist) spoke with documentarians Gérard Lacroix and Pierre-Paul Puljiz, both of whom revealed that they’ve been in communication with the director and, as of right now, are trying to generate some life on his next project, entitled The Smell of Us. It’s not very hard to determine what such a smell might be — well, maybe what the specific… no, that’s too much — but, other than some problems with making the project “uncensored,” any other information is not available. (Whatever idea...

The one new piece in the latest exhibition from the photographer and film-maker Larry Clark is a typically ripe collage entitled I Want a Baby Before U Die. An extreme close-up of a woman's pubic hair, beneath which is visible the tattooed name "Larry", competes for our attention with images of guileless teenagers having sex. Elsewhere, newspaper reports of violent adolescent deaths jostle for space with pictures of buttocks caked in a substance one hopes is Nutella.

Oddly, there's also a cinema ticket for Harry Brown, 2009's British vigilante thriller. Its title character, like Clark, is a pensioner preoccupied with teenage delinquents. But, whereas Brown guns down thugs, Clark would be more likely to take them skateboarding and then snap them with their junk hanging out.

This exhibition, entitled What Do You Do for Fun?, is culled from a retrospective that opened in Paris last year to the sort of...

Model Janice Dickinson has proudly shown off her full naked body in her 50s. The American beauty, who turned 55 in February, shed her clothes in a shot for the new issue of Closer magazine as she proclaimed she "loves" her body.

In the explicit picture, Janice poses in nothing but a pair of sparkly heels. With her left leg lifting in the air, the "Wassup Rockers" actress gives her peculiar big smile while letting her brunette hair loose. Janice, who stands tall at 5ft 11in, told the mag that her size six figure was obtained through tough exercise regime, diet and a little help from the Botox injections.

"I love my body, but it's a compulsive obsession. I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic," Janice told the mag. "I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.

Larry Clark isn't dropping projects, but instead switching up titles, adding Dakota Johnson and is going to finally get back into the director's chair for a five week shoot in Los Angeles next March 15th according to Production Weekly's twitter feed. - Larry Clark isn't dropping projects, but instead switching up titles, adding Dakota Johnson and is going to finally get back into the director's chair for a five week shoot in Los Angeles next March 15th according to Production Weekly's twitter feed. Dakota Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith) who has landed parts in Daniel Barnz's Beastly and in Fincher's The Social Network is joining Rory Culkin and Ray Liotta.  Savage Innocent sees a suburban American family adopt a boy after being found in the middle of a road. The relations he establishes with each member of this family and the many social surroundings he goes to,...

In honor of the film's North American premiere, and its poster of course, the talented folks at Studio No.1 take a moment to discuss process, politics and posters. - It's unlikely I'd find someone who'd argue with me when I say that a memorable movie poster is a rare thing. With that in mind Ioncinema.com brings you the first in our new Poster Spotlight series; The Art of the Movie Poster. Each column will showcase a poster that made us pause, and an interview with its creator(s).Our first eye-catcher is the gritty and stylish North American poster for the seemingly gritty and stylish film, The Baader Meinhof Complex; courtesy of Studio No.1. An adaptation of Stefan Aust's book of the same name, the film focuses on the rising of the Raf (Red Army Faction), a violent terrorist group formed in the late 60's/early 70's in West Germany,...

Hollywood's comeback kid, Mickey Rourke, has reportedly signed to star in a remake of the classic '80s British gangster film Mona Lisa.

The Golden Globe winning actor will play an ex-con who takes a job as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. According to Variety, Eva Green (Casino Royale) is in advanced negotiations to star opposite him.

The script for the latest film is being written by Wassup Rockers filmmaker Larry Clark, who will also direct the film, set to go in front of the cameras in July in New York.

The film is being produced by Handmade Films with Handmade Films International handling worldwide sales.

UK thesps Bob Hoskins (The Long Good Friday) and Cathy Tyson (The Serpent and the Rainbow) starred in the original 1986 film, directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire). Hoskins was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

Mickey Rourke, previous washed-up actor, now is a hot commodity in Hollywood. He is getting call from all sort of people to star in movies and now he is going to star in Mona Lisa, a remake of the 1980s gangster movie about an ex-con who winds up as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. According to Variety Eva Green is in advanced negotiations to star opposite him. Larry Clark(Wassup Rockers) is writing and directing the remake, which is being produced by Handmade Films with Handmade Films Intl. handling worldwide sales.Shooting begins in New York in July.

Mickey Rourke has signed on to star in a remake of classic 1980s British gangster film "Mona Lisa." Rourke will play an ex-con who takes a job as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. Eva Green (Casino Royale) is in advanced negotiations to star opposite him. Helmer Larry Clark (Kids, Wassup Rockers) is writing and directing the remake, which is being produced by Handmade Films with Handmade Films International handling worldwide sales. Lensing is set to begin in New York in July. Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson starred in the original 1986 pic directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, The Brave One). Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar.

Mickey Rourke as Mona Lisa? No, that's not right. Mickey Rourke in Mona Lisa - that sounds a bit better. Rourke has signed on to star in a remake of the classic 1980s British gangster flick Mona Lisa. He'll play an ex-con who takes a job as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. Eva Green is in early negotiations to star opposite Rourke. Larry Clark, of Kids, Bully, Wassup Rockers, is writing and directing the remake, which is being produced by Handmade Films. Shooting is set to start in New York in July. This is yet another one of the many projects that Rourke has lined up following all the acclaim he received in The Wrestler. The original Mona Lisa starred Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson and was directed by Neil Jordan. Nothing against Rourke, we all know when given the right roles he can do a great job, but...

Mickey Rourke has signed on to star in a remake of classic 1980s British gangster film Mona Lisa, report the trades. Larry Clark (Kids, Wassup Rockers) is writing and directing the remake, which is being produced by Handmade Films. Bob Hopkins starred in the original as George, an ex-con who begins looking for a job, but realizes his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone (Cathy Tyson), a beautiful high-priced call girl. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell (Michael Caine), the local kingpin. Rourke, who’s currently filming Iron Man 2, will play the Hopkins character with Eva Green in talks to play the call girl. Green previously starred in Kingdom of Heaven, Casino Royale and The Golden Compass.

Having been away from films for a couple of years, it looks like Kids/Ken Park/Wassup Rockers helmer Larry Clark is back – and with a remake of Neil Jordan’s 1986 drama Mona Lisa, to boot. According to Production Weekly’s Twitter feed, Clark has set Mickey Rourke and Eva Green to take over roles made famous by Bob Hoskins (below) and Cathy Tyson in the original. Jordan’s film saw Hoskins’ freshly released ex-con relegated to being a driver for a high-priced call girl (Tyson). At first, the pair...

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Director/screenwriter Larry Clark, who broke into the movie business with his controversial 1995 film “Kids,” is back with another film about the youth of America. “Wassup Rockers” is set in South Central and Beverly Hills, focusing on a group of Latino kids who wear tight pants, skateboard, listen to punk rock and who inevitably don’t fit into the hip hop culture that surrounds them. The story is based on real life experiences, and none of the kids in the film has acting experience. Before Clark started making movies, he was a photographer, capturing teen subculture with his photo books Tulsa and Teenage Lust. He never strayed far from controversy, teenagers or trying to make authentic films. Clark sat down with Bayer early one morning at the Peninsula Hotel to talk about the film...

Los Angeles' landmark Nuart Theatre, one of the few surviving L.A. art house theaters from the 1970s, is being given a face-lift by theater chain Landmark Theatres. The venue will be outfitted with new rocker-back seating, an expanded concessions stand, an improved audio system and a renovated facade when it re-opens June 30 with screenings of Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers.

Los Angeles' landmark Nuart Theatre, one of the few surviving L.A. art house theaters from the 1970s, is being given a face-lift by theater chain Landmark Theatres. The venue will be outfitted with new rocker-back seating, an expanded concessions stand, an improved audio system and a renovated facade when it re-opens June 30 with screenings of Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers.

The Slamdance 2006 Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 19-27 in Park City, will present 20 competition features -- 11 narrative films and nine documentaries -- and six special screenings. Of the 26 feature-length films, 21 are premieres. The fest also will include 57 short films. Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers, from First Look Studios, will be the opening-night film for the festival, headquartered at the Treasure Mountain Inn on 255 Main St. Slamdance will expand further in Salt Lake City, presenting film screenings, screenplay readings and events in Sugar House.