David Brenner, an Oscar-winning film editor who has worked extensively with Zack Snyder and Oliver Stone, among other filmmakers, has died. He was 59.
Brenner died suddenly in his home in West Hollywood on Thursday, his wife, actress Amber Brenner, first told THR. The news was also confirmed in a GoFundMe page set up by “Avatar” producer Jon Landau, as well as in a social media post by Snyder. Amber Brenner did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
A cause of death has not been released.
Brenner won his Oscar in 1990 (shared with Joe Hutshing) for working on Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July.” He’s also credited on numerous other films, including, “The Doors,” “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “World Trade Center,” “Man of Steel,” “300: Rise of an Empire” and, most recently, “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” He was currently at work editing James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels.
Brenner died suddenly in his home in West Hollywood on Thursday, his wife, actress Amber Brenner, first told THR. The news was also confirmed in a GoFundMe page set up by “Avatar” producer Jon Landau, as well as in a social media post by Snyder. Amber Brenner did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
A cause of death has not been released.
Brenner won his Oscar in 1990 (shared with Joe Hutshing) for working on Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July.” He’s also credited on numerous other films, including, “The Doors,” “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “World Trade Center,” “Man of Steel,” “300: Rise of an Empire” and, most recently, “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” He was currently at work editing James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels.
- 2/18/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but I can often spend hours upon hours trawling through iTunes looking for new movies to buy… Usually I’ll randomly come across a title I haven’t seen in years and use the “Cast & Crew” links to make my way down the rabbit hole to the more obscure side of Apple’s digital movie service.
Now whilst many will decry that iTunes is a terrible VOD service due to Apple’s desire to lock its audience to their platforms, if you have an Apple TV or iPad be aware – there are some truly obscure films hidden away in the depths of the vast collection of movies. Some of which have been made available in the UK for the first time since VHS and a Lot that have been added to the service in their original uncut form!
So, with...
Now whilst many will decry that iTunes is a terrible VOD service due to Apple’s desire to lock its audience to their platforms, if you have an Apple TV or iPad be aware – there are some truly obscure films hidden away in the depths of the vast collection of movies. Some of which have been made available in the UK for the first time since VHS and a Lot that have been added to the service in their original uncut form!
So, with...
- 1/30/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome back to a weekly installment on The Liberal Dead, It Came From 1980X. This column has been on hiatus because the world makes it impossible to enjoy creative endeavors without a certain ere of brilliant disastrous comedy. In short, having two kids, a day job, a wife and a mortgage means that every word you write must be matched with the equivalent inkwell of blood. I am absolutely ready to meet and greet you with open arms regarding the films of yesteryear from the late great nineteen-eighty-x. The X stands for anything I want, so let that be fair warning to you dearest reader. Today’s X is 1985, and the cinematic vision of the future post-nuke world is Radioactive Dreams. If you live in or around Philadelphia and regularly attend the Exhumed 24 Hour Horrorthon or Exfest or any of the Exhumed Films screenings than you know that this movie...
- 5/8/2014
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
When Buffalo Screams expanded and re-branded as the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, we knew they had big ambitions. With a whopping 85 films on their slate for 2013, we'd say they're well on their way!
From the Press Release:
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival has announced an ambitious slate of 85 films which will screen between Friday, November 8th, and Thursday, November 14th, at the Dipson Amherst Theatre in Buffalo, New York.
Several distinguished genre filmmakers are scheduled to attend:
- Lloyd Kaufman, who will receive the Dedication to Filmmaking Excellence Award, is screening Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1, billed as a Sneak Preview, as a fundraiser for the Niagara Arts & Culture Center (Nacc) in Niagara Falls;
- Roy Frumkes will screen Animosity, which he executive produced for writer-director Brendan Steere; and
- Brett Kelly will screen the horror comedy musical My Fair Zombie.
Albert Pyun receives the Indie Genre Spirit...
From the Press Release:
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival has announced an ambitious slate of 85 films which will screen between Friday, November 8th, and Thursday, November 14th, at the Dipson Amherst Theatre in Buffalo, New York.
Several distinguished genre filmmakers are scheduled to attend:
- Lloyd Kaufman, who will receive the Dedication to Filmmaking Excellence Award, is screening Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1, billed as a Sneak Preview, as a fundraiser for the Niagara Arts & Culture Center (Nacc) in Niagara Falls;
- Roy Frumkes will screen Animosity, which he executive produced for writer-director Brendan Steere; and
- Brett Kelly will screen the horror comedy musical My Fair Zombie.
Albert Pyun receives the Indie Genre Spirit...
- 10/21/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier today (Aug 19th) one of my all-time favourite directors, Albert Pyun, announced via his Facebook and Twitter pages that he would be stepping away from movie-making and all that it ensues, due to health reasons… He’s since expanded on the problems with his health in a further post on his Facebook page, that I urge everyone whose ever enjoyed an Albert Pyun movie to read.
Hi Everyone – sadly I’m going to have to shutdown my facebook and other movie related efforts including Director’s cuts attending film festivals and screenings due to my health issue. I have to take the time to address this condition as its a long term but not life threatening. I’ve had some heart issues but through Cynthia, that was being stabilized and in control. But this new one is not as dangerous but far more widespread across my entire body and...
Hi Everyone – sadly I’m going to have to shutdown my facebook and other movie related efforts including Director’s cuts attending film festivals and screenings due to my health issue. I have to take the time to address this condition as its a long term but not life threatening. I’ve had some heart issues but through Cynthia, that was being stabilized and in control. But this new one is not as dangerous but far more widespread across my entire body and...
- 8/19/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Director Albert Pyun, whose ouvre includes such films as The Sword and the Sorceror, Knights, Arcade, Kickboxer 4 and the forthcoming Tales of an Ancient Empire, is currently in the process of re-editing his smash hit cyberpunk movie Nemesis to create what he is calling his “directors cut”, which will apparently have a new opening – featuring Megan Ward, with whom Pyun worked with on Arcade – and an ending which ties more closely in the sequel which was released some three years later.
Says Pyun on his official Facebook page:
Work has started on re-mastering Nemesis into a version closer to what I had intended. Version 2.0 will be different in many ways including story plot line and the backstory on Alex Rain. It will have an entirely different opening scene and an ending closer to what I had intended. It links more smoothly into Nemesis 2. This will be ready possibly by the end of January for shipping.
Says Pyun on his official Facebook page:
Work has started on re-mastering Nemesis into a version closer to what I had intended. Version 2.0 will be different in many ways including story plot line and the backstory on Alex Rain. It will have an entirely different opening scene and an ending closer to what I had intended. It links more smoothly into Nemesis 2. This will be ready possibly by the end of January for shipping.
- 1/6/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Cannon Films, like any other studio yesterday or today, wanted to keep a good thing going, and for them in the 1980s it was the ninja movie. After two early successes for the studio in Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja (recall this film’s flashback here), success wasn’t guaranteed a third time in their Ninja III: The Domination. The studio took a break, as did director Sam Firstenberg, but in 1984 the studio wanted to revisit the genre, but with a twist. The deadliest art of the Orient is now in the hands of an American.
Killer Film catches back up with director Sam Firstenberg for an Action Packed Flashback for 1985′s American Ninja.
After the lukewarm reception to Ninja III: The Domination both critically and financially, Sam took a break from the genre with Breakin’ 2. “It was the company’s decision to keep the Ninja series alive,...
Killer Film catches back up with director Sam Firstenberg for an Action Packed Flashback for 1985′s American Ninja.
After the lukewarm reception to Ninja III: The Domination both critically and financially, Sam took a break from the genre with Breakin’ 2. “It was the company’s decision to keep the Ninja series alive,...
- 7/4/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Year: 2011
Directors: Albert Pyun
Writers: Kitty Chambers
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: N/A
Nobody gets kicked around like Albert Pyun. The funny thing is, nobody takes in stride quite as well either. In what little correspondence I've had with the approachable director, he's always told me to be honest and give it to him straight. That he can take (and has heard worse than) any criticism I can throw at him and still have a constructive and interesting dialog about his movies. Go back through the Qe archives for proof. Whenever I reviewed a classic piece of Albert Pyun apocalypse trash, he was always there to leave a comment and explain his method, his madness and admit that his work hasn't always lived up to his unique visions (See my Knights review and Omega Doom review). Granted his subject matter usually tends towards tough-talkin' broads and cyborg apocalypses,...
Directors: Albert Pyun
Writers: Kitty Chambers
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: N/A
Nobody gets kicked around like Albert Pyun. The funny thing is, nobody takes in stride quite as well either. In what little correspondence I've had with the approachable director, he's always told me to be honest and give it to him straight. That he can take (and has heard worse than) any criticism I can throw at him and still have a constructive and interesting dialog about his movies. Go back through the Qe archives for proof. Whenever I reviewed a classic piece of Albert Pyun apocalypse trash, he was always there to leave a comment and explain his method, his madness and admit that his work hasn't always lived up to his unique visions (See my Knights review and Omega Doom review). Granted his subject matter usually tends towards tough-talkin' broads and cyborg apocalypses,...
- 4/6/2011
- QuietEarth.us
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