William Friedkin took all of his built up moviemaker credit from doing The French Connection and The Exorcist back to back and made Sorcerer, a movie that was immediately wiped off the face of the ...

“Sorcerer” features a scene with a truck crossing a bridge during a harrowing storm that was shot with no special effects or camera opticals. Courtesy photo Back in the early 1970s, William Friedkin ...

The director of the 1977 thriller demands answers as to who owns his film. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Oscar-winning director William Friedkin is baffled by why he’s not being allowed ...

William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" — a film that fell victim to shifting tastes when it opened more than three decades ago — will be remastered and released in theaters and for the first time on Blu-ray, ...

On a hot, sticky Tuesday in Venice, the American film director William Friedkin sauntered from his hotel to see an exhibition of paintings at the nearby Doge's Palace. There, he stood in front of ...

“Sorcerer” stars Roy Scheider, who was also in “The French Connection” and was fresh off the success of “Jaws,” as one of four men whose lives have taken sudden turns that necessitated leaving and ...

Lew Wasserman slammed his open palm on the slick surface of his mahogany Chippendale desk. The desk, free of all objects, as always, rested on an oriental rug. He glared at me through black ...

Services to share this page. Who owns the rights to Sorcerer and how much money has the 1977 thriller made? That’s what William Friedkin has asked the court to find out for him. In a five-page civil ...