LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...

William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping "The French Connection" and the horrifying "The Exorcist," and struggled in the following decades ...

Few horror films have left as deep and lasting a mark as The Exorcist. Even more than 50 years after its release, William Friedkin’s 1973 cinematic juggernaut still rattles nerves, ignites passionate ...

Had William Friedkin — who passed away last week at age 87 — only directed “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” he’d be in the Filmmaker Hall of Fame. Both are classics in the sense that they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Phillips covers the film festival circuit. Yet upon its release on June 24, 1977, Sorcerer grossed less that $ 13,000 on a $ ...