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Eleanor Coppola, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, dead at 87
Eleanor Coppola, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker and artist, has died at 87.
Coppola’s death was confirmed to Fox News Digital by a representative for her husband of 61 years, Francis Ford Coppola. She died at her home in Rutherford, California, on Friday, her family said in a statement to the Associated Press. No cause of death was given.
Coppola was best known for directing the Emmy Award-winning 1991 documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” which followed the notoriously turbulent production of her husband’s 1979 war drama “Apocalypse Now.”
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Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and raised a family of filmmakers, has died. (Chad Keig/Courtesy of the Coppola family via AP)
Raised in Orange County, California, Coppola graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in applied design. She met Francis, 85, in 1962 while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film “Dementia 13.”
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The two, who married in February 1963, shared son Gian-Carlo, who tragically died at age 22 in a 1986 boating accident, son Roman, 58, and daughter Sofia, 55. An obituary for Coppola stated that her marriage to Francis was “utterly infused with art and film and family, and their work overlapped in profound ways.”
Coppola took up documentary filmmaking while living in the Philippines with Francis during the production of “Apocalypse Now.” Though filming was scheduled to be completed in five months, the shoot was plagued with problems and took over a year to finish.
Coppola began documenting the chaotic making of “Apocalypse Now” as shooting was delayed by a number of setbacks including a typhoon that destroyed sets, the hospitalization of star Martin Sheen due to a near-fatal heart attack and the death of a construction crew member.
Francis and Coppola are pictured on the set of “The Godfather Part II.” (Gerald Israel/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
After “Apocalypse Now” was released in August 1979, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two. Coppola’s behind-the-scenes footage, which was compiled to create “Hearts of Darkness,” became one of the most famous films about movie making. It premiered at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and was released on Showtime.
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The documentary earned four Emmy Award nominations, with Coppola and co-directors George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr taking home the trophy for informational programming directing.
“The beginning of the film idea for me was certainly documenting ‘Apocalypse Now,’” Coppola recalled in a 2017 interview with Deadline. “I had no idea.”
She continued, “I’d made some little art films in the early ’70s, but when I got this camera in the Philippines I was just mesmerized, looking through the viewfinder. I really responded to that, so I made different documentaries, because I always loved to shoot.”
Coppola and Francis (middle) are pictured with their children Roman (left) and Sofia (right) in 2007. (Ernesto Ruscio/FilmMagic)
After “Hearts of Darkness,” Coppola continued to make behind-the-scenes documentaries about movies directed by Francis and her children Roman and Sofia, who followed in their parents’ footsteps and became filmmakers.
Roman has directed several movies of his own and regularly collaborates with filmmaker Wes Anderson. He is president of his father’s San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope.
Sofia became one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of her generation as the writer-director of films including “Lost in Translation” and 2023’s “Priscilla,” which she dedicated to Coppola.
In addition to several of her husband’s films, Coppola documented Roman’s 2001 movie “CQ” and Sofia’s 2006 film “Marie Antoinette.” Her obituary stated that she was most recently editing a documentary about “Marie Antoinette.”
Francis and Eleanor Coppola were married for 61 years at her time of death. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
In 2016, at the age of 80, Coppola wrote and directed her first narrative feature film, “Paris Can Wait.” The romantic comedy starred Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin and Arnaud Viard. She followed that up with “Love Is Love Is Love” in 2020.
Coppola had initially set out only to write the screenplay to “Paris Can Wait.”
“One morning at the breakfast table my husband said, ‘Well you should direct it.’ I was totally startled,” Eleanor told the Associated Press. “But I said ‘Well, I never wrote a script before and I’ve never directed, why not?’ I was kind of saying ‘why not’ to everything.”
Coppola also published the 1979 book “Notes: On the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’” and her 2008 memoir “Notes on a Life.” Per her obituary, Coppola completed writing her third book, a memoir about her recent life, at the age of 87.
“I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways and taken me in a multitude of directions beyond my wildest imaginings,” Coppola wrote in the manuscript.
Coppola is survived by Francis, Sofia and Roman and three grandchildren.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A federal appeals court on Friday struck down California’s ban on openly carrying guns across most of the state.
In a 2–1 decision, the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled California’s ban on open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people — covering roughly 95% of the state’s population — violates the Second Amendment, according to Reuters.
U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, writing for the majority, said the ban conflicts with the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which requires gun regulations to be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” Reuters reported.
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U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke appears in a video released by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals March 20, 2025. (9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals/Handout via Reuters)
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,” VanDyke wrote. “It was clearly protected at the time of the founding and at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
VanDyke also noted that California previously allowed residents to openly carry holstered handguns for self-defense without penalty until 2012.
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“That changed only when California enacted its urban open-carry ban barely over a decade ago in 2012,” he said. “In doing so, California joined a tiny minority of states to have adopted such severe restrictions on open carry.”
The decision overturned part of a 2023 ruling by a lower court that had dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2019 by gun owner Mark Baird, while rejecting his challenge to open-carry licensing in smaller counties, according to Reuters.
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In October, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other gun groups said they were suing California over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns with features known as switches that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.
The NRA was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and two NRA members in challenging the state’s ban.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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Philadelphia Eagles to play San Francisco 49ers in NFL playoffs. Here’s what you need to know.
The Philadelphia Eagles will begin the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers in the wild-card round next weekend at Lincoln Financial Field.
The Birds (No. 3 seed) had a chance to earn the No. 2 seed with a win, but lost to the Washington Commanders in the regular season finale.
Here’s what you need to know about the matchup vs. the 49ers and more.
Which day will the Eagles and 49ers play?
The date and time of the wild-card round matchup between the Eagles and 49ers have yet to be announced, but playoff games are scheduled for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Two games will take place Saturday, three will happen Sunday and the final first-round matchup will be on Monday night.
Eagles and 49ers postseason history
The Eagles and 49ers have only met twice in postseason history, most recently in the NFC championship game in the 2022 season.
The Eagles won that game, 31-7, before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. In that game, the 49ers were decimated at quarterback as Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson suffered injuries.
After Johnson exited, Purdy returned to the game in the third quarter, but he was unable to throw the football beyond a few yards. The injuries to San Francisco’s quarterbacks led to the NFL approving a rule change that allows teams to play an emergency quarterback if the starter and backup are injured.
The Eagles are 1-1 vs. San Francisco all-time in the playoffs. Philadelphia’s loss to the 49ers in the playoffs happened in the wild-card round in 1996.
The title game in the 2022 season between the Eagles and 49ers started a rivalry that boiled over into 2023.
In 2023, the 49ers traveled to Lincoln Financial Field in Week 13 and dominated the Eagles, 42-19. The loss started the infamous collapse for the Eagles to end the season as the Birds lost six of the final seven games, including the playoff exit vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The loss to the Niners in the 2023 season also featured Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro and then-49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw being ejected from the game after a scuffle on the sideline.
The Eagles and 49ers haven’t played each other since the 2023 season.
How the Eagles and 49ers got here
The Eagles went 11-6 in the 2025 season and won the NFC East for the second consecutive year, which ended a 20-year stretch of the division not having a repeat winner.
The Niners had a chance to earn the No. 1 seed, but fell to the Seattle Seahawks Saturday night. The 49ers finished the year with a 12-5 record to earn the No. 6 seed.
DENVER — The Broncos have checked off their second goal of the season.
Denver officially clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with Sunday’s 19-3 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.
As the top seed, the Broncos will receive a first-round bye in the 2025 playoffs and will host their first playoff game of the year in the Divisional Round on Saturday, Jan. 17 or Sunday, Jan. 18 at Empower Field at Mile High.
The Broncos, the lone team in the AFC to receive a first-round bye, will host the lowest remaining seed in the AFC playoff field in the Divisional Round. Denver’s possible opponents for its playoff opener include the Texans, Bills, Chargers and the yet-to-be-determined winner of the AFC North. If the Broncos earn a win in the Divisional Round, they would also host the AFC Championship Game.
Denver finished the 2025 regular season with a 14-3 mark, which is tied for the most regular-season wins in franchise history. The Broncos earned the No. 1 seed over the Patriots (14-3) due to a better record in games against common opponents.
The Broncos are the No. 1 seed in the AFC for the first time since 2015, when they went on to win Super Bowl 50. Denver has earned the No. 1 seed for an AFC-best ninth time, and two of the Broncos’ three Super Bowl titles have come after earning the No. 1 seed. The Broncos advanced to the Super Bowl in six of the eight previous seasons in which Denver earned the top seed in the conference.
Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton has now led teams to the No. 1 seed on three occasions in his career, and he is one of five coaches to lead two different organizations to a No. 1 seed.
Bo Nix, meanwhile, became the fourth quarterback in franchise history to lead the organization to a No. 1 seed — joining Ring of Famers John Elway, Peyton Manning and Craig Morton.
Learn more about playoff tickets and suites by visiting DenverBroncos.com/Tickets
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