Kris Kristofferson chuckles and then sighs as he recalls what it was like working on the climactic battle scene in "Heaven's Gate," Michael Cimino's 1980 epic anti-western that became one of the ...

On today's True Crime, Dr. Oz takes a deep dive into the Heaven's Gate cult, whose members' misguided belief that they were to be picked up by a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet, led to the ...

Sometimes a major Oscar can be a curse in disguise. And a reputation as a movie disaster can be an injustice. Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”–an epic western about the Johnson County ...

That said, “Heaven’s Gate: Cult of Cults” is a thoughtful assessment of the mechanisms of how otherwise smart, savvy people are attracted to fringe beliefs.It takes a story that is larger ...

By the way, I don’t have any morbid curiosity. I don’t want to see bodies or crime scene photos, I’m not into that. With Heaven’s Gate, I waited till after they finished taking out the bodies.

Nike did come close to referencing the Heaven's Gate group again in 2008 with an actual sneaker release. Then, Nike SB rider Todd Jordan designed a pair of Nike SB Dunk Highs in a black/white ...

It is thanks to Cimino’s perfectionism that Heaven’s Gate is now feted as a masterpiece. There are five-star reviews all over the DVD box, and the film was ranked at number 98 in BBC Culture ...

The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District and Lake in the Hills Police Department responded around 3:06 p.m. Tuesday to the 1100 block of Heavens Gate in Lake in the Hills for a ...

In the years that followed, as “Heaven’s Gate” was eclipsed by bigger debacles with bigger budgets (“Cutthroat Island,” “Treasure Planet,” “Battlefield Earth” and on and on ...

Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga are set to play the founders of the religious cult Heaven's Gate — which participated in a mass suicide in 1997 — in true-crime biopic The Leader ...