In 2013, USA TODAY spent the day with "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty in downtown Washington, where they discussed important sites and inspiration behind ...

More than half a century after its game-changing 1973 release, The Exorcist ... by the late William Friedkin and inspired by the same-named novel from William Peter Blatty, the movie rattled ...

by HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer TOPICS: NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty ... winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89. Blatty died Thursday at a hospital ...

and yet none have matched the success of William Peter Blatty’s screenplay for the original film, says Segaloff. Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies ...

July 1971 Blatty discussed the idea for his novel with Harold Keen. It was the nation's best selling book then. Amazon denies plans to list tariff prices after President Trump calls Jeff Bezos to ...

In light of The Exorcist director William Friedkin ... in Friedkin’s 1973 film adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name. Her performance garnered her an Oscar ...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker helped define 1970s American cinema. William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died ...

The win was only followed by bigger things for Friedkin, who soon adapted William Peter Blatty’s novel into The Exorcist. The director was tapped for the project only after Mike Nichols and ...