James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper “Brian’s Song” and the casino boss in “Las Vegas,” has died. He was 82.

Francis Ford Coppola has supported Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel Cinematic Universe films and filmmaker James Gunn again came to the rescue of the superhero movies.