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Margot Robbie has become one of the biggest A-list stars in Hollywood. A great deal of that is owed to the blockbuster success of "Barbie," but she's been on the rise for years now. One of her biggest moments came in 2019 when she played the late Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Robbie's portrayal of Tate was even praised by the late actress' family. Tate's family also helped Robbie get into character in a pretty special way.

Tarantino teamed up with author Jay Glennie who will write books for three of his films beginning with "The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." That one hits shelves on November 11 from Insight Editions, and Deadline recently published several excerpts from the book. One of them revealed Robbie's unique way of getting into a character,...

Exclusive: Quentin Tarantino has teamed with journalist-author Jay Glennie to write books for three of his films beginning with The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. The coffee table-sized book will be released November 11 by Insight Editions. That publisher took over an initial deal made with Little Brown, and it grew to encompass all 10 of Tarantino’s films, the last of which he’s yet to make.

The Story Factory’s Shane Salerno made a three-book deal with Insight CEO Raoul Goff and publisher Vanessa Lopez. After Once Upon a Time, the next two will cover Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Those will release in 2026 and 2027, as Tarantino and Glennie continue to wade through the director’s movies with full access to casts.

Tarantino will write the introductions for each, and the aspirations go much further than a batch of picture books. It will be...

Shazam! Star Commits “Career Suicide” — Or Does He?

When Zachary Levi stood onstage at a Sept. 28 rally in Michigan and endorsed Donald Trump, he declared it an act of “career suicide” that would end his chances of working again in “very, very liberal” Hollywood. The crowd ate it up, applauding the 44-year-old Shazam! star for his sacrifice to the Maga cause. But in L.A., there was more than a little head-scratching. Not because Levi was endorsing a convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender — the anti-vaxxer actor has done weirder things than that, like supporting Robert Kennedy Jr. for president — but because lots of folks here had assumed Levi’s mainstream career already was all but dead. His latest big-screen venture, Harold and the Purple Crayon, was one of the year’s biggest box office duds, and his 2023 superhero movie, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, had one of the worst...

The sister of Sharon Tate spoke about the prison release of Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten for the first time.

Speaking to ABC News just days after Van Houten’s release to a “transitional living facility” after 53 years in prison, Debra Tate said, “Is she a nice girl? No. Is she an animal? I think she was then, and I fear that she still is.”

On Tuesday, Van Houten, 72, was granted parole after five failed attempts at parole since 2016; each time, the acting California governor overturned the parole board’s recommendation for her release,...

Photo: Serial Killers Dear Hollywood, Please stop glamorizing serial killers! True crime media has been booming as a genre in recent years. You can get content from anywhere now. From Tiktok, Youtube, Netflix, and Hulu, you’re able to learn about serial killers and their horrible crimes. Most people are fascinated with why they decided to commit the crime and what turned them into murder. Let’s start Caring about the Victims There’s been too much focus on the serial killer and not enough focus on the victims. Hollywood seems to forget that the victim’s families get reminded about the tragic event every time a new movie or TV special is released. ‘The Haunting of Sharon Tate’ is a controversial movie about Sharon Tate having premonitions about the Manson family. Sharon Tate’s sister Debra Tate told People magazine that she thinks the film is “classless” and “exploitative...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also not happy with Quentin Tarantino's portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino has been standing up for the way Lee comes off in his movie, but Shannon Lee, the late martial artist's daughter, doesn't want to have anything to do with the situation and wishes the director would just "shut up" about it now. NBA legend and friend of Lee, Abdul-Jabbar is now weighing in on the subject.

First and foremost, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a fan of Quentin Tarantino's work and knows Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the director's take on these historic events from 1969. However, when a movie involves real-life people, things can easily end up going bad, which seems to be the case here, according to Shannon Lee and Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar argues that these portrayals creep into our "shared cultural conscience as impressions of those real people.

Debra Tate has nothing but glowing things to say about Margot Robbie's performance as her late sister, Sharon Tate, in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The Quentin Tarantino-directed film, which follows a washed-up actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) as they try to make their Hollywood comeback, is set in 1969, the same year that Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Debra Tate gave the project her seal of approval while expressing her interest in a Sharon Tate biopic written and directed by Tarantino.

"When I read the whole script, I knew that the real meat of the story was going to be Leo and Brad Pitt's characters," she said. "I mean, I really wish that Quentin Tarantino would do the Sharon Tate story, and I would love to see Margot play [that] . . . But that was not the movie that Quentin had written,...

Debra Tate, sister to actress Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was very involved in the process of helping Robbie become the iconic actress. She loaned Robbie her sister’s jewelry and perfume, and was very supportive of Robbie’s portrayal.

Tarantino even invited Debra to the set on the day they filmed a scene in which Tate goes to the movies to see the most recent film she acted in, The Wrecking Crew. In the scene, she arrives at the theater and explains that she’s in the movie. The theater owner invites her in to watch, and the girl at the ticket booth asks to first take her picture in front of the movie poster. While all this was happening, Debra was sitting inside the theatre so she would not be seen by paparazzi. She was...

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood made Debra Tate cry. Tate was taken by Margot Robbie's portrayal of her sister, Sharon Tate, and wished Tarantino would've made a whole movie dedicated to her. For Debra, the road to the movie didn't start on a positive note. She originally slammed Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Tarantino for making the movie, which involved her sister, though she hadn't read the story by that point.

Debra Tate has since come around to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and she likes what she read and saw on the big screen. Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate portrayal really effected Debra in a way she apparently wasn't expecting, which speaks to what Quentin Tarantino and Robbie pulled off. Debra Tate had this to say about seeing Robbie as her sister on the big screen for the first time.

"She made me cry...

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Debra Tate, sister of Sharon Tate, reveals Margot Robbie brought her to tears in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Ever since Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, there has been a media scrutiny about whether the film did right by Sharon Tate, and the actor portraying her, Margot Robbie, given her relatively small amount of dialogue. One person who loves the film’s depiction of Sharon, however, is her sister Debra Tate. Speaking to Vanity Fair earlier this week, the woman who has kept the memory of her lost sister alive for 50 years revealed she was brought to tears the first time she saw Robbie as Sharon.

“She made me cry because she sounded just like Sharon,” Debra said of the day she came to the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood set. It was during the...

Sony opens Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” on July 26, close to the 50th anniversary of the murder of Sharon Tate and four others. A front-page Variety story on Aug. 11, 1969, two days after the killings, said police described the scene as “a ritualistic mass murder.” Showbiz has since then offered many tasteless depictions of the killings via low-budget exploitation films and TV offerings. Even with a “classy” production like the 1976 “Helter Skelter,” Variety reported that Lorimar intended to “spice up” the four-hour miniseries for overseas by adding more violence and sex.

In November 2018, Debra Tate (Sharon’s sister) wrote a piece for Variety’s special issue on criminal justice reform, American (In)Justice. A victims’ rights activist, she lamented Hollywood’s glamorizing of the Manson family and urged no parole for its remaining members in prison. She offered a few details from 1969 that served as a reminder:...

Margot Robbie kept Sharon Tate close to her while filming the new Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

During a sit-down interview with Today, Robbie opened up about what it was like to take on the role of the actress, whose career was cut short when she was murdered in 1969 by Charles Manson’s followers.

“Whenever I heard her name, I really only thought about her life,” she shared, adding that she had never been “exposed to parts of her life when she was alive.”

Robbie, 28, who got to know several of Tate’s family and friends while preparing for the role,...

Margot Robbie channeled late actress Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, wearing her hair in an identical braided style to the one Tate wore when she attended the festival in 1968.

The similarity was first noticed in a tweet from writer Evan Ross Katz on Thursday.

Robbie, 28, wore her hair in a middle part and styled the front few strands into small braids. Along with the ’60s-inspired hairstyle, she wore a white off-the-shoulder Chanel dress with tulle and lace details paired with silver heels.

Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival, 1968 / Margot Robbie at the Cannes Film Festival,...

After debuting his star-studded “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” during a glittering Tuesday night premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino saddled up for the next stop on the film festival circuit: a packed press conference on Wednesday morning. Joined by stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, press jostled to ask questions, including one that has been nagging at fans and journalists alike since the reveal that Tarantino’s latest film would include Robbie starring as Sharon Tate in the days leading up to her 1969 murder at the hands of Charles Manson’s cult.

Did Tarantino consult with fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski on the scenes involving Tate, Polanski’s second wife who was pregnant with their child at the time of her murder? Tarantino, for once, was succinct: “No, I didn’t.”

Asked about his wider relationship with Polanski, who has been living in Europe...

Debra Tate's very pleased with the new trailer for "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" ... especially Margot Robbie's performance as her sister. Critics and fans are getting their first good look at Margot as Sharon Tate now that the second trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film has been released. Debra tells TMZ, from what she's seen, it looks like Margot knocked it out of the park. As we've told you, Debra's been...

Margot Robbie got a very important blessing to play Manson family murder victim Sharon Tate.

The actress, 28, prepared for her role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by talking to Tate’s family members and friends.

“They all said how kind, loving, and good-hearted she was,” Robbie, 28, tells People in the latest issue. “I was fortunate enough to step on to set with Debra Tate’s blessing, Sharon’s sister.”

Tate, just 26 at the time of her death, was married to director Roman Polanski and was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child — a...

Quentin Tarantino‘s hugely anticipated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will transport Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio back to the 60s. Specifically, the year 1969, and though we don’t know a whole lot about it just yet, the recent trailer at least gave us an idea of its premise.

From what we saw, the film will focus on aging Western TV star Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his friend and stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt), who embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry. However, this being 1969, their story unfolds around the time of the Manson Family murders, with Margot Robbie showing up as Sharon Tate. Despite that, though, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood certainly isn’t a Manson movie.

That was something which its producers were quick to stress in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, where David Heyman and Shannon McIntosh...

Debra Tate is unmoved by the olive branch extended by the director who cast Hilary Duff to play her sister, Sharon Tate, in a horror movie ... because Debra says it's just an attempt to cover his ass. Debra, who started blasting Daniel Farrand's independent film from the jump, tells TMZ ... the director only reached out to her After the movie was complete, sending her a letter explaining what he was trying to express in "The Haunting of Sharon Tate.

For almost as long as we’ve been hearing about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino and Sony Pictures, which will release the film, have tried to dispel the notion that it will be all about the Manson murders.

They couldn’t have made their point better than they did with the teaser trailer released Wednesday. Tarantino signals with the teaser that that the film won’t just be a portrait of one horrible night in 1969, but rather of an entire era, sweeping across at least three years prior to the Manson murders.

Because he’s Quentin Tarantino, he doled out those clues via obscure Bruce Lee knowledge, old TV and movie marquees. Let’s look at all the signs, literal and figurative, that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” won’t surrender its story to Manson.

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On Aug. 9, 1969, Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie...

This August will mark 50 years since the murder of 26-year-old Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family, and to coincide with this somber anniversary, several projects depicting the late actress are currently on the horizon. The one you may have heard the most about is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which features Margot Robbie in the role of Tate, but before that much-hyped crime drama reaches cinemas, Daniel Farrands’ The Haunting of Sharon Tate will see Hilary Duff offer her take on the title character.

The controversial flick will serve as a horror-themed reimagining of Tate’s last days, with the film’s new poster summing up Farrands’ contentious approach in the tagline: “Based on the story of Sharon Tate’s dreams and the Manson Family nightmare.” To elaborate, The Haunting is said to take inspiration from an actual quote from Tate published a year before her death,...

The upcoming release of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has stirred up a lot of discourse around serial killer Ted Bundy, whose execution was 30 years ago as of last month, but as we move further into the year, you can expect to see similar conversations unfold around the subject of Sharon Tate, whose murder at the hands of the Manson Family has its 50th anniversary in August. Like Bundy’s execution, Tate’s tragic death has inspired the release of several projects that depict the late actress, perhaps the most controversial of them all being The Haunting of Sharon Tate.

As you can see in the newly shared batch of images, Daniel Farrands’ film sees Hilary Duff in the title role, performing alongside the likes of Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls) and Lydia Hearst (Z Nation) in a story that reimagines the events leading up to Tate’s death in...

Margot Robbie isn’t the only actress playing Sharon Tate in a movie this year. Upon the 50th anniversary of her death in the midst of the Manson Family murders, we just got our first look at Hilary Duff as Tate in the new horror film “The Haunting of Sharon Tate.”

In the first trailer for the film directed by Daniel Farrands, Duff’s Tate is pregnant with director Roman Polanski’s child and awaiting his return from Europe when the 26-year-old Hollywood actress becomes plagued by visions of her own imminent death.

“This person, these people, they’re a threat to my safety and safety of my baby,” Duff says in the trailer before locking the windows and witnessing the words “Helter Skelter” written in blood on her walls.

Also Read: Sharon Tate's Sister Says Hilary Duff Movie Is 'Classless,' 'Total Fabrication'

Sadly, it doesn’t end well for her.

The Haunting of Sharon Tate may wind up being one of the most controversial movies of 2019. It arrives on the anniversary of the gruesome Manson murders, with Hilary Duff starring as the ill-fated actress. Today, we get a look at the first footage, which doesn't appear to portray the crime in accurate fashion, instead selling itself as a re-imagining of events.

The Haunting of Sharon Tate is currently in post-production. The thriller based on true-life events does not yet have an official release date, but it will be in theaters, and more than likely available simultaneously on VOD sometime in early 2019. An official synopsis about the Sharon Tate movie says this.

The Haunting of Sharon Tate re-imagines the last days of Sharon Tate's life (Hilary Duff) before being tragically cut down at the age of 26 by Charles Manson's family of followers.

Some people have been confusing The Haunting of Sharon Tate...

After being denied 18 times, a California parole board recommended that former Charles Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil be released from prison, The Associated Press reports.

He has been serving a life sentence — previously commuted from the death penalty — for the 1969 murder of Gary Hinman, a music teacher living in Topanga Canyon who became friendly with Manson and his Family.

Beausoleil, 71, who is currently being held at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, tortured Hinman for three days in July 1969 before stabbing him in the chest twice, killing him. He was already...

In what’s surely one of the most morbid and controversy-baiting trends of 2019, Sharon Tate will be depicted in several upcoming films with release dates that fall close to the fiftieth anniversary of her murder at the hands of the Manson Family. While Margot Robbie assumes the part in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Kate Bosworth is set to play the actress in Tate, perhaps the most dubious of the three is The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which sees Hilary Duff in the title role.

The film comes to us from Daniel Farrands, though not before his new feature The Amityville Murders arrives next month. And if you feel there’s something a little iffy about reenacting the night when Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his whole family as a conventional horror movie, then you probably won’t care much for the new trailer for Sharon Tate,...

The Amityville haunting has been the subject of an endless parade of films dating back to 1979’s The Amityville Horror, but what’s less common to see is a whole movie dedicated to the tragedy that preceded this alleged case of paranormal activity. That’s where The Amityville Murders comes in, with the film set to offer a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the night Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his family with a high-powered rifle – a crime he later claimed to have committed after hearing voices in the house plotting against him.

The feature will be released by Skyline Entertainment, who’ve just shared a new photo from the movie, in which John Robinson (Elephant) can be seen brandishing his gun in the role of DeFeo. The unveiling came with a statement from Skyline CEO Jim Jacobsen, who praised writer-director Daniel Farrands for his work:

“We are really excited about this title.

On paper, the premise of The Haunting of Sharon Tate suggests an ethically dubious take on the life of the late actress, and coming from the writer of Halloween 4 and The Amityville Murders, we’re not expecting a lot of tact in its execution, either. That being said, we can always hold out hope that Daniel Farrands and his team have the skill and the sensitivity to pull this thing off, and to be fair, this is a perfectly nice photo of Hilary Duff in the title role.

The film is said to offer a “reimagining” of Tate’s final days leading up to her murder at the hands of the Manson Family, taking inspiration from a quote published a year prior in which she recalled having dreams of ghosts haunting her house. Needless to say, to use this alleged premonition of death and the tragedy that followed as the...

Margot Robbie is expertly channeling her inner Sharon Tate for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Robbie plays Tate in the movie about the late ’60s that features Hollywood during the Charles Manson family murders. On Saturday, the Oscar nominee was spotted on set wearing the same black sweater and white skirt combo she sported in her first look image on Instagram over the summer.

Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the production will feature Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, the former star of a western TV series, and Brad Pitt as his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. They...

With principal photography officially underway on Quentin Tarantino’s ninth full-length feature, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, how, exactly, the filmmaker will be tackling his latest piece of delicate subject matter is finally beginning to take shape.

Surely by now – amid the release date controversy and disapproval of Debra Tate – it should be common knowledge that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set against the backdrop of 1969 Los Angeles, specifically, “during the Helter Skelter reign of terror.” After all, Margot Robbie is portraying none other than Sharon Tate, the murdered, pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski.

What isn’t common knowledge, though, is that Bruce Lee was initially a suspect in the murder of Tate, which, of course, we now know was ultimately carried out by the Manson family. Nonetheless, as a happy result of his open marriage with historical accuracy – evident during the bombastic conclusion of Inglorious...

Sharon Tate is about to be resurrected in spectacular fashion in Quentin Tarantino's new movie, thanks to Margot Robbie ... so says Sharon's sister, who watched the action on the closed set.  Debra Tate says Qt's flick "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" -- which centers around the murders of her sibling and her friends at the hands of the Manson Family -- is magnificent because Margot is capturing all the nuances from the slain actress.

Tate’s sister endorses Quentin Tarantino’s vision.

Margot Robbie has posted a first-look image on Instagram of herself as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

The film, set for release worldwide through Sony next summer, is a dramatic saga that takes place in 1969 and also stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. It will open in the Us on July 26, 2019, weeks before the 50th anniversary of Tate’s murder at the hands of the Manson Family cult.

Tate, the American actress, model and wife of Roman Polanski, was killed while pregnant by followers...

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is currently shooting in and around the Los Angeles area and Margot Robbie has shared the very first image of herself as the late Sharon Tate. The image shows the 28-year old actress in late 1960s attire, standing in front of a large door. It's remarkable just how much Robbie looks like Tate in the image and fans of the actress on social media are flipping out over the resemblance.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set in 1969 Los Angeles and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, a former star of a western TV series, and Brad Pitt as his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Both men are struggling to stay afloat in a rapidly changing entertainment industry that they no longer recognize. Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate who lives next-door to DiCaprio in the film which will have the...

Author Debra Tate, the sister of late actress and model Sharon Tate, was initially against Quentin Tarantino incorporating Sharon’s murder into “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” TMZ reports that Tarantino arranged a meeting with Debra Tate to discuss her reservations, and she is now feeling better about the project. Part of her newfound optimism is the result of Sony’s decision last week to move up the release date so the film no longer hits theaters on the crime’s 50th’s anniversary.

“This movie is not what people would expect it to be when you combine the Tarantino and Manson names,” Debra Tate told the website. Four years ago, she published “Sharon Tate: Recollection” in her sister’s memory. The forward was written by Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, who was married to Sharon Tate when — in August 1969 — she and four others were killed in their home by followers of Charles Manson.

Sharon Tate‘s sister is now fully supporting Quentin Tarantino’s movie adaptation of the Manson family murders after previously expressing significant concern about the proposed movie.

Debra Tate initially told People she was frustrated she had not been contacted about the project, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but has had a change of heart after the director reached out to her.

“I’m pleased he reached out,” Debra tells People about Tarantino. “I thought it showed a lot of class and sensitivity to move up the release date.”

“He has done nothing but respect me and be very forthcoming.

Sharon Tate’s wedding dress will be auctioned along with other artifacts belonging to the actress who was killed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969, her sister tells People.

“I have been working on this auction for eight months,” says Debra Tate. “I think it’s time to share her with other people.”

From Nov. 12 to Nov. 16, fans of the Hollywood starlet will get a chance to view her personal items at a location to be determined. The Los Angeles-based Julien’s Auctions is working with the Estate of Sharon Tate in the upcoming sale.

Tate’s iconic ivory silk moiré...

Imagine someone in your family was brutally murdered and then for the next half-century you were constantly reminded of her horrible death, with filmmakers lining up to dramatize it in theaters. You’d probably be pretty pissed off, right?

Now you’re in the shoes of Debra Tate – sister of Manson family victim Sharon Tate – who is decidedly unimpressed with Quentin Tarantino’s eagerly anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which is reportedly about Tate’s neighbour during the Manson murders. She’s already made her thoughts on the project pretty clear, too, telling TMZ the other week that stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are “throwing all their social responsibility to the wind.”

Be that as it may, the film is still moving forward and today, Deadline brings word that Margot Robbie has signed on to play Sharon. She’ll headline the pic alongside Pitt and DiCaprio, who play Rick and Dalton,...

Exclusive: In death, a murder victim has no rights, but the victim’s family often fights behind the scenes — and sometimes loudly out front — to make sure that their murdered family member is properly portrayed. That has been the case with Debra Tate, sister of actress Sharon Tate whose brutal torture and murder at the hands of the Manson Family is one of the most heinous crimes of the last century. Debra Tate has spoken out against Quentin Tartantino’s Manson project and…...

Imagine someone in your family was brutally murdered and then for the next half-century you were constantly reminded of her horrible death, with filmmakers lining up to dramatize it on the big screen. You’d be pretty pissed off, right?

Now you’re in the shoes of Debra Tate – sister of Manson family victim Sharon Tate – who is decidedly unimpressed with Quentin Tarantino’s eagerly anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which is reportedly about Tate’s neighbour during the Manson murders.

In a recent interview with TMZ, she came down hard on the film, saying:

“To [celebrities] it’s a paycheck and these people just don’t care. They are terribly hurtful to the actual family and all the living victims. They don’t give a shit”.

She went on to specifically criticize stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, accusing them of “throwing all their social responsibility to the wind.

It was announced earlier this week after months of speculation that Brad Pitt was officially joining Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Most Tarantino fans were excited to finally get confirmation as well as the title for his upcoming 9th movie that will reportedly have the Manson Family murders as one of the story elements. However, the late Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, is not happy about the project at all and claims that Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio "don't give a sh!t" about the family and claims that they're just doing it for the cash.

Debra Tate believes that Quentin Tarantino, along with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, are glorifying her sister's death. In a new interview, she said that she believes the actors didn't think the situation through or think of the social ramifications. Tate also stated that...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are a couple of money grubbing actors who signed up to glorify Sharon Tate's vicious murder ... so claims her sister, Debra Tate. Debra tells TMZ she believes Leo and Brad only saw the Benjamins when they signed up to star in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" ... a film about a struggling actor who lives next door to Sharon Tate at the time of the 1969 murders.

Quentin Tarantino is wading into controversial territory with his upcoming movie which revolves around Sharon Tate’s brutal murder at the hands of Charles Manson’s cult.

The writer-director’s ninth film, titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has been in the works for years, and on Wednesday, he landed two major stars to play key roles. Leonardo DiCaprio is confirmed to play fictional Western actor Rick Dalton, whose stunt double Cliff Booth will be played by Brad Pitt.

In a statement Wednesday, Tarantino called the film a “story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood.

Quentin Tarantino is wading into controversial territory with his upcoming movie which revolves around Sharon Tate’s brutal murder at the hands of Charles Manson’s cult.

The writer-director’s ninth film, titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has been in the works for years, and on Wednesday, he landed two major stars to play key roles. Leonardo DiCaprio is confirmed to play fictional Western actor Rick Dalton, whose stunt double Cliff Booth will be played by Brad Pitt.

In a statement Wednesday, Tarantino called the film a “story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood.

Debra Tate is fiercely protective about her sister's legacy and apparently the new Hilary Duff movie The Haunting of Sharon Tate doesn't meet her expectations. Tate calls the movie "classless" and "exploitative" in a new interview. While she doesn't mention Quentin Tarantino by name, she states that all of the movies rushing to get out on the 50th anniversary of the murder of Sharon Tate are 'tasteless'. Tarantino is currently casting his new movie set in the year 1969, which has Sharon Tate's story as the backdrop, and is reportedly coming out on the 50th anniversary of Tate's death.

According to Debra Tate, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which stars Hillary Duff, insinuates that her sister had premonitions about her death. Tate says that the rumors of premonitions are completely false and is publicly speaking out against any of the movies coming out to capitalize on the 50th anniversary of her sister's murder.

The late Sharon Tate's sister is not happy about the upcoming movie, The Haunting of Sharon Tate. The film, starring Hilary Duff as Sharon, will focus on the last days of Sharon's life before her brutal 1969 murder. In response to the film, Debra Tate has told People she thinks "it's classless" and also calls the movie "exploitative." "It doesn't matter who it is acting in it – it's just tasteless," Debra went on to tell the publication. She then added that she thinks, "It's classless how everyone is rushing to release something for the 50th anniversary of this horrific event." Hilary has been posting pictures from the set of the movie over the...

Sharon Tate’s sister, Debra Tate, is calling Hilary Duff’s upcoming film about the late actress, titled “The Haunting of Sharon Tate,” “classless” and “exploitative.” “It doesn’t matter who it is acting in it — it’s just tasteless,” Tate told People. “It’s classless how everyone is rushing to release something for the 50th anniversary of this horrific event.” Debra Tate was 16 when her sister Sharon was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers in 1969, when she was two weeks away from giving birth. Debra Tate also said that the premise of the film — that her sister had a premonition that...

Debra Tate has hit out at the making of a new movie about her sister Sharon Tate’s horrific murder in 1969. The film, titled “The Haunting of Sharon Tate”, is set to star Hilary Duff as the lead character and is said to be centred on an alleged premonition Sharon had that she and her...

Sharon Tate‘s sister, Debra Tate, is not holding back on her disappointment for Hilary Duff‘s new film about the late actress who was viciously murdered in 1969.

Duff, 30, is set to star in The Haunting of Sharon Tate and shared a photo of herself dressed similarly to the actress on Instagram, writing, “Had the incredible opportunity of playing Sharon Tate the past two weeks in an independent movie. She was an amazing woman and it was a true honor.”

Debra tells People she thinks “it’s classless” and “exploitative.”

“It doesn’t matter who it is acting in it – it’s just tasteless,...

Hilary Duff is taking on a very different, and very serious new role, for an upcoming psychological horror film about the murder of Sharon Tate.

The former Disney Channel actress, who has recently starred in the critically acclaimed Younger, is playing Tate in The Haunting of Sharon Tate, who was brutally stabbed to death in August 1969.

Tate, 26 at the time of her death, was married to director Roman Polanski and was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child — a boy — when she was stabbed in their home by members of Charles Manson’s cult.

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The death of Charles Manson brought up a lot of disturbing memories for Bryan Cranston. The 61-year-old actor took to Twitter on Monday to recall an incident that happened when he was around 13 years old.

“Hearing Charles Manson is dead, I shuddered,” he wrote. “I was within his grasp just one year before he committed brutal murder in 1969. Luck was with me when a cousin and I went horseback riding at the Span Ranch, and saw the little man with crazy eyes whom the other hippies called Charlie.”

Manson orchestrated several murders in 1969 after Cranston’s alleged encounter with him, including the killing of the then-pregnant Sharon Tate.

"I said a prayer, shed a tear, stuck a flower under my cross in my bedroom and emailed Roman [Polanski]," Sharon’s sister, Debra Tate, told New York Daily News. Polanski was married to Sharon at the time of her murder.

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[[tmz:video id="0_0hapfj2z"]] 11:36 Am Pst -- Roman Polanski's attorney, Harland Braun, tells TMZ ... "The murder of Polanski's wife and unborn son still remains too painful for him to make a statement. He hopes someday to correct the legal proceedings in L.A. so that he can visit their graves at Holy Cross Cemetery." Roman Polanski -- who was married to Sharon Tate when the Manson Family slaughtered her and their unborn child -- remained deeply involved...