[9] In July 2024, Friedkin started negotiations to purchase English football club Everton.
[10] Friedkin was a producer on over a dozen Imperative Entertainment films, including The Square (Palme d'Or at the 2017 Festival de Cannes), All the Money in the World, The Mule and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Friedkin piloted an authentic Spitfire through an aerial dogfight, landing on the beach at Dunkirk, France.
[1] An avid golfer, Friedkin built the Congaree golf course in South Carolina that was designed by Tom Fazio.
[16] He is owner of Diamond Creek Golf Club in North Carolina which he purchased from Wayne Huizenga in 2012.
[18] In August 2019, Friedkin was voted chair of Project Recover, a collaborative effort to enlist 21st century science and technology in a quest to find and repatriate Americans missing in action since World War II.
[28] Environmentalists criticized the bill, saying it unfairly targets renewable energy and undermines climate change mitigation.
[28] Friedkin has sought to prevent an electric transmission line being built on his sprawling ranch in West Texas.