EXCLUSIVE: After launching two Oscar Best Picture nominees in The Irishman and Marriage Story, Netflix is re-stocking its star-driven prestige film arsenal with a big one. Netflix has acquired all rights to the untitled Leonard Bernstein film that Bradley Cooper will direct, star in and produce from the script he…
With today’s Oscar Best Picture nomination for The Irishman and Joker, producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff tied as the fifth producer to have two films competing in the same category in the same year (producer David Heyman also has two films in the Best Picture category — Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story)…
Much has been discussed of the de-aging of characters in The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s mob epic starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci that spans three decades in the life of hitman Frank Sheeran. It seems like the technology has paid off, certainly in critics’ eyes: the Netflix pic has already won Best…
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Sandler has been set to star this fall in Uncut Gems, the next film by directors Josh & Benny Safdie, for A24. The plot has been kept under wraps, and the script was written by the Safdies and Ronald Bronstein. Pic is produced by Scott Rudin & Eli Bush through Scott Rudin Produtions and Elara Pictures…
EXCLUSIVE: A24 has secured worldwide rights to Uncut Gems, a thriller that will be the next film from directors Josh and Benny Safdie. Jonah Hill is set to star, and Scott Rudin and Eli Bush of Scott Rudin Productions are producing with Sebastian Bear-McClard and Oscar Boyson from Elara Pictures. Martin Scorsese and Em…
Following a screening of The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988, New York City's Archbishop Paul Moore Jr. sent a copy of Shûsaku Endô’s 1966 novel Silenceto Martin Scorsese. The novel followed two Portuguese Jesuit priests who journey to Japan in 1639 to find their mentor, who has committed apostasy, and wind up…
