EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta is negotiating to join the cast of The Many Saints Of Newark, The Sopranos prequel film that New Line will put into production by spring. He joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Michael Gandolfini, latter of whom will play the Tony Soprano role…

Frank Adonis, who appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Raging Bull and Casino along with tough-guy roles in dozens of other films and TV shows, has died. He was 83. His wife told TMZ that he died Wednesday night in Las Vegas after a long illness and had been on a ventilator. Born Frank Scioscia on October 27…

When it comes to memorable movie lines, everyone has their favorite. But it's not a stretch to assume that many people would cite Billy Batts' fateful final utterance to Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas: "Now go home and get your f*ckin' shinebox." That keeper was delivered with equal parts disgust and flair by F…

UPDATED with memorial service information: Frank Vincent, the instantly recognizable actor from The Sopranos, Goodfellas and Casino with a face perhaps more familiar than his name, died today. He was 80. Sources tell Deadline that he recently had suffered a heart attack, and his prognosis was dire even as he went into…

More than months after Goodfellas producer Irwin Winkler took a legal hit of sorts out on Warner Bros for breach of contract, fraud and more, the two sides have settled the $18 million "studio accounting on steroids" case. "This lawsuit was based on a misunderstanding, which I am happy to say has been resolved,&#8221…

Frank Albanese, a boxer-turned-actor who played Tony Soprano’s farm-owning “Uncle Pat” on The Sopranos and appeared in Goodfellas among other films, died Monday at a hospice on Staten Island, NY. He was 84. His death was confirmed by a local mortuary. A protégé of former middleweight champ Rocky Graziano, Albanese won…

Bert Fields said he might do it and the Hollywood superlawyer has now hit Warner Bros with an $18 million and more breach of contract and fraud complaint over the classic Martin Scorsese directed film. Literally 25-years to the day that Goodfellas was released, Fields filed paperwork in L.A. Superior Court yesterday…

As Bart Simpson would say, "Eat my shorts, Frank!" Almost 10 months after Frank Sivero sued Fox for $250 million over claims that The Simpsons stole the Frankie Carbone character he portrayed in Goodfellas, the case was dismissed. In a hearing Thursday morning in L.A. Superior Court, Judge Rita Miller issued a…

EXCLUSIVE: More than five months after Frank Sivero launched his mega-complaint against Fox alleging that a character from the Matt Groening co-created series was based on the role he played in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film, the studio has hit back – blunt and hard. "Defendant specifically denies that the character…

The Tribeca Film Festival announced that a remastered GoodFellas — the classic gangster film from Martin Scorsese — will be shown to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary closing night after which key cast members will reunite in a conversation hosted by Jon Stewart. The event, which will be held at the Beacon Theater…

This is so good and so big that you have to wonder if it is a joke – in which case the state courts are going to be plenty peeved off. Here’s the deal: Frank Sivero says that The Simpsons ripped off the Frankie Carbone character he played in 1990's Goodfellas and he wants to be paid for it. In a lawsuit filed today…

We write about the film business cynically as a business, but we’re a bunch of film geeks, really. I thought this when I experienced moments ago the closest thing a guy on his couch will face to a “Sophie’s Choice.”  On Spike TV, there was the incomparable Roy Scheider slinging chum off the back of a boat, and a giant…