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Kelly Preston died today, her husband John Travolta has revealed. She was 57. The Twins and Jerry Maguire star passed away Sunday after a long fight against breast cancer. Hawaii-born Preston’s spouse of nearly 30 years and her Gotti co-star  took to social media late tonight in a heartfelt post: <a…

After earning a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes from 25 critics, the team behind Gotti have decided that they’re not going to take it anymore, and dropped a social media ad lashing back at those who even dare possess a sour opinion about their movie which the New York Post called “the worst mob movie of all-time”. A tweet…

We’re hearing this morning that MoviePass accounted for 40% of the $1.67M opening ($668K) to John Travolta mob pic Gotti, which took headlines over the weekend for its 0% Rotten Tomatoes score from 23 critics. During CinemaCon, the monthly movie ticket service took a low-seven figure stake in the reported $10M…

For the handful of critics who went out of their way to watch Gotti, the John Travolta pic should sleep with the fishes. As of this morning, the Vertical Entertainment-MoviePass Ventures release is registering a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Score. That’s lower than the 6% earned by the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez 2003 film Gigli…

MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics has launched a new subsidiary, MoviePass Films, and said it is acquiring Emmett Furla Oasis Films, producer of movies including Lone Survivor. The deal encompasses the EFO Films library as well as the company’s current slate, which includes Gotti, the John Travolta…

With less than a week to go before the Cannes Film Festival kicks off, final arrangements continue to be put in place. Along with the previously announced Christopher Nolan, masterclasses are to be delivered by Black Panther helmer Ryan Coogler; this year’s Best Actor Oscar winner Gary Oldman; and John Travolta who…

In the new trailer for Kevin Connolly’s Gotti, John Travolta serves up some serious mob boss realness as the titular John Gotti, the infamous leader of the Gambino crime family. Vertical Entertainment is releasing Gotti on June 15 with Sunrider Productions. Gotti went by many names: Teflon Don, Dapper Don, or just…

EXCLUSIVE: MoviePass Ventures, the movie ticket service’s indie film finance arm, announced tonight that it is taking an equity stake in Kevin Connolly’s Gotti, which stars John Travolta as the infamous New York City mobster and boss of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti. As Deadline announced two weeks ago, Vertical…

Vertical Entertainment has come aboard for U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Gotti, the pic about the famed mob boss that stars John Travolta and is directed by Kevin Connolly. The distributor will now team with Sunrider Productions to give the film a wide release June 15. That’s the date Connolly pegged last mont…

Kevin Connolly took to Instagram this morning to reveal that the new release date for his film Gotti is June 15. It’s the third feature that the Entourage star has directed, and it stars John Travolta as the Teflon Don. Back in December, days before the movie’s release date, the filmmakers exercised a buy back clause…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the lowdown with the news today about Gotti‘s departure from Lionsgate Premiere ten days before its debut: the distributor didn’t whack Gotti.  First of all, Gotti wasn’t getting a wide release via big Lionsgate, but rather Lionsgate Premiere which is typically where specialty films and day and date…

“This life of ours is a wonderful life — if you can get away with it.” So says John Travolta as infamous crime boss John Gotti in the new film about his tumultuous life. Gotti follows the mobster from humble beginnings on the the streets of New York City through his rise to become the "Teflon Don" of the Gambino crime…