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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar conversations around town bring differing opinions about what might win in an exceptional year for auteur cinema. It was surprising how many people add: boy would it be nice to see Martin Scorsese get an Oscar for his final mob epic, The Irishman. Sure he won for The Departed, but he got robbed on Taxi…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, later retitled The Irishman for the film, has been a fixture this awards season, and now you can watch the first table read for the project from nearly seven years ago. Check it out above. It is fascinating…

EXCLUSIVE: “Things have gotten out of hand with our friend again — there’s some people having serious problems with him,” gangster Russell Bufalino tells Frank Sheeran in The Irishman. “You’re going to have to talk to him and tell him it’s what it is.” In a new featurette that spotlights Joe Pesci in Irishman (watch…

At the New York Film Festival (and select West Coast screenings) this weekend, the lid was taken off one of 2019’s most anticipated movies. Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of The Irishman is the Netflix mob crime film based on Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, which offers lots of food for…

Ever since it came into our cinematic consciousness there has been much talk and a whole lotta anticipation for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the decades-spanning mob crime epic reuniting Scorsese with Goodfellas and Casino stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and giving Al Pacino his surprisingly first-ever…

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this…

In its most ambitious ever theatrical rollout plan for one of its original productions, Netflix will give The Irishman a 27-day theatrical window before the film makes its streaming service bow November 27. Netflix will launch on November 1 in Los Angeles and New York the epic crime drama that reunites director Martin…

Here is the first teaser trailer for The Irishman, the Martin Scorsese-directed film that stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Ray Romano and Harvey Keitel. The film will open the New York Film Festival and get a theatrical release by Netflix this fall before it moves to the streaming service. The drama is an…

The New York Film Festival has set the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman as its opening-night film on September 27 at Alice Tully Hall. It is the first time that a Scorsese film has opened the NYFF. Netflix has filled the upcoming Toronto and Venice festivals with its films, including the Steven…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his breakthrough on the Martin Scorsese exec produced HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Jack Huston has been set by Scorsese to join the cast of The Irishman, the fact-based mob epic that Scorsese will direct for Netflix. Scorsese has Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Bobby…

Fans of the 1992 fish-out-of-water comedy My Cousin Vinny have always wondered what happened to the characters played by Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei when they rode off at the end of the film. Author Lawrence Kelter is attempting to provide the answer. The Brooklyn attorney obtained the rights and absolution from…

UPDATED with more information: Martin Scorsese is putting the band back together. Joe Pesci has officially joined Al Pacino (whose deal is currently being finalized) and Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s Jimmy Hoffa disappearance film The Irishman. We were told that Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale have been talking about…