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Playing the title character in The Fanatic, John Travolta recalled, meant going down the rabbit hole of movie fandom, a notion he has been acquainted with since his childhood worship of Jimmy Cagney. Moose, the film’s lead character, is a passionate but troubled superfan who winds up in a real-life showdown with his…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta has inked with ICM Partners. Travolta has amassed more than $3.8 billion at the global box office throughout his career from a huge cinematic résumé that includes Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Face/Off, The Taking of Pelham 123, Savages, Hairspray, Michael, Wild Hogs, Urb…

Austrian playwright and author Peter Handke, perhaps best-known in film circles for his screenplay of Wim Wenders’ classic Wings Of Desire, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. Playwright, novelist, screenwriter and director Handke also wrote Wenders’ movie The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick and directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is giving a face lift to Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Oren Uziel has been set to write the script, and Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive…

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…

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…

The Sunday rain downpours in Cannes didn’t destroy the mood at the annual Hollywood Foreign Press Association party here at Nikki Beach Sunday night where the HFPA donated $500,000 to Kailash Satyarthi Childrens Foundation , an organization dedicated to ending violence against children and child labor around the…

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…

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: John Travolta told Deadline he is upset that fast-spreading news reports twisted the truth as Lionsgate pulled his upcoming film Gotti off its release calendar 10 days before its bow. He worried the reports marginalized what he considers one of his better performances as the iconic Gambino crime family head…