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Actress Mira Sorvino has spoken out against the Film Academy for omitting her father Paul Sorvino from its In Memoriam segment at the 95th Oscars on Sunday. Sorvino first took to Twitter on Sunday night to share: “I for one am remembering Dad on this Oscars night…” Accompanying the comment was a…

Mira Sorvino remembered her father Paul Sorvino today, posting a poignant message on Twitter about the actor who died at 83 today after struggling with health issues. "My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed," she tweeted. "My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. He was the…

Actor Paul Sorvino, who died today at 83, played a legion of mobsters throughout his long career, including a seminal turn as Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. But Sorvino also played plenty of cops, a movie producer, a televangelist, Henry Kissinger, God, a founder of the American Communist Party, an…

Paul Sorvino, who starred in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and early seasons of the NBC series Law & Order, died today of natural causes after suffering health issues over the past few years. He was 83. His death was announced by his publicist Roger Neal on behalf of Sorvino's wife Dee Dee Sorvino, who was at his side…

“Bumpy Johnson is gonna be dead by the end of the day.” Can we get that in writing, please? Epix has released the first teaser for Season 2 of its period crime drama Godfather of Harlem and set its premiere for Sunday, April 18. Have a look above. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker executive produces the series and stars as…

“So much has changed in Harlem since you’ve been gone,” the newly freed convict is told on his ride home from prison. “And I just know you’ll get right back in the swing of things.” His reply: “I’m already back in the swings of things.” Here is the first teaser for Godfather of Harlem, Epix’s upcoming drama series…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Sorvino is set for a role in Godfather of Harlem, Epix's straight-to-series crime drama starring and executive produced by Forest Whitaker. The series hails from Narcos co-creator Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein and ABC Signature Studios. Vincent D'Onofrio, Ilfenesh Hadera, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy…

Goodfellas star Paul Sorvino seemingly channeled his tough-guy character from that mob film as he described meting out some street justice in defense of his daughter, actress Mira Sorvino. Sorvino was approached by a TMZ reporter as he left Bristol Farms in West Hollywood on Tuesday night and asked for his reaction to…

There are plenty of first-time directors appearing at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival—several of which came through Deadline’s Tribeca Studio in the festival’s first week—but there is only one filmmaker who made his writing and directing debut in his seventies, taking a moment away from his work as a world-renowned…

In an industry that caters to youth and is thought to be rampant with ageism, there is some encouraging news coming out of the Tribeca Film Festival tonight. It is the premiere of The Last Poker Game, starring Martin Landau as an aging physician who moves into a nursing home with his ailing wife and strikes up an…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Sorvino boards alongside Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, Graham Rogers and Dermot Mulroney in Careful What You Wish For, the thriller written by Chris Frisina and Gregg Hurwitz and directed by Elizabeth Allen. In the story, Doug (Jonas) gets more than he bargained for when he starts having an affair with…

After lengthy negotiations, NBC has closed a deal for Jamie Foxx’s drama project Tommy’s Little Girl based on the trailer Foxx shot with Selma Blair, Paul Sorvino, Tony Sirico and James Russo. The network also has picked up Life Is Good, a comedy from Unhitched creators Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier and Hangover 2…