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Houston rapper Scarface says he tested positive for coronavirus and has "been sick for weeks." Scarface, real name Brad Jordan, shared the news with fans Thursday on Instagram during a live interview with fellow hip-hop personality Willie D. "I been to the point where I felt like I was going to die," Scarface…

Award-winning casting director Alixe Gordin died at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on November 28. She was 96. Additional details about her death were not revealed. Born Alixe Glas on  April 10, 1922 in Dayton, Ohio, she took her stage name Gordin when she started performing as a musician and an actor. She got…

Brian De Palma’s gangster epic Scarface will be getting a 35th anniversary release on June 10 in 200 theaters including such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas. Last month De Palma and cast members Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Steven Bauer reunited at the Tribeca Film Festival to…

Reprising some familiar stories but filling in plenty of fond nuance, the lead actors and director of Scarface marked the film's 35th anniversary with a crowd-pleasing Q&A session Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival. After a screening of the 1983 film, director Brian De Palma joined Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer…

20th Century Fox’s Ford vs. Ferrari directed by James Mangold, the Eddie Murphy-starring sequel to Coming to America and Antoine Fuqua’s reimagining of Scarface are among the big-budget feature films to score allocations in the latest California Film and Television tax credit drawings. Jordan Peele’s new film and…

Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer has been tapped to rewrite Universal Pictures’ Scarface which will be set in Los Angeles and is a complete re- imagining of the 1932 and 1983 versions. As exclusively reported by Deadline, Antoine Fuqua has returned to direct the project, which was previously targeting an Aug. 18 release…

The Tribeca Film Festival said today that it will hold anniversary screenings and reunions of Schindler’s List, Scarface and In the Soup. In addition, they have unveiled their slate of this year’s Tribeca Talks lineup. For the 17th annual New York-based fest, three classics will return to the big screen, followed by a…

EXCLUSIVE: Antoine Fuqua and Universal Pictures are back in conversations about Scarface, a new version of the classic outlaw tale. They are in early talks for Fuqua to direct the film, and things are looking good as the negotiations get underway. Originally dated August 10, 2018, Scarface is now undated as the pieces…

David Ayer has exited Universal's Scarface, with insiders citing a too-tight schedule for Ayers’ liking on a movie that has an August 2018 release date. There had been a helmer bake-off before the studio settled on Ayer, who just finished the Will Smith-Joel Edgerton pic Bright for Netflix. All this after Antoine Fuqua…

EXCLUSIVE: Suicide Squad helmer David Ayer is in early negotiations to direct Universal's Scarface, the new take on the gangster movie that the studio already has slated for an August 2018 bow. This has been a coveted job since Antoine Fuqua dropped out over scheduling. Diego Luna is attached to star in the pic, a…

Miriam Colón, the Puerto Rican-born actress whose roles over a seven-decade career included playing Al Pacino’s mother in Brian De Palma’s Scarface and who launched the influential Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York, died Friday at age 80. Her husband told the Associated Press that Colon died owing to…

Universal’s reboot of Scarface will open on August 10, 2018. The studio already had RSVP’ed the date under untitled event film. The Coen brothers are rewriting the script, the studio said. The siblings won’t direct. Several filmmakers are up for the job, notably Hell or High Water‘s David Mackenzie and Patriots’ Day’s…