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When Oliver Stone interviewed for a Deadline The Film That Lit My Fuse timed with the release of his memoir Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game, the three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker gave Deadline permission to provide our readers with…

Caesar Cordova, a character actor whose long association with Al Pacino included appearances in Scarface and Carlito’s Way, died Aug. 26 of natural causes in Atlantic City. He was 84. His death was announced by son Panchito Gomez, an actor whose credits include Selena, American Me and Hill Street Blues, with…

Geno Silva, an actor best known for his role as The Skull in Brian De Palma’s Scarface died on May 9 in Los Angeles of complications from frontotemporal degeneration. He was 72. Silva was born in Albuquerque, NM, on January 20, 1948. He went on to have a career on stage and screen. In Scarface (1983), his Skull is one…

Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino is now set to direct Universal Pictures' reimagination of Scarface.  The studio has been in development on the project for quite some time, going back to 2011, with David Ayer and Antoine Fuqua previously attached at directors as Deadline has broken the news on this…

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…