UPDATED with details of death: James “Whitey” Bulger, the one-time leader of the South Boston mob who became a controversial FBI informant and was played by Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s 2015 film Black Mass, was beaten to death this morning by fellow inmates in a high-security West Virginia federal prison. He was…

Warner Bros India is partnering with Mumbai-based Azure Entertainment on a local remake of Hong Kong classic Infernal Affairs. The companies will jointly invest in and produce the project which was the source material for Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning 2006 crime drama The Departed.

The remake is the first piece of a…

The Departed, the Oscar-winning 2006 Martin Scorsese movie, is getting a TV series reboot. In a competitive situation, the project has landed at Amazon for development. The Departed crime drama series is being produced by Amazon Studios as well as Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed William Monahan, who won an Oscar for scripting the Martin Scorsese-directed The Departed. Monahan has branched out since then into directing and most recently helmed Mojave, which stars Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund and which was acquired by A24 after premiering at Tribeca. Monahan, who…

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