EXCLUSIVE: Al Pacino just signed with UTA. Pacino had been repped by ICM Partners. He makes the switch on the eve of the release of the Barry Levinson-directed adaptation of the Philip Roth novel The Humbling, opposite Greta Gerwig. The Oscar and Emmy-winning Pacino continues to be lawyered by Tom Hansen. He wrapped…
Al Pacino talks in the video clip below with Dominic Patten about Barry Levinson’s humor and spontaneity as a director in Pacino’s new movie, The Humbling. The film is based on a book by Philip Roth about an aging actor’s travails.
This is the fourth clip from Pacino’s talk on creating The Humbling following the…
Al Pacino talks about walking the tightrope of live theater compared to shooting a film (the high wire is “painted on the floor” with filmmaking, he says). The occasion for the conversation is The Humbling, Pacino’s latest film, which is based on a Philip Roth novel and directed by Barry Levinson, from a screenplay by…
In part 2 of our Rough Cuts conversation with Al Pacino, the Oscar winner talks in the video below about the aging actor he plays in his new film, The Humbling, and his own humbling moments with Shakespeare in stage and other performances.
The film is based on a novel of the same name by Philip Roth, and is directed…
In the video below, Oscar winner Al Pacino talks with Deadline’s Dominic Patten about finding and making The Humbling, his latest film. It’s based on a Philip Roth novel about an aging, suicidal actor (finally a part he can relate to, Pacino joked). The novel is highly regarded, but turning it into a movie meant…
An eight-time Oscar nominee—and winner for Scent of a Woman—two-time Emmy victor and five time Golden Globe winner, Al Pacino is not a legend who rests on his laurels. The star of such iconic films as The Godfather, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, And Justice for All and so many others impossible to list took…
Quite often, it’s the comedic actors who go out on a limb and play a variation of themselves, mostly through a satirical lens.  The James Franco-Seth Rogen gang had a blast showing us what happens when you mix pot with the apocalypse in This Is The End, while Albert Brooks was a fish-out-of-water in India in his…
At 74, Al Pacino isn’t just getting warmed up, he’s on a streak.  He had two dramas this fall: Manglehorn, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival, in which he plays a small-town Texan locksmith, and Barry Levinson’s The Humbling, in which he portrays an aged actor who has a quirky romance (which is playing at the Aw…
After rousing reactions in Venice and Toronto elevated The Humbling above its stealth fest title origins, the newly reconfigured Millennium Entertainment has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights to the Barry Levinson-directed adaptation of the Philip Roth novel that stars Al Pacino. Millennium will launch the…
EXCLUSIVE: Al Pacino headed over to Toronto after a whirlwind stint in Venice where he had two films to promote: The Humbling and Manglehorn. Both are also on their way to Canada where Pacino is being honored this evening. Directed by Barry Levinson, The Humbling surprised folks at its Sala Grande premiere here on the…
It’s Al Pacino day here on the Lido. The actor is in town for two very different films, Barry Levinson’s out-of-competition The Humbling and David Gordon Green’s competition entry Manglehorn. Pacino stars in the former as an aging theater actor at a crossroads who has an affair with Greta Gerwig’s younger woman. It’s…
