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The imminent multimedia opening of The Irishman is expected to defy all precedents, embracing a veritable blitzkrieg of awards screenings, streamer promotions, celebrity celebrations, podcasts and even a monthlong run at a Broadway theater. At three-and-a-half hours, The Irishman will be both ubiquitous and, on some…

With a record $96 million at the domestic boxoffice and $248 million worldwide, Warner Bros. Joker clearly triumphed in theaters this weekend, but how did it do with Oscar voters?  In the kind of early-October release slot the studio has used successfully to launch such boxoffice and awards magnets as A Star Is Born, A…

Netflix’s The Irishman is headed to Broadway. No, not some musical version or star-studded stage play, but the actual Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, The Irishman will screen at the Shubert Organization’s historic Belasco Theatre, mimicking the standard…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

Martin Scorsese’s dismissal of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Thursday has shown legs into Friday, with the Irishman director’s comments drawing responses from James Gunn and other Marvel partisans. "I don't see them. I tried, you know? But that's not cinema," Scorsese told Empire magazine about the Marvel movies…

(UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM ROBERT DE NIRO’S ATTORNEY) Less than two months after Robert De Niro and his Canal Productions took the Oscar winner's former executive assistant to court for $6 million over allegedly embezzling company funds and doing a whole lot of nothing but Netflix on the job, Graham Chase Robinson…

UPDATED at 12:15AM PT with reactions and detail. In The Irishman, mobbed-up characters in need of protection talk about needing "bodies" – shorthand slang for bodyguards – to watch their backs. Plenty of bodies patrolled Friday’s after-party for director Martin Scorsese’s Netflix release, which had a high-energy world…

Ever since it came into our cinematic consciousness there has been much talk and a whole lotta anticipation for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the decades-spanning mob crime epic reuniting Scorsese with Goodfellas and Casino stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and giving Al Pacino his surprisingly first-ever…

Netflix’s The Irishman drew largely upbeat reactions after a press screening before Friday night’s premiere at the New York Film Festival. While official reviews remained under embargo, many critics took to Twitter to share positive initial impressions of Martin Scorsese’s film, which stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci…

Robert De Niro will travel to this year's BFI London Film Festival for a talk in which he will discuss his career including his latest film, The Irishman, which has its international premiere as the closing film of this year's festival on October 13. The ‘in conversation’ event will take place on October 11 at the…

With Emmy noise and streamer jokes now behind us, Hollywood's dwindling movie fraternity is left to ponder the bemusing lessons of Downton Abbey. First, the numbers: Though Downton is basically structured like an older-skewing streamer movie, its $31 million box office take blew it past a re-cycled Rambo and a Brad…

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this…