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With many productions halted due to COVID-19 and the 2021 release schedule greatly in need of product, Warner Bros has shifted a slew of theatrical release dates. Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is currently stalled in London, will no longer open on June 25, 2021 next summer, but rather in the first weekend of October…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sopranos stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa, who respectively played Christopher Moltisanti and Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri, will host the new podcast Talking Sopranos which is dropping this April on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and other podcast platforms. This podcast will follow The Sopranos series…

"It’s funny, it never occurred to me that I sort of was a gangster movie specialist," two-time Emmy winner Bob Shaw says. That being said, the production designer certainly has the credentials. Known for his work on Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, and such critically acclaimed series as The Sopranos and Boar…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Tony-winning actor Leslie Odom Jr. for a starring role in The Many Saints Of Newark, the prequel film to David Chase’s iconic HBO series The Sopranos. He joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini, the…

UPDATED with official title: New Line’s Sopranos prequel feature now officially titled The Many Saints of Newark will hit theaters on September 25, 2020, the studio said. It hails from The Sopranos series creator David Chase who is co-producing and writing with Lawrence Konner. The pic, directed by Alan Taylor, stars…

EXCLUSIVE: John Magaro has been cast in New Line’s The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, reteaming him with David Chase after he starred in Chase’s 2012 movie Not Fade Away. As with the other cast for Saints there’s no word on who Magaro is playing, but he joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray…

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta is negotiating to join the cast of The Many Saints Of Newark, The Sopranos prequel film that New Line will put into production by spring. He joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Michael Gandolfini, latter of whom will play the Tony Soprano role…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sopranos creator David Chase has found his Tony Soprano. Michael Gandolfini has been set to play the future New Jersey organized crime family boss in The Many Saints of Newark, the feature prequel to Chase’s groundbreaking TV series The Sopranos that Alan Taylor is directing for New Line. He is the son…

Count Corey Stoll and Billy Magnussen in for New Line’s Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. They join Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal and Vera Farmiga. Except for Nivola playing Dickie Montisanti, most of these roles are being kept secret. Magnussen is set, and Stoll is still in final talks. The HBO…

Vera Farmiga and Jon Bernthal are in final negotiations for New Line's The Sopranos prequel feature The Many Saints of Newark, which is the working title. They join Alessandro Nivola in the ensemble drama. Farmiga and Bernthal’s characters aren’t being disclosed. Some of the beloved characters from the Emmy-winning…

EXCLUSIVE: It's official. Tony Soprano lives on! In the week that The Sopranos celebrates the 20th anniversary of the launch of the groundbreaking HBO series, David Chase has given Deadline a bit of clarity on the prequel feature film The Many Saints of Newark that he wrote with Sopranos alum Lawrence Konner. Chase…

Think that Sopranos prequel doesn’t have a director yet? Fuggedaboutit. Alan Taylor, who helmed multiple episodes of the original HBO series along with Game of Thrones and the feature sequels Thor: The Dark World and Terminator: Genisys, has landed the gig. As Deadline reported exclusively in March, New Line bought a…