They're both Academy Award-winning actors. They're both Italian-American New Yorkers. And they're always compared. But for the first time in history, screen legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro did their first television interview together with Brian Williams on the Today show to promote their new movie Righteous Kill. Check out what the two had to say (because you know this will never happen again).
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50 Cent, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in Righteous Kill courtesy 20th Centry Fox
Can you believe Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are teaming up for a new movie? But wait, they aren’t the only big names in this new cop-suspense-thriller, Righteous Kill. The film also stars none other than rapper/actor 50 Cent! How’s that for a casting job? The jury is still out on our sentiments about this film, so this one is gonna have to be your call.Watch it now! | More online videos
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Per Variety, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, whose only previous cinematic scene-sharing was in 1995's Heat, are cops tracking a serial slayer in Righteous Kill.... Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman have come on board Phoebe in Wonderland, in which a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) tries to tame a rebellious girl (Elle Fanning).... Jason Bateman will produce and star in The Remarkable Fellows, a buddy comedy based on an outline from the Arrested alum, and concerning two brothers who exact revenge for other people.... Frank E. Flowers (Haven) is writing, with eye to direct, a remake of 1981's Taps.... Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in the biopic Bronte.
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I love talking about movies but Ive never been able to organize movie-night get-togethers So this is the next best thing On Tuesdays Im going to spotlight a DVD and suggest some virtual-discussion startersWe all know the drill Sequels are never as good as the originals And its true except when it isnt Thats why I devoted a whole chapter of my book Movie Lust Recommended Viewing for Every Mood Moment and Reason over to remakes that defy conventional wisdom including Jonathan Demmes 2004 version of The Manchurian Candidate 1962 What Price Hollywood 1932 and the musical remake A Star is Born 1954 and Brian DePalmas Scarface which updated Howard Hawks 1932 gangster drama Scarface The Shame of a Nation inspired by the rise and fall of Al Capone to then-contemporary MiamiScarface is newly available in a Platinum Edition whose additional features lean heavily to the jokey reflecting the fact that over the course of some two decades the film has gone
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler, James Gandolfini and Robert Iler, The Sopranos
Question: I don't know why the media persists in comparing the ratings between The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives! Hello! Not everyone in the country has HBO, or even cable, in their homes! How can the media dream up this "competition" when the audiences aren't the same?
Answer: Of course, you're right, but it's still a story. Maybe not so much the actual numbers, which are interesting if you compare Sopranos with its past performance rather than with its competition. Because in reality, HBO's primary competition is with its past success, and by that measure, The Sopranos has fallen a bit. Although still hefty by cable standards, The Sopranos is and always has been a special case, being HBO's breakthrough breakout hit. All of this leads to natural speculation and examination about whether the show took too long in coming back to recapture its peak audience, whether people are watching HBO differently (on multinight replays or On Demand), whether HBO has lost some of its pop-culture
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Barbra Streisand is prepping a(nother) farewell tour to hit venues this fall, the New York Post reports. A source tells the Post that Babs is planning 20 shows performed "in the round," for which she will net $2 million per. As such, it's said the best tix will go for $1,500 a pop — serious (ever)green.... Al Pacino will star as King Herod in a monthlong Los Angeles staging of Salome, opening April 14 at the Wadsworth Theatre. Tickets go on sale March 26 for presumably less than $1,500 each.
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The likes of Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr. are scheduled to appear on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio this spring — perhaps signifying that the series is back to profiling, you know, actual actors.... Tonight at 7 pm/ET, TV Guide Channel premieres Idol Tonight, a live preshow airing before each of this season's remaining American Idol telecasts.... Sci Fi Channel presents V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask, an inside look at the making of Natalie "I'll Kill Your Dog for Fun" Portman's new film, on March 16 at 11 pm.
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Question: I know sequels and remakes don't usually get nominated for Oscars, but has anyone other than Al Pacino ever been nominated for playing the same character in different movies? He was nominated for his portrayal of Michael Corleone in both The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), which was a big exception to the sequel stigma. My friends and I were talking about it and we're all stumped.
Answer: Three other actors have also been honored twice for the same role: Bing Crosby was nominated for playing Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Peter O'Toole was nominated for playing King Hen
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Man, did I miss these guys last week! You hear me, NBC? No more 90-minute Biggest Loser episodes, no yanking the show for sweeps shenanigans, just give me my Office guffaws the way I like 'em: straight up and worth watching at least twice in a row. On the annual "perfect storm" of paperwork due dates, boss man Michael looks to set a new world record for procrastination — which, I hate to inform him, he's got absolutely no shot at so long as there's still blood pumping through my slacker veins. Yes, a field trip to the dojo is indeed an impressive start, grasshopper, but you still have much to learn in the ways of putting things off. (I wish I had a gong right about now to really punctuate that sentence. Ooh, instead of finishing this Watercooler, I'm gonna go see if I can't find one online.... And there you have your first lesson.) As usual, it's the smallest of touches that bring the entire Office to hilarious life — Jim's giddy when-you're-a-Jet rumble snaps, Dwi
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Clay-animated family pic Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit topped the weekend box office with a decent $16.1 million. After two weekends at No. 1, Jodie Foster's Flightplan slid to No. 2 with $10.8 million, followed by the Cameron Diaz-Toni Collette chick flick, In Her Shoes (No. 3 with $10 million); the Al Pacino-Matthew McConaughey man movie, Two for the Money (No. 4 with $8.4 million), and the Boris Kodjoe-Idris Elba, um, unisex musical (yeah, that's it), The Gospel (No. 5 with $8 million).
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