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  • Birth Place: Queens, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/17/1942, Scorpio
  • Profession: Director; screenwriter; producer; actor
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Although this iconic auteur is routinely hailed as one of the most influential directors of his generation, his jam-packed trophy case (which includes two Golden Globes, a Palm d'Or from Cannes and two New York... read more
  • Pilot News: Michael Pitt Walks Boardwalk for HBO and Scorsese | Today's News: Our Take | 1/2/2009

    Dawson's Creek alum Michael Pitt is in final talks to star opposite Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire, an HBO drama pilot to be directed by Martin Scorsese and penned by Terence Winter (The Sopranos), according to the Hollywood Reporter.

    Based on a book by Nelson Johnson, Boardwalk Empire revolves around Nucky Johnson (Buscemi), the head of an Atlantic City liquor distribution ring at the onset of Prohibition, and Jimmy Darmody (Pitt), his protégé.

    In addition to his run as Dawson's Creek Henry ... read more 10 Comments

  • Scorsese in Negotiations to Direct HBO Pilot | Today's News: Our Take | 8/8/2008
    Martin Scorsese may take a stroll on the boardwalk to the small-screen.The Oscar winner is in talks to direct the pilot of the upcoming HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, The Hollywood Reporter reports.Already an executive producer on the show, which details the 1920s origins of Atlantic City, Scorsese would record his first credit for drama series directing should he take hold of the reins. The 65-year-old has been a frontrunner to helm the lead-off episode since HBO gave the series the go-ahead last month; however, Scorsese’s film responsibilities may deter his TV plans.The director is currently in post-production on Shutter Island, which stars his frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio and Michelle Williams.Boardwalk Empire is based on the Nelson Johnson novel of the same name and will work off a Terence Winter-penned script. Mark Wahlberg, whom Scorsese directed in The Departed, will executive produce the project as well.Scorsese, who won his first Oscar for The Departed in 2007,... read more
  • Is Scorsese a Sellout? And More Questions... | Movie News | 12/12/2007
    Martin Scorsese sells out by directing commercials And more movie questionsQuestion Ive heard that Martin Scorsese is doing some kind of liquor commercial overseas but I cant believe it I never thought he would sell out that way or that he needed money so badly Is it true Barbara FlickChick It is true but fortunately Martin Scorseses foray into advertising is nothing like the sorry spectacle of Orson Welles shilling for the wines of Paul Masson Freixenet the Spanish maker of sparkling wines commissioned Scorsese to make a short film that subtly plugged their Carta Nevada Reserva The result the nineminute Key to Reserva part mockumentary and part stunning homage to Alfred Hitchcock It opens with Scorsese whos well known for his work in film preservation explaining to a documentary filmmaker that hes discovered three and a half pages of the script for an unmade Hitchcock thriller Preserving a film that was made is one thing read more be the first to leave a comment
  • Megan Fox's Supernatural Body and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 10/23/2007
    Transformers' Megan Fox is a cheerleader with a perfect life who becomes possessed and begins killing local lads in Jennifer's Body, a thriller fancied as Heathers meets Beetlejuice.... Also per the Reporter, Hidden Palms' Amber Heard is a sexually promiscuous woman in 1980s L.A. in The Informers, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.... Julia Stiles stars opposite Paddy Considine and Scott Speedman in the thriller Cry of the Owl..... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam next year for Shutter Island, an adaptation of the Denis Lehane novel about a U.S. Marshal investigating an heiress' vanishing.... Toby Wilkins (Splinter) will direct The Grudge 3. read more
  • Jenna Elfman One of Six Wives, More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 9/27/2007
    Jenna "This Is My Day" Elfman is Tim Allen's second (... and fourth) wife in the indie The Six Wives of Henry LeFay.... Also per the Reporter, Robert Redford is attached to direct Against All Enemies, an adaptation of Richard A. Clarke's memoir about the Bush admin's handling of the Al Qaeda threat pre-9/11.... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese plans to direct an authorized documentary about George Harrison, the Beatle felled by lung cancer in 2001.... A June 26, 2009, release has been earmarked for Transformers 2, with Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf expected to return. read more

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