Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen want Roman Polanski released from a Swiss Jail.
The two directors and more than 100 other filmmakers and actors have signed a petition voicing their objection to Polanski's arrest on 32-year-old charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, according to E! News.
News: Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland
Zurich authorities took the 76-year-old Oscar-winning director of The Pianist into custody Saturday. Polanksi, who also directed Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with the underage girl. The Swiss Justice Ministry...
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Michael Pitt
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 ...
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Martin Scorsese by Kevin Mazur/ WireImage.com
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,...
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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
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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.
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Jenna Elfman by Eric Charbonneau/ WireImage.com
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.
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"Are you feeling the feeling that I'm feeling?" I hope so, because I'm enjoying this show so much that I might turn into Mel II. When Bret and Jemaine finished singing those lyrics, Mel and Murray were two of three people clapping in the audience. Saturday Night Live's Will Forte played Ben, a dry cleaner and semiprofessional actor whom the duo asks to tell Murray that he's from a record company and to give him a rejection call to boost his spirits about the direction of the band. We all need a little rejection to feel better, right?When a brainstorming session to elicit a larger audience is going slowly, and Bret's idea to hand out free pencils at each gig gets nixed, the first song of the evening was presented in a video scrapbook to "Cheer Up Murray." The well-meaning guys sang about Murray's helluva good English bulldog, his wife having met someone on the Net, and that his friends are Bret, Jemaine and Greg. (Have we heard about Greg before?) Forte was perfectly cast as he match...
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Taxi Driver box art courtesy Sony Pictures
DVD Tuesday Taxi Driver Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese and New York Citys Heart of DarknessDid the world really need a new collectors edition of Taxi Driver 1976 Probably not but its a great excuse as though one were needed to recommend a great film And on top of Taxi Drivers intrinsic merits watching it again was a fascinating reminder of how much New York City has changed since the mid-1970s Check out Columbus Circle sans the massive glass slabs of the Time Warner Center visit the now-vanished Bellmore Cafeteria and witness the grunginess of Central Parks unrefurbished Maine Monument and the sheer sleazy glory of Times Square before Disney scrubbed the life out of it Theres a shocker in every scene and thats before Travis Bickle Robert De Niro starts his personal cleanup campaign I remember that New York vividly and seeing Taxi Driver brings it all backFor anyone who doesnt know the plot it chronicles the mental disintegration of insomniac
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Per Variety, Martin Scorsese is looking to direct The Departed's Leonardo DiCaprio in a film adaptation of Long Island stockbroker Jordan Belfort's tell-all autobiography The Wolf of Wall Street.... Fire up the CGI! 300 helmer Zack Snyder is reteaming with Warner Bros. on the zombie action-thriller Army of the Dead.... Rose McGowan, star of the upcoming Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse (which recently eeked out an R rating), will play B-movie staple Susan Cabot in the biopic Black Oasis.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkQuestion I remember seeing a Zorro movie probably in the late 70s or early 80s that featured a song I remember distinctly I havent been able to find the title but I believe Zorros alter ego was either the king or some other aristocrat The song lyrics are something like He used to be the kingFa la la laZorros back Please help me get this question answered so I can get this song out of my head Everett FlickChick The movie was a Spanish version of Zorro made in 1975 with French actor Alain Delon as The Fox The song is Zorro Is Back written by Maurizio and Guido De Angelis and someone called S Duncan Smith which sounds like a pseudonym but could be for real I have no idea The De Angelises who contributed to a number of European movie soundtracks in the 1970s also recorded under the name Oliver Onions named after a 19th-century
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