Tag: The Godfather
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‘The Offer’: Everything to Know About the ‘Godfather’ Paramount+ Drama
Paramount+ is about to make you an offer you can’t refuse. The streaming service announced back in 2020 that, along with their rebranding from CBS All Access to Paramount, that they would be bringing audiences a limited series about the making of “The Godfather” titled “The Offer.” The move was met with some raised eyebrows…
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The Godfather Trilogy Will Drop On Paramount+ On The Same Day As The Limited Series The Offer
By now you’ve surely seen some trailers and stills from “The Offer,” an upcoming Paramount+ limited series depicting the frankly insane behind-the-scenes drama that went on while “The Godfather” was being made. Miles Teller, Juno Temple, Matthew Goode, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan Fogler are starring in the series which debuts April 28, 2022, on Paramount+, and they’ve just…
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The Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Red Rocket,’ ‘The Godfather’ on 4K
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time,…
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The Real-Life Mobster Who Inspired The Sopranos
Landmark American crime drama “The Sopranos” is renowned for its authenticity. The story of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) tackling his mental health issues while balancing family life and his duties as a mob boss made for some of the most gripping television of all time. Often thought to be one of the greatest TV shows…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Director Reveals ‘Therapy Session’ Held for Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire
There has been media debate whether “Spider-Man: No Way Home” could get a best picture Oscar nomination, since voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have been reluctant to celebrate movies in that genre. But describing this as a superhero movie is like saying “The Godfather” is a gangster film. It Is,…
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The 15 Best Marlon Brando Movies Ranked
Widely considered to be one of — if not the — greatest actors of all time, Marlon Brando’s career spanned more than six decades and left an indelible impact on cinema. Across the nearly 50 films he made, Brando was nominated for eight Oscars and won two, first in 1955 for “On the Waterfront” and…
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Will ‘Venom’ Be the Next Hollywood Film With China Trouble After ‘The Eternals,’ ’Shang-Chi’ and ‘Black Widow’?
Yet another week has passed without any news of a release date for Sony’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which debuted stateside Oct. 1.In China, rumors have quietly circulated that it may be due to two ‘anti-China’ interviews that star Tom Hardy gave at Cannes back in 2012 while promoting the film “Lawless.”Asked at the…
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Why Francis Ford Coppola Was Nearly Fired During The Godfather’s Production
While Mario Puzo’s book “The Godfather” isn’t usually mentioned in the canon of the Great American Novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation is unquestionably one of the Great American Movies. In the 10th-anniversary edition of the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movies list, “The Godfather” was second only to “Citizen Kane.” However, Coppola’s reputation as the premier auteur of…
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Inside the Violent Shootout Scene in ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ (Exclusive)
Spoiler Warning: This story discusses a major sequence in “The Many Saints of Newark,” currently playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.Part of the enduring appeal of “The Sopranos” was how the HBO series operated in counterpoint to decades of organized crime myth-making by Hollywood, from Warner Bros. gangster pictures of the 1930s up…
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The 10 Biggest Takeaways From Variety’s Virtual Truth Seekers Summit
From RZA to Jon Favreau, artists, filmmakers, journalists and activists gathered on Aug. 26 for Variety‘s inaugural Truth Seekers Summit, in partnership with Rolling Stone and presented by Showtime Documentary Films.The summit explored the art of documentary and investigative storytelling. Here are 10 takeaways from the two-day event.RZA Was Inspired By Robert De Niro In…