Tag: The Irishman

  • Movie Trailers This Week: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917’ and More

    Movie Trailers This Week: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917’ and More

    Martin Scorsese’s latest film, The Irishman, stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Anna Paquin and is set for a Netflix release. Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden star in Sam Mendes’s 1917.Lupita Nyong’o’s Little Monsters released a new red band trailer, while Queen & Slim released its first full-length trailer, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Indya…

  • ‘The Irishman’ First Trailer: Martin Scorsese Unites De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci in Gangster Epic

    ‘The Irishman’ First Trailer: Martin Scorsese Unites De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci in Gangster Epic

    After debuting a first look at Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” earlier this week, Netflix has unveiled the sprawling teaser trailer for the highly anticipated gangster epic. “The Irishman,” based on Charles Brandt’s novel “I Heard You Paint Houses,” reunites Scorsese with his former muse Robert De Niro and his “Goodfellas” Oscar winner Joe Pesci. The…

  • ‘The Irishman’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Creates A New Mob Offer You Can’t Refuse

    ‘The Irishman’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Creates A New Mob Offer You Can’t Refuse

    Martin Scorsese‘s newest passion project is finally here: “The Irishman.” The film covers the real story of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a labor union leader and infamous mafia hitman of the 1940s. Much of Sheeran’s notoriety today comes from a death-bed confession, where he claimed that he had murdered fellow union leader Jimmy Hoffa. The…

  • Robert De Niro Negotiating To Re-Team With Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’

    Robert De Niro Negotiating To Re-Team With Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’

    Exclusive: As Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese ready their splashy reunion mob drama The Irishman to world premiere at the New York Film Festival before Netflix releases its this fall, the actor and director are getting closer to jumping right back in with the Imperative Entertainment-produced Paramount drama Killers of the Flower Moon.…

  • Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ to Open New York Film Festival

    Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ to Open New York Film Festival

    “The Irishman” will, it turns out, be ready in time to world premiere as the opening night film of the 57th New York Film Festival.Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating crime drama, which relies on special effects to “de-age” stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, has long eyed the coveted slot. After all, Scorsese is perhaps the…

  • Anna Paquin: ‘My Oscar? It’s not the highlight of my career’

    Anna Paquin: ‘My Oscar? It’s not the highlight of my career’

    The actor on Megan Rapinoe, aggressive relaxation, and the key to The Piano’s successBorn in Canada, Anna Paquin, 37, was raised in New Zealand. Aged nine, she was cast in Jane Campion’s 1993 film The Piano, and won an Oscar for her performance. Between 2008 and 2014 she starred in the HBO series True Blood…

  • ‘Cats’ Trailer: Genius Marketing or Hot Mess? — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast

    ‘Cats’ Trailer: Genius Marketing or Hot Mess? — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast

    As the fall movie season approaches, some of the bigger releases around the corner start to reveal themselves in small doses. Sometimes, that means mysterious sneak peeks at movies loaded with intrigue, like James Gray’s sci-fi drama “Ad Astra.” And sometimes it means “Cats.”The internet went wild this week in response to the first glimpse…

  • ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Movie Goes to Paramount

    ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Movie Goes to Paramount

    For most of the 2010s, Paramount has been in the Martin Scorsese business. The studio distributed Scorsese’s films Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence before balking at the price tag of The Irishman (Netflix scooped that one up and will release it later this year). But Paramount wants to finish out…

  • Streaming: Scorsese’s freewheeling Dylan doc

    Streaming: Scorsese’s freewheeling Dylan doc

    Martin Scorsese is in playful mode with Rolling Thunder Revue, an intimate portrait of a 1970s Bob Dylan tourIn a year that has seen Steven Spielberg become the poster boy for anti-Netflix scepticism, his old peer Martin Scorsese is fully embracing the possibilities. In the autumn, his much-hyped, big-budget gangster film The Irishman will be…

  • Oscars 2020: Best Director Predictions

    Oscars 2020: Best Director Predictions

    It’s still early days, as we head into Cannes, which mainly delivers contenders for the newly dubbed Best International Feature Film. That said, the Academy’s director’s branch, packed with overseas voters, tends to be the most receptive to non-American auteurs. Never underestimate Quentin Tarantino, who’s back after a decade in Cannes Competition with “Once Upon…