John Woo is giving his take on superhero movies and making it clear he’s not in favor of the films coming out of Marvel and DC Studios.
02.11.2023 - 17:03 / variety.com
Anna Tingley Martin Scorsese and Julia Louis-Dreyfus touched on the profound possibilities and perils of modern technology in their speeches at the 2023 WSJ Innovator Awards on Wednesday night. During his acceptance speech for the Film Innovator Award, Scorsese recounted the first time he used a Steadicam while shooting his 1980 sports drama “Raging Bull.” “At this point it’s brand new,” he says about the camera stabilizer mount which was first introduced in 1975. “I got in the ring and De Niro’s in there and I looked at the rushes and I realized I actually foolishly expected the tools to do the work,” he said.
“It meant nothing. I had to redirect the scene, the tool itself was not gonna give me something new.” That initial failure led Scorsese to arguably one of the most memorable scenes in his directing career: The long take in “Goodfellas,” in which the camera goes from the street into the Copocabana. “That’s where I learned how to use the tool.” “So for me,” Scorsese continued, “the technology of today is as profound a change as the Industrial Revolution.
We have no idea how it’s going to effect all of us, but with these tools, it creates possibilities we’d never dream of. These tools create a whole new form of moviemaking, of cinema. But it has to come from the artist, it has to come from the person, it has to come from us.
John Woo is giving his take on superhero movies and making it clear he’s not in favor of the films coming out of Marvel and DC Studios.
EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be the first big bidding war over a TV pitch after the double Hollywood strikes, multiple buyers are circling Cape Fear, a drama series re-imagining of the classic Universal thrillers, sources tell Deadline. In their first ever TV collaboration, Oscar winners Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are executive producing the project, from creator, executive producer and showrunner Nick Antosca (The Act), Amblin Television and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Joni Mitchell and Leonardo DiCaprio were among those who gathered to celebrate the life and music of the late The Band guitarist and singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson last night (15 November).The memorial, held at Robertson’s longtime Los Angeles studio home The Village, included a moving tribute from director Martin Scorsese and performances of Robertson’s music from Jackson Browne, Citizen Cope, Angela McCluskey and others.Robertson died after a long illness on 9 August, aged 80.Scorsese and Robertson first met while making The Band’s legendary concert film The Last Waltz. “I guess when all is said and done it was a kind of folie à deux,” said Scorsese in his eulogy.
Timothée Chalamet hosted Saturday Night Live last night and in one skit, impersonated legendary director Martin Scorsese.The actor, who also recently appeared in a Scorsese-directed perfume ad, also shouted out Scorsese’s recent film, Killers of the Flower Moon. In his opening monologue, he joked: “when you get that call that Martin Scorsese wants to direct you, the first think you think is, ‘Man, I really hope it’s a perfume commercial!”In another skit, it sees a host of the SNL cast portray famous people who could have read Britney Spear’s new memoir, The Woman in Me.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese‘s daughter Francesca has become a viral TikTok star over the last few months thanks to her humorous videos featuring her Oscar-winning father. One such video, titled “The Muse,” garnered a lot of attention in October after it earned a response from “Avengers” co-director Joe Russo. In Francesca’s TikTok, Martin Scorsese playfully gives directing notes to her dog, Oscar.
There isn’t a director-editor relationship in Hollywood more fruitful than Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker. The pair have worked on every single one of Scorsese’s films since 1980’s “Raging Bull,” and first worked together on Scorsese’s 1967 debut, “Who’s That Knocking On My Door?” That’s twenty one movies in all, with Schoonmaker winning Oscars for Best Editing for three of them: “Raging Bull,” “The Aviator,” and “The Departed.” READ MORE: ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Review: Lily Gladstone Is Devastating In Martin Scorsese’s Indigenous Epic [Cannes] But despite Schoonmaker’s three Oscar wins, a record for female editors, Scorsese only has one: for Best Director on “The Departed.” And as far as his longtime editor is concerned, he deserves many more than that.
Brendan Fraser‘s first role since winning Best Actor at the 2023 Academy Awards has been met with mixed reviews. Director Martin Scorsese doesn’t see eye-to-eye with his critics, though.
the movie – which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone – is a Western crime drama based on real events, set in 1920s Oklahoma, about the murders of a series of Osage Nation members after oil was produced on tribal land. Fraser plays attorney W. S.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese recently said at a press conference (via LADbible) that Brendan Fraser is “perfect” in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The actor, who won the Oscar this year for his performance in “The Whale,” has been panned by many fans since “Flower Moon” opened in the theaters, with viewers claiming his over-the-top acting feels largely out of place in the film. Fraser has a brief supporting turn as W. S.
Martin Scorsese has heaped praise on Brendan Fraser following heavy online criticism of his performance in Killers Of The Flower Moon.The recently released film – which is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone – is based on a non-fiction book of the same name published in 2017. It tells the true story a series of murders of Osage Native Americans over the rights for the oil under their land in Oklahoma.Fraser, who plays lawyer W.S.
Kylie Jenner has Timothee Chalamet by her side on her big night!
Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet are hitting the red carpet…separately.
Several months ago, we got our first peek at the Chanel campaign ad that would feature Timothée Chalamet. Obviously, he’s a big star and that’s a huge “get” for Chanel.
It’s difficult to say there’s really any silver lining to the ongoing SAG strike. However, if there is something we can point to as a positive by-product (other than the hopeful fair resolution to the labor disagreement), it’s the fact that Martin Scorsese has been the sole person out there promoting “Killers of the Flower Moon.” That means we’ve gotten interview after interview with the legendary filmmaker, allowing him to cover just about ever angle of his new film, as well as giving a bit of retrospective commentary on his career.
Joe Russo, the Avengers: Endgame co-director, is playfully taking a job at Martin Scorsese after the director Killers of the Flower Moon director took a dig at Marvel films.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Avengers” filmmaker Joe Russo has caused quite a stir on social media for posting a response to a recent TikTok featuring Martin Scorsese. The Oscar winner’s daughter, Francesca, posted a TikTok this month in which Scorsese playfully directs his dog, Oscar. Russo responded by posting a video in which he tells Scorsese they share the same muse.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Funny Birds,” an heartwarming comedy-drama starring Andrea Riseborough, Catherine Deneuve and Morgan Saylor, has sold in key territories in the run up to the AFM. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the movie is directed by Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul.
Martin Scorsese is dishing on the actors he hasn’t worked with, but would have liked to.
Addie Morfoot Contributor Sin, forgiveness, the glamour of evil, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlon Brando, terrible preview screenings for “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro‘s silence and, of course, “Killers of the Flower Moon” were all topics of conversation during Montclair Film Festival’s Filmmaker Tribute to Martin Scorsese on October 27 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The director, who has received 14 Oscar nominations, was in the Garden State for the festival’s annual “An Evening With Stephen Colbert” fundraiser. Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the event, which is currently in its 12th year.
Martin Scorsese has shared a new list of films for fans that are ‘companion pieces’ to his own films.Yesterday (October 26), Scorsese revealed that he joined Letterboxd, a film social media site that encourages users to log and review films they’ve seen.Since joining, Scorsese has logged 69 films and has curated a list of classic film watches that users can pair with his own films.“I love the idea of putting different films together into one program. I grew up seeing double features, programs in repertory houses, evenings of avant-garde films in storefront theatres,” Scorsese wrote in his Companion Films list introduction.He continued: “You always learn something, see something in a new light, because every movie is in conversation with every other movie. The greater the difference between the pictures, the better.”“Over the years, I’ve been asked to pair my own pictures with older films by other people that have inspired them.