Martin Scorsese Says WB Execs Were ‘Very Sad’ He Refused to Make ‘The Departed’ a Franchise, Spent His Own $500K to Finish ‘Aviator’ After Studios Cut Funding: ‘Extremely Mean’

Air has been set for a special honor at next month’s Gotham Awards.

Martin Scorsese has said the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer was a “wonderful” thing for cinema.The director discussed the “Barbenheimer” phenomena during an interview with the Hindustan Times, saying that it offered “hope” for a different kind of film landscape.“I do think that combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special,” Scorsese said. “It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese has not seen Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” or Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” but that didn’t stop him from celebrating the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon during a recent interview with the Hindustan Times. Scorsese himself has ties to “Barbie,” as it stars and was produced by his “Wolf of Wall Street” breakout Margot Robbie and shot by his longtime cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. The latter filmed “Barbie” after wrapping up work on Scorsese’s own “Killers of the Flower Moon.” “I do think that the combination of ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ was something special,” Scorsese said.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It took about 100 days to shoot “Killers of the Flower Moon,” according to director Martin Scorsese and producer Daniel Lupi. That came after an extensive script rewrite, multiple interruptions due to COVID-19 and doing everything they could to ensure justice was done to the story.

Martin Scorcese has featured again on his daughter Francesca’s TikTok account, this time revealing the exact moment he realised The King Of Comedy was deemed unsuccessful.READ MORE: Martin Scorsese almost quit Hollywood after ‘Gangs Of New York’The TikTok video shows Scorcese trying to guess various Gen-Z slang. When quizzed on the phrase “slept on” his daughter helped him out by using it in a sentence, saying, “The King Of Comedy was slept on.”She was referring to the 1982 movie starring Robert De Niro, in which a sociopathic stand-up comedian carries out a series of disturbing acts to try and achieve fame and success.Scorcese agreed with his daughter and said, “People hated it when it came out.”Despite a generally positive reception from critics, the movie made a significant loss at the box office, making just $2.5million from a budget of almost $20million.However it was not a wholly unsuccessful venture, as Scorcese did receive a nomination for the BAFTA award for Best Direction at the 1984 ceremony, losing out to Bill Forsyth for Local Hero.Having clearly not forgotten the criticism, Scorcese then recalled the precise moment he knew that it was “the flop of the year.” He said, “That’s what it was called on Entertainment Tonight, New Year’s Eve ’83-’84.”Reflecting on making the movie in a previous interview with Vanity Fair from 2015, Scorsese said, “[The King of Comedy] is about a certain aspect of our culture, and also about not taking yourself too seriously, even though I do.

CAA had been silent all day Wednesday since Julia Ormond named the uber-agency and Disney in her sexual battery lawsuit against the imprisoned Harvey Weinstein, but tonight the Bryan Lourd-led company is calling its inclusion in the calling the action “baseless,”

As much as “Taxi Driver” is an incredible acheivement and one of the greatest American films in history, it’s also just as influential as a piece of pop culture. The name Travis Bickle is used by people who probably haven’t even seen “Taxi Driver” but can point out someone who embodies that character and archetype.

The Graham Norton Show on Friday evenings, and during an event last year to promote his book Forever Home, Norton said that disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein proved to be his “least favourite” guest to appear on his series.“I often talk around who my least favourite guest was, but now, someone reminded me, I have a really good answer to this now. It’s Harvey Weinstein,” he revealed (via Evening Standard).“He’s in jail, so he gets the prize for the worst guest ever,” Norton added, recalling how Weinstein “asked for his email” and wanted to be on the show, before eventually landing a spot on a 2015 episode.“He emailed me something very nice, a complimentary thing,” Norton explained.

“Gangs of New York.”“I realized that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again,” Scorsese told GQ in a profile published last week.“If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop,” he said. “Because the results weren’t satisfying. It was at times extremely difficult, and I wouldn’t survive it.

told IndieWire Wednesday at the New York premiere of his new film “Killers of the Flower Moon” — the first of his films to get a full theatrical release since 2016’s “Silence.”“But also what they consider now ‘indie films.’ I don’t like that title,” continued the “Taxi Driver” director. “I think that categorizes, pigeonholes.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese came close to quitting Hollywood during a peak time in his career in the early 2000s. In a recent GQ interview, the director revealed working on 2002’s "Gangs of New York," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis, left him frustrated due to interference from disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. "I realized that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again," Scorsese told the outlet.

of nearly two decades—really loves to wear red. The hue has like the second annual Albie Awards in New York City, where Barroso turned up the heat in a red-hot halter top gown with a plunging neckline that gathered in an elegant twist.Luckily for Barroso, red happens to be the , having cropped up often in fall-winter 2023 collections from the likes of Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Prada, and Zadig & Voltaire.

George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney received support from so many of their celebrity friends at the Albies!

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films and Paramount‘s Martin Scorsese directed, Leonardo DiCaprio-starring Killers of the Flower Moon, landed on more tracking services today and is set for an opening around $24M when it goes wide on Oct. 20. Duly note, that new tracking service Quorum, which does six-week projections also had the same estimate two weeks ago.

Martin Scorsese has said he almost quit making movies after directing Gangs Of New York.The director, who worked on the movie with lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, locked horns with the 2002 film’s now disgraced producer, Harvey Weinstein, with whom Scorsese wrestled over the length and the budget of the film.“I realised that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again,” Scorsese told GQ. “If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop. Because the results weren’t satisfying.

Even though Martin Scorsese’s films end up getting major distribution with large studios, the filmmaker works primarily independently. He is no longer beholden to the traditional Hollywood studio system where executives have a say in the creative aspects of a film.

Any time Martin Scorsese makes a film, it’s a big event, and his crime drama, “Killer Of The Flower Moon,” has been at the top of our Most Anticipated Films of The Year list two years in a row (there was hope that it might arrive in 2022). Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone (“Certain Women”), it’s about a series of murders that took place in Omaha’s Osage Nation in the 1920s; essentially, the Osage Native Indians were getting rich off the oil they were legally entitled to, and this made a lot of racist white people incredibly unhappy, to say the least.

Martin Scorsese is opening up about a lot of things in a new profile piece for GQ magazine.

When you are a legendary filmmaker with a career that spans six decades, there are inevitably people who are going to argue about which films are best. In the discussion surrounding Martin Scorsese’s career, narrowing it down is difficult enough, with many people having an issue trying to pinpoint which of his crime thrillers are best, let alone which is his overall best film.

William Earl In a sprawling new profile with GQ, director Martin Scorsese discussed comic book and franchise culture, a topic which he has spoken out about at length in the past. When asked about those blockbusters, Scorsese said that their omnipresence could be negative to audiences who aren’t well-versed in other types of film. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” he said.