Martin Scorsese Set To Shoot Ancient Shiprecks Doc That Will Bring Him Back to His Sicilian Roots

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent France’s Les Films du Losange is taking international sales outside Italy on “Sicilian Letters” (“Iddu”), the hotly anticipated drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro – who was dubbed “the last godfather” – directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (“Sicilian Ghost Story”). “Sicilian Letters” pairs two top Italian actors — Elio Germano, who plays Messina (see first-look image above) and Toni Servillo (first-look image below) as his antagonist Catello, a shady secret services operative — working in tandem for the first time.

Greatness recognized greatness in a special moment Tuesday during Justin Timberlake‘s Madison Square Garden show.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season. The hotly anticipated second instalment of the Korean-language survival drama series is set to launch on Netflix by the end of the year.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Wim Wenders will be a special guest of Italy’s Cinema Ritrovato Festival dedicated to cinematic treasures of the past where a freshly restored copy of his “A Trick of the Light” (“Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky”), which pays tribute to forgotten pioneers of the moving image, will have its world premiere. Shot by Wenders with a group of students from the Munich Film Academy in 1995 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema, the film is about the origins of cinema and its German inventors: the Skladanowsky brothers who On Nov.

Refresh for latest…: Wednesday was yet another joyous day for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 as the sequel set opening benchmarks in new overseas releasing markets. The full offshore day was $29M (22% of the weekend), lifting the international box office cume to $203.3M in 42 markets, and global to $438.7M. The half a billion worldwide mark is around the corner.

Martin Scorsese film to be shot in their family home.The 28-year-old actor and comedian appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers earlier this week to promote new Disney/Pixar movie Inside Out 2, in which she plays the character Envy.While talking about her Boston roots, the Emmy-winning actor told the story of how her family home was almost used as a filming location for Scorsese’s 2006 crime thriller, The Departed.“When I was a child they were filming The Departed, and they were all around town,” shared Edebiri. She went onto joke about a childhood crush on the film’s star, Leonardo DiCaprio, saying: “I’m like ten years old and I’m like, ‘Me and Leo, endgame.

Scott Feinstein, a veteran film publicist at 42West and fixture in indie film circles, has been promoted to President, Entertainment Marketing Division (EMD). Previously Executive Vice President, Feinstein will now work jointly with Presidents Tom Piechura in New York and Annalee Paulo in Los Angeles to oversee the department’s operational functions, manage staff and collaborate in the overall growth of the division.

Martin Scorsese is set to shoot a new film which will see him return to the small town from where his family originated.The filmmaker is reportedly working on a documentary about ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. The documentary will take Scorsese to Polizzi Generosa, a small town on the island of Sicily, where his paternal grandparents were born.Currently untitled, the film is reportedly based on research by archaeologist and professor at Cranfield University in England, Lisa Briggs.

William Earl administrator Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro presented their first collaboration, the 1973 crime drama “Mean Streets,” and then discussed the film during a De Niro Con presentation at the Tribeca Film Festival. The celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary took place Saturday at the Beacon Theatre, where the screening was followed by a conversation between Scorsese and De Niro, moderated by legendary rapper Nas.

Robert De Niro feels he’s been extremely “fortunate to wind up with Marty” for all these years, and Martin Scorsese returned the compliment as the actor and director sat down after a screening of Mean Streets, the 1973 film that marked their first collaboration, and Scorsese’s breakout. They went on to make nine more features together.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one in the European M&A world. Beta Film has taken a stake in Number 9 TV, a new small screen subsidiary of Carol and Living producer Number 9 Films.

Mason Greenwood has reportedly been given the go-ahead to sign for Juventus - five years on from their first "life-changing" attempt to buy him from Manchester United.

True cinephilia lives outside the confines of your front door, way past the boundaries of your home and native language. So, for all the talk of Martin Scorsese as a preeminent master of American cinema, it’s always been heartening to know the filmmaker and cineaste has appreciated all aspects of international cinema, from the East to the West and beyond.

Prime Video Italy is taking a leap “not only at national level but at international level” with its originals strategy, its scripted boss has said.

Ahsoka composer Kevin Kiner discussed his Star Wars influences for the Disney+ series at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event. He also revealed an homage to Star Wars composer John Williams in episode 5.

opened with an estimated $56 million in theaters over the weekend, handing Hollywood a much-needed summer hit and Smith his biggest success since he slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.Expectations were all over the map for “Ride or Die” given the dismal moviegoing market thus far this summer and Smith’s less certain box-office clout. In the end, though, the Sony Pictures release came in very close to, or slightly above, its tracking forecast.“Ride or Die,” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, is Smith’s first theatrical test since his 2022 slap of Rock earned him a 10-year Oscar ban.

Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die pummeled pre-weekend opening projections, coming in with a $104.6M global bow, including $48.6M from the international box office. While the overseas debut is slightly off 2020’s Bad Boys for Life which did $50.3M in like-for-like offshore markets at today’s exchange rates, that film had strong legs. Either way, Ride or Die‘s start gave some much needed oomph to summer turnstiles. Its launch is 58% bigger than Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

in a Facebook post.The venue, which holds 2,000 people, revealed Lopez had hired his private security team who could’ve “easily escorted any hecklers out.”A pre-show meeting had also been reportedly held to form a plan in case hecklers did manage to interrupt the show.“He could have provided us an opportunity to allow our security and team to escort any hecklers out since his own private security did not,” the casino said. “George decided to not continue with the show and leave.”Fans on social media confirmed the person who interrupted the show wasn’t a heckler, but instead people showing the “Blue Beetle” actor support.“It was not like he had 100 people heckling him,” one person claimed on Facebook.

the infamous Oscars smack, when Smith stormed the stage of the Dolby Theater and slapped presenter Chris Rock for making a jab about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, it still stings for many ticket-buyers. Let alone Rock.The actor’s televised assault of the comic and unhinged shouts of “Get my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!” shattered his public image as a charismatic and funny life of the party who could wring laughs even out of a devastating alien invasion.The hit was enough to get him banned from the Oscars until 2032. Frankly, he’s lucky that he wasn’t arrested.

Pharrell Williams and director Morgan Neville have spoken to NME about the former’s upcoming LEGO animation biopic, Piece By Piece. Check out our interview below along with the trailer.This October, a new movie based on Williams’ career will be released in cinemas.