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Tony and Carmela Soprano back together, all in the name of Lebron James.Though Tony was last seen in The Sopranos final episode in 2007, it turns out he made one more appearance after that.Back in 2010, a video was made to encourage NBA player Lebron James to sign with the New York Knicks. James had just entered free agency for the first time ever, and the Knicks were eager to sign him.As the story goes, the Knicks execs put together a video to convince the legendary basketball player, a strategy which included featuring plenty of New York celebrities at the time including Chris Rock, Harvey Weinstein and former US President Donald Trump.

Batman fans have shared their reactions to the new trailer for The Penguin TV series, with some calling it “peak crime drama”.The new teaser for the HBO series, which focuses on Colin Farrell‘s The Batman villain (aka Oswald Cobblepot), was released last week.The clip sees the titular character tell the story of gangster Rex Calabrese, a “big deal” in the neighbourhood when he was a kid.Speaking of the gangster’s death, Cobblepot tells an unseen person: “In my neighbourhood, they throw a parade in his honour. A friggin’ parade.”“And it wasn’t fancy, but it was the gesture.

channel’s most-watched show, by “Game of Thrones.”In honor of the show’s 25th anniversary, the network just dropped behind-the-scenes footage from the show that equals five hours of new content and 15 deleted scenes. Ahead of their reunion at the Emmys, creator David Chase, Bracco, Vincent Pastore, Kathrine Narducci, Aida Turturro, Steven Van Zandt and Steve Schirripa, among others, gathered to celebrate the major milestone at New York City’s Da Nico Ristorante.Two of the show’s major players were missed: late stars Gandolfini and Tony Sirico.

The Sopranos have paid tribute to James Gandolfini on the 10th anniversary of the actor’s death.Gandolfini – who played mob boss Tony Soprano in the popular HBO series – died on June 19 2013, aged 51, after suffering from a heart attack.Michael Imperioli, who played Soprano’s protégé Christopher Moltisanti, remembered his former co-star with a tribute on Instagram.“Batman and Robin… my favourite picture of us. And I can’t help thinking where we ended up that night and what you said. That was one for the books,” he captioned an old photo of the pair sitting in an audience together.He continued: “It’s so very strange that it’s 10 years today since you left us.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus opened up about working with "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini on one of his final films before his death in June 2013 at the age of 51. The 62-year-old actress starred opposite the late actor in the 2013 romantic-comedy "Enough Said" in which they played a pair of divorcees who fall in love.  Louis-Dreyfus, who had never met Gandofini prior to filming the movie, recalled how he was very different from the ruthless mob boss he portrayed for six seasons in the hit HBO series.

Jennifer Esposito admitted she refused to audition for "The Sopranos." The 50-year-old actor reflected on how she grew up in the center of organized crime in Staten Island and did not want to remember the harrowing times. "I chose to not go up for it when they would call me in because it was like ‘I can’t relive this,’" Esposito said during an interview with Variety. "The girls I grew up around wanted to kill me, wanted to kill me every day…it was PTSD." The "Blue Bloods" star recalled being filled with "anger and rage" during her childhood.

Woke up this morning, got myself a ticket to The Sopranos Official Convention.

"The Sopranos" actor Robert LuPone has died. He was 76.  The Manhattan Class Company (MCC) Theater, which LuPone co-founded, confirmed his death after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer.  "It is with heavy hearts that we announce that MCC founding Co-Artistic Director, Bob LuPone, passed away Saturday, Aug 27 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer," MCC Theater shared via Instagram.  LuPone earned a Tony Award nomination in the original run of "A Chorus Line" and is known for his role as Dr.

Robert LuPone, known for his recurring role on hit TV show The Sopranos, has died aged 76 following a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

the current crisis American homeowners are facing — brought on by skyrocketing house prices, rising mortgage rates, and fears of a recession — to a so-called simpler time in the 1990s, when Tony Soprano, hardworking New Jersey father of two, bought his dream home on a waste management consultant’s salary. “The Sopranos own this home on a single salary from a husband that only had a semester and a half of college.

David Harbour’s father. The “Cha Cha Real Smooth” writer-director’s third film takes a page from the real story of Jimmy Galante (Harbour), a Connecticut trash tycoon and member of the Genovese crime family who purportedly inspired the character Tony Soprano. In 2004, Galante took over his city’s minor-league hockey team and put his teenage son A.J.

Best known for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in the HBO crime drama series "The Sopranos," James Gandolfini is one of the most beloved and innovative American performers of all time. His death shocked the world, especially the entertainment industry, but his popularity continues to grow nearly a decade since his passing.

Sopranos cast member Steve Van Zandt has recalled how the late James Gandolfini gave cast members a share of a pay rise he received while on the show.Ganolfini, who played mob boss Tony Soprano in the long-running HBO show, had received a “big” pay rise according to Van Zandt and decided to share it among his fellow cast members.When asked about whether or not Gandolfini “gave each actor [in] The Sopranos $33,000 of his own money”, Van Zandt confirmed that he did – though not to settle a “salary dispute” as had been reported previously.Replying to the fan, Van Zandt said: “It wasn’t to settle a salary dispute. He had gotten a big raise and just divided it among the cast.

Prickly protagonists are a dime a dozen on TV these days, continuing long after the reign of antiheroes like Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ended. On Apple TV+’s dark comedy, “Physical,” Rose Byrne’s excellent performance as housewife-turned-aerobics maven Sheila Rubin runs the gauntlet of the ‘difficult woman’ archetype.

(CNN)"The Sopranos" went off the air in 2007, but people are still debating the ending.Which is one of the reasons why people were happy to see Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano on the drama, recreate the show's opening credits sequence in a Super Bowl ad.The actress is seen in the commercial for the first all-electric Chevy Silverado driving the path the late James Gandolfini did as her character's father, Tony Soprano, in the series.Gandolfini died of a heart attack in 2013. He was 51. Sigler told People magazine Gandolfini's "presence was very much felt throughout it all, of course, because anything we ever do having to do with Sopranos, he is there.""And just the thought of that opening sequence with him, it's so iconic," she said.

gotten whacked by show creator David Chase, one HBO executive said.HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys spoke to Deadline about the future of the “Sopranos” universe, which is sure to bum out fans from the Garden State all the way down to Boca Raton.“I don’t think David has any interest in doing anything more with ‘The Sopranos.’ ‘The Sopranos’ is a terrific and classic show. I don’t think there’s any reason to open that back up,” Bloys said.“I really don’t know what he’s thinking but one thing I can say is I just don’t think anything with ‘The Sopranos’ family is on the cards.”For months fans hoped that Chase — who inked a five-year production deal with HBO’s parent company WarnerMedia in October — was signing on to expand on the show as a follow-up to the luke-warm received “Many Saints of Newark.” The prequel film starred Alessandro Nivola as “Dickie” Moltisanti, Jon Bernthal as “Johnny Boy” Soprano and James Gandolfini’s son Michael as a high school-aged Tony Soprano.

After The Many Saints of Newark, the feature film set in The Sopranos world from David Chase, there was much talk of revisiting Tony’s mob ties.

HBO series The Sopranos, which ran for six seasons between the late 1990s and mid-’00s.In the new advert for the Chevy Silverado, Sigler drives the car from New York to New Jersey – just as the late James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) does in the show’s opening credits. The iconic Sopranos theme song, Alabama 3’s ‘Woke Up This Morning’, also plays during the ad.The advert then ends with Sigler driving through famous spots from the set of The Sopranos before parking up at an electric car charging point, then meeting Iler on the street and embracing.Watch the advert below.Other adverts to air during the Super Bowl last night (February 13) include the epic first trailer for The Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power, the record-breaking new TV show from Amazon Prime Video.Elsewhere, new footage from Marvel’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness was also shared in an ad.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler reprised her role as Meadow Soprano in “The Sopranos” in a very nostalgic Chevrolet ad. The actress, who played the character from 1999-2007 cruised down the New Jersey Turnpike in the first-ever all electric Silverado as the series theme song “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3 plays.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler reprised her role as Meadow Soprano in a very nostalgic Chevrolet ad. The actress, who played the character from 1999-2007 cruised down the New Jersey Turnpike in the first-ever all electric Silverado as the series theme song “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3 plays.  After taking the same path from Manhattan to New Jersey as on-screen dad, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), the commercial takes another twist as Sigler is reunited with Robert Iler, who played her on-screen brother, A.J.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler reprised her role as Meadow Soprano in a very nostalgic Chevrolet ad. The actress, who played the character from 1999-2007 cruised down the New Jersey Turnpike in the first-ever all electric Silverado as the series theme song “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3 plays.  After taking the same path from Manhattan to New Jersey as on-screen dad, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), the commercial takes another twist as Sigler is reunited with Robert Iler, who played her on-screen brother, A.J.

The Sopranos, which ran from 1999-2007, but no time like the present, right? The actor revisited the iconic series in a new Super Bowl ad for Chevrolet's electric 2024 Silverado EV, which aired on Sunday, February 13. The commercial was a modern recreation of the show' s opening credit sequence, which involved Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini) driving from Manhattan to New Jersey in a Chevy Suburban.This time, was behind the wheel. At the end of the spot, she's seen reuniting with her Sopranos costar Robert Iler, who played A.J.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJamie-Lynn Sigler has been keeping a secret for weeks. On Sunday, it finally came out.Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano for more than eight years on the iconic HBO series “The Sopranos,” stepped into the role again Sunday for a Chevrolet commercial that aired during NBC’s telecast of Super Bowl LVI. The ad updated, shot for shot, the show’s opening montage, which used to feature James Gandolfini’s  Tony Soprano driving a Chevy truck.

The Sopranos, Goldee, has died.A statement on Twitter confirmed that Goldee had passed away at the age of 23 at a farm in Warwick, New York, last Saturday (February 5).The horse had been diagnosed with Equine Cushing’s disease four years ago, which is a chronic disease of the pituitary gland.Goldee featured in the hit HBO drama – also set in New Jersey, where she was born in 1999 – as a race horse called Pie-O-My, who died during a barn fire in the show’s fourth season.Tony Soprano believes that the fire was caused by Pie-O-My’s owner Ralphie, in order to receive an insurance pay-out. Before the horse died, Soprano commissioned a panting of himself with Pie-O-My, but after the tragic events he wants it to be destroyed.Pie O my (Goldee)Past away this morning after a 4 yr struggle with Equine Cushing's disease.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorJohn Stankey and Brian Roberts are wrestling with different sides of the same problems.For Big Media, the fourth-quarter earnings revelations so far have reinforced predictions that 2022 is the year the honeymoon ends for the promise of new streaming ventures. Now it’s entrenching time.

have delivered “the definitive oral history” of “The Sopranos” in their new book, “Woke Up This Morning.” The tome weaves interviews with dozens of cast and crew members (and series creator David Chase) for an unprecedented, dishy, behind-the-scenes look at the iconic mob drama, which aired on HBO from 1999-2007 with star James Gandolfini as troubled North Jersey mobster Tony Soprano.The nearly 500-page book, which borrows its title from the show’s theme song by Alabama 3, is comprised of

HBO has revealed that a masturbation scene involving James Gandolfini in The Sopranos was cut from the show.The scene in question was included in an excerpt of the book, called Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, which was published by Vulture.

James Gandolfini wasn’t jerking around on the set of "The Sopranos." The late actor — who tragically passed away in 2013 — reportedly threw a "tantrum" after he was ordered to film a masturbation scene for the groundbreaking series. According to the new book "Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers," the show’s writers penned a scene in which Gandolfini’s character, Tony Soprano, pleasured himself in a gas station bathroom.

Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” the show’s writers penned a scene in which Gandolfini’s character, Tony Soprano, pleasured himself in a gas station bathroom.Gandolfini — who once claimed he showered after filming scenes for “The Sopranos” because he felt “dirty” — was said to be vehemently opposed to including the randy moment, which was written in partway through the sixth season.

When “The Sopranos” ended is six-season run with that still-controversial finale as one of television’s most acclaimed series, who would have predicted that nearly 15 years later the show would find a new generation of viewers?

Fans of "The Sopranos" have an opportunity to re-enter the show's universe with the new flick "The Many Saints of Newark" – but with some major differences. The film is a prequel to the popular HBO mob drama, featuring many of the same characters played by new, younger actors.

David Chase has inked a five-year, first-look deal to create shows for HBO parent WarnerMedia. The news comes as Chase’s “Sopranos” prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark,” which stars Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti and James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini as a young Tony Soprano, hits theaters and HBO Max today.

Fresh from the release of The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos prequel feature, David Chase has signed a five-year, first-look deal with WarnerMedia.

After many years in the works, today sees “The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” hitting both theaters and HBO Max. The film is intended to work as a stand-alone gangster film but also gives fans some insight into the early days of Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini and the legendary gangster father of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola).

NEW YORK -- Michael Gandolfini's face is thinner. His hair is thicker.

The Many Saints of Newark,” premiering Friday (in theaters and HBO Max), it’s tempting to try to rewatch the iconic series all the way from the beginning.That’s because the new film, which shows what life was like for the DiMeo crime family in the 1960s and 1970s, requires a little bit of background knowledge about the major players, including infamously complex eventual mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini).But we’ve got you covered.