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Kathryn Kates, an actress who appeared on "Seinfeld," "The Many Saints of Newark," "Law & Order: SVU," and more, has died. She was 73. A representative for Kates confirmed her death on Tuesday.The actress passed away on Saturday "after a hard fought battle with lung cancer," representative Erica Bines of Headline Talent Agency said to People.

After playing Aaron Burr in the Tony-winning musical Hamilton and garnering a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination last year playing singer Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami, Leslie Odom Jr. this year turned his sights toward David Chase’s world of Jersey mobsters in The Many Saints of Newark.

The Many Saints of Newark writer David Chase and stars Ray Liotta and Alessandro Nivola discussed the Sopranos prequel Saturday at Contenders Film: New York. Speaking with Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Chase and Nivola zeroed in on the explosive rage of Nivola’s character, Dickie Moltisanti, while Liotta had a different perspective on his role.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterStreaming viewership for David Chase’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is coming into focus, as is the massive bump it gave the series that inspired it, “The Sopranos,” according to WarnerMedia’s metrics.While the film’s theatrical rollout last weekend earned $4.6 million at the domestic box office, its performance on HBO Max underscores an important advantage the WarnerMedia platform has against its competitors — the ability to resuscitate its deep bench of

The team behind "The Many Saints of Newark" had a unique challenge ahead of them when they had to cast younger versions of iconic characters from "The Sopranos." The flick is a prequel to the famed mob drama featuring younger versions of many of the original show's characters, including the late James Gandolfini's son Michael, who plays Tony Soprano – the role previously inhabited by his father.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterSPOILER WARNING: This story discusses a major sequence in “The Many Saints of Newark,” currently playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.Part of the enduring appeal of “The Sopranos” was how the HBO series operated in counterpoint to decades of organized crime myth-making by Hollywood, from Warner Bros.

When it comes to WarnerMedia’s theatrical-day-date HBO Max fare, we’ve often written that whatever pales at the cinemas also sours on the service. That was not the case this weekend with the The Sopranos prequel feature The Many Saints of Newark. 

*Warning spoilers ahead for “The Many Saints of Newark.”* HBO’s “The Sopranos” is considered by many, as one of the key forerunners of the new age of Prestige Television, PeakTV as it were. Yet, with the new spin-off, “The Many Saints of Newark” because of where it was set— during the late-1960s/early-1970s— it didn’t allow for original cast members to return.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen I saw “The Many Saints of Newark,” I wanted it to immerse me in the lives of New Jersey mobsters in the late ’60s and early ’70s the same way that “The Sopranos” immersed us in the lives of New Jersey mobsters at the turn of the 21st century. The film more or less achieves that.

Michael Gandolfini is opening up about portraying a young Tony Soprano for The Many Saints of Newark.

, David Chase’s prequel to his critically acclaimed HBO show,, arrived today to screens both big and small. In, James Gandolfini’s son, Michael, portrays Tony Soprano in his young life, years prior to the events of the Emmy-winning show. Also stepping back into the world of are frequent episode director Alan Taylor and former Sopranos writer Lawrence Konner.

Is The Many Saints of Newark Streaming?“The Many Saints of Newark” will be streaming on HBO Max for 31 days, starting on Friday, Oct. 1.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“The Many Saints of Newark” is a prequel to the beloved HBO series “The Sopranos,” but it unfolds in a much different sliver of New Jersey. This film is set in the apartment buildings and tenements of 1960s and ’70s Newark instead of the sprawling McMansions where Tony and much of his crew decamped on the show.It is a city on a knife edge, with roiling racial tensions and inequity that are about to explode in a dramatic conflagration of unrest.

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.

When Alessandro Nivola first read the script for “The Many Saints of Newark,” he was sent only a handful of scenes. Filmmaker David Chase is notoriously protective of his stories, and Nivola didn’t realize those scenes were for the film’s star.What’s more, Nivola hadn’t seen “The Sopranos,” so it wasn’t until much later that he realized he’d be playing the star of the film Dickie Moltisanti, a gigantic figure in “Sopranos” lore.In speaking with TheWrap, Nivola discussed how he made sure he lived

The Sopranos creator David Chase has opened up about bringing back original star Michael Imperioli for the new prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark.The actor, who played Christopher Moltisanti in the original HBO series, reprises his role briefly to narrate the opening and closing scenes, the film itself focusing on young Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini).Speaking to NME, Chase admitted that “was not always how the film was going to start”, explaining that Imperioli’s return was to help clear

Michael Appler “I’m not coming back to ‘The Sopranos,’” Aida Turtorro, the two-time Emmy nominee for her role as Janice Soprano in the iconic HBO series, said Wednesday on the red carpet for the show’s long-awaited prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark.” “The truth is,” she said, “I’m not sure I ever left.”Inside the film’s world premiere—where the Beacon Theatre in New York City overflowed with guests, including Edie Falco, Steve Buscemi, Steven Van Zandt and cast members Michael

Michael Gandolfini is carrying on his late father's legacy in . Gandolfini opened up to ET at the film's premiere at the opening night of the Tribeca Fall Preview, about the pressure he's faced in taking on James Gandolfini's role in the film.«I want to make my dad proud, but I want to make the fans proud,» Gandolfini told ET.

The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark, has revealed that he did not know that he was auditioning for the film.The Hamilton star was not considered for the first round of auditions for his role in the film, and when he was approached, details of the project were kept strictly under wraps.“They didn’t send me a script, but they were sending notes,” Odom Jr. told NME.

Bobby Canavale and Rose Byrne hold hands on the red carpet while attending the premiere of The Many Saints Of Newark held at Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night (September 22) in New York City.

Leslie Odom Jr wears a suit with a lot of hands on it while arriving at the premiere of The Many Saints of Newark held at Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night (September 22) in New York City.

“The Sopranos” earned her countless awards, was supposed to open the upcoming prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” which debuts on HBO and in theaters Oct. 1.“We had Edie come in and she dressed up as Carmela and we shot something with her and it wound up not being in the final movie,” the film’s director, Alan Taylor, told NME.Taylor went on to say “there was some confusion” about how the film should start.

TheWrap: The problem with the modern lust for origin stories is that audiences supposedly want everything explained to them, but just look online — you will see ecstatic comment threads questioning and dissecting every complex moment and line reading in practically every scene of “The Sopranos.” The art that lasts is the art that stimulates people to ask questions.

What is it that compels people to sin and give themselves continuous self-inflicted pain? This is one of the central questions raised in the otherwise largely incurious “The Many Saints Of Newark,” David Chase’s prequel film to his “Sopranos” series on HBO.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn its heyday, there was an ad campaign for “The Sopranos” that played, in an obvious but irresistible way, off the word “family.” The show was about Tony Soprano and his tempestuous suburban family, and it was also, of course, about that other family: the Mafia. When it comes to television, though, there is always an additional meaning to family.

riot tonight,” says the girlfriend of numbers runner Harold (Leslie Odom Jr.), right before the Newark riots of 1967 start. Worse than this is the scene where baby Christopher cries whenever he sees his uncle Tony and an older female family member says the infant might know something they don’t.The new characters are all one-dimensional, and we learn nothing new about the old characters from the series.

Tony Soprano may or may not be dead, but unfortunately James Gandolfini is, so to continue The Sopranos saga, creator David Chase has flipped back the calendar to craft something of an origins story for America’s favorite crime family in The Many Saints Of Newark. Set for domestic release while wedded to a simultaneous HBO Max bow on October 1, the Warner Bros/New Line film has its world premiere on September 22 at the Tribeca Fall Preview at New York’s Beacon Theater.

Fans shouldn’t expect to see Edie Falco reprising her role as Carmela Soprano for The Many Saints of Newark.

Edie Falco will not be appearing in the upcoming “Sopranos” prequel movie after a scene she shot for the film was cut. 

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA decade ago, Alessandro Nivola made a consequential decision. He wasn’t going to hold out for the showiest roles in movies that might struggle to get distribution or recognition.

EXCLUSIVE: Call it an offer he couldn’t refuse. After The Sopranos creator David Chase told Deadline in today’s interview that he would be interested in doing another film about the formative years of Tony Soprano — as long as it meant reuniting with longtime series writer and executive producer Terence Winter, Deadline reached out to Winter, who said: “The idea of doing another one, and doing it with David, I’d be in in a heartbeat. Absolutely.”

EXCLUSIVE: Some 14 years after he said all he had to say about a Jersey mob family, and ended The Sopranos in shocking fashion, it turns out David Chase has much more to say. The result is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel of sorts set against the Newark race riots, and focusing on a charming sociopath mobster Dickie Moltisanti.

Leslie Odom, Jr. was pretty much in the dark over his audition for The Many Saints of Newark.

The family returns! After more than a decade, the highly anticipated Sopranos movie is finally headed to the big screen.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTribeca Enterprises, the organization behind the annual Tribeca Film Festival, is expanding its programming with its newly launched Fall Preview, a season-long festival featuring movie premieres and musical performances.The inaugural event will kick off on Sept. 22 at the Beacon Theater with the premiere of “The Many Saints of Newark,” a Warner Bros.

Tribeca Enterprises said Thursday it is launching Tribeca Fall Preview, a seasonlong series of film premieres and musical performances. The series will debut September 22 with a big one: the world premiere of David Chase’s The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark at the Beacon Theatre.