'The Godfather' Making-Of Movie Adds Elisabeth Moss As Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola's Wife
Godfather Making Of Movie cast adds Elisabeth Moss alongside Oscar Isaac and Jake Gyllenhaal for director Barry Levinson.
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'The Godfather' Making-Of Movie Casts Oscar Isaac As Francis Ford Coppola, Jake Gyllenhaal As Robert Evans
Barry Levinson's The Godfather making of movie will have Oscar Isaac playing director Francis Ford Coppola and Jake Gyllenhaal as producer Robert Evans.
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'Dopesick': Michael Keaton To Star In Hulu Series About America's Opioid Crisis
Michael Keaton returns to television to star in Dopesick, a new series from director Barry Levinson (Rain Man) that's heading to Hulu.
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'Wild Wild Country' Movie In The Works With Priyanka Chopra Playing Real-Life Supervillain Ma Anand Sheela
Priyanka Chopra will produce and star in a Wild Wild Country movie, based on the Netflix true crime docu-series.
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'Paterno' Trailer: Al Pacino Recreates Joe Paterno's Downfall
Al Pacino stars in the new Paterno trailer, dramatizing the events that lead to the downfall of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.
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TV Bits: 'Powerless' Cancelled, 'Wag The Dog' HBO Series, Damien Chazelle, Jesse Eisenberg & More
On this edition of TV Bits: NBC has pulled the plug on its DC series Powerless La La Land writer/director Damien Chazelle moves to the small screen Jesse Eisenberg teams with Bad Robot to write, direct, and star in a new series and more! Powerless Canceled According to Polygon, NBC has pulled the remaining two episodes of…
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'Wizard Of Lies' Trailer: Robert De Niro Looks Like He Finally Cares Again
Watch the new Wizard of Lies trailer, which stars Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff & tells the story of what might be the biggest fraud case in U.S. history.
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'The Wizard Of Lies' Teaser: Robert De Niro Is Bernie Madoff
Watch The Wizard of Lies teaser. Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star as Bernie Madoff and Ruth Madoff in Barry Levinson's film for HBO.
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'Rock The Kasbah' Trailer: Barry Levinson And Bill Murray Mix Music And Politics
Bill Murray is stranded in Afghanistan and uses his skills as a music manager to get out. Directed by Barry Levinson, watch the Rock the Kasbah trailer here
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Barry Levinson's 'Diner' As Read By The Cast Of 'The League;' A Timeless Interpretation
Jason Reitman's latest was a Diner Live Read. He brought in the cast of FXX's The League to read Barry Levinson's 1982 masterpiece. Read a recap here.
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'The Humbling' Trailer: Al Pacino Embraces The Chaos Of Aging
Al Pacino shows up in two big festival films this year: David Gordon Green's Manglehorn, and The Humbling from Barry Levinson. Here's a first The Humbling trailer, in which Pacino plays an aging actor who embarks upon an affair with a younger woman (Greta Gerwig) after he has a minor breakdown. OK, maybe not such…
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Shia LaBeouf Comes Out Of Retirement To Join Bill Murray In 'Rock The Kasbah'
So much for retirement. Just three weeks after his dramatic announcement that he would "#stopcreating" in the wake of the Daniel Clowes plagiarism scandal, Shia LaBeouf has booked a new movie. LaBeouf has just joined Bill Murray in Barry Levinson's Rock the Kasbah, along with Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, and Zooey Deschanel. The…
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Bill Murray To Star In Barry Levinson's 'Rock The Kasbah'
This time, the Sharif does like it. Bill Murray has just signed on to star in Rock the Kasbah, directed by Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson. In the film, Murray will play a older music manager who stumbles a talented young singer in Afghanistan and angles for her to win an American Idol type competition show. Mitch…
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Johnny Depp Bails On 'Black Mass'
The film Black Mass, which is meant to tell the story of high-profile Massachusettes gangster Whitey Bulger, would have been a Donnie Brasco reunion of sorts, but the idea of Johnny Depp playing Bulger seemed a little weird. Now it isn't happening. Black Mass is to be directed by Donnie Brasco producer Barry Levinson, based…
Read MoreJohnny Depp Confirmed For Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence' And Barry Levinson's 'Black Mass;' 'Pirates 5' Nowhere In Sight
One of the most popular and in-demand actors in Hollywood has just scheduled the rest of his year, with one glaring omission. Johnny Depp will now officially star in Transendence, the mysterious sci-fi directorial debut of Wally Pfister, best known for his work with Christopher Nolan. From there he'll star in Barry Levinson's Black Mass, a true-crime…
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Johnny Depp To Play Whitey Bulger In Crime Biopic 'Black Mass'
Regional crime boss James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger has a curiously strong hold on the imaginations of filmmakers. As one of the last of a largely bygone generation of gangsters, Bulger has become an inspiration for those looking to create screen villains -- Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed, for example, was based on Bulger. So…
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Barry Levinson's 'The Bay' Is A Chilling Tale Of Man-Eating Isopods And Buck-Passing Government Officials [NYFF Review]
The world doesn't necessarily need another found-footage horror film, but Barry Levinson's well-crafted The Bay reminds us why there are so many of them to begin with. The format does precisely what it's supposed to here, ramping up the dread through the illusion of reality. Combine that with Levinson's commitment to (relative) plausibility and incisive…
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'The Bay' Trailer: Barry Levinson's Own 'Jaws' Is Creepy Found-Footage Eco-Horror
It's July 4 and a coastal playground in the Northeastern US is under attack from something that comes from the water. Familiar as that premise sounds to Jaws fans, this is something different. The Bay is from Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog, Rain Man) and is a found-footage assembly that looks at what happens when…
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Directing Bits: Barry Levinson To Helm Hank Aaron Biopic, Jorma Taccone Heads Into 'The Great Unknown'
Barry Levinson, director of the baseball classic The Natural, is about to return to the diamond once more. The filmmaker is set to direct a biopic of legendary sports star Hank Aaron, based on the Howard Bryant tome The Last Hero: The Life Story of Henry Aaron. Adam Mazer, who previously penned Levinson's You Don't…
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Barry Levinson's 'Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father,' With John Travola, Is On Hold
The film Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father has had a difficult path from development to screen. In fact, it looks like the project has fully stalled out before cameras were even able to roll. While Barry Levinson came on board a few months ago (replacing Nick Cassavetes) and a cast had started to…
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Sheryl Crow And Barry Levinson Adapting 'Diner' Into A Broadway Musical
There are some films that seem like logical inspirations for Broadway musicals -- such as Sister Act, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and The Lion King, to name just a few of the shows currently playing on the Great White Way. Barry Levinson's 1982 coming-of-age dramedy Diner doesn't seem like one of them. Although the film…
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TV Bits: 'Modern Family' Star To Play Fatty Arbuckle, Isaiah Mustafa In 'Charlie's Angels,' ABC Picks Up 'Jekyll & Hyde'-Inspired Drama, Return Dates For 'Covert Affairs' And 'Burn Notice'
Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet has signed up to play silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in an HBO biopic titled The Day the Laughter Stopped. Arbuckle was one of the most popular, most successful actors of his time, but his career fell apart after he was accused of raping and murdering actress Virginia Rappe.…
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Ben Foster Is John Gotti Jr. In 'Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father'
When John Travolta was cast as notorious gangster John Gotti, one had to assume that was the lead role of the movie. But when the title to the film was changed from Gotti: Three Generations to Gotti: In the Shadow Of My Father it became pretty obvious, Gotti Sr. wasn't the plum role. The role…
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'Gotti' Gets A Shoot Date, A New Title, And A New Lawsuit From Joe Pesci
The development of a film about father and son crime figures John 'The Teflon Don' Gotti and John Gotti, Jr. has already turned into something of a saga, with Nick Cassavetes set to direct, then departing and leaving a void ultimately filled by Barry Levinson. John Travola, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci were cast, and…
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Al Pacino And Barry Levinson Teaming For 'The Humbling' Before 'Gotti'
Barry Levinson is going to direct Al Pacino in Gotti: Three Generations, but before that picture shoots they'll also do another film. The Humbling is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Philip Roth from Millennium/Nu Image. This will make three films in a row for the Levinson/Pacino team, beginning with the…
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Barry Levinson Is The New 'Gotti: Three Generations' Director
Barry Levinson is moving from the horrors of man's manipulations with nature to man's own horrible nature. Last year he put together the low-key 'found footage' eco-horror thriller The Bay, which will be released this year by Lionsgate. And now he has been tapped as the director for Gotti: Three Generations, which recently saw the…
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Lionsgate To Distribute 'The Bay,' A Found Footage, Biological Horror Film By Barry Levinson
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson has just found a distributor for his first horror film, a found footage tale of what happens when a deadly disease moves from the sea onto the land, called The Bay. Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the film, which was produced by the team behind Paranormal Activity and Insidious: Jason…
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