To take on his the iconic role originated by his late father, Michael Gandolfini had to sit down and watch The Sopranos for the first time.
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Michael Gandolfini is set to fill his father James Gandolfini's shoes as young Tony Soprano in The Sopranos prequel cast, titled The Many Saints of Newark.
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Watch The Drop international trailer starring James Gandolfini, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and Matthias Schoenaerts. Michael R. Roskam directs.
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Watch The Drop trailer, in which the late James Gandolfini and Tom Hardy play guys who get roped into a bad situation when their bar is robbed.
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Here are the first images from the final James Gandolfini film, The Drop, which also features Tom Hardy.
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One of James Gandolfini's last projects is picking up steam once again. At the time of his passing, the Sopranos actor had been working on an HBO miniseries called Criminal Justice. But since the network could not move ahead with the pilot they had already shot with him, there was some question of how the…
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Enough Said features what sounds like a stock romcom premise: girl meets boy, girl befriends other girl, girl finds out that other girl and boy used to be married, and subsequently starts questioning the relationship. But with Nicole Holofcener in the director's chair, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Catherine Keener in the leads, it's…
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Briefly: After Wednesday's devastating news of the passing of James Gandolfini, fans flocked to Holsten's Ice Cream Shop in Bloomfield, NJ to pay tribute to the late actor. Holsten's was the location of the iconic final scene of Gandolfini's show, The Sopranos. To honor the actor, the shop's owner did something incredibly classy. Thanks to reporter @JKlekamp for the tweet, via…
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We're shocked and stunned to report that actor James Gandolfini has died suddenly while on vacation in Italy after a suspected heart attack. Gandolfini was 51 years old. He will be missed. Gandolfini is best known for his role as Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos in which he won the Emmy three times. Gandolfini's…
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What can we make of Violet & Daisy, which seems to run with the same semi-arthouse tendencies of Hanna or The Professional? The movie shot in 2010 and played TIFF to varied reviews in 2011. Cinedigm picked it up for distribution last fall, and will release the movie in June. Perhaps the company decided to hold the…
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As a kid, my favorite dinosaur wasn't the vicious velociraptor or the majestic T-Rex, but the gentle (relatively speaking) giant brontosaurus. You can imagine my disappointment, then, when I later learned that the creature wasn't just extinct, like all the other dinos, but that he'd never existed in the first place. As it turns out,…
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The pilot casting blitz isn't over yet. Also after the jump: Kristen Wiig's Arrested Development role revealed Yeah, NBC is probably going to cancel Up All Night HBO decides not to go with James Gandolfini's pilot HBO's cancelled drama Luck finds new life as a blog Survey says House of Cards is a success for Netflix…
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For a feature filmmaking debut starring a cast of relative unknowns, Not Fade Away has been drawing quite a bit of attention. Because the first-timer at the helm isn't just anyone, you see -- it's Sopranos creator David Chase. If television today has shed its reputation as cinema's lesser sibling, it's because of high-quality entertainments…
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Five years ago, David Chase ended one of the best television shows of all time, The Sopranos. Now he's rolled that legacy into his first movie. Not Fade Away is Chase's feature directorial debut and it's a semi-autobiographical story about a group of young men in 1960s New Jersey attempting to form a rock band. Starring John Magaro,…
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With Cannes just around the corner we're going to start seeing even more clips and trailer from some of our most anticipated movies of the year. One of the big ones is Killing Them Softly, the third feature film from Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) that was…
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We're months beyond stating the obvious fact that 2012 has a fantastic slate of movies. It goes without saying. What's more interesting at this point are the films that may not be on people's radars. The top of that list, for me at least, is the feature film directoral debut of Sopranos creator David Chase.…
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When I made my list of most anticipated movies of 2012, one of the films I immediately realized I'd left out of consideration was Andrew Dominik's Cogan's Trade, which stars Brad Pitt as a mob heavy on the trail of a couple junkies who ripped off the wrong poker game. So far we've seen only…
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The first trailer for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tried to live in the area between quirky, endearing and sentimental. The balance didn't work for me, especially thanks to the reliance on U2 as the score for the trailer. As a result I think that first look…
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Louis Leterrier's magician heist movie Now You See Me keeps getting better. The movie features a story about a group of illusionists who rob banks during their performances, and then give at least some of the proceeds out to the audience, even as the FBI is hot on their tail. The cast already includes Mark…
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The term 'power broker' is a familiar one, but even now I think a lot of people might not have much of a response to the name Robert Moses. That's the man chronicled in Robert A. Caro's 1974 book The Power Broker, which positioned Moses as essentially the most powerful man in New York, and…
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Here's the trailer for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on a script by Eric Roth. The movie has been a curiosity for me for months in part because the book is a piece of post-modernism that doesn't lend itself easily to adaptation, and in part because…
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Warner Bros. evidently has high hopes for Stephen Daldry‘s adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, as the studio recently set the film for a December 25 debut. Indeed, the novel, which is a quirky but heartfelt account of a young boy's attempt to uncover some family history in the…
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These days, reality television may be considered by some to be a blight on our cultural landscape, but there was a time when it offered a more honest counterpoint to the idealized families being portrayed on American sitcoms. Back in the early '70s, filmmaker Craig Gilbert conceived of a documentary series about a California household as…
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Long before The Real World, Survivor or Jersey Shore, producer Craig Gilbert created An American Family. The PBS documentary special that aired in 1973 was unlike anything ever put on television. It chronicled the real life, daily struggles of the Louds, a seemingly perfect California family who were not only catapulted to fame by the…
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Saoirse Ronan isn't just in one movie about a teen assassin. The first one is Joe Wright's Hanna (trailer), in which the actress plays a girl raised by her ex-CIA father (Eric Bana) to undertake a cross-continental assassination mission. The other is Violet & Daisy, which was written by Oscar-winning Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, who…
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Reality stars are a dime a dozen these days, but HBO Films' Cinema Verite takes us back to a time when that wasn't the case. The film dramatizes the behind-the-scenes action surrounding PBS' 1973 documentary series An American Family, which HBO's marketing team is referring to the first reality show. The series followed a Santa…
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Briefly: Every piece of news on Andrew Dominik's new project Cogan's Trade makes the film sound better and better. We've got the Assassination of Jesse James reunion of the director, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell and reportedly Casey Affleck. Then there are James Gandolfini and Bella Heathcote playing additional roles. Now Richard Jenkins has been added…
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