After the dual disappointments of Killing Me Softly and Gangster Squad, I'm feeling a little burned out on mob movies at the moment. So maybe it's just my mood that has me unimpressed with the new trailer for The Iceman. On the one hand, director Ariel Vromen seems to have a flair for visuals, the…
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Michael Shannon is second to none when it comes to channeling intensity, but as the lead of Ariel Vromen's The Iceman he could be more frightening than ever. Shannon stars as real-life mob hitman Richard Kuklinski, whose touching devotion to his family masks a knack for cold-blooded killing. (Though he maintains a soft spot for…
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For a while there it looked like Ariel Vromen's The Iceman was on the verge of falling apart, as James Franco dropped out of the project. But the hitman biopic is moving along with David Schwimmer and Chris Evans added to the cast in recent weeks, and now Winona Ryder has boarded the picture as…
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He's played the Human Torch, and now Chris Evans will be in The Iceman. This is a movie about a different Iceman, though -- one wholly unrelated to Marvel's mutant supporting character. There are two biopics brewing of Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski -- one called The Ice Man: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer, starring…
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Hot off two of the year's most buzzed-about performances in Albert Nobbs and Martha Marcy May Marlene, Glenn Close and Elizabeth Olsen have signed on to star in Thérèse Raquin. Charlie Stratton is writing and directing the erotic thriller, which is based on a 19th century novel and play by Émile Zola. Olsen will lead the…
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It feels like James Franco is attached to pretty much everything these days, but now there's one less Franco project we have to look forward to. According to JustJared.com, the star has pulled out of The Iceman, a biopic of Mafia hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski. Franco was lined up to play Robert "Mr. Softee"…
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People really want to make movies about mob hitman Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski. Mickey Rourke has been attached to The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer for some time. But last November we heard about a rival film: The Iceman, with Michael Shannon playing Kuklinski and possible support from Benicio del Toro…
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We've written a few times over the past year about the planned biopic of hit man Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski. Hunter famously questioned the ethics of making such a film, and we've tracked it as it had Channing Tatum set to star before he was dumped thanks in part to objections from Richard Kuklinski's…
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