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Oscar Isaac will star in and executive-produce a Las Vegas-set drama for Netflix from Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, with Isaac also signing a first-look deal via his Mad Gene; Martin Scorsese is among the executive producers.
Oscar Isaac is in final negotiations to star in Netflix's untitled Las Vegas casino drama from producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien, with JC Chandor directing the first two episodes. Netflix is pursuing a first-look deal with Isaac's Mad Gene, and Scorsese's Sikelia Productions is among the executive producers. The eight-episode series centers on Bobby Redman, president of a top Las Vegas hotel-casino, navigating dangerous, high-stakes power struggles; production is planned for this summer.
Apple TV+ released a teaser for its ten-episode limited series Cape Fear, a Scorsese- and Spielberg-produced remake of the 1991 thriller, starring Amy Adams (Anna Bowden), Patrick Wilson (Tom Bowden) and Javier Bardem (Max Cady). Showrunner Nick Antosca and director Morten Tyldum lead the project, with the first two episodes premiering on June 5.
Mary Beth Hurt, a Tony-nominated Broadway and film actress known for The World According to Garp and The Age of Innocence, has died at 79. Born Mary Beth Supinger in Iowa, she studied drama in college and at NYU, built a prolific stage career with multiple Tony nominations, and appeared in films from Interiors (1978) to collaborations with her husband, writer-director Paul Schrader, on Light Sleeper and Affliction. Schrader and their daughter Molly announced her death on Facebook, noting she had been living with Alzheimer's and had recently been in memory care. Her career spanned stage, film, and television.
Apple Original Films revealed the first image and announced production on Martin Scorsese’s thriller What Happens at Night, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The adaptation of Peter Cameron’s novel, scripted by Patrick Marber and produced by Sikelia, follows a married American couple in a snowy European town who travel to adopt a baby, with Patricia Clarkson, Jared Harris and Mads Mikkelsen aboard; this marks another high-profile Scorsese/DiCaprio collaboration with Apple after Killers of the Flower Moon.
Variety reports a first-look for What Happens at Night, Martin Scorsese’s haunted marriage drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, reuniting them after Don’t Look Up. The project, adapted from Peter Cameron’s novel, follows a American couple in a European town who travel to adopt a baby, with the couple’s increasingly fraught dynamic and questions about marriage, self, and life unfolding in a chilling, wintry setting. Apple is behind the film, production is underway, and the cast also includes Mads Mikkelsen, Patricia Clarkson, and Jared Harris, though no release date has been announced.
In her long-awaited memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli recounts a life in showbiz filled with drama—from a cocaine-fueled romance with Martin Scorsese and turbulent marriages to backstage Oscar-night chaos, including Lady Gaga supposedly testing her memory and insisting a wheelchair be used, while Minnelli details caring for her mother Judy Garland from age 13.
In her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli recounts a passionate, drug-fueled romance with Martin Scorsese during the 1977 New York, New York shoot, calling it a self-destructive obsession; both were married at the time, the affair involved heavy drug use and heartbreak, including her firing Scorsese from The Act, with a tense Oscars reunion decades later and lingering hurt.
Liza Minnelli says in her memoir that she and director Martin Scorsese had a volatile, cocaine-fueled affair in the mid-1970s during the filming of New York, New York; she describes escalating drug use on and off the set, Scorsese’s heated confrontations, and notes that he later fought his addiction, with their relationship eventually fading.
Leonardo DiCaprio will miss the 32nd Actor Awards due to scheduling conflicts while filming Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night in Europe; he’s nominated for two awards for One Battle After Another, including leading actor and best cast, with Kristen Bell hosting the Netflix broadcast.
Leonardo DiCaprio will not attend the 32nd annual Actor Awards due to scheduling conflicts, as he films Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night in Europe alongside Jennifer Lawrence; the project marks another collaboration between DiCaprio and Scorsese.
Martin Scorsese lends his voice to a four-armed Ardennian store owner in the new The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer, a surprise cameo that has fans buzzing; the film is directed by Jon Favreau and opens May 22. The Goodfellas director’s prior voice work includes Shark Tale (2004).
As Taxi Driver marks its 50th anniversary, BBC culture argues the film’s defining moment isn’t De Niro’s famous mirror line but a bold corridor tracking shot that moves away from Travis after Betsy rejects him, turning a painful moment into a universal meditation on loneliness and showcasing Scorsese’s European-influenced, New Hollywood style.
Friends and colleagues mourn Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, with Cary Elwes and Martin Scorsese paying heartfelt tributes. Reiner's son faces murder charges, and autopsy reports are sealed by court order. The article highlights Reiner's impact on film and the ongoing investigation into his death.
Famous filmmaker Martin Scorsese paid a heartfelt tribute to his friends Rob and Michele Reiner, who were tragically murdered by their son, Nick Reiner, in their Brentwood home, describing his sadness and recalling their friendship and his favorite films of Rob Reiner.