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For his feature directorial debut, Day of the Fight, Jack Huston has reteamed with his former Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt to tell the story a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first bout since leaving prison. Huston also…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Huston is set to make his feature directorial debut with Day of the Fight, a project that will reteam him with his Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt, who will star. Huston will also write and produce the movie about a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through…

Joe Pesci is looking back at his time filming Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and recalled getting “serious burns” during one of the memorable scenes from the holiday movie. “In addition to the expected bumps, bruises, and general pains that you would associate with that particular type of physical…

Peacock has released a first look of Joe Pesci and Pete Davidson from Bupkis, its new comedy that is also written and executive produced by the former Saturday Night Live comedian. Bupkis is described as a heightened, fictionalized version of Davidson's real life. The series will combine grounded…

In a return to acting — and television — Oscar winner Joe Pesci will star opposite Pete Davidson and Edie Falco in Bupkis, Peacock’s upcoming half-hour live-action comedy that tells a heightened, fictionalized version of Davidson's life. The high-profile casting completes Davidson’s on-screen family, with Pesci…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar conversations around town bring differing opinions about what might win in an exceptional year for auteur cinema. It was surprising how many people add: boy would it be nice to see Martin Scorsese get an Oscar for his final mob epic, The Irishman. Sure he won for The Departed, but he got robbed on Taxi…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, later retitled The Irishman for the film, has been a fixture this awards season, and now you can watch the first table read for the project from nearly seven years ago. Check it out above. It is fascinating…

EXCLUSIVE: “Things have gotten out of hand with our friend again — there’s some people having serious problems with him,” gangster Russell Bufalino tells Frank Sheeran in The Irishman. “You’re going to have to talk to him and tell him it’s what it is.” In a new featurette that spotlights Joe Pesci in Irishman (watch…

At the New York Film Festival (and select West Coast screenings) this weekend, the lid was taken off one of 2019’s most anticipated movies. Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of The Irishman is the Netflix mob crime film based on Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, which offers lots of food for…

Ever since it came into our cinematic consciousness there has been much talk and a whole lotta anticipation for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the decades-spanning mob crime epic reuniting Scorsese with Goodfellas and Casino stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and giving Al Pacino his surprisingly first-ever…

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this…

In its most ambitious ever theatrical rollout plan for one of its original productions, Netflix will give The Irishman a 27-day theatrical window before the film makes its streaming service bow November 27. Netflix will launch on November 1 in Los Angeles and New York the epic crime drama that reunites director Martin…