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Fresh off his career-making roles in The Godfather franchise and Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino was offered the part of Han Solo in 1977’s Star Wars. As reported by Variety, Pacino spoke about nearly joining George Lucas’ iconic film during a recent discussion at The 92nd Street Y in New York City. Pacino joked that Harrison Ford, who was […]

Al Pacino is clearly impressed by Timothée Chalamet. While speaking on a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival, the 82-year-old cinema legend addressed a hypothetical onscreen follow-up to 1995’s Heat, the acclaimed crime drama in which Pacino played detective Vincent Hanna. Fans have been calling for a second installment ever since writer-director Michael Mann confirmed he would publish Heat 2, a prequel/sequel novel that’s […]

Ridley Scott is firing back at the Gucci family after Patricia Gucci mocked House of Gucci’s casting of Al Pacino.  While Gucci family heirs recently detailed most of everything they disliked about the director’s latest film in a statement shared this past week, Scott spoke with Total Film magazine and responded to one very specific early comment from Patricia, who had […]

Tom Ford doesn’t quite know what to make of Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci. In a review published by Air Mail, the designer/filmmaker shared his honest, mixed opinions about the crime drama centered on the Gucci family starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, and more. Ford, who served as label’s creative director in the […]

Deadline reports Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver, and Jared Leto are all in talks to join Ridley Scott’s upcoming film Gucci, based on the life and death of Gucci fashion house head, Maurizio Gucci.  Lady Gaga is also attached to the film, and will be playing Gucci’s ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani, who orchestrated his […]

It’s probably fair to assume that Adam Sandler wasn’t getting a whole lot of award show practice following the releases of Pixels, The Ridiculous 6, and, well, we’ll just leave it at “others.” But that didn’t stop Conan O’Brien from busting his balls after he botched basic award show procedure by advancing to the stage […]

Ahead of the wide release of Netflix‘s Al Pacino-starring new Martin Scorsese film The Irishman, Amazon Prime has shared a trailer for Hunters, a Pacino-starring new drama series.  Hunters, created by David Weil and inspired by true events, is produced by Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment. The story centers on a band of […]

Jimmy Kimmel was fortunate enough to welcome an actual GOAT to his Hollywood studio Monday night. Indeed, Martin Scorsese was the topline guest on Monday night’s show, with the prolific giant of filmmaking joining the host to discuss his upcoming Netflix instaclassic The Irishman. “De Niro and I have been trying to make a picture […]

“So, let me ask you this.” Bobby Cannavale starts our interview with a question posed to me. It’s Saturday in midtown Manhattan, the morning after The Irishman—Martin Scorsese‘s long-gestating mob opus—had its long-awaited world premiere with two screenings: one in the morning for the press and a star-studded red carpet event at night for Scorsese, the cast and […]

Casino has the car exploding. Goodfellas has a guy’s stomach getting butterflied. The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s brand new mob epic, has a much more measured opening, one that’s reflective of the movie as a whole. Scorsese and the co-lead connective tissue of all three films, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, are all 76. Al […]