Previously working on the project as a creative consultant, Martin Scorsese has fully come onboard as a hands-on executive producer on the Luc Besson-directed project. EuropaCorp and Relativity are producing the film in which Robert De Niro plays a retired mob boss who moves to a small town in France's Normandy with his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) … [Read more...]
Scorsese, Zaillian Option Ebert’s Memoir
September 7, 2012 by
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese, acclaimed scribe Steven Zaillian and "Hoop Dreams" director Steve James are all set to team for a documentary based on film critic Roger Ebert's 2011 memoir "Life Itself" says The Hollywood Reporter. The story chronicles the reviewer's struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his battle with thyroid cancer that left him … [Read more...]
Martin Scorsese Presents “Easy Money”
June 15, 2012 by
The Weinstein Company is teaming with Martin Scorsese on the U.S. domestic release of Daniel Espinosa's Swedish crime drama "Easy Money" reports Variety. Set to be released as a 'Martin Scorsese Presents…' feature, a platform rollout for the film kicks off July 11th in New York and July 13th in Los Angeles before a broader opening later in the … [Read more...]
Martin Scorsese To Direct Nesbo’s “Snowman”
October 27, 2011 by
Martin Scorsese is in early talks to direct an adaptation of Jo Nesbo's Norwegian mystery novel "The Snowman" for Working Title reports Variety. Scorsese has been circling the project for the last month and is now seriously considering the project based on the seventh novel in Nesbo's series following detective Harry Hole. The story concerns a … [Read more...]
Scorsese, Monahan Re-Team For “Gambler”
August 29, 2011 by
"The Departed" director Martin Scorsese and scribe William Monahan are teaming for another remake, this time Karel Reisz's 1974 drama "The Gambler" says Deadline. The original film is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel of the same name and followed a New York City English professor (James Caan) with a basketball game gambling … [Read more...]
