Martin Scorsese
Keanu Reeves to Star in The Devil in the White City TV Series
Keanu Reeves is set to start in an episodic adaptation of Erik Larson’s best-selling crime story, The Devil in the White City, according to Deadline. Leonardo DiCaprio, who acquired the rights to the book in 2010, will produce the project for Hulu with his longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese. Originally released in 2003, The Devil in the White City tells the true story of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims. When DiCaprio first acquired the rights to the book, it was thought he would star in a feature-length film directed by Scorsese. However, in 2019 DiCaprio and Scorsese struck a deal with Hulu to reimagine the project as a limited series. At the time, the deal was said to b...
Tom Holland Claps Back at Martin Scorsese’s Criticism of Marvel Movies
Tom Holland has a message for Martin Scorsese, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man: don’t knock it till you try it. In the wake of Spider-Man: No Way Home’s massive arrival at the box office, the Marvel star responded to the director’s belief that the superhero films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe don’t qualify as art. “You can ask [Martin] Scorsese ‘Would you want to make a Marvel movie?’ But he doesn’t know what it’s like because he’s never made one,” Holland asserted in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve made Marvel movies and I’ve also made movies that have been in the conversation in the world of the Oscars, and the only difference, really, is one is much more expensive than the other. But the way I break down the character, the way the director etches out...
Jonah Hill Will Play Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese-Directed Grateful Dead Film
Earlier this year, it was announced that Pete Davidson would be playing Joey Ramone in an upcoming biopic for Netflix. On Thursday, SPIN learned that Jonah Hill will be playing Jerry Garcia in an upcoming Grateful Dead biopic. The film will be directed by Martin Scorsese and will be released on Apple. Deadline was the first to report the news of the Grateful Dead biopic. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) will be writing the script. Executive producers include the Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, Garcia’s daughter Trixie, Eric Eisner, and Bernie Cahill. Additionally, Hill will also produce the film through his Strong Baby production company with Matt Dines. Scorsese and Rick Yorn of LBI Entert...
John Lithgow Joins Increasingly Ludicrous Cast for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Apple may have given Martin Scorsese too much money. Via Deadline, John Lithgow is the latest actor to join Scorsese’s absolutely bonkers cast for the upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon. He’ll be playing Prosecutor Leaward, and as Variety reports that the part is in fact a prosecutor, that means a two-time Oscar nominee has been hired for a role that doesn’t even have a first name. Killers of the Flower Moon is based on non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann. It explores the murders of native Osage peoples in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil deposits were discovered on their land, in a saga that came to be called the Reign of Terror. Advertisement Related Video Scorsese mainstays Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Nero were announced along with the film...
Brendan Fraser to Appear in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie Killers of the Flower Moon already had an undeniably stellar cast, but it just got even better because Brendan Fraser has been announced as a new addition. Fraser will appear in the new feature film alongside Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. Also rounding out the cast are fan favorite Jesse Plemons and real-life country rockers Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. Scorsese’s movie will be a direct adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime thriller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the story revolves around the gristly murders of members of the Osage Nation, a group of people who became the richest folks in the world overnight when oil was found under their land. As the bodies began p...
Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Jason Isbell (photo by Ben Kaye), Sturgill Simpson (photo by Ben Kaye), and Martin Scorsese (photo by Jordan Strauss) The cast for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon is adding even more star power. First it was reported that Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio would star in the new thriller, and then news broke that Jesse Plemons would take on the lead role. Now, it looks like country rockers Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson are the latest to be cast in what’s shaping up to be a truly star-studded affair. Based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon follows FBI agent Tom White (Plemons) as he tries to solve the serial murders of members of the Osage Nation over oil rights. A prominent local cattleman named Will...
Jamie Foxx’s Authorized Mike Tyson Limited Series Ropes in Director Antoine Fuqua
Jamie Foxx (photo via Ron Adar/Shutterstock) and Mike Tyson (photo via Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock) Antonie Fuqua is getting into the ring with Jamie Foxx for an authorized limited series about heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. The biographical drama has been in the works for over five years, originally intended as a feature film. Initially set at Paramount, Foxx’s passion project at various times had directors like Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese attached. The latter filmmaking legend has stuck around and will serve as executive producer on the limited series. News of Fuqua’s involvement and the shift to a TV format comes about a month after Hulu announced its own unauthorized Tyson story, Iron Mike, from the I, Tonya team. The controversial boxer called for a boycott of the st...
What’s Streaming on Hulu in March 2021
Busy times for Hulu in March. On the features front, Frank Grillo will try to escape a time loop in Boss Level, Eva Green will train for space in Proxima, Soleil Moon Frye captures her Hollywood youth in kid 90, and Devon Sawa learns the consequences of living off the grid in Hunter Hunter. Meanwhile, National Geographic will explore the life and legacy of Aretha Franklin in Genius: Aretha: Complete Season 3, the second season of FX’s Breeders begins, and Justin Roiland’s Solar Opposites returns for seconds. The back catalogue additions aren’t too shabby, either. Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light is refreshing for these pandemic times, Wes Anderson’s Rushmore is always worth a 45th rewatch, and who doesn’t love a good horror like The Social Network. Check out the full list below, which also ...
Jesse Plemons Cast as Lead in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
De Niro, DiCaprio, Da Plemons? Via The Hollywood Reporter, Jesse Plemons will get top-billing over some of the biggest names in Hollywood when he takes on the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon. After two decades as a scene-stealing character actor, Plemons has fully transitioned to prestige powerhouse, with recent star turns in Judas and the Black Messiah and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. He’s also worked with Scorsese before, nabbing a small part in 2019’s The Irishman. Lots of great thespians have put in a few minutes of work for Marty, but those that lead in his movies are often nominated for Oscars. Already a star, Plemons is stepping up to an even bigger stage. Killers of the Flower Moon is based on David Grann’s non-fiction...
Composers of the Year Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: “It’s Been an Intimidating Journey”
“You’re naming us Best Composers of All Time, right,” Trent Reznor asks over the phone. His partner-in-crime Atticus Ross laughs on another line. He’s joking, of course, but he’s also not exactly out of his element. While all-time might be a stretch — at least, for now — the two are certainly in contention for the last decade. After all, it’s been a wild 10 years for Reznor and Ross, one that began with a deafening bang. That big bang arrived at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, when Reznor and Ross triumphed over the likes of Hans Zimmer and Alexandre Desplat to win Best Original Score for David Fincher’s The Social Network. Their debut score wound up being an opening salvo as Hollywood came calling — and fast. Since then, they’ve amassed an eclectic resume that most composers spend decade...
Nigerian doctor named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world
TIME named Nigerian physician Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes are available now at time.com/time100, and Mr Funsho’s TIME100 profile is available here. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Mr Funsho, a cardiologist based in Lagos, Nigeria, is the first Rotary member to receive this honour for the organisation’s work to eradicate polio, having played an essential role in ensuring Africa’s certification as wild polio-free in August of 2020. “I’m honored to be recognized by TIME for my part in ensuring that no child in Africa will ever again be paralyzed by wild polio, a disease that once disabl...
R.I.P. Michael Chapman, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Fugitive Cinematographer Dead at 84
Michael Chapman, legendary cinematographer who worked on Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Waltz, has died at 84. His wife, filmmaker and screenwriter Amy Holden Jones, confirmed the news on Facebook, writing: “Michael Chapman ASC, love of my entire adult life, has passed. Until we meet again.” Born in New York City in 1935, Chapman was raised in the suburbs of Boston on sports and very little arts. He graduated with an English major from Columbia University and temporarily served in the United States Army. It wasn’t until his father-in-law secured him a job as an assistant cameraman that he had interest in Hollywood. It’s an interest that stuck, though. After cutting his teeth with Joseph Cates, Frank Perry, Hal Ashby, and John Cassavettes, Chapman really turned hea...
