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Martin Scorsese To Make Documentary About Bill Clinton For HBO

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 10:03am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Bill Clinton, HBO, Martin Scorsese
Nellie Andreeva

Martin Scorsese will give former President Bill Clinton a documentary treatment at HBO. The pay cable network has teamed with the Oscar-winning director for a documentary spotlighting the 42nd President of the United States. Made with Clinton’s full cooperation, the film will explore his perspectives on history, politics, culture and the world, with Scorsese producing and directing, and Steve Bing producing. “A towering figure who remains a major voice in world issues, President Clinton continues to shape the political dialogue both here and around the world,” Scorsese said. “Through intimate conversations, I hope to provide greater insight into this transcendent figure.” Added Clinton, “I am pleased that legendary director Martin Scorsese and HBO have agreed to do this film. I look forward to sharing my perspective on my years as President, and my work in the years since, with HBO’s audience.”

Scorsese is a long-time Democrat with ties to the Clintons. He supported Hillary Clinton’s 2000 and 2006 Senate campaigns.

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Paramount Lands Martin Scorsese-Leo DiCaprio Pic ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures, Red Granite, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has closed a deal for domestic distribution on  The Wolf Of Wall Street, the Martin Scorsese-directed saga of the rise and fall of a Wall Street hotshot that stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. The drama is shooting in New York, and it was financed by Red Granite. The plan is to release in the fourth quarter of 2013, which gives Paramount an awards contender to add to the product the studio showed in New York yesterday.

The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler, Margot Robbie and The Walking Dead‘s Jon Bernthal. Boardwalk Empire creator Terry Winter wrote the script. This will be a hot title at AFM, but Warner Bros, which originally developed the project, gets to eyeball the bids that come in on each territory before the deals go down. Scorsese and DiCaprio last teamed at Paramount on the hit Shutter Island. Read More »

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Roger Ebert Memoir To Become Doc From Martin Scorsese And Steve Zaillian, Helmed By ‘Hoop Dreams’ Steve James

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 4:38pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Martin Scorsese, Steve Zaillian
Mike Fleming

Martin Scorsese and Steve Zaillian are teaming to produce a documentary on Roger Ebert inspired by the film critic’s 2011 memoir Life Itself. Steve James, who directed the doc Hoop Dreams, will helm it. Garrett Basch is … Read More »

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Martin Scorsese Responds To Cecchi Gori’s ‘Silence’ Lawsuit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 9:35am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cecchi Gori Pictures, Martin Scorsese, Silence
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Martin Scorsese has fired back at Cecchi Gori Pictures after the company sued him for not directing Silence, the long gestating adaptation of the Shusako Endo novel. Cecchi Gori filed sued suit in Los Angeles Superior Court … Read More »

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Martin Scorsese Sued By Producer For Not Directing ‘Silence’ As His Next Movie

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 7:39pm PDTTags: Cecchi Gori Pictures, Martin Scorsese, Silence

You can read the lawsuit here. Cecchi Gori Pictures and Cecchi Gori USA filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court today against director Martin Scorsese and his production company Sikelia Productions. Cecchi Gori says it invested more than … Read More »

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Billy Ray Takes On ‘Sinatra’ For Universal And Martin Scorsese

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 1:05pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Billy Ray, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Billy Ray to script Sinatra, the film Martin Scorsese will direct about the life of singer-actor Frank Sinatra. The film will be produced by Scott Rudin, Mandalay’s Peter Guber and Cathy … Read More »

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Jon Favreau Joins ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 24, 2012 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: Iron Man 3, Jersey Boys, Jon Favreau, Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Before he gets started directing the movie transfer of the Broadway hit musical Jersey Boys, Jon Favreau has joined the cast of the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf of Wall Street. He plays a securities lawyer … Read More »

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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Adds P.J. Byrne

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 10:28am PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

PJ Byrne Wolf Of Wall StreetP.J. Byrne has joined the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf Of Wall Street. The Horrible Bosses actor will play “Wigwam” Cohen, one of the gang of brokers that hang around with … Read More »

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MGM Files ‘Raging Bull 2′ Lawsuit Against Jake LaMotta & Sequel Producers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 3, 2012 @ 7:57pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Hollywood lawsuit, Martin Scorsese, MGM, Raging Bull, Raging Bull II

Claiming breach of contract and four other counts, MGM put the legal gloves on today with Jake LaMotta and the producers of Raging Bull 2. In a 7-page complaint filed today (read it here) against the 91-year old former boxer and RB II Productions, MGM wants the courts to order production on Raging Bull 2, which is currently filming in LA, stopped. Additionally, the studio wants to make sure the indie movie never sees the light of day. MGM also wants compensatory damages and punitive and exemplary damages and more “awarded in an amount sufficient to punish the RB II defendants and to deter those who would commit or knowingly seek to profit from similar actions, now or in the future.”

MGM alleges LaMotta had no right to allow RB II Productions the rights to his 1986 sequel book without first offering it to them. That comes from a 1976 agreement the boxer and co-author Peter Savage entered into with Chartoff-Winkler Productions. That agreement, which MGM is the successor-in-interest to, not only included his 1970 memoir but extended to any “owner-written sequel,” says the studio. MGM says that RB II has ignored the studio’s attempts to get them and LaMotta to comply with the 1976 agreement.

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Cloris Leachman Joins ‘Raging Bull II’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 3:09pm PDTTags: Cloris Leachman, Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull II

Cloris Leachman has jumped in the ring on Raging Bull II. The Emmy winning actress will play the mother of Penelope Ann Miller in the film. Raging Bull II is combo prequel and sequel to Martin Scorsese … Read More »

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Rob Reiner In ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ Talks

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday June 20, 2012 @ 12:37pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Rob Reiner, The Wolf of Wall Street

Rob Reiner is in negotiations to join Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street. The director and All In The Family star would play … Read More »

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Martin Scorsese Lends Name To U.S. Release Of ‘Safe House’ Helmer Daniel Espinosa’s ‘Easy Money’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 14, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Daniel Espinosa, Easy Money, Martin Scorsese, The Weinstein Company
Mike Fleming

New York, NY – June 14, 2012 – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it is partnering with Academy Award® winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese to present Daniel Espinosa’s acclaimed Swedish crime thriller, EASY MONEY in New York on

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Kyle Chandler Joining Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Chandler is joining Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in The Wolf Of Wall Street, the Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir that was adapted by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter. The film’s being financed by … Read More »

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Jonah Hill Set To Star With Leonardo DiCaprio In Martin Scorsese-Directed ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 4, 2012 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

Jonah Hill The Wolf Of Wall StreetBREAKING: After getting an Oscar nomination playing Brad Pitt’s wing man in Moneyball, Jonah Hill has just been set to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street, the Martin … Read More »

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Martin Scorsese And Ang Lee Tell Theater Owners That The Future Belongs To 3D: CinemaCon

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 3:09pm PDTTags: Ang Lee, CinemaCon, Martin Scorsese

Directors Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee don’t seem fazed by theater owners’ concerns about the expense of installing the technology to show movies in 3D, and moviegoers’ objections to higher-priced tickets and the glasses needed to watch them. “Absolutely it’s the future,” Scorsese said in a joint interview with Lee today at the CinemaCon Filmmakers Forum — an event partly sponsored by 3D technology company RealD. “The moment (film) started, people wanted three things: color, sound and depth.” Lee added that filmmakers “really need your support. It will be a good investment” to install projectors capable of showing 3D movies. Scorsese says that it was a liberating challenge to film Hugo with the extra dimension that reminded him of looking into a View Master. “There was something that transported you to another world,” he says. “There’s a scene where actor Sacha Baron Cohen leans in to intimidate the boy (the film’s lead character). It was like he came off the screen.” But that also made the movie more intimate.  ”People would come back and say that they liked being in that world.” He doesn’t have a strong view yet about efforts to increase the image projection speed to 48 frames a second or more from 24 frames. Although critics say the image can look cold and too precise, “we’ve already made an adjustment from the look of nitrate (film) to acetate. So that Read More »

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TOLDJA! Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio Commit To ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 19, 2012 @ 9:40am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Red Granite, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

Back in March, Deadline revealed that Martin Scorsese would next direct The Wolf Of Wall Street, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the title character after the upstart Red Granite stepped up with the funding. Here’s the official release:

Los Angeles, CA – April 19, 2012 – Martin Scorsese will direct “The Wolf of Wall Street” starring Leonardo DiCraprio. The deal, which brings Scorsese and DiCaprio together for their fifth feature collaboration, was made official today.

Red Granite Pictures owns the rights to Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, on which the film is based. Red Granite principals Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland are producing along with Leonardo DiCaprio (Appian Way), Martin Scorsese and Emma Koskoff (Sikelia Productions) and Alexandra Milchan (EMJAG Productions). Irwin Winkler and Georgia Kacandes will executive produce.

Leonardo DiCaprio will star as Jordan Belfort – the ‘Wolf of Wall Street.’

Terence Winter (“The Sopranos,” “Boardwalk Empire”) adapted the screenplay, which chronicles Belfort’s dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street, along with his hard-partying lifestyle and tumultuous personal life, which included drug and alcohol addiction.

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Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio Committing To ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ For August; Red Granite Fully Funding

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 9:33am PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Red Granite, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall StreetEXCLUSIVE: Director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are committing to make The Wolf of Wall Street their fifth collaboration. The film is based on the Jordan Belfort memoir of his days … Read More »

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Oscars Q&A Fever As Campaigns Swing Into Final Stretch: Hammond

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday February 6, 2012 @ 10:31am PSTTags: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Hugo, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Super Bowl
Pete Hammond

Hollywood has caught Q&A fever: I have now learned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has plans to keep the Q&A spirit alive year-round and not just “in season”. Academy regulations loosening rules that previously forbid members from attending filmmaker Q&As were severely relaxed this year — particularly in the months leading up to nominations, when members could attend and even be served food and drink at receptions, a past no-no. Post-nomination Q&As are limited to screenings and nominees (or others connected to nominated movies) and members are allowed to appear at just two each, with no food or receptions. But the Q&A craze has spread, and I hear the Academy has decided to make them an option at their own weekend film programs starting  in June at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. The programs (usually two on Saturday and two Sunday) give studios and distributors the opportunity to have filmmakers and actors appear after their movies for Q&As with members. Previously only films were shown, but this could increase overall attendance, a goal of the Academy’s to encourage seeing films on the big screen. Read More »

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Video: ‘Hugo’ Featurette With Crew And Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 10:00pm PSTTags: Hugo, Martin Scorsese

Paramount has shared with Deadline this new Hugo video featuring commentary from the creative team and cast members with clips from the movie.

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