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CBS Buys Legal Drama Written By Danny Strong, Directed By David O. Russell And Produced By Robert De Niro

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 10:31am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Danny Strong, David O. Russell, Robert De Niro
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David O. RussellDanny StrongEXCLUSIVE: Game Change writer Danny Strong, The Fighter director David O. Russell and Oscar winner Robert De Niro have teamed for a legal drama series inspired by a famous New York father/daughter lawyer duo, which has sold to CBS. The project hails from De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Prods. and CBS TV Studios.Robert De Niro Strong is writing, Russell is set to direct, with the two executive producing alongside De Niro, Rosenthal and Diane Nabatoff. The drama is inspired by the father-and-daughter defense attorneys Murray and Stacey Richman. It will center on a fictionalized version of the Richmans’ Bronx firm, where clients as notorious on the street as they are on Page Six.

In the almost 50 years of practicing law, Murray Richman, nickname “Don’t Worry Murray,” has worked for clients ranging from hip-hop stars like Jay-Z to the upper echelon of the Genovese and Lucchese crime families to former NY Governor Eliott Spitzer’s escort procurer. In addition to his cases, Murray is famous for his courtroom quips, like “I love a murder trial — one less witness to worry about” and “I’ll be brief… I’m already short.” (He is 5’6″). Below is documentarymaker Errol Morris’ video interview/portrait of Murray that provides a glimpse into his background, philosophy, personality as well as some of his cases. In it, Murray boasts about winning an acquittal for a client who had stabbed a guy to death seven times by convincing the jury that the victim kept “backing into the knife.” Stacey Richman, a star attorney of her own, has a clientele that includes Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Ja Rule, Scout Willis, Kid Cudi and Freekey Zekey.

This marks the pilot writing debut for actor-turned-writer Strong who switched to writing with the HBO movie Recount. It was followed by HBO’s Game Change, both earning him Emmy writing nominations. Strong made his feature writing debut with Lee Daniels’ upcoming The Butler. The CBS drama would make the TV directing debut for O’Russell, an Oscar nominee for The Fighter. The project stems from Tribeca’s overall deal at CBS TV Studios, which already has yielded a series on CBS, last season’s NYC 22. The company’s Berry Welsh will serve as a producer on the new project. Strong, O’Russell and Tribeca are with CAA.

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Morgan Freeman In Talks For ‘Last Vegas’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 12:21pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CBS Films, Last Vegas, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro

Morgan Freeman Last VegasEXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman is in negotiations to join the cast of Last Vegas. The film, which already has Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro on board, is about four … Read More »

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Robert De Niro Joins Michael Douglas In ‘Last Vegas;’ Joe Drake Brokering Offshore Deals At Cannes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 10, 2012 @ 4:24pm PDTTags: Last Vegas, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

CBS Films has formalized its deal for Robert De Niro to join Michael Douglas in Last Vegas, the Jon Turtletaub-directed comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one among … Read More »

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Tribeca Firenze To Bring Films And Stars To The Tuscan Sun Festival In Florence

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday May 7, 2012 @ 7:05am PDTTags: Robert De Niro

Hot on the heels of the recently-wrapped Sundance London Film and Music Festival comes another US film festival transplanted to Europe. IMG Artists and Tribeca Enterprises today unveiled Tribeca Firenze, a collaboration that will bring film premieres – and Tony Bennett – to the Tuscan Sun Festival in Florence, Italy next month. Below is a press release detailing the event:

 

New York, NY and Florence, Italy (7 May 2012) – IMG Artists (IMGA), the global leader in the performing arts and lifestyle events management, and Tribeca Enterprises (TE), the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in lower Manhattan in 2002, announced today Tribeca Firenze, which will bring world-class film premieres to the widely-anticipated Tuscan Sun Festival in Florence, Italy 11-18 June, founded by IMGA’s Barrett Wissman in 2003. Legendary performer and 17-time Grammy winner Tony Bennett is the first major celebrity to confirm participation in Tribeca Firenze.

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2012 Tribeca Festival Honors ‘War Witch’, ‘Una Noche’ Actors, Director

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 5:12pm PDTTags: Awards, Robert De Niro, Una Noche, War Witch
Mike Fleming

[April 26, 2012 – New York, NY] – The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Conrad New York in New York City. The Festival runs through April 29, 2012.

Following are the winners, awards and details on the jury who selected the recipients:

World NARRATIVE COMPETITION CATEGORIES:

The jurors for the 2012 World Narrative Competition were Patricia Clarkson, Dakota Fanning, Mike Newell, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Jim Sheridan, and Irwin Winkler.

· The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – War Witch, directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada). Winner receives $25,000 and the art award “The Wrinkles of The City, Los Angeles, Carl revealed on wood, 2011” by JR. Sponsored by AKA. The award was given by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Larry Korman, President of AKA.

Jury Comments: “This indelible character study of a girl who becomes a woman before our eyes in the midst of harrowing war gives words to the unspeakable. Riveting, heartbreaking, vivid, and eloquent, the movie balances scenes of crazy enemy hatred with moments of luminous private love.”

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nuñez Florian as Raul and Elio in Una Noche, directed by Lucy Mulloy (UK, Cuba, USA). Winners split $2,500. The award was given by Patricia Clarkson.

Jury Comments: “We give the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature to Dariel Arrechada and to Javier Nuñez Florian in Una Noche, for potent individual performances that together are even greater than the sum of their parts. Playing Raul and Elio, young Cuban men who goad each other on in a dream of fleeing Havana for a fantasy of Miami, Dariel locates Raul’s danger and sexual power as precisely as Javier taps into Elio’s essential sweetness. Both young actors are nonprofessionals who took great risks to tell a daring story. Each won our hearts.”

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Rachel Mwanza as Komona in War Witch, directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada). Winner receives $2,500. The award was given by Jim Sheridan.

Jury Comments: “A nonprofessional actress, this remarkable young woman—barely a teenager when the movie was shot—so fully inhabits her role that there are no borders to her stunning performance, no distance at all between the actress and the unforgettable character Komona.”

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Mike Fleming Moderates Universal’s Centennial Panel With Robert De Niro And Judd Apatow At Tribeca Film Festival

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 23, 2012 @ 9:01am PDTTags: Judd Apatow, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

Last Thursday, I drove into Lower Manhattan to moderate a panel for the Tribeca Film Festival to mark Universal’s 100th anniversary. I do not love doing these things, but who’s going to turn down the chance to interact with my panelists Robert De Niro and Judd Apatow (Meryl Streep was … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Olsen In ‘Red Lights’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 9:23am PDTTags: Elizabeth Olsen, Red Lights, Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver

Rodrigo Cortes’ follow-up to Buried was picked up by Millennium Entertainment in January after polarizing Sundance. The film stars Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen, Toby Jones and Joely Richardson. The story follows a psychologist and her assistant who study paranormal activity, leading them to … Read More »

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Tribeca To Feature Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Judd Apatow And More In Panel Series

By BRIAN BROOKS | Monday March 26, 2012 @ 10:30am PDTTags: Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Tribeca

Tribeca Film Festival The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival revealed its panel series as well as six new titles that will world premiere at the upcoming event. Narrative films Freaky Deaky and Future Weather as well as documentaries Portrait Of Wally and Once In A Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story will screen as part of the “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie” series, the documentary Wagner’s Dream will premiere as part of the festival’s new “Beyond the Screens: Globalize Your Thinking” series, and the narrative Knife Fight will have a screening with an extended Q&A. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Being Flynn’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 7:50pm PSTTags: Being Flynn, Focus Features, Movie Trailers, Paul Dano, Paul Weitz, Robert De Niro

Writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) adapted Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, about a young man (Paul Dano) whose longtime missing-in-action father (Robert De Niro) turns up at the homeless shelter where the son works. Focus Features plans a spring 2012 release.

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‘Boardwalk Empire’s Shea Whigham In ‘Silver Linings Playbook’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 8:28am PDTTags: Bradley Cooper, David O. Russell, Film Castings, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn
Mike Fleming

Boardwalk Empire‘s Shea Whigham has joined the cast of David O Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook alongside Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Whigham just wrapped the second season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and will next be seen … Read More »

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AFM: Robert De Niro, John Travolta Team For ‘Killing Season’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday October 29, 2011 @ 2:50pm PDTTags: John Travolta, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA – Millennium Films, Corsan Pictures and FilmEngine will begin production January 16 on “Killing Season,” starring Robert De Niro and John Travolta. Mark Steven Johnson (“Ghost Rider,” “Daredevil”) will direct from a script by Evan Daugherty

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AFM: Sean Penn To Direct ‘The Comedian’ With Robert De Niro, Kristen Wiig

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 9:36am PDTTags: Kristen Wiig, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn
Mike Fleming

Sean Penn will direct The Comedian, a film that will star Robert De Niro and Kristen Wiig. FilmNation will sell international territories at next week’s AFM. Production is expected to begin next spring. The script was written by Art Linson … Read More »

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HBO Sets John Burnham Schwartz To Write Bernie Madoff Movie Starring Robert De Niro

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 21, 2011 @ 4:40pm PDTTags: Robert De Niro
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EXCLUSIVE: HBO’s movie about Bernie Madoff starring Robert De Niro as the disgraced financier is gaining momentum with the hire of Reservation Road scribe John Burnham Schwartz to write the … Read More »

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Toronto: Emmett-Furla And Envision Set $250 Million Film Fund

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Anna Kendrick, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, Forest Whitaker, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Remington Chase, Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Stephen Frears, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films, a company that has been growing more ambitious in the film financing and production arena, has teamed with Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase’s Envision Entertainment to establish a new $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to finance a new slate of star-driven commercial films. The fund was announced as EFF principal Randall Emmett comes to Toronto to make deals on films that include the Allen Hughes-directed political corruption drama Broken City, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, and Frozen Ground, the fact-based thriller about a serial killer in Alaska that will star Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Martirosyan and Chase are executive producers on the latter.

The fund carries no set restrictions on how and where capital is allocated, but it will continue EFF’s momentum. The company recently financed the Stephen Frears-directed Lay The Favorite — with a cast that includes Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones — with films in the works that include the David Ayer-directed crime drama End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick; Fire with Josh Duhamel, Willis and Rosario Dawson; and Freelancers, a drama that stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. EFF’s Emmett continues to be Jackson’s partner in Cheetah Vision Films, which has a deal at Lionsgate. EFF will make nine films this year. Read More »

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Toronto Taps David Hare’s ‘Page Eight’ As Closer, Bulks Up Slate With Gala Starpower

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 7:46am PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Clive Owen, Gerard Butler, Gus Van Sant, James Franco, James Gandolfini, Jason Statham, Nicole Kidman, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

The 2011 Toronto Film Festival has selected David Hare’s spy drama Page Eight, starring Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, as its closing-night film and added a slew of Gala premieres and Special Presentations that boost the star wattage with the likes of Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman, James Gandolfini and Gerard Butler. The additions to the previously announced film slate includes a Future Projects lineup that features James Franco and Gus Van Sant reminiscing about My Own Private Idaho, a documentary about Exit through the Gift Shop‘s Mr. Brainwash (Thierry Guetta), and Peter Lynch’s Buffalo Days; and a Wavelengths program of international experimental films. Here is the release about the additional Galas and Special Presentations:

Toronto – The Toronto International Film Festival® announces the addition of 8 Galas and 17 Special Presentations to the high-calibre selection of crowd-pleasers premiering in September. Today’s announcement includes 14 World Premieres and reveals that Festival-goers will be treated to a programming lineup featuring world premieres from directors including Nick Murphy, Gary McKendry, Joel Schumacher, Gianni Amelio, Agnieszka Holland, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Pankaj Kapur, Anne Fontaine, Mathieu Kassovitz and Geoffrey Fletcher. The films unveiled today feature onscreen appearances by Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Shahid Kapur, Isabelle Huppert, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel and James Gandolfini, among others.

This announcement brings the final number of Galas to 20, and the final number of Special Presentations to 67.

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Page Eight
David Hare, United Kingdom International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny’s striking next-door neighbour and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Set in London and Cambridge, Page Eight is a contemporary spy film which addresses intelligence issues and moral dilemmas peculiar to the new century. Also stars Ralph Fiennes and Judy Davis.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Killer Elite’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 1:12pm PDTTags: Clive Owen, Jason Statham, Killer Elite, Movie Trailer, Open Road, Robert De Niro

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Lionsgate Acquires U.S. And UK Distribution For ‘The Big Wedding’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 12:03pm PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Ben Barnes, Diane Keaton, Film Acquisition, Justin Zackham, Katherine Heigl, Lionsgate, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, The Big Wedding, Topher Grace
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and UK rights to the ensemble comedy The Big Wedding, and has set an Oct. 19, 2012 release for the Nu Image/Millennium Films pic that stars Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton as a long-divorced couple … Read More »

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Bradley Cooper Back In ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Talks, Robert De Niro Too

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 1, 2011 @ 7:58pm PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Anne Hathaway, Bradley Cooper, David O. Russell, Derek Cianfrance, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, The Weinstein Company
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper is back in talks to star in The Silver Linings Playbook, as it looks like Mark Wahlberg will be leaving the film over what some were saying is a scheduling conflict. And Cooper’s Limitless costar Robert De Niro is also now in the conversation to join the cast. This is The Weinstein Company adaptation of the Matthew Quick novel that David O Russell will direct this fall. Cooper had reportedly been attached to the film last year, but more recently it looked like the star would be Russell’s The Fighter cohort Wahlberg. I’m told that talks are getting underway for Cooper to star with Jennifer Lawrence, who’ll play the female lead role. 

Wahlberg will exit the movie because the production start was pushed and it now bumps up against another obligation. I’m still digging, but I think the other Wahlberg movie is Broken City, the noir drama that Wahlberg is poised to star in for director Allen Hughes. In that film, Wahlberg is in talks to play a cop-turned-private eye who gets caught up in a corruption scandal involving the city mayor. Russell Crowe has been offered the role of the mayor, so it sounds like that project is crystallizing with funding from Emmett/Furla Films. The scheduling complexity arose when Lawrence won the female lead over a crop of young actresses. Because she’s shooting The Hunger Games, she needed the picture to start later than expected, and that created the conflict for Wahlberg. Read More »

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Open Road Makes Netflix Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 28, 2011 @ 9:46am PDTTags: Clive Owen, Jason Statham, Killer Elite, Netflix, Open Road, Robert De Niro, Tom Ortenberg
Mike Fleming

Well, now we know that Open Road is for real. The upstart distribution company run by Tom Ortenberg and funded by theater chains Regal and AMC have made a streaming deal with Netflix that will begin with its first film, Killler Elite, with Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. Here’s the announcement:

Los Angeles, CA, June 28, 2011 – Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) and Open Road Films today announced a multi-year agreement to bring movies distributed theatrically by Open Road Films exclusively to Netflix for digital streaming in the “pay TV window,” after their release on DVD. The deal will allow Netflix members to instantly watch OpenRoad Films titles on various devices streaming from Netflix.

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