It’s De Niro x 2 Notorious Mobsters in ‘The Alto Knights’
A mob boss would have a hit out for someone about this. Robert De Niro’s new gangster picture, The Alto Knights, bombed at the box office during its opening weekend. It pulled in just over $3 million domestically on a $45 million budget. The Warner Bros. film had the proper pedigree in spades. Nicholas Pileggi wrote the screenplay. It’s the latest in his list of acclaimed mob movie credits, starting with Goodfellas, for which he...
Hollywood Film Awards an Early Harbinger of Oscar Season
Coming several months before even the earliest film critics awards, the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards billed itself as the first big event and official launch of awards season. Not only that, it spotlighted talent and films that are likely to be frontrunners as the season progresses this coming winter. In a real art imitates life moment, “Argo” director and star Ben Affleck took the stage with his castmates to pick up the...
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