Oct 20 2009 'Everyone's Fine' Poster: This Christmas, Four People Will Find Adequacy
Because you've always wanted a Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Christmas Special mixed with Meet the Parents and a digital camera commercial, here's the poster for Everybody's Fine. Also, I'd just like to note that everybody is clearly not fine. Robert De Niro's face, his hypothetical left arm, and all of their careers are far from fine.
'Everybody's Fine' Poster [IMPA]
Feb 19 2009 Last Chapter of Focker Trilogy Finally in Development
You'd think that after meeting your wife's parents and then introducing them to your parents, most of your family-related comic mishaps would be over. Not the case (if you're Ben Stiller)! If you're Ben Stiller, and your father-in-law is Robert De Niro, you'll never escape from a living hell of pratfalls and nervous family interactions. You might as well kill yourself. But first have kids, because that will make for a great movie where De Niro can accuse you of milking your children:
It looks like "Little Fockers" is finally coming of age.The long-gestating third installment of the comedy franchise is maturing quickly at Universal — but with new parents.
John Hamburg has been brought on to write the screenplay after Larry Stuckey penned an earlier draft.
Meanwhile, Jay Roach, who of course directed the first two films and had been loosely attached to direct this one, will not helm the picture. The hyphenate is concentrating on the comic romp “Dinner for Schmucks” for DreamWorks and Parkes/Bowles and only will produce “Fockers.”
Among the candidates said to be in the running are comedy veteran Paul Weitz, who wrote and directed “In Good Company” and co-wrote and co-directed “About a Boy”; the quirky-comedy figure David Wain, writer-director of cult pic “Wet Hot American Summer” and Universal’s male-buddy hit “Role Models”; and Peyton Reed, who directed the current Jim Carrey starrer “Yes Man.”
On the casting side, Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson — the last of whom had unrelated small parts in the first two pics as an ex-fiance and a minister, respectively, but could have an expanded role here — are in negotiations to star in “Fockers.”
I could always tell we'd need a trilogy to tell the entire Focker arc. Such a rich narrative. At the end of Meet the Fockers, you just get the sense that Ben Stiller needs one more film where he'll finally fully rise above all the family strife, then slip and fall into a pile of dirty diapers. Classic three-act structure.
Oct 2 2008 Scorsese and De Niro Teaming Up in Typical Fashion
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro: HEARD OF THEM? Of course you have. They did the movie with the cab operator, the good fellows one, black & white boxer, and I think some others, and now they're teaming again to bring us yet another movie about the mob. From Variety:
Paramount Pictures is plotting a return to organized crime for Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Studio has set Steve Zaillian ("Gangs of New York", "Schindler's List") to adapt "I Heard You Paint Houses," the book about the mob assassin who many believe was involved in the death of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.Scorsese is attached to direct. De Niro will play Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders.
Pic’s title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. Book was written by Charles Brandt, who befriended Sheeran shortly before the latter’s death in 2003. Among the crimes Sheeran confessed to Brandt, according to the 2004 book, was the killing and dismemberment of Hoffa, carried out on orders from mob boss Russell Bufalino.
The combination of Scorsese, De Niro, and mob drama is like dough, cheese, and marinara sauce. You put them together, you pretty much know what you're getting (hint: it's Italian), but that's alright, because even at its worst it's still pretty good. I'll take it.
Sep 8 2008 De Niro Leaves 'Edge of Darkness', Presumably Now in Darkness
Here's a tip: if you're ever directing a Robert De Niro movie, do not try to get this really awesome shot where you capture De Niro, the Boston skyline, and a golf bunker all in the frame at once. I know you're thinking, "But that's an amazing shot, symbolic of how the weight of city life can pull a man down and get him stuck, like in a sand trap," but Robert De Niro hates that shot, and he will leave the production if you try to get this amazing shot. Or at least that's what I got out of this story:
Just days after he arrived in Massachusetts to begin filming scenes for Edge of Darkness, Robert De Niro has quit the film. "Sometimes things don't work out; it's called creative differences," a spokesman for the actor told Daily Variety. Earlier this week the Boston Herald reported that De Niro had been spotted filming scenes at the 15th hole of the Gannon Golf Club while director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) attempted to set up a shot that would show the actor, a sand trap and the Boston skyline in the shot.
This would have been the first team-up between Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro, your favorite actor and your favorite drunk anti-semite who was in Lethal Weapon. I guess some things are just too beautiful to live.
De Niro Leaves Sand Trap and Quits Movie [Studio Briefing]
Aug 18 2008 'Righteous Kill' R-Rated Trailer: Pacino and De Niro Do Whatever They Want
Here's the new effin' & jeffin'-filled trailer to Righteous Kill, a film only notable for the presence of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two actors once considered impressive to watch. I like how you can tell both of them have completely abandoned the idea of taking direction. Just from this trailer, you get a pretty clear image of what the set was like: Pacino shouting at the camera guy, "You, with the picture machine, keep up, 'cause Bobby and I are gonna be quick, and we don't do take-twos!" The director just sits there with his head in his hands, "God, why do they keep reasserting how much they like guns? We know they like guns."
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Jun 11 2008 'What Just Happened?' Poster: Robert De Niro Does Not Play Suck/Blow
"You said you want me to suck what to my mouth? I got something you can suck to your mouth, pal. Do you know who I am? Do you have any f***in' clue who I am? You're damn right I'm Robert F***in' De Niro, and Bobby De Niro does not suck things to his mouth. You will use the Photograph Shoppe to computer this item on my face. End of story. Now take the f***in' picture."
'What Just Happened' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]
Mar 11 2008 'Righteous Kill' Trailer: De Niro, Pacino Acting Tough
You ever wonder what it would be like to get modern screen legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino to star as partners in a classic cop story? From this trailer, it looks like it's a lot like when you let two old guitar legends improvise--producing a meandering, two-hour long riff that no one wants to listen to--except with more acting like a tough guy.
The director probably said something like, "You guys freeform, do your schtick, whatever you want--we'll give Leguizamo or 50 Cent some lines that will sort it out in the end." We'll see how that works out, but still, nice call throwing the Rolling Stones song in the trailer, giving the vague impression this might be a sub-par Scorsese film.
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Nov 8 2007 'Righteous Kill' Preview - With De Niro and Pacino!
Speak of the devil (the devil being corrupt cop thrillers), it's another corrupt cop thriller! But Righteous Kill, as its preview will shove in your face, holds the distinct honor of starring screen legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, together for probably the last time until they found a Godfather II-themed retirement home.
The preview also features 50-Cent and a thumping backing track of some kind of electro-metal, and screaming. It's like they're trying to pull in fans of the greatest actors of a generation, but also don't want to lose that coveted angsty 8th grader demographic.
Thanks for the tip, Adam.
Righteous Kill Preview [Cinema Notizie]
Nov 7 2007 'Righteous Kill' Recreates 'Heat' With Old Guys
As seen with Sylvester Stallone pumping his decrepit frame into a muscled, steroid-filled, grunting mass to reprise roles in Rambo and Rocky Balboa, and with Harrison Ford proving that, with the proper medications and pulley arrangements, he can, in fact, still crack a whip in Indiana Jones, there's nothing an aging actor likes more than to show the world "I've still got it! (though it's now grossly wrinkled.)"
Now, desperate to reclaim the glory of Heat, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are again sharing the screen in Righteous Kill, and sharing another private drink.
"You think we're too old to sit comfortably across from each other at a table? Wrong. Though our faces now look like loose rubber masks, here we are, just like in Heat! Remember?"
"What year is it, 1995? Might as well be, from the looks of us! Still got it!"
First Official 'Righteous Kill' Pics! [Cinematical]
Oct 26 2007 Pacino and De Niro Together for 'Righteous Kill', Dude
Isn't it great to see two of cinema's greatest actors, stars of Heat, together again, fat and old, in a movie no one will remember? It's called Righteous Kill, about two NYC detectives hunting down a vigilante on the force, and it was apparently titled by a ninja turtle.
Jun 27 2007 De Niro and Pacino Together for Only 50 Cent
50 Cent to star in movie about a Civil War re-enactor and his lesbian, cat-loving best friend
Word around the campfire is that De Niro, Pacino, and 50 Cent are all coming together for Righteous Kill, where 50 reportedly will play a drug dealer who helps detectives De Niro and Pacino catch a serial killer.
Hard to say whether 50'll be able to pull it off (so far Snoop in Training Day is the only rapper ever to give a decent performance in a drama) but one thing is for certain, he'll be talking through his teeth.
Oh, and since there isn't a script yet, all of this could be bullshit. Having an actual script to shoot is often the last step in Hollywood - must be why they make such consistently great cinema. Go America!
