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In July 1985, the biggest movie in the country was “Back to the Future.” The number one song was “A View to a Kill” by Duran Duran, from the James Bond movie of the same name. A large number of the movies listed in the top 10 the weekend of July 19, even beyond the obvious “Back to the Future,” offer a murderer’s row of movies we still talk about today: “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” “Cocoon,” “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” “St. Elmo’s Fire.” Just for good measure, “E.T.” was re-released into theaters that weekend.

Do you know what’s difficult? It’s difficult to have a brand-new, wide release film and have it finish 14th at the box office. Want to know what’s even more difficult? To have a brand-new, wide release film finish 14th at the box office, and then, 40 years later, for it to still be culturally...

If you are the parent of a curious child whose reading level is well above their age, and, most importantly, seems to be seriously into horror, you're going to want to introduce them to the literature of Stephen King earlier than might feel responsible. If they can handle mainstream screamfests like "Poltergeist," "Alien," and "The Omen" (1976), they are ready to begin their lifelong journey through King's oeuvre. And he is so accessible as a storyteller in terms of vocabulary that much of what might seem beyond a burgeoning reader's ken is surprisingly graspable. The content can be a bit much, but King's edgiest works are unlikely to appeal to kids in the first place. They're not going to get a whole lot out of "Gerald's Game." They will want to read "Pet Sematary."

Where should they start? That's easy. "Night Shift." Published in 1978, King's collection of 20 short stories range from...

James Gandolfini's son Michael Gandolfini has downplayed the likelihood of returning for another Sopranos sequel. Michael played a younger version of his father's iconic character Tony Soprano in the 2021 spinoff The Many Saints of Newark.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight recently, Michael wouldn't completely rule out the possibility of Tony Soprano returning but insisted the decision was entirely up to franchise creator David Chase.

Michael Gandolfini Addresses The Likelihood of New Sopranos Prequel

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"[Let's set] the record straight. You know, it's David's universe, it's up to David ultimately," he clarified. "I know that David's working on some other things, not Sopranos related, which would be exciting."

Michael added that he remained hopeful he would have the chance to work with Chase again someday,...

Internet! Stand-by! It’s the trailer for a Superman film, as we head to Milton Keynes for Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.

You can’t beat the flurry of excitement for a new Superman film, and here’s the trailer many of you have been waiting to see. Directed by Sidney J Furie and penned by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace stars Christopher Reeve in the title role. He’s joined by Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor once again, along with Jackie Coooper, Margot Kidder and Marc McClure. Plus, introducing Mark Pillow as Nuclear Man, the latest foe to go up against Superman. It’s set to be quite a battle.

Gone from its immediate forerunner is Richard Pryor, and instead, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace resets the saga a little, putting the emphasis firmly back onto the Man Of Steel (Reeve...

Unlike Superman and Superman II, Superman III didn’t even bother teasing the next installment in the franchise. Really, by the time that movie’s end credits hit, did anyone even want another entry? Hadn’t the Salkinds done enough damage to the Man of Steel? And yet, as we all know, a fourth installment in the Superman series did indeed hit theaters…with a nearly unmatched thud.

If you remember from our previous instalment of What Happened to This Movie?!, Superman III was plagued with all sorts of problems both on and off the screen. So what happened this time around? Turns out, the series would be facing its greatest battles yet, with the rights being passed to another studio, its star only signing on so he could finance another movie altogether and the budget getting chopped in more than half!

And so, let’s suit up one more...

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a rousing sendoff for Star Trek: The Original Series' cast, but Walter Koenig is also absolutely right to criticize how Star Trek VI portrayed the USS Enterprise's supporting cast. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, written by Meyer and Denny Martin Flynn, from a story by Leonard Nimoy, Mark Rosenthal, and Lawrence Konner, Star Trek VI saw the Klingons sue for peace with the United Federation of Planets after an ecological disaster. Only Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise could uncover a conspiracy to prevent peace with the Klingons.

Star Trek VI marked the last time the entire cast of Star Trek: The Original Series performed together. Although William Shatner's Captain Kirk, James Doohan's Scotty, and Walter Koenig's Pavel Chekov returned in Star Trek Generations, the latter two were only present in the film's prologue. For Star Trek's original cast,...

Pachinko is a sweeping historical drama series created by Soo Hugh. Based on a 2017 novel of the same name by author Min Jin Lee, the Apple TV+ series follows four generations of a Korean family, beginning with Sunja as she leaves her family in Korea under Japanese rule to move to Koreatown, Osaka to start a new life but struggles with discrimination in Japanese society. Pachinko stars Youn Yuh-jung, Soji Arai, Kim Min-ha, Yu-na, Jin Ha, Han Jun-woo, Jeong In-ji, Jung Eun-chae, Lee Min-ho, Kaho Minami, Steve Sang-Hyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson, and Kim Sung-kyu. So, if you loved the historical drama, epic romantic stories, and complex characters in Pachinko, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Little America is an anthology drama series developed by Lee Eisenberg, Emily V. Gordon, and Kumail Nanjiani. Based on true stories of...

Superman’s daring exploits have made for great television since the '40s, and many of his classic villains have made their way off the page and onto the screen. While big-time baddies like Lex Luthor rear their bulbous heads pretty often, legendary foes like Bizarro Superman get less airtime. Because of this, many different versions of Bizarro exist across television.

Some are longer lived than others and some come with huge changes to the character’s backstory, but all seek to pay homage to an unforgettable enemy. Bizarro’s unique blend of raw power and moral ambiguity makes him a potent parable of the Man of Steel, and seeing how different writers adapt his story for television is an insight into what makes him tick. While some reduce him to a mindless monster, the best adaptations play into the questions about good and evil inherent in the character’s design.

Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti with his father’s (Ray Liotta) wife Giuseppina (Michela De Rossi) and his nephew Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) in The Many Saints Of Newark

In the second instalment with Alessandro Nivola, star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark we discuss how Chase and Taylor ended up deciding to have Ray Liotta play his own brother, the need for Dickie Moltisanti (Nivola) to unburden himself as Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, had in The Sopranos series, Al Hirt versus Miles Davis, Alessandro’s longtime double Carl Paoli, the David O Russell technique, and why he wanted to be an actor since he was a kid.

'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti (Ray Liotta), Buddha (Joey Diaz), Junior Soprano (Corey Stoll), Pussy Bonpensiero (Samson Moeakiola), and Paulie Walnuts (Billy Magnussen)

From New York City, Alessandro Nivola joined me on Zoom for an in-depth conversation on The Many Saints Of Newark...

Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark star Alessandro Nivola with Anne-Katrin Titze on Gay Talese: “He’s brilliant! I read a lot of his stuff"

Star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark, Alessandro Nivola, in the first instalment spoke with me in great detail on his character Dickie Moltisanti, the influence of Gay Talese, and his many upcoming projects. Films in the pipeline include working with Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, and Chris Cooper on Matt Ruskin’s Boston Strangler and Todd Haynes’s Peggy Lee biopic Fever with Michelle Williams.

Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints Of Newark: "He [David Chase] wanted to tell a new story."

Earlier this year, Alessandro filmed again with his American Hustle director David O Russell and had a cameo in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, which has his and Emily Mortimer’s children,...

“It’s a comfort knowing that the work lives on,” David Chase, the writer, director and producer who created The Sopranos, told me Saturday as we sat down in front of a theater full of students at Chapman University, where I now teach, to record the first of several live episodes of Awards Chatter that I will be conducting on the Orange, California, campus. The 76-year-old, who co-wrote, with Lawrence Konner, the new film The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel, which we had just screened for the students, continued, “See, I didn’t think that Sopranos would live on at all even after ...

“It’s a comfort knowing that the work lives on,” David Chase, the writer, director and producer who created The Sopranos, told me Saturday as we sat down in front of a theater full of students at Chapman University, where I now teach, to record the first of several live episodes of Awards Chatter that I will be conducting on the Orange, California, campus. The 76-year-old, who co-wrote, with Lawrence Konner, the new film The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel, which we had just screened for the students, continued, “See, I didn’t think that Sopranos would live on at all even after ...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for both “The Sopranos” and “The Many Saints of Newark.”]

Christopher Moltisanti haunts Alan Taylor’s “The Many Saints of Newark,” and not just in name (you don’t need to be too familiar with Italian to realize that “Many Saints” translates to “Moltisanti”) but in actual spirit. The film literally opens in a New Jersey graveyard, one filled with headstones boasting the names of families familiar to any seasoned “Sopranos” watcher, before settling on a discomfitingly familiar face, forever imposed on his own gravestone: Christopher Moltisanti, Aka Chrissy, the son of Dickie Moltisanti, who serves as the film’s leading man (as played by franchise newbie Alessandro Nivola).

Voiced by Michael Imperioli, who starred in the original series as the misguided if plucky young mobster, Chrissy guides us through the opening moments of the film — Chrissy! from beyond the grave! — which follows the exploits of his father and a young Tony Soprano...

“The Sopranos” creator David Chase has signed a five year first-look deal with WarnerMedia.

News of the deal comes on the day that “The Many Saints of Newark,” a “Sopranos” prequel film written by Chase and Lawrence Konner, is debuting in theaters and on HBO Max. Under his new deal, Chase will develop content for HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Nicole Lambert is the executive vice president of Chase Films and producer of “The Many Saints of Newark” alongside Chase.

“David Chase is one of the most gifted storytellers working in the film and television industry,” said Casey Bloys, chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max. “HBO has had a long and celebrated creative partnership with David, and this deal affords us a wonderful opportunity to continue this relationship at HBO and HBO Max.”

Chase is best known for creating “The Sopranos,” which is frequently in...

(L-r) Billy Magnussen as Paulie Walnuts, Jon Bernthal as Johnny Soprano, Corey Stoll as Junior Soprano (in back), John Magaro as Silvio Dante, Ray Liotta as “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti and Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti in New Line Cinema and Home Box Office’s “The Many Saints Of Newark,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo credit: Barry Wetcher / Warner Bros. Courtesy of Warner Brothers Studios

The highly-anticipated “Sopranos” prequel The Many Saints Of Newark finally arrives in theaters and proves that it was worth the long wait. “The Sopranos” was the influential, award-winning television series that likely started the binge-watching phenomenon, but one of the nice things about this mobster drama is that there is no need to be a fan of the long-running series, or even to have seen a single episode, to fully enjoy this film and be drawn into its well-rounded world and thrilled by its surprise-around-every corner plot.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 30th, 2021, reviewing the new film “The Many Saints of Newark” in theaters and streaming on HBO Max beginning October 1st.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Michael Gandofini, the son of the original Tony Soprano (James Gandofini), portrays the teenage Tony, but the story belongs to Dickie Montisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who is in conflict with himself over the criminal life he’s chosen. The film is set in late 1960s/early 1970s Newark, New Jersey, in the middle of the worst race relations for a city at the time. The old ways are crumbling, and the Italian crime syndicates are feeling the heat from black mobsters … symbolized by Harold (Leslie Odom Jr). Dickie’s father (Ray Liotta) is causing his son some problems, and when a situation arises concerning father and son, Dickie turns to his father’s in-prison twin brother,...

Following a quiet stretch at the domestic box office, Sony’s comic book sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” looks to make some noise. The film opens in theaters on Friday after five delays, something of a pandemic-record.

Directed by Andy Serkis and starring Tom Hardy as an otherworldly lethal protector, the superhero movie is estimated to collect at least $50 million in its opening weekend. But, given the unpredictable moviegoing landscape, that figure comes with a symbiote-sized asterisk. Some industry experts have indicated that pent-up anticipation could propel inaugural ticket sales for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” as high as $65 million. After all, theaters have been without a buzzy new release since Disney’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” opened on the big screen nearly a month ago. That should mean the box office is primed for a hit. Sony, however, is tempering expectations, knowing that we...

The highly anticipated “The Sopranos” movie prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark,” makes its grand debut on Friday, both in theaters and on HBO Max. Director Alan Taylor and screenwriters David Chase and Lawrence Konner return to the mafia world of Newark, New Jersey to tell the story of Tony Soprano’s upbringing in the ’60s and ’70s. This time around, Tony is played by Michael Gandolfini, real-life son of James Gandolfini, who died in 2013. “The Sopranos” aired on HBO between 1999 and 2007 and won a total of 21 Emmy Awards, including Best Drama Series twice (2004 and 2007).

Will Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Many Saints of Newark” stage a box office shakedown or swim with the fishes? Beginning right now at Gold Derby, you can predict which movies will earn the #1 through #5 spots at the U.S. box office for this weekend, October 1 – October 3. You can also forecast how much money the weekend...

To describe verbatim the first-or-so minute of The Many Saints of Newark would be to spoil not only one of the film’s more audacious twists, painstakingly concealed by pre-release publicity materials, but also one of the most shocking story developments from the final episodes of The Sopranos. Right off the bat, the film pitches its audience an unexpected and unapologetically quirky Billy Wilder throwback framing device that puts a new spin on some of the show’s most cosmically ambitious themes: the insistence that every person, everywhere, has an equally rich and mythic inner life, and the teased suggestion of supernatural transcendence beyond death—an afterlife from which the world of the living might be observed through an uncanny veil mimicking cinema itself. You’ll just need to have seen the TV show—all six-and-a-half seasons—to fully appreciate it.

Alienating Sopranos neophytes is clearly not a matter of great concern to Many Saints,...

Critics in their first look at “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark” are celebrating the film’s style and deconstruction of the gangster drama, with some saying it captures the old magic of “The Sopranos” even as it’s perhaps overstuffed with callbacks, references and characters to the series.

“When it’s focusing on the brutality and ugliness of its world, ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is something remarkable,” Chris Evangelista writes for /Film. “The script, by ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, often gets way too cute with its winking references to the show. It’s as if someone, somewhere, suggested that this film follow the lead of modern popular blockbuster entertainment and overload itself with easter eggs.”

“Many Saints” follows the story of Dickie Moltisanti, the father of the series regular Christopher Moltisanti who was a huge influence on a young Tony Soprano, played here...

Tony Soprano may or may not be dead, but unfortunately James Gandolfini is, so to continue The Sopranos saga, creator David Chase has flipped back the calendar to craft something of an origins story for America’s favorite crime family in The Many Saints Of Newark. Set for domestic release while wedded to a simultaneous HBO Max bow on October 1, the Warner Bros/New Line film has its world premiere on September 22 at the Tribeca Fall Preview at New York’s Beacon Theater.

For the legion of the series’ fans, there will be adjustments to be made, voids to be filled. And it takes a little while. We didn’t spend just a couple of hours in one movie with all those fabulous actors in indelible roles — we lived with them for eight years through 86 episodes of compelling, obsessive, highly addictive viewing.

Chase, who scripted the Alan Taylor-directed film...

In its heyday, there was an ad campaign for “The Sopranos” that played, in an obvious but irresistible way, off the word “family.” The show was about Tony Soprano and his tempestuous suburban family, and it was also, of course, about that other family: the Mafia. When it comes to television, though, there is always an additional meaning to family. For anyone addicted to a drama or comedy series — it doesn’t matter if it’s about Jersey Mob soldiers, lowly office workers, or astrophysicist geeks — the regulars on the show come to seem like a family, and they become your family.

“The Sopranos,” though it was about the most dangerous family we’d ever seen on television, had that quality. Every Sunday night, we watched an episode worthy of comparison to the Martin Scorsese of “GoodFellas,” but we also got to hang with Tony and his crew: the bad-boy sociopath protégé Christopher,...

David Chase had been working in television for decades before “The Sopranos” immediately made a cultural impact in 1999 and continued to do so up until its deliberately abrupt conclusion in 2007. Burned by his bad experiences trying to do something original for network television in the 1980s and ‘90s, Chase claimed in interviews to be drawn to more cinematic models, and this showed on “The Sopranos,” sometimes in some unusually expressive visual compositions, which was enough to get some of the episodes run at the Museum of Modern Art in 2001.

Yet the strength of “The Sopranos” came from its TV-mandated ability to spend lavish amounts of time developing characters so three-dimensional that they felt like real, funny, sharp, stupid, horrifying, contradictory people from life. If you go back and look at “The Sopranos” — and many people have since it left the air — what stands out is not the visual dynamics so...

The Sopranos was the premier gangster series and it changed television. The HBO show drew from David Chase’s memories, expertise, and love of mob movies of the past. The Many Saints of Newark has all those things, but it won’t just be a big screen version of the influential small-screen hit. It will be a fully formed gangster movie.

During an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jon Bernthal, who plays Tony’s father Giovanni “Johnny Boy” Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, admitted he hasn’t yet seen the film, and couldn’t give too much away even if he wasn’t upholding the tradition of omerta. “What I will say is that it’s different,” Bernthal told Seth Meyers. “I think people are going to go in expecting The Sopranos. It’s not that.”

Set in 1960s Newark, The Many Saints of Newark explores...

Exclusive: Some 14 years after he said all he had to say about a Jersey mob family, and ended The Sopranos in shocking fashion, it turns out David Chase has much more to say. The result is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel of sorts set against the Newark race riots, and focusing on charming sociopath mobster Dickie Moltisanti. He is the father of Christopher, Tony’s right-hand man in the series played by Michael Imperioli (who makes his presence known in a way we’ll leave as a surprise). Dickie is a mentor to young Tony (played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael), and an ally of Harold McBrayer (played by Leslie Odom Jr), an up-and-coming gangster on the Black side of town who becomes his mortal enemy.

Although he oversaw an iconic dramatic show that became the template for auteur series and put HBO on the map,...

Tribeca Enterprises is kicking off its newest event series, billed as “Tribeca Fall Preview,” on a high note. “The Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” will have its world premiere on the opening night of Tribeca’s first fall event on September 22 at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway.

“The Many Saints of Newark” follows a young Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) during his youth in one of the most tumultuous periods in Newark, New Jersey’s history. Its a time when rivals of the Sopranos’ Dimeo crime family are challenging them for power against the backdrop of the Newark race riots. Dickie Moltisanti — Tony’s idol, Carmela Soprano’s cousin, and Christopher Moltisanti’s father — struggles to manage his professional and personal responsibilities while influencing Tony’s life trajectory that led him to become the powerful mob boss depicted in the acclaimed HBO series that ran from 1999-2007.

Gandolfini...

When Michael Gandolfini arrived at Vera Farmiga’s house to meet her for the first time, he had a bouquet of flowers in hand, like a dutiful son visiting his mother. Which he more or less was, since he would be playing the teenage Tony Soprano to her Livia in the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark (in theaters and on HBO Max October 1st). As a young actor with a modest résumé who snagged such a huge role partly because he was the son of James Gandolfini,...

‘Sopranos’ fans rejoice, finally the first trailer has arrived for the prequel movie ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ and it promises not to disappoint.

The film follows a young Anthony Soprano growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano.

Directed by Alan Taylor from a script by series creator David Chase & Lawrence Konner, the film stars Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi,...

The legendary gangster Tony Soprano returns in the first trailer for The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. Looking fresh-faced and with a glorious head of hair, the young Tony is played by Michael Gandolfini, the real-life son of the late great James Gandolfini, who himself played the iconic mob boss throughout all six seasons of creator David Chase's critically acclaimed crime drama.

The trailer begins with the iconic voice of James Gandolfini senior, who reminds us all that, when you grow up like he did, you've got to follow a code. Whatever that code may be. In this case, it seems to be to stand up for yourself at any given opportunity, with Michael Gandolfini perfectly portraying that same hair-pin trigger that unleashes the lumbering temper of Tony Soprano.

With hopes of going to college, Tony Soprano is taken under the wing of his uncle, Alessandro Nivola's Dickie Moltisanti,...

Legends aren’t born. They’re made. A prequel to The Sopranos, watch the new trailer for The Many Saints Of Newark.

The film is slated for release in theaters nationwide on September 24, 2021 and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. It is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and has been rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.

New Line Cinema’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is the much-anticipated feature film prequel to David Chase’s groundbreaking, award-winning HBO drama series “The Sopranos.” Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes,...

A young Tony Soprano enters the family business in the new trailer for the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, which is set to open October 1st and stream same-day on HBO Max.

The new clip offers the first proper look at Michael Gandolfini — son of late Sopranos star James Gandolfini — as the teenage Anthony (there were a few smaller glimpses in a trailer for Warner Bros. 2021 movie slate, released earlier this year). He appears well suited to fill his father’s shoes, as evidenced in the opening moments of the clip,...

If you wondered just how closely the “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” would tie in to the series, the first trailer for the film shows how a teen named Anthony has “got what it takes” to become Tony Soprano.

This exciting first look at “The Many Saints of Newark” opens with a teacher calling Tony’s mother (Vera Farmiga) into her office and explaining that based on an exam, her son has a high Iq, even though he has a D+ average. “The results tell us, he’s a leader,” the teacher says.

The film then shows how Anthony — as played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini, and with quite the resemblance — was slowly molded into the mob boss we all know. As a result, “Many Saints of Newark” centers heavily on Tony’s relationship with his uncle Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a figure...

Cry Macho, The Many Saints Of Newark also move.

Warner Bros has pushed back the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune from October 1 to October 22, and has moved Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho and Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark.

Dune will now avoid going one week prior to the US launch of MGM’s James Bond thriller No Time To Die on October 8.

It will open in 3D and IMAX and is set to receive its world premiere out of competition in Venice Film Festival on September 3, followed by a world exclusive Imax screening in TIFF,...

In a minor shuffle of its fall film calendar, Warner Bros. has moved “Dune” back three weeks to now open in late October.

The studio also shifted the release dates of Clint Eastwood’s next movie “Cry Macho,” moving it up by roughly a month, and the “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” back by just one week.

“Dune” will now open Oct. 22, 2021, back from Oct. 1, and the film will play in 3-D and IMAX in theaters. “Cry Macho,” which was dated for Oct. 22, will now debut Sept. 17. And “Many Saints” will shift back into “Dune’s” previous slot, opening Oct. 1, moving back from Sept. 24.

“Dune” now moves out of the way of the James Bond film “No Time To Die,” which opens on Oct. 8, and into a more favorable weekend where it will be up against Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” from Focus Features, the...

Despite being attached to one of the most critically acclaimed television series of all time, The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark has flown somewhat under the radar ever since the project was first announced. Well, actor and star John Magaro has now provided further insight into the movie's plot, which will hopefully help put The Many Saints of Newark on more people's must-watch lists.

"It's partly about Tony Soprano's roots - Michael Gandolfini plays one of the versions of young Tony, and he's amazing in it. The real focus though is on Dickie Moltsanti (played by Alessandro Nivola), who is the father of Christopher Moltisanti [one of the series' main protagonists]."

John Magaro, who plays a younger version of Tony Soprano's right-hand man Silvio Dante in the movie, has also discussed stepping into the shiny shoes of an already well-established character. Portrayed beautifully by Steven Van Zandt throughout The Sopranos original run, Magaro is confident that he,...

Upcoming The Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, will delve into the younger years of iconic mobster Tony Soprano, played by the late, great James Gandolfini's real-life son, Michael. While the prospect of taking over as such a celebrated character would be terrifying for any performer, the task will no doubt prove to be even more emotional for the young actor, who has now provided some insight into both the movie itself, and how he came to win the role.

"I had this unspoken trust that David wasn't going to cast me if there was even a shred that this isn't going to work."

Despite being Gandolfini's real-life offspring, Michael Gandolfiniauditioned for writer and crator David Chase just like everybody else. In fact, the actor initially had no intention of putting himself forward for the role. Upon hearing about The Many Saints of Newark, Gandolfini's first thoughts were "Absolutely not.

The Sopranos lead, Tony Soprano, will forever be remembered as one of the most compelling characters of all time, thanks largely to the intensely committed work of the late, great actor James Gandolfini. Tony will soon make his triumphant return to the screen, albeit in childhood form, with the legacy being picked up by Gandolfini's real-life son, Michael Gandolfini, in upcoming prequel The Many Saints of Newark. Now, a new trailer for HBO Max's 2021 slate offers our first look at the young actor in the role.

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While the clip is very short, occurring around the trailer's 20-second mark, we can already see how much Michael Gandolfini looks like his father, who sadly passed away in 2013. Not only does Gandolfini Jr.

Our first look at the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark has arrived, and it features a bittersweet look at a young Tony Soprano.  James Gandolfini starred as the New Jersey gangster on the acclaimed HBO series from 1999 to 2007. The actor, who won three Emmys for his role, passed away at the age of 51 in 2013 following a heart attack. In 2019, it was revealed that James' son Michael Gandolfini, 21, would make his film debut as a younger version of the character in The Many Saints of Newark, written by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film, which was originally slated for a 2020...

Audiences will sadly have to wait even longer before returning to the world of The Sopranos with upcoming prequel The Many Saints of Newark, with release having now been pushed back to Fall 2020. Just one of many projects that have been delayed again amid the ongoing global situation, The Many Saints of Newark will now hit screens on September 24, 2021, pushing it back a full year from its original release date.

While it has not yet been confirmed, it is likely that New Line Cinema will release The Many Saints of Newark both in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, matching Warner Bros.' stated release plan for all its 2021 theatrical movies.

The Many Saints of Newark will precede David Chase's hugely successful crime drama, The Sopranos, and provide some insight into the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano. "I was interested in Newark and life in Newark at that time,...

“The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” has been pushed again and will now open this fall, Warner Bros. announced on Wednesday.

“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open September 24, 2021 from its original March 2021 release.

“The Many Saints of Newark” is helmed by Alan Taylor, a frequent director of “The Sopranos,” based on a script by the series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, and it’s set during the Newark riots in the 1960s, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. At the time it was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and more than 700 people were injured during the riot.

The film also follows the formative years of a young Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael. Vera Farmiga,...

Warner Bros is moving The Sopranos prequel pic The Many Saints of Newark from March 12 to Sept. 24. New Line is releasing.

Remember, WarnerMedia announced that its entire 2021 slate is going to theatrical and HBO Max at the same time, but big chains like AMC are negotiating terms on a film-by-film basis. So that means not everything Warners is releasing will play those theaters that are open coast to coast. It would seem conceivable that Saints is ripe completely for HBO Max since it’s a prequel to the Emmy-winning HBO mob series. However, Saints was greenlit two years ago as a theatrical release before the streaming service even existed. A move to September positions Saints to a time of year when more theaters will potentially be open, not to mention, it also puts the movie into consideration for the 2021-22 awards season. Most distributors for the first quarter are delaying...

Audiences will have to wait to return to the world of “The Sopranos.” “The Many Saints of Newark,” an upcoming film that serves as a prequel to the long-running HBO series, has again delayed its big-screen debut.

The movie will now open on Sept. 24, 2021 — an entire year after initially planned. “The Many Saints of Newark,” which is being produced by New Line Cinemas and released by Warner Bros., was originally set for September 2020 but was later rescheduled to March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Traditional Hollywood studios have spent the better part of last year postponing their biggest films due to widespread theater closures and the general uncertainty over audiences’ willingness to return to the movies after cinemas reopened. But that’s not the impetus for “The Many Saints of Newark’s” latest delay since it will debut simultaneously in movie theaters and on HBO Max. Warner Bros. is taking...

John Magaro doesn’t mind being “that guy,” but he’s once again proved that he’s a name to be reckoned with after delivering one of 2020’s best performances in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow. While the casting choice seems obvious in hindsight, Reichardt was initially reluctant to cast the Ohio native in the lead role of Cookie until Todd Haynes, Magaro’s director in Carol, endorsed the idea to his friend Reichardt.

To play the role of an early 19th-century frontiersman and cook in Oregon Territory, Magaro had to attend a frontier boot camp to learn his character’s knack for making “oily cakes.” With the help of a Chinese immigrant named King-Lu (Orion Lee), Cookie’s doughnut-like pastry turned their pop-up business into an overnight success.

“Luckily, we were able to do this kind of frontier boot camp a week before we started shooting. We stayed in...

Exclusive: Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa, who signed on to do the popular Talking Sopranos podcast on a lark, have just signed a big deal with the HarperCollins book imprint William Morrow to write an oral history of the iconic HBO show. They’ll provide insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and little-known facts from cast and crew that could only come from those on the inside.

Imperioli played Christopher Moltisanti and Schirripa Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, two soldiers under Tony Soprano, played by the late great James Gandolfini in the David Chase-created series. They’ve been dissecting each episode on their podcast since April, and Talking Sopranos has proven a tonic for the pandemic and grown to over 5 million downloads. While they told Deadline they hadn’t really watched episodes since filming them until they began the podcast, they are now steeped in Sopranos lore and know where the bodies are buried.

Tony Soprano is alive and well in a brand new scene from “The Sopranos” written by series creator David Chase. The scene imagines how Tony, Carmela, Meadow, Christopher, and other fan favorite characters would react while being quarantined together during the coronavirus pandemic. Chase’s mini “Sopranos” script made its debut on the latest episode of Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa’s “Talking Sopranos” podcast.

“Things are tough right now with all the bad news and things that are going on, it’s nice to have something to laugh about,” Imperioli said while introducing the scene. “David thought it was important to bring some levity to the world, and he wrote these lines about the Soprano characters relating to the coronavirus.”

“The Sopranos” signed off the air after six seasons in June 2007 with a memorable finale that left the fate of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) up in the air. The...

As the current production shutdown and movie theater closure roles on, Warner Bros. has shuffled around its 2020/2021 release calendar, with several major upcoming projects being delayed. Amongst the movies that will now arrive later than expected is The Many Saints of Newark, the upcoming prequel to The Sopranos. Also affected are the untitled Elvis biopic, Will Smith's King Richard, the sci-fi thriller Reminiscence and the untitled Fred Hampton biopic.

The Many Saints of Newark, which is directed by Alan Taylor, was originally supposed to arrive on September 25 this year. Instead, it will now arrive on March 12, 2021. On its new date, it will be competing directly with Disney's animated Raya and the Last Dragon. The Sopranos creator David Chase co-wrote the screenplay for the movie with Lawrence Konner. It is set during the 60s and will focus on a young Tony, played by Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James Gandolfini,...

It appears that the fall release date of The Many Saints of Newark, HBO’s long-anticipated prequel TV movie to its transformative peak television smash, The Sopranos, was born under a bad sign, taking shape during an era in which the film and television industry—and everything else in the civilized world—has been derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequently, the movie has just met the nowadays-inevitable fate of having its release date shifted back.

The Many Saints of Newark is now scheduled to premiere on HBO on Friday, March 12, 2021. The move represents a nearly six-month shift from its previously scheduled debut on September 25 of this year. The film joins other properties under the Warner corporate tentpole in wide-reaching schedule changes, notably DC movies, The Batman, Shazam 2 and The Flash, with the former two getting hit with delays and, intriguingly, the notoriously-stalled latter project—representing the solo cinematic debut...

“The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” and Will Smith’s biopic “King Richard” have both shifted to 2021 as part of a shuffle of the Warner Bros. release calendar that also resulted in “The Batman,” “Shazam 2!” and “The Flash” all moving dates.

“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open March 12, 2021 from its original September 2020 release, and “King Richard” will move back almost a full year to November 19, 2021.

“The Batman” will now open on October 1, 2021, moving back four months. The untitled Elvis biopic from director Baz Luhrmann and starring Tom Hanks is moving back a month to Nov. 5, 2021. “The Flash” will now open June 3, 2022, a month earlier than planned, and “Shazam 2!” is shifting to Nov. 4, 2022 from an April 2022 release date.

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Among some of the other changes, Lisa Joy’s sci-fi and romance “Reminiscence” — starring Rebecca Ferguson,...

Michael Imperioli, who played prodigal mafia son Christopher Moltisanti, and Steve Schirripa, who played Tony Soprano’s brother-in-law Bobby Baccalieri, are set to revisit the show that launched Peak TV in 1999 with a new podcast.

“Talking Sopranos” will revisit the series, which ran on HBO through 2007 and concluding with that haunting final smash cut to black, episode by episode, making this the definitive “Sopranos” rewatch podcast. And the series lends itself very well to a rewatch. Or, if you’re like Zoe Kravitz’s character in “High Fidelity,” maybe you haven’t started it, and this is your chance. In the podcast, Imperioli and Schirripa will share behind-the-scenes stories and little-known facts that could only come from someone on the inside, as it were. The podcast will feature cast interviews, and chats with writers, crew members, and other special guests. As dead as the topic of what really happened in...

“The Sopranos” stars Drea De Matteo, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Vincent Pastore will reunite to present at the 2019 MTV VMAs, TheWrap has learned exclusively. Yeah, it’s located in Jersey.

The actors behind Adriana La Cerva, Meadow Soprano and Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, respectively, will give the party at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center some extra-special — and local — street cred.

As TheWrap previously reported, John Travolta, “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness, Ice-t, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lenny Kravitz, Lindsey Vonn, Rick Ross, Salt N’ Pepa, Alex Morgan, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, Bebe Rexha, Megan Thee Stallion, French Montana, Hailee Steinfeld, New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, and former New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz will also hand out Moonmen at the Monday show.

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Monday’s 2019 VMAs will be hosted by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco,...