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Robert De Niro felt guilty.

It was the Italian premiere of “Righteous Kill.” The crowds stretched all along the red carpet on a September day in 2008, shouting his name and gripping stills of the actor in hopes of getting his autograph. It was a convulsion of unadulterated fandom, all served up amid a colonnaded public square in a bustling section of Rome. De Niro turned to his co-star, Al Pacino, and expressed regret that all these people were here to celebrate a movie that was little more than a standard-issue cop thriller, one that blistered rather than burnished their legacies. “I said, ‘This is a great reaction, but it would be nice if they were here for a movie that we really feel proud about. Next time we’ll do one we like,’” De Niro recalls telling his fellow actor.

On Sept. 27, at the New York Film Festival, after a...

The premiere of “The Irishman,” which opened the New York Film Festival on September 27, was treated with the kind of respect one accords an aging Mafia don, igniting a gushing geyser of Twitter reactions for a three hour-and-a-half hour crime saga that spans several decades.

It is clear that, at age 76, Martin Scorsese is not just at the top of his game, but has given us perhaps his career-best masterpiece. It is a cinematic event that caused Oscar-winning “Goodfellas” supporting actor Joe Pesci to come out of retirement, enticed Al Pacino to do his first Scorsese film and celebrates the director’s ninth big-screen partnership with Robert De Niro — their first since 1995’s “Casino.”

But, as Alonso Duralde notes in his review for The Wrap, Scorsese’s return to gangland “is anything but a greatest hits compilation … as a storyteller and a crafter of images, he remains as bold and provocative as ever.

With red-hot pairings like Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, this year’s awards season could again face a classic Hollywood dilemma: Which high-profile actors are the leads and which are supporting?

Last year, Olivia Colman upset Glenn Close to win the Oscar for best actress, but truth be told, Colman wasn’t the sole lead of “The Favourite.” The film was a three-hander with Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz as Colman’s big screen equals. However, Fox Searchlight wasn’t going to risk splitting the vote, so the studio campaigned Stone and Weisz — who had each already won Oscars — as supporting roles.

The same strategy worked for Mahershala Ali, who won his second supporting actor Oscar for “Green Book” after it was decided that his co-star Viggo Mortenson would compete for lead.

This year, a similar scenario is playing out with DiCaprio and Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

The Sopranos is a riveting show, full of of laughs and suspense – giving a likable quality to the world’s roughest and toughest… those shady rebels of the criminal fraternity who go by the name of Mafia. The narrative gives a fresh, intriguing glimpse into the lesser known world of a mafia family who are a low and debased, in many ways, as their surname is high – Soprano.

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It’s this contrast of humanity with despicable human behaviour which makes the series so binge-worthy. Still, there are some things about the show which just make no sense. Here are just ten of them.

First two projects are UK spy series The Knowledge, crime series Hammerhead.

Television writer-producer Simon Mirren and former Content Media president of film Jamie Carmichael have launched Los Angeles-based TV and film company Atlantic Nomad.

The company plans to make six-10 original series from the Us and the UK over the next year and one or two theatrical projects a year, supplying studios, networks, digital platforms and independent distributors worldwide.

Its first two projects will be The Knowledge, a British espionage drama series, and Hammerhead, a California-set crime series about a grieving mother battling gangs, the Mafia and the government.