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Martin Scorcese has featured again on his daughter Francesca’s TikTok account, this time revealing the exact moment he realised The King Of Comedy was deemed unsuccessful.READ MORE: Martin Scorsese almost quit Hollywood after ‘Gangs Of New York’The TikTok video shows Scorcese trying to guess various Gen-Z slang. When quizzed on the phrase “slept on” his daughter helped him out by using it in a sentence, saying, “The King Of Comedy was slept on.”She was referring to the 1982 movie starring Robert De Niro, in which a sociopathic stand-up comedian carries out a series of disturbing acts to try and achieve fame and success.Scorcese agreed with his daughter and said, “People hated it when it came out.”Despite a generally positive reception from critics, the movie made a significant loss at the box office, making just $2.5million from a budget of almost $20million.However it was not a wholly unsuccessful venture, as Scorcese did receive a nomination for the BAFTA award for Best Direction at the 1984 ceremony, losing out to Bill Forsyth for Local Hero.Having clearly not forgotten the criticism, Scorcese then recalled the precise moment he knew that it was “the flop of the year.” He said, “That’s what it was called on Entertainment Tonight, New Year’s Eve ’83-’84.”Reflecting on making the movie in a previous interview with Vanity Fair from 2015, Scorsese said, “[The King of Comedy] is about a certain aspect of our culture, and also about not taking yourself too seriously, even though I do.

Martin Scorcese has suggested in an interview that he regrets his decision to direct Shutter Island, the mystery thriller that came out in 2010.READ MORE:‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ review: Martin Scorsese’s heartbreaking true crime chillerAhead of the release of his upcoming eighth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers Of The Flower Moon, Scorcese revealed to GQ that he now thinks Shutter Island may not have been the right project for him at the time.Scorcese’s success at the Oscars with The Departed in 2007, sending him home with the award for Best Director, “encouraged [him] to make another picture with Shutter Island.” But the nine-time Oscar nominated director said that at this point, he perhaps should have picked something else instead.He told GQ, “It turned out I should have gone on probably to do Silence,” referring to his 2016 historical drama starring Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield. The movie was not one of Scorcese’s great successes, making a loss at the box office, however it has been seen as a great “passion project” of his.Shutter Island, the 2010 psychological thriller about a remote psychiatric facility which saw Scorcese collaborating with DiCaprio for the fourth time was received well at the time and became his second highest grossing film worldwide following Taxi Driver.However, it received no Academy Award nominations at the 2011 ceremony, making it the director’s only feature film released in the last 20 years to have received no Oscar recognition.Scorcese also shared with GQ that he viewed Shutter Island, released by Paramount Pictures, as “the last studio film I made,” with his recent projects being funded independently.

The Wolf of Wall Street.  spoke about her experience making the 2013 Martin Scorcese drama during a “Life in Pictures” discussion hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on November 22, particularly a nude sex scene with co-star  . "I’m not going to lie, I had a couple of shots of tequila before that scene because I was nervous…very, very nervous," Robbie said, per .Margot Robbie onstage during the “BAFTA: A Life in Pictures with Margot Robbie” event in London, England, on November 22.Though Wolf of Wall Street made Margot Robbie a household name, the Australian actor believed she'd be overlooked amongst its star-studded cast, which also included and .

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confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter.His cause of death and other details were not immediately known Thursday.His fiancé, podcaster and entrepreneur Jacy Nittolo, 47, had been with him on the movie shoot when he died, according to the outlet.The pair got engaged around Christmas 2020.The last known photo of the star shows the actor holding Nittolo’s hand as they headed to an early dinner at Spruzzo, an Italian restaurant in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on May 1.Known for his icy blue eyes and tough-guy persona, the New Jersey-born actor was renowned for his role in the 1990 Martin Scorcese flick, “Goodfellas,” where he played mob rat, Henry Hill, alongside co-stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.But in real life Liotta was a gentle guy who had never actually been in a fight.“I don’t go around beating people up,” Liotta told The Post in October 2021. “I’ve never been in a fight.

The official trailer for the soon-to-be-released film The Card Counter was released to Focus Pictures' official YouTube account on Tuesday.The feature, which stars Oscar Isaac, is centered around a gambler and former convict who attempts to dissuade a young man who is set on taking revenge on a mutual enemy.The flick was written and directed by Paul Schrader, who is known for collaborating with Martin Scorcese on projects such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

Don't let Hollywood directors like Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese making movies seemingly throughout their lives deceive. They're unicorns, as age impacts the careers of movie directors and their opportunities to continue behind the camera, says a January 2021 study from associate professor Shu Han and finance professor S.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are offering a fan the chance of a lifetime, to star in their upcoming movie with them, in aid of coronavirus relief.