Martin Scorsese: Last News

Reflecting on her wide-ranging oeuvre — which will include the forthcoming Babygirl — Nicole Kidman said it seems harder to make and greenlight projects nowadays, especially if they’re not big tentpole draws.

Beatles ’64 director David Tedeschi has spoken to NME about the upcoming, Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on the Fab Four, which explores the band’s culture-shifting three-week trip to America in the titular year. The new film will be available to stream from November 29, but we can exclusively share the first trailer above.The documentary features rare, newly restored 4K footage of the band originally shot by the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles for the 1964 documentary What’s Happening! The Beatles In The U.S.A.

Nicole Kidman has subtly called out Martin Scorsese for not making enough films that centre on female characters.The actor was being questioned by Vanity Fair about the directors that she would still like to work with in her career, and the Killers Of The Flower Moon filmmaker was one of the names she came up with.However, it appeared to come with a sly comment about his propensity to make predominantly male-centric movies.“I want to work with Martin Scorsese,” she said. “If he does a film with women.”Scorsese built his reputation with a series of films that explored the psyche of complex male characters, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas.

Martin Scorsese’s next project will be a docuseries about the saints. Watch the trailer below.The new series, called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will see the legendary director host, narrate and executive produce the show which will release episodes weekly from November 17 to December 8.The series will be released in two parts, with the final four episodes airing in April 2025 to be “spanning the Holy season.”Each episode will focus on a singular saint, with episodes dedicated to Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Sebastian, Maximilian Kolbe, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, and Moses the Black.According to a press release, the series will span 2,000 years of history and will tell the story of “eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith.”You can watch the trailer here:In a press statement about the series, Scorsese said: “I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set.“These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first still from Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and LaKeith Stanfield, the new thriller from renowned Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), which adapts the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz.

Margot Robbie has revealed that she listens to the theme music from Titanic to make her cry on set.Speaking in a forthcoming episode of the Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories podcast which is set to drop this Saturday (November 26), the Barbie star also said she used the same technique once on the set of The Wolf Of Wall Street with her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, who played the lead role in the 1997 movie.At the time his Titanic co-star Kate Winslet was also on the set of the Martin Scorsese movie.“On The Wolf Of Wall Street, there was the big, crazy scene after I ask for a divorce and stuff. And Kate Winslet came to visit set, to visit Leo [DiCaprio] that day,” Robbie said.“I was in the room next to them, listening to the Titanic soundtrack trying to stay in sad, teary mode.

Alex Ritman The upcoming Zoe Saldaña-starring and Martin Scorsese-exec produced thriller “The Absence of Eden” has been snapped up by Signature Entertainment in a multi-territory deal. Signature bought U.K.

Naman Ramachandran Taiwan‘s Calendar Studios is advancing its production slate with two new projects: “Call of Lobster,” a cross-border action-comedy, and crime series “The Scammers,” both unveiled at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). “Call of Lobster,” helmed by “Man in Love” director Yin Chen-Hao, draws inspiration from a real-life story about a Taiwanese lobster farmer who volunteered to teach farming techniques in North Korea.

Willie Nelson has paid tribute to his “great friend” and former Highwaymen bandmate Kris Kristofferson, saying he “hated to lose him”.The country legend died on September 28 at the age of 88, four years after announcing his retirement from the entertainment industry. Known for songs like ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ and ‘Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down’, he was also a celebrated actor, starring in films including A Star Is Born and Heaven’s Gate.Kristofferson was also a founding member of the influential outlaw country supergroup The Highwaymen, alongside Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, who released three albums between 1985 and 1995.In an interview with Associated Press, Nelson said: “He was a great songwriter. He left a lot of fantastic songs around for the rest of us to sing, for as long as we’re here.

Fresh off his appointment as director of Italy’s National Cinema Museum, former Berlinale chief Carlo Chatrian is in Greece where he has curated an intriguing lineup of titles for the repertory sidebar at this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival. 

Cillian Murphy has said his best mates still slag him off despite winning an Oscar for his role in Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer.The actor won the Best Actor Academy Award earlier this year for his performance in the movie, which took home seven gongs in total including Best Picture.Despite that, he said at the ceremony itself both his brother and his best friend still mocked him.Speaking in a new interview with The Telegraph, he said: “There was a lot of healthy slagging [off]. In Ireland, slagging is one of the deepest forms of affection.

Variety, the Academy Award-nominated actor died on Tuesday (October 29) following a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. Garr revealed her diagnosis in 2002, and four years later suffered an aneurysm.Garr enjoyed a lengthy career in acting, with over 140 credits to her name across nearly five decades; she officially retired from acting in 2011 – just two years short of her 50th anniversary in the industry.Garr appeared in three episodes of Friends, where she played Phoebe Abbott, the mother of Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay.

Sources confirmed to and on Tuesday that the called off their engagement after three years together. Per People, was recently photographed out and about without her engagement ring.Zoe Kravitz and began dating in 2021 after he was cast in , Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, which she also co-wrote.

U.S. director Jeff Nichols has been named as the 2024 patron of the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, as the talent and project incubator also unveils the projects selected for this year’s edition.Launched in 2018, the initiative has supported a raft of emerging and more established filmmakers and their projects, hailing from Morocco, the Arab world, and Africa.

Chris Meledandri, founder and CEO of animation powerhouse Illumination, is set to receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards, taking place at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 8. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) has joined the cast of Kent Jones‘ “Late Fame,” and will star opposite Willem Dafoe (“Poor Things”), taking over from Sandra Huller. The project “May December” co-screenwriter Samy Burch and producer Killer Films. Hüller has exited the project due to a scheduling conflict, according to MK2 Films which represent worldwide sales outside of North America.

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Martin Scorsese is set to direct the filming of a tribute concert in honour of The Band‘s Robbie Robertson.Robertson died in August 2023, aged 80, and previously Scorsese documented The Band’s farewell show in The Last Waltz, which was released in 1978 and is widely considered an all-time classic music documentary.He scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf Of Wall Street The Irishman and Killers Of The Flower Moon.Now, it has been confirmed that Scorsese will direct the ‘Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson’ tribute concert, which is due to take place at LA’s Kia Forum tonight (October 17), for a future release.Scorsese will also serve as one of the executive producers of the concert, along with Jared Levine, Keith Wortman and Scooter Weintraub, reports Variety.Among the artists expected to perform at the show are Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, U2 producer Daniel Lanois, Mavis Staples, Margo Price, My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James, Trey Anastasio, Eric Church, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Taj Mahal, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Bobby Weir and Lucinda Williams.The house band will also feature Ryan Bingham, Jamey Johnson, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don Was, John Medeski, Dave Malone, Terence Higgins, Cyril Neville, Mark Mullins and the Levee Horns.You can find further information on the concert here and tickets can be purchased here.The format in which a film of the Robertson concert might come out has not yet been revealed.Meanwhile, Scorsese is also producing a new Beatles documentary coming to Disney+ next month.The film, titled Beatles ’64, is set to arrive exclusively on the streaming platform on

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Martin Scorsese will direct the filming of a Robbie Robertson tribute concert in L.A. Thursday night for a future release, it was announced Tuesday morning. The filming of “Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson,” a Blackbird Presents production, may provide a kind of bookend to the the first movie Scorsese did with Robertson, when he directed the concert film “The Last Waltz,” which commemorated the last concert the singer-songwriter-guitarist did with his group the Band in 1976.

“Joker: Folie à Deux.”The famous writer-director, 78, revealed that he, like many others, walked out of the movie theater when he watched the DC sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.“I saw about 10 or 15 minutes of it,” Schrader told Jeremy O. Harris for an Interview magazine story published Monday.“I left, bought something, came back, saw another 10 minutes,” Schrader added. “That was enough.”Ironically, Schrader wrote the script for Martin Scorsese’s 1976 “Taxi Driver,” which had a big influence on the first “Joker” film, directed by Todd Phillips.

Ethan Shanfeld The Beatles‘ 1964 trip to America will be chronicled in a new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi. Titled “Beatles ’64,” the film will be released on Disney+ on Nov.