Hollywood is fickle, and projects often suddenly find themselves with heat and on the fast track, and then they dissipate. And sometimes Hollywood filmmakers are the same. Take filmmaker Martin Scorsese, for instance. In the last two years, he’s ping-ponged all over the place with projects he would make. For a minute there, “The Wager,” with Leonardo DiCaprio, looked like it was next. Then, his long-running Frank Sinatra film seemed to move forward when Jennifer Lawrence became attached alongside DiCaprio.

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Nicole Kidman has had a busy 2024 and her latest film, “Babygirl,” looks poised for awards consideration after a buzzy world premiere in Venice. But after an illustrious forty-year career, is there anything Kidman hasn’t done? Or, more to the point, is there someone she’s always wanted to direct her but hasn’t?

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Indeed there are.

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You may not have known this, but Martin Scorsese had plans to film two new films back-to-back this year. “Had” is the operative word, however. Right now, it appears that both new films have been taken off the schedule and there’s no word on when we might see Scorsese actually film them. 

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According to Variety, Martin Scorsese has changed his plans for 2024 and is not actually going to film his Jesus Christ and Frank Sinatra films.

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True cinephilia lives outside the confines of your front door, way past the boundaries of your home and native language. So, for all the talk of Martin Scorsese as a preeminent master of American cinema, it’s always been heartening to know the filmmaker and cineaste has appreciated all aspects of international cinema, from the East to the West and beyond. Those who understand Scorsese’s many cinematic affinities know fully well that one of his longtime personal passions has been the films by the Archers, aka the English filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Powell and Pressburger) and their ravishingly colorful, imaginative, and luminous films.

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It feels like it’s been months or even years that we’ve all known that Timothée Chalamet would star in a Blue De Chanel advertisement directed by Martin Scorsese (“Killers Of The Flower Moon”). The pair, who conducted some interviews last year, particularly one for GQ, are clearly mutual admirers of one another. Still, the ad, seen in glimpses and shortened teasers, has never been unveiled in full until now.

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What’s next for Martin Scorsese after “Killers Of The Flower Moon“? Well, it’s several things, including another Shūsaku Endō adaptation. Variety reports that Scorsese is circling the Japanese author’s 1973 novel “Life Of Jesus” as one of two films he plans to shoot back to back. The other project? Scorsese’s long-gestating Frank Sinatra biopic, which recently added Jennifer Lawrence to its cast list.

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Coming off the massive critical success of “Killers of The Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese is reexamining his next potential options. While it briefly seemed like Scorsese’s next movie would be an adaptation of the high seas pic “The Wager” with current muse Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) attached to star, a long-developing project from years ago seems to have circled back to his main interest.

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What seems to be one of the strongest-held beliefs in online film speculation on Film Twitter and the likes is the long-standing rumor that writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson wrote, rewrote, or did a deep and uncredited pass on Martin Scorsese’s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” (which we named one of the Best Films Of 2023) Up until now, the rumors are just that, not confirmed, and no one of any authority has spoken about them; hence us never really covering the story.

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Martin Scorsese is no stranger to showing up in an ad for something. He may be one of the most iconic filmmakers ever, but he’ll shill for Coca-Cola or AMEX when called upon. Well, for this year’s Super Bowl, it appears Martin isn’t the only Scorsese involved, as Squarespace has secured the filmmaker and his daughter, Francesca. 

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As seen in the ad before the ad (apparently, this 4-minute short is just the precursor to the full ad), Martin Scorsese and his daughter are sitting down to create a website using Squarespace.

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Today, it’s easy to put Martin Scorsese up there as one of the greatest American film directors of all time. However, according to one of his longest collaborators, that feeling is relatively new, as studios didn’t respect him as a living legend until the last decade or so. And prior to that, even with directing some of the most influential films of the past 50 years, Scorsese had to fight to keep his films out of the hands of studio executives. 

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The Directors Guild of America unveiled their final nominees for the 76th DGA Awards and there were few surprises. Making the cut were Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”), Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”), Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) and Alexander Payne (“The Holdovers”).

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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s been talking about making a new film about Jesus in recent months, and many have asked, does this mean a drama, something in the vein of “The Last Temptation Of Christ” or “Silence,” and we basically have our answer now: likely not.

To recap, after Cannes last year, Scorsese traveled to Italy to attend a Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination seminar, where he met briefly with Pope Francis.

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Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” is available on Netflix now and out in the world. Cooper’s second directorial effort, many heavy-hitting filmmakers seem to be going to bat for the film, including director Alfonso Cuaron and Steven Spielberg, though the latter may not be entirely a surprise given he is a producer on the film.

In a new In Conversation video discussion from Netflix, Spielberg joined Cooper for an illuminating 32-minute talk about “Maestro” and revealed a lot of the backstory of the project—primarily being that “Maestro,” a film about legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, was going to be something that he was going to direct initially.

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While Martin Scorsese is still fairly concerned about the state of cinema in the modern day, that doesn’t mean he has given up on TV. In fact, for his next TV project, he’s teaming up with none other than Steven Spielberg for a series inspired by one of his own films, “Cape Fear.”

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According to Deadline, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming up to produce a new series based on “Cape Fear.” The show, which is created and showrun by Nick Antosca (“The Act”), will be inspired by the 1991 film of the same name, as well as the 1962 film and the original novel.

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There isn’t a director-editor relationship in Hollywood more fruitful than Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker. The pair have worked on every single one of Scorsese’s films since 1980’s “Raging Bull,” and first worked together on Scorsese’s 1967 debut, “Who’s That Knocking On My Door?” That’s twenty one movies in all, with Schoonmaker winning Oscars for Best Editing for three of them: “Raging Bull,” “The Aviator,” and “The Departed.”

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But despite Schoonmaker’s three Oscar wins, a record for female editors, Scorsese only has one: for Best Director on “The Departed.” And as far as his longtime editor is concerned, he deserves many more than that.

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It’s difficult to say there’s really any silver lining to the ongoing SAG strike. However, if there is something we can point to as a positive by-product (other than the hopeful fair resolution to the labor disagreement), it’s the fact that Martin Scorsese has been the sole person out there promoting “Killers of the Flower Moon.” That means we’ve gotten interview after interview with the legendary filmmaker, allowing him to cover just about ever angle of his new film, as well as giving a bit of retrospective commentary on his career.

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For many years, Quentin Tarantino has promised he’ll retire after he directs his tenth feature film. And he’s already working on it, although production on “The Film Critic” will delayed as long as the SAG-AFTRA guild strike continues. But how do other filmmakers, mainly ones older than QT, think about the auteur’s plans to call it quits? IndieWire reports (via the Associated Press) that Martin Scorsese weighed in on the matter in a new interview.

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On his press tour for “Killers Of The Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese states that he may have “one more” or a “couple more” films left in his masterful career. And with the director turning 81 soon, that’s a fair assessment on his part. But World Of Reel reports (via an IndieWire interview) that if Scorsese indeed does another David Grann adaptation as his next movie, he may need to co-direct the feature, as the complexities of shooting on water may be too much for the octagenarian to do alone.

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At its LA premiere last week, Osage community members who worked on Martin Scorsese’s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” expressed reservations about its depiction of the Osage Nation tribe. But their feedback isn’t nearly as harsh as how “Reservation Dogs” star Devery Jacobs feels about the new film. THR reports that the Indigenous actress (of Mohawk descent) has scathing words for Scorsese’s latest, and she took to social media to declare them.

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Timothée Chalamet is the newest GQ cover star. For the occasion, the magazine got the “Dune” star to sit down with legendary director Martin Scorsese for an epic conversation.

Why Scorsese, exactly? Well, they collaborated on a new Blue de Chanel fragrance campaign a few months back (Chalamet starred, Scorsese directed; you can watch it below), and that was part of the hook; the native New Yorkers were obviously equally in awe, and inspired by one another during this interview.

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In the lead-up to its theatrical release, Martin Scorsese spoke candidly about how he re-wrote “Killers Of The Flower Moon” with Eric Roth to focus more on the Indigenous perspective of the events the film depicts. “After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,” Scorsese explained to Time Magazine last month. “Meaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.” But THR reports that despite Scorsese’s refocusing, members of the Osage community who consulted on the film don’t think the director did enough.

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One of the biggest movie events of the year is almost here: Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” hits theaters this Friday. And to keep the hype machine humming and turning, Apple Original Films has a final trailer for Scorsese’s film, with all-new scenes not seen in previous previews.

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Based on David Grann‘s 2017 book of the same name, “Killers Of The Flower Moon” follows the Osage County murders that shook Oklahoma in the 1920s through a marriage at the center of them.  

Here’s an official synopsis for the film, courtesy of Apple Original Films:

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight.

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Martin Scorsese is set to executive produce the next movie from director Julian Schnabel, “In The Hand of Dante,” based on Nick Tosches‘ novel. It’s a feature that focuses on New York mobsters getting their hands on a manuscript of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” which would be considered one of the most rare and valuable pieces of art in existence.

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This year, we’ve seen quite a bit of talk regarding run times of films. It started earlier this year when people were concerned by the 3-hour length of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” Obviously, that film ended up doing just fine at the box office. However, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” ups the ante with a 3.5-hour run time. But according to the filmmaker, people need to relax when they talk about film length.

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