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Saturday 28 September 2019
Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’

premieres in New York

By JAKE COYLE AP Twitter. The film is also one before his death, he con-
Film Writer of Netflix’s biggest bets yet. fessed to killing Jimmy
NEW YORK (AP) — Martin The streaming company Hoffa (played by Pacino).
Scorsese’s “The Irishman” plunked down $159 million Pesci plays the mob boss
premiered Friday at the to make “The Irishman” af- Russell Bufalino.
New York Film Festival, final- ter other studios passed. “The Irishman” surveys
ly raising the curtain on the Scorsese, speaking in a Sheeran’s long life in crime.
director’s long-awaited, Q&A alongside cast and But where “GoodFellas”
209-minute crime-drama producers, said that Netflix was glamorous, “The Irish-
In this Sept. 5, 2019 file photo, Martin Scorsese attends the opus. was the only one willing to man” is sober.
premiere for “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Though the film’s genre bankroll the movie. It’s a big statement for the
Band” on day one of the Toronto International Film Festival at the and cast, including Rob- “We couldn’t get backing 76-year-old director. Scors-
Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto.
Associated Press ert De Niro and Joe Pesci, for years,” Scorsese said. ese and his producers of-
has led some to expect a “It’s a costly experiment, fered some impressive sta-
gangster thriller in the mold but (Netflix chief content tistics on the movie’s scope:
of “GoodFellas” or “Ca- officer Ted Sarandos) and 108 days of shooting, 117
sino,” ‘’The Irishman” is a everyone at Netflix was like, locations, 309 scenes.
more reflective, less flashy ‘We’ll go with it.’” The ambitious size of “The
rumination on morality, vio- Scorsese called his film Irishman” is part of what
lence and American pow- “an interesting hybrid” as scared away other studios,
er. Through de-aging visual both something made for along with the expensive
effects, the performances theaters and for watching de-aging process used
by De Niro, Pesci and Al at home. It will open the- to make De Niro, Pesci
Pacino span decades. atrically Nov. 1 and begin and Pacino appear years
“The Irishman” was streaming on Nov. 27. younger in significant sec-
screened for members of “All of us now are in an tions of the movie. Nine
the press Friday morning extraordinary time of cameras were used to film
ahead of its evening red change,” Scorsese said. those scenes.
carpet premiere as the “But when it comes down Scorsese initially did a
opening night gala for the to it, I felt — Bob (De Niro) screen test and compared
New York Film Festival. The felt — the picture had to be his digitally altered De Niro
film’s debut has loomed like made for ourselves.” to the De Niro of “GoodFel-
few other events on the film Based on Charles Brandt’s las.”
calendar, and a rare frenzy book “I Heard You Paint When the actor, 76, saw
greeted it at Lincoln Cen- Houses,” ‘’The Irishman” himself de-aged, he joked
ter’s Alice Tully Hall. First- has been in development, that he could extend his
reactions from critics were on and off, for more than career another 30 years.
largely laudatory. “Let’s a decade. It stars De Niro Scorsese described the in-
not doubt Martin Scorsese as Frank Sheeran, a mafia tensive effects process as
ever again,” said New York hitman and high-ranking more than making their
magazine’s Bilge Ebiri on Teamster official. Shortly faces more youthful.q

Split no more, Spider-Man gets another

swing with Marvel

way to work together.
The studios said Friday that
they would be teaming up
once more to produce a
third “Spider-Man” film star-
ring Tom Holland.
Disputes over the profit-
sharing structure put Spi-
dey’s future in the MCU in
doubt, much to the cha-
grin of many fans who had
enjoyed seeing Spider-
Man fighting alongside The
Avengers. Marvel Studios
president Kevin Feige said
in a statement that he’s
thrilled that the character’s
This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Tom Holland in journey in the MCU is con-
a scene from “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” tinuing. Producer Amy Pas-
Associated Press cal added that it has been
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spi- After a public fallout last a “winning partnership” for
der-Man won’t be leaving month, Sony Pictures Enter- both studios.
the Marvel Cinematic Uni- tainment and The Walt Dis- The next Spidey film will hit
verse anytime soon. ney Studios have found a theaters on July 16, 2021.q