All posts tagged: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese Backs AI Company for Storyboard Use: ‘Creatively Freeing’

Martin Scorsese Backs AI Company for Storyboard Use: ‘Creatively Freeing’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with the artificial intelligence company Black Forest Labs, where he will serve as an advisor with the research lab. The Academy Award winner said in a statement released Tuesday that he’s utilizing the company’s FLUX technology to assist in creating storyboards. “For 70 years, I’ve been creating my own storyboards. There’s always been this problem of how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew. There are some things you have to see and feel. I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and seeing how that can push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences,” Scorsese said. “Remember, cinema is a young medium, only around 125 years old, so we have to be open to how it can evolve.” He continued, “I utilized 3D with Hugo and de-aging technology for The Irishman. Now, with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly and efficiently to my creative team — the production designer, art designer, and cinematographer — for …

Why Are There Three Men—and No Charli—on Charli xcx’s ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Album Cover?

Why Are There Three Men—and No Charli—on Charli xcx’s ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Album Cover?

Published by Sam Flores

This morning, Charli xcx revealed the cover art for her upcoming album, Music, Fashion, Film, the much-anticipated follow-up to the zeitgeist-altering Brat. True to form, the image is nowhere near what one would expect from a world-famous pop star. Namely, it does not feature the star in question. Rather than merely a stylish shot of Charli, the photograph by Aidan Zamiri figures musician John Cale, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and film director Martin Scorsese, three men who in some capacity epitomize their respective fields. Fans, and perhaps everyone else at this point, might recall that Charli was also absent from the cover of Brat, which consisted of the word in black lettering over a pungent green background. The cover for Music, Fashion, Film is a refinement of this very same concept, which affirms not only that there are myriad ways of illustrating an album idea outside of the go-to glamour shot—the lo-fi rebelliousness of the Brat cover was the best harbinger for the energy the album would come to encapsulate—but that, in the age of …

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Published by Jenni Sidey

As partnerships go, Robert De Niro has been pretty lucky. For starters, there’s his legendary 50-year run with Martin Scorsese, a collaboration that began in the ‘70s with classics like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver and has continued on all the way to 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Then there are co-stars like Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel—both Scorsese company men who’ve shared the screen with him several times—and of course, Al Pacino, arguably De Niro’s only true peer, who burned through the screen with De Niro in Michael Mann’s Heat and Scorsese’s The Irishman. But sometimes lost in all that testosterone is one of De Niro’s longest-running collaborations—his 37-year partnership with the powerhouse producer Jane Rosenthal, who he founded Tribeca Productions with in 1989. With Rosenthal, De Niro entered a fruitful, often financially lucrative next chapter in his career in the ‘90s, starring in films like Wag the Dog, Analyze This, and the Meet the Parents movies. (Focker-in-Law, the hotly-anticipated fourth installment of the Meet the Parents franchise, co-starring Ben Stiller and Ariana …

‘What Happens at Night’: Everything We Know About Scorsese and DiCaprio’s New Collab

‘What Happens at Night’: Everything We Know About Scorsese and DiCaprio’s New Collab

Published by Jenni Sidey

He’s been a fanatical supporter of the genre for as long as he’s had push broom eyebrows, so the prospect of What Happens at Night, Martin Scorsese’s first out-and-out horror flick, is already tantalizing enough. Throw into the mix a leading turn from frequent Marty muse Leonardo DiCaprio—opposite Jennifer Lawrence, plus GOATed screen veterans Patricia Clarkson, Mads Mikkelsen, and Jared Harris—and you’ve got a recipe for spine-chilling cinematic gold. What Happens at Night was first announced as one of many Scorsese-produced projects back in 2023, with the octogenarian auteur deciding to hit the director’s chair a few years later. It’s adapted from the gothic mystery novel of the same name by Peter Cameron, which got strong reviews from literary critics and was shortlisted as a finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In the book, a couple travels to an unnamed Balkan country seeking to adopt a child; the wife has terminal cancer, and they hope that the trip can save their ailing marriage before she dies. By the sounds of it, the …

Jonah Hill “Wasn’t Happy for A While” But He’s Ready to Be Funny Again

Jonah Hill “Wasn’t Happy for A While” But He’s Ready to Be Funny Again

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jonah Hill is ready to be funny again. So said the funnyman Saturday night while appearing on stage at Hollywood’s Palladium as the surprise guest of SiriusXM’s Smartless LIVE hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. Hill, who broke out 20 years ago with roles in Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall to become an in-demand comedy star who got nominated for two Academy Awards for Moneyball and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, has kept a low-profile in recent years. But on the heels of releasing his new Apple TV original film Outcome — a Hollywood satire that he wrote, directed and stars in alongside Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer — Hill sat for one of his longest interviews in recent memory and explained his retreat from the spotlight and desire to come roaring back. “I’ve been gone for a while, so I’m kind of coming back and I’m like excited because I got all, like, serious for a while and I wasn’t as happy,” Hill explained to the …

Vatican to Host Private Screening of Scorsese Pope Documentary

Vatican to Host Private Screening of Scorsese Pope Documentary

Published by Daniella Wilson

Martin Scorsese, it’s fair to say, is team Pope. The Vatican on Monday announced it would be hosting a private screening of the Scorsese-produced documentary Aldeas, The Final Dream of Pope Francis, in Rome on April 21, to mark the one-year anniversary of Francis’ death. Aldeas is the community cinema project run by Pope Francis’ global educational movement Scholas Occurrentes which holds workshops around the world to help local communities create scripted short films celebrating “their unique identities, histories, and values.” The documentary follows the cinema initiative across Italy, Indonesia, and The Gambia, and includes a visit by Scorsese to his grandfather’s village in Sicily, where he works with local young people to make a film of their own. It includes Pope Francis’s last in-depth on-camera interview shortly before his death and several behind-the-scenes conversations between the Pope and the Oscar-winning director. “This film is a tribute to the Holy Father,” said Scorsese in a statement. “It honors his memory by embodying the spirit of his ministry and his dream of creating an ever more …

How the Bible became bingeable

How the Bible became bingeable

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Seven years since first airing, the mega-hit biographical Jesus drama “The Chosen” is a full-fledged franchise. The evidence? An annual multi-day convention (Chosen Con), merch (hoodies, coloring books, jewelry), the fandom (over 308 million viewers) and now, a spinoff show (“Joseph of Egypt,” expected in 2027), even as the original series is about to go into its sixth season. Available on its app as well as streaming, “The Chosen” is a Bible show designed to be viewed on demand. Created by evangelical Christians, it’s also upfront about its agenda to point viewers to Christ. But the impact of “The Chosen” is perhaps best encapsulated in its catchphrase: “Binge Jesus.” “‘The Chosen’ really set the standard for what it means to make a biblical TV series,” said Michael Iskander, star of “House of David,” a show about the king of ancient Israel and Judea whose second season comes to Prime Video March 27. “It’s the first of its kind, completely crowdfunded … and to see the fandom that it has built, it’s only things …

Gaga Memory Test, Cocaine-Fueled Scorsese Affair

Gaga Memory Test, Cocaine-Fueled Scorsese Affair

Published by Daniella Wilson

In her long-awaited memoir, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This!, showbiz icon and EGOT winner Liza Minnelli — who turns 80 on March 12 — pulls back the curtain on a life lived at maximum volume. Across its 400-odd pages, the Cabaret star dishes on a life filled with famous friends, explosive romances, family wounds and backstage chaos. The Hollywood Reporter has sped-read through the book to compile a list of its wildest anecdotes and confessions, which include the full retelling of her Oscar-night humiliation; the inside account of her drug-fueled affair with Martin Scorsese; and gory new details behind two of her doomed marriages. Minnelli claims Lady Gaga insisted on a wheelchair at 2022 Oscars — and subjected her to a cognitive test Minnelli recalls the chaos surrounding her appearance at the 2022 Academy Awards, writing that after witnessing Will Smith slap Chris Rock onstage, she thought “nothing worse could happen that night,” only for what she describes as her own nightmare to unfold backstage. Scheduled to present best picture with Lady Gaga while commemorating the 50th anniversary of Cabaret, Minnelli says that minutes before air she was told she could not sit in the director’s …