Exclusive: Paul Ben-Victor is set to join Harvey Keitel, Emile Hirsch and Ruby Rose in the George Gallo-directed mobster drama The Legitimate Wise Guy, which tells the true story of Tony Spilotro, a feared mob enforcer from the crime syndicate known as the Chicago Outfit. Ben-Victor will step into the role of Spilotro.
Based on an original screenplay by Nicholas Celozzi and Jim McGrath, the film chronicles Spilotro, who ran the Chicago Outfit which rose to power in the 1920s under the notorious Al Capone. Spilotro overlooked the outfit’s skimming operations in Las Vegas. While there, he met a young man aspiring to make it big in Hollywood as an actor. The mob boss mentors and lures him into his criminal world.
Celozzi serves as producer for Monaco Films alongside Richard Salvatore for March on Productions. Michael Sportelli of Monaco Films and Freddy Braidy serve as executive producers.
Based on an original screenplay by Nicholas Celozzi and Jim McGrath, the film chronicles Spilotro, who ran the Chicago Outfit which rose to power in the 1920s under the notorious Al Capone. Spilotro overlooked the outfit’s skimming operations in Las Vegas. While there, he met a young man aspiring to make it big in Hollywood as an actor. The mob boss mentors and lures him into his criminal world.
Celozzi serves as producer for Monaco Films alongside Richard Salvatore for March on Productions. Michael Sportelli of Monaco Films and Freddy Braidy serve as executive producers.
- 3/1/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Anthony Michael Hall is heading back to high school, starring as the assistant principal and executive producing the independent drama “The Class,” Variety has learned exclusively..
Hall broke out as high school brainiac Brian Johnson in the 1985 classic “The Breakfast Club,” which focused on five students serving high school detention on a Saturday. “The Class” involves a diverse group of six high school seniors forced to show up on a Saturday to retake an exam they either failed or missed in order to graduate.
The students are challenged by their acting teacher to create their own characters and must bring their own personal experiences into an emotional space of improvisation in front of classmates they do not know. Faced with their cultural differences, prejudices and hidden fears, they are confronted to break through their own walls and establish truths when they are unprepared to deal with themselves emotionally.
Nicholas Celozzi...
Hall broke out as high school brainiac Brian Johnson in the 1985 classic “The Breakfast Club,” which focused on five students serving high school detention on a Saturday. “The Class” involves a diverse group of six high school seniors forced to show up on a Saturday to retake an exam they either failed or missed in order to graduate.
The students are challenged by their acting teacher to create their own characters and must bring their own personal experiences into an emotional space of improvisation in front of classmates they do not know. Faced with their cultural differences, prejudices and hidden fears, they are confronted to break through their own walls and establish truths when they are unprepared to deal with themselves emotionally.
Nicholas Celozzi...
- 11/16/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Cole Hauser have joined the cast of the indie thriller "The Hit List" for North by Northwest Productions says Variety.
The story has man confessing his problems to a stranger (Gooding Jr.) whom he has met in a bar. What started out as a drunk ramble about the five people he'd most like to see dead turns deadly serious as the people on that list start getting killed.
Chad and Evan Law penned the script and Will Kaufman is directing. Richard Salvatore and Freddy Braidy are producing.
Shooting kicks off this week in Spokane, Washington.
The story has man confessing his problems to a stranger (Gooding Jr.) whom he has met in a bar. What started out as a drunk ramble about the five people he'd most like to see dead turns deadly serious as the people on that list start getting killed.
Chad and Evan Law penned the script and Will Kaufman is directing. Richard Salvatore and Freddy Braidy are producing.
Shooting kicks off this week in Spokane, Washington.
- 2/25/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Check out new clips from Paramount Home Entertainmen's "Wrong Turn At Tahoe," starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer, Leonor Varela, Mike Starr, Johnny Messner, Louis Mandylor, Alex Meneses and Noel Gugliemi. The crime thriller debuts on DVD on November 17th and is rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and sexual content. Franck Khalfoun directs from the writing by Eddie Nickerson. Freddy Braidy, Robert L. Levy, Rich Cowan, Johnny Martin and Richard Salvatore produce. Love. Honor. Power. Fear of death... People live for all kinds of reasons. Life becomes the ultimate battle when all you're living for is revenge. Joshua (Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.), a hard-nosed collector for a ruthless mob boss (Miguel Ferrer), lives in a world filled with brutal violence and beautiful women. But when he finds himself in the middle of a power struggle..
- 11/9/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It's gone through a couple of cast modifications and a change in filming locations since we first heard about it back in April '08, but Tales of an Ancient Empire, Albert Pyun's follow-up to The Sword and the Sorcerer, is finally under way. And we've got your first look at some stills to prove it!
Tales now stars Melissa Ordway as Tanis, a princess who must find and unite the five greatest warriors of the world to save her kingdom from a demonic sorceress. But the odyssey to find them reveals a secret past for all. Two more pictures of Ordway can be found below along with (from left to right) Janelle Taylor, Kevin Sorbo, and Inbar Lavi. The last shot is a very rough, early composite of Tanis ready to do battle against whatever evil may come her way.
Christopher Lambert and Whitney Able round out the cast,...
Tales now stars Melissa Ordway as Tanis, a princess who must find and unite the five greatest warriors of the world to save her kingdom from a demonic sorceress. But the odyssey to find them reveals a secret past for all. Two more pictures of Ordway can be found below along with (from left to right) Janelle Taylor, Kevin Sorbo, and Inbar Lavi. The last shot is a very rough, early composite of Tanis ready to do battle against whatever evil may come her way.
Christopher Lambert and Whitney Able round out the cast,...
- 1/3/2009
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
NEW YORK -- Robert De Niro is executive producing writer-director Barry Primus' upcoming dramatic comedy "20% Fiction."
The film centers on a respected acting coach dissatisfied with his superficial life in Los Angeles. He finds love and self-fulfillment after moving to a small town and working with its quirky residents.
De Niro produced and co-starred in Primus' 1992 sophomore directorial effort, Mistress. Primus has served as De Niro's acting coach, and the two longtime friends have acted together in such films as New York, New York, Night and the City and Guilty by Suspicion.
Bret Saxon, Jeff Bowler and Ari Palitz of Insomnia Media Group are financing the film and producing with Deco Entertainment's Nicholas Celozzi and Freddy Braidy. Principal photography is slated to begin in late September in Los Angeles.
Insomnia's recent projects include Zak Penn's The Grand. Braidy produced the Paris Hilton starrer Bottoms Up.
The film centers on a respected acting coach dissatisfied with his superficial life in Los Angeles. He finds love and self-fulfillment after moving to a small town and working with its quirky residents.
De Niro produced and co-starred in Primus' 1992 sophomore directorial effort, Mistress. Primus has served as De Niro's acting coach, and the two longtime friends have acted together in such films as New York, New York, Night and the City and Guilty by Suspicion.
Bret Saxon, Jeff Bowler and Ari Palitz of Insomnia Media Group are financing the film and producing with Deco Entertainment's Nicholas Celozzi and Freddy Braidy. Principal photography is slated to begin in late September in Los Angeles.
Insomnia's recent projects include Zak Penn's The Grand. Braidy produced the Paris Hilton starrer Bottoms Up.
- 6/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Anthony Hopkins has committed to star in The World's Fastest Indian for director Roger Donaldson. The fact-based film is one of the projects in development at Cameo FJ Entertainment, the new production partnership of Freddy Braidy and Francesco Juilland launched in Cannes. Indian, written and to be directed by Donaldson, centers on the life of Burt Monro, a New Zealander who invested several decades building a 1920 Indian motorcycle. He then traveled to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where he set the land-speed world record in the 1970s.
- 5/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Anthony Hopkins has committed to star in The World's Fastest Indian for director Roger Donaldson. The fact-based film is one of the projects in development at Cameo FJ Entertainment, the new production partnership of Freddy Braidy and Francesco Juilland launched in Cannes. Indian, written and to be directed by Donaldson, centers on the life of Burt Monro, a New Zealander who invested several decades building a 1920 Indian motorcycle. He then traveled to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where he set the land-speed world record in the 1970s.
- 5/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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