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Film News
March 13, 2002
Jim Broadbent talks about his work with Scorsese and about Leonardo:
"Leonardo has charisma. He´s very serious, very hardworking. He´s not a boy any more."
----- Didn´t we already know this? Click here for the full article:
Read more about how much Jim Broadbent appreciated his work on the set with Scorsese at Empire Online - January 14, 2002 .
February 28, 2002
GONY not finished yet !
According to a report from The Washington Post - Martin Scorsese who made a visit there and talked about his work - said:
"We're just about to finish 'The Gangs of New York,' a film about New York City during the Civil War," he said. "Yeah, it was pretty rough place -- not as rough as Washington, but pretty bad."
February 27, 2002
From Screendaily: Cannes Tip Sheet
"Martin Scorsese´s Gangs of New York has been tipped to get a
Lord of the Rings´s style footage screening during Cannes this year." February 24, 2002 Leonardo´s costar Kenneth Lonergan talks about his experience
with Martin Scorsese in
L.A. Times - February 24, 2002
February 12, 2002 There are rumours that Miramax - after the first previews of Gangs
have received a very positive echo - is thinking about another delay of the film into the fall
2002 to give it a better chance at the box office and for the Academy Awards either. ----
I just hope this is not true !!! See the article at
Variety. February 5, 2002 Sneak Preview - Spoilers ! There has been a first sneak preview of Gangs of New York,
and you´ll find a very interesting and positiv review of the film on Harry Knowles'
Ain´t-It-Cool-News Site. The review is written by "Hanny", and if you don´t want to have details
about the film, stay away from reading ! Here is the
link. January 13, 2002 GONY to open Cannes Film Festival ? According to an article from Variety which reports that David
Lynch (Mulholland Drive) will be the president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival,
"Gangs of New York has
been tipped to open this year´s event" ! - The Cannes Film Festival will be running from
May 15 to 26.
December 21, 2001
Reuters/Variety reports that Miramax has scheduled Gangs of New
York for a summer release on July 12, 2002. December 19, 2001 There´s a really great article about Gangs of New York
from the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
From the City´s Ashes by Verena Lueken Thanks to Pax ! BTW: I regret I couldn´t get the original German version.
December 12, 2001 From: The Hollywood Reporter - Dec. 12, 2001: Gangs to hit streets in summer By Jeffrey R. Sipe
NEW YORK --- Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York,"
originally expected to be released this month and then tentatively pushed back
to the spring, is now looking at a summer release.
"It's really a summer movie," a Miramax executive said this week by way of
explanation.
Rumors circulated widely last month that the original release date had been
changed because of a dispute between Scorsese and Miramax honcho Harvey
Weinstein over the film's length. Word was that Weinstein was pressuring
Scorsese to shorten the film, though a Miramax spokesperson insisted at the time
that the delay stemmed from a lack of a score and that "we could have finished
the film in time for a December release, but we didn't want to rush it."
Both Weinstein and Scorsese have insisted that the reports of a dispute were
untrue and that the movie's final cut is and always has been Scorsese's. December 2001 Vogue - December Issue:
Interview with Daniel Day-Lewis about Gangs of New York and his work with Martin Scorsese Thanks to Pax and Pitssymoon ! November 29, 2001 The German newspaper Koelner Stadtanzeiger has
a great interview with Michael Ballhaus: A quote about Leonardo Michael Ballhaus, the famous photographer who filmed "Gangs of New
York" in Rome and won an award for his work in Berlin recently, talked about his work with
Scorsese with film students in Cologne:
Q:Is it true that the camera loves certain
human beings? Michael Ballhaus:I want to express it like this:
There are actors who play their scene
for the audience, which is the camera. I saw this in a wonderful way at Leonardo DiCaprio in "Gangs
of New York". He has the wonderful ability, to play for the camera; in a way it´s in his blood.
You can say the camera loves him, but actually it´s like that he loves the camera, because he sees
it as his audience. The full article in German is
here. Thanks to Gabi ! November 26, 2001 Gangs of New York´s editing isn´t finished yet,
says director Martin Scorsese according to an article in
New York Magazine. So is it true that we have to wait for GONY till the Film Festival
in Cannes? We - the fans - want the film industry to know, that we are IMPATIENTLY waiting
for a new Leo movie ! And we offer our help to keep Mr. Scorsese´s rooms absolutely phone-free,
so that he can work really undisturbed - LOL ! October 22, 2001 From Variety:
"Gangs" is gone from Miramax Oscar run ! October 16, 2001 IMDb - October 16, 2001
Di Caprio Denies Report He Bad-Mouthed Gangs
Leonardo DiCaprio has denied
a report that appeared on the MSNBC website last week claiming that
he was trying to renegotiate his contract for Martin Scorsese's upcoming because
he was disappointed with the film. The original
item, written by columnist Jeannette Walls, has been revised and now
contains a quote from a DiCaprio spokesman saying, "Leonardo DiCaprio says
that the experience of working on the film has been
the highlight of his career. He has never ever believed in a project more strongly
than this one. Neither he nor his representative has ever sought to renegotiate
his contract. And whomever (sic) is alleging that statement is lying." October 7, 2001 Gangs of New York is postponed ! Joint statement by Martin Scorsese and Harvey Weinstein
(co-chairman of Miramax Films) on Gangs of New York: "We have both thouroughly enjoyed together Gangs of New York
and look forward to sharing it with audiences. Our decision to postpone the film´s release is based on its
setting in downtown Manhattan during Civil War in the midst of the 1860´s draft riots - one of
the most difficult and challenging times in American history. In light of the ever-changing current events, we have chosen
to err on the side of sensitivity and postpone the wide release of the film until 2002." --- There might be a chance however that the film will be released
in a few selected American cinemas this year so that it could be entitled for Oscar nominations.
September 2001 Entertainment Weekly published these wonderful pictures from the
GONY set: Thanks a lot to Pax ! September 16, 2001 Movieline - September 2001 has a beautiful little article about Leo´s new film. September 10, 2001 From Caltanet, Italy Bono, the legendary singer for the rock group U2,
is currently working on the soundtrack of GONY, Martin Scorsese's
much anticipated new film that we spoiled some months ago. The
news was confirmed to the Italian satellite network COMING SOON
TELEVISION by Harvey Weinstein, producer of the film and head of
Miramax who met Bono recently at the Venice Film Fest. Post-production
is continuing at a frenetic pace in attempt to meet the deadline
for the film's release, scheduled for Christmas. Thanks to Lynlee ! September 2001 Vanity Fair - September issue
- has a smalll article and a great black&white
photo of Leo ! August 31, 2001 Premiere has
a small article in its Fall Movie Preview issue about
GONY with some thoughts from Martin Scorsese about the story. August 18, 2001 Entertainment Weekly has a preview
for GONY with a quote of Martin Scorsese: He said Leonardo´s post-Titanic
superstardom had nothing to do with his selection: "Before
his rise, all I knew was that he was one of the best actors
around. He was certainly in the tradition of actors I admired,
like De Niro, Hoffman, and Pacino... and it seemed like the torch
had been passed to him. People would say Marty, someday you
should work with this person.' So in my mind he was always an actor,
not a movie star." Click here for
the full article ! August 17, 2001 The first trailer for Gangs of
New York has been released ! And this is what Harry
Knowles said: ... And Leonardo
DiCaprio.. well he looks like Leo, but hey... that boy may be way
too good looking, but he's a helluva an actor, and has proven it
multiple times now! Click here to get the trailer
from the Official Gangs of New York Site
by Miramax ! There is also a possibility to
watch the trailer in Quicktime format from the French Gangs of New York Site
with a better quality ! July 2001 The summer issue of Ciné live - France - has a
long article about GONY ! July 20, 2001 Ananova - 20.07.01 Extra editor to slash Gangs Of New York Martin Scorsese has hired a second film editor
to work on Gangs Of New York in a bid to cut the movie to a
workable length. A rough cut of the gangster epic clocked in at
four hours. The aim is to cut it to a running length of around
two hours and 20 minutes in time for its planned US release in
December.A source told the Daily Mail: "It's all in hand,
Martin knows what he's doing and has hired accordingly." July 4, 2001 Hollywood Confidential by Jeffrey Wells: "We all know Miramax will be pushing hard
for Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York,
an expensive, occasionally violent period drama (i.e., the mid-1850s)
with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz,... I've read Gangs and
found it less than wonderful. The $90-to-$100 million production
follows a Godfather-like arc in which a
young street tough (DiCaprio) grows into his late father's shoes
in the course of avenging his death. Scorsese flicks trend to win
over critics, but they don't have a history of seducing mass
audiences or making a lot of money. One interesting side drama is
the fact that the prestige of AMG, Mike Ovitz's management
company, will be riding on Gangs'
reception, since AMG arranged to cover a good portion of the
budget and placed its top clients, DiCaprio and Diaz, in lead
roles. " June 5, 2001 Here are some awesome new pictures
of Leonardo from Ciak magazine - thanks to Brandy ! May 25, 2001 Leonardo´s role as the tough
gangster Amsterdam Vallon will show a very new DiCaprio; we will
be surprised to find him very changed from his Jack Dawson Image
in Scorsese´s Gangs of New York, says his trainer Dominique
Vandenberg in
Visto from May 25, 2001. And there is an interview
in Chi with Yoon C. Joyce -
another costar of Leo - from May 23 who enjoyed his work on the
set with Leo and Scorsese very much. Thanks a lot to Mona Lisa
for her translations and the scans ! May 16, 2001 Excite Com : Tidbit from
the Cannes Film Festival : Scorsese is
editing GONY "Scorsese, who won the festival's top
prize in 1976 for "Taxi Driver" and headed the jury in
1998, had been scheduled to appear Wednesday to present "My
Voyage in Italy," about the Italian films that have
influenced him as a director. But he canceled his visit so he could
finish editing "Gangs of New York," starring Leonardo
DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis.
The period movie centers on the clash between New York's Anglo-Protestant
poor and the United States' next big wave of immigrants, the
Catholic Irish. It was filmed in the Cinecitta studio in Rome."
Go Marty Go ! May 12, 2001 Read the Sneak preview by Paul
Daley from The Sidney Morning Herald who
was invited to visit the set - Thanks
to Pax ! And there is an interesting
summary of the story of the GONY production: The Making of GONY by 13th Street - Thanks to Gabi ! *** Read the earlier reports at: The Making of Gangs of New York *
