Rumours and new films
- Frankie Machine -
Robert will play Frankie, a former Mafia hit man who leaves the violent industry to run a bait shop. Michael Mann will direct.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2010
- I Heard You Paint Houses -
The title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. De Niro will play a killer who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders. Martin Scorsese will direct.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- Little Fockers -
The sequel to Meet the Fockers.The story is set around Greg and Pam raising their mischievous son who makes their lives a wreck.
Status: The film will be released within 13 months (December 1, 2009)
- Everybody’s Fine -
Bob is a recent widower who takes a road trip to connect with his children. It’s a remake of the Italian film Stanno tutti bene.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- First man -
The story of a Ted Turner-like mogul, (Robert), who puts his career on hold to run a presidential campaign for his wife (Meryl Streep).
Status: Maybe, maybe not
News
This week 12 years ago Sleepers premiered (October 19, 1996)
This week 16 years ago Night and the city premiered (October 16, 1992)
-October 15, 2008
CBS has made a deal with Tribeca Productions (De Niro`s film company) to develop three pilots. The deal gives Tribeca a guarantee that one of the three projects will be produced as a series pilot.
Tribeca continues to develop Little Fockers and The Undomestic Goddess for Universal Pictures, and Frankie Machine at Paramount.
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-October 14, 2008
In shops: Casino on Blu-ray. It`s a BD-50 dual-layer presentation with 1080p video (codec TBA) and DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround.
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-October 02, 2008
Martin Scorsese may direct Robert in a big screen version of Charles Brandt`s book I Heard You Paint Houses. De Niro will play hitman Frank the Irishman Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders.
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-October 01, 2008
Angel heart (1987) will be remade. The producers also optioned the underlying book rights to the novel Falling Angel, from which the original film was adapted. It is unknown who will play De Niro`s part.
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-September 27, 2008
Some inside Hollywood gossip: An eleven year old phone conversation between producer Harvey Weinstein and director Quentin Tarantino has leaked out. Apparently De Niro believed he should be getting more money for starring in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997).
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-September 25, 2008
“I‘d like to do a next episode of The Good Shepherd, which goes from 1961 with the Berlin Wall going up to 1989 with the Wall coming down. Then I‘d like to do a third film from 1989 to the present.”
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-September 08, 2008
Three London outposts of Robert De Niro's fancy restaurant chain were caught serving Atlantic bluefin tuna, which has been overfished nearly to extinction. The species is so endangered the World Wildlife Federation has called for a ban on its sale.
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-September 05, 2008
De Niro has left the set of Edge of Darkness. The film is Mel Gibson's return to acting. Shooting had just begun on August 18. “Sometimes things don't work out, it's called creative differences.”
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De Niro will be back with a third installment of the Fockers series called Little Fockers. Universal Pictures want to bring back the entire regular cast, including Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand.
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Trivia
Movie lovers have voted Travis Bickle, the central character in Taxi Driver , the greatest anti-hero in the movies. The character came top in a list of anti-heroes compiled by Total Film magazine.
De Niro is commonly referred to as an Italian-American actor, although he is predominantly Irish in ancestry.
--Source: Untouchable: A Biography of Robert DeNiro, Page 5
In 1998 De Niro was subject in a Paris prostitution investigation. De Niro, denying any involvement, vowed never to return to France again (but he did).
--Source: Untouchable: A Biography of Robert DeNiro, Page 0
De Niro refuses to answer questions or even to give interviews at all. The titles of articles in the popular press: “You Talkin to Me? No”, “Man of Few Words”, “The Phantom of the Cinema” and “The Return of the Silent Screen Star”
--Source: Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era, Page 45
