Midday News Links: City To Pay $76,000 For Cab Fare Study Steve James, the man behind The Interrupters , is directing a movie about the life of Roger Ebert to be released through Kartemquin Films, with help from Martin Scorsese . The film has a Twitter account that shares great clips and photos from Ebert's life. [ @EbertMovie ] [ more › ]
June 13, 2013 - Chicagoist
‘Goodfellas’ Unite! Ray Liotta Joins Exec Producer Martin Scorsese In ‘Revenge Of The Green Dragons’ Ray Liotta has joined Revenge Of The Green Dragons , the thriller helmed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo, with production beginning in New York. The triad thriller is executive produced by Martin Scorsese and is fully financed by IM Global ’s prolific genre label Octane. Scorsese’s Best Picture Oscar-winning The Departed was a remake of Lau’s Hong Kong gangster film Infernal Affairs . Liotta will ...
June 12, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
Roger Corman launches YouTube Channel, "Corman's Drive-In" Legendary indie producer/director Roger Corman, who helmed such low-budget classics as 1960's "Little Shop of Horrors" and 1961's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and nurtured such Oscar-winning filmmakers as Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, is launching his own YouTube subscription channel on Thursday.
June 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Times