THE IRISHMAN, A Martin Scorsese Picture with de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel

this could be shit, but it could also be awesome

in other words, a 21st century Scorsese pic

And funnily enough I just got my latest national Teamster magazine detailing a variety of organizing successes, the strong state of the union’s financing and the silencing of dissent from any ILXors who give me lip. I’m sorry that last part seems to have snuck in there.

(Speaking frankly, our union fully affiliating with the Teamsters some years back was one of the two best moves we’ve done since I’ve joined, the first being a general reorganization shortly after I started working in the system fulltime. Our last contract negotiations went heavily in our favor and I’ll be interested to see how the next one goes in a couple of years.)

I really loved Silence, it was my favorite Scorsese film in at least a couple of decades

Has anyone ever seen the forgotten norman jewison directed union epic f.i.s.t. starring sylvester stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type figure? It's very bad.

https://youtu.be/uiBqdmelCVk

Ha, actually I did forget about that. Meaning I forgot it existed, never actually saw it.

+1 for Silence as well.

Good that indie theaters will get a big revenue boost:

The Irishman will open Nov. 1 in select indie cinemas willing to carry the drama. More than three weeks later — or 26 days to be exact — it will debut Nov. 27 on Netflix, much as Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar-nominated Roma did last year. This rules out the sort of big-screen blitz Scorsese and other seasoned directors are used to, unless something changes at the 11th hour.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-forgoes-wide-release-martin-scorseses-irishman-1234382

They did the same thing for Roma, it’s not good at all, it’s insulting, 3 weeks is nothing. Let the movie play for 3 months and then the theaters make money

Can’t wait

Liotta in this ? At least a cameo would be welcome

All my life, I wanted to be an Irishman

Now I’m just another schnuck pushing chantix

Yes, Netflix loses here, but so do theater owners. Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese’s last star-driven commercial movie, grossed $400M worldwide. https://t.co/TqZBOODe6T

— Matthew Belloni (@THRMattBelloni) August 27, 2019

That'll mean a Lightbox opening in Toronto (where Roma screened)...I guess "indie" is anything that's not Cineplex, but it's hard for me to think of the Lightbox (home to TIFF) as an indie--they're about as un-indie as it gets in terms of corporate sponsorship.

this is 210 minutes long

lol wow

I’m pretty interested in the mob history they’re obviously going to touch on particularly w/r/t Angelo Bruno (since he’s played by Keitel I assume it will be a major part of the story). Also part of the film will include Crazy Joe Gallo, referenced briefly in a Goodfellas voice-over :

It was a glorious time. And wiseguys were all over the place. It was before Apalachin and before Crazy Joe decided to take on a boss and start a war.

Number None at 7:21 27 Aug 19

this is 210 minutes long

so Avengers length

Or the length of a studio comedy nowadays

(Ok that's an exaggeration)

Jesus Christ lmfao @ 210 minutes

MARTY

Once Upon a Time on Netflix

40-something minutes of it is just the guys kicking back and listening to Let It Bleed.

Gun, meet mouth

I know some of u motherfuckers watched the 70" of Hateful Eight

can you imagine the noise from a camera running six-foot-wide film? they would have had to shoot from the next state over

Jesus Christ lmfao @ 210 minutes

really, given all the megalong comic-book shitburgers huh

Yea the 4.5 hour long "Once Upon a Time in Asgard" was kinda pretentious

right? I'm here for 210 minutes by Marty

can you imagine the noise from a camera running six-foot-wide film? they would have had to shoot from the next state over

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:46 PM bookmarkflaglink

At least my Stonehenge was big enough!

:)

oops I xposted this and then left the building for 5.5 hours without noticing

it’s not good at all, it’s insulting

Yep. Roma probably would have had better first-weekend streaming numbers with 3 months word-of-mouth and Oscar nominations.

Right now would be a perfect time to bring in the French 90-day window just for PR purposes, as Disney is choking theatres with their requirements & restrictions, and Netflix doesn't need to curry favour with them in order to get a year of Pixar's third-last release or w/e

best of all, 2 films in a row w/out DiCaprio

right? I'm here for 210 minutes by Marty

So am I, his last two were fantastic, I'm just... stunned whenever I see that number.

I know some of u motherfuckers watched the 70" of Hateful Eight

Well yeah, but Tarantino at least put in an intermission. But I'm also apprehensive of that runtime. If Scorsese is going to work with Netflix, he might as well have made it a miniseries.

sometimes movies are long. not everything needs to get chopped up into bits.

I saw a 13.5-hour film this month, clowns

I knew you were holding out for the four-hour cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Morbs

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was only 200 minutes, tho it felt like 800

It has it that Hoffa was cremated in Michigan the same day by a friendly funeral director, which is the only thing that ever made sense. https://t.co/tL2ZEEoeMo

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 28, 2019

Meh.

40-something minutes of it is just the guys kicking back and listening to Let It Bleed.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

irl lol

210 minutes makes me depressed more so because this is a huge movie that will (hopefully) look and feel great on a big screen... in multiplexes... around the world..............
not fuckin Netflix!
because 210 minutes guarantees people are going to watch this non-sequentially

am going to see this in the theatre and i don't really care if other people watch it in segments on their laptop

I wonder if Netflix ever raised the idea of breaking it up into a limited series

xp I would've been really bummed if WOWS, a great audience movie, was a Netflix thing. and if you're not in a major city, who knows if this thing will play anywhere near?

it’s not good at all, it’s insulting, 3 weeks is nothing.

turns out it's going to be less than three weeks except in NYC and LA

In an alternative universe, Harvey Weinstein is shaving 75 minutes off of it.