Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti with his father’s (Ray Liotta) wife Giuseppina (Michela De Rossi) and his nephew Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) in The Many Saints Of Newark
In the second instalment with Alessandro Nivola, star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark we discuss how Chase and Taylor ended up deciding to have Ray Liotta play his own brother, the need for Dickie Moltisanti (Nivola) to unburden himself as Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, had in The Sopranos series, Al Hirt versus Miles Davis, Alessandro’s longtime double Carl Paoli, the David O Russell technique, and why he wanted to be an actor since he was a kid.
'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti (Ray Liotta), Buddha (Joey Diaz), Junior Soprano (Corey Stoll), Pussy Bonpensiero (Samson Moeakiola), and Paulie Walnuts (Billy Magnussen)
From New York City, Alessandro Nivola joined me on Zoom for an in-depth conversation on The Many Saints Of Newark...
In the second instalment with Alessandro Nivola, star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark we discuss how Chase and Taylor ended up deciding to have Ray Liotta play his own brother, the need for Dickie Moltisanti (Nivola) to unburden himself as Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, had in The Sopranos series, Al Hirt versus Miles Davis, Alessandro’s longtime double Carl Paoli, the David O Russell technique, and why he wanted to be an actor since he was a kid.
'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti (Ray Liotta), Buddha (Joey Diaz), Junior Soprano (Corey Stoll), Pussy Bonpensiero (Samson Moeakiola), and Paulie Walnuts (Billy Magnussen)
From New York City, Alessandro Nivola joined me on Zoom for an in-depth conversation on The Many Saints Of Newark...
- 12/18/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark star Alessandro Nivola with Anne-Katrin Titze on Gay Talese: “He’s brilliant! I read a lot of his stuff"
Star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark, Alessandro Nivola, in the first instalment spoke with me in great detail on his character Dickie Moltisanti, the influence of Gay Talese, and his many upcoming projects. Films in the pipeline include working with Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, and Chris Cooper on Matt Ruskin’s Boston Strangler and Todd Haynes’s Peggy Lee biopic Fever with Michelle Williams.
Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints Of Newark: "He [David Chase] wanted to tell a new story."
Earlier this year, Alessandro filmed again with his American Hustle director David O Russell and had a cameo in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, which has his and Emily Mortimer’s children,...
Star of Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark, Alessandro Nivola, in the first instalment spoke with me in great detail on his character Dickie Moltisanti, the influence of Gay Talese, and his many upcoming projects. Films in the pipeline include working with Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, and Chris Cooper on Matt Ruskin’s Boston Strangler and Todd Haynes’s Peggy Lee biopic Fever with Michelle Williams.
Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints Of Newark: "He [David Chase] wanted to tell a new story."
Earlier this year, Alessandro filmed again with his American Hustle director David O Russell and had a cameo in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, which has his and Emily Mortimer’s children,...
- 12/9/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“It’s a comfort knowing that the work lives on,” David Chase, the writer, director and producer who created The Sopranos, told me Saturday as we sat down in front of a theater full of students at Chapman University, where I now teach, to record the first of several live episodes of Awards Chatter that I will be conducting on the Orange, California, campus. The 76-year-old, who co-wrote, with Lawrence Konner, the new film The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel, which we had just screened for the students, continued, “See, I didn’t think that Sopranos would live on at all even after ...
- 11/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“It’s a comfort knowing that the work lives on,” David Chase, the writer, director and producer who created The Sopranos, told me Saturday as we sat down in front of a theater full of students at Chapman University, where I now teach, to record the first of several live episodes of Awards Chatter that I will be conducting on the Orange, California, campus. The 76-year-old, who co-wrote, with Lawrence Konner, the new film The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel, which we had just screened for the students, continued, “See, I didn’t think that Sopranos would live on at all even after ...
- 11/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for both “The Sopranos” and “The Many Saints of Newark.”]
Christopher Moltisanti haunts Alan Taylor’s “The Many Saints of Newark,” and not just in name (you don’t need to be too familiar with Italian to realize that “Many Saints” translates to “Moltisanti”) but in actual spirit. The film literally opens in a New Jersey graveyard, one filled with headstones boasting the names of families familiar to any seasoned “Sopranos” watcher, before settling on a discomfitingly familiar face, forever imposed on his own gravestone: Christopher Moltisanti, Aka Chrissy, the son of Dickie Moltisanti, who serves as the film’s leading man (as played by franchise newbie Alessandro Nivola).
Voiced by Michael Imperioli, who starred in the original series as the misguided if plucky young mobster, Chrissy guides us through the opening moments of the film — Chrissy! from beyond the grave! — which follows the exploits of his father and a young Tony Soprano...
Christopher Moltisanti haunts Alan Taylor’s “The Many Saints of Newark,” and not just in name (you don’t need to be too familiar with Italian to realize that “Many Saints” translates to “Moltisanti”) but in actual spirit. The film literally opens in a New Jersey graveyard, one filled with headstones boasting the names of families familiar to any seasoned “Sopranos” watcher, before settling on a discomfitingly familiar face, forever imposed on his own gravestone: Christopher Moltisanti, Aka Chrissy, the son of Dickie Moltisanti, who serves as the film’s leading man (as played by franchise newbie Alessandro Nivola).
Voiced by Michael Imperioli, who starred in the original series as the misguided if plucky young mobster, Chrissy guides us through the opening moments of the film — Chrissy! from beyond the grave! — which follows the exploits of his father and a young Tony Soprano...
- 10/1/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“The Sopranos” creator David Chase has signed a five year first-look deal with WarnerMedia.
News of the deal comes on the day that “The Many Saints of Newark,” a “Sopranos” prequel film written by Chase and Lawrence Konner, is debuting in theaters and on HBO Max. Under his new deal, Chase will develop content for HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Nicole Lambert is the executive vice president of Chase Films and producer of “The Many Saints of Newark” alongside Chase.
“David Chase is one of the most gifted storytellers working in the film and television industry,” said Casey Bloys, chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max. “HBO has had a long and celebrated creative partnership with David, and this deal affords us a wonderful opportunity to continue this relationship at HBO and HBO Max.”
Chase is best known for creating “The Sopranos,” which is frequently in...
News of the deal comes on the day that “The Many Saints of Newark,” a “Sopranos” prequel film written by Chase and Lawrence Konner, is debuting in theaters and on HBO Max. Under his new deal, Chase will develop content for HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Nicole Lambert is the executive vice president of Chase Films and producer of “The Many Saints of Newark” alongside Chase.
“David Chase is one of the most gifted storytellers working in the film and television industry,” said Casey Bloys, chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max. “HBO has had a long and celebrated creative partnership with David, and this deal affords us a wonderful opportunity to continue this relationship at HBO and HBO Max.”
Chase is best known for creating “The Sopranos,” which is frequently in...
- 10/1/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
(L-r) Billy Magnussen as Paulie Walnuts, Jon Bernthal as Johnny Soprano, Corey Stoll as Junior Soprano (in back), John Magaro as Silvio Dante, Ray Liotta as “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti and Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti in New Line Cinema and Home Box Office’s “The Many Saints Of Newark,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo credit: Barry Wetcher / Warner Bros. Courtesy of Warner Brothers Studios
The highly-anticipated “Sopranos” prequel The Many Saints Of Newark finally arrives in theaters and proves that it was worth the long wait. “The Sopranos” was the influential, award-winning television series that likely started the binge-watching phenomenon, but one of the nice things about this mobster drama is that there is no need to be a fan of the long-running series, or even to have seen a single episode, to fully enjoy this film and be drawn into its well-rounded world and thrilled by its surprise-around-every corner plot.
The highly-anticipated “Sopranos” prequel The Many Saints Of Newark finally arrives in theaters and proves that it was worth the long wait. “The Sopranos” was the influential, award-winning television series that likely started the binge-watching phenomenon, but one of the nice things about this mobster drama is that there is no need to be a fan of the long-running series, or even to have seen a single episode, to fully enjoy this film and be drawn into its well-rounded world and thrilled by its surprise-around-every corner plot.
- 10/1/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 30th, 2021, reviewing the new film “The Many Saints of Newark” in theaters and streaming on HBO Max beginning October 1st.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Michael Gandofini, the son of the original Tony Soprano (James Gandofini), portrays the teenage Tony, but the story belongs to Dickie Montisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who is in conflict with himself over the criminal life he’s chosen. The film is set in late 1960s/early 1970s Newark, New Jersey, in the middle of the worst race relations for a city at the time. The old ways are crumbling, and the Italian crime syndicates are feeling the heat from black mobsters … symbolized by Harold (Leslie Odom Jr). Dickie’s father (Ray Liotta) is causing his son some problems, and when a situation arises concerning father and son, Dickie turns to his father’s in-prison twin brother,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Michael Gandofini, the son of the original Tony Soprano (James Gandofini), portrays the teenage Tony, but the story belongs to Dickie Montisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who is in conflict with himself over the criminal life he’s chosen. The film is set in late 1960s/early 1970s Newark, New Jersey, in the middle of the worst race relations for a city at the time. The old ways are crumbling, and the Italian crime syndicates are feeling the heat from black mobsters … symbolized by Harold (Leslie Odom Jr). Dickie’s father (Ray Liotta) is causing his son some problems, and when a situation arises concerning father and son, Dickie turns to his father’s in-prison twin brother,...
- 9/30/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Following a quiet stretch at the domestic box office, Sony’s comic book sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” looks to make some noise. The film opens in theaters on Friday after five delays, something of a pandemic-record.
Directed by Andy Serkis and starring Tom Hardy as an otherworldly lethal protector, the superhero movie is estimated to collect at least $50 million in its opening weekend. But, given the unpredictable moviegoing landscape, that figure comes with a symbiote-sized asterisk. Some industry experts have indicated that pent-up anticipation could propel inaugural ticket sales for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” as high as $65 million. After all, theaters have been without a buzzy new release since Disney’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” opened on the big screen nearly a month ago. That should mean the box office is primed for a hit. Sony, however, is tempering expectations, knowing that we...
Directed by Andy Serkis and starring Tom Hardy as an otherworldly lethal protector, the superhero movie is estimated to collect at least $50 million in its opening weekend. But, given the unpredictable moviegoing landscape, that figure comes with a symbiote-sized asterisk. Some industry experts have indicated that pent-up anticipation could propel inaugural ticket sales for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” as high as $65 million. After all, theaters have been without a buzzy new release since Disney’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” opened on the big screen nearly a month ago. That should mean the box office is primed for a hit. Sony, however, is tempering expectations, knowing that we...
- 9/29/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
The highly anticipated “The Sopranos” movie prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark,” makes its grand debut on Friday, both in theaters and on HBO Max. Director Alan Taylor and screenwriters David Chase and Lawrence Konner return to the mafia world of Newark, New Jersey to tell the story of Tony Soprano’s upbringing in the ’60s and ’70s. This time around, Tony is played by Michael Gandolfini, real-life son of James Gandolfini, who died in 2013. “The Sopranos” aired on HBO between 1999 and 2007 and won a total of 21 Emmy Awards, including Best Drama Series twice (2004 and 2007).
Will Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Many Saints of Newark” stage a box office shakedown or swim with the fishes? Beginning right now at Gold Derby, you can predict which movies will earn the #1 through #5 spots at the U.S. box office for this weekend, October 1 – October 3. You can also forecast how much money the weekend...
Will Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Many Saints of Newark” stage a box office shakedown or swim with the fishes? Beginning right now at Gold Derby, you can predict which movies will earn the #1 through #5 spots at the U.S. box office for this weekend, October 1 – October 3. You can also forecast how much money the weekend...
- 9/28/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
To describe verbatim the first-or-so minute of The Many Saints of Newark would be to spoil not only one of the film’s more audacious twists, painstakingly concealed by pre-release publicity materials, but also one of the most shocking story developments from the final episodes of The Sopranos. Right off the bat, the film pitches its audience an unexpected and unapologetically quirky Billy Wilder throwback framing device that puts a new spin on some of the show’s most cosmically ambitious themes: the insistence that every person, everywhere, has an equally rich and mythic inner life, and the teased suggestion of supernatural transcendence beyond death—an afterlife from which the world of the living might be observed through an uncanny veil mimicking cinema itself. You’ll just need to have seen the TV show—all six-and-a-half seasons—to fully appreciate it.
Alienating Sopranos neophytes is clearly not a matter of great concern to Many Saints,...
Alienating Sopranos neophytes is clearly not a matter of great concern to Many Saints,...
- 9/27/2021
- by Eli Friedberg
- The Film Stage
Critics in their first look at “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark” are celebrating the film’s style and deconstruction of the gangster drama, with some saying it captures the old magic of “The Sopranos” even as it’s perhaps overstuffed with callbacks, references and characters to the series.
“When it’s focusing on the brutality and ugliness of its world, ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is something remarkable,” Chris Evangelista writes for /Film. “The script, by ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, often gets way too cute with its winking references to the show. It’s as if someone, somewhere, suggested that this film follow the lead of modern popular blockbuster entertainment and overload itself with easter eggs.”
“Many Saints” follows the story of Dickie Moltisanti, the father of the series regular Christopher Moltisanti who was a huge influence on a young Tony Soprano, played here...
“When it’s focusing on the brutality and ugliness of its world, ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is something remarkable,” Chris Evangelista writes for /Film. “The script, by ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, often gets way too cute with its winking references to the show. It’s as if someone, somewhere, suggested that this film follow the lead of modern popular blockbuster entertainment and overload itself with easter eggs.”
“Many Saints” follows the story of Dickie Moltisanti, the father of the series regular Christopher Moltisanti who was a huge influence on a young Tony Soprano, played here...
- 9/21/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Tony Soprano may or may not be dead, but unfortunately James Gandolfini is, so to continue The Sopranos saga, creator David Chase has flipped back the calendar to craft something of an origins story for America’s favorite crime family in The Many Saints Of Newark. Set for domestic release while wedded to a simultaneous HBO Max bow on October 1, the Warner Bros/New Line film has its world premiere on September 22 at the Tribeca Fall Preview at New York’s Beacon Theater.
For the legion of the series’ fans, there will be adjustments to be made, voids to be filled. And it takes a little while. We didn’t spend just a couple of hours in one movie with all those fabulous actors in indelible roles — we lived with them for eight years through 86 episodes of compelling, obsessive, highly addictive viewing.
Chase, who scripted the Alan Taylor-directed film...
For the legion of the series’ fans, there will be adjustments to be made, voids to be filled. And it takes a little while. We didn’t spend just a couple of hours in one movie with all those fabulous actors in indelible roles — we lived with them for eight years through 86 episodes of compelling, obsessive, highly addictive viewing.
Chase, who scripted the Alan Taylor-directed film...
- 9/21/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
In its heyday, there was an ad campaign for “The Sopranos” that played, in an obvious but irresistible way, off the word “family.” The show was about Tony Soprano and his tempestuous suburban family, and it was also, of course, about that other family: the Mafia. When it comes to television, though, there is always an additional meaning to family. For anyone addicted to a drama or comedy series — it doesn’t matter if it’s about Jersey Mob soldiers, lowly office workers, or astrophysicist geeks — the regulars on the show come to seem like a family, and they become your family.
“The Sopranos,” though it was about the most dangerous family we’d ever seen on television, had that quality. Every Sunday night, we watched an episode worthy of comparison to the Martin Scorsese of “GoodFellas,” but we also got to hang with Tony and his crew: the bad-boy sociopath protégé Christopher,...
“The Sopranos,” though it was about the most dangerous family we’d ever seen on television, had that quality. Every Sunday night, we watched an episode worthy of comparison to the Martin Scorsese of “GoodFellas,” but we also got to hang with Tony and his crew: the bad-boy sociopath protégé Christopher,...
- 9/21/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
David Chase had been working in television for decades before “The Sopranos” immediately made a cultural impact in 1999 and continued to do so up until its deliberately abrupt conclusion in 2007. Burned by his bad experiences trying to do something original for network television in the 1980s and ‘90s, Chase claimed in interviews to be drawn to more cinematic models, and this showed on “The Sopranos,” sometimes in some unusually expressive visual compositions, which was enough to get some of the episodes run at the Museum of Modern Art in 2001.
Yet the strength of “The Sopranos” came from its TV-mandated ability to spend lavish amounts of time developing characters so three-dimensional that they felt like real, funny, sharp, stupid, horrifying, contradictory people from life. If you go back and look at “The Sopranos” — and many people have since it left the air — what stands out is not the visual dynamics so...
Yet the strength of “The Sopranos” came from its TV-mandated ability to spend lavish amounts of time developing characters so three-dimensional that they felt like real, funny, sharp, stupid, horrifying, contradictory people from life. If you go back and look at “The Sopranos” — and many people have since it left the air — what stands out is not the visual dynamics so...
- 9/21/2021
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
The Sopranos was the premier gangster series and it changed television. The HBO show drew from David Chase’s memories, expertise, and love of mob movies of the past. The Many Saints of Newark has all those things, but it won’t just be a big screen version of the influential small-screen hit. It will be a fully formed gangster movie.
During an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jon Bernthal, who plays Tony’s father Giovanni “Johnny Boy” Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, admitted he hasn’t yet seen the film, and couldn’t give too much away even if he wasn’t upholding the tradition of omerta. “What I will say is that it’s different,” Bernthal told Seth Meyers. “I think people are going to go in expecting The Sopranos. It’s not that.”
Set in 1960s Newark, The Many Saints of Newark explores...
During an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jon Bernthal, who plays Tony’s father Giovanni “Johnny Boy” Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, admitted he hasn’t yet seen the film, and couldn’t give too much away even if he wasn’t upholding the tradition of omerta. “What I will say is that it’s different,” Bernthal told Seth Meyers. “I think people are going to go in expecting The Sopranos. It’s not that.”
Set in 1960s Newark, The Many Saints of Newark explores...
- 9/15/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Some 14 years after he said all he had to say about a Jersey mob family, and ended The Sopranos in shocking fashion, it turns out David Chase has much more to say. The result is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel of sorts set against the Newark race riots, and focusing on charming sociopath mobster Dickie Moltisanti. He is the father of Christopher, Tony’s right-hand man in the series played by Michael Imperioli (who makes his presence known in a way we’ll leave as a surprise). Dickie is a mentor to young Tony (played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael), and an ally of Harold McBrayer (played by Leslie Odom Jr), an up-and-coming gangster on the Black side of town who becomes his mortal enemy.
Although he oversaw an iconic dramatic show that became the template for auteur series and put HBO on the map,...
Although he oversaw an iconic dramatic show that became the template for auteur series and put HBO on the map,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Tribeca Enterprises is kicking off its newest event series, billed as “Tribeca Fall Preview,” on a high note. “The Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” will have its world premiere on the opening night of Tribeca’s first fall event on September 22 at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway.
“The Many Saints of Newark” follows a young Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) during his youth in one of the most tumultuous periods in Newark, New Jersey’s history. Its a time when rivals of the Sopranos’ Dimeo crime family are challenging them for power against the backdrop of the Newark race riots. Dickie Moltisanti — Tony’s idol, Carmela Soprano’s cousin, and Christopher Moltisanti’s father — struggles to manage his professional and personal responsibilities while influencing Tony’s life trajectory that led him to become the powerful mob boss depicted in the acclaimed HBO series that ran from 1999-2007.
Gandolfini...
“The Many Saints of Newark” follows a young Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) during his youth in one of the most tumultuous periods in Newark, New Jersey’s history. Its a time when rivals of the Sopranos’ Dimeo crime family are challenging them for power against the backdrop of the Newark race riots. Dickie Moltisanti — Tony’s idol, Carmela Soprano’s cousin, and Christopher Moltisanti’s father — struggles to manage his professional and personal responsibilities while influencing Tony’s life trajectory that led him to become the powerful mob boss depicted in the acclaimed HBO series that ran from 1999-2007.
Gandolfini...
- 9/2/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
When Michael Gandolfini arrived at Vera Farmiga’s house to meet her for the first time, he had a bouquet of flowers in hand, like a dutiful son visiting his mother. Which he more or less was, since he would be playing the teenage Tony Soprano to her Livia in the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark (in theaters and on HBO Max October 1st). As a young actor with a modest résumé who snagged such a huge role partly because he was the son of James Gandolfini,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
‘Sopranos’ fans rejoice, finally the first trailer has arrived for the prequel movie ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ and it promises not to disappoint.
The film follows a young Anthony Soprano growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano.
Directed by Alan Taylor from a script by series creator David Chase & Lawrence Konner, the film stars Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi,...
The film follows a young Anthony Soprano growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano.
Directed by Alan Taylor from a script by series creator David Chase & Lawrence Konner, the film stars Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Legends aren’t born. They’re made. A prequel to The Sopranos, watch the new trailer for The Many Saints Of Newark.
The film is slated for release in theaters nationwide on September 24, 2021 and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. It is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and has been rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.
New Line Cinema’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is the much-anticipated feature film prequel to David Chase’s groundbreaking, award-winning HBO drama series “The Sopranos.” Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes,...
The film is slated for release in theaters nationwide on September 24, 2021 and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. It is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and has been rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.
New Line Cinema’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is the much-anticipated feature film prequel to David Chase’s groundbreaking, award-winning HBO drama series “The Sopranos.” Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A young Tony Soprano enters the family business in the new trailer for the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, which is set to open October 1st and stream same-day on HBO Max.
The new clip offers the first proper look at Michael Gandolfini — son of late Sopranos star James Gandolfini — as the teenage Anthony (there were a few smaller glimpses in a trailer for Warner Bros. 2021 movie slate, released earlier this year). He appears well suited to fill his father’s shoes, as evidenced in the opening moments of the clip,...
The new clip offers the first proper look at Michael Gandolfini — son of late Sopranos star James Gandolfini — as the teenage Anthony (there were a few smaller glimpses in a trailer for Warner Bros. 2021 movie slate, released earlier this year). He appears well suited to fill his father’s shoes, as evidenced in the opening moments of the clip,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
If you wondered just how closely the “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” would tie in to the series, the first trailer for the film shows how a teen named Anthony has “got what it takes” to become Tony Soprano.
This exciting first look at “The Many Saints of Newark” opens with a teacher calling Tony’s mother (Vera Farmiga) into her office and explaining that based on an exam, her son has a high Iq, even though he has a D+ average. “The results tell us, he’s a leader,” the teacher says.
The film then shows how Anthony — as played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini, and with quite the resemblance — was slowly molded into the mob boss we all know. As a result, “Many Saints of Newark” centers heavily on Tony’s relationship with his uncle Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a figure...
This exciting first look at “The Many Saints of Newark” opens with a teacher calling Tony’s mother (Vera Farmiga) into her office and explaining that based on an exam, her son has a high Iq, even though he has a D+ average. “The results tell us, he’s a leader,” the teacher says.
The film then shows how Anthony — as played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini, and with quite the resemblance — was slowly molded into the mob boss we all know. As a result, “Many Saints of Newark” centers heavily on Tony’s relationship with his uncle Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a figure...
- 6/29/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Cry Macho, The Many Saints Of Newark also move.
Warner Bros has pushed back the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune from October 1 to October 22, and has moved Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho and Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark.
Dune will now avoid going one week prior to the US launch of MGM’s James Bond thriller No Time To Die on October 8.
It will open in 3D and IMAX and is set to receive its world premiere out of competition in Venice Film Festival on September 3, followed by a world exclusive Imax screening in TIFF,...
Warner Bros has pushed back the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune from October 1 to October 22, and has moved Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho and Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark.
Dune will now avoid going one week prior to the US launch of MGM’s James Bond thriller No Time To Die on October 8.
It will open in 3D and IMAX and is set to receive its world premiere out of competition in Venice Film Festival on September 3, followed by a world exclusive Imax screening in TIFF,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In a minor shuffle of its fall film calendar, Warner Bros. has moved “Dune” back three weeks to now open in late October.
The studio also shifted the release dates of Clint Eastwood’s next movie “Cry Macho,” moving it up by roughly a month, and the “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” back by just one week.
“Dune” will now open Oct. 22, 2021, back from Oct. 1, and the film will play in 3-D and IMAX in theaters. “Cry Macho,” which was dated for Oct. 22, will now debut Sept. 17. And “Many Saints” will shift back into “Dune’s” previous slot, opening Oct. 1, moving back from Sept. 24.
“Dune” now moves out of the way of the James Bond film “No Time To Die,” which opens on Oct. 8, and into a more favorable weekend where it will be up against Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” from Focus Features, the...
The studio also shifted the release dates of Clint Eastwood’s next movie “Cry Macho,” moving it up by roughly a month, and the “Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” back by just one week.
“Dune” will now open Oct. 22, 2021, back from Oct. 1, and the film will play in 3-D and IMAX in theaters. “Cry Macho,” which was dated for Oct. 22, will now debut Sept. 17. And “Many Saints” will shift back into “Dune’s” previous slot, opening Oct. 1, moving back from Sept. 24.
“Dune” now moves out of the way of the James Bond film “No Time To Die,” which opens on Oct. 8, and into a more favorable weekend where it will be up against Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” from Focus Features, the...
- 6/25/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Our first look at the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark has arrived, and it features a bittersweet look at a young Tony Soprano. James Gandolfini starred as the New Jersey gangster on the acclaimed HBO series from 1999 to 2007. The actor, who won three Emmys for his role, passed away at the age of 51 in 2013 following a heart attack. In 2019, it was revealed that James' son Michael Gandolfini, 21, would make his film debut as a younger version of the character in The Many Saints of Newark, written by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film, which was originally slated for a 2020...
- 1/28/2021
- E! Online
“The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” has been pushed again and will now open this fall, Warner Bros. announced on Wednesday.
“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open September 24, 2021 from its original March 2021 release.
“The Many Saints of Newark” is helmed by Alan Taylor, a frequent director of “The Sopranos,” based on a script by the series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, and it’s set during the Newark riots in the 1960s, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. At the time it was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and more than 700 people were injured during the riot.
The film also follows the formative years of a young Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael. Vera Farmiga,...
“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open September 24, 2021 from its original March 2021 release.
“The Many Saints of Newark” is helmed by Alan Taylor, a frequent director of “The Sopranos,” based on a script by the series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, and it’s set during the Newark riots in the 1960s, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. At the time it was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and more than 700 people were injured during the riot.
The film also follows the formative years of a young Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael. Vera Farmiga,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Warner Bros is moving The Sopranos prequel pic The Many Saints of Newark from March 12 to Sept. 24. New Line is releasing.
Remember, WarnerMedia announced that its entire 2021 slate is going to theatrical and HBO Max at the same time, but big chains like AMC are negotiating terms on a film-by-film basis. So that means not everything Warners is releasing will play those theaters that are open coast to coast. It would seem conceivable that Saints is ripe completely for HBO Max since it’s a prequel to the Emmy-winning HBO mob series. However, Saints was greenlit two years ago as a theatrical release before the streaming service even existed. A move to September positions Saints to a time of year when more theaters will potentially be open, not to mention, it also puts the movie into consideration for the 2021-22 awards season. Most distributors for the first quarter are delaying...
Remember, WarnerMedia announced that its entire 2021 slate is going to theatrical and HBO Max at the same time, but big chains like AMC are negotiating terms on a film-by-film basis. So that means not everything Warners is releasing will play those theaters that are open coast to coast. It would seem conceivable that Saints is ripe completely for HBO Max since it’s a prequel to the Emmy-winning HBO mob series. However, Saints was greenlit two years ago as a theatrical release before the streaming service even existed. A move to September positions Saints to a time of year when more theaters will potentially be open, not to mention, it also puts the movie into consideration for the 2021-22 awards season. Most distributors for the first quarter are delaying...
- 1/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Audiences will have to wait to return to the world of “The Sopranos.” “The Many Saints of Newark,” an upcoming film that serves as a prequel to the long-running HBO series, has again delayed its big-screen debut.
The movie will now open on Sept. 24, 2021 — an entire year after initially planned. “The Many Saints of Newark,” which is being produced by New Line Cinemas and released by Warner Bros., was originally set for September 2020 but was later rescheduled to March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Traditional Hollywood studios have spent the better part of last year postponing their biggest films due to widespread theater closures and the general uncertainty over audiences’ willingness to return to the movies after cinemas reopened. But that’s not the impetus for “The Many Saints of Newark’s” latest delay since it will debut simultaneously in movie theaters and on HBO Max. Warner Bros. is taking...
The movie will now open on Sept. 24, 2021 — an entire year after initially planned. “The Many Saints of Newark,” which is being produced by New Line Cinemas and released by Warner Bros., was originally set for September 2020 but was later rescheduled to March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Traditional Hollywood studios have spent the better part of last year postponing their biggest films due to widespread theater closures and the general uncertainty over audiences’ willingness to return to the movies after cinemas reopened. But that’s not the impetus for “The Many Saints of Newark’s” latest delay since it will debut simultaneously in movie theaters and on HBO Max. Warner Bros. is taking...
- 1/14/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa, who signed on to do the popular Talking Sopranos podcast on a lark, have just signed a big deal with the HarperCollins book imprint William Morrow to write an oral history of the iconic HBO show. They’ll provide insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and little-known facts from cast and crew that could only come from those on the inside.
Imperioli played Christopher Moltisanti and Schirripa Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, two soldiers under Tony Soprano, played by the late great James Gandolfini in the David Chase-created series. They’ve been dissecting each episode on their podcast since April, and Talking Sopranos has proven a tonic for the pandemic and grown to over 5 million downloads. While they told Deadline they hadn’t really watched episodes since filming them until they began the podcast, they are now steeped in Sopranos lore and know where the bodies are buried.
Imperioli played Christopher Moltisanti and Schirripa Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, two soldiers under Tony Soprano, played by the late great James Gandolfini in the David Chase-created series. They’ve been dissecting each episode on their podcast since April, and Talking Sopranos has proven a tonic for the pandemic and grown to over 5 million downloads. While they told Deadline they hadn’t really watched episodes since filming them until they began the podcast, they are now steeped in Sopranos lore and know where the bodies are buried.
- 9/17/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Soprano is alive and well in a brand new scene from “The Sopranos” written by series creator David Chase. The scene imagines how Tony, Carmela, Meadow, Christopher, and other fan favorite characters would react while being quarantined together during the coronavirus pandemic. Chase’s mini “Sopranos” script made its debut on the latest episode of Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa’s “Talking Sopranos” podcast.
“Things are tough right now with all the bad news and things that are going on, it’s nice to have something to laugh about,” Imperioli said while introducing the scene. “David thought it was important to bring some levity to the world, and he wrote these lines about the Soprano characters relating to the coronavirus.”
“The Sopranos” signed off the air after six seasons in June 2007 with a memorable finale that left the fate of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) up in the air. The...
“Things are tough right now with all the bad news and things that are going on, it’s nice to have something to laugh about,” Imperioli said while introducing the scene. “David thought it was important to bring some levity to the world, and he wrote these lines about the Soprano characters relating to the coronavirus.”
“The Sopranos” signed off the air after six seasons in June 2007 with a memorable finale that left the fate of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) up in the air. The...
- 5/6/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It appears that the fall release date of The Many Saints of Newark, HBO’s long-anticipated prequel TV movie to its transformative peak television smash, The Sopranos, was born under a bad sign, taking shape during an era in which the film and television industry—and everything else in the civilized world—has been derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequently, the movie has just met the nowadays-inevitable fate of having its release date shifted back.
The Many Saints of Newark is now scheduled to premiere on HBO on Friday, March 12, 2021. The move represents a nearly six-month shift from its previously scheduled debut on September 25 of this year. The film joins other properties under the Warner corporate tentpole in wide-reaching schedule changes, notably DC movies, The Batman, Shazam 2 and The Flash, with the former two getting hit with delays and, intriguingly, the notoriously-stalled latter project—representing the solo cinematic debut...
The Many Saints of Newark is now scheduled to premiere on HBO on Friday, March 12, 2021. The move represents a nearly six-month shift from its previously scheduled debut on September 25 of this year. The film joins other properties under the Warner corporate tentpole in wide-reaching schedule changes, notably DC movies, The Batman, Shazam 2 and The Flash, with the former two getting hit with delays and, intriguingly, the notoriously-stalled latter project—representing the solo cinematic debut...
- 4/20/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
“The Sopranos” prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark” and Will Smith’s biopic “King Richard” have both shifted to 2021 as part of a shuffle of the Warner Bros. release calendar that also resulted in “The Batman,” “Shazam 2!” and “The Flash” all moving dates.
“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open March 12, 2021 from its original September 2020 release, and “King Richard” will move back almost a full year to November 19, 2021.
“The Batman” will now open on October 1, 2021, moving back four months. The untitled Elvis biopic from director Baz Luhrmann and starring Tom Hanks is moving back a month to Nov. 5, 2021. “The Flash” will now open June 3, 2022, a month earlier than planned, and “Shazam 2!” is shifting to Nov. 4, 2022 from an April 2022 release date.
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Among some of the other changes, Lisa Joy’s sci-fi and romance “Reminiscence” — starring Rebecca Ferguson,...
“The Many Saints of Newark” will now open March 12, 2021 from its original September 2020 release, and “King Richard” will move back almost a full year to November 19, 2021.
“The Batman” will now open on October 1, 2021, moving back four months. The untitled Elvis biopic from director Baz Luhrmann and starring Tom Hanks is moving back a month to Nov. 5, 2021. “The Flash” will now open June 3, 2022, a month earlier than planned, and “Shazam 2!” is shifting to Nov. 4, 2022 from an April 2022 release date.
Also Read: 'The Batman' Release Date Pushed 4 Months to October 2021
Among some of the other changes, Lisa Joy’s sci-fi and romance “Reminiscence” — starring Rebecca Ferguson,...
- 4/20/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Michael Imperioli, who played prodigal mafia son Christopher Moltisanti, and Steve Schirripa, who played Tony Soprano’s brother-in-law Bobby Baccalieri, are set to revisit the show that launched Peak TV in 1999 with a new podcast.
“Talking Sopranos” will revisit the series, which ran on HBO through 2007 and concluding with that haunting final smash cut to black, episode by episode, making this the definitive “Sopranos” rewatch podcast. And the series lends itself very well to a rewatch. Or, if you’re like Zoe Kravitz’s character in “High Fidelity,” maybe you haven’t started it, and this is your chance. In the podcast, Imperioli and Schirripa will share behind-the-scenes stories and little-known facts that could only come from someone on the inside, as it were. The podcast will feature cast interviews, and chats with writers, crew members, and other special guests. As dead as the topic of what really happened in...
“Talking Sopranos” will revisit the series, which ran on HBO through 2007 and concluding with that haunting final smash cut to black, episode by episode, making this the definitive “Sopranos” rewatch podcast. And the series lends itself very well to a rewatch. Or, if you’re like Zoe Kravitz’s character in “High Fidelity,” maybe you haven’t started it, and this is your chance. In the podcast, Imperioli and Schirripa will share behind-the-scenes stories and little-known facts that could only come from someone on the inside, as it were. The podcast will feature cast interviews, and chats with writers, crew members, and other special guests. As dead as the topic of what really happened in...
- 3/1/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
“The Sopranos” stars Drea De Matteo, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Vincent Pastore will reunite to present at the 2019 MTV VMAs, TheWrap has learned exclusively. Yeah, it’s located in Jersey.
The actors behind Adriana La Cerva, Meadow Soprano and Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, respectively, will give the party at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center some extra-special — and local — street cred.
As TheWrap previously reported, John Travolta, “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness, Ice-t, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lenny Kravitz, Lindsey Vonn, Rick Ross, Salt N’ Pepa, Alex Morgan, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, Bebe Rexha, Megan Thee Stallion, French Montana, Hailee Steinfeld, New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, and former New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz will also hand out Moonmen at the Monday show.
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Monday’s 2019 VMAs will be hosted by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco,...
The actors behind Adriana La Cerva, Meadow Soprano and Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, respectively, will give the party at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center some extra-special — and local — street cred.
As TheWrap previously reported, John Travolta, “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness, Ice-t, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lenny Kravitz, Lindsey Vonn, Rick Ross, Salt N’ Pepa, Alex Morgan, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, Bebe Rexha, Megan Thee Stallion, French Montana, Hailee Steinfeld, New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, and former New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz will also hand out Moonmen at the Monday show.
Also Read: John Travolta, Jonathan Van Ness, Ice-t and More Among First MTV VMAs Presenters (Exclusive)
Monday’s 2019 VMAs will be hosted by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco,...
- 8/22/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Production is currently underway on “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark,” and first look photos of a young Tony Soprano has surfaced on Comingsoon.net. Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James Gandolfini, is playing the young version of the character his father originated in “The Sopranos.”
Check out one of the photos of a young Tony below:
Comingsoon.net
“The Many Saints of Newark” is set in the 1960s during the Newark riots, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. At the time it was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and more than 700 people were injured during the riot.
Alan Taylor (“Thor: The Dark World”), who helmed 9 episodes of the groundbreaking HBO series, is directing the film co-written by “The Sopranos” series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Check out one of the photos of a young Tony below:
Comingsoon.net
“The Many Saints of Newark” is set in the 1960s during the Newark riots, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. At the time it was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and more than 700 people were injured during the riot.
Alan Taylor (“Thor: The Dark World”), who helmed 9 episodes of the groundbreaking HBO series, is directing the film co-written by “The Sopranos” series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
- 5/14/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Italian actress Michela De Rossi has been cast in a “pivotal role” in “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark” as the film begins production next week, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
De Rossi joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini in the ensemble drama set during in the Newark riots in the ’60s. She’ll play an “ambitious” Italian immigrant who comes to America to settle in Newark, New Jersey.
De Rossi is an up-and-coming Italian actress who made her cinematic debut in the 2018 film “Boys Cry,” a breakout at Berlinale that was directed by Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo. She’s never acted in the U.S., and her first trip to the States was to audition for the film.
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De Rossi joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini in the ensemble drama set during in the Newark riots in the ’60s. She’ll play an “ambitious” Italian immigrant who comes to America to settle in Newark, New Jersey.
De Rossi is an up-and-coming Italian actress who made her cinematic debut in the 2018 film “Boys Cry,” a breakout at Berlinale that was directed by Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo. She’s never acted in the U.S., and her first trip to the States was to audition for the film.
Also Read: 'The Sopranos' Prequel Movie: Everything We Know So...
- 3/26/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark has set its final major lead role. Michela De Rossi, the Italian-born actress who made her debut in Boys Cry, has been set to join Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Michael Gandolfini and the just-cast Leslie Odom Jr. in the ensemble drama for New Line. Production gets underway next week in New Jersey and New York.
Details have been scant on many of the big roles, but I’m told De Rossi will play an ambitious Italian immigrant who comes to America and settles in Newark. De Rossi has never acted in the U.S., and her first trip to the states was to audition for this role, which was highly sought after. The filmmakers sparked to a vivacity and authentic feel she brought to it. Boys Cry was a breakout at...
Details have been scant on many of the big roles, but I’m told De Rossi will play an ambitious Italian immigrant who comes to America and settles in Newark. De Rossi has never acted in the U.S., and her first trip to the states was to audition for this role, which was highly sought after. The filmmakers sparked to a vivacity and authentic feel she brought to it. Boys Cry was a breakout at...
- 3/26/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
“Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. has joined “The Many Saints of Newark,” the prequel movie to the television series “The Sopranos.”
Odom Jr. will play an unspecified role in the movie, which will open on Sept. 25, 2020.
Alan Taylor is directing the movie for New Line. The previously announced cast includes Cory Stoll, Billy Magnussen, Jon Bernthal, Alessandro Nivola, Ray Liotta, John Magaro, Vera Farmiga and Michael Gandolfini as the young Tony Soprano. The film will be set during the Newark riots in July 1967, when the acrimony between African-Americans and Italian-Americans became lethal as 26 people died and hundreds were injured in New Jersey’s largest city.
Series creator David Chase co-wrote the script with producer Lawrence Konner. Plot details are under wraps. Some of the other characters from the series besides Tony Soprano will appear in the movie. Nicole Lambert and Marcus Viscidi are executive producing.
Michael Gandolfini’s late father...
Odom Jr. will play an unspecified role in the movie, which will open on Sept. 25, 2020.
Alan Taylor is directing the movie for New Line. The previously announced cast includes Cory Stoll, Billy Magnussen, Jon Bernthal, Alessandro Nivola, Ray Liotta, John Magaro, Vera Farmiga and Michael Gandolfini as the young Tony Soprano. The film will be set during the Newark riots in July 1967, when the acrimony between African-Americans and Italian-Americans became lethal as 26 people died and hundreds were injured in New Jersey’s largest city.
Series creator David Chase co-wrote the script with producer Lawrence Konner. Plot details are under wraps. Some of the other characters from the series besides Tony Soprano will appear in the movie. Nicole Lambert and Marcus Viscidi are executive producing.
Michael Gandolfini’s late father...
- 3/20/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: New Line has set Tony-winning actor Leslie Odom Jr. for a starring role in The Many Saints Of Newark, the prequel film to David Chase’s iconic HBO series The Sopranos. He joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini, the latter of whom is reprising the Tony Soprano role originated by his late father, James Gandolfini.
No one is saying what role Odom Jr. will play, but the film is set in the era of the Newark riots in the 60s, when the African-Americans and the Italians of Newark were at each other’s throats. Among the gangsters of each group, that clash became especially lethal. I have heard that Odom figures directly into that conflict which involves Dickie Moltisanti (Nivola), who is the father of Tony Soprano’s lieutenant Christopher (played in the series by Michael Imperioli...
No one is saying what role Odom Jr. will play, but the film is set in the era of the Newark riots in the 60s, when the African-Americans and the Italians of Newark were at each other’s throats. Among the gangsters of each group, that clash became especially lethal. I have heard that Odom figures directly into that conflict which involves Dickie Moltisanti (Nivola), who is the father of Tony Soprano’s lieutenant Christopher (played in the series by Michael Imperioli...
- 3/20/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with official title: New Line’s Sopranos prequel feature now officially titled The Many Saints of Newark will hit theaters on September 25, 2020, the studio said. It hails from The Sopranos series creator David Chase who is co-producing and writing with Lawrence Konner.
The pic, directed by Alan Taylor, stars Alesandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini; the latter is playing the younger role his late father James Gandolfini made legendary: New Jersey kingpin Tony Soprano.
Nivola will play young Dickie Moltisanti, the late father of Christopher Moltisanti (played by Michael Imperioli in the HBO series) and cousin of Carmela Soprano. Dickie never appeared on the original series — he was whacked before the story’s timeline. His legend hangs large as a pivotal member, along with Tony and Uncle Junior, as someone who transformed the family into one to be...
The pic, directed by Alan Taylor, stars Alesandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini; the latter is playing the younger role his late father James Gandolfini made legendary: New Jersey kingpin Tony Soprano.
Nivola will play young Dickie Moltisanti, the late father of Christopher Moltisanti (played by Michael Imperioli in the HBO series) and cousin of Carmela Soprano. Dickie never appeared on the original series — he was whacked before the story’s timeline. His legend hangs large as a pivotal member, along with Tony and Uncle Junior, as someone who transformed the family into one to be...
- 3/15/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Gandolfini is stepping into his father’s shoes!
In January, Michael, 19, signed on to play a younger version of Tony Soprano — the iconic mobster his late father James Gandolfini famously played in The Sopranos— in a prequel movie to the series.
Michael recently got into character by visiting the real-life restaurant booth where The Sopranos famously ended. In a photo posted to Facebook on Thursday, the actor posed in the booth at Holsten’s Ice Cream Parlor in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, as he dealt with personal...
In January, Michael, 19, signed on to play a younger version of Tony Soprano — the iconic mobster his late father James Gandolfini famously played in The Sopranos— in a prequel movie to the series.
Michael recently got into character by visiting the real-life restaurant booth where The Sopranos famously ended. In a photo posted to Facebook on Thursday, the actor posed in the booth at Holsten’s Ice Cream Parlor in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, as he dealt with personal...
- 3/15/2019
- by Helen Murphy
- PEOPLE.com
Tony Soprano & Co. are ready to crash the Oscars in 2021. The prequel film to “The Sopranos” has gotten a release date and a new title: Previously titled “The Many Saints of Newark,” it is now going by “Newark” and will hit theaters on Sept. 25, 2020, New Line Cinema announced Thursday.
Written by “Sopranos” creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, and to be directed by Alan Taylor, the film is set in 1960s Newark, N.J., and revolves around the deadly riots between the city’s African-Americans and Italian-Americans residents.
The cast includes Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini. Gandolfini is the son of the late James Gandolfini and will play a young version of his father’s iconic character, Tony Soprano, in the film. Nivola plays Dickie Moltisanti, Tony’s mentor and Christopher’s (Michael Imperioli) father who was frequently...
Written by “Sopranos” creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, and to be directed by Alan Taylor, the film is set in 1960s Newark, N.J., and revolves around the deadly riots between the city’s African-Americans and Italian-Americans residents.
The cast includes Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro and Michael Gandolfini. Gandolfini is the son of the late James Gandolfini and will play a young version of his father’s iconic character, Tony Soprano, in the film. Nivola plays Dickie Moltisanti, Tony’s mentor and Christopher’s (Michael Imperioli) father who was frequently...
- 3/15/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
The planned prequel film to “The Sopranos” might not be “Star Wars: Episode IX,” but many of the details for this highly-anticipated film have been almost as secretive.
At the very least though, it has a title: “The Many Saints of Newark.” This is a project that boasts “The Sopranos” creator David Chase and an already impressive cast.
It also has a release date: New Line Cinema is planning to release the film on Sept. 25, 2020. Here’s what else we know:
Also Read: 'Sopranos' Prequel Gets Fall 2020 Release and Working Title 'Newark'
Firstly, Chase wrote the film with Lawrence Konner, a staff writer on “The Sopranos” who received the sole writing credit on three individual episodes. They are also producing the film.
Alan Taylor is directing “Newark.” He won an Emmy in 2007 for directing the Season 6 episode “Kennedy and Heidi.” More recently, Taylor has been behind some of the stand-out episodes of “Game of Thrones,...
At the very least though, it has a title: “The Many Saints of Newark.” This is a project that boasts “The Sopranos” creator David Chase and an already impressive cast.
It also has a release date: New Line Cinema is planning to release the film on Sept. 25, 2020. Here’s what else we know:
Also Read: 'Sopranos' Prequel Gets Fall 2020 Release and Working Title 'Newark'
Firstly, Chase wrote the film with Lawrence Konner, a staff writer on “The Sopranos” who received the sole writing credit on three individual episodes. They are also producing the film.
Alan Taylor is directing “Newark.” He won an Emmy in 2007 for directing the Season 6 episode “Kennedy and Heidi.” More recently, Taylor has been behind some of the stand-out episodes of “Game of Thrones,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“The Sopranos” prequel has a release date and a new name.
Simply titled “Newark,” the film will hit theaters on Sept. 25, 2020, more than 13 years after the acclaimed HBO series came to an end.
The cast will include Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, and John Magaro.
Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini, will portray a younger version of his father’s famous character, Tony Soprano, in the film. Other characters from the show may also appear in the prequel.
David Chase, the creator of the HBO series, teamed up with Lawrence Konner for the script, which is rumored to be set during the Newark riots of July 1967. Bad blood between African-Americans and Italian-Americans erupted in the New Jersey city at the time and resulted in 26 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Alan Taylor will direct the film, which was previously...
Simply titled “Newark,” the film will hit theaters on Sept. 25, 2020, more than 13 years after the acclaimed HBO series came to an end.
The cast will include Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, and John Magaro.
Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini, will portray a younger version of his father’s famous character, Tony Soprano, in the film. Other characters from the show may also appear in the prequel.
David Chase, the creator of the HBO series, teamed up with Lawrence Konner for the script, which is rumored to be set during the Newark riots of July 1967. Bad blood between African-Americans and Italian-Americans erupted in the New Jersey city at the time and resulted in 26 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Alan Taylor will direct the film, which was previously...
- 3/14/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
“The Sopranos” prequel film from New Line Cinema and series creator David Chase has received a release date and the studio says the working title is now “Newark.”
The film, which was previously titled “The Many Saints of Newark,” will open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2020.
Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, and Michael Gandolfini star in the film directed by Alan Taylor and written and produced by David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Also Read: New Line Exec Michael Disco Exits to Launch The Disco Factory, Will Executive-Produce 'Sopranos' Prequel 'Many Saints of Newark'
“Newark” is set in the 1960s during the Newark riots, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. It was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and...
The film, which was previously titled “The Many Saints of Newark,” will open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2020.
Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, and Michael Gandolfini star in the film directed by Alan Taylor and written and produced by David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Also Read: New Line Exec Michael Disco Exits to Launch The Disco Factory, Will Executive-Produce 'Sopranos' Prequel 'Many Saints of Newark'
“Newark” is set in the 1960s during the Newark riots, five days of violence in the New Jersey city sparked by the beating of a black man by white police officers. It was especially lethal among African American and Italian American gangsters involved in the fighting — 26 people died and...
- 3/14/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
New Line's Sopranos prequel will open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2020, the studio said Thursday.
The big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed HBO Mob series, previously going by the working title Newark, was on Friday officially given the title The Many Saints of Newark.
Alan Taylor is directing from a script by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Set in the era of the Newark riots in the '60s, the ensemble drama takes place when African-Americans and Italians of Newark were at each other's throats, and, when among the gangsters of each group, it became especially lethal. ...
The big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed HBO Mob series, previously going by the working title Newark, was on Friday officially given the title The Many Saints of Newark.
Alan Taylor is directing from a script by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Set in the era of the Newark riots in the '60s, the ensemble drama takes place when African-Americans and Italians of Newark were at each other's throats, and, when among the gangsters of each group, it became especially lethal. ...
- 3/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Line's Sopranos prequel will open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2020, the studio said Thursday.
The big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed HBO Mob series, previously going by the working title Newark, was on Friday officially given the title The Many Saints of Newark.
Alan Taylor is directing from a script by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Set in the era of the Newark riots in the '60s, the ensemble drama takes place when African-Americans and Italians of Newark were at each other's throats, and, when among the gangsters of each group, it became especially lethal. ...
The big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed HBO Mob series, previously going by the working title Newark, was on Friday officially given the title The Many Saints of Newark.
Alan Taylor is directing from a script by Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.
Set in the era of the Newark riots in the '60s, the ensemble drama takes place when African-Americans and Italians of Newark were at each other's throats, and, when among the gangsters of each group, it became especially lethal. ...
- 3/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: John Magaro has been cast in New Line’s The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, reteaming him with David Chase after he starred in Chase’s 2012 movie Not Fade Away.
As with the other cast for Saints there’s no word on who Magaro is playing, but he joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen and Michael Gandolfini in the pic set in the era of the Newark riots in the 1960s, when African Americans and Italian Americans in the city were at each other’s throats. That clash became lethal when it spread to gangsters of each group. Several Sopranos characters are expected to be part of the mix, with Gandolfini to play the younger version of his dad’s character Tony Soprano.
Magaro starred in Not Fade Away, also set in New Jersey in the 1960s, about a...
As with the other cast for Saints there’s no word on who Magaro is playing, but he joins Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen and Michael Gandolfini in the pic set in the era of the Newark riots in the 1960s, when African Americans and Italian Americans in the city were at each other’s throats. That clash became lethal when it spread to gangsters of each group. Several Sopranos characters are expected to be part of the mix, with Gandolfini to play the younger version of his dad’s character Tony Soprano.
Magaro starred in Not Fade Away, also set in New Jersey in the 1960s, about a...
- 3/12/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Ray Liotta – an actor all too familiar with gangster roles – has entered negotiations to join ‘The Soprano’ prequel movie, ‘The Many Saints of Newark’.
Liotta would join the likes of Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Michael Gandolfini, who will play the Tony Soprano role originated by his late father James Gandolfini.
Terminator Genisys’ Alan Taylor will be directing the movie, he is no stranger to the murky underworld of the TV show. Having already directed a number of episodes on the series, he also won an Emmy for sixth season episode Kennedy and Heidi in 2007.
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The script, which is written by Chase and Lawrence Konner is said to be set during the Newark riots in the ’60s when racial tensions between the Italian and African American communities were at boiling point. It is...
Liotta would join the likes of Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Michael Gandolfini, who will play the Tony Soprano role originated by his late father James Gandolfini.
Terminator Genisys’ Alan Taylor will be directing the movie, he is no stranger to the murky underworld of the TV show. Having already directed a number of episodes on the series, he also won an Emmy for sixth season episode Kennedy and Heidi in 2007.
Also in news – Original ‘90210’ cast to reunite for ‘reality’ special
The script, which is written by Chase and Lawrence Konner is said to be set during the Newark riots in the ’60s when racial tensions between the Italian and African American communities were at boiling point. It is...
- 3/1/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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