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I just ran across this while looking something else up on IMBD.

It seems De Niro, Pacino, Pesci, and Scorsese have a movie coming out in the Fall of 2019 on the killing of Jimmy Hoffa.

The last time these guys worked on a film was "Casino" in 1995. Although Al Pacino was not in that film.

I was astounded to read that the original budget was $125 Million and has sense gone to $175 Million and this isn't a action or comic book film. How can that kind of money be spent on a film about Hoffa being killed when there have been two previous films done on this by Sylvester Stallone and Jack Nicholson.

Someone at some studio must have been out of their minds to Greenlight a film like this with that kind of budget. I just don't see the attraction.

DeNiro, Pacino and Pesci are pretty long in the tooth trying to do a film like this. Given DeNiro and his politics he has already blown off half the audience for this already.

I doubt I will see this and I can't see anything but a Box Office Failure for this film with that kind of budget. They would have gross about $400 Million just to break even.

Well looks this is the Swan Song for De Niro and Pacino, a disaster waiting to happen.

1 posted on 03/02/2019 4:26:36 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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I wouldn’t care if De Niro was the world’s greatest actor and this was the world’s greatest movie. Not one thin dime of my money is going to end up in that dick’s pocket.


39 posted on 03/02/2019 5:04:09 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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AL PACINO EXPLAINS HOW MARTIN SCORSESE IS MAKING HIM YOUNGER IN NETFLIX’S ‘THE IRISHMAN’

The insanely pricey project will spend much of its budget de-aging the actors to show their characters at various ages.

CGI on every frame is expensive.

41 posted on 03/02/2019 5:06:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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Someone at some studio must have been out of their minds to Greenlight a film like this with that kind of budget.

When an item in the news doesn't seem to make a lot of sense it probably makes a lot of money. For somebody.

50 posted on 03/02/2019 5:17:38 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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Get rid of De Niro and I might buy a ticket.
Otherwise, I’ll pass.


55 posted on 03/02/2019 5:42:03 PM PST by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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I won’t watch anything anymore with De Niro.

Pacino and Pesci I don’t know anything about. I just watched “My Cousin Vinny”! What a hoot!

And one of my all time favorite movie scenes from any movie is the Tango scene in “Scent of A Woman”.


57 posted on 03/02/2019 5:54:28 PM PST by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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You can’t pay me enough to watch DeNiro.


58 posted on 03/02/2019 5:55:45 PM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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Just an FYI for everyone, The Irishman is a Netflix movie. I have seen talk that it may get a limited theatre run for award consideration but this one will be streaming otherwise.


63 posted on 03/02/2019 7:06:13 PM PST by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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if this movie approaches the greatness of “Goodfellas”, it’ll make a huge fortune. i haven’t been to a theater in many years because everything being made is utter dreck, but I’ve been waiting for this one with bated breath ... it’s based on an excellent autobiography called “You Paint Houses, Don’t You”, by Frank Sheeran, an irish hitter for the italian mob ...


67 posted on 03/02/2019 7:50:00 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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Won’t get any royalty money from me ... just a bunch of Progressive turds.


69 posted on 03/02/2019 7:58:31 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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I’m not watching anything with A**hole De Niro in it.

#BoycottHollywood


71 posted on 03/02/2019 8:48:19 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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“...but we DON’T want the IRISH!”


73 posted on 03/02/2019 9:22:20 PM PST by daler
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DeNiro, Pacino and Pesci are pretty long in the tooth trying to do a film like this. Given DeNiro and his politics he has already blown off half the audience for this already.

I doubt I will see this and I can't see anything but a Box Office Failure for this film with that kind of budget. They would have gross about $400 Million just to break even.

Well looks this is the Swan Song for De Niro and Pacino, a disaster waiting to happen.

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....... agreed.

74 posted on 03/03/2019 6:30:08 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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Save the money and watch Hoffa with Jack Nicholson
https://movies123.vip/movie/hoffa-1992/watching.html


75 posted on 03/03/2019 10:53:02 AM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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I have no interest in any of them.


77 posted on 03/03/2019 10:58:22 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Besides depicting Jimmy Hoffa and all that goes with the Jimmy Hoffa story and the New York Irish mob, this movie is going to depict Angelo Bruno, Phil Testa, the Latin Casino, Mayor Frank Rizzo, the Melrose Diner, the Villa di Roma on 9th Street, and Lewisburg prison.

If ony DeNiro weren't in it as the title character, I might want to see it. The cast and crew of thousands contains apparently every Italian-American male actor alive today. And probably a few who are dead.

It's a sin that in the U.S. media, the magnificent Italian culture is characterized mainly in terms of the small minority who are of the underworld.

81 posted on 03/03/2019 9:41:39 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Our rights are not given to us by man. Our rights come from our Creator." --Donald J. Trump)
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DiNiro ought to do an NFL film.

They could call it ‘The Walking Dead To Me.’

86 posted on 03/04/2019 10:35:20 AM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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