SCORSESE'S & DiCAPRIO'S 'SHUTTER ISLAND' TRAILER

Cover of Shutter Island: A Novel

Woo-hoo! The long anticipated trailer for Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel "Shutter Island" has finally hit the interbwebs.

Seems like a small departure for Scorsese - his first creepfest since "Cape Fear," the film centers on a U.S. Marshal named Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio in his fourth Marty picture) who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderous patient in the Summer of 1954.

Here's the official plot:

“But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane...”

It looks pretty kick-ass. Enjoy

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JERRY LEWIS RETURNS TO THE BIG SCREEN

Variety reports that comedy legend Jerry Lewis will take the top billing in his first film since Martin Scorsese's "King of Comedy."

It's based on Daniel Noah’s screenplay "Max Rose" and centers on a widower who “revisits key moments” of his life in order to understand them better so there’s every chance a younger actor as a younger Max Rose will do the heaviest lifting.

Little details... But we're stoked nonetheless...

Here's a look at his last film, "The King of Comedy"

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MARTIN SCORSESE TO DIRECT 'SINATRA'

We just peed ourselves. While Marty has long been rumored to directed a Rat Pack film, the interwebs report that the famed director has signed with Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures to direct a biopic based on the life of Frank Sinatra.

Image via Wikipedia

Scribe Phil Alden Robinson will write the screenplay, titled simply "Sinatra." Although, we're not sure what his source material will be. Robinson is probably best known as the writer/director of Sneakers and Field of Dreams, which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
The music rights have been secured and the Sinatra clan (who can be very guarded about their famous pop) has given its permission. Frank’s youngest daughter Tina Sinatra will be an executive producer. Many won't remember the TV miniseries she produced that was, in my opinion, the BEST representation of Frank onscreen and truth be told, didn't pull punches.



Peter Guber has been trying to get this project into production for years and ity's very possible that Scorsese might actually push to make the film as his next project.

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