Netflix has brought forth some amazing true crime docu-series like Murdaugh Murders, Making a Murderer, Fear City New York vs. Mafia, and many more with gripping yet true accounts of events and an extremely interesting execution style that completely hooks the audience to the screen. Another organized crime docu-series, Get Gotti, directed by Sebastian Smith, was recently added to the list. Get Gotti is a compelling and intense story revolving around the 1980s Gambino clan boss, John Gotti. This three-part documentary series brought forth an intense anecdote of how John Gotti remained elusive to the FBI until some bugs placed in his headquarters revealed all his criminal deeds. The documentary series did a pretty good job portraying the true accounts of organized crime, the FBI’s constant effort to catch Gotti, and the mafia boss’s eventual downfall.
Get Gotti opened with the dead body of a crime boss, Paul Castellano,...
Get Gotti opened with the dead body of a crime boss, Paul Castellano,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
Can a long-unsolved case still have a positive outcome?
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) got an answer in "Open Secrets," Friday's (Feb. 28) episode of CBS' "Blue Bloods" written by executive producer Ian Biederman and directed by TV veteran Eric Laneuville.
Danny and Maria (Marisa Ramirez) were called to a school from which a youngster named Jenna had disappeared, a crossing guard telling them she'd seen the girl atypically get into a car rather than walk home. The situation brought back troubling memories for Danny, who'd failed to locate a missing girl named Allie years earlier and still was visited regularly by her father Joseph (guest star Patrick Breen), who continued to maintain hope she'd be found.
Erin (Bridget Moynahan) was handling the potential prosecution of Diana Del Rio (guest star Caroline Strong), who claimed she had a bipolar condition that caused her to fatally run over her building's superintendent. The defendant's lawyer,...
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) got an answer in "Open Secrets," Friday's (Feb. 28) episode of CBS' "Blue Bloods" written by executive producer Ian Biederman and directed by TV veteran Eric Laneuville.
Danny and Maria (Marisa Ramirez) were called to a school from which a youngster named Jenna had disappeared, a crossing guard telling them she'd seen the girl atypically get into a car rather than walk home. The situation brought back troubling memories for Danny, who'd failed to locate a missing girl named Allie years earlier and still was visited regularly by her father Joseph (guest star Patrick Breen), who continued to maintain hope she'd be found.
Erin (Bridget Moynahan) was handling the potential prosecution of Diana Del Rio (guest star Caroline Strong), who claimed she had a bipolar condition that caused her to fatally run over her building's superintendent. The defendant's lawyer,...
- 3/1/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Death was plentiful in the Reagans' cases on Friday's INov. 8) episode of CBS' "Blue Bloods," as signaled by the title of the story: "Drawing Dead," written by Ian Biederman, one of the show's executive producers.
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Maria (Marisa Ramirez) looked into the murder of a "Wall Street guy" in Tribeca, with no struggle and no theft indicated. Subsequent interrogation revealed the victim had argued with his partners over wanting to bring in an art dealer, someone inexperienced in stockbroking.
Meanwhile, Jamie (Will Estes) and Eddie (Vanessa Ray) responded to a call of shots being fired, leading to a street pursuit of three suspects. As the cops captured two, Jamie heard another shot fired and ran to its location -- where he found Officer James Montero (Elliot Villar) kneeling over a wounded teen, with an angry mob yelling accusations on the order of, 'That cop shot him in the back!
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Maria (Marisa Ramirez) looked into the murder of a "Wall Street guy" in Tribeca, with no struggle and no theft indicated. Subsequent interrogation revealed the victim had argued with his partners over wanting to bring in an art dealer, someone inexperienced in stockbroking.
Meanwhile, Jamie (Will Estes) and Eddie (Vanessa Ray) responded to a call of shots being fired, leading to a street pursuit of three suspects. As the cops captured two, Jamie heard another shot fired and ran to its location -- where he found Officer James Montero (Elliot Villar) kneeling over a wounded teen, with an angry mob yelling accusations on the order of, 'That cop shot him in the back!
- 11/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
On TV this Friday: The Neighbors visit Shark Tank, Grimm deals with some huffing and puffing, MasterChef finds its Junior victor, Pete’s Christmas comes early and more. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
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8 pm The Carrie Diaries (The CW) | Larissa returns from Kyoto and meets Samantha at a Japanese festival in New York. Meanwhile, the award for our favorite line from an episode description this week goes to “Samantha seduces an acrobatic Ninja.
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8 pm The Carrie Diaries (The CW) | Larissa returns from Kyoto and meets Samantha at a Japanese festival in New York. Meanwhile, the award for our favorite line from an episode description this week goes to “Samantha seduces an acrobatic Ninja.
- 11/8/2013
- by Misha Solomon
- TVLine.com
Al Pacino and Helen Mirren are so convincing as the freaky music producer and his defense attorney that by the end of HBO's "Phil Spector," it's likely you would vote to acquit, based on reasonable doubt.
And that's with the knowledge that Spector is in prison and has a gun fetish and a violent history.
David Mamet's film, premiering Sunday, March 24, unfolds in 2007, before Spector's first trial. It was the second trial that resulted in Spector's sentence of 19 years to life for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson, an actress.
In this, Pacino becomes Spector, uncannily inhabiting the man who was born within four months of him and also raised in the Bronx. The two did not know each other, though they apparently met at a party, where someone took a photo of the two.
"We have a look on our faces that we don't know each other," Pacino tells Zap2it.
And that's with the knowledge that Spector is in prison and has a gun fetish and a violent history.
David Mamet's film, premiering Sunday, March 24, unfolds in 2007, before Spector's first trial. It was the second trial that resulted in Spector's sentence of 19 years to life for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson, an actress.
In this, Pacino becomes Spector, uncannily inhabiting the man who was born within four months of him and also raised in the Bronx. The two did not know each other, though they apparently met at a party, where someone took a photo of the two.
"We have a look on our faces that we don't know each other," Pacino tells Zap2it.
- 3/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Chicago – With the larger-than-life acting tics that have invaded most of Al Pacino’s performances in the last twenty years, it seemed inevitable that the actor was the only person who could possibly play a notable loon like Phil Spector. In tonight’s HBO movie named after the legendary producer, Pacino chews the scenery as one would expect but it’s Helen Mirren who steals the piece from the Oscar winner. Both actors are great and Mamet’s gift with dialogue remains intact but the plotting and choice of storytelling in “Phil Spector” makes for a final product that doesn’t make enough of a statement or tell us much about its title subject.
Television Rating: 3.0/5.0
The first scene of “Phil Spector” is the best. Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren) joins the defense team of the volatile producer in his first trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. As she...
Television Rating: 3.0/5.0
The first scene of “Phil Spector” is the best. Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren) joins the defense team of the volatile producer in his first trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. As she...
- 3/24/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the week leading up to tonight’s premiere of the HBO original movie Phil Spector, the pre-release publicity has all been orchestrated around quotes from the film’s writer-director, David Mamet, claiming that the movie is not a docudrama, that it parts ways with reality — and, in Mamet’s own words, that it is “not about Phil Spector.” The film opens with a title that claims: This is a work of fiction. It’s not “based on a true story.” Got it? What we’re about to watch is so made up that it’s not even related to reality.
- 3/24/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Well if the prospect of a Phil Spector movie written and directed by David Mamet doesn't have you intrigued, then this photo of Al Pacino sporting a ridiculous afro definitely should. HBO will debut the original film Phil Spector on TV next month and the first trailer has arrived online to give us a taste of what to expect. This will be Pacino's second time starring in an HBO biopic after his Golden Globe-winning performance as Jack Kevorkian in Barry Levinson's You Don't Know Jack a few years ago. The movie stars Pacino as the titular record producer and songwriter best known for his work with John Lennon and The Beatles, while he was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2007. Helen Mirren and Jeffrey Tambor play his defense lawyers Linda Kenney Baden and Bruce Cutler. Although Pacino seems to be going a little over the top with his performance,...
- 2/5/2013
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Thanks to a prematurely leaked 2013 preview that has since been yanked offline, it has been around long enough for savvy folks to capture snaps of upcoming programming, and it looks like David Mamet's Phil Spector movie is finally arriving, with Al Pacino in the lead. Yes, that Al Pacino. Shot all the way back in the summer of 2011, it's not clear why the usual quick turnaround for projects at the network has evaded this effort, but nonetheless, it's one we're looking forward to. Penned by Mamet, the film will chronicle the relationship between Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren), with Jeffrey Tambor playing Bruce Cutler, another member of the defense team. Spector was put on trial in 2007 for the murder of actress/model Lana Clarkson. The first trial ended in a mistrial, but in the second he was found guilty and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.
- 12/6/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Back in August, I posted some set photos of Al Pacino and Helen Mirren from David Mamet's HBO film, Phil Spector. From the HBO's 2013 preview, we have some official looks again of both the actors. The film, which was scripted by Mamet, "chronicles the relationship between Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren), with Jeffrey Tambor playing Bruce Cutler, another member of the defense team. Spector was put on trial in 2007 for the murder of actress/model Lana...
- 12/6/2012
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
Troubled music mogul Phil Spector's lawyer has quit over "a difference of opinion." Bruce Cutler has revealed he is no longer representing Spector as the record producer's murder trial winds down in Los Angeles. Cutler made the announcement as the trial resumed for what was expected to be the last day of testimony. In a statement, the attorney said he and Spector had fallen out over a "strategy" matter, adding, "There's nothing I can do for Mr. Spector. I can no longer effectively represent him." Cutler had been absent from the trial in recent weeks, so he could appear on a syndicated TV show. He will be replaced by attorney Roger Rosen. Spector, 67, is charged with killing actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California mansion in February 2003. With the defense nearing the end of its rebuttal case, Judge Larry Paul Fidler has revealed he expects testimony to end on Monday. Final arguments are set for September 5.
- 8/28/2007
- WENN
Phyllis Diller, Ed Begley Jr., Bruce Vilanch, Paula Poundstone, Kevin Sorbo, Scott Hamilton, Dick Van Patten and Tiffany are among the celebrities set to take part in the upcoming syndicated court strip Jury Duty, according to Radar Entertainment, the independent company headed up by Vincent Dymon and Linda Dymon that is distributing and producing the show. Jury Duty, which is presided over by Bruce Cutler, features celebrities serving as jury members. Also on the list are Todd Bridges, Brande Roderick, Shadoe Stevens, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Charlene Tilton, James Avery and Lee Meriwether, among others.
Jury Duty, which is shooting at Dole Studios in Westlake Village, Calif., is cleared in 85% of the U.S. for its Sept. 17 launch.
Jury Duty, which is shooting at Dole Studios in Westlake Village, Calif., is cleared in 85% of the U.S. for its Sept. 17 launch.
Susan Winston, a former executive producer on ABC's Good Morning America, has been tapped to executive produce the upcoming syndicated show Jury Duty.
The strip, from Vincent Dymon's Radar Entertainment and independent distributor Foster/Tailwind, is a court show in which celebrities act as jury members. The show is presided over by Bruce Cutler, who came to fame in the '80s for defending John Gotti and is now serving as the defense attorney for Phil Spector in the music producer's murder trial.
Duty has been cleared in 70% of the country, including the top three markets of New York (WPIX), Los Angeles (KCAL) and Chicago (WCIU).
Trifecta Entertainment & Media handles national ad sales on the show, which launches in September. Dymon is also looking for a cable network partner to air the show as well.
Winston's credits also include CBS Morning News, Spike TV's Wide World of Spike, TLC's Untold Stories of the ER and WE's "Designer to the Stars: Kari Whitman."...
The strip, from Vincent Dymon's Radar Entertainment and independent distributor Foster/Tailwind, is a court show in which celebrities act as jury members. The show is presided over by Bruce Cutler, who came to fame in the '80s for defending John Gotti and is now serving as the defense attorney for Phil Spector in the music producer's murder trial.
Duty has been cleared in 70% of the country, including the top three markets of New York (WPIX), Los Angeles (KCAL) and Chicago (WCIU).
Trifecta Entertainment & Media handles national ad sales on the show, which launches in September. Dymon is also looking for a cable network partner to air the show as well.
Winston's credits also include CBS Morning News, Spike TV's Wide World of Spike, TLC's Untold Stories of the ER and WE's "Designer to the Stars: Kari Whitman."...
- 3/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Troubled actress Natasha Lyonne's father has rubbished reports his daughter is "homeless" - insisting she is wealthy and living very comfortably. Aaron Braunstein has spoken out on behalf of the troubled American Pie star, who is currently facing a string of police charges, including criminal mischief, harassment and trespassing. He tells the New York Post, "Everyone keeps saying 'Poor Natasha, she's homeless,' but she's very wealthy. I live in a huge penthouse with nine bedrooms on the Upper West Side; her grandparents are very wealthy in Beverly Hills." And he claims Lyonne refuses to be tried over her alleged threat to sexually molest a former neighbor's dog because "nothing happened." He adds, "It's obvious the case is going to be dismissed. (Criminal lawyers) Mel Sachs, Ben Brafman and Bruce Cutler say unless the dog testifies, there's no case." Lyonne failed to appear in court last month. The absence marks the fourth time Lyonne has missed a court date and the third time a bench warrant has been issued for her arrest.
- 2/6/2006
- WENN
Phil Spector, currently facing trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, has been sued for wrongful death by the late actress's mother. Donna Clarkson also accuses Spector of negligence and battery, charging in the lawsuit that the 64-year-old music producer "grabbed, hit, fought with and restrained" her daughter before shooting her to death on February 3, 2003. Donna Clarkson's attorneys, Roderick Lindblom and John Taylor, say in a statement, "The Clarkson family had hoped that there would be some resolution with regard to the criminal proceedings before moving forward with the civil action. However, Ms. Clarkson and her family understand that the fair administration of justice takes time and in light of the numerous changes Mr. Spector has made in his legal defense team over the last two years, Ms Clarkson was forced to file the action before (the statute of limitations expired) on February 3, 2005." Spector denies accusations of shooting Clarkson in the foyer of his home near Los Angeles. An autopsy report concluded that a gun was placed in the 40-year-old actress's mouth and fired. His lead attorney Bruce Cutler says, "Phil did not cause the death of this woman, he's not criminally responsible and he's not civilly responsible either. But I'm not surprised they filed a suit for money, that seems to be de rigueur nowadays."...
- 2/4/2005
- WENN
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