All the while that producer Marc Fiore was making pricey pay-or-play deals and holding press conferences in New York and Cannes to trumpet John Travolta, Al Pacino, Lindsay Lohan and Joe Pesci taking part in Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father, there were big questions on whether Fiore really had the cash to make the movie. It has become clear in the last two weeks that he does not; I’m told that the film is in play and that without a new backer, the mob movie could sleep with the fishes. Conversations are going on right now to figure out new funding and to bring down the budget. What happened? I’m told that Fiore’s major backer, a New York-based construction mogul named Fay Devlin, recently began questioning what he had gotten himself into after Fiore paid high prices to sign talent to pay-or-play deals. Already more than $10 million has been spent,...
- 10/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Joe Pesci will once again play a mobster, this time in the independently produced John Gotti biopic "Gotti: Three Generations." He stars with John Travolta and Travolta's daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, the producers announced at a New York press conference Tuesday. In "Gotti," Pesci will play Angelo Ruggiero, who worked for the notorious title character, who will be played by Travolta. Nick Cassavetes ("Blow," "John Q") is directing. Marc Fiore is producing, Fay Devlin, Michael Froch, Rob Logozio, Marty Ingels, Anson Downes, Linda Favila are executive producers. Pesci, of course, won the best supporting...
- 4/13/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
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