Scorsese to receive Golden Globes DeMille Award
November 13th, 2009 by Scott Marks
The Golden Globes (aka The Poor Man’s Academy Awards) is honoring Marty this year by bestowing upon Him their annual Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award (aka The Poor Man’s Irving Thalberg Award).
Vera Farmiga, who worked for Marty on “The Departed,” made the announcement yesterday. “He has the power to rouse a crowd and bring them along on His holy mission,” Farmiga said. “He considers it holy work, and cinema is His shrine. And He instills in the actors, in the crew, and everybody around Him just what a powerful tool it is.”
Marty and C.B. share one thing in common: The Academy awarded them Best Director’s awards for their worst movies. DeMille won for his endless parade of circus acts in “The Greatest Show on Earth” while Marty took home Oscar gold for his gangland rehash “The Departed.”
Marty has previously won two Golden Globes for directing “Gangs of New York” and “The Departed.” To make matters worse, the previous winner is generally the one to hand out the DeMille award. spielberg won last year.
This will be the first time that the Golden Globes will be broadcast live as opposed to tape delay. Let’s hope that Marty loses His mind and calls in gag writer Mardik Martin to pen His speech.
Marty turns 67 next week. God willing His newest film “Shutter Island,” which was supposed to open on October 2 until those scovisas at Paramount got cold feet, comes out on February 19.
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Martin Scorsese to direct Frank Sinatra movie redux
May 13th, 2009 by Scott Marks
It was almost one year ago to the day that I reported a Scorsese directed biopic was in the works. It was announced today that Universal pictures will produce the first big screen biography of the legendary crooner. As I said last year, “This will mark daughter Tina’s third big screen attempt to cash in on her father’s legacy. She produced Sinatra, a 1992 mini-series, as well as Jonathan Demme’s ill-fated (and underrated) remake of The Manchurian Candidate.”
Negotiations with Sinatra’s estate took several years as the family reportedly battled over how best to present his legacy. No one has yet been signed to play Frank, but my guess is it won’t be Marty’s latest star of choice, Leonard DiCaprio. Let’s hope that he doesn’t get Leo’s The Aviator co-star Kate Beckinsale to revive her role as Ava Gardner.
According to Nikki Finke, Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dream) will write the script and Tina Sinatra, Peter Guber, Cathy Shulman and Marty will produce the film for Mandalay Pictures.
So, what do you think? Who would be the best man to fill Frank’s shoes?
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