Coppola slams three big names: Pacino, De Niro and Nicholson - 2007-10-18
Film director Francis Ford Coppola hits out Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson, defining them as uninterested in taking risks and lazy. Coppola told GQ magazine that the three Hollywood-heavy -weight actors had lost their initial enthusiasm and had been spoiled by success. "I met both Pacino and De Niro when they were really on the come". "They were young and insecure. Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress. De Niro was deeply inspired by Zoetrope [Coppola's studio] and created an empire and is wealthy and powerful. Nicholson was - when I met him and worked with him - he was always kind of a joker. He's got a little bit of a mean streak. He's intelligent, always wired in with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios. I don't know what any of them want any more ... Pacino always wanted to do theatre ... [He] will say, 'Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I'm never going to go to LA,' but they all live off the fat of the land."
Righteous Kill’s shooting starts - 2007-09-11
The filming of “Righteous Kill”, the long-awaited reunion between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro has started a few days ago. The star-studded cast include Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover, Rob Drydek, and Brian Dennehy.
Pacino and De Niro pair onscreen again - 2007-07-17
Rapper 50 Cent will join Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the high-profile thriller Righteous Kill. This will be the second time the veteran actors work together since in 1974's The Godfather. The rapper will perform a drug dealer who gives assistance to the two detectives (Pacino and De Niro) in their attempt to catch a serial killer. The famous actors will be onscreen together almost the whole movie. Film producer, Randall Emmett, told Variety, "They're friends, and this really all got started from that."
Sheen's wife predicted Al Pacino's success - 2007-04-11
Hollywood actor Martin Sheen was surprised when his wife anticipated Al Pacino's succes in his beginning known as 'Little Al' in the early 1960s. Janet Templeton, who got married to Sheen in 1961 and is mother to his famous actors sons (actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen) predicted Pacino would be a legend after watching his performance in a small off-Broadway play.Sheen tells Empire magazine, "I remember Janet saw him acting in some little play off Broadway somewhere and said, 'That guy is going to be a major star.' "And we looked at her and said, 'Really? That's little Al!' She said 'Oh you watch.' And he was. "He was the first one to break through and no one ever - in the group that I came up with - equalled his success. "He was that big a talent. We all knew it but we couldn't equate talent to success."
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