Francis Ford Coppola is not alone in worrying that America could "have an emperor in a few months." Martin Scorsese has now weighed in on the 2024 U.S. presidential election, while in Turin ...

Gangs of New York was released in 2002. In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his ...

In the early Nineties, Gangs of New York went into development at Universal. Robert De Niro, then Scorsese’s go-to man, was attached at one point, in line to play Bill the Butcher. The project ...

Weinstein's Miramax acquired the rights to "Gangs of New York" in 1999 ... acclaimed for his performance in the movie as "Bill the Butcher." Movie critics welcomed the news that Scorsese privately ...

Based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 book The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the ... the ruthless gang leader Bill the Butcher, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis. With a screenplay by Time ...

“When we filmed ‘Gangs of New York‘ at Cinecittà, we depicted a violent, bloody 19th century America, with a brutal character — Bill the Butcher, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. People like ...