Joe Pesci Sues Gotti Producers, and 5 Other Stories You?ll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Rosario Dawson may find herself in a Trance… Alia Shawkat books two roles and the world rejoices… a Team Jacki update… and more ahead.
· What is the world coming to? (Goodfellas reference.) According to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week Joe Pesci is suing Fiori Films because they reneged on the deal he signed to star as Angelo Ruggiero in Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father. The suit claims that Pesci was to earn $3 million to co-star — and even went so far as to gain 30 pounds to play the husky Ruggiero — but Fiore Films pulled the deal and offered him less money to play the lesser role of Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso. For his part, Marc Fiore, CEO of Fiore Films, says Pesci walked away from the contract himself. “He’s wasting his time and everybody else’s time,” Fiore said to the AP.
“I might be a newbie in town. This newbie is not going to get bulled around.” Tell that to Spider. [AP via Deadline]
· In non-legal news: Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel are in talks to join the already-in-talks James McAvoy in Trance for director Danny Boyle. The Fox Searchlight film is about an art heist that goes wrong. Don’t they all. [Deadline]
· Movieline fave Alia Shawkat has booked two new films. She’ll co-star with Paul Dano and Annette Bening in the Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris-directed He Loves Me. Shawkat will also co-star with Juno Temple and Michael Angarano in The Brass Teapot, a “darkly comic morality tale.” [Variety]
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