AMC Networks has given Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas a content warning over “language and/or cultural stereotypes.”
The advisory was added to the beginning of the 1990 film, which occasionally plays on AMC’s television channel as well as their streaming service, AMC+. The full message reads: “This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers.”
AMC added the content warning to Goodfellas in 2020, as well as to several other films — but now, some folks are shocked to discover the message four years later. “In 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references that some viewers might find offensive,” an AMC representative told the New York Post after the advisory recently went viral.
While AMC is certainly correct in its assessment of foul language in the 1990 classic, “the cultural...
The advisory was added to the beginning of the 1990 film, which occasionally plays on AMC’s television channel as well as their streaming service, AMC+. The full message reads: “This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers.”
AMC added the content warning to Goodfellas in 2020, as well as to several other films — but now, some folks are shocked to discover the message four years later. “In 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references that some viewers might find offensive,” an AMC representative told the New York Post after the advisory recently went viral.
While AMC is certainly correct in its assessment of foul language in the 1990 classic, “the cultural...
- 5/20/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Film News
The fourth episode of How to Become a Mob Boss highlights the life of John Gotti, the boss of the New York Gambino family. Gotti’s endless wrong decisions and the array of arrests and betrayals led to his downfall. While all the other episodes focus on the right ways to become a mob boss, his example brings out the things that are not to be done if one wants to earn that position. There wasn’t another soul that would lead a life like Gotti’s and survive in the mafia industry as long as he did. Despite being one of the most recognized and famous mob bosses of his time, his impulsive decisions cost him his mafia career. How long will Gotti survive in the mafia industry? What were the wrong decisions that he had taken? All the answers to these questions will be answered in this episode!
- 11/14/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
Former professional boxer Mike Tyson revealed Jamie Foxx suffered a stroke in April, amid ongoing medical recovery. Foxx’s family previously shared that he had suffered from a “medical complication” while filming the upcoming Netflix film Back in Action in Atlanta, but did not provide a cause or further details.
Speaking to Patrick Bet–David and Michael Franzese on a May 16 episode of the Pbd Podcast, the 56-year-old boxing legend was asked if he has followed the actor’s hospitalization news. “He’s not feeling good,” Tyson confirmed. “Yea, they said stroke. I had no idea what happened to him.”
Bet-David expressed how shocked he was to have heard of Foxx’s hospitalization, as he had seen him looking well and healthy shortly prior to the news. “Hey listen. We can’t anticipate that next breath,” Tyson warned the podcast host. “We don’t know when we’re gonna die. After we leave this,...
Speaking to Patrick Bet–David and Michael Franzese on a May 16 episode of the Pbd Podcast, the 56-year-old boxing legend was asked if he has followed the actor’s hospitalization news. “He’s not feeling good,” Tyson confirmed. “Yea, they said stroke. I had no idea what happened to him.”
Bet-David expressed how shocked he was to have heard of Foxx’s hospitalization, as he had seen him looking well and healthy shortly prior to the news. “Hey listen. We can’t anticipate that next breath,” Tyson warned the podcast host. “We don’t know when we’re gonna die. After we leave this,...
- 5/24/2023
- by Nicky Kashani
- Uinterview
Sammy Gravano is reflecting on the old days. “I grab him in a bear hug, the [van] door comes flying open, guys come running out,” he says, sitting back in a leather armchair, his voice gravelly. But Gravano isn’t reminiscing about some rough-and-tumble prank from his youth; he’s recounting the kidnapping and gangland slaying of Philadelphia gangster John “Johnny Keys” Simone forty years ago. Gravano is Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, the onetime underboss of New York’s notorious Gambino crime family, and these days, he’s giving up...
- 11/9/2022
- by Andrew Burton
- Rollingstone.com
Detailing the New York City mob crackdown in the mid-'80s, Netflix's Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia brings to life its three-part docuseries with real accounts from FBI agents, attorneys, and past mob members. One of its key featured players is Michael Franzese, a former caporegime for the Colombo family who lived the gritty life himself. We don't hear too much about Franzese's postmob situation in the documentary, but he has had quite the career arc, going from a mobster to a motivational speaker. While no longer a member of the mob, the 69-year-old certainly uses his past as a talking point in his lectures and interviews today.
Born in 1951, Franzese grew up the son of Colombo underboss John "Sonny" Franzese. Though he studied pre-med at Hofstra University in 1969, he dropped out to take care of his family when Sonny was put in prison. Franzese became deeply involved with the mob himself,...
Born in 1951, Franzese grew up the son of Colombo underboss John "Sonny" Franzese. Though he studied pre-med at Hofstra University in 1969, he dropped out to take care of his family when Sonny was put in prison. Franzese became deeply involved with the mob himself,...
- 7/27/2020
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Kevin ‘Hercules’ Sorbo stars as an atheist who finds God in a humourless tale full of flimsy characters and flimsier acting
‘Jesus got whacked, badda boom. Then the body disappeared.” That’s the Easter story in a nutshell according to pastor Vinny (Michael Franzese), a wiseguy turned man of the cloth. Pastor Vinny is a brief chink of humour in this speechy, preachy Christian-themed movie – to be filed in the subgenre of conversion dramas about militant atheists finding God. It’s produced by Fox News host Sean Hannity, and the director is Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo, who also stars as a sneering liberal intellectual frequently introduced on the lecture circuit as “the world’s most famous atheist”. He’s called Dr Sol Harkens.
An almighty whiff of phoniness hangs over proceedings – not least in Sorbo’s portrayal of Sol, who looks and behaves more like the dishy doctor in a daytime soap than a rock-star intellectual.
‘Jesus got whacked, badda boom. Then the body disappeared.” That’s the Easter story in a nutshell according to pastor Vinny (Michael Franzese), a wiseguy turned man of the cloth. Pastor Vinny is a brief chink of humour in this speechy, preachy Christian-themed movie – to be filed in the subgenre of conversion dramas about militant atheists finding God. It’s produced by Fox News host Sean Hannity, and the director is Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo, who also stars as a sneering liberal intellectual frequently introduced on the lecture circuit as “the world’s most famous atheist”. He’s called Dr Sol Harkens.
An almighty whiff of phoniness hangs over proceedings – not least in Sorbo’s portrayal of Sol, who looks and behaves more like the dishy doctor in a daytime soap than a rock-star intellectual.
- 4/18/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Heading into Afm, Yarek Danielak’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has entered into a key strategic partnership.
The alliance with feature film equity fund Map Holdings broadens the scope of Arsenal’s ambitions and paves the way for it to handle all future film and TV content funded by Map.
The first two projects under the deal include the $20m 14th Century-set adventure Warrior Of God that Petr Jakl will direct.
Blood Covenant is based on the bestseller of the same name by Michael Franzese and recounts the life of the former Mob captain of New York’s Colombo crime family, who left the criminal underworld behind to become a motivational speaker.
“I am very exited to work with such an experienced and knowledgeable team and look forward to a fruitful future,” said Danielak, who brokered the deal with Map’s Barry J Reiss, a businessman and former general counsel with executive experience at the...
The alliance with feature film equity fund Map Holdings broadens the scope of Arsenal’s ambitions and paves the way for it to handle all future film and TV content funded by Map.
The first two projects under the deal include the $20m 14th Century-set adventure Warrior Of God that Petr Jakl will direct.
Blood Covenant is based on the bestseller of the same name by Michael Franzese and recounts the life of the former Mob captain of New York’s Colombo crime family, who left the criminal underworld behind to become a motivational speaker.
“I am very exited to work with such an experienced and knowledgeable team and look forward to a fruitful future,” said Danielak, who brokered the deal with Map’s Barry J Reiss, a businessman and former general counsel with executive experience at the...
- 10/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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