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Warner Bros. has released eight clips from «Black Mass,» the upcoming crime drama starring Johnny Depp as gangster James «Whitey» Bulger.

«Breaking Bad» alum Jesse Plemons plays a central role in the new trailer for «Black Mass,» the upcoming crime drama starring Johnny Depp as gangster James «Whitey» Bulger.

Not exact matches

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

Far from being influenced by movie gangsters of the time such as James Cagney and Paul Muni, and despite being enthralled by them, Dillinger is sartorially his own man.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

Friday began with 1955's «Love Me or Leave Me,» directed by Charles Vidor and starring Doris Day as real - life torch singer Ruth Etting, married to a gangster, played by James Cagney.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

James «Whitey» Bulger terrorized Boston as the boss of the Winter Hill Gang from the 1970s until the 1990s, went into hiding in 1994, fell into FBI custody in 2011, and now, thanks to filmmaker Scott Cooper, he's stalking multiplexes in the gangster film Black Mass..

William Forsythe and James Hayden complete the gangster quartet, with Joe Pesci and Burt Young as gangster cohorts.

Read more about James Cagney, Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow, Al Pacino's Michael Corleone, Chow Yun - fat, Alain Delon (the most beautiful of the screen gangsters) and more on MSN here.

The big story, however, is the cast, which includes former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trying to break free from their squeaky clean images with more adult roles, and James Franco continuing his bizarre acting career with a turn as a cornrowed, gold - toothed wannabe gangster that should make the movie worth seeing whether it's good or not.

As Darnell teaches James to «get hard,» James» ex-boss Martin (Craig T. Nelson) and Darnell's gangster cousin Russell (rapper T.I.) get thrown into the mix.

Yes, Johnny Depp is very good as Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, but we've seen him do so many transformations at this point that there's nothing special about this one.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

There was also a tie in the voting Sunday for best supporting actor, with the honors going to James Franco as a rapper / gangster named Alien in «Spring Breakers» and to Jared Leto as a transsexual suffering from AIDS in «Dallas Buyers Club.»

The finished product stars Cress Williams (*) as Black Lightning, and shares some trappings with the other Berlanti shows: a large family presence (including Christine Adams as ex-wife Lynn, and Nafessa Williams and China Anne McClain as daughters Anissa and Jennifer), a cop (Damon Gupton's Inspector Henderson) who's not sure what to make of this superpowered vigilante, a trusty tech support sidekick (James Remar as Peter Gambi, who in the comics is a tailor specializing in making costumes for supervillains), and an archnemesis (Marvin Jones III — aka rapper Krondon — as vicious gangster Tobias Whale).

1:30 m (3rd)-- TCM — Angels With Dirty Faces One of the classic gangster pictures has James Cagney as a criminal idolized by the youth of Hell's Kitchen and Pat O'Brien as Cagney's boyhood buddy who grew up to be a priest.

Johnny Depp stars as the notorious gangster James «Whitey» Bulger in Black Mass co-starring Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, David Harbour, and Adam Scott.

8:15 am — TCM — Angels With Dirty Faces One of the classic gangster pictures has James Cagney as a criminal idolized by the youth of Hell's Kitchen and Pat O'Brien as Cagney's boyhood buddy who grew up to be a priest.

BLACK MASS Director: Scott Cooper Starring: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Dakota Johnson, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll Black Mass is the intriguing true story of James «Whitey» Bulger (Depp) who was known as one of the most violent and dangerous gangsters in South Boston.

Instead, what we are left with is what feels and looks like a second - tier Scorsese gangster flick with genre conventions so generic and monotonous, you begin to feel as old as James Cagney.

There's also a screening of 1955's «Love Me or Leave Me,» a rare gem, directed by Charles Vidor and starring Doris Day as real - life torch singer Ruth Etting, married to a gangster, played by James Cagney.