New Mob movies point to continued demand

While some question whether Mob movies have run their course, a recent slate of gangster films indicates public interest remains strong. Mafia films such as The Alto Knights and Mob Cops already have been released this year, while others are in production. Recently, actor Mark Wahlberg was photographed on a film set in Atlanta playing a Mob hitman in the not-yet-released drama, By Any Means. According to the New York Post, the 53-year-old actor, wearing aviator sunglasses and gold jewelry, and fitted with chin and nose prosthetics, “looked nearly unrecognizable.” Also, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is co-writing a book with journalist Nick Bilton about ...
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Mobbed-up power broker Charles Binaggio gunned down in Kansas City 75 years ago
Mobbed-up power broker Charles Binaggio gunned down in Kansas City 75 years ago
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Alison Martino recalls her father’s Las Vegas
When singer Al Martino was a showroom headliner performing on the Las Vegas Strip years ago, the mobsters who ran…
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New film ‘The Alto Knights’ named for one of Mob’s many social clubs
The Alto Knights, the film written by Nicholas Pileggi and directed by Barry Levinson, is named for a once-prominent Manhattan social…
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New movie ‘The Alto Knights’ revives bitter feud between major mobsters
The newest Mob movie written by journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights, is his third major script focused…
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The bosses of the Mafia Commission were indicted 40 years ago
New York, like other major cities across the United States, faced waves of crime during the 1970s and ’80s. What…
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The top 5 organized crime video games
In the 1980s, video arcades loaded with coin-operated gaming cabinets were a common shopping mall destination for people with quarters…
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Legendary New York tabloid’s heyday included focus on Mafia stories
Beginning in the 1970s, the New York Post’s coverage of the Mob typified tabloid journalism during organized crime’s heyday in…
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