Originally Posted By: mustachepete
I'm sure I'll be there the first weekend, but I'm pretty skeptical about how good it'll be. Part of that's the technology they'll be using - the actors still have to project some vigor and there's a lot of old coots here. The other thing is that between the technology and the top five or so actors will there be any money left to make the movie? They may have been better just doing an over-the-hill gangster comedy.


Netflix is putting up the money for theater release. Every indication is that they're willing to spend whatever it takes. The industry is keeping an eye on this. It's success or failure could change Hollywood forever.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea