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Spoilers are ahead for Under the Bridge's second episode.

Hulu's latest true-crime miniseries adapts Rebecca Godfrey's Under the Bridge, a searing book that explores the 1997 murder of Canadian teenager Reena Virk (played in the series by newcomer Vritika Gupta). The true story of Reena Virk's murder endures because of the way it implicates the teen's peers. Something of an outsider in her small town of Victoria, Reena finds herself drawn to the girls of the Seven Oaks foster home. The group, which is helmed by the ever-manipulative Josephine Bell, treats Reena terribly. Still, she can't help but chase the highs that come with being Jo's frenemy.

Just after Reena Virk's tragic death, Rebecca is also drawn into the secret-filled, jealousy-driven world of Victoria's teens.

Although her family warns her about the Seven Oaks teens, Reena is like a moth to a flame. Meanwhile, writer Rebecca Godfrey (Riley Keough) returns to her hometown,...

This article contains spoilers for Get Gotti.

Netflix’s Get Gotti puts the spotlight on a New York gangster icon, whose camera-ready presence signaled his downfall. The prosecutorial team sees John Gotti as an affront to decency. The capos, soldiers, and neighborhood acquaintances see only a larger-than-life street savior, with the balls and brains to make something of the communities he oversees.

The FBI and New York’s Organized Crime Task Force (Octf) couldn’t get their heads around it. Everyone on Carmine Street had no doubt the feds were itching to nail John Gott to a high-voltage crucifix so they could display him like a Christmas tree ornament. But the real sins committed are those against the organization Gotti headed. The Teflon Don broke more mafia edicts than federal crimes. That put him in the spotlight, a place where it’s easy to mistake exposure for protection.

For as thorough as Get Gotti is,...

After the exhibition fight between Floyd Mayweather and John Gotti III in Florida, Joseline Hernandez started a fight with Big Lex.

Hernandez, a Puerto Rican reality TV personality star, attacked the rapper, Big Lex, backstage at the Fla Arena.

People tried to pull the two women apart, but they kept hitting and kicking each other. Hernandez ended up putting Big Lex in a headlock, which caused Big Lex’s dress to fall down, exposing her breasts. Big Lex tried to fight back but seemed to have some trouble. Security did manage to pull the two women apart. Even though the fight had ended, Hernandez continued to hit other people. It is still unclear why the fight started.

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Exclusive: George Gallo (The Comeback Trail) is teaming with Green Book Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga to produce The Accidental Gangster, a new thriller based on reformed gangster Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado’s bestselling autobiography of the same name. The former will also direct from a script by the author’s son Anthony Spado and David Steenhoek.

Prior to leaving the mob, Ori Spado was an associate of NYC Colombo Crime Family underboss Sonny Franzese, as well as Los Angeles Family underboss Jimmy Caci, and Joey Pyle, who led the London-based criminal organization known as The Firm. He worked as a fixer in both Hollywood and New York and went on to pull off numerous jobs and heists during his time with the mafia, after working for a time as an insurance salesman. In 1997, one particular FBI Agent told Spado, “I will see the day you are chained, shackled and put on...

Exclusive: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra.

The New York gangster—otherwise known as the Teflon Don, the Dapper Don—was a Caesar, an Emperor… a King. His flamboyant lifestyle and frequent public trials as the head of the Gambino crime family, which controlled New York’s largest organized-crime syndicates, made him not only a prominent figure in the 1980s and ’90s, but also one of the most well-known organized crime bosses in American history. Gotti’s rise from a loyal soldier to Boss of Bosses, and ultimately to his sentencing to life imprisonment after being betrayed by his underboss, Sammy Gravano, is legendary.

The story being packaged as a limited series will differ from past incarnations of Gotti...

Update: This article has been revised to include the conclusion of the defense’s opening statements, which were presented Wednesday morning.

In a blistering half-hour monologue, a lead defense attorney for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán accused the United States government of setting up his client as a scapegoat. For good measure, he accused the sitting president of Mexico and his predecessor of taking hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from the man he accused of being El Chapo’s boss.

But in a rare move, the prosecution filed a...

Three new movies arrive in wide release this weekend, lead by Disney Pixar's The Incredibles 2, Warner Bros.' R-rated comedy Tag and Sony's drama remake Superfly hitting theaters, but another film debuting in limited release, Gotti, is making headlines for another reason. Gotti, which stars John Travolta as infamous crime boss John Gotti, debuted with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with no positive reviews out of 14, as of today. While this is certainly a rare distinction, it was the third Travolta movie to get 0%, following 1983's Staying Alive and 1993's Look Who's Talking Now.

Gotti earned a slightly better distinction on the Rotten Tomatoes competitor MetaCritic, where it earned a 27 rating out of 100, based on five reviews. The movie was trashed by New York Times critic Glenn Kenny, who called the movie a "dismal mess," adding he was shocked at how "multifaceted a dismal mess. The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer added,...

John Gotti Jr. thinks the story of his father’s life should at least be playing on a few more screens on the Gambino family’s home turf. The son of the notorious mobster is distressed that “Gotti” is only playing a few theaters in Brooklyn.

“It’s not being shown in areas where the story happened and that’s a shame,” he said. “I don’t get it.”

Gotti Jr. has been working on getting the film off the ground for nearly a decade, and the biopic starring John Travolta finally arrives at 503 theaters this weekend. But the low-budget drama could get whacked at the box office.

The long-gestating project, which was directed by “Entourage” star Kevin Connolly, is now saddled with a 0% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews from the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered on May 15 and Travolta made headlines boogieing onstage with 50 Cent at the after-party.

“Grease” is the word once again, as Wednesday was the 40th anniversary of the hit movie’s New York City premiere. To mark the milestone, star John Travolta taught Radio City Music Hall tenant Jimmy Fallon that iconic “You’re the One That I Want” dance from the movie’s grand finale scene.

It was actually Travolta who first introduced the steps to the 1978 film’s choreographer.

“Like in ‘Pulp Fiction,’ I grew up with all these kind of novelty dances,” Travolta said to Fallon. “In ‘Grease,’ they needed a step for that ‘You’re the One That I Want’ at the end. So I said, ‘Well, we used to do the Four Corners — why don’t we do that?'”

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Chicago – John Travolta has fulfilled his career legacy of icon status, and he continues to work on projects that highlight his performance abilities. Fresh off his role as real-life Robert Shapiro in “The People Vs. O.J. Simpson,” Travolta takes on another historical figure in his portrayal of mobster John Gotti in the new film “Gotti.”

The film, directed by Kevin Connally (“Entourage”), is a multi-era biography film, based on a memoir by Gotti’s son John Jr. The main story reveals the relationship of a father who lived and died by the mob code, and a son who chose to leave that world behind, in hopes of redeeming himself and the family name.

John Travolta is the Title Character in ‘Gotti’

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John Travolta deftly takes on John Gotti, the “Dapper Don,” whose flamboyant style and personality made him one of the most famous organized crime lords of the 20th Century.

Shame on Cannes. In what appears to be a deal with the devil, or one made with a gun to the back of his head, Cannes director Thierry Frémaux inexplicably agreed to give “Gotti” — the myth-building, record-cleansing inside story of notorious Gotham mob boss John Gotti, as seen by his oldest son — a spot at the prestigious film festival … if you can call a single screening in the festival’s smallest official venue, the Salle Buñuel, which seats fewer than 300, a proper world premiere.

It’s certainly a far cry from the treatment John Travolta received 24 years earlier, when “Pulp Fiction” bowed in competition in the massive Lumière theater downstairs, but no doubt the price of convincing the actor to participate in the following day’s events, which included a master class and beachside screening of “Grease.” Though it was projected without the festival’s red-carpet trailer beforehand, Frémaux introduced the film personally,...

There are exactly three interesting choices in “Gotti,” Kevin Connolly’s amateurish biopic about the late and legendary New York mobster, John Gotti..

The first comes at you right off the top: Inverting an exhausted trend, Connolly opens the movie with footage of the actual people in the story, rather than saving it for the closing credits as per usual. It’s a smart move, if only because John Travolta’s performance is hammy enough that we need hard evidence he’s playing a real person (he plays the Teflon Don like a cross between Ray Liotta and Alec Baldwin’s impression of Donald Trump).

The second interesting choice is that some of the music was written by global superstar Pitbull. That’s right, the one and only Mr. Worldwide lends his talents to the film, which helps to explain why his hit 2012 song “Don’t Stop the Party” plays...

When John Travolta strutted onto the “Gotti” set in costume, John Gotti’s spirit was present. Literally. John Gotti Jr. gave the star his dad’s shirts, cufflinks, watches, pocket squares, the whole wardrobe. Get close to his neckties and you could still smell the notorious mobster’s cologne. “His coat fit me,” says Travolta. “His jewelry fit my hands.”

So did the role. The two Johns rose to prominence at the same time. “We were kind of paralleling in our fame. But by the time he rose to his peak, I was already on my third comeback in movies.”

The opening credits sequence of “Gotti” is a documentary montage spliced from paparazzi footage of the mafia boss – the actual one – grinning through herds of photographers as he steps out of fancy cars and strolls down Manhattan sidewalks. It’s a chronicle of celebrity that Travolta himself has lived plenty.

"You'll need the support of all five boroughs." Vertical Ent. has debuted a second official trailer for crime thriller Gotti, spanning three decades telling the story of legendary crime boss John Gotti Sr., as played by John Travolta. The story focuses on Gotti's rise to power in New York, as well as his wife Victoria Gotti, played by Kelly Preston, along with his son John Gotti Jr., played by Spencer Lofranco. This film was slated as a last minute premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which seems like an odd pick. It was originally set to open last December, but has been held until this June. The full cast includes Stacy Keach, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Megan Leonard, Lydia Hull, William DeMeo, Tyler Jon Olson, Leo Rossi, and Ella Bleu Travolta. This seems like a big film, and Travolta looks menacing, but I'm not excited at all to see it. Here's...

John Gotti Jr. -- a guy known as one of the toughest guys ever -- says there's actually one person in the family even tougher than him ... his Mma fighter son, John III. If you don't know who John Gotti Jr. is then we're assuming you don't know who John Gotti Sr. was ... and to be honest, we're not sure if we can tell you (google it, and let them be the rat). John Gotti...

Now that his “Entourage” days are over, Kevin Connolly is finally free to do what he’s always wanted: direct a movie about notorious mobster John Gotti. John Travolta plays the title character in “Gotti,” which is sure to pair nicely with an upcoming thriller directed by Fred Durst in which he plays a stalker. Vertical Entertainment has announced that, along with Sunrider Productions, it will distribute the new biopic.

“I have always been fascinated by the John Gotti story,” said Phillip Glasser of Sunrider in a statement. “When I first saw the film, I knew it had a tremendous amount of potential, especially due to the terrific performance by John Travolta. I felt with some re-editing, new music, and an incredible soundtrack, it would take the film to another level. I felt as a producer, it was important to learn the distribution business for my future film projects. We...

After being dropped by distributor Lionsgate just ten days before its set release, the seemingly ill-fated John Travolta-starring John Gotti biopic might get a new lease on life, at least if its producers’ big gamble pays off. A new report from Deadline holds that the film left Lionsgate because of release plan squabbles — it was set to be released by Lionsgate Premiere (which specializes in specialty and limited releases), and its producers were eager to take it to a wide release. The outlet reports that “there was a buy-back clause in the distribution agreement, so the producers exercised it. It was never a matter of Lionsgate dumping the film.”

Still, that’s a hell of a last minute change to make, especially when the film’s release date and plan have been locked for months now. Deadline adds that an outside investor has back the film “so that it...

Looks like this month is about to get a whole lot less merry for one jettisoned project, as the Tracking Board reports that Lionsgate has dropped its John Travolta-starring mob drama “Gotti” just ten days before its scheduled release. A source revealed to the outlet that the film has also been sold back to its producers, Emmett/Furla/Oasis, which produced the film alongside Highland Film Group and Fiore Films.

The film was slated to debut under the Lionsgate Premiere banner next week, but has now been pulled from the release schedule until a new distributor can be found. The outlet adds that the producers will soon start that process, and the film will likely be moved to a 2018 date.

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Discover the man who showed the world who's boss in a new trailer & teaser poster from director Kevin Connolly's Gotti. Starring John Travolta as infamous crime boss John Gotti, the upcoming true story about the most notorious gangster of our generation opens in select theaters & on demand December 15. After years in development, fans finally get to see what John Travolta looks like as the infamous John Gotti.

Gotti follows crime boss John Gotti's (John Travolta) rise to become the "Teflon Don" of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr. (Spencer Lofranco), Gotti examines Gotti's tumultuous life as he and his wife (Kelly Preston) attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences. The film will be released by Lionsgate Premiere in theaters and on demand on December 15, 2017, with the trailer debuting on Lionsgate YouTube today.

"I will build something that nobody can destroy." Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for a new crime thriller titled Gotti, spanning three decades telling the story of legendary crime boss John Gotti Sr., as played by John Travolta. The story focuses on Gotti's rise to power in New York City, as well as his wife Victoria Gotti, played by Kelly Preston, along with his son John Gotti Jr., played by Spencer Lofranco. The full cast includes Stacy Keach, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Megan Leonard, Lydia Hull, William DeMeo, Tyler Jon Olson, Leo Rossi, and Ella Bleu Travolta. The pitch for this makes it seem like it wants to be the next Godfather, but the footage does not live up to that comparison. Travolta actually looks good in the role, but the rest of it doesn't seem that impressive to me, yet another typical mob crime biopic. Here's the...

Six years and two title changes after the project was announced, John Travolta will finally star as the titular Gambino family Mafioso in “Gotti.” Good Morning America debuted the film’s first trailer on Sept. 26, depicting the allegedly Gotti-ordered hit on his predecessor, Paul Castellano (Donald John Volpenhein), followed by his own demise from “The Teflon Don”—gleaming pompadour, designer suits—to a bald, craggy-faced inmate. Gotti died serving a murder sentence in 2002 at age 61; the cause was throat cancer. One of his sons, John Gotti Jr., helped advise director Kevin Connolly, and even provided Travolta with his father’s jewelry and ties to get into character.

Making “Gotti” was an unusual family bonding exercise for Travolta, who was last an Oscar nominee as “Pulp Fiction” hitman Vincent Vega: his real life wife (Kelly Preston) and daughter (Ella Bleu Travolta) play his relatives onscreen. On the steps of a courthouse,...

A revamped Biography is poised to tell a bunch of new stories at the place that made it famous.

The non-fiction series will return to A&E, the basic cable network where it was once a staple, A&E announced Tuesday.

This revamped Biography “will focus on the most meaningful moments in our culture from some of the most accomplished non-fiction storytellers of our time,” the network says in the official release.

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During its lengthy, initial A&E run, Biography chronicled figures from history and pop culture.

"Entourage" actor Kevin Connolly has been set to direct the biopic about infamous New York City mobster John Gotti at Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Fiore Films and Herrick Entertainment.

The story focuses on the relationship between John Gotti Sr., the head of the Gambino crime family who died in prison in 2002, and his son John Gotti Jr. who took over the family business. The younger Gotti served time in prison, but then successfully escaped conviction in four subsequent racketeering trials.

John Travolta is still aboard to play Gotti Sr. in the project which aims to begin production in January. Lionsgate Premiere will release the film domestically.

Numerous high profile names have been linked to the film over the years including Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Preston and Anthony Hopkins along with filmmakers like Nick Cassavetes, Joe Johnston and Barry Levinson. Each previous version collapsed due to funding issues.

Joe Johnston has signed on to direct Gotti.

The Captain America: The First Avenger director will replace Barry Levinson on the film, which will now be distributed by Relativity Media, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

John Travolta remains attached to star as 'Dapper Don' John Gotti Jr.

The Gambini family mobster was convicted in 1992 of murder, extortion, racketeering, loan-sharking, illegal gambling and tax evasion. He died in prison in 2002.

Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Preston, Ben Foster and Chazz Palminteri were previously attached to appear alongside Travolta.

Levinson had himself stepped in after original director Nick Cassavetes departed the project.

Gotti will begin shooting on September 9.

The casting news surrounding the Barry Levinson drama about mob boss John Gotti Sr. and his son continued as Variety reported that actor Ben Foster signed on to play the pivotal role of John Gotti Jr. opposite John Travolta as John Gotti Sr. Joining Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father marked a reunion for Foster who worked with Levinson on the drama Liberty Heights. “Barry Levinson was the first director who took a chance on me and I have a career because of him,” Foster said in a statement. “This is a film about family, fathers and sons. I am deeply honored for the opportunity to work with Barry and the amazing cast he is assembling to help bring the story of the Gotti family to the screen.”...

Gotti film from Fiore Films now called Gotti: In The Shadow of My Father. The Gotti project concerning the relationship between John Gotti Jr. and his father, the late mob boss John Gotti, stars John Travolta, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Lindsay Lohan, Ella Bleau Travolta and Kelly Preston. Gotti's father, the flamboyant head of New York's Gambino crime family, spent the last ten years of his life before his death in 2002 from cancer. The last time the son visited his father, he informed him of his intention to leave his life of crime and get out of the family business. Gotti Jr.'s mother tried to protect him as well as the other three siblings from a life of crime, however, the younger Gotti served jail sentences of around nine years for charges like loan sharking, racketeering and gambling.

Gotti movie loses director Nick Cassavetes. John Travolta plays John Gotti Jr. while Lindsay Lohan is in talks as Victoria Gotti in the Fire Films drama. A spokesman said today that Cassavetes had been released from his contract due to scheduling conflicts with the helmer also working on indie drama Yellow. Producers of Gotti: Three Generations are on the lookout for a new director and production remains on track for a fall start date, reports Variety. Joe Pesci is also on board as Angelo Ruggiero as well as Travolta's daughter Ella Blue who has landed a featured role. Actor-writer Leo Rossi wrote the screenplay for Gotti: Three Generations which is being described as described as revealing the relationship between a father who lived and died by the mob code and his son who made a decision to leave the mob world...

Director Nick Cassavetes and Fiore Films CEO Marc Fiore generated plenty of publicity for their planned mobster drama Gotti: Three Generations via a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Times Square. John Travolta appeared to promote his starring role as John Gotti, the infamous New York mob boss known as the Teflon Don, who died in prison in 2002 while serving a life sentence for murder, racketeering and extortion. According to The New York Post, Travolta joined Cassavetes and Fiore at the microphones and posed for pictures with John Gotti Jr. and Victoria Gotti.

John Travolta will portray John Gotti Jr. in Gotti: Three Generations, directed by Nick Cassavetes. Indie producer Fiore Films announced today that a news conference has been set for April 12th in New York with Travolta, Gotti, Cassavetes and producer Marc Fiore. Travolta has been rumored for the John Gotti Jr. role several months. Leo Rossi wrote the script which is being described as revealing the relationship of a father who lived and died by the mob code and his son who made the decision to leave that world behind and redeem himself. The film is being shot entirely in New York and Marty Ingels is serving as an executive producer on Gotti: Three Generations. Gotti's father, the flamboyant head of New York's Gambino crime family, spent the last ten years of his life before his death in 2002...

The news made some minor waves among gangster buffs when earlier this year it was revealed that John Gotti Jr. was going to spill details about his life with his father, the notorious John Gotti Sr. (head of the Gambino crime family) for feature film, documentary and book projects. And it looks like the feature film is going to be the first one out of the gate. Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook," "John Q") is in talks for the gestating biopic that is currently set up at Fiore Films. And we can see why anybody would be attracted the material. Gotti…...