The audience for “The Scorch Trials” was 63 percent below the age of 25, according to Fox, while 89 percent of the audience for “Black Mass” was over 25, according to Warner Bros. But I want to talk for a minute about Corey Stoll.
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Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass“, which opens Friday, is an expansive look at the bonds of old-neighborhood loyalties that fostered the FBI’s disastrous shielding of Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang, which eradicated Boston’s Italian mafia only to replace it with a murderous Irish-Catholic fiefdom.
The impersonations on parade here vary from dramatically licensed authenticity – Benedict Cumberbatch fares fine as Bulger’s up-and-up younger brother – to movie-movie caricature. Johnny Depp honours Wes Craven The notorious Boston gangster, who is serving life sentence in jail, refuses to see Depp’s portrayal in the movie that is based on his life story, reported People magazine.
Actor Johnny Depp attends a news conference to promote the film “Black Mass” at TIFF the Toronto global Film Festival in Toronto, September 14, 2015.
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During an interview with Samuelsohn he revealed the key to getting the Boston accent down is to not think about it too much but to get into the rhythm of it and “just do it”. So, from there on, I had Mr. Carney who was right up front saying, ‘I will tell you these bits, but I will not…’ He would never put his client into any sort of weird situation. Whitey’s attorney said that Mr Bulger has no intention of even watching the movie if it makes its way to the prison. Am I going to play Mordecai straight? “Hopefully if (Bulger) is at all taken with the portrayal, he’ll come out of nowhere and maybe send a letter”.
