The Hollywood film classic celebrates his birthday today

When Martin Scorsese's then-81-year-old film, Killers of the Flower Moon, was released, Francis Ford Coppola, three years Scorsese's senior, called him "the greatest living director." American Academy Awards also "showed respect" by nominating Killers for ten Oscars, but it ultimately failed to win a single one, repeating the situation with Scorsese's previous film, The Irishman (ten nominations and zero wins).

Admittedly, financially, both of these films, with budgets of $150-200 million, failed to bring home any laurels. But that's a problem for Apple TV+ in the case of Killers and Netflix in the case of The Irishman. Coppola, however, was completely screwed with Megalopolis, as the film, with a budget of $120 million, only grossed $14.4 million, and he financed it out of his own pocket.

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In short, Scorsese is both younger (by three years, but at that age, a year can be considered ten) and more fortunate, as he's full of creative plans that, unlike Coppola, are willing to support from major labels. For example, a year ago, both Apple and Sony were willing to finance Scorsese's Frank Sinatra biopic. Sinatra was, naturally, to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio. (Recall that in Killers of the Flower Moon, DiCaprio, then 48, played a 24-year-old.)

However, something went wrong with the copyrights for Sinatra's songs in the film, and Scorsese, who turns 83 today, immediately moved on to another project. According to media reports, the film "What Happens at Night" will take place in a snow-covered hotel in a European town, where an American couple (Jennifer Lawrence and, naturally, Leonardo DiCaprio) arrive to adopt a child. However, the hotel is filled with both living monster guests and, judging by the hints, otherworldly ones, and eventually the Americans themselves begin to doubt the reality of what's happening.

Understandably, upon learning the plot, film critics immediately recalled Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," but Scorsese himself has a similar film, "Shutter Island," which, incidentally, earned $300 million. However, "What Happens at Night" will be financed by Apple, so money is secondary.

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