Get the latest gossip
Why Robert De Niro’s Mob Drama ‘Alto Knights’ Is Such a Box Office Disaster
Robert De Niro's crime drama "Alto Knights" is already one of the year's biggest box office misfires.
Directed by “Wag the Dog” and “Rain Man” filmmaker Barry Levinson and adapted by Nicholas Pileggi, best known for his work as a writer or producer on “Goodfellas,” “Casino” and “The Irishman,” the movie follows De Niro as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, childhood friends who became two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses. The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan described the stunt as “not just unnecessary, it’s supremely distracting.” (“It invites the question: Why?” he wrote in his review) and The New Yorker’s Justin Chang simply referred to the double casting as an “odd gimmick.” “The Alto Knights” is the second consecutive theatrical misfire for Warner Bros. after Bong Joon Ho’s big budget sci-fi comedy “Mickey 17.” Coincidentally, both films feature a lead actor named Robert who plays multiple parts in the same movie.
Or read this on Variety
