Debra Messing, writer Nicholas Pileggi and producer Irwin Winkler spoke with UPI about their research into the Costello ...

Robert De Niro is renowned for his Mafia heavies, but in "The Alto Knights," he plays two real-life Mob bosses, Frank ...

When two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro agreed to play Frank Costello, the diplomatic mob boss at the center of the new ...

Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights” (2025) has everything you want in a gangster film, but it fails to be its own film.

For the first time in his career, the 81-year-old Oscar winner plays two leading roles in the same film: mafiosos, friends ...

Both were at different times known as the 'Boss of Bosses' in the American Mafia, and ... and Cimino talked to me about the Costello character in the late '70s," he recalls.

Robert De Niro discusses reuniting with his “Goodfellas” pals to detail “the end of the mafia” in “Alto Knights,” in which he ...

One of the most glaring issues in The Alto Knights is its attempt to juggle multiple storylines without effectively connecting them. The film opens with a botched assassination attempt on Frank ...

Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights promises a gripping look at the power struggle between two of the most influential Mafia bosses of the 1950s, Vito Genovese ...

"One guy wants to go one way. The other guy wants to go the other way and that conflict is what ends the mob. Those two characters were almost equal in importance." As Bobbie, Messing only met De ...

Mob boss Frank Costello was bold on many fronts ... her do anything dramatic before," the actress had a sense of the character immediately. "It was best to just leave her alone," he says.