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Martin Scorsese's mob saga "The Departed" debuted as the weekend's top movie with $27 million, muscling out the horror prequel "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning."
It was a record opening for Scorsese, whose previous best was $10.3 million with 1991's "Cape Fear." Scorsese's films usually debut in narrower release and gradually roll out to more theaters, but Warner Bros. decided to launch "The Departed" in wide release of 3,017 cinemas.
"I think the cast was the deciding factor and the playability of the movie," Warner...
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This is the best film of the year.
When I first heard that they were re-making the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, I thought it would be a joke. But, seriously, Martin Scorsese did an amazing remake of this film, retitled "The Departed".
It's been a few years since I saw IA, I have to say that I had forgotten much of the story. When I got out of the theater, I went back to the original film to see what the differences were.
The ending's been changed, but pretty much the story remains intact for the remake.
Without giving away too...
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Nikki 1 year 12 months ago
The Departed (Release Date :: October 6, 2006), directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Alex Baldwin, Jack Nicholson, and Martin Sheen.
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leonard 2 years 19 days ago
The Departed Opens: Friday, October 6, 2006
Synopsis:
The Departed is set in South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello (Jack Nicholson). While Billy is quickly gaining Costello s confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special...
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