Early in Gangster Squad, circa-1949 Los Angeles crime kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) tells a Mafia rival he’s no longer beholden to the Italians in Chicago because he’s got a new vision for doing ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Warner Bros. studio is rethinking its plans for the film "Gangster Squad" in light of a scene featuring a movie-theatre shooting, but beyond that Hollywood executives ...

Life—so tragically—has imitated art even before that art takes to the silver screen, prompting a scramble within Warner Bros. to determine how to handle an Aurora, Colorado-like scene in Gangster ...

LOS ANGELES - To bring the story of mobster Mickey Cohen's reign over post-war Los Angeles to life, the director of "Gangster Squad" employed Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and more than 100 ...

(AP) Gangster Squad director Rueben Fleischer was stepping out of the shower on the night of July 20 last year when he received a chilling phone call from a studio executive at Warner Bros. There had ...

But, this movie just wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be. This movie will undoubtedly draw many comparisons to “The Untouchables,” but they are vastly different kinds of movies. In the 1987 film, ...

NEW YORK | Warner Bros. is moving the release of "Gangster Squad" to January after the film's climactic cinema shoot-out scene drew comparisons to the Aurora, Colo., shooting. "Gangster Squad" ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Warner Bros. movie studio postponed until early next year the release of "Gangster Squad," a crime drama featuring a scene with a movie theatre shooting that prompted ...

Indeed, where would we be without gangster films? We'll always need them, and they'll always be favorites that fans will continue to argue are the best. Surprisingly, with how acclaimed this genre is, ...