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“The Comedian,” a Linson production directed by Taylor Hackford, and also starring Robert De Niro, who took the lead in the movie of “What Just Happened?” and has a long-standing relationship with the producer, is similarly beset by a focus problem,...

In 1982, Robert DeNiro starred in Martin Scorcese's "The King Of Comedy," the tale of a man named Rupert Pupkin, who is obsessed with late-night talk-show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis). Desperate to get on Jerry's show, Rupert finally kidnaps the...

“The Comedian” **1/2 (R, 1:59) Is Robert De Niro back? Can it be true? It seemed for a long while there that we had lost the beloved tough-guy actor forever to demeaning projects like “Dirty Grandpa” and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it boxing movies, but...

The North American rights to Robert De Niro‘s “The Comedian” have landed at Sony Pictures Classics, TheWrap has learned. Cinelou’s Taylor Hackford-directed film also stars Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Harvey Keitel and Danny DeVito. Mann...

It’s a secret every stand-up comic must master if she or he is to have any chance of success. Know when to get off stage, when to as the rappers say, “drop the mike.” “The Comedian” is an 85 minute dramedy trapped in a two hour movie. Another version...