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Follow on Google News | Will Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro's Next Mob Movie Be MimiArt Films’ "Dino Cellini?"Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are said to be teaming up to do a mob movie. Movie Buffs are predicting that the story of "Dino Cellini," the action packed "Mob" movie drama, will be the film that they put together!
By: MimiArt Films Film Buffs from around the world immediately predicted that the movie the two were considering is the story of Dino Cellini, currently in Development at MimiArt Films, an Independent Art-House Film Company. DINO CELLINI-The Movie- tells the story of the man who would become "The Prolific Casino Czar" for the Mob, and Meyer Lansky's top lieutenant. Cellini would rise through the "Mob" ranks and provide the largest revenue stream for the Mafia during the 1950's & 60's, raking in untold millions of dollars from the casinos the mob ran. Based on a true story, the movie, chronicles Dino Cellini's life from the impoverished son of a Steubenville Ohio Barber, during the Depression years, to how he rose through the "Mob" ranks and became Meyer Lansky's top lieutenant. By intellect, and not by gangster tactics, amongst the likes of the Bugsy Siegel types, he became the preeminent casino mastermind. Casino Operators would refer to him as the brains of Casino Operations, and in Vegas, they labeled him as "The Father of Las Vegas." As a youngster, Cellini would learn the casino trade, in Steubenville Ohio, as a dice cheat/"mechanic," During the early 1920’s & 30’s Steubenville’ Eventually, by his sheer mathematical genius, self discipline, class, style, elegance, his charm and his charisma, Cellini would go on to parlay his overall talent to become the Mafia's Premier Casino Chief Executive. As Lansky's top Deputy, Cellini would create the Mafia's casino haven in Havana Cuba in the 1950's. During those years, Cuba was a much greater cash cow than Las Vegas. Ousted by Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, Cellini would go on to develop lavish casinos in London, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands. And, under the guise of a Bahamas company, Mary Carter Paints (which morphed into Resorts International) This character driven fictional drama of Dino Cellini is a Biopic, based on the book "The Master Mechanic," by I.G. Broat, and adapted by Tony Vitale, Writer/Director of the feature "Kiss Me, Guido," and Ang Lee's gambling film, "One Last Ride." This high profile action packed project was originally set to be produced by award winning producer Sam Spiegel over 25 years ago. The project was scrapped, however, when Spiegel passed away in December of 1985. The producers of the Cellini movie have approached Cellini's life story from the perspective of old time mobsters looking back at Cellini's epic journey, and his rise through the Mob ranks; from Steubenville Ohio, to Cuba, and on to Las Vegas, where he eventually become known as the iconic "FATHER of LAS VEGAS." Will Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro's next Mob Movie Be MimiArt Films’ "Dino Cellini?" Stay Tuned! The movie is expected to be released by the end of next year for Oscar consideration in 2012. Fans are calling it; "The Next Blockbuster Since The Godfather!" # # # MimiArt Films, LLC is an Art-house independent film company founded in 2006 by a group of movie buffs and independent i nvestors from New York and New Jersey. MimiArt Films-"Where 'Art' and 'Film' Come Together!" End
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