WASHINGTON – Try as they might, producers can never truly predict the climate in which their films will be released. The timing can work to a film’s advantage, as it did for “Argo,” where the attack ...

Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date and was pushed to January. The ...

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 ...

The best way to describe director Ruben Fleischer's new film, "Gangster Squad"? Ridiculously violent. We're not talking an occasional scene with gunfire or fist fighting. We're talking 110 minutes of ...

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 ...

So "Gangster Squad" is quickly shaping up to be among the most anticipated movies of 2013. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin in talks for "Gangster Squad," which is being written by ex-cop Will ...

A triumph of production design but a pretty dull kill-’em-up otherwise, the post-World War II-set “Gangster Squad” comes from the director of “Zombieland,” Ruben Fleischer. It’s clear Fleischer, who ...

In the long-awaited “Gangster Squad,” a team of 1940s-era cops wage an off-the-books war against a land-grabbing mob boss in Los Angeles. With Tommy guns blazing, fists flying and some sorta-cheesey ...

After last week’s evens in Colorado, execs at Warner Bros. decided to reshoots part of the upcoming “Gangster Squad” to remove scenes of a movie theater shooting. Orginially, they said the movie, ...

Gangster Squad has edited a theatre shooting scene in the movie's final version. The Warner Bros film, starring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin, is about LAPD officers battling the ...