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Goodfellas is the most imitated gangster movie ever made, and it’s a true story, so why did the man whose

Who actually owned the casino in Casino? Everyone remembers the skim, the car bomb and the cornfield, but almost nobody

What did it actually cost Universal to open Jaws in the summer of 1975 — and who really paid for

The Lufthansa heist was the biggest cash robbery in U.S. history — and the only man ever convicted of it

Your favorite crime movie was on streaming last month. Tonight it’s gone, and the “buy” button doesn’t actually make it

The chainsaw scene people have quoted for forty years has a documented real-world counterpart — and Hollywood reversed the roles.

How did a five-hundred-thousand-dollar pay cut become the most profitable decision in movie history? In 1976, George Lucas waived half

In 1972 a nearly bankrupt Paramount spent roughly six to seven million dollars on a gangster picture the industry had

Donnie Andrews, the real man behind Omar Little, survived a six-story jump in 1986. The Wire shaved two floors off and cast him to play his own death.

In May 1929, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and 20 crime bosses met in Atlantic City to design a national syndicate. HBO filmed everything but this.