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 ...

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 ...

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"Gangster Squad" boasts about as good a cast as you could hope for: Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and Giovanni Ribisi. Surely you can find ...

And with this cast attached, it could have been so much more. Josh Brolin is Sgt. John O’Mara, the angelic cop at the heart of the story. The film opens with him rescuing a damsel in distress, one of ...

Harvey Keitel received his only Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in 1991's "Bugsy," and Paul Gilfoyle played the Brooklyn-born gangster six years later in "L.A. Confidential." Now ...

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 ...

Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman's Chinese Theatre “inappropriate.” ...

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 ...

Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn feature in a set of character posters from Gangster Squad. Ruben Fleischer's (Zombieland) 1940s-set crime drama stars Penn as real-life gangster Mickey Cohen, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After having its release delayed and scenes reshot because of last summer's mass movie-theater killing in Aurora, Colorado, crime drama "Gangster Squad" finally hits theaters ...

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 ...