The Sopranos is fiction at its most brutally realistic form, addressing the harsh world of the mafia with nods to real-life crime families. Situated just outside the elite stature of New York City's ...

Titus Welliver's new series The Westies is inspired by a real-life Irish crime syndicate that dominated Hell's Kitchen.

Like Hollywood, the small screen has its Golden Age eras. The first happened in the ’50s with anthology dramas and the tube’s rapid adoption. The second happened around the turn of the century, ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

The FBI chased the "Real Sopranos" for decades without breaking them, until one arrest changed everything. Behind the HBO hit series was a real mafia family operating in New Jersey and New York: the ...

From "The Godfather" to "The Sopranos," mobsters and their families have been the subject of American fiction for generations. Now, two new programs promise to take a deep dive into the true stories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert De Niro is reuniting with his "Goodfellas" screenwriter Nick Pileggi for yet another true story of the Italian-American ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Over the years, Staten Island has seen its share of mob incidents. From the lavish Todt Hill home of real-life “Godfather” Paul Castellano to the early careers of John Gotti and ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...