Who were Vito Genovese and Frank Costello? Here is the true story that inspired Robert De Niro's new movie The Alto Knights.

Genovese was known for street crime and violence to get what he wanted. “He was more on the thug side of organized crime,” ...

Robert De Niro's latest movie The Alto Knights features a Martin Scorsese writer, producer, character and theme, but, somehow ...

Robert De Niro discusses reuniting with his “Goodfellas” pals to detail “the end of the mafia” in “Alto Knights,” in which he ...

This is for you, Frank,” the young hitman snarled before firing at mob boss Frank Costello outside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria ...

"The Alto Knights" has impressive Hollywood mob film DNA. Its script was written ... in dialogue with himself as both Costello and Genovese, De Niro said his lines to an actor in the film (Joe ...

and Genovese as a vengeful, thuggish type who resorts to brutally violent means to achieve his ends. The story begins with a ...

Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights” (2025) has everything you want in a gangster film, but it fails to be its own film.

for the mob movie “The Alto Knights,” scripted by “Goodfellas” and “Casino” screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi. But there’s a ...

Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia leaders who grew to power in tandem ...

TIME talked to two experts on the mobsters, Tony DeStefano, author of The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss and Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of The Mafia, and Geoff Schumacher ...

So how about De Niro playing not one but two Mafia kingpins in the same movie ... of friends-turned-enemies Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. De Niro was initially cast to play Costello, but ...