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Burt Reynolds will star with and Bret Harrison in the poker movie Deal for writer director Gil Cates Jr.

The movie revolves around an ex-gambler who teaches a hot shot college student how to "play the player" vs. just the cards. But after the two have a bitter falling out, they find themselves competing against each other in the World Poker Tour championships. (Sounds like The COlor of Money doesn't it).

Quantum of Solace, the next James Bond film, is to be released earlier than expected - on 31 October - its producers have announced. The 22nd film in the series, and Daniel Craig's second outing as 007, had been due for release on 7 November.  The title of the film, which follows on from 2006's Casino Royale, is taken from a short story published by Bond creator Ian Fleming in 1960.  Filming has already taken place in Panama and the United States.

Anatole Taubman and Daniel Craig have apparently filmed a huge fight scene in an art gallery whilst the old Casino Royale stages are rebuilt for the latest Bond film. The big news also leaked was that Al Pacino would be taking part in Bond filming.

Apparently Pacino would play the head of the terrorist group introduced in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE. Al pacino will be a baddie and is said to come to Pinewood in April-May to film what is said to be a brief cameo for the latest Bond release.

Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford.

Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson play Diana and David Murphy, high-school sweethearts who marry and who are doing very well.

Diana is a successful real-estate agent, and David is an idealistic architect who has built a dream house by the ocean -- until the recession hits.

Suddenly, David loses his job, and they can't make the mortgage payments. Dead broke, they borrow $5000 from David's father and head to Las Vegas to try to win money to pay the mortgage on their house. At first, they get $25,000 ahead but inevitably the house always wins, and they end up losing it all. While Diana is in the fancy casino boutique trying to lift some candy, she is spotted by billionaire John Gage (Robert Redford), who is immediately attracted to her. John invites Diana and David to an opulent party, and it is there that John offers David $1 million for a night with his wife. David is wracked by this moral dilemma, but Diana finally makes the decision on her own, with ensuing consequences for their ideal marriage and their bank account.

Monsieur Le Chiffre, is an agent for the Soviet assassination bureau SMERSH, running a baccarat game at a French casino to raise needed operational funds--namely, to recover SMERSH's money that he lost in a failed attempt to establish a chain of brothels. Expert baccarat player James Bond is assigned the job of beating Le Chiffre, in the hope that the Russian agent's gambling debts will provoke SMERSH into killing him. After hours of intensive play, Bond manages to beat Le Chiffre, but only with extra money provided by Felix Leiter of the CIA, who is in attendance as a covert observer. Bond has been provided with an assistant, the beautiful but emotionally turbulent Vesper Lynd, who unsurprisingly becomes his lover. But she is hiding a terrible secret -- she is actually a Russian double agent, under orders to see Bond does not escape Le Chiffre. With her unwilling connivance, Bond is captured and tortured by Le Chiffre, but Le Chiffre is assassinated by SMERSH. After Bond's recovery, during which he expresses an intention to resign from the Service, he spends his convalescence with Vesper Lynd, but becomes suspicious of her. Vesper commits suicide and her body is discovered by Bond, who reports to his superiors, tersely: "The bitch is dead now." 

BUGSY tells the true story of legendary New York mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Visiting Hollywood "on business" the reckless and volatile Bugsy is drawn to Tinseltown and the glamour of the movies. Leaving his wife and kids in Scarsdale indefinitely, the womanizing Bugsy spends his time on movie lots and at Hollywood extravaganzas, contemplating his own potential stardom.

Soon Bugsy falls hard for strong-willed actress Virginia, who isn't content with mistress status. A road trip to a down-trodden joint in the Nevada desert in a town called Las Vegas leads Bugsy to dream of building a world-class casino and turning the town into a moneymaker. Together Bugsy and Virginia with backing from the mob start building The Flamingo hotel and casino, hoping that legal gambling and five-star entertainment will entice the masses and rake in big bucks.

This is a film based on the book Breaking The House - a theme many casino companies dread.

It tells the true story of six nerdy university students from MIT - who used their genius math skills to win millions of dollars at Las Vegas casinos. The History Channel's thrilling documentary recounts this amazing story through archival footage, dramatic reenactments, and interviews with the former students, casino executives, security experts, gamblers, and Vegas historians. 

The film which is loosely realted to the gambling theme takes a look at the world of "boiler room"-- seedy pump and dump, dishonorable broking firms.

The film centers around Seth Davis (Ribisi), a budding underground casino owner in Queens whose life turns upside down when offered employment at J.T. Marlin, a less-than-reputable brokerage firm. Davis' opposition to his disapproving federal judge father drives the plot as Davis goes deeper into the operation at J.T. Marlin than he'd like, learning how the firm scams its clients out of serious money. The company runs a sort of ponzi scheme, similar to "pump and dump". The scheme works by pumping up a new IPO's price by creating artificial demand, cashing in, then reinvesting much of the earnings in yet another IPO.

An alcholic pool shark works his way up the ranks from small pool halls to the big-time in the Midwest. "Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon.

Broke and without his long-time manager, Eddie faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and the quallity of his game. He hits rock bottom and then agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend.

I am talking purely as reates to the gangster movie theme.

Casino is a gangster film directed by Martin Scosese. It is based on the book of the same name. Robert De Niro stars as Sam Rothstein, a gambling handicapper who is called by the Mob to oversee the operations at the Tangiers Casino in Vegas. The story is based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for The Mob from the 1970s until the early 1980s.