Carlito's Way: Rise to Power stars Jay Hernandez as Carlito Brigante, and chronicles Brigante's rise as a heroin drug czar in 1960s Harlem, New York. The film also features Mario Van Peebles, Michael Joseph Kelly, Luis Guzmán, Jaclyn DeSantis, Sean Combs, Burt Young, and Domenick Lombardozzi. Critically panned, the film nevertheless received Torres's as an accurate adaptation of the first half of his novel. The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they all look to control the drug
Al Pacino State University football coach Joe Paterno in the television film "Paterno" based on a 2012 biography of Paterno by sportswriter Joe Posnanski. He took the title role in the comedy-drama "Danny Collins" (2015) and this performance as an aging rock star garnered him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. Pacino will star with Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's biographical crime film "The Irishman", which is expected to be released in 2019. Although he has never married, Pacino has fathered three children. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his daughter with