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Scorsese to make sweet music with Sinatra biopic

By Adnan Tezer May 14, 2009, 22:51 GMT

Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures are teaming on "Sinatra" and have brought on Martin Scorsese to direct and produce.

According to Variety, Universal and Mandalay’s Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman have been developing the project for two years while they worked to secure the life and music rights from Frank Sinatra Enterprises — a joint venture of the Sinatra Estate and Warner Music Group.

Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay. No actor is attached to star in the film.

The project will be the first theatrical film to be made about the Hoboken, N.J., native, whose life provided endless news for the gossip columnists because of his tumultuous love affairs with actresses such as Ava Gardner, notorious friendships with the likes of President John F. Kennedy and rumored Mafia ties.

Gary LeMel, the former president of worldwide music distribution at Warner Brothers Pictures, will be executive producing alongside Tina Sinatra and Robinson. Martin Scorsese taking on

Martin Scorsese taking on "Sinatra" for Universal Pictures and Mandalay. © Janet Mayer / PR Photos

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