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SCORSESE FINALLY SCORES BOX-OFFICE HIT Monday, October 9 2006 
Martin
Scorsese,
who
has
received
plenty
of
critical
praise
and
film
awards
in
the
past,
but
has
never
had
a
big
box-office
opening,
finally
has
seen
one
of
his
films
open
big.
His
The
Departed,
starring
Jack
Nicholson,
Leonardo
DiCaprio,
and
Matt
Damon,
debuted
with
$27
million
--
at
the
high
end
of
analysts'
expectations
(but
lower
than
those
of
the
film's
producer),
almost
three
times
higher
than
his
previous
best
--
$10.3
million
for
(more)MOVIE REVIEWS: THE DEPARTED Friday, October 6 2006 
Critics
are
in
general
agreement
that
Martin
Scorsese
has
returned
to
top
form
with
the
thriller
The
Departed.
It's
his
"sharpest
film
in
a
decade
--
and
the
most
entertaining
major
studio
release
this
year,"
writes
Lou
Lumenick
in
the
New
York
Post.
Richard
Roeper
in
the
Chicago
Sun-Times
calls
it
"an
instant
gangster
classic,
a
gritty,
intense
and
electrifying
work
from
a
master
who
knows
this
turf
better
than
any
director
who
ever
lived."
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Hoping to find greater creative freedom, Martin Scorsese says he plans to make several low-budget films. "When there are very big budgets, there is less risk that can be taken" by studios, Scorsese told a news conference at the Rome Film Festival. His last film, The Departed, cost $90 million to make. Although he praised Warner Bros. for being supportive -- he acknowledged that he put the finishing touches on the film only a week before it opened -- "I don't know how much longer that can hold out." He said his next film will be an adaptation of a Japanese novel, The Silence, a film, he noted, that he had been wanting to make for 15 years.
