Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald are in talks to star in Martin Scorsese’s HBO drama pilot “Boardwalk Empire,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Buscemi would play a liquor store owner running a distribution ring and Macdonald would play a young woman who marries a man in order to get out of the house. The drama, based on Nelson Johnson’s novel, is set in Prohibition-era New Jersey, the trade paper says.
—Sergio Ibarra