{"id":697770,"date":"2026-06-11T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697770\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:25:09","slug":"throwback-attempts-at-a-vincent-buddy-cianci-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697770\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: Attempts at a Vincent &#8216;Buddy&#8217; Cianci movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WJAR)  \u2014 It was 18 years ago when there was a battle to bring the life of Vincent \u201cBuddy\u201d Cianci to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Two productions were working towards a movie. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File image of Vincent &quot;Buddy&quot; Cianci. (WJAR)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d45352d5-72fe-4a5a-8523-d8ec98152757-PTHROWBACK0611.transferxcodemix585_frame_1406.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File image of Vincent &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Cianci. (WJAR)<\/p>\n<p>One hired Cianci as a consultant, and he had a financial stake in. <\/p>\n<p> Buddy was against the Michael Corrente production, and in the end, neither movie ended up being made.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Prince of Providence&#8221; based on former PROJO reporter Mike Stanton&#8217;s book, did have a successful run as a play at Trinity Rep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJAR) \u2014 It was 18 years ago when there was a battle to bring the life of Vincent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-697770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}