As The Alto Knights stumbles at the box office, a long-time producer is coming to the defense of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. The movie, which reportedly had a $50 million budget, takes place in New York City in the 1950s and stars Robert De Niro as the mobsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. It was released on March 21 and opened with just $5 million worldwide. After Discovery merged with Warner Bros., Zaslav fought to greenlight the movie, as other executives argued that it would inevitably fail.