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  • Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of The Flower Moon’ gets a new India release date

    By Express News Service

    The makers of the much-anticipated film Killers of The Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, have planned to push the release date of the film a week later than the earlier scheduled date. It will now premiere in theatres in India on October 27 instead of October 20.

    Although there has been no reason given by the makers for the decision, there are speculations that it has been pushed to accommodate screens for the upcoming Vijay-starrer Leo, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj.

    Killers of the Flower Moon boasts a star ensemble including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, among others.

    From a screenplay penned by Eric Roth and Scorsese, the film is based on David Grann’s bestselling book of the same name. Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

    Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion and Tantoo Cardinal are also part of the cast. Hailing from Apple Studios, Killers of the Flower Moon is produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way.

    Killers of the Flower Moon will have a runtime of 3 hours and 26 minutes. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

    The makers of the much-anticipated film Killers of The Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, have planned to push the release date of the film a week later than the earlier scheduled date. It will now premiere in theatres in India on October 27 instead of October 20.

    Although there has been no reason given by the makers for the decision, there are speculations that it has been pushed to accommodate screens for the upcoming Vijay-starrer Leo, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj.

    Killers of the Flower Moon boasts a star ensemble including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, among others.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    From a screenplay penned by Eric Roth and Scorsese, the film is based on David Grann’s bestselling book of the same name. Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

    Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion and Tantoo Cardinal are also part of the cast. Hailing from Apple Studios, Killers of the Flower Moon is produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way.

    Killers of the Flower Moon will have a runtime of 3 hours and 26 minutes. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

  • Why did actor Leonardo DiCaprio testify at trial of former Fugees rapper?

    By PTI

    NEW YORK: Leonardo DiCaprio testified Monday at the trial of former Fugee rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who is accused of conspiring to funnel money from a Malaysian state fund to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Here is a look at the main characters in the international scandal, and the fund that fueled it.

    The Pras prosecution

    Michel was a founding member of the influential 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, along with better-known bandmates Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, who had major hits with “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” Prosecutors allege Michel conspired with Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho to funnel money from 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad), a Malaysian state fund established in 2009 to promote development, to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign through straw donors. Prosecutors have said as much as $100 million went through Michel, a 50-year-old New York native who has maintained his innocence. His trial began Thursday.

    Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, arrives at federal court for his trial, on April 3, 2023, in Washington. (Photo | AP)

    The fugitive

    DiCaprio testified in the case because of his ties to Low, the alleged architect of the scandal, who has also been indicted in the US but remained an international fugitive as Michel went to trial. The Malaysian financier who helped oversee 1MDB used it to bankroll an extravagant and celebrity-centric lifestyle. He is alleged to have steered billions toward property in Beverly Hills and Manhattan, a superyacht, a private jet and many other splashy purchases. The fund paid for a birthday party for Low where performers included Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Ludacris, Busta Ryhmes and Pharrell Williams. Britney Spears jumped out of a cake.

    Leo, Picasso and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

    DiCaprio, who is not accused of any wrongdoing, has known Michel since the 1990s, and Low professionally and socially for years. The Oscar-winning actor testified that he met and befriended Low at a birthday party in Las Vegas in 2010. Low gave DiCaprio gifts, which he has since returned, including a Picasso painting valued at $3.2 million and a Jean-Michel Basquiat collage valued at $9.2 million. The actor has since returned both artworks. Low has been a regular donor to DiCaprio’s charitable foundation.

    Low would use money from the fund to finance the Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which starred DiCaprio. DiCaprio testified that he had his team and the studio vet Low first, and they found him to be “a legitimate business person wanting to invest in the movie.” The film’s producers included Riza Aziz, stepson of then-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

    Najib Razak’s role

    The prime minister became chair of 1MDB when it was established in 2009 with the purported aim of increasing foreign investment. It quickly racked up more than $12 billion in debt. The fund turned into the epicenter of a massive international corruption scandal. The U.S. Justice Department has said more than half of the $8 billion raised by bond sales was stolen and siphoned off, a revelation uncovered in 2015 when thousands of documents were leaked.

    Najib, who investigators said took hundreds of millions to fund his reelection campaign and pay off politicians, has denied any wrongdoing and fired the attorney general investigating him. Malaysian general elections in 2018 ousted Najib and his party. In 2020, Najib was found guilty of seven charges of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in prison. His appeals have been unsuccessful. Najib was acquitted of another charge at his most recent trial.

    Other players

    In 2020, Goldman Sachs acknowledged its role in the embezzlement scheme and paid out more than $2.3 billion as part of a plea deal with the U.S. government. The firm also reached a $3.9 billion settlement with the government of Malaysia. In March, a former Goldman Sachs banker named Roger Ng was sentenced in Brooklyn to 10 years in prison for his role in plundering the fund.

    A top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Elliott Broidy, was charged with running an illegal lobbying campaign on Jho Low’s behalf to get the Justice Department to drop its investigation into 1MDB’s looting. Broidy pleaded guilty, but was then pardoned by Trump, so was never sentenced.

    NEW YORK: Leonardo DiCaprio testified Monday at the trial of former Fugee rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who is accused of conspiring to funnel money from a Malaysian state fund to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Here is a look at the main characters in the international scandal, and the fund that fueled it.

    The Pras prosecution

    Michel was a founding member of the influential 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, along with better-known bandmates Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, who had major hits with “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” Prosecutors allege Michel conspired with Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho to funnel money from 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad), a Malaysian state fund established in 2009 to promote development, to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign through straw donors. Prosecutors have said as much as $100 million went through Michel, a 50-year-old New York native who has maintained his innocence. His trial began Thursday.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, arrives at federal court for his trial, on April 3, 2023, in Washington. (Photo | AP)

    The fugitive

    DiCaprio testified in the case because of his ties to Low, the alleged architect of the scandal, who has also been indicted in the US but remained an international fugitive as Michel went to trial. The Malaysian financier who helped oversee 1MDB used it to bankroll an extravagant and celebrity-centric lifestyle. He is alleged to have steered billions toward property in Beverly Hills and Manhattan, a superyacht, a private jet and many other splashy purchases. The fund paid for a birthday party for Low where performers included Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Ludacris, Busta Ryhmes and Pharrell Williams. Britney Spears jumped out of a cake.

    Leo, Picasso and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

    DiCaprio, who is not accused of any wrongdoing, has known Michel since the 1990s, and Low professionally and socially for years. The Oscar-winning actor testified that he met and befriended Low at a birthday party in Las Vegas in 2010. Low gave DiCaprio gifts, which he has since returned, including a Picasso painting valued at $3.2 million and a Jean-Michel Basquiat collage valued at $9.2 million. The actor has since returned both artworks. Low has been a regular donor to DiCaprio’s charitable foundation.

    Low would use money from the fund to finance the Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which starred DiCaprio. DiCaprio testified that he had his team and the studio vet Low first, and they found him to be “a legitimate business person wanting to invest in the movie.” The film’s producers included Riza Aziz, stepson of then-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

    Najib Razak’s role

    The prime minister became chair of 1MDB when it was established in 2009 with the purported aim of increasing foreign investment. It quickly racked up more than $12 billion in debt. The fund turned into the epicenter of a massive international corruption scandal. The U.S. Justice Department has said more than half of the $8 billion raised by bond sales was stolen and siphoned off, a revelation uncovered in 2015 when thousands of documents were leaked.

    Najib, who investigators said took hundreds of millions to fund his reelection campaign and pay off politicians, has denied any wrongdoing and fired the attorney general investigating him. Malaysian general elections in 2018 ousted Najib and his party. In 2020, Najib was found guilty of seven charges of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in prison. His appeals have been unsuccessful. Najib was acquitted of another charge at his most recent trial.

    Other players

    In 2020, Goldman Sachs acknowledged its role in the embezzlement scheme and paid out more than $2.3 billion as part of a plea deal with the U.S. government. The firm also reached a $3.9 billion settlement with the government of Malaysia. In March, a former Goldman Sachs banker named Roger Ng was sentenced in Brooklyn to 10 years in prison for his role in plundering the fund.

    A top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Elliott Broidy, was charged with running an illegal lobbying campaign on Jho Low’s behalf to get the Justice Department to drop its investigation into 1MDB’s looting. Broidy pleaded guilty, but was then pardoned by Trump, so was never sentenced.

  • Scorsese, DiCaprio to premiere new film at Cannes

    By AFP

    PARIS: Martin Scorsese’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” will get its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, organisers confirmed on Friday.

    It will be the first time the veteran filmmaker presents a new film at the festival since he won best director there in 1986 for “After Hours.”

    Scorsese won the top Palme d’Or prize in 1976 for “Taxi Driver” and also presided over the jury in 1998.

    “The Cannes Festival is overjoyed to welcome Martin Scorsese this May on the Croisette, to climb the steps of the Palais des Festivals,” the organisers said in a statement.

    The film, also starring Robert De Niro, was produced by Apple, which has agreed to release it in cinemas in October before streaming on its platform.

    Cannes only allows films to compete for the Palme d’Or if they get a theatrical release, which has notably prevented Netflix from entering its films.

    “Killers of the Flower Moon” tracks the true story of serial murders of a Native American tribe in an oil-rich part of the United States in the 1920s.

    PARIS: Martin Scorsese’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” will get its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, organisers confirmed on Friday.

    It will be the first time the veteran filmmaker presents a new film at the festival since he won best director there in 1986 for “After Hours.”

    Scorsese won the top Palme d’Or prize in 1976 for “Taxi Driver” and also presided over the jury in 1998.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    “The Cannes Festival is overjoyed to welcome Martin Scorsese this May on the Croisette, to climb the steps of the Palais des Festivals,” the organisers said in a statement.

    The film, also starring Robert De Niro, was produced by Apple, which has agreed to release it in cinemas in October before streaming on its platform.

    Cannes only allows films to compete for the Palme d’Or if they get a theatrical release, which has notably prevented Netflix from entering its films.

    “Killers of the Flower Moon” tracks the true story of serial murders of a Native American tribe in an oil-rich part of the United States in the 1920s.

  • Jack could have survived, says Cameron as ‘Titanic’ re-released after 25 years

    By AFP

    LOS ANGELES: James Cameron doesn’t have many regrets — after all, he has now directed three of the four highest-grossing films of all time.

    But if he could go back and remake “Titanic,” the film that started his record streak 25 years ago and is being re-released in theaters Friday, there is one thing he would change.

    “Based on what I know today, I would have made the raft smaller, so there’s no doubt!” said Cameron.

    Such is the film’s enduring popularity, even a quarter of a century later debates and theories continue to swirl around the fate of Leonardo DiCaprio’s lead character.

    Fans insist Jack could have survived the icy Atlantic waters after the ocean liner sank, if only he had shared an improvised raft with Kate Winslet’s Rose.

    Instead, Jack gallantly gave Rose an entire wooden door to float on, condemning himself to a freezing death but ensuring she survived.

    It is just one example of how the story of the Titanic “never seems to end for people,” Cameron told a press conference held for the anniversary re-release.

    “There have been much greater tragedies since the Titanic — I mean, World War One, tens of millions of people died. World War Two…”

    “But the Titanic has this kind of enduring, almost mythic, novelistic quality. And it has to do with, I think, love and sacrifice and mortality.

    “The men who stepped back from the lifeboats so that the women and the children could survive.”

    ‘Final verdict’

    Cameron put Jack’s individual sacrifice to the test in a new National Geographic documentary, running experiments featuring two stunt performers and an exact replica of the film’s door in a cold water tank.

    In “Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron,” the stunt actors were fitted with internal thermometers to chart how quickly their bodies plunged toward hypothermia.

    While the first test confirmed Jack would have died if he had acted according to the film’s plot, a second found the pair could have both balanced on the door and kept their upper bodies out of the water.

    “He got into a place where if we projected that out, he just might have made it until the lifeboat got there,” admitted Cameron.

    “Final verdict? Jack might have lived. But there’s a lot of variables.”

    Epic love story

    “Titanic” was first released in December 1997, and held the number one box office spot for 15 consecutive weekends.

    While today most films earn their biggest profits on opening weekend, “Titanic” peaked on its eighth weekend — Valentine’s Day.

    The epic love story is now being re-released ahead of this year’s Valentine’s Day weekend, where it will hope to add to its $2.2 billion total haul.

    “I’ll grant you $100 million of our box office (was) for Leonardo DiCaprio’s appeal to 14-year-old,” girls, joked Cameron.

    “Titanic” is currently behind only “Avengers: Endgame” and Cameron’s “Avatar,” but is expected to soon be surpassed by “Avatar: The Way of Water” — again, by Cameron — which has made $2.18 billion and is still drawing crowds.

    Collectively, Cameron’s three monster hits have collected $7.25 billion — roughly the entire annual GDP of Bermuda.

    Besides making him an extraordinarily wealthy man, the three-hour-long “Titanic” has left another important if divisive legacy.

    “Historically before ‘Titanic,’ the wisdom — which proved not to be true — was that a long movie can’t make money,” said Cameron.

    The first “Avatar” ran for 162 minutes and again “people said they wanted more,” he said.

    “We took that to heart and we made a three-hour-and-12-minute movie for the new ‘Avatar.’

    “And it’s doing very well.”

    LOS ANGELES: James Cameron doesn’t have many regrets — after all, he has now directed three of the four highest-grossing films of all time.

    But if he could go back and remake “Titanic,” the film that started his record streak 25 years ago and is being re-released in theaters Friday, there is one thing he would change.

    “Based on what I know today, I would have made the raft smaller, so there’s no doubt!” said Cameron.

    Such is the film’s enduring popularity, even a quarter of a century later debates and theories continue to swirl around the fate of Leonardo DiCaprio’s lead character.

    Fans insist Jack could have survived the icy Atlantic waters after the ocean liner sank, if only he had shared an improvised raft with Kate Winslet’s Rose.

    Instead, Jack gallantly gave Rose an entire wooden door to float on, condemning himself to a freezing death but ensuring she survived.

    It is just one example of how the story of the Titanic “never seems to end for people,” Cameron told a press conference held for the anniversary re-release.

    “There have been much greater tragedies since the Titanic — I mean, World War One, tens of millions of people died. World War Two…”

    “But the Titanic has this kind of enduring, almost mythic, novelistic quality. And it has to do with, I think, love and sacrifice and mortality.

    “The men who stepped back from the lifeboats so that the women and the children could survive.”

    ‘Final verdict’

    Cameron put Jack’s individual sacrifice to the test in a new National Geographic documentary, running experiments featuring two stunt performers and an exact replica of the film’s door in a cold water tank.

    In “Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron,” the stunt actors were fitted with internal thermometers to chart how quickly their bodies plunged toward hypothermia.

    While the first test confirmed Jack would have died if he had acted according to the film’s plot, a second found the pair could have both balanced on the door and kept their upper bodies out of the water.

    “He got into a place where if we projected that out, he just might have made it until the lifeboat got there,” admitted Cameron.

    “Final verdict? Jack might have lived. But there’s a lot of variables.”

    Epic love story

    “Titanic” was first released in December 1997, and held the number one box office spot for 15 consecutive weekends.

    While today most films earn their biggest profits on opening weekend, “Titanic” peaked on its eighth weekend — Valentine’s Day.

    The epic love story is now being re-released ahead of this year’s Valentine’s Day weekend, where it will hope to add to its $2.2 billion total haul.

    “I’ll grant you $100 million of our box office (was) for Leonardo DiCaprio’s appeal to 14-year-old,” girls, joked Cameron.

    “Titanic” is currently behind only “Avengers: Endgame” and Cameron’s “Avatar,” but is expected to soon be surpassed by “Avatar: The Way of Water” — again, by Cameron — which has made $2.18 billion and is still drawing crowds.

    Collectively, Cameron’s three monster hits have collected $7.25 billion — roughly the entire annual GDP of Bermuda.

    Besides making him an extraordinarily wealthy man, the three-hour-long “Titanic” has left another important if divisive legacy.

    “Historically before ‘Titanic,’ the wisdom — which proved not to be true — was that a long movie can’t make money,” said Cameron.

    The first “Avatar” ran for 162 minutes and again “people said they wanted more,” he said.

    “We took that to heart and we made a three-hour-and-12-minute movie for the new ‘Avatar.’

    “And it’s doing very well.”

  • Kate Winslet recalls ‘straight-up cruel’ treatment by tabloids post ‘Titanic’

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: ‘Titanic’ actress Kate Winslet is calling out the tabloid treatment she received early in her career.

    The Academy Award winner, 47, recently got candid about her experience in the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster ‘Titanic’, including the “awful” body-shaming she faced from the media and the public, as she appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast ahead of the film’s 25th anniversary, reports People magazine.

    “Apparently, I was too fat,” Winslet told host Josh Horowitz of some of the more insulting arguments about why Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) couldn’t fit on that door prior to his death. “Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f******* fat.”

    She continued: “If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way…. I would have said to journalists, I would have responded: ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.”

    According to People, she’s previously opened up about the “straight-up cruel” treatment she got from tabloids, telling The Guardian last February: “I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well was!”

    “They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on,” Winslet recalled. “It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read.”

    ALSO READ | ‘Only one could survive’, asserts James Cameron after scientific study to prove Jack’s death in ‘Titanic’

    LOS ANGELES: ‘Titanic’ actress Kate Winslet is calling out the tabloid treatment she received early in her career.

    The Academy Award winner, 47, recently got candid about her experience in the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster ‘Titanic’, including the “awful” body-shaming she faced from the media and the public, as she appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast ahead of the film’s 25th anniversary, reports People magazine.

    “Apparently, I was too fat,” Winslet told host Josh Horowitz of some of the more insulting arguments about why Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) couldn’t fit on that door prior to his death. “Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f******* fat.”

    She continued: “If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way…. I would have said to journalists, I would have responded: ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.”

    According to People, she’s previously opened up about the “straight-up cruel” treatment she got from tabloids, telling The Guardian last February: “I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well was!”

    “They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on,” Winslet recalled. “It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read.”

    ALSO READ | ‘Only one could survive’, asserts James Cameron after scientific study to prove Jack’s death in ‘Titanic’

  • ‘Only one could survive’: James Cameron documented scientific study to prove Jack’s death in ‘Titanic’

    By PTI

    TORONTO: There was no way both Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater could have survived on the floating door at the end of “Titanic”, reiterated master filmmaker James Cameron, who went one step ahead and conducted a “scientific study” to put this long-running debate to rest.

    Fans have long argued that Rose, played by Kate Winslet, should have made room for Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) on the floating piece of lumber after Titanic’s sinking in Cameron’s epic disaster film.

    Rose, who lay atop the door, survived in the end while Jack, who held on to the edge, froze to his death in the icy Atlantic waters.

    Cameron, who in 2019 had called Jack’s death an “artistic choice” that had nothing to do with the physics of two people fitting on the door, has now revealed the team did a thorough forensic analysis to justify the climax of the movie.

    Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Titanic | (Photo | YouTube)

    “We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all. We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to do a little special on it that comes out in February,” the director told tabloid newspaper The Toronto Sun.

    The special’s February release coincides with a 4K restoration of “Titanic”, scheduled to hit the screens on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023.

    According to Cameron, they took two stunt people who were the same body mass as Winslet and DiCaprio to help with the study.

    “And we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive,” he added.

    Jack “needed” to die in the 1997 film, argued the filmmaker, whose latest release “Avatar: The Way of Water” released on Friday.

    “It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice. Maybe after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore,” Cameron, 68, continued.

    While DiCaprio has maintained a “no comment” stance on the debate, Winslet previously teased popular TV host Jimmy Kimmel, saying Jack “could have” fitted on that door.

    TORONTO: There was no way both Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater could have survived on the floating door at the end of “Titanic”, reiterated master filmmaker James Cameron, who went one step ahead and conducted a “scientific study” to put this long-running debate to rest.

    Fans have long argued that Rose, played by Kate Winslet, should have made room for Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) on the floating piece of lumber after Titanic’s sinking in Cameron’s epic disaster film.

    Rose, who lay atop the door, survived in the end while Jack, who held on to the edge, froze to his death in the icy Atlantic waters.

    Cameron, who in 2019 had called Jack’s death an “artistic choice” that had nothing to do with the physics of two people fitting on the door, has now revealed the team did a thorough forensic analysis to justify the climax of the movie.

    Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Titanic | (Photo | YouTube)

    “We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all. We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to do a little special on it that comes out in February,” the director told tabloid newspaper The Toronto Sun.

    The special’s February release coincides with a 4K restoration of “Titanic”, scheduled to hit the screens on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023.

    According to Cameron, they took two stunt people who were the same body mass as Winslet and DiCaprio to help with the study.

    “And we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive,” he added.

    Jack “needed” to die in the 1997 film, argued the filmmaker, whose latest release “Avatar: The Way of Water” released on Friday.

    “It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice. Maybe after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore,” Cameron, 68, continued.

    While DiCaprio has maintained a “no comment” stance on the debate, Winslet previously teased popular TV host Jimmy Kimmel, saying Jack “could have” fitted on that door.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio to join Squid Game?

    By Express News Service

    Actor Leonardo DiCaprio could be invited to feature in the Netflix series Squid Game, for a future season, the series writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk said.

    According to a Variety report, the director made the statement during a press conference conducted by Netflix in Seoul on Friday. The hit Korean series was renewed for a second season after it was received well among audiences across the world. The series earned 14 Emmy nominations and won six out of them this year.

    Speaking about if any Hollywood star would appear in Squid Game, Hwang was quoted as saying, “There will be no known Hollywood actor in Season 2. That’s not in the plan and if the stage changes, maybe in Season 3 – but for Season 2, it is still set in Korea. Leonardo DiCaprio did say he’s a big fan of ‘Squid Game,’ so maybe if time or chances allow, we can ask him to join the games.”

    He also revealed that the shooting for the second season will begin in 2023 and will release in the following year. The players and the games have also been confirmed, he added.

    Actor Leonardo DiCaprio could be invited to feature in the Netflix series Squid Game, for a future season, the series writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk said.

    According to a Variety report, the director made the statement during a press conference conducted by Netflix in Seoul on Friday. The hit Korean series was renewed for a second season after it was received well among audiences across the world. The series earned 14 Emmy nominations and won six out of them this year.

    Speaking about if any Hollywood star would appear in Squid Game, Hwang was quoted as saying, “There will be no known Hollywood actor in Season 2. That’s not in the plan and if the stage changes, maybe in Season 3 – but for Season 2, it is still set in Korea. Leonardo DiCaprio did say he’s a big fan of ‘Squid Game,’ so maybe if time or chances allow, we can ask him to join the games.”

    He also revealed that the shooting for the second season will begin in 2023 and will release in the following year. The players and the games have also been confirmed, he added.

  • Hulu confirms Keanu Reeves’ casting in ‘The Devil in the White City’ series 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Keanu Reeves will be headlining the series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City”, streaming service Hulu has announced.

    The streamer made the announcement during its presentation at the Television Critics Association’s summer tour, as per the media reports.

    Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and his frequent collaborator, filmmaker Martin Scorsese, will executive produce the project.

    The series, which marks Reeves’ first major role on American television, is based on Erik Larson’s 2003 book and tells the true story of two men, an architect and a serial killer, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.

    “It follows Daniel H Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to make his mark on the world and Henry H Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical, Murder Castle’ on fair grouradhikands a palace built to seduce, torture and mutilate young women. The story takes the viewer on a tour of murder, romance and mystery in the gilded age,” reads the official synopsis.

    The big-budget project has been in development since DiCaprio bought the film rights to the book in 2010 and previously set it up as a feature at Paramount with Scorsese to direct.

    In 2019, Hulu announced that it was working on the series adaptation of the book.

    Todd Field is on board to direct the series, which is now a co-production between Paramount Television Studios and Disney’s ABC Signature.

    Rick Yorn, Stacey Sher, Field and Mark Lafferty will also executive produce alongside Scorsese, DiCaprio and his Appian Way partner, Jennifer Davisson.

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Keanu Reeves will be headlining the series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City”, streaming service Hulu has announced.

    The streamer made the announcement during its presentation at the Television Critics Association’s summer tour, as per the media reports.

    Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and his frequent collaborator, filmmaker Martin Scorsese, will executive produce the project.

    The series, which marks Reeves’ first major role on American television, is based on Erik Larson’s 2003 book and tells the true story of two men, an architect and a serial killer, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.

    “It follows Daniel H Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to make his mark on the world and Henry H Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical, Murder Castle’ on fair grouradhikands a palace built to seduce, torture and mutilate young women. The story takes the viewer on a tour of murder, romance and mystery in the gilded age,” reads the official synopsis.

    The big-budget project has been in development since DiCaprio bought the film rights to the book in 2010 and previously set it up as a feature at Paramount with Scorsese to direct.

    In 2019, Hulu announced that it was working on the series adaptation of the book.

    Todd Field is on board to direct the series, which is now a co-production between Paramount Television Studios and Disney’s ABC Signature.

    Rick Yorn, Stacey Sher, Field and Mark Lafferty will also executive produce alongside Scorsese, DiCaprio and his Appian Way partner, Jennifer Davisson.

  • Martin Scorsese and Leonardo to reunite for ‘The Wager’

    By Express News Service

    After wrapping up Apple TV+’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to team up once again. The actor-director duo is reuniting for The Wager, another Apple digital film. It is the adaptation of the upcoming David Grann non-fiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. Set in the 1740s, Wager’s story is set in motion when a patched-together boat with 30 emaciated men lands on the coast of Brazil.

    The men were the surviving crew of the British naval ship, HMS Wager, which was chasing a Spanish vessel and had crashed onto a desolate island in South America’s Patagonia region. Six months later, however, another vessel, even more, beat up than the first, ended up off the coast of Chile, this one with three men. These new sailors accused the other men of being mutineers.

    As accusations and counter-charges flew, the British Admiralty set a special trial in motion to uncover the truth of what exactly happened on the island, exposing a story of not just a captain and crew struggling to survive while battling some of the most extreme elements on the planet, but also fighting against their own human natures.

    Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon is also an adaptation of David Grann’s work. The best-selling novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is set in 1920s Oklahoma and chronicles the serial murder of members of the oil wealthy Osage Nation. Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Brendan Fraser also star in the film, which will premiere sometime in 2023.

    After wrapping up Apple TV+’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to team up once again. The actor-director duo is reuniting for The Wager, another Apple digital film. It is the adaptation of the upcoming David Grann non-fiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. Set in the 1740s, Wager’s story is set in motion when a patched-together boat with 30 emaciated men lands on the coast of Brazil.

    The men were the surviving crew of the British naval ship, HMS Wager, which was chasing a Spanish vessel and had crashed onto a desolate island in South America’s Patagonia region. Six months later, however, another vessel, even more, beat up than the first, ended up off the coast of Chile, this one with three men. These new sailors accused the other men of being mutineers.

    As accusations and counter-charges flew, the British Admiralty set a special trial in motion to uncover the truth of what exactly happened on the island, exposing a story of not just a captain and crew struggling to survive while battling some of the most extreme elements on the planet, but also fighting against their own human natures.

    Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon is also an adaptation of David Grann’s work. The best-selling novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is set in 1920s Oklahoma and chronicles the serial murder of members of the oil wealthy Osage Nation. Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Brendan Fraser also star in the film, which will premiere sometime in 2023.

  • Martin Scorsese to collaborate again with Leonardo DiCaprio for a thriller project

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Ace Hollywood director Martin Scorsese is all set to collaborate once again with actor Leonardo DiCaprio for another Apple digital film ‘The Wager’.

    According to Variety, Scorsese is attached to direct an adaptation of New Yorker journalist David Grann’s upcoming nonfiction book “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” for Apple. Grann also wrote the book “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which investigates a series of murders of Osage people that took place in the 1920s, which is already being made into a film by Scorsese and is scheduled to release in 2023.

    The upcoming thriller ‘The Wager’ marks the director and the Oscar-winning actor’s sixth collaboration after ‘Gangs of New York’, ‘Aviation’, ‘The Audition’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and their forthcoming ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.

    ‘The Wager,’ which will be published next April, tells the story of the 1700’s British naval ship of the same name. During a secret mission to obtain a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the crew ended up shipwrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. Stranded and forced to survive against the elements, the crew descends into anarchy, and when they return to civilization end up on opposite sides of an intense court-martial, with accusations of murder and treachery against several parties, Variety reported.

    The remaining star cast of the film will be announced soon.

    Meanwhile, makers are currently eyeing to premiere their upcoming period thriller film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ at the Cannes or Venice Film Festival 2023.

    Apart from that, Leonardo was last seen in the satirical ‘Don’t Look Up’ which streamed on Netflix. The film gathered positive feedback from the netizens and also starred Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan and Jonah Hill in prominent roles.

    Scorsese, on the other hand, last directed a crime thriller film ‘The Irishman’ which starred Robert De Niro in the lead role. 

    WASHINGTON: Ace Hollywood director Martin Scorsese is all set to collaborate once again with actor Leonardo DiCaprio for another Apple digital film ‘The Wager’.

    According to Variety, Scorsese is attached to direct an adaptation of New Yorker journalist David Grann’s upcoming nonfiction book “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” for Apple. Grann also wrote the book “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which investigates a series of murders of Osage people that took place in the 1920s, which is already being made into a film by Scorsese and is scheduled to release in 2023.

    The upcoming thriller ‘The Wager’ marks the director and the Oscar-winning actor’s sixth collaboration after ‘Gangs of New York’, ‘Aviation’, ‘The Audition’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and their forthcoming ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.

    ‘The Wager,’ which will be published next April, tells the story of the 1700’s British naval ship of the same name. During a secret mission to obtain a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the crew ended up shipwrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. Stranded and forced to survive against the elements, the crew descends into anarchy, and when they return to civilization end up on opposite sides of an intense court-martial, with accusations of murder and treachery against several parties, Variety reported.

    The remaining star cast of the film will be announced soon.

    Meanwhile, makers are currently eyeing to premiere their upcoming period thriller film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ at the Cannes or Venice Film Festival 2023.

    Apart from that, Leonardo was last seen in the satirical ‘Don’t Look Up’ which streamed on Netflix. The film gathered positive feedback from the netizens and also starred Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan and Jonah Hill in prominent roles.

    Scorsese, on the other hand, last directed a crime thriller film ‘The Irishman’ which starred Robert De Niro in the lead role.