Tag: Leonardo DiCaprio

  • Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon  slated for 2023 release

    By Express News Service

    Martin Scorsese’s western drama Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro will be hitting the screens in 2023. 

    Despite wrapping up the shoot in September 2021, the film won’t be ready in time for this Oscar season, according to reports. Instead, it’s now rumoured to be eyeing a big 2023 festival debut at Cannes, Venice or another event.

    Following this premiere, the film will get a full theatrical release through Paramount. Eric Roth’s script is adapted from the best-selling novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.

    Martin Scorsese’s western drama Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro will be hitting the screens in 2023. 

    Despite wrapping up the shoot in September 2021, the film won’t be ready in time for this Oscar season, according to reports. Instead, it’s now rumoured to be eyeing a big 2023 festival debut at Cannes, Venice or another event.

    Following this premiere, the film will get a full theatrical release through Paramount. Eric Roth’s script is adapted from the best-selling novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.

  • Christopher Nolan’s hand-drawn blueprint for ‘Inception’ goes viral

    NEW DELHI: A picture of award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s hand-drawn plot for his complex science fiction thriller ‘Inception’, which was released in 2010, has taken over the internet.

    The user named Julian Shapiro, a writer and investor shared the post on Twitter, which shows the plot details of the Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer. The post shows the hand-drawn plot map. It has some scribbles and details related to the film. 

    Shapiro captioned the post: “A rare find for my fellow movie nerds. This is Christopher Nolan’s hand drawn plot map for his film Inception.”

    ‘Inception’ stars DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.

    The cast also includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.

    NEW DELHI: A picture of award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s hand-drawn plot for his complex science fiction thriller ‘Inception’, which was released in 2010, has taken over the internet.

    The user named Julian Shapiro, a writer and investor shared the post on Twitter, which shows the plot details of the Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer. The post shows the hand-drawn plot map. It has some scribbles and details related to the film. 

    Shapiro captioned the post: “A rare find for my fellow movie nerds. This is Christopher Nolan’s hand drawn plot map for his film Inception.”

    ‘Inception’ stars DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.

    The cast also includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.

  • Laverne Cox first met Leonardo DiCaprio when she was a waitress

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: ‘The Orange Is The New Black’ star Laverne Cox can recall first meeting Hollywood star Leonard DiCaprio when she was working as a waitress in a New York City club.

    She said: “I remember during the early 2000s being in a club called Lot 61… I was a waitress at the time, an aspiring actress… this is 2000… around the year 1999 or 2000…and Leonardo DiCaprio was two feet away from me.

    “There were about 12 to 20 women who could be Victoria’s Secret models sort of, you know, surrounding (Leonardo Dicaprio, David Blaine, and Elijah Wood).

    “I saw this live. So this was kind of my life, and I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s being in proximity to Leonardo DiCaprio feeling so utterly and completely fabulous because I was two feet away from Leonardo DiCaprio in the same club. It made me feel so fabulous and like I was, you know, like I was somebody,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.

    Cox’s early experiences came back to her when she was first introduced to Netflix’s ‘Inventing Anna’, the true story of ‘fake heiress’ Anna Delvey, in which she plays Kacy Duke.

  • Keanu Reeves in talks to star in Hulu’s ‘Devil in the White City’ adaptation from Scorsese, DiCaprio 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: “The Matrix Resurrections” star Keanu Reeves is in negotiations to headline the series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City” for the streamer Hulu.

    The project hails from Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese who will executive produce alongside Rick Yorn, Sam Shaw, Jennifer Davisson and Stacey Sher.

    It would mark Reeves’ first major role on American television, reported Deadline.

    Based on Erik Larson’s 2003 book, the series 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 of the show.

    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.

    Hulu, in 2019, announced that it was working on the book as a series.

    Todd Field is set to direct the first two episodes of the limited series.

    Paramount TV Studios is producing alongside ABC Signature and DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

    Reeves is also set to star in “John Wick: Chapter 4”, slated to be released in 2023, and will voice a character in “DC League of Super-Pets”. 

  • Leonardo DiCaprio: I’ve looked for a film with environmental undertones

    By IANS

    Hollywood actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film Don’t Look Up, says he often in his career looked for a film that had an environmental undertone to it.Talking about the movie, Leonardo said, “I’ve often in my career looked for a film that had an environmental undertone to it and what Adam did was so brilliant, using the analogy of a giant comet heading towards Earth and showing how the human race would react to it from a political and scientific level, which I had never seen before.”He added, “It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in a lot of ways. I’m a huge fan of a lot of these films that came from the ’60s and ’70s – ‘The Parallax View’, ‘Three Days of the Condor’, certainly ‘Network’ and, of course, ‘Dr Strangelove’, which talked about the Cold War through dark comedy.”DiCaprio and co-star Jennifer Lawrence both consulted Dr Amy Mainzer, an astronomer and climate change scientist who served as an advisor to the cast and crew remotely. DiCaprio credits Dr Mainzer with helping him for his role.He said, “I must’ve had 100 conversations with her. I’ve spoken to many climate scientists, but our discussions were taken from the viewpoint of an astronomer. It was amazing to see the parallels in their thinking.”Don’t Look Up is releasing on December 24 on Netflix.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ is about ‘climate crisis, politicisation of science’

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio says he was drawn to his latest satirical sci-fi comedy “Don’t Look Up” as the film focuses on the urgency of climate crisis, a cause he has long wanted to highlight on screen.

    Directed by “The Big Short” helmer Adam McKay, the movie follows two low-level astronomers, played by DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who attempt to warn everyone about an approaching comet that will destroy Earth.

    DiCaprio, who has been an active part of the global climate change movement for many years, said McKay has cleverly used the plot of a comet wiping out the earth to throw light on the larger point about climate crisis.

    “Adam created this film, which was about the climate crisis but he created a sense of urgency with it by making it about a comet that’s going to hit Earth within eight months time and how science has become politicised, there’s alternative facts,” the Oscar-winning actor said during a global virtual press conference of the film.

    Asked what kind of change he is looking forward to in the public perception of science and people who practice it, the 47-year-old actor said he just wants climate scientists to be taken seriously.

    “I was just thankful to play a character who is solely based on so many of the people that I’ve met from the scientific community, in particular, climate scientists, who’ve been trying to communicate the urgency of this issue. And feeling like they’re subjected to the last page on the newspaper… There’s too many other things that we’re inundated with,” DiCaprio said.

    For the press conference, the actor was joined by Hollywood veteran Meryl Streep, good friend-frequent collaborator Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Lawrence and McKay.

    The film features DiCaprio as Dr Randall Mindy, who, along with Lawrence’s Dr Kate Dibiasky, goes on a giant media tour to warn mankind of the approaching comet.

    The actor, best known for his work in films like “Titanic”, “Shutter Island”, “Django Unchanged” and “The Revenant”, credited McKay for crafting two distinct characters of the low-level astronomers.

    “I love the way he portrayed these two different characters, one that is incredibly outspoken, like a Greta Thunberg type of character and mine that is trying to play within the system.

    But I also love the way he was just incredibly truthful about how we’re so immensely distracted from the truth nowadays.

    “And then, of course, COVID hit and there’s a whole new scientific argument going on there. It’s just such an important film to be a part of, at this particular time,” he added.

    “Don’t Look Up” will receive a limited theatrical release on December 10, followed by a Netflix premiere on December 24.

    DiCaprio, who runs a non-profit organisation devoted to promoting environmental awareness, said starring in the film was also a way to make sure he collaborates with other artistes in spreading the word about the danger mankind faces.

    “Adam really cracked the code with this narrative. There are so many comparisons that we can make about the climate crisis with this storyline. As a whole, it’s probably the most important issue all of us could be talking about on a regular basis and it takes artists like this to change the narrative, to create conversation. I’m honoured to be part of it,” he added.

    “Don Look Up”, produced by McKay and Kevin Messick, also features Hollywood star Cate Blanchett, Timothee Chalamet and pop star Ariana Grande among others.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to play controversial cult leader ‘Jim Jones’ in new movie

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play religious cult leader Jim Jones in MGM’s upcoming feature film.

    Written by “Venom” scribe Scott Rosenberg, “Jim Jones” will also have DiCaprio on board as producer.

    According to Deadline, the Oscar-winner will back the project via his Appian Way company alongside Jennifer Davisson.

    Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group, founded in Indianapolis in 1955.

    He was behind the November 1978 mass suicide at his Jonestown settlement that took more than 900 lives, including 304 children.

    Jones and his inner circle orchestrated the massacre at the jungle commune in Guyana, with the followers directed to drink cyanide-adulterated punch.

    Rosenberg will also serve as executive producer on the project.

    DiCaprio has previously produced Alejandro Inarritu’s “The Revenant”, Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street”, “The Aviator” and “Shutter Island”, under his banner Appian Way Productions.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Abhay Deol collaborate for boxer Guglielmo Papaleo’s biopic

    By Express News Service

    Leonardo DiCaprio’s production house Appian Way Productions is teaming up with Bollywood star Abhay Deol’s Canada-based content creation company, Blisspoint Entertainment, and Singapore’s Golden Ratio Films for Pep, a biopic of the legendary mid-20th century featherweight boxer Guglielmo Papaleo.

    Professionally known as Willie Pep, he is considered to be one of the best fighters of the 20th century. He had a 26-year-long career with nearly 2,000 rounds of boxing as a professional.

    The film, set in 1965 will be centered around one of Pep’s comebacks, as he finds himself riddled with debt while supporting a wife half his age and a drug addict son.

    James Madio will be playing Pep’s role in the film, and Keir Gilchrist will essay the role of Pep’s son, Billy Junior. Ron Livingston essays the character named Bob Kaplan, who was Pep’s business manager.

    Pep, the film, is directed by Rober Kolodny, and Steve Loff has penned its screenplay. Steve James is executive producing the film while Rober Greene will be the editor. 

  • John Lithgow boards Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow has joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, based on David Grann’s 2017 bestseller.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, the veteran star will play the role of a prosecutor in the Apple Studios project, The film explores the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation during the 1920s America.

    ALSO READ: Brendan Fraser boards cast of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

    The previously announced members are Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone and Brendan Fraser.

    The screenplay was penned by Eric Roth and Scorsese, who also directs and serves as producer alongside Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, and Appian Way Productions founded by DiCaprio.

    Lithgow was recently nominated for an Emmy for his performance in the HBO series “Perry Mason”.

    He will next be seen in the Showtime revival series “Dexter: New Blood”.

  • Brendan Fraser boards cast of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Brendan Fraser is the latest Hollywood star to join the cast of Martin Scorsese’s much-awaited movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”.

    Fraser, known for headlining the “The Mummy” movie series in the 2000s, joins Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons and Lily Gladstone in the film.

    Scorcese is directing the feature film from a script written by Eric Roth, according to Deadline.

    Based on David Grann’s 2017 bestseller, the film is set in 1920s Oklahoma, and centres on the Osage Nation murders, in which members of the Native American tribe were murdered one by one after the group became rich off the oil found underneath their land.

    As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case to uncover a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in US history.

    In the movie, Fraser will reportedly essay the role of lawyer WS Hamilton.

    Scorsese is producing the project for Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment, alongside Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions.

    Besides “Killers of the Flower Moon”, Fraser has also boarded the cast of comedy “Brothers” from director Max Barkabow of “Palm Springs” fame.

    He will star alongside Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, and Glenn Close in the movie, which has a script by Macon Blair and Etan Cohen.

    Brolin and Dinklage are producing the feature film along with Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar.

    Fraser was most recently seen in “No Sudden Move”, the crime thriller that Steven Soderbergh directed for HBO Max.

    The actor will next feature in “The Whale”, being directed by critically-acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky.