Air America beta radio has mentioned last friday an unauthorized documentary about Leonardo DiCaprio’s life.You’re probably wondering, “What is this, the 90s?” In a way, yes. All of the footage featured in “Hangin’ With Leo” looks like it’s from the late 1990s, when DiCaprio was riding the wave of “Titanic” ending up on “The Beach.” If you would like [...]
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Leonardo DiCaprio may film scenes for ‘J. Edgar’ in Virginia this spring
Posted By Marcie on February 25th, 2011
We’ve been heard rumblings about a possible company move for J. Edgar from Los Angeles to Virginia in March before the film wraps, and now it looks like we might have confirmation (sort of).
Thought nothing’s official, today the Fauquier Times-Democrat in Warrenton, VA posted the following on their Facebook page:
In early April, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Clint Eastwood will do a week long shoot at a home near The Plains for a biopic on J. Edgar Hoover. DiCaprio plays Hoover. The home, just south of town, will be used for scenes of the Lindbergh baby abduction. Eastwood comes to Warrenton in late March to film general district court for a scene on the verdict for the baby’s killer.
The Plains is a small town located about 20 miles north of Warrenton, which is about an hour west of Washington D.C.
Stay tuned, hopefully we’ll get more information before the shoot starts! This just might be worth an On Location Vacation to Virginia!
Source: On Location Vacation
DiCaprio Watch: Leo Finds the Next WWF Spokeswoman
Posted By Marcie on February 7th, 2011
When he’s not busy donating millions of dollars to help save endangered tigers, traveling around the world to advocate for tigers, or, oh, incidentally, starring in blockbuster and Oscar nominated films like Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio is out looking for the next big tiger activist. He’s also spending a lot of time on Twitter. And via Twitter, we’ve found out that DiCaprio has identified the next potential spokeswoman for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)…in the form of a first-grade girl.
DiCaprio came across Bella’s first-grade video project, a video about the importance of saving the tigers, on YouTube. We can only hope that Leo was having a lonely evening and found himself surfing YouTube for videos of “always funny” viral gags when this happened. You can see the video after the jump, and it is, indeed, adorable.
Source: Tiny Green Bubble
Leonardo DiCaprio New Kissing Scenes In J. Edgar
Posted By Marcie on February 7th, 2011
Armie Hammer isn’t nervous about kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in new movie ‘J. Edgar’. The actor will play Clyde Tolson, an associate and rumored gay lover of Leonardo’s character, FBI director John Edgar Hoover, in the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic, but says he isn’t worried about the scenes because he knows they’re important to the film.
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He told E! Online: “It’s not a kissing scene. It’s a ton of kissing scenes. I actually just met him for the first time Saturday at the DGA Awards. He’s a talented actor. I’m not nervous or afraid of it being awkward. The script is great. The scenes are in there for a reason.”
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As well as Armie and Leonardo, Naomi Watts will star as Hoover’s secretary of 54 years Helen Gandy, who after his death destroyed his personal file containing incriminating material that he used to control powerful political figures.
Dame Judi Dench is set to star as Hoover’s mother, while ‘Gossip Girl’ star Ed Westwick is also part of the cast.
The film is set to be released at the end of 2012.
Source: National Ledger
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Armie Hammer’s “Excited” For “A Ton of Kissing Scenes” With Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted By Marcie on February 1st, 2011
Where can a movie as big as The Social Network lead an actor like Armie Hammer next? Puckering up with Leonardo DiCaprio!
Armie is preparing to star alongside Leo in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar biopic, a film which has him kissing the Inception star!
“It’s not a kissing scene — it’s a ton of kissing scenes,” Armie revealed to E! News at the SAG Awards.
“I’m so excited to work with Clint, and from what I hear, he’s not the type of director who has a ton of rehearsals and takes,” he added. “I think we’re just sort of thrown in there and have to make it happen.”
But he has met with Leo and discussed the upcoming smooches!
“I actually just met [Leo] for the first time Saturday at the DGA Awards. Sure, we talked business,” he said with a laugh. “He’s a talented actor. I’m not nervous or afraid of it being awkward. The script is great. The scenes are in there for a reason. I’m really excited.”
“Yeah, you hear that, Leo?” he added. “Pucker up!”
And looks like this may be a pic of Armie meeting Leo at the DGA Awards!
Source: OK
Romeo and Juliet Blu-Ray
Posted By Marcie on January 17th, 2011
William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet Blu-ray Disc
New High Definition Transfer supervised by Director Baz Luhrmann
Shaking Up Shakespeare Picture-in-Picture Mode with Audio Commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald M. McAlpine and Craig Pearce and featuring Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Stills
Uncut Footage from the Bazmark Vault
Romeo + Juliet: The Music Documentary
Filmmaker and Interview Galleries
BD-LIVE**: Live Lookup™ powered by IMDb®
Hammer And DiCaprio Will Wear Old-Age Makeup For Hoover
Posted By Marcie on January 9th, 2011
Armie Hammer is the cast member of The Social Network with perhaps the least famous name, but he’s experienced the same surge of career choices as all the other actors, and is getting ready to star in Clint Eastwood’s biopic Hoover alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. We already know many of the exciting details about the movie, which stars DiCaprio as former FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Hammer as his longtime assistant and romantic partner Clyde Tolson. Judi Dench is also on board to play Hoover’s mother, a casting move Hammer described to Vulture as “really perfect.”
And while they had him, Vulture also asked about how he’ll handle the scope of the film, which meets Toulson and Hoover as young men but follows them through to their 70s in flash-forwards. Instead of bringing in older actors, Hoover and DiCaprio will be handling the full life cycle:
“I’m playing Toulson up to his elderly age! Makeup stuff comes within the next couple weeks. We’re definitely doing a lot of wardrobe stuff right now, but the makeup stuff we haven’t done yet.”
Old age makeup is a huge gamble, of course– one bad prosthetic and you’ve ruined the effect entirely– but you’ve got to at least see it as a good omen that Hammer previously worked with David Fincher, who pioneered new aging techniques in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Yeah, sure, that’s a bit of a stretch, but with everything else about Hoover looking so promising, it seems silly to focus on the one thing that might be tough to pull off. Hoover starts shooting within the next few weeks, and given Eastwood’s famously fast production schedule, this sucker has “fall 2011 Oscar season” written all over it.
Source; CinemaBlend
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Big Year
Posted By Marcie on December 23rd, 2010
Today we published our list of Hollywood’s Highest-Grossing Actors. The list shows which actors’ films brought in the most at the global box office in 2010.
Topping our list is Leonardo DiCaprio. Between Incpetion and Shutter Island, his films grossed a whopping $1.1 billion at the box office this year. And neither of those movies was in 3-D which can command as much as $3.50 more per ticket.
That’s quite an achievement for any actor but especially for DiCaprio. The young actor has a habit of picking very adult films like Blood Diamond and Revolutionary Road. These aren’t the kind of superhero/comic book films that usually top the box office. Often they are complicated and dark and DiCaprio usually plays characters who inhabit the gray world between good and evil.
His choices have often led to box office disappointments. 2008’s Body of Lies cost an estimated $70 million to produce and earned back just $115 million at the box office (normally a film needs to earn a multiple of its production cost before it makes a profit). Even movies that did well at the box office, like The Aviator which earned $215 million, didn’t end up ranking in the top 15 films of that year.
This year Shutter Island ranked 15th with $295 million. Inception ranked third with $825 million. Both were just as complicated and dark as any films DiCaprio has ever made.
Those films have DiCaprio well on his way to becoming one of Hollywood’s best-paid actors. DiCaprio cut his $20 million upfront payday to appear in Inception and in return he got to split a pot of first dollar gross points with director Christopher Nolan. Considering Inception’s box office strength, DiCaprio could easily earn as much as $75 million from that one film alone.
So of course, everyone in Hollywood is watching to see what DiCaprio will do next. He’s slated to star as J.Edgar Hoover in a film about the famous FBI director being helmed by Clint Eastwood. The movie reportedly focuses on Hoover’s alleged homosexuality and cross dressing. Sounds like a tough sell but these days, it seems like DiCaprio can make just about anything work.
For a full list of this year’s highest-Grossing Actors click here.
Below is a pretty funny parody of Inception called Inebriation.
Source: forbes.com
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Next Love Interest? This Guy!
Posted By Marcie on December 8th, 2010
Some guys have all the luck.
Armie Hammer, who suited up as both Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, has been cast as J. Edgar Hoover’s protégé and rumored love interest in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming biopic, J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the hard-charging FBI boss, E! News confirmed Wednesday.
And yes, there will be some kissing.
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Hammer, 24, plays Clyde Tolson, who was associate director of the FBI under Hoover—and is now buried near him in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Tolson died in 1975, three years after Hoover, whose ambiguous sexuality remains a subject of conversation to this day, 75 years after he became the founding director of the FBI.
And for everyone who’s more interested in Hoover’s life behind the desk than his life between the sheets, we hear that J. Edgar isn’t going to be riddled with guy-on-guy action.
“There is just smooching, no bedroom scenes,” a source says.
Source: E
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WRITER FOUND!!!
Posted By Taly on November 2nd, 2010
One of the greatest television series of all time, The Twilight Zone, is returning to the big screen. Thanks to Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. There really hasn’t been much news regarding the plot line of this film, just that some of the original stories from the 1950 series will be used in the film.
Deadline reports that up and coming film writer Jason Rothenberg has been chosen to take on this awesome task. Currently Jason is writing The Forbin Project. A Universal Pictures film being directed by Ron Howard, starring Will Smith. A retelling of the 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project. Sounds like Jason has a lot on his plate.
The Twilight Zone is still one of my favorite shows and I can’t wait for Thanksgiving to watch the yearly TZ marathon. Let us know what you think about this latest news and what episodes you would like to see redone and brought to the big screen.
McMurphy Out!
“Twilight Zone” Gets A Cinematic Reboot
Posted By Taly on November 2nd, 2010
Jason Rothenberg (“Body Politic”) has been hired to pen a script for a feature film reboot of Rod Serling’s classic TV series “The Twilight Zone” at Warner Bros. Pictures reports Deadline.
The original anthology series ran from 1959 to 1964 and told numerous stand alone stories featuring elements of serious science fiction, horror, suspense and fantasy. Some episodes featured adaptations of classic novels and short stories, while others were penned by genre writing greats like Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison.
The franchise was successful enough that it was revived as a series twice, once as a syndicated seres in the 80′s and once briefly as a series on UPN in 2002. Spin-offs including magazines, comics and a radio series have run for over five decades.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way will produce this new feature which is speculated to likely resemble the previous film adaptation in 1983 which combined four separate 20-25 minute segments, each helmed by different directors (Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante) and all of which were either direct remakes or variations on previous episodes of the series.
A 2012 release is planned for the project. Rothenberg is also penning the script for a remake of “Colossus: The Forbin Project” which Ron Howard will direct and Will Smith is tipped to star in.
