Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions has signed a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures, it was announced Wednesday by DiCaprio and Paramount CEO Brad Grey.

DiCaprio’s company, which previously had a deal at Warner Bros., currently has four projects in development at Paramount: The Devil in the White City, based on the book by Erik Larson about a serial killer in 1890s Chicago, which is being adapted by screenwriter Billy Ray and will reunite DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese; Sandcastle Empire, an adaptation of Kayla Olson’s novel about an apocalyptic future in which the climate is collapsing; an untitled project about the recent Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal based on a book proposal by The New York Times‘ Jack Ewing; and a limited TV series based on A. Scott Berg’s biography of Charles Lindbergh.

Appian Way’s upcoming films include Ben Affleck’s period crime tale Live by Night, starring Affleck and Scott Eastwood, which Warners will release in 2017, and Robin Hood: Origins, starring Taron Egerton, which Lionsgate will release in 2017.

The film and production company was launched by DiCaprio with its first production, 2004’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon, followed closely by The Aviator. Jennifer Davisson serves as its president of production. Other projects in its pipeline include Jaume Collet Serra’s adaptation of the Japanese anime science-fiction Akira, written by Dante Harper; Joseph Kosinski’s film adaptation of The Twilight Zone; and an untitled Richard Jewell project starring Jonah Hill.

Appian Way has been involved in producing such films as the recent Oscar winner The Revenant,The Wolf of Wall Street (which was released by Paramount), Out of the Furnace, Ides of March,Shutter Island (another Paramount release) and Public Enemies.

“Leo is one of the great talents of our time,” Grey said in announcing the deal. “He is a masterful actor, storyteller and producer, with impeccable taste and skill that has shaped his extraordinary career. Our first project together was The Departed, before I came to Paramount. Since then, working with the legendary Martin Scorsese, we have partnered on two wonderful pictures, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street. We are proud and excited to grow our relationship with him, [his manager] Rick Yorn, Jennifer Davisson and the entire team at Appian Way.”

DiCaprio commented, “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Brad and the team at Paramount Pictures on a number projects throughout my career. I can not think of a better home for Appian Way as we continue our growth.”

Leonardo DiCaprio‘s passion for climate change is out of this world.

The actor visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Saturday where he met with former astronaut Piers Sellers, who serves as the current deputy director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate.

“They discussed NASA missions studying changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, water and land masses for a climate change documentary DiCaprio has in production,” NASA Goddard shared on Facebook.

DiCaprio, 41, has been working on a climate change documentary, having traveled to Baffin Island in the Arctic last summer. In 2007, he created, produced, co-written and narrated The 11th Hour, a documentary that gave viewers a look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.

WHEN you enter the name ‘Leonardo’ into a Google search-bar, legendary multi-disciplined genius Leonardo da Vinci is the third suggested result.

The first and second suggestions belong to the man who sits comfortably at the top of the Hollywood A-list — Leonardo ‘Leo’ DiCaprio.

This year, the baby-faced powerhouse is finally won an Oscar statuette — an award some believe teenage Leo should have picked up twenty-three years ago for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

Whether you long to live it up with Leo on a Cannes-docked yacht or you’d rather watch an Adam Sandler film than another DiCaprio-lead spectacle, it cannot be denied that the most famous Leo on earth has put in more than the hard yards.

Here are the six stages of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting career.

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Leonardo DiCaprio wears his baseball cap super low while being escorted out of Up&Down nightclub by a bodyguard with a jacket over him on Saturday night (April 23) in New York City.

The 41-year-old Oscar-winning actor had a bunch of red writing on his right hand and it’s hard to tell exactly what it says

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During a press conference for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar-winning film “The Revenant” in Tokyo, the iconic actor and prominent environmentalist stressed the importance of having a president who listens to reason and takes climate change seriously.

DiCaprio attacked current Republican front-runner Donald Trump and other Republican candidates currently in the race for president for their open denial of climate change, saying that someone who “does not believe in modern science” should not be leading the United States.

“Climate change is one of the most concerning issues facing all humanity and the United States needs to do its part,” the 41-year-old actor said.

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Leonardo DiCaprio has been threatened with deportation by officials from the Indonesian government after the actor’s recent visit to the Leuser Ecosystem and his vocal stance against the area’s industrial development for palm oil, according to several Indonesian publications.

DiCaprio has been reportedly accused of running a “black campaign” to discredit the country’s palm oil industry, as local English websites Coconuts Jakarta andTempo reported via Indonesian news outlets.

“If there are statements that discredit the government and the interests of Indonesia, he could be deported,” Director General of Immigration Ronny F. Sompie is quoted as saying in Jakarta today.

Since DiCaprio is on a tourist visa, if it can be proven that he’s “creating public disturbances and harming the state’s interest, the Immigration is ready to deport him,” Ronny warned, adding that his department will be monitoring DiCaprio’s activities in Indonesia.

According to Ronny, “the department has the authority to deport foreigners that violate their visa terms as stipulated in Law No. 6/2011 on Immigration.”

Incidentally, DiCaprio’s team confirmed to EcoWatch that he has already left the country, meaning any deportation threats would not apply.

DiCaprio and fellow actors Adrien Brody and Fisher Stevens toured Mount Leuser National Park on Sunday where they stopped by the park’s research facility. The Oscar winner and prominent environmental activist posted photos of his visit on social media and warned in his posts that the expansion of palm oil plantations in Leuser are a major threat to Sumatra’s iconic wildlife species. As DiCaprio noted, the rainforest is the last place on Earth where Sumatran orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild.

Today, he posted a new Instagram photo of himself with a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan.

“If we don’t stop this rampant destruction, the Leuser Ecosystem and the Sumatran orangutans that call it home could be lost forever,” the caption says.

On his Twitter account, The Revenant star voiced his support of the Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh (HAkA), a Sumatra-based NGO that works to protect and restore the priceless ecosystem as well as a link to a Change.org petition that urges Indonesian President Joko Widodo to cancel the Aceh provincial government’s Spatial Land Use Plan, “which would open Leuser’s forests up to clearing for logs, mining and oil palm,” Mongabay reported.

According to Tempo, Asmar Arsyad, an Aceh-based palm oil businessman, has responded to DiCaprio’s messages.

“He should be campaigning for environmental conservation in the Amazon jungle that is being depleted by soy oil plantations,” Asmar said.

Firman Subagyo, House of Representatives’ (DPR) Energy Commission, also reportedly accused DiCaprio of scrutinizing the industry.

“His goal is clear. He will definitely take a shot at oil palm plantations, and wrap it with environmental issues,” he said, adding that DiCaprio’s visit was facilitated by environmental NGOs.

“I’m urging the BIN [State Intelligence Agency] chief and the Police chief to take firm action against those groups. I’m also asking the Immigration to deport Leonardo if he is proven to be black-campaigning out oil palm industry,” he added

As EcoWatch mentioned previously, DiCaprio’s support of Leuser coincides with his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, where he announced his philanthropic foundation’s $15 million commitment to environmental projects, including one that protects the Leuser Ecosystem from what DiCaprio described as the “invasive and destructive practices” of the palm oil industry.

The iconic Leuser Ecosystem, located in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, consists of 6.5 million acres of tropical lowland rainforests, mountains and peatlands.

Leuser is not only a biodiversity hotspot, it provides more than 4 million people with water, clean air and disaster mitigation. The ecosystem is also critical in helping to regulate the Earth’s climate by absorbing and storing carbon in its lowland rainforests and peatlands.

Local Aceh citizens have filed a class action lawsuit to protect the Leuser Ecosystem. Learn more about the movement to protect Leuser here: