Jeff Sneider mentioned that he had a major scoop he was going to reveal later today and he didn’t disappoint.

Does it get better than Leonardo DiCaprio signing onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie? Now, that’s a scoop. I’ll try to get more details from Sneider in the coming hour … For the time being nothing is official, but Sneider says it’s almost a done deal.

This is said to be the mysterious project that we reported on a few weeks ago. A new movie from PTA with no plot details nor a cast to its name. What we do know is that production will take place this summer in and around Los Angeles — PTA has shot most of his films and set them in California.

DiCaprio deciding to collaborate with PTA makes sense since all the actor has been doing for the last twenty years is make movies exclusively and only with A-list filmmakers.

It was in 2015 that we first reported on Martin Scorsese’s efforts to adapt Erik Larson’s The Devil In The White Citywith Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of serial killer H.H. Holmes. Now, that long-gestating project—it’s been in development since 2003; Tom Cruise and Kathryn Bigelow have both been attached at various points—has resurfaced, with Variety reportingthat Scorsese and DiCaprio are now developing it as a series at Hulu.

A story of innovation, architecture, and murder, The Devil In The White Citysets the cruel ingenuity of Holmes, who’s believed to have murdered more than 200 people in his “Murder Castle,” against the life of architect Daniel H. Burnham, who staged Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair. It’s unclear at this point whether DiCaprio will still star in the project, or if Scorsese is still directing. Regardless, they’re both serving as executive producers in partnership with Paramount Television.

If it happens, the project would mark Leo and Marty’s sixth collaboration after Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and The Wolf Of Wall Street. It would also be a huge score for Hulu, which is doing everything in its power to beef up its original streaming library in advance of Disney+ and the rest of the industry’s burgeoning streamers.

As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo DiCaprio could play Steve Jobs for director Danny Boyle in Aaron Sorkin’s untitled movie about the Apple Computer co-founder. David Fincher was previously attached to direct the film, albeit in the loosest of terms, with rumors that he wanted Christian Bale to play Jobs.

Whether this ever happens with DiCaprio is, of course, up for great debate. Since saying in December of 2013 that he was ready to take a “long break” after filming “The Great Gatsby,” “Django Unchained” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” in succession, DiCaprio has found himself attached to no fewer five projects. In the last 13 months, he’s been associated with nine films. Ahead a brief rundown of DiCaprio’s ever-growing docket, as told by the Hollywood trades.

Source: HP

Now another project is gathering heat. “The Creed of Violence, a western-flavored script based on the 2010 novel from cult author Boston Teran, has attracted the attention of Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s eager to play one of the lead roles, according to a person who was briefed on the actor’s plans but could not talk about it publicly because he was not authorized to speak for DiCaprio. DiCaprio has been offered a lead part but has not decided whether he will accept it yet, a source said.

The movie has been in development with “In the Bedroom” director Todd Field for several years; like “Cowboys & Aliens,” the film is set up at Universal. A studio spokeswoman did not immediately have a comment on DiCaprio’s interest. A DiCaprio spokesman declined to comment.

“Creed” tells the 1910-era story of a criminal named Rawbone who tries to take a cache of weapons into Mexico as part of the country’s revolution but is caught and then accompanied by a government agent who, it turns out, shares a secret past with him.

DiCaprio could play either of the two characters, said the source. If he plays the government agent, it would continue a recent pattern of law-enforcement roles in movies ranging from “Shutter Island” to the upcoming historical biopic “Hoover.” If he plays the bad guy, it could mark the second time he’s going back to a harsh period of American history to do so: He looks to come aboard as the villain in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.”

Source: LA Times

News has been slow on Leo, but lately I’ve been adding some of the news source I find on our facebook page. So if your looking for the latest go there. I did add scans thanks to Mag for the VIP scans. There’s not too much going on with Leo, its kinda been a weird year he’s usually a lot more active than this but will just wait and see.

Director Clint Eastwood is trying to persuade actor Leonardo DiCaprio to join singer Beyonce Knowles in the remake of “A Star Is Born”.

The “Inception” star is currently working with Clint Eastwood on the biopic “J. Edgar” but the Oscar winning director is hoping to persuade Dicaprio to appear opposite Beyonce in the movie which talks about an aspiring singer who falls for an older rock star, deadline.com reports.

Will Fetters wrote the script for the new Warner Brothers version of “A Star Is Born” while Bill Gerber, Jon Peters and Basil Iwanyk are set to produce the movie.

This will be the fourth remake of the movie, with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson starring in the most recent version in 1976, Judy Garland and James Mason played the lovers in 1954 while the original featured Janet Gaynor and Frederic March in 1937.

Source: timesofindia