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 [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Premiere’s Power List
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
23. LEONARDO DICAPRIO
TITLE: Eco-Star
RANK LAST YEAR: 28
CAREER DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $1.3 billion
CAREER WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $3.4 billion
STATUS REPORT: He’s grown from Titanic teen idol to Martin Scorsese’s favorite lead to what in Hollywood is thought of as the real deal: a total pro with acting chops, good taste, and global recognition. He followed a dazzling star turn in Scorsese’s The Departed with the socially conscious Blood Diamond, in which he sported a South African accent and for which he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination. In August, his eco-documentary The 11th Hour opened — it was produced, cowritten, and narrated by DiCaprio.
NEXT: Reteamed with Titanic costar Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road, a ’50s domestic-strife drama directed by Sam Mendes and out in 2008. Now shooting Ridley Scott’s chasing–Al Qaeda thriller, Body of Lies.
Source: Premiere
More Body of Lies on Set pics
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
You can view pics from the set
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Body of Lies On Set pics
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
You can view pics from the set
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Charlie Rose- The Aviator
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
Source: charlierose.com
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The Hoops Star, the Movie Star and the Size 22 Feet
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
But after takeoff, this fellow made a remark about the Lakers game scheduled for that night. I told him I was on my way to the game. He gave me a look as if to say he already knew that. He then started talking about the N.B.A.’s history and some highlights of my own career. I told him he seemed to know a lot about basketball for a young guy.
All I could think was how familiar he looked. In fact, he was spitting image of the guy who played the lead in a movie I watched a few nights before with my youngest daughter. Finally, it hit me: That’s Leonardo da Vinci. No, wait, I mean DiCaprio.
Here I am, a pretty recognizable figure in my own right, getting star-struck at meeting this young movie star. I told him I’m a fan but I couldn’t remember the name of the movie I’d just seen. So he had me describe the plot. I told him he was robbing banks and flying planes.
“‘Catch Me If You Can,’” he shouts, like we’re having a game of charades.
When I got off the plane, I immediately called my wife to tell her who I’d just met. The next thing I know, Mr. DiCaprio pops up next to me, takes the phone and talks to my wife for nearly 10 minutes.
After that flight, I turned into a bigger fan, not only of this young man’s work but also of his personal character. And now, whenever I’m feeling a little rushed, I remember how he took the time to talk to me and to my wife.
So if we’re on a flight together and you recognize me, go ahead and ask about my feet. Maybe we’ll wind up talking about basketball. Or movies.
For the full story go here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/business/18flier.html?_r=1&ex=1198558800&en=577180466f7341fb&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Source: NY TImes.com
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Leonardo Body of Lies Doll
Posted By Marcie on December 31st, 2007
Here is a doll of Leo.
Here is the full url: http://testicular-fortitude.blogspot.com/2007/11/kitbash-leonardo-dicaprio.html
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Scorsese and DiCaprio Team Up for Shutter Island
Posted By Marcie on December 22nd, 2007
Martin Scorsese has somehow convinced Leonardo DiCaprio to stop saving the world and dating supermodels just long enough for the duo, who last worked together on the mega successful “The Departed”, to work together again on “Shutter Island”, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, off a script by Laeta Kalogridis. Variety reports that the whole picture has come together very fast, and is being fast-tracked for a March 2008 start date. Paramount will supervise production and distribute domestically while Columbia is looking to distribute internationally.
Drama is set in 1954, with DiCaprio in final talks to play U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Scouting will begin shortly on the film, which most likely will shoot in Massachusetts, Connecticut or Nova Scotia.
Lehane’s novel “Mystic River” was turned into a film by Clint Eastwood, and his “Gone Baby Gone” is the basis for the Ben Affleck-directed drama that opened this past weekend.
With this deal in place and both director and actor signing up, there’s no word on what will happen to “The Wolf of Wall Street”, the other project the duo were contemplating.
Source: http://www.beyondhollywood.com
Oscar Isaac
Posted By Marcie on December 18th, 2007
ANDELMAN: What it is you are working on now? You made reference.
ISAAC: It’s a film called Body of Lies. It’s Ridley Scott’s next film. It’s with Leo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
ANDELMAN: Wow.
ISAAC: Yeah. Great film.
ANDELMAN: That’s definitely big-time stuff.
ISAAC: It’s good. It’s very exciting. We’re shooting in Morocco.
ANDELMAN: What is your role in that?
ISAAC: I play the partner to Leo’s character. We start off the movie together. I get to do some car chases, and it’s a very explosive character.
ANDELMAN: I have to ask, I didn’t know you were doing this, what’s it like working with Leonardo DiCaprio?
ISAAC: It’s great. You know, you never know when you are going into one of these situations. You are like, “I hope they’re not jerks,” or whatever, but he’s a really nice, really funny guy. We were joking around right off the bat and already starting to improvise and doing different things, and he’s a really good, solid actor. He’s a great actor and seems like a really great guy.
ANDELMAN: A guy like that’s been around a while now. Is he a little, at first when you come on the set with someone like that, he doesn’t know you, you don’t know him I’m assuming until you meet on the set. Is he a little standoffish at first?
ISAAC: You know what? No. I think that’s what was the most shocking. That’s what I would assume, but no, he was actually incredibly humble, he was really warm, seemingly excited to meet me. I was honestly taken aback with the whole thing. I kind of felt bad for even expecting otherwise. He’s a really good guy.
ANDELMAN: And what about Ridley Scott? How is he to work with?
ISAAC: To see an auteur at the top of his game and still completely passionate about it, excited about it, and also, he’s very much about the best idea wins, so strangely, again, there’s this seeming lack of ego. He’s sure, he knows what he wants. It’s a well-oiled machine. At one point, the sun was going down and people are running around with their heads cut off. There was like a whole group of hundreds of people at barricades trying to catch a glimpse of Leo, and Leo is frustrated about one thing or something else, and I mean, things are kind of going crazy. The light’s going, and I see Ridley standing in the middle of it all, looking at it, and he looks over at me, and I wink at him, and he walks over, and he’s like, “This is where I shot Black Hawk Down. Oh man, it was awesome!” I was like, “So you like this, eh? It’s like anarchy.” He’s like, “Oh yeah, I love it.”
ANDELMAN: You’ve completed another film, Guerrilla.
ISAAC: Yeah. That’s the Soderburgh film that I shot about Che Guevara, with Benicio del Toro.
ANDELMAN: What is your role in that?
ISAAC: It’s two films, and I’m in the second film. I play Che Guevara’s translator when he comes to the United Nations. The film is in Spanish, except that this section is in English where I translate all the things he says and when he goes on “Meet the Press.” He had this actually son of a diplomat who wasn’t a professional translator translating for him. It’s kind of funny, because he listened to the tape, he watched the tape, and you can tell he got a little bit lost, which is good, because I was a little bit lost myself.
ANDELMAN: What would you like to do in the future? It wouldn’t be hard to see you jumping into a buddy caper, like a Rush Hour, but you seem to be heading into kind of more serious, from what we were just talking about, more serious roles.
ISAAC: I like the idea of doing “serious roles” but finding the humor and the humanity and the every man in that. I don’t necessarily see myself doing a broad comedy or action films necessarily. I want to do things that have something to say, whether it be political or whether it be about the human condition, but something that has something to say, like those films from the 1970s. You felt that they were made for a reason, not just to satisfy some sort of budgetary need or something.
Source: http://www.mrmedia.com
DiCaprio and Clooney Head ‘North’
Posted By Marcie on December 17th, 2007
Variety is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in a feature film adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play “Farragut North” with George Clooney possibly signing on to direct.
Willimon is adapting the script himself, which centers on a young communications director for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rivals.
The play itself is yet to debut, but has also drawn big names as Mike Nichols is reportedly in line to direct Jake Gyllenhaal in what would be Jake’s Broadway debut.
DiCaprio just finished starring with Kate Winslet in the Sam Mendes-directed Revolutionary Road for DreamWorks, and he’s currently at work starring with Russell Crowe in the Ridley Scott-directed Body of Lies for WB.
Source: Rope of Silicon
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