Tuesday, February 9

• Leonardo DiCaprio Says Inception Makes No Sense

  Leonardo DiCaprio's upcoming thriller Shutter Island looks like a strange movie, but even DiCaprio knows that when it comes to puzzling flicks, Inception beats all. Neither trailer so far has been able to shed light on director Christopher Nolan's "architecture of the mind" movie. In an interview with Inquirer, DiCaprio admitted that the movie's complex storyline was confusing even to the cast and crew.

  I don't know what I'm allowed to say about Inception. I don't even know what I'm allowed to say about Shutter Island, to be quite honest. Both Chris and Martin [Scorses, director of Shutter Island] are great directors. The material and its complexity are what I'm attracted to. I'm not happy if I don't have a lot to do. I've been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously. Shutter Island is definitely that. Inception is the same. It is Chris delving into dream psychoanalysis and, at the same time, making a high-octane, surreal film that came from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him. It didn't make sense to many of us when we were doing it. We had to do a lot of detective work (laughing) to figure out what the movie was about.

  At least the cast isn't a mystery. DiCaprio plays Jacob, while Marion Cotillard plays his wife. Ellen Page plays Ariadne, a grad student and DiCaprio's sidekick, Michael Caine plays a science professor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays DiCaprio's associate, and Ken Watanabe plays Saito, the villain of the movie.

  Inception opens July 16, while Shutter Island releases February 19.

  
  
  

  Inception - Trailer

  Second trailer for this mind bending thriller
  

  Shutter Island - Trailer

  Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo Star

  Posted 02/09/2010 by Ryan

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Inception | Shutter Island

Sunday, February 7

• Super Bowl XLIV Trailers Report #3 - Shutter Island Spot

  Indianapolis cannot be stopped! They make a 96 yard drive for a second score. They've put up 10 points now in the first quarter!

  And we've now got the Shutter Island spot for you're viewing pleasure. It's a mysterious little ditty with Leonardo DiCaprio that is much too hard to explain, so take a look at the trailer and see if YOU can figure it out.

  
  

  Posted 02/07/2010 by Jim

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Shutter Island

Friday, February 5

• Ben Kingsley Finds Surprising Tenderness Amid Shutter Island's Terrors

  At a group press conference promoting Shutter Island, Ben Kingsley noted something unexpected emerged during the making of the movie — affection.

  It's not the sort of description you would expect based on the movie's trailer, or even more from the Superbowl spot. In those previews, the nightmarish suspense surrounding a woman's disappearance from a, frankly gothic, asylum overwhelms everything else. But, Kingsley insists, there is more here than meets the eye.

  And what you perhaps don't see on the page, and even when we were reading it together in the hotel room, Leo [DiCaprio] and I and Mark [Ruffalo], what did emerge was an extraordinary level of tenderness between the characters that actually even though it's — as Leo pointed out — it looks, if you see the trailer, like a thriller — the glue that holds it together is varying levels of tenderness, uh, for your wife, for your child, for your patient, for your friend. Uh, and that is an ingredient that you can't rehearse, you can't anticipate, is always surprising, and can only be brought to film by the director. So our great journey was making something out of nothing, and on the way discovering, tenderness.

  Director Martin Scorsese concurs, suggesting that this is the case even for the doctors, who don't exactly come off that way in the trailer, to say the least.

  I guess — I think one of the key elements here is that if you care about the person, and I think what Sir Ben said is really right in the sense that one of the things that I was so surprised about to discover ultimately — I knew it but I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't verbalize it — is the love or the caring, the tenderness that he has for the patients. And they all do. And the relationship between the patient and the doctor. And at times stern, at times you don't know what he's thinking, where he's going — why he's saying certain things, why he's behaving a certain way. Is he really telling the truth or not. You don't know. But ultimately underlying all of this is this very strong relationship of believing in this therapy…

  None of this is, of course, to deny that the movie is in fact the thriller it has been billed as. There is clearly a hidden, and likely malign, agenda at work on the island that is driving investigators into some pretty strange territory on the border of drug-induced madness. But, taking Kingsley at his word, there is something else to look for in it as well.

  
  

  Posted 02/05/2010 by Bill

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Mark Ruffalo | Ben Kingsley | Shutter Island

Wednesday, February 3

• Super Bowl Spot and Behind-the-Scenes Footage from Shutter Island

  Unsettling images are on parade in the new TV spot for Martin Scorsese's retro-noir thriller Shutter Island. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as a pair of U.S. Marshals sent to investigate the disappearance of a woman at an Alcatraz-like asylum for the criminally insane.

  The 30-second commercial, which is scheduled to air during the Super Bowl this weekend, opens with DiCaprio being welcomed to the island but, from the look of things, that's pretty much the last vestige of comfort he is likely to get. After that, it's all nightmarish staccato flashes of half-glimpsed terrors and a doctor's voice ominously intoning, "Men of violence are my specialty."

  Of course, men of violence have long been Scorsese's specialty as well. But the build up is as important as the delivery, and in a couple of recently released behind-the-scenes videos we can see the legendary director at work on some of the relatively quieter early scenes in Shutter Island, before events have gotten too terribly disturbing.

  
  

  Posted 02/03/2010 by Bill

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Mark Ruffalo | Shutter Island

Thursday, January 21

• More Actors and Musicians Join Hope for Haiti Now

  

  The list of celebrities scheduled for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief continues to grow. Recent additions to the actors there to present include Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Nicole Kidman. Today, MTV announced that President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, and Muhammad Ali have also signed on.

  Additionally, Madonna will perform live from New York and Haitian artist Emeline Michel in Los Angeles. They join a lineup of musical performers that includes Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.

  Proceeds from the George Clooney–organized telethon will be split evenly between The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, United Nations World Food Programme, Oxfam America, Partners in Health, The Red Cross, UNICEF, and the Yele Haiti Foundation.

  The Hope for Haiti Now telethon airs Friday at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT on ReelzChannel, followed by an encore showing at 11 PM ET / 8 PM PT. Get details about the telethon and our special editions of Hollywood Dailies.

  
  

  Posted 01/21/2010 by reelz

  Related: Hollywood Dailies | Hope for Haiti Now | Brad Pitt | Dave Matthews | Denzel Washington | George Clooney | Halle Berry | Julia Roberts | Meryl Streep | Tom Hanks | Bruce Springsteen | Mary J. Blige | Will Smith | Nicole Kidman | Leonardo DiCaprio | Alicia Keys | Sheryl Crow | Justin Timberlake | Wyclef Jean | Muhammad Ali | Beyonce Knowles | Robert Pattinson | Jennifer Hudson | Madonna | Bill Clinton | The Edge | Christina Aguilera | Stevie Wonder | John Legend | Taylor Swift | Keith Urban | Coldplay | Bono | Jay-Z | Sting

Monday, January 18

• Mel Gibson Talks Mad Max 4 and His Viking Movie

  Mel Gibson and his production company, Icon Entertainment, may be co-producing the upcoming Mad Max 4, but there's no word if Gibson will appear in the movie. Gibson spoke to Collider about the project, but didn't exactly clear up the confusion.

  I've talked to [director] George [Miller] [about Mad Max 4] ... yeah. We talk all the time anyway. I'm abreast of that. He's been trying to do this for years — the 4th installment. At one point I was involved and it fell to bits and then this and that ... so now it's probably gone through a lot of changes and I can't wait to see it cause everything he does is magic. There is a touch of genius about George.

  While it doesn't sound like Mel will play a role in the sequel, it doesn't exactly close the door either. While Gibson didn't speak about his next starring role in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, which is drawing protests in Mexico, he did open up about his next directorial project, which will be an untitled movie about Vikings written by The Departed screenwriter William Monahan (who also wrote Gibson's upcoming Edge of Darkness) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

  [Next,] I'm working with [producer] Graham [King] on the Viking movie. The very first idea I ever had about making a film ... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. It's just some kind of romantic pipe dream. But that was the first big, epic, wacky idea I ever had was to show Viking real.

  I think it's going to be [in] English — the English that would have been spoken back then — and Old Norse. Whatever the 9th century had to offer. I'm going to give you real.

  Going back to the original dialect will be a key for the movie, Gibson revealed.

  I want a Viking to scare you. I don't want a Viking to say, "I'm going to die with a sword in my hand." I don't want to hear that. It pulls the rug out from under you. I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living s**t out of me coming up to my house. What is that like? What would that have been like?

  
  

  Posted 01/18/2010 by Ryan

  Related: Mel Gibson | Leonardo DiCaprio | William Monahan | Graham King | Fury Road

Wednesday, December 23

• New Inception Trailer and Poster

  

  So far, nothing has made much sense about Christopher Nolan's thriller Inception, not the few revealed plot details, nor even the trailer. The latest poster is no help in that regard, showing only a cityscape. Considering that the movie is about the "architecture of the mind," does this mean that the entire city be inside the mind?

  It's doubtful that the latest trailer will answer these questions, either. Screening before Sherlock Holmes, several websites that saw the trailer at a recent press screening have done their best to interpret the images and voice-over from Leonardo DiCaprio, which sounds something like this:

  What's the most resilient form of parasite? An idea. An idea has the power to build a city ... to change the world, and re-write all the rules ... and that's why I need to steal it.

  A version of the trailer, dubbed only in French with no English subtitles, has been doing the rounds on the internet, even though Warner Brothers has been quick to shut it down wherever it lands. You can check it out here, though it may not last for long.

  
  
  Next Showing: Inception opens July 16, 2010
  

  Inception - Trailer

  Gravity defying trailer starring Leonardo DiCaprio

  Posted 12/23/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Inception

Friday, December 4

• Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Animated for The Guardians

  Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has played a wide variety of roles during his career, from a drug-addicted teenager in The Basketball Diaries to the visionary industrialist Howard Hughes in The Aviator. Now, the three-time Academy Award-nominated actor is preparing to add a completely different type of character to his impressive resume by starring in his first-ever animated feature.

  A recent DreamWorks press release has been announced that DiCaprio will lend his voice to the character of Jack Frost in The Guardians (working title), a feature-length animated film based on The Guardians of Childhood series of books by William Joyce. The DreamWorks release included a brief synopsis of the movie's plot.

  When an evil spirit called Pitch becomes bent upon taking over the world by inspiring fear in the hearts of kids everywhere, a group of our greatest heroes — Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and Jack Frost — band together for the first time, determined to stand in Pitch's way. More than a collection of storybook subjects, "The Guardians" are also a band of superheroes, who possess their own special powers. Now joined in opposition of a common foe, the Guardians heed the call and combine their powers to defeat Pitch and protect the world from his campaign of fear.

  The Guardians is being produced by Christina Steinberg and Nancy Bernstein, with Peter Ramsey directing. No other cast announcements have been made.

  While no official images accompanied the DreamWorks press release, the movie site SlashFilm has posted a "concept rendering" of DiCaprio's character.

  
  
  Next Showing: The Guardians is scheduled to be released November 2, 2012

  Posted 12/04/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Christina Steinberg

• Tom Hardy Fighting with Leonardo DiCaprio on the Inception Set

  Tom Hardy's career certainly isn't getting banged up, but the British actor sure is. Hardy talked to MTV from the set of Inception, Christopher Nolan's upcoming thriller that no one will discuss, where he admitted he often brawls in between takes with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

  He's a big MMA fan, so we've been kicking each other. Kicking and elbowing each other. He keeps bruising me. He gives me as good as he gets.

  Hardy's work in front of the camera doesn't sound much better considering the scene he was currently working on involved him "being plummeted through a floor." Before Inception, Hardy was working on the mixed martial arts drama Warrior, where he suffered a broken toe, torn ligaments, and cracked ribs. In comparison, Hardy seems quite happy sparring with DiCaprio.

  I was in shellshock because I'd been pretty badly beaten up on [Warrior]. It was like [Christopher Nolan] swept me up on this carpet of love and took me around the world.

  
  
  Next Showing: Inception opens July 16, 2010

  Posted 12/04/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Tom Hardy | Inception

Tuesday, October 27

• A Few Inception Details Sneak Out

  The mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's upcoming thriller Inception has been extremely hard to penetrate. Along with the earlier trailer revelation that it contains airborne hallway battles, there's the photographic "reveal" this weekend that the movie will feature a sharply dressed Leonardo DiCaprio sitting dangerously on a window sill.

  In addition, Nolan favorite Michael Caine has offered up a small tidbit about his role: "I play a professor who's teaching a guy science," Caine told Empire. "It's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's going off to do a science project and he speaks to me before he goes."

  Caine couldn't reveal more because he was only handed his one scene, but another Nolan regular, Cillian Murphy, has seen the entire script and still wouldn't reveal much about the movie to MTV.

  This is my third film with Chris. He showed me the whole script. It's very very complex and amazing. I'm hugely excited for next year when it comes out. It's conceptual. It doesn't fit into any genre. There are elements of different types of things in it but it is all from Chris' imagination. I've never read anything close to it before.

  There is one thing Nolan can't keep secret: Inception opens July 16, 2010.

  
  

  Posted 10/27/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Michael Caine | Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Cillian Murphy | Inception

Monday, October 5

• Second Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island

  Originally scheduled to have opened this past weekend, Martin Scorsese's gothic thriller Shutter Island has been delayed until February 19, 2010. Instead, the studio is offering us another trailer with new glimpses of the mysteries and horrors lurking inside this Alcatraz-like asylum for the criminally insane.

  Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play 1950's federal marshals sent to investigate the disappearance of an inmate who, the chief physician (Ben Kingsley) informs them, appears to have "evaporated, right through the walls." Once they arrive, they find themselves treated almost like patients themselves and nothing is as it seems. The nightmarish, apparently drug-induced, visions don't appear to be helping their investigation much either. Check it out below.

  
  

  Posted 10/05/2009 by Bill

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Mark Ruffalo | Ben Kingsley | Shutter Island

Tuesday, September 29

• Leonardo DiCaprio Joins The Deep Blue Goodbye

  Here's some shocking news: Leonardo DiCaprio is setting up a possible franchise for himself at Fox that has zero input from Martin Scorsese ... at least so far.

  Variety reports that DiCaprio is set to star in an adaptation of The Deep Blue Goodbye, where he will portray Floridian "salvage consultant" Travis McGee in the first of what was to become a 21-book series by the late mystery novelist John D. MacDonald. In the book, DiCaprio's character, who recovers lost or stolen items or money for clients, tracks down a psychotic murderer in possession of a soldier's treasure lost somewhere in the Florida Keys. No details were given on how Dana Steven has altered the story in her screenplay.

  No director is currently attached to The Deep Blue Goodbye, but with DiCaprio also serving as producer, it's expected that DiCaprio will find a suitable candidate. Considering his almost constant working relationship with Scorsese, could he be along for the ride? Their first joint effort on a thriller, Shutter Island, has been pushed back for a February 19, 2010, release, usually not a good sign. However, bringing on Scorsese might help DiCaprio seal himself into a franchise, though with his current schedule loaded with movies like Brave New World, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (with Scorsese), and about 24 others, who knows when DiCaprio will find the time to complete The Deep Blue Goodbye, much less 21 more crime movies.

  
  

  Posted 09/29/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Dana Stevens | Shutter Island | The Deep Blue Goodbye

Thursday, August 6

• Leonardo DiCaprio Journeys to a Brave New World

  

  Director Ridley Scott is highly regarded by fans of science fiction as a visionary thanks to his 1982 movie Blade Runner, an adaptation of the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. So Universal Pictures has high hopes that if anyone can faithfully translate the classic dystopian novel Brave New World into celluloid, it's Scott. Of course, having an A-list actor like Leonardo DiCaprio on board to star in the movie can't hurt.

  Writer Aldous Huxley's most famous work, Brave New World takes place in the bleak future of the 26th century, where society is rigidly stratified, families are outlawed, and human reproduction occurs only in factories. Rumors have circulated about Scott's involvement in a possible movie adaptation of the novel for a while now, but this is the first time that the noted director has been officially linked to the project. Scott and DiCaprio have set up shop at Universal and will co-produce via their respective production companies, Scott Free and Appian Way. The two have worked together as director and actor before, on Body of Lies, and are expected to reprise that dynamic on this movie, with DiCaprio likely playing Bernard, the central character in Huxley's novel.

  

  It's unclear at what phase of development Brave New World is in, but it's unlikely that it will get off of the ground anytime soon because of the plethora of projects Scott and DiCaprio are currently involved in. Scott is currently shooting Robin Hood and has as many as ten other features in various stages of development, while DiCaprio is currently filming Christopher Nolan's Inception and is attached to star in at least a dozen other movies, including at least two genre films: Aquaman, based on the DC Comics superhero, and Akira, a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Ôtomo's award-winning anime.

  
  

  Posted 08/06/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Ridley Scott | Robin Hood | Inception

Thursday, July 30

• Titanic to Set Sail in 3D?

  Empire caught up with Titanic mastermind James Cameron at Comic-Con and the talk inevitably turned to a 3D version of his epic disaster movie. When asked about the possibility, Cameron said:

  "We're going to do Titanic in 3-D! We've already done a 90 second clip of it and it's phenomenal and gorgeous, so that's going to be the project for next year. It's a conversion of it, not native photography; we can't go back."

  He also expressed interest in giving Terminator 2 the 3D treatment, saying it "could be fun because I think that's a film that stands the test of time for me." Is a bigger, better Titanic something you'd like to see? Or is Leonardo DiCaprio in 3D too much for anyone to sit through? We're sure Kate Winslet wouldn't get too many complaints...

  
  

  Posted 07/30/2009 by Jenny

  Related: James Cameron | Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Titanic

Monday, July 20

• Leonardo DiCaprio Hires Writer to Pen Twilight Zone Movie

  Variety is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio and his production company Appian Way have hired Rand Ravich to pen a new Twilight Zone movie. Ravich wrote the screenplay for The Astronaut's Wife and also created the NBC TV series Life.

  This would be the second cinematic adaptation of Rod Serling's classic TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1964 and included 156 episodes. The first movie came in 1983, with segments directed by Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante (Gremlins, Small Soldiers), and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller video).

  There's no official word yet on if DiCaprio will star in the film, or if the movie will draw material from the TV series.

  
  

  Posted 07/20/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Rod Serling | Leonardo DiCaprio | Rand Ravich

Wednesday, June 17

• Christopher Nolan May Not Return for Batman 3

  Christian Bale has already bemoaned that he is contractually obligated to return for Batman 3 whether Christopher Nolan is involved or not. While Nolan and writer David Goyer have been discussing possible story ideas for some time, Bale may be without the director that revitalized the Batman franchise with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

  According to a source speaking with Batman-on-Film, it took a lot of convincing to bring Nolan back for The Dark Knight, but after Heath Ledger's tragic death, it may be impossible to convince the director to come back again. The source confirmed that Nolan, Goyer, and Jonathan Nolan have discussed story ideas, but had originally intended for the Joker to return in Batman 3, creating a problem they have not been able to solve. So far, no decisions have been made regarding the story for Batman 3, pushing the movie's release until 2012 or, possibly, 2013.

  Nolan is currently working on Inception, his sci-fi thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Obviously, fans would love to have Nolan return for the third Batman, but until Nolan's involvement is official, they will have to find solace in a report from February that said Nolan's studio deal for Inception included an agreement to make Batman 3. Keep your fingers crossed.

  
  

  Posted 06/17/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Christian Bale | Jonathan Nolan | Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Heath Ledger | Inception | Batman Begins | The Dark Knight | Batman 3

Tuesday, June 16

• DiCaprio Tackles Online Casinos After Shutter Island

  Fresh off of filming Shutter Island with his The Departed director, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio is gearing up to star in an as-yet-untitled film about online casinos, according to Variety. The project originated with writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien and is being produced by DiCaprio's Appian Way production company.

  Shutter Island is currently in post-production and has been described as a Hitchcock-esque period thriller. The plot revolves around a U.S. Marshal's (DiCaprio) search for a missing mental patient and his subsequent discovery of the sinister happenings at Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. The film also stars Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Max von Sydow.

  
  
  Next Showing: Shutter Island opens October 2

  Posted 06/16/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Brian Koppelman | David Levien | Leonardo DiCaprio | Shutter Island

Thursday, June 11

• New Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island

  Martin Scorsese's latest, Shutter Island, was originally a project for director David Fincher, who has made a career out of dark, psychological thrillers like Seven. It's an adaptation of the book written by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River).

  Shutter Island stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as U.S. Marshals sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital where the doctors (Ben Kingsley and Max von Sydow) are performing radical treatments.

  
  

  Posted 06/11/2009 by Ryan

  Related: David Fincher | Martin Scorsese | Max von Sydow | Leonardo DiCaprio | Ben Kingsley | Dennis Lehane | Mystic River | Seven | Shutter Island

Friday, May 15

• Scorsese to Tackle Frank Sinatra

  Universal and Mandalay will bring the first feature-length biopic of Frank Sinatra to the big screen, with the legendary Martin Scorsese directing. No actors are yet attached to the untitled project, but Leonardo DiCaprio should be considered a prime candidate, since he has starred in Scorsese's last four movies.

  "Ol' Blue Eyes" received the small-screen treatment in 1992 with the TV miniseries Sinatra, which starred Philip Casnoff and won two Golden Globes. However, bringing a big-screen movie to fruition proved a daunting task. Executive producers Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman apparently worked for several years to acquire all the necessary rights to Sinatra's music and life story, Schulman told Variety:

  The responsibility we are taking on to tell his story ... that would cause anyone to be very careful about who they grant these rights to.... Everyone knows that Marty Scorsese is a final-cut director. So there had to be a lot of trust that he would tell this story in a way that didn't destroy [Sinatra's] memory.

  Speaking about the movie itself, Schulman added:

  It's not a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a man's life. Instead, it's more of a collage, and in many ways, it will feel like an album itself. It's a collection of various moments and impressions in his life, and together, we hope they'll tell the full story and present full themes.

  The movie's screenwriter, Phil Alden Robinson, wrote and directed Field of Dreams. He's also executive producing with Sinatra's dauger, Tina Sinatra, and Gary LeMel, former president of worldwide music distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures.

  
  

  Posted 05/15/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Cathy Schulman | Frank Sinatra | Martin Scorsese | Peter Guber | Tina Sinatra | Leonardo DiCaprio | Phil Alden Robinson | Philip Casnoff

Sunday, April 5

• Inception Cast Going Indie

  Leonardo DiCaprio's getting some company for Christopher Nolan's Inception that reads like a who's who of indie movie all-stars. Variety reports that Warner Bros is negotiating with Juno's Ellen Page, La Vie En Rose's Marion Cotillard and Sunshine and Nolan semi-regular Cillian Murphy to join the cast of the Nolan-scripted sci fi thriller.

  DiCaprio will play a CEO type, and Cotillard is reportedly playing his wife. Page will play a grad student that is DiCaprio's sidekick.

  
  
  Next Showing: Inception opens July 16, 2010

  Posted 04/05/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Ellen Page | Marion Cotillard | Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Cillian Murphy | Inception | Sunshine | Juno | La Vie en Rose

Wednesday, March 4

• Leo to Join Nolan's Inception

  Director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception, otherwise known as the movie that's keeping a sequel to The Dark Knight on hold, has found the star power it needs to compete on its tough opening day of July 16, 2010, the same opening day as possible superhero blockbuster Thor. Variety reports that Leonardo DiCaprio will join Nolan for the first time to star in the thriller about the "architecture of the mind."

  If going up against Thor wasn't pressure enough, consider that Thor's director Kenneth Brannagh used to be married to Inception producer and Nolan's current wife, Emma Thompson. You sure you don't want to just make another Batman, Nolan?

  
  

  Posted 03/04/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Emma Thompson | Christopher Nolan | Leonardo DiCaprio | Kenneth Branagh | Inception | The Dark Knight | Thor

Tuesday, February 10

• Leo's Girl (Bar Refaeli) Gets the Cover

  Oh Leo, take comfort.

  Leonardo DiCaprio and much of Revolutionary Road may have gotten left out of the Oscar race (restoring, for a brief moment, our faith in the Academy), but the pretty boy's girlfriend is doing well. Bar Refaeli, an Israel model and GF to Leo, has scored the cover of Sport Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. On the cover, a tan (surprise), busty (surprise) Refaeli appears in a skimpy (surprise) bikini (surprise), the bottoms of which she teasingly pulls down (sorta surprise).

  There's probably a joke to made here about the awards race and Refaeli's golden globes, but we're going to rise above it. Like Cate Blanchett, we're keeping it classy.

  
  

  Posted 02/10/2009 by Hailey

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Revolutionary Road

Wednesday, December 3

• Advice for Directors Married to Movie Stars

  Kate Winslet tells People.com she had a "total meltdown" while her husband Sam Mendes was directing her in a sex scene with Leo DiCaprio for the upcoming Revolutionary Road. Apparently Mendes was giving her too many detailed instructions about where her hands should be and things like that. Admittedly, this is a small demographic, but just in case you happen to be a director married to a movie star, you can learn from Mendes' mistakes. Some rules to follow:

  1) Make sure you give your wife's co-star some instructions too, so she doesn't feel like she's the only one doing things wrong.

  2) Don't be afraid to let her improvise a little; a little extra film footage is much cheaper than a divorce.

  3) Never, ever, ever tell her her posterior looks fat out of those jeans.

  
  
  Next Showing: Revolutionary Road opens in limited release December 26

  Posted 12/03/2008 by reelz

  Related: Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Sam Mendes | Revolutionary Road

Friday, November 21

• One More Reason Robert Pattinson is the New King of the World

  Leo DiCaprio, currently on a worldwide publicity tour promoting Body of Lies, is beginning to look a lot like James Lipton.

  
  

  Posted 11/21/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Robert Pattinson | James Lipton | Body of Lies

Wednesday, November 5

• Bond Director Might Die Bad

  On the heels of Marc Forster's recent announcement that he has turned down a third Bond outing, the Quantum of Solace director is reportedly close to a deal to direct the American remake of Korea's Die Bad (insert Die Hard joke here).

  The four short films that made up the Korean feature will be combined into a single drama set in Philadelphia. Writer Brad Ingelsby calls the tale an "epic story of friendship."

  The young scribe also has Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott attached to his original script The Low Dweller and is writing an adaptation of DC Comics' The Sleeper for Warner Bros.

  Source: Variety

  
  

  Posted 11/05/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Marc Forster | Quantum of Solace

Thursday, September 25

• New Body of Lies Posters, Corey Hart Style

  Two new character posters for Ridley Scott's Body of Lies have been released, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, both wearing sunglasses in what appears to be night. Click the thumbnails for the larger version and check out Body of Lies in theaters October 10, 2008.

  
  
  

  Body of Lies - Trailer

  Leonardo DiCaprio Stars - Releasing Oct. 10, 2008

  Posted 09/25/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Russell Crowe | Body of Lies

Friday, June 13

• Marvel Eyeing Leonardo DiCaprio for Captain America

  A decade ago, a headline like the one above would have elicited a hearty laugh. But with more "serious actor" types like Christian Bale, Edward Norton and Robert Downey Jr. gravitating toward big-budget comic book flicks, the prospect of Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio donning the red, white and blue tights as the patriotic superhero Captain America is no longer so absurd.

  According to LatinoReview.com, Marvel Studios has yet to approach Leo for the role; they've simply placed him atop their wish list. Still, the mere possibility is more than enough to inspire furious debate on fanboy discussion boards everywhere. Personally, I think Leo's voice is a bit too whiny for Steve Rogers/Captain America. Plus, his oversized noggin might prove a tad distracting while in costume, dwarfing Cap's iconic shield. Disagree? Discuss.

  Source: LatinoReview via JoBlo.com

  
  

  Posted 06/13/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | First Avenger: Captain America

Monday, June 9

• DiCaprio to Play Video Game Maverick in Atari

  Paramount has its sights set on producing Atari, a biopic about, as Variety puts it, one of the 'founding fathers of the videogame industry.'

  Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star as Nolan Bushnell, the man who created Atari. Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman wrote the script.

  
  

  Posted 06/09/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Atari

Friday, March 7

• Chaser Remake Coming Stateside

  The last time Warner Bros. picked up an Asian flick for remake purposes, it became a little Best Picture winner named The Departed.

  The studio is hoping for similar success with their new pickup, the South Korean thriller hit The Chaser. The studio is taking a similar approach to Departed, with early talk of Departed screenwriter William Monahan writing Chaser and Leonardo DiCaprio as a possible lead.

  According to Variety, the film is loosly based on the exploits of a real life serial killer. In the original, Ha Jung-Woo played the killer.

  Source: Variety

  
  

  Posted 03/07/2008 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed

Tuesday, October 23

• Scorsese, DiCaprio reunite on Shutter Island

  The love affair between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will continue in 2008 with Shutter Island, a 1954-set drama about a U.S. Marshall investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a mental hospital.

  Presuming the deal goes through, DiCaprio will star and Scorsese will direct. The two have already worked together three times before--on The Departed, The Aviator, and Gangs of New York.

  Shutter Island is being adapted by Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander) from the novel by Dennis Lehane--who also wrote the novels upon which the acclamied Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone (now in theaters) were based. Sounds like a recipe for success to us.

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  Next Showing: Shutter Island will start production in March.
  

  Gone, Baby, Gone trailer

  The most recent Lehane novel to make it to film.

  Posted 10/23/2007 by reelz

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | Shutter Island

Thursday, October 11

• Movie news: Empire, Farragut North, From a Buick 8

  Columbia pictures has announced plans to make Empire, a drama starring Will Smith as a global media mogul. It will be directed by Michael Mann (Collateral, Ali).

  Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in Farragut North, a big-screen adaption of Beau Willimon's play about a young communications director for a presidential candidate and the general dirtiness of the political game. Although the play hasn't even gone up on Broadway yet (where Mike Nichols will lkely be directing Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead), the script has been sparking fire in Hollywood since it started making the rounds. George Clooney is in talks to direct.

  And finally, it's about time for another Stephen King story to make it to the silver screen, don't you agree? Actor/writer Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar adapted the script for King's story, From a Buick 8, about a boy who becomes obsessed with a vintage Buick stored in the state trooper barracks after his trooper father dies. Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) is on board to direct.

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  

  I am Legend trailer

  Will Smith's next movie.

  Posted 10/11/2007 by reelz

  Related: George Clooney | Will Smith | Leonardo DiCaprio | Tobe Hooper | Empire | Farragut North | From a Buick 8

Friday, July 13

• Funnies and bunnies

  MTV News is reporting that Harry Potter producer David Heyman revealed plans to do Yes Man, another new movie with Jim Carrey. Peyton Reed (The Break-Up) will be directing, says The Hollywood Reporter.

  The comedy, based  on a memoir by Danny Wallace, will be about a down-and-out guy who decides to turn his life around by saying 'Yes' to everything. It will be a return to old-school Carrey humor, says Heyman. This is in addition to the FIVE other projects Carrey has on the horizon.

  MTV is also reporting that several female stars  have been added to the roster of the yet-to-be-named upcoming Adam Sandler comedy about a Playboy bunny who gets kicked out of Hef's mansion and has to move into an uncool UCLA sorority. Sandler et al. just added American Idol loser Katherine McPhee and Bruce Willis' and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis to the cast. McPhee will play a "pregnant hippie" and the young Willis will play a "sorority loser."

  And speaking of the great robed one, The Guardian is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in a Hugh Heffner biopic. The drama, entitled Playboy, will be directed by Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand).

  DiCaprio must be a fan of playing guys with 'Hugh' somewhere in their name.

  
  

  Posted 07/13/2007 by reelz

  Related: Adam Sandler | Anna Faris | Brett Ratner | David Heyman | Leonardo DiCaprio | Rumer Willis | Jim Carrey | Playboy | Yes Man | The House Bunny

Monday, April 9

• Departed writer teams with DiCaprio again   

  William Monahan, writer of The Departed and possibly its sequel/prequel follow-up, is hard at work on the script for Body of Lies, which is slated as director Ridley Scott's next project.

  Variety reports today that Leonardo DiCaprio has inked a deal to play the lead role in the film.

  According to Variety, "DiCaprio will play an ex-journalist-turned CIA agent who's sent to Amman to work with Jordan's intelligence chief to track an Al Qaeda leader rumored to be planning attacks against America."

   

  
  

  Posted 04/09/2007 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | William Monahan | The Departed

Monday, March 26

• Leo and Marty Team Up Again.    

  If it wasn't already apparent, Leo is the new apple of Marty's eye. Like Robert DeNiro before him, DiCaprio has forged an impressive kinship with the acclaimed director. The two have collaborated on the director's last three films, culminating is 2006's Best Picture winner, The Departed.

  Today Variety reports that Scorsese is planning to cast DiCaprio in the lead for a pic based on Jordan Belfort's upcoming tell-all autobiography "The Wolf of Wall Street." Warner Brothers will produce the pic, which will be adapted for the screen by Terence Winter (HBO's The Sopranos).

  It's unclear as of yet where the pic will fall in the director's slate of upcoming pics. As we reported earlier, rumors are still circulating of a potential Departed sequel. ReelzChannel.com will keep you posted as more news comes down the Hollywood pipeline.

  
  
  

  Reelz Clip

  Leonardo DiCaprio talks about Martin Scorsese and The Departed.
  

  Reelz Clip

  Costello (Nicholson) checks Costigan ( DiCaprio) for a wire.

  Posted 03/26/2007 by reelz

  Related: Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed

Tuesday, March 20

• DVD Tuesday - new releases

  Wondering about the DVDs coming out today? Check out Heather Huntington's reviews of Blood Diamond, Eragon, and The Nativity Story and their DVD extras under Features.

  
  
  

  Reelz Clip

  Leonardo DiCaprio reveals secrets from Blood Diamond.
  

  Reelz Clip

  Eragon clip: "It's Not So Bad Up Here"
  

  Reelz Clip

  Exclusive interview with the cast of The Nativity Story.

  Posted 03/20/2007 by reelz

  Related: Leonardo DiCaprio | Blood Diamond | The Nativity Story | Eragon