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QUESTION : Leonardo DiCaprio Network Does anyone know anything about this excellent Leo fan page ? As there hasn't been any updates since early April ? I hope it hasn't been shut down permanently Jade Tks for Leo's lastest IG post

A cute older pix that is new to me And for any fans from Brazil, I had never seen before this video from Titanic time of Leo telling fans there helllo

Alfo has lots more Leo grocery pix , just some of those Lilja Tks for vid

LiljaK Tks for new Leo shopping pix Jade Yes, that was one of my fave photo shoots as well ; the face , the hair

Time for some pix of my other fave blonde besides Danny A

Barbie Too funny, just saw that pix and my first thought was I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the hair Wonder when this was taken

Read today that California's Gov Newsom has approved restart of film/tv production as of June 12th . So , maybe , in near future we might get some idea of when Killers of Flower Moon may be filmed Jade Love all those scenes from BD And agree that was my fave move line as well

Did I mention I loved Danny Archer I wonder if Leo still helps with support of the little girl in the pix or if that rumor during BD filming was untrue ??

Lucky Girl Tks for Leo/ Marty / French vid Jade Loved all the pix of the handsome Leo & Isaac duo But what I loved most was your entertaining captions 😃 Yes , I , too, would have liked to have seen more of their friendship / working relationship in film

Jade Thanks for Leo’s IG post 👍 As to BOL , I liked it , but it wouldn’t be in my top 10 One aspect of it I have liked is seeing his continued friendship with Oscar Isaac even though Issac‘s part was relatively small

Jade Tks for the IG post , I have never seen some of those stills Barbie Tks for Taiwan / Once interviews I always like any movie promo interview that is not the same questions & replies as all the ones before

Killers of Flower Moon casting As I stated yesterday, I'm certainly looking forward to the casting of the 3rd major role FBI man Tom White At same time I wanted to mention that besides looking forward to casting of Ernest's (Leo) wife Mollie Also Ernest has two brothers ( Bryan and Horace) , but it is Bryan who has more of a major role in the story Jade Yes , I'm definitely looking forward to casting news and , most of all, when the actual filming will begin

Jade Yes, Tom White and his group of undercover agents will definitely be a big part of the movie , as up to their arrival on the scene , others had been sent in to try to solve these ongoing murders , but none had been successful. White was brought in because of his reputation for using methods /etc that were advanced for that time to try to solve these murders Based on what had happened previously to others , White well knew that not only might he not be able to solve the murders , he may not come out of it with his life One should think of the film like a Sherlock Holmes mystery where , like Tom White, you are trying to solve who is responsible for this string of Osage murders before you find yourself added to the dead list Along the way you will be meeting all the various people connected to the murder victims which is how you come to meet Ernest (Leo) and Mollie Burkhardt As to what actor will play White , physically he was a tall imposing figure . Think of a Sam Elliot type looking actor . Whoever Marty selects he will have many powerful scenes with the lead actors , so I’m anxious to see who will play the part Lastly, like all murder mysteries, there are unfortunately some on the internet who love to 'spoil' movies , so I would advise all who don't want to 'spoiled' to careful what you read

LuckyGirl Leo is playing Ernest Burkhardt , who is married to an Osage woman named Mollie. Her family is one of the the families impacted by the Osage murders that Tom White and his group of undercover agents have come to Pawhuska to solve after all others have failed. In real life Ernest and Mollie had children , whether they will or not in the film we'll have to wait and see Also appearance wise Ernest had sandy/dirty blonde hair , so Leo's hair will probably be lighter than it was for Rick Dalton Tom White is an FBI man , who during the investigations has meetings with J Edgar

A great vid of Leo with William S Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg at LA County Museum of Arts in 1996

Jade As Barbie knows weeks ago I was aware of Leo's role change, and at the time I told her , I was a fan of switch of roles Yes, the person Leo would be playing is a real person in this true story of the investigation of the numerous Osage murders after the tribe became quite wealthy due to oil finds on their land Cannes virtual Also while there might not be a regular Cannes film festival this year , the link below allows you to watch the virtual Cannes film festival that begins Friday https://ew.com/movies/film-festivals/youtube-we-are-one-global-film-festival-lineup/?did=529831-20200530&utm_campaign=ewk-movies_newsletter&utm_source=ew.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=053020&cid=529831&mid=34646715035

Spoiler Alert As I mentioned yesterday , I’ve read the book Killers of the Flower Moon” , so I already know the events & those responsible for the murders But if you don’t want to go into the movie knowing too much , I would avoid all future articles about the Apple/ Paramount deal , as some new ones surfaced today , and I feel the information in them “spoiled” aspects of the film that the reader doesn’t learn to very end of book

Such a cutie

This article I just read from Forbes touches on what I said earlier , that Parmount or any studio's hesitancy to finance "Killer" has more to do with the genre of film it is = drama rather than Leo's ability to draw in an audience Why Apple And Paramount Teaming Up For Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Is A Win/Win Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro's Killers of the Flower Moon will get a conventional theatrical release courtesy of Paramount before becoming a streaming event for Apple TV+. So sayeth Deadline and the other various trades, a deal for Martin Scorsese’s mega-budget adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon has been reached. Based on David Grann’s non-fiction book, the Eric Roth-penned film would detail an early FBI investigation in 1920’s Oklahoma concerning a string of murders of wealthy Osage Indians who had been granted revenue rights to oil discovered under their lands. Paramount was allegedly willing to produce and distribute the picture, even with a $180 million price-tag, but when the budget allegedly went to $200 million (and potentially above), they understandably got cold feet. Even with Leonardo DiCaprio headlining this one alongside Robert De Niro, that figure would require a miracle to recoup in today’s global theatrical marketplace. Apple will handle the budget, operating as the film’s creative home, and will present the film as a major Apple TV+ streaming event. But its streaming debut will be preceded by Paramount giving it a conventional theatrical release. It was the promise of a global theatrical play that likely tipped the scales from Netflix (which distributed The Irishman via a limited theatrical release prior to its streaming launch) to Apple. Paramount gets a super-duper prestigious theatrical offering without any real need to remotely justify that over/under $200 million production budget. Apple TV gets another huge movie which will look rather snazzy alongside their recent acquisition, for $70 million, of Tom Hanks’ Greyhound which they bought from Sony just last week. They also co-produced, with A24, Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks starring Bill Murray. This really is a win/win for all parties, and the kind of entirely positive movie news that almost doesn’t exist anymore. Even with DiCaprio co-starring with Robert De Niro in a Scorsese crime melodrama, a movie like Killers of the Flower Moon would never have justified a $180-$220 million budget via conventional theatrical metrics. At even $180 million, even numbers equal to The Revenant ($183 million domestic and $532 million worldwide in 2015/2016, or DiCaprio’s third-biggest global grosser behind Inception and Titanic) wouldn’t cut it. Quentin Tarantino’s $90 million-budgeted Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opened with $41 million; legging out to $142 million domestic and $374 million worldwide. Whether or not it would have topped $400 million had it played in China as originally intended (its release was canceled at the last minute, for reasons that still remain shrouded in rumor), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had Leonardo DiCaprio in a lead role, rave reviews, strong legs, terrific buzz and even won Brad Pitt his first acting Oscar. But that film wouldn’t have been profitable had it cost anywhere near what Killers of the Flower Moon is allegedly to be costing. This isn’t to say that such a film shouldn’t exist at that budgetary level or that Hollywood should only make preordained franchise-friendly blockbusters, but the extent to which moviegoers won’t necessarily show up for non-event movies makes me more sympathetic than most to Paramount being gun-shy. They have suffered worst of all from the “new normal” whereby IP, franchises and marquee characters are the primary drivers of theatrical moviegoing over movie stars and high concepts. That the MCU was culled from the Paramount blockbuster action thriller template is insult to injury. This isn’t to say that such a film shouldn’t exist at that budgetary level or that Hollywood should only make preordained franchise-friendly blockbusters, but the extent to which moviegoers won’t necessarily show up for non-event movies makes me more sympathetic than most to Paramount being gun-shy. They have suffered worst of all from the “new normal” whereby IP, franchises and marquee characters are the primary drivers of theatrical moviegoing over movie stars and high concepts. That the MCU was culled from the Paramount blockbuster action thriller template is insult to injury. When folks don’t show up to All the Money in the World, it’s hard to fault Sony for hiring Jason Reitman for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This solves that pesky problem of “Will folks show up?” Since Apple TV is currently chasing subscribers and prestige, they win as long as the movie is halfway decent and drives positive media coverage along with subscriptions. Ditto for Paramount. They may not see the film as a blockbuster-sized hit. However, considering they won’t be on the hook for the whole budget, they will likely look it as a prestige and awards-friendly release while staying in the Scorsese business. I don’t want to make too much out of a single deal featuring a publicity-hungry streaming service, one of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers and the last true blue Hollywood movie star, but this feels like a safe plan going forward for big movies that aren’t as commercially viable as they might have been 15-30 years ago (to the extent that an $180 million crime thriller was ever a safe commercial play) but still deserve or “require” a theatrical exhibition. If this pulls halfway decent theatrical numbers and/or wins a bunch of Oscars, well, that’s even better. This “Paramount for theaters, Apple TV for streaming” deal, which puts most of the financial burden on Apple (which doesn’t depend on budget-and-marketing versus global box office rate-of-return) is a potential solution. Apple TV will have established itself as a place for big movies whose filmmakers still want an old-school theatrical release, and Paramount still gets to be the place for movies like this. At the very least, this is an “everybody wins” deal for anyone interesting in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Barbie The rumored budget of close to 200 million is a puzzlement to me as well I’ve read the book and none of the book locales require elaborate sets , etc From my understanding Pawhuska, Oklahoma ( the main setting in the book & where there have been rumored to be filming ) is still a small rural town surrounded by large ranches which fits with locales needed for the settings in book I just hope before too long we get some idea of when actual filming might begin On a different topic I wonder if the Nightmare Alley project that at one time Leo was attached to if they had completed filming on that film prior to lockdown

Barbie Yes , I see they claim Leo was considering McKay / Lawrence project , but like Lucky Girl, looking at the film synopsis it doesn’t sound very interesting to me Jade I don’t perceive the studio’s reluctance as being focused on Leo’s box office drawing power, but rather on the fact that they want to focus on films that appeal to the masses & give them better odds to turn a profit and generally dramas are not big favorites with the masses Or dare I say their “eye” is on easy “profit “ more than on “quality” But as time after time has shown if anyone can draw audiences into a drama it is Leo LuckyGirl Like you I much prefer to see Leo’s next film in a theater versus tv streaming channel

So very glad to hear that the Killers of the Flower Moon financing has finally been settled

Barbie Yes , great smile His hair at time of filming TD I remember these pix were from the time he & his Mom got to meet Muhammad Ali

Lucky Girl & Barbie Tks for more videos to keep us entertained during this slow news time Jade Yes, a great shot

Posting some of the new Leo/Malibu /Naomi birthday pix from yesterday