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Damn apple knows how to tease us Martin Scorsese Debuts First Trailer for Twisty Mystery ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese hit Vegas on Thursday. No, he wasn’t there to revisit the Sin City locale of “Casino,” one of his mob masterpieces. He traveled to the gambling Mecca bearing his latest opus, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a labyrinthine story of murder and greed that, if he plays his cards right, might be one of this year’s major awards contenders. The “greatest living director” shared the first trailer for the film at CinemaCon, the annual conference of theater owners that’s been taking place this week. Based on David Grann’s bestselling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a true story, one that pulls back the curtain on a series of murders of wealthy Osage people that took place in the early 1920s after major oil deposits were discovered on their land. It also looks at how the newly formed FBI investigated the killings. “This is a big screen movie, and that’s what we made,” Scorsese said, promising a story told on an “epic scale.” The film reunites Scorsese with two of his most frequent collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, as well as Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow and Lily Gladstone. “I’d like to thank the entire Osage Nation,” Scorsese said, praising them for “working tirelessly” to bring the story to life. And the movie sees DiCaprio and De Niro playing two schemers who would like to get their hands on the Osage wealth, even if it means blowing up, shooting or otherwise violently disposing of people. “I do love that money sir,” DiCaprio tells De Niro, who portrays an immoral cable baron, in the trailer. “This wealth should come to us,” De Niro later advises. The trailer also depicts DiCaprio trying to seduce Gladstone, who he later marries. But Plemons, playing an upright lawman, may have other ideas. He warns DiCaprio’s shadowy operator that he wants to find out who is responsible for all the carnage. “I was sent down from Washington D.C. to see about these murders,” Plemons tells DiCaprio’ “See what about it,” DiCaprio replies. “See who’s doing it.” Paramount teased the footage during its presentation. It is distributing the film, which was co-produced by Apple Original Films. With a $200 million budget and a runtime that tops out at more than 3 hours and 20 minutes, the film is vast in every sense of the word (moviegoers with weak bladders be warned!). It will debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival before opening in theaters on Oct. 6. Scorsese wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth. Source

^daily fail strikes again LOL

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SEE MARTY SHOWED THE KOTFM TRAILER!!!!! CAN'T FUCKIN WAIT Met Gala 2023

Actually don't know if Leo is still on board as producer but AKIRA is finally very close to hapenning lol Screenplay for Taika Waititi’s ‘Akira’ Soon to Be Submitted to Warner Bros.

More color less color HQ https://theplaylist.net/killers-of-the-flower-moon-new-images-martin-scorseses-latest-bows-at-cannes-on-may-20-20230427/ https://thefilmstage.com/the-wait-is-over-new-images-from-martin-scorseses-killers-of-the-flower-moon-have-arrived/

Not the teaser I was hoping for but for sure better than nothing after all those YEARS of waiting 😆 Slightly bigger https://www.instagram.com/p/CrjD5G6uAMu/

by Xavi Gordo

2 days ago Actually when I hear "reformation" I think about religion and not bags but whatever lol

Can't wait!!

^It's grannys legacy I guess. DiCaprio: She certainly loves Titanic, that’s her favorite movie. She always asks me why I don’t look as pretty as I did in Titanic, and that I’m very ugly in this movie [Blood Diamond] and I should put my hair back and walk down the stairs again! Leonardo DiCaprio talking about his grandma on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (december 14, 2006).

What a queen

CinemaCon 2023

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^This is mainly why I'm a Leo fan for so long. The quality of his movies haven't change. He's lesser working than most other actors but it's ok for me because of the high standard he delivers when he's working. I also like his movies (well most of them). It happens a lot to me that a movie is critically acclaimed but it's nothing I like to watch actually. Not gonna lie I'm also very much appealed to his face, charisma and acting style LOL I also think it's more challenging for him to make movies on such a high steady level than most people give him credit for. I've read many times he becomes more "boring" and "predictable" each year, only makes "safe" choices with choosing big name directors but I don't think any other actor could've turned "The Revenant" or "The Wolf of Wall Street" into major hits. The most successful movies of Scorsese, Tarantino and Luhrman are the ones with Leo. Same for Nolans "Inception" outta the Batman universe. So the question is who is helping whom here? Leos work moral

Only Old Movie Stars Matter to Moviegoers A list of the Top 100 actors making the rounds among industry executives highlights a troubling reality for Hollywood: the supply of new movie stars is declining alongside the box office. A new study is going around town this month that has some of the top studio executives talking. National Research Group, the analysis firm that specializes in entertainment and tech, commissioned a survey asking consumers to name up to five actors that would make them most interested in seeing a movie in a theater. Not Who are your favorite stars? or Whose movies do you most look forward to? This was, very specifically, Who do you most want to watch in a theater? It’s the relevant question these days as studios debate the theatricality of film projects, and who to put in them in order to raise the perception of value in the theater-going experience. Zendaya is clearly a huge star, for instance, but can she open a movie in theaters? Do audiences still want to see Angelina Jolie on the big screen? Which Chris, if any Chris, actually puts butts in seats these days? With more studios and streamers deciding to open their movies first in multiplexes, the theater owners likely will declare victory over streaming at the CinemaCon theater conference this week in Las Vegas. But the results of this survey, while not exactly surprising, reveal a pretty serious problem in the kinds of actors that audiences want to pay to see. NRG circulated the study and its Top 100 Actors list to its studio clients, one of whom quietly slipped it to me. So let’s dive in. 1. Our Movie Stars Are Getting Super Old The big takeaway: The stars who matter to moviegoers are old, and getting older. Only one of the Top 20 actors named in the study is under 40—and Chris Hemsworth, at No. 20, will celebrate his big 4-0 in August. Here’s the full list. Remember, respondents were asked to name stars that made them most likely to go to the theater: 1 Tom Cruise 2 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson 3 Tom Hanks 4 Brad Pitt 5 Denzel Washington 6 Julia Roberts 7 Will Smith 8 Leonardo DiCaprio 9 Johnny Depp 10 Kevin Hart 11 Keanu Reeves 12 Sandra Bullock 13 Ryan Reynolds 14 Adam Sandler 15 Harrison Ford 16 George Clooney 17 Robert Downey, Jr. 18 Angelina Jolie 19 Morgan Freeman 20 Chris Hemsworth Yeah. Reads for the most part like an Oscar party guest list from 20 years ago, right? No Zendaya. No Jennifer Lawrence. No Chalamet or Holland or Michael B. Jordan, or anyone Hollywood has anointed a movie star in the past decade. The average age of this crew is 57.5 years old. Only four of them are in their 40s. Two are in their 80s. It’s almost like when people think theaters, they think throwback, meaning they stopped recognizing actors as theatrical draws after Thor came out in 2011. That year, of course, is about when Netflix started to become a thing. Maybe the notion of stardom has become so fractured and degraded by Peak TV and the streaming era that the analysis of theatricality, perhaps even subconsciously, is a nostalgic enterprise. If theatrical hits represent the monoculture, and the monoculture is dead, then the stars who connote theaters are necessarily the old stars. Or maybe it’s actually conscious. Hollywood has been telling audiences for years that new stars don’t really matter because the kind of new, original movies that create stars don’t really matter. We can blame the rush to streaming, or the dependence on pre-sold I.P., or social media—all the factors that combine to reduce the star power of actors. Of the Top 20, only Hemsworth got famous in a Marvel or DC movie; everyone else became huge in an original star vehicle (Pretty Woman, Top Gun, etc.), and then kept making them for years. Cut to this year’s theatrical schedule; not many chances for an actor to break free of the I.P. Instead, it’s Ezra Miller in The Flash, Margot Robbie in Barbie, all pre-branded plug-n-plays. Plus, of course, the old guard has hung around much longer than their predecessors. This year it’s Cruise (Mission: Impossible 7), Ford (Indiana Jones 5), Washington (Equalizer 3), Reeves (John Wick 4), and so on. Real movie stars are throwbacks because the biggest movies themselves are increasingly throwbacks. A couple other findings of the NRG study: Cruise, 60, ranked No. 1 among men but fell to No. 7 among women, meaning that despite the miracle of Top Gun: Maverick, he hasn’t quite erased the couch-jumping era, and the Scientology-infused separation from wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri. Johnson, 50, is No. 1 among teens. I’m betting that his social media skills and Moana helped get him there. The popularity of Roberts, 55, is driven overwhelmingly by women over 35. Not coincidentally, Universal targeted these exact viewers for the recent Ticket to Paradise, with Clooney. Remember when everyone declared Sandler’s career as a movie star over when his rich Sony deal ended and he was “forced” to sign with Netflix? Today Sandler, 56, is No. 2 among 18-24 year olds, no doubt thanks to those Netflix movies. Hart, 43, skews young as well, thanks in part to all his Netflix activity. Washington, 68, is overwhelmingly the top choice for Black audiences, with more than 3 times the mentions as any other actor. Johnny Depp! The 59-year-old, fired off of Fantastic Beasts 2 and considered unhireable by most studios amid his personal issues, is still a draw. And he’s especially strong among females under 35, according to the study. They apparently aren’t bothered by the court finding in the U.K. that he abused Amber Heard. CAA FTW: For the poor agency P.R. people keeping track of this stuff, the Top 20 are repped by CAA (9), WME (7), UTA (2), and two have no agent (Leo because he can bring his posse to CAA parties without paying 10 percent; and Depp because the majors won’t touch him). 2. The Demo Breakdowns Young people aren’t completely absent from the NRG study. A look at which stars over-index with specific age cohorts: GEN Z Zendaya (No. 47 total, No. 14 among Gen Z) Tom Holland (No. 39 total, No. 10 among Gen Z) Adam Sandler (No. 14 total, No. 5 among Gen Z) Chris Evans (No. 22 total), No. 15 among Gen Z) Kevin Hart (No. 10 total, No. 3 among Gen Z) Like I said, I think Sandler and Hart are there because they have leaned so heavily into Netflix, where young people watch movies. And Zendaya and Holland seem like the industry’s best hope of young stars becoming actually meaningful to the next generation. MILLENNIALS Jason Statham (No. 42 total, No. 23 among Millennials) Michael B. Jordan (No. 43 total, No. 26 among Millennials) Liam Neeson (No. 34 total, No. 22 among Millennials) Vin Diesel (No. 28 total, No. 19 among Millennials) Leonardo DiCaprio (No. 8 total, No. 6 among Millennials) GEN X Julia Roberts (No. 6 total and among Gen X) Keanu Reeves (No. 11 total, No. 7 among Gen X) Viola Davis (No. 38 total, No. 22 among Gen X) Matthew McConaughey (No. 41 total, No. 24 among Gen X) Morgan Freeman (No. 19 total, No. 11 among Gen X) BOOMERS Kevin Costner (No. 32 total, No. 9 among Boomers) Clint Eastwood (No. 46 total, No. 11 among Boomers) Harrison Ford (No. 15 total, No. 6 among Boomers) George Clooney (No. 16 total, No. 8 among Boomers) Meryl Streep (No. 30 total, No. 12 among Boomers) Those aren’t entirely surprising. The study provided some info on who over-indexes with Black audiences as well: BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN Angela Bassett (No. 50 total, No. 6 among Blacks) Viola Davis (No. 38 total, No. 5 among Blacks) Michael B. Jordan (No. 43 total, No. 10 among Blacks) Samuel L. Jackson (No. 26 total, No. 7 among Blacks) Denzel Washington (No. 5 total, No. 1 among Blacks) 3. Who Under 40 Made the Top 100 Expanding to the full Top 100 list of actors that would make audiences interested in seeing a movie at a theater, only 13 are under 40. That’s pretty brutal, given Hollywood’s historic ability to create new movie stars that power the theaters. The lucky baker’s dozen: Chris Hemsworth (No. 20) Jennifer Lawrence (No. 25) Tom Holland (No. 39) Michael B. Jordan (No. 43) Zendaya (No. 47) Scarlett Johansson (No. 53) Jenna Ortega (No. 54) Margot Robbie (No. 67) Henry Cavill (No. 73) Emma Watson (No. 86) Gal Gadot (No. 91) Timothee Chalamet (No. 94) Jonah Hill (No. 98) Interesting, right? Of those, only four (Ortega, 20, Holland and Zendaya, both 26, and Chalamet, 27) are under 30 years old. So 4 percent of the movie stars that matter in theaters are under 30. Pretty depressing. Did the old guard, thanks to science and resilience, just hang around so long that audiences never got familiar with new people? Or are young people just appearing in so many different projects, on so many varying platforms, that audiences don’t think of them as traditional movie stars? Ortega, for instance, is probably high on this list because of Netflix’s Wednesday series, not the Scream movies. But it’s nice to know her audience considers her theatrical. Many other young stars are nowhere to be found here, including those Hollywood has anointed, like Florence Pugh, Dakota Johnson, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Pete Davidson, and many more. Does any of this matter? I think it does. Studies like NRG’s influence casting because the studio heads read them. Jolie, for instance, has been pretty off the grid as an actor the past few years, but days after this study went around, Warner Bros. picked up a movie with her and Halle Berry. Probably a coincidence on the timing, but it’s a good piece of data for the studio. Conversely, if I’m Warners, I’m concerned by how low Chalamet is on that list, given they’ve got Wonka as a star vehicle for him later this year. Sony just shot a rom-com for theaters with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, yet neither made the Top 100. Not great. But if you’re Sony and you want to make a rom-com with actors under 40, this study shows the choices are pretty damn limited if you want to get people to theaters. Source Leo: I think most of us here are also Millennials what affirm those lists pretty much.

Hulk has never been greener and Leo likes it

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