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Martin Scorsese Set For CinemaCon’s Legend Of Cinema Award Ahead Of ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Cannes World Premiere

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Oscar winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese will be making an appearance at CinemaCon this year to receive the Legend of Cinema Award. The honor will happen during a sitdown lunch discussion with Scorsese following Paramount Pictures’ Thursday morning presentation on April 27.

 

It’s very timely as Scorsese in mid-May will have the world premiere of his Apple Original Studios and Paramount title Killers of the Flower of Moon at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 20 in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

 

We hear that the CinemaCon lunch will be a retrospective of Scorsese’s career. It would not be shocking if we get a glimpse of Killers of the Flower Moon.

 

Based on David Grann’s best-selling book and written for the screen by Eric Roth and Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the “Reign of Terror.”

 

An Apple Original Film, Killers will first be released exclusively in theaters, in partnership with Paramount Pictures, limited on Friday, October 6, and wide on Friday, October 20, in the U.S. Streamer Apple also has another wide theatrical release this year via Sony, that being Ridley Scott’s Napoleon which is dated for Thanksgiving.

 

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Oscars 2024: Best Picture Watch – ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

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The first audience to see Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon will be at the Cannes Film Festival. That means the stars will be in attendance, most notably Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. The film clocks in at over three hours and 26 minutes, but that’s because this is a sprawling tale that they would not have wanted to give short shrift.

 

In anticipation of the film, let’s look at the production, the story, and where it might sit in the Oscar race.

 

The main players are:

 

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese
Editing: The great Thelma Schoonmaker
Score: The great Robbie Robertson
Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
Production Design: Jack Fisk
Costumes: Jacqueline West

 

Scorsese has won Best Director just once. Roth has won only once. Schoonmaker has won three Oscars. Prieto has been nominated three times but has never won. Fisk has been nominated twice but has never won. West has been nominated four times but has never won. Robertson is the only name on this list that’s never been nominated for an Oscar.

 

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As far as the Oscars go, who knows whether the film will be good enough to become a frontrunner, but I’d keep my eye on Lily Gladstone as Mollie. She is a central figure in the story and much of her family is murdered. She is slowly being poisoned but doesn’t realize it until eventually, the truth comes out. This is a great role but also, she would be the first Native American actress nominated, though not the first indigenous person (there are three prior).

 

Knowing Scorsese, this is going to be a big, handsome production, so I would expect nominations across the board of the crafts — and I really hope that Robbie Robertson is at last recognized.

 

If the film is very good, obviously, both De Niro and DiCaprio will be strong contenders out of the gate. De Niro is at his best playing villains so I imagine he’ll be great. DiCaprio plays someone whose conscience ultimately gets the better of him but it takes a while. He has to come clean and admit to his wife who loves him and trusts him that he’s been trying to kill her to help Hale steal yet more money from the Osage. Jesse Plemons, one of the few nice white guys, will likely be a contender for Supporting.

 

Brendan Fraser, fresh off his Oscar win, will play a fictious or composite character, a lawyer. I would imagine he’s a prosecutor bringing down the case. The corruption spread far and wide – Hale was like John Huston in Chinatown, “he owns the police,” but I imagine Fraser’s character might be a good guy.

 

This film will likely not be without controversy. I imagine there will be more than a few that crop up during Oscar season, depending on how it lands overall. It will be released in theaters by Apple-TV and then head to streaming.

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Green Business Empire

The A-lister is a climate activist who has invested in sustainable companies from plant-based food to vegan leather.
By Hiranmayi Srinivasan
Published April 22, 2023

 

Hollywood A-lister Leonardo Dicaprio’s investments are as diverse as his roles: He amassed a net worth of about $300 million mostly from his acting career and real estate portfolio and is also a climate activist who has put his wealth behind sustainable companies from plant-based foods to vegan leather.1 Here's how he made his millions.


Key Takeaways

    Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has amassed a net worth of about $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
    DiCaprio is also a climate activist who has put his wealth behind various sustainable companies from plant-based foods to vegan leather.
    DiCaprio has invested in many popular plant-based food brands such as Beyond Meat, HIPPEAS, and Califia Farms.
    The actor recently invested in a UK-based vegan fast-food chain, Neat Burger, which is also backed by British Formula One champion, Lewis Hamilton.

 

Acting

DiCaprio’s iconic performances and box office hits made him a household name and contributed to his wealth.

DiCaprio’s career skyrocketed after his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic opposite Kate Winslet. The film grossed $2.24 billion globally, according to Variety, and is the fourth highest-grossing film in history.2 According to Celebrity Net Worth, DiCaprio’s was paid $2.5 million for the role and also reaped $40 million from the film’s success.

DiCaprio has been known to earn salaries of $20 million or higher for films such as Catch Me If You Can, The Great Gatsby, and The Revenant, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The actor was paid $25 million up front for his role as Jordan Belfort in Wolf of Wall Street, according to Hollywood Reporter.3 DiCaprio’s 2010 hit Inception earned him at least $50 million, per Forbes.4

DiCaprio has also had big paydays from his more recent works on streaming services. Netflix (NFLX) is said to have shelled out $30 million to the actor for his role in apocalyptic satire Don’t Look Up in 2019, according to Variety.5

The actor earned $30 million from AppleTV (AAPL) for his role in director Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon, according to Variety.6 The film is set for release in October. DiCaprio’s own production company, Appian Way, is among the film’s producers, according to Deadline.7 Appian Way has produced many of the actor’s films including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.


Green Investments

A longtime climate change advocate, DiCaprio has spent millions of dollars to invest in sustainable companies from plant-based meat to vegan sneakers. His portfolio includes vegan meat brand Beyond Meat, and other plant-based food companies, such as Califia Farms and Hippeas.  
Neat Burger

DiCaprio also invested in Neat Burger, a UK-based vegan fast-food chain backed by Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. The vegan burger joint opened its first permanent U.S. location in New York City in 2023.8
LØCI

DiCaprio also invested in UK-based vegan footwear brand LØCI. The cruelty-free sneaker brand raised a £4 million ($4.5 million) seed round in 2022, a little over a year after its launch.9
Beyond Meat

DiCaprio was an early investor in vegan meat brand Beyond Meat.10 The actor joined the Beyond Meat team as an investor and advocate in 2017, and has been known to promote the brand and to his millions of followers on social media.11

Beyond Meat Inc. (BYND) went public in 2019 its shares rose to an all-time high of $239.71 in July of that year. The stock now fetches $14 a share, for a market cap to about $903 million.12
Califia Farms

DiCaprio is an investor in plant-based food and beverage brand Califia Farms, according to VegNews.13 In 2020, the company raised $225 million in a Series D funding round.14
HIPPEAS

DiCaprio is also an investor in vegan snack brand HIPPEAS.15 The organic chickpea snack company raised $50 million in 2021.16
VitroLabs

Another sustainable startup in DiCaprio’s portfolio is VitroLabs, a California biotechnology company working to produce the world’s first cell-cultivated leather. In 2022, the company raised $46 million in a Series A funding round for its pilot production of cell-cultivated leather.17
Cell-Based Meat: Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat

DiCaprio has also invested in two companies pioneering slaughter-free, lab-grown meat, Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, according to VegNews.18

Mosa Meat created the world’s first lab-grown beef hamburger in 2013 and completed an $85 million Series B funding round in 2021.19

Israel's Aleph Farms, which is growing steaks in a lab from non-genetically modified animal cells, raised $105 million in a Series B funding round in 2021. The company has raised over $118 million in funding.20
Kingo

DiCaprio is and advisor and investor in clean energy company Kingo, which works to provide solar energy for families and businesses in remote areas across the world. As of 2018 (latest data available), the company has raised $25 million in funding.21

 

Real Estate Empire

DiCaprio also has a real estate portfolio that has an estimated value of $100 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.1 The actor owns several properties across Los Angeles, from Malibu to Studio City and the Hollywood Hills, according to She Knows.22

The actor bought late singer Dinah Shore’s historic Palm Springs estate in 2014 for $5.2 million, according to Hollywood Reporter.23 DiCaprio also owns a property in New York City—the actor bought an apartment in a Battery Park high-rise in 2008 for $3.67 million in 2008, according to The Real Deal.24 In 2014, DiCaprio bought the unit next door for $8 million.

The Hollywood star also owns a private island off the coast of Belize called Blackare Caye, which he bought for $1.75 million in the early 2000s according to Business Insider.25 DiCaprio is working on building an eco-friendly resort on the island that will be fully powered by renewable energy.

 

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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:

 

  1. Chris Hemsworth (No. 20)
  2. Jennifer Lawrence (No. 25)
  3. Tom Holland (No. 39)
  4. Michael B. Jordan (No. 43)
  5. Zendaya (No. 47)
  6. Scarlett Johansson (No. 53)
  7. Jenna Ortega (No. 54)
  8. Margot Robbie (No. 67)
  9. Henry Cavill (No. 73)
  10. Emma Watson (No. 86)
  11. Gal Gadot (No. 91)
  12. Timothee Chalamet (No. 94)
  13. 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.

 

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I think most of us here are also Millennials what affirm those lists pretty much.

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Hollywood (and the monopolistic star system) has been disrupted by other forms of entertainment like youtube and TV series.  Good in a way but also bad as there aren't many interesting stars (for me, zero) in the past decade and the quality of films have also gone down a lot.

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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

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2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

^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 only working with big directors but I don't think any other actor could've turned "The Revenant" or "The Wolf of Wall Street" into a major hit. 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

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Agree 100%

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2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

^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

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Manifesting Leo with this hairstyle below in all the KOTFM promo, interviews and premieres, haha. I would love it, Leo's natural hair is kinda wavy this days and it's so beautiful. Someone leave the gel far from Leo please, lol.     :rofl:

 

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^It's grannys legacy I guess. :angie:

 

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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).

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