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[oxford25]

Agree with this trailer description

Fireworks, a speeding Rolls-Royce, palatial estates, flappers, flying shirts, Jack White, and autotune – all of these things make their way into Baz Luhrmann's re-imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel The Great Gatsby. The trailer for Gatsby (out Christmas Day) premiered online Tuesday and has left film fans drooling in anticipation.

The rise and fall of the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) coupled with a volatile love triangle is the perfect template for a Luhrmann film. As the trailer shows, the director's highly polished and glossy style matches the lavish excess of the prohibition-era 1920s.

The most jarring aspect of the trailer is the music, which is far from anything that would have been played during a roaring '20s shindig. The trailer opens up with Jay-Z and Kanye's Watch the Throne track "No Church in the Wild" before transitioning to Jack White's cover of "Love is Blindness." As someone who set Shakespeare to Radiohead, Luhrmann isn't shy about incorporating an anachronistic soundtrack to give new life to the familiar story.

For Gatsby purists out there who are up in arms about the tunes, note that these modern selections are actually quite appropriate. "No Church in the Wild" talks about a Rolls-Royce, showing off one's wealth to impress a lady, and avoiding police shakedowns, and all of "Love is Blindness" matches the tumultuous romance between Gatsby and Daisy (played by Carey Mulligan).

[Pami]

Pami

I would, also, love some new pix of Leo and Erin, or Leo and Irmelin , or Leo and his dog, or Leo and the trash collector, I just want a new pix of Leo !!!!

Private Message Pop Up box

I don't know about the rest of you, but I didn't realize to just now there wouldn't be a pop up box when you received a pm. I have to train myself to look at the top of page by my name

Haha,me too Oxford...me too...only a single pic of Jay Gatsby Leo!! I miss him...luckily my boyfriend understands me!

I didnt know that either Oxford...this is news to me!

[Pami]

"and has left film fans drooling in anticipation."

Who was drooling over Leo? Me?Noway.....

[by_princess]

Wow... Everybody in what they are more focused of the trailer is in the music... and probably that was the intention of Baz

People even notice that Leo was shirtless???? Hello???

[oxford25]

Lukas in Cannes

I noticed just now that Lukas is in Cannes, maybe, the reason there hasn't been any Leo sightings this week in NO ,is because Leo's in Cannes as well

ByPrincess

When I see people complaining about the music in Gatsby trailer, it becomes immediately obvious that they must have never seen Luhrman's R&J or Moulin Rouge.

Besides , as the writer of the article I posted pointed out, that if you know the subject matter of the songs he used, they are appropriate to themes of Fitzgerald's story.

Pami

I didn't realize to just today , I had two pms waiting for me. I just wrongly expected the pop up box to appear if I had a pm.

[oxford25]

The article below from Hollywood Reporter is with the producers of Wolf of Wall Street.

Besides telling how us that project came to be, they do mention a reason ( at end of interview ) as to why Leo might be in Cannes this week as they are in Cannes to sell Leo's Appian Way's Out of Furnace film

One year after launching their financing, production and sales company at Cannes, the duo open up to THR about their upcoming slate, what it's like working with Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, and their ambitions for the future.

Red Granite launched in Cannes last year with one of the hottest parties in years, not to mention news that Leonardo DiCaprio is starring in the financing, production and sales company’s $100 million Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s next film.

Red Granite was formed by Riza Aziz — the 35-year-old son of Malaysian Prime Minster Tun Abdul Razak and among the new generation of film financiers flocking to Hollywood — and Joey McFarland, 40. The duo also made headlines when stealing veteran sales agents Danny Dimbort and Christian Mercuri and production executive Joe Gatta from Nu Image/Millennium. In one of the few interviews they’ve given, Aziz and McFarland, both with a background in finance, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how they’ve spent the last year, their plans for the company and their determination to stay on budget with Wolf.

The Hollywood Reporter: Red Granite went quiet after its debut in Cannes. What has the company been doing the past 12 months?

Joey McFarland: Riza decided to form Red Granite in late 2010. In 2011, we focused on building our infrastructure and our upcoming slate. We are now prepping Wolf of Wall Street and it starts shooting in August in New York. Our first movie was a much smaller film, Friends With Kids. And we recently announced we want to make The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Alex Proyas.

Riza Aziz: We couldn’t move on Wolf until Marty was done with Hugo. We bided our time and we waited for him. I think it was time well spent, versus rushing things.

THR: Are you selling Wolf to foreign distributors at Cannes? Or are you trying to see if a studio will buy rights to the world?

McFarland: No, that won’t happen. We are going to sell foreign territories, but not yet. Domestically, we’re talking to Paramount, whom Marty has had a long relationship with. Warner Bros. has expressed a lot of interest as well. It’s a good problem to have.

THR: Hugo went substantially over budget. How will you make sure that doesn’t happen with Wolf?

McFarland: There’s no comparison between the two projects. We’re not over the finish line yet, but I like to think we’re blessed with having Marty in his own back yard and in his comfort zone. I am very confident that Marty is ready to make a statement to the film community that he is not an out-of-control filmmaker. We support his creative vision 100 percent and he understands our economics. We’ve talked candidly about this with him and don’t see any red flags.

THR: How did the project come about?

McFarland: Riza and Leo were friends, and we knew we wanted to work with him. Wolf is his favorite project, but he was never able to get it going, so we tackled the bear.

THR: Is Wolf, about a young New York stockbroker swept up in a large securities fraud case and based on Jordan Belfort’s autobiography, a heavy drama?

Aziz: No, and our recent decision to cast Jonah Hill was a good way of countering that notion. It’s a trippy, out-of-control story.

THR: Do you have any plans for how big you want your operation to be?

Aziz: We’d like to make three to five films a year, with one tentpole and two or three films with more modest budgets in the $20 million to $40 million range.

THR: How much money are you backed by?

McFarland: We do not talk about that.

Aziz: I will say that I have money invested in the company. It shows that I have skin in the game and am committed from a financial point of view. We also have a group of investors, mainly from the Middle East and Asia.

THR: What does your father think of your new venture?

Aziz: I have leeway, but he likes to know that the projects we do have pedigree.

THR: How did you convince Danny, Christian and Joe to leave Millennium?

McFarland: They were ready for a change. Riza had a small party with a lot of notables and we were talking about different ideas and it evolved into something much bigger. Danny and Christian run foreign sales, and Joe is president of production.

THR: What is Red Granite selling in Cannes this year?

McFarland: Out of the Furnace, a film we are co-financing with Relativity that Leo’s Appian Way is producing. We want to do more business with Leo. The movie stars Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck and Forest Whitaker. We also are selling A Case of You, starring Justin Long.

[calibi]

Gatsby 3D trailer to play behind MIB 3 movie.

Amitabh Bachchan ‏@SrBachchan

T 753 - Baz Luhrmann writes to inform me, 3D trailer of 'Gatsby' now playing before MIB 3 .. !! Thats Men in Black 3 ..

[neonntiger92]

now the real question....to go and see MIB3 for this or not...

[oxford25]

Calibi

Thanks for Gatsby trailer news

Neon

Ditto

now the real question....to go and see MIB3 for this or not...

Love this scene from Gatsby trailer

Pami, look at those shoulders

From the Great Gatsby

He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”

[BarbieErin]

ox: thanks for the article.

princess: thanks for the pic of Leo and Carey.

I loved that poster, very stylish. But I believe will have other posters with the characters.

[BarbieErin]

thanks Pami for the nice tweets on the trailer.

and thanks princess for the tweet about Leo filming.

Well, I think people have to calm down about Leo being too much intense on the movie because this was just a trailer of 2:30 minutes and I believe they wanted to show more powerful scenes on the trailer. I personally don't think his acting will be that intense in the whole movie, because the character don't give him this oportunity, most of the part Gatsby is more suave, yet mysterious... don't forget that too.

[by_princess]

Oxford

Watching that scene I can only think ... Damn I want that closet

Has the size of an entire house

Also I hope we have the chance to see the trailer of Gatsby in 3D with another movie: MIB3 doesn't look like a good movie

[BarbieErin]

ox: thanks for the info about Django filming. Also thanks for the article, so maybe Leo is in Cannes? hope to see pics if he's really there.

And yes ox: I loved that scene, his smile is so adorable.

I have to say I'am quite obsessed with that music Love is Blindness... I had never heard before until I saw the trailer, so thanks Baz to put this music on the trailer. Not just match so much with the story, but also let me know about this song. YEAH!

thanks for the info calibi.

[oxford25]

Barbie

I agree. The two scenes they showed were the most emotional scenes in the movie :

When Gatsby and Daisy see each other for the first time after many years. In the book it takes place in a rain storm, contrary to what some tweeted, Luhrman didn't just decide to have a wet Leo

The second powerful scene is when Tom Buchanan reveals the truth of Gatsby's wealth to Daisy knowing full well that this information will cause Daisy to rethink leaving him for Gatsby.

In that moment Tom Buchanan has destroyed the illusion /world that Gatsby has taken years to create ; he has killed his dream , and it shows by Gatsby's powerful reaction.

I believe they wanted to show more powerful scenes on the trailer. I personally don't think his acting will be that intense in the whole movie, because the character don't give him this oportunity, most of the part Gatsby is more suave, yet mysterious...

I love the Love is Blindness song to ; the lyrics below so perfectly capturing Gatsby's state

Love is blindness

I don't want to see

Won't you wrap the night

Around me

Oh my love

Blindness

[BarbieErin]

Exactly, ox. That's what I mean about the scenes.

And yes, the music is so perfect and give such a life for the trailer love it. Hopefully will be on the movie.

[Lkjh]

I didn't mean to upset anyone

But that's just how I feel- I coud give you a more appropiate Dutch words to describe the 'frown'-thing right, but I don't think that would help you

And no- Gatsby isn't lighthearted, but not as dark as Shutter Island/Hoover etc.

New Zealand girl chosen by celebrities to speak at UN Earth Summit

A Kiwi schoolgirl has got the thumbs up from actor Leonardo di Caprio and now she is set to address world leaders on why urgent action is needed on sustainable development.

Brittany Trilford, a year 13 student at Wellington's Queen Margaret College, has won a global youth video speech competition and will next month speak to delegates at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Hundreds of young people from around the world submitted entries to the Date With History competition.

Online voting whittled the entries down to 22 finalists, before a star-studded jury, including di Caprio and actress Hayden Panettiere, decided on the winner.

In her speech, Ms Trilford said she wanted leaders to start leading on issues like sustainable development.

She said innovation, imagination and creativity are needed to work out how best we can use resources without compromising the natural environment.

"To tackle our problems, there are definitely ideas out there. Our leaders just have to A, listen, and B, be open-minded and persistent enough to give these ideas a chance," Brittany said.

"I want a future where we run with natural processes and not against them. I want a future where leaders will stop talking and start acting."

More than 130 heads of state, vice-presidents, heads of government and deputy prime ministers are expected to speak at the Earth Summit.

NZN

Read more: http://www.3news.co....x#ixzz1vlLATtqU

[BarbieErin]

wijn: I respect your opinion, just wanted to give my impression too.

[BarbieErin]

thanks wijn: such nice news.

[Daydreaming5]

Are Erin and Leo still together?

[SicK As mY SecReTs]

Love this scene from Gatsby trailer

Pami, look at those shoulders

I loved that scene from trailer! he looks cute