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Hello my sweeties!!! :flower:

Leo is hottest man on earth!! I sooo loved the pics!! :woot:

Tks for the articles and pics and tweets girls!! Leo Lover....your pics made me crazy!! Leo looks yummy!! :woot:

Tks girls! :flower:

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Lasse Hallstrom (director of What's Eating Gilbert Grape) wants to work with Leo again:

Hallström's dream project, meanwhile, remains a reunion with star Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom the director worked 20 years ago on his second US film, “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” – for which the then-teenaged DiCaprio scored his first Oscar nod.

“I have this obsession about working again with Leonardo,” he admits, almost bashfully. “He's so wonderful in 'Gilbert Grape,' of course, and I made this awful career move once where I turned down doing 'Catch Me If You Can,' because of a phone call from an angry colleague saying, 'You can't do that movie! I'll never work with you again!' So I was stupid enough to pass on it, with everything signed and ready to go. So now I'm obsessed with reconnecting with Leonardo and doing something that good.”

http://www.hitfix.co...ardo-dicaprio/2

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Thanks Ox for the elevator footage!

Calibi

Tks for Baz/facebook news ; maybe it is that Gatsby will be shown at Cannes :)

You were right. It was just announced on twitter. Awesome news:

Festival de Cannes@FdC_officiel

THE GREAT GATSBY by Baz Luhrmann with @LeoDiCaprio is the opening film of #Cannes2013 !

SO exciting!! :dance:

The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival on May 15. 2013. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the title character leading a cast that includes Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton.

"It is a great honor for all those who have worked on The Great Gatsby to open the Cannes Film Festival," said Baz Luhrmann, in a statement today, "We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film Strictly Ballroom was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael."

The film will mark the second 3D movie to open the Cannes festival, following in the footsteps of the 2009 opener, Up. Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! kicked off the festival in 2001.

The 66th Cannes Film Festival will run May 15th - 26th in France.

http://www.filmlinc....aguire-mulligan

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Lasse Hallstrom (director of What's Eating Gilbert Grape) wants to work with Leo again:

Hallström's dream project, meanwhile, remains a reunion with star Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom the director worked 20 years ago on his second US film, “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” – for which the then-teenaged DiCaprio scored his first Oscar nod.

“I have this obsession about working again with Leonardo,” he admits, almost bashfully. “He's so wonderful in 'Gilbert Grape,' of course, and I made this awful career move once where I turned down doing 'Catch Me If You Can,' because of a phone call from an angry colleague saying, 'You can't do that movie! I'll never work with you again!' So I was stupid enough to pass on it, with everything signed and ready to go. So now I'm obsessed with reconnecting with Leonardo and doing something that good.”

http://www.hitfix.co...ardo-dicaprio/2

would be nice to see them working together :wub2: didn't know Lasse's going to make CMIYC :idk:

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Calibi

Yes, awesome news for sure ; can't wait to see Leo at Cannes ! :dance: :dance:

Also, tks, for Hallstrom comments about working with Leo ; I remember at one time Leo was considering doing Cider House Rules which Hallstrom did with Tobey

Kat

Tks for Cannes article ; is so interesting to learn that Fitzgerald wrote several passages of Gatsby at nearby St Raphael :)

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Tks for the news sweeties!! :flower:

Can't wait to see Leo at Cannes wearing a stylish suit and tie!!! :dance: :clap:

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Tweeter below is in Paris, tweeted that her sister ran into Leo in Paris hotel

Leannah Bml Roy‏@Leannah_b

Ma soeur etait face to face à Leonardo Dicaprio à son hotel, j'ai envie de pleurer

Leannah Bml Roy @ Leannah_b

My sister was face to face with Leonardo Dicaprio in his hotel, I wanted to cry

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Gatsby premiere for NY will be May 1st

Can't wait for all the Gatsby pr and premiere pix to begin :)

Thanks Ox, Heres another article about the Cannes schedualing :)

Saying 'Gatsby' will stay put, Warners explains Cannes strategy

When the Cannes Film Festival announced Monday that it would open on May 15 with Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” it raised more than a few eyebrows.

The Cannes opening-night film is almost always a world premiere, as both the festival and Hollywood studios seek the most publicity bang for their buck. But Warner Bros.’ “Gatsby” comes out in North America on May 10.

Why would Cannes open its high-profile festival with a movie many tastemakers and filmgoers in the U.S. will have already weighed in on? And, more important for Hollywood, why would a studio not want to use Cannes as a world-premiere platform?

On Tuesday, Warner Bros. executives said they were sticking to the date for the 3-D drama but said they hoped the Cannes slot would offer other advantages.

“I think it will breathe a different kind of life into the domestic play,” Sue Kroll, Warner Bros. president of worldwide marketing, told The Times. “This is a film for the entire summer, not just for opening weekend or the weekend after.”

Kroll ruled out moving the film’s U.S. opening back a week to May 17. “We’re very, very happy with this date,” she said. “It’s not going to change.”

In a sense, the move is a throwback to a time when studios didn’t open many of their major releases day-and-date around the world. “Gatsby,” in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s complicated title character, will now play a May 1 premiere in New York, which will set up the May 10 wide release in the U.S.

Then it will basically do it all over again in Europe, with the May 15 Cannes premiere and an opening in France and other major European territories in the days that follow.

Essentially, Warner Bros. is gambling that the virtues of the May 10 date — it is ahead of when the season of big releases gets crowded with films such as “Stark Trek Into Darkness” on May 17 and Warners' own “The Hangover Part III” on May 24 — outweigh the buckets of free publicity that come with world-premiering a movie at Cannes.

For the festival, the calculus is also tricky. Opening night has become a major Hollywood showcase in recent years under artistic director Thierry Frémaux, with hits such as “Up” and “Midnight in Paris” getting their start in the slot. By making an exception, Frémaux is hoping that the subject matter and the star power offset the fact that this is a movie much of the English-language media might consider old news.

Whether the festival will make the exception for other movies — studios routinely date their spring releases for after Cannes because of the unwritten rule that the fest requires a world premiere — remains to be seen; several insiders The Times spoke to Tuesday believe it's a one-time exception.

Warner Bros., at least, is happy it will have the chance.

“If the timing of our release had been different we would definitely have followed the more traditional model and used Cannes to set up the world,” Kroll said. “But I’m happy it worked out,” she added, noting that “Gatsby” has the kind of throwback glamour Cannes traffics in. "I've always thought Cannes is perfect for this film, which is sumptuous and audacious and a real experience, and Cannes is a place of romance and mystique.”

http://www.latimes.c...,0,299050.story

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