December 1, 201311 yr Cate BlanchettWe need to keep switching up the language around climate change.For so long we've talked about sacrifice and people get discredited for what they haven't given up. [Celebrities] get criticised for taking flights, but the truth is someone like Leo [DiCaprio] takes fewer flights than he's asked to. If we want it to stay on the radar, we need to focus on the fact there's a lot of opportunity.http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/30/cate-blanchett-actor-pessimist-oscar
December 1, 201311 yr Seems like the other screening is now over Effie @EffieSeymour #The Wolf of Wall Street... EXCITING. BLOOD PUMPING.. INSANE!! Effie @EffieSeymour # The Wolf of Wall Street.. Leo is hot in person!! Johna Hill awesome!!
December 1, 201311 yr Leolover & Neon The tweet below is for the two of you How graphic was the movie? juting_ @spencerkelley12 Very! Lots of nudity, sex, and drugs! You've been warned ⚠⚠⚠ you made my month my dear OXFORD THANKS A MILLION
December 1, 201311 yr wowowowowowiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...great tweets,reactions,reviews,pix,vids... I`M BEYOND EXCITED THANKS A MILLION TO THE WONDERFUL LEO FANS WHO SHARED UPDATES YOU ARE DA BEST
December 1, 201311 yr Kendrick Sampson @kendrick38 Wolf of Wall Street was hysterical in every sense of the word #wows Kendrick Sampson @kendrick38 Wolf of Wall Street pic.twitter.com/2vgCNm9nNw Kurt Long @kurtlong If you like Scorsese, laughs, drugs, sex/nudity or money. (All of the above?) then Wolf of Wall Street is for you. #goodfellasNwallstreet
December 1, 201311 yr More tweets from tonight's screenings Claude Lacasse 3 hours ago Just saw an advance screening of "The Wolf Of Wall Street" and loved every minute of it....Leonardo DeCaprio and Jonah Hill were there for a Q&A after the film. It was long but well worth it....some of the scenes in this film will be remembered in years to come. One of Leo's best work for sure! Christian Rodrigo Muro about an hour ago near Los Angeles, CA · .. Another great screening tonight! The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese's last film. I feel so lucky to have been in the Q&A with an incredible actor, Leonardo DiCaprio (who performs such a dark an crazy role, maybe his best performance ever), Jonah Hill (who makes you laugh so much), Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride director) and Jon Favreau (Iron Man director), among other great actors of the film. I'd like to point out the short but amazing work of Matthew McConaughey, that shows us again his versatility and capability of create unique characters. The film is good and interesting but a little bit too long. Scorsese smartly finds a good balance between a serious subject with a funnny way to present it, that allow us to get attached to the story more easily. Anne Montavon @AnneMontavon 3h I got to see a screening of The Wolf of Wall Street today at the Writer's Guild. SO GOOD!!! It's definitely a must see. What an amazing film Kevin D @KevinDunigan 3h At the screening of Wolf of Wall Street. A must see dark comedy! With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonas Hill, Jon Favreau, Rob Reiner at the Q&A. Lon J Fiala · 2 hours ago · .. Martin Scorsese 's The Wolf of Wall Street is a trip. Leonardo DiCaprio is amazing and he and Jonah Hill do one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a film. #mustsee
December 1, 201311 yr Some IMDB comments from posters who claim to have ,also, attended tonight's Wolf screening was there as well for the screening. Here is my review: I just viewed this film in an advanced SAG screening and I can not speak more highly of the grounded yet hilarious performances of Leo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal, PJ Byrne, and Rob Reiner among many others. At the center of this masterpiece of Mr. Martin Scorsese is Leo as Jordan Belfort, the "Wolf" in the title. The film is based on the true story that was the crazy life of the real Jordan Belfort who also assisted in bringing his life to the big screen as a consultant. He also has a very cool cameo in the film which I will not spoil. The performance that Leo gives here is nothing short of spectacular. He is in his mode, wheeling and dealing and spending every last dime he has to keep his lush life with his beautiful wife Naomi and his company he built from the ground up, Stratton Oakmont. While at this brokerage, he amasses his great fortune and screws over everyone in his path, from the poor saps who buy the bad stocks to the hookers he continues to employ on the company card. His best friend Donny, played by a very different Jonah Hill, is depraved as they come. He has no morals to speak of and doesn't mind getting his hands dirty in order to keep his fortune. DiCaprio's and Hill's bromance is a thing to behold as it builds up throughout the long but breezy film. They meet, they conspire, and all hell breaks loose. But through it all, they have one another's back. It is a truly twisted yet endearing friendship that is completely believable and that is due to the excellent script by Terence Winter and to Leo and Jonah who embody the characters so fully and fearlessly. All in all, the performances brilliantly captured by Scorsese as well as the wonderfully unrealistic yet real comic adventures of the film make it worth viewing. And more than that, I sense Oscar buzz coming Leo and Jonah's way. I guess we'll see but all told, this is the best film I've seen this year and I thank Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio for somehow making it happen. A job well done. I also want to say that it will be a travesty if both Leo and Jonah are not nominated for Academy Awards for the most fearless performances they've ever had on screen.
December 1, 201311 yr Another screening attendee ; love the Leo money The person he is tweeting to is a well known internet movie blogger Paul Outlaw ?@poutlaw 4h @nathanielr Leo just became the frontrunner. And Scorsese is bearing down on McQueen. #WolfHowls Paul Outlaw ?@poutlaw 4h @kristapley The Wolf of Wall Street...SAG is going wild at WGA. And with good reason. #FavoriteDicaprioPerf Paul Outlaw ?@poutlaw 3h And then they plied us with food, alcohol and music. Unnecessary, but yum. #howlingwolf @kristapley @nathanielr pic.twitter.com/QFXsU8nK0a Jack Cullison ?@JackCullison 6h Leon DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Jon Faverau..Best screening of the year for me, Entertaining from front to back! #film pic.twitter.com/aMiox6DzCE
December 1, 201311 yr Kris Tapley of Hitflix , one of the internet movie bloggers who was at tonight's screening wrote an article about tonight's screening Are Leonardo DiCaprio and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' just what this Oscar season needed? Martin Scorsese's dark comedy finally screens and it could take the edge off It's been quite the somber season in some ways: slavery and racial tension, piracy and health care, dementia-addled fathers and embittered folk crooners. Even the year's biggest spectacle achievement, Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity," ultimately takes its weightless heroine to weighty moments of emotion and catharsis (not that we're complaining). It almost feels like what the 2013 film awards season needs is a nice prestige-level dose of outrageousness rather than outrage, something bonkers, something to take the edge off. And Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" is here to answer the call. The film isn't set to screen for the press at large for another week, but this weekend it began making its way through guild screenings, where plus ones and crossover memberships with critics and the film commentariat are just unavoidable. So it was Saturday afternoon that I made my way to the first of two SAG screenings of this absolutely unrepentant entry (hopefully that caveat saves the studio some disgruntled phone calls — over 100 people were turned away from the two screenings, which were filled to the brim). Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner, Cristina Milioti, Jon Favreau, P.J. Byrne and Kenneth Choi were on hand to discuss working with a master filmmaker and the life and times of a man, Jordan Belfort, who by anyone's measure should probably be dead by now. As first reported by In Contention, Scorsese's latest found itself tied up in the editing room and on the verge of blowing past an originally-planned Nov. 15 release back in September. It eventually did just that and soon re-calibrated its sights for Christmas Day. The director chopped and whittled a massive first cut down to a, well, still-massive 159 minutes, and that's what we're left with: three sensational hours of unbound, naughty (nearly NC-17), bleak comedy that immediately registers as a different sort of contender this season. Someone described it to me a few weeks ago as "Marty on methamphetamine," and I'm not going to argue with that. Though maybe "Marty on quaaludes" is more apt. I'll get to that… During the Q&A, DiCaprio — who also produced the film and received a (typical) standing ovation from the guild members in attendance — talked about how when he first read Belfort's memoir, the debauchery was so outrageous that he was eager to develop it as a film. "To me it was like a modern-day 'Caligula,'" he said. "The story is out-of-this-world. You can't believe it happened." But while it was all set to be his and Scorsese's fifth collaboration right after "Shutter Island," DiCaprio said the financing fell through because the studio balked at some of the more salacious elements of the story. Indeed, the film narrowly avoided an NC-17 rating (which Scorsese liked the idea of releasing in a "Midnight Cowboy" sort of way, a source told me some time ago). But even as the director went off to do "Hugo" and the actor moved on to projects like "J. Edgar" and "The Great Gatsby," DiCaprio couldn't envision the material in another filmmaker's hands. "I really couldn't get Marty out of my mind," DiCaprio said. "He's somebody that's able to sort of encapsulate the underworld with such authenticity and bring such humor to these characters. I mean, 'Goodfellas' was supposed to be a comedy, he told me. This was tailor-made for him." Without the cooperation of the real Porush, whose surname was changed to Azoff in the film, Hill had to lean on the well of information provided by the real Belfort. "Any time I play someone real in a movie, they ask to have their name changed," Hill said, referencing his Oscar-nominated work in "Moneyball." The actor was intrigued by the fact that Belfort, who has a small cameo toward the end of "Wolf," would rattle off the litany of despicable things he's done but that "he would never judge himself." But for his part, Scorsese kept his distance from Belfort, DiCaprio said, "because he wanted to be able to have a different perspective." DiCaprio and Hill would then serve as middle men, bringing new material and stories not necessarily documented in the book to the director's attention. And there were so many stories it was dizzying. One of them, in fact, featuring "German Shepherds and blow jobs in Vegas," according to DiCaprio, was far too scandalous to make it to the screen. "It was so bad I wish I never heard it," Hill said. Cue your imaginations. But that's the kind of outrageousness that was the name of the game here, an almost mercurial sort of spirit that Scorsese even wanted to infuse with the performances. "It was sort of controlled, calculated chaos," DiCaprio said, noting that he looked into the making of "The King of Comedy" because of the amount of improvisation that went into that 1983 Scorsese film. "And he wanted it to be like that, specifically. He wanted all the actors to have a loose sort of feeling in their performance. It's the first film I did with Marty in the sense that there weren't all these moving puzzle pieces that had to culminate in a powerful ending. This was the story of a man's life, and an insane one at that. So that was his intent, to let it sort of spiral off into madness." The film's shenanigans therefore play out for a minute shy of three hours, and in many ways, it feels like a film that wants to be longer. Nearly two hours were lopped off during the editing process, but it's the kind of thing that either needed to be an hour shorter (for the potency of, say, "Goodfellas") or a full-blown mini-series (because Belfort's story certainly has the material and the intrigue to sustain that length) to strike the perfect balance. Structure issues start to plague a film this long (particularly a comedy), caught between being a jab and a roundhouse. But it's an epic yarn no matter how you slice it. And Favreau — who has maybe 60 seconds of screen time in the film — perhaps put it best, mentioning Scorsese's ability to drive out nuanced and subtle performances despite how over-the-top the circumstances of the narrative may be. "It never loses its sense of grounding, and I think that's a hallmark of Scorsese's work," he said. "And as you guys who have seen 'Swingers' know, I've been really fixated on this guy since my earliest moments. So to be a fly on the wall, it was very intimidating, but it was quite an honor." We'll dive deeper into "The Wolf of Wall Street" in due time, including its Oscar potential, which, I don't mind saying, seems like a bit of a mixed bag, though reaction so far has been hugely enthusiastic. Hill is a great bet for Best Supporting Actor and DiCaprio could frankly nudge someone out of that seemingly locked-up Best Actor race. If she had a few more scenes, it seems to me that Margot Robbie (who will nevertheless be a star after this film comes out) could have pushed into the Best Supporting Actress race, but I'm not so sure beyond that. Enter film financiers Red Granite, who came in and told DiCaprio and Scorsese not to hold anything back and to push the envelope as far as they possibly could. "I said to Marty, 'We just don't get opportunities like this, ever, in this industry,'" DiCaprio said. "'People do not give you the freedom that these guys want to give us and the budget to make this an epic tale, so we have to take this opportunity.' Thankfully he agreed, and that's what you just saw up on the screen." At The Weinstein Company's Golden Globes after-party last season, DiCaprio told me in no uncertain terms that he felt his performance in "Wolf" was his best work to date. Not quite, I would argue, but it's absolutely up there as the commitment to the insanity is hugely impressive. One quaalude-driven experience in particular functions in the film almost as a "mini-movie," as the star put it, giving DiCaprio the opportunity to be quite physical with his work as his character suffers through what must have been one of the worst highs anyone ever experienced. The actor said for him it brought to mind the extended "meatballs and helicopters" sequence at the end of "Goodfellas." Reiner, who was seeing the film for the first time Saturday, took a moment to mention that particular scene as well. "That is one of the funniest set pieces I've ever seen in a movie," he said. "You get nervous when you haven't seen the film because you've got to do a thing with a Q&A, and what if it stunk? I knew it had laughs but I didn't realize how many laughs." Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/are-leonardo-dicaprio-and-the-wolf-of-wall-street-just-what-this-oscar-season-needed#ZYr8WdqRoh7xqjHm.99
December 1, 201311 yr And from Deadline Hollywood's Oscar watcher Peter Hammond The last shoe to drop in the 2013 awards race dropped Saturday as Martin Scorsese’s much-awaited The Wolf Of Leonardo Dicaprio in The Wolf Of Wall StreetWall Street was unveiled to SAG voters at a couple of screenings at the WGA theatre in Beverly Hills. I caught the film earlier at a small 10am screening for some of the cast members on the Paramount lot and then moderated the Q&A following the 6:30pm screening of the 3 hour film . To say it was rapturously received would be an understatement. DiCaprio received a standing ovation when I introduced him, and just before that co-star Jonah Hill also won huge applause from the packed-to-the-rafters house who also enthusiastically cheered co-stars Rob Reiner (who plays DiCaprio’s dad and stole the show at the Q&A) , Jon Favreau, P.J. Byrne, Ken Choi and Cristin Milioti. I heard the film also received the same kind of enthusiastic response at the earlier screening too. Paramount also threw a party to kick things off in style. Celebration was in order since Paramount at one time wasn’t even sure the film would be ready as Scorsese has been editing to make a 2013 date. Originally it was scheduled for a November 15 release but moved to Christmas bumping Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit into January to make room for the wide release awards run of Wolf. Formal reviews are embargoed but as an initial observation I would label the movie “Scorsese Satyricon” , a wild ride full of contemporary debauchery to say the least (DiCaprio compared some of it to Caligula) , with a fine ensemble and a frenetic pace that belies its three hour running time. And even at that length it never lags. It is the perfect companion piece to Goodfellas and puts Scorsese right back in the thick of the Oscar race, if Academy members, particularly older ones, can deal with the almost non-stop parade of sex , drugs, nudity and rock and roll. Violence, a Scorsese staple in this type of film, is missing but there are a number of remarkable set pieces including a storm-driven yacht voyage that has to be seen to be believed (Rob Legato supervised the Special Effects team). An NC-17 was avoided by some reported judicious cutting but its hard to imagine the stuff that didn’t make it in considering the edgy material that did. There are also the performances, including two sure to gain Oscar recognition for Di Caprio and Hill. As many observers I talked to noted DiCaprio in fact has simply never been better in the signature role of his career as Jordan Belfort , the out-of-control Wall Street hot shot who is at the center of this story. Leo just knocked someone out of the Best Actor lineup making an impossibly difficult year even more difficult. It would be unthinkable to imagine he won’t be in the top five. And Hill, hilarious and memorable as his co-hort in white collar crime is equally great, an almost certain second Best Supporting Actor nod for the actor who was first nominated opposite Brad Pitt in Moneyball. The incredible thing about it all is it’s supposedly all true. This story from Belfort’s book about his rise and fall in the financial world is almost hard to believe but apparently it happened and that should give us all pause. It certainly explains why the economy tanked and we went down with the ship. At age 71 Scorsese is rare among directors at that age, clearly at the top of his directorial powers. He seems energized by the material and the script from Terence Winter. It is a perfect companion to films like Goodfellas and Casino. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has deemed it a comedy for the Golden Globes and I guess that seems right. These guys are hilarious, if tragic. Whatever the label it is a movie that won’t be easy to ignore even as it comes out at the tail end of the season on December 25th. Paramount tells me they are getting it seen by most critics groups in time (though screeners won’t be out by those deadlines) and will be anxious to see the reaction. Despite its length it seems commercial to me and also contains distinct , if limited , turns by the likes of Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and especially Matthew McConaughey , terrific in one brilliantly funny scene as the stock wizard who sets DiCaprio’s Belfort out on the course to self-destruction (incredibly Belfort’s first day as a stock broker was the 1987 day the market crashed). Of particular note among the women is Australian actress Margot Robbie who nails the second very New York wife of Belfort “It’s all true. That’s what is so fascinating about the novel. That’s why I was so obsessed with playing this character. It was a seven year process to get this film made. The financing kept falling apart. ..It was a very difficult film to finance. It’s like the Roman Empire in the 80′s. It’s debaucherous , it was sex and drugs and greed. It wasn’t the most commercial sounding film but Marty’s attitude was always ‘let’s focus on this being a really dark comedy’ and as he said before he intended Goodfellas to be a comedy,” he said adding that he pursued Scorsese consistently to do this movie with him. “I told him after the Golden Globes one night ‘ we have to do this movie. We don’t get opportunities like this ever. These opportunities like this don’t come about . We have to do this movie.” Caprio said he spent many months working with Belfort to take him to the specific moments of his life which15-outrageous-scenes-in-martin-scorseses-wolf-of-wall-street-we-cant-wait-to-see he helped bring to the screen, a rare experience for an actor and that is what clearly helped make the role pay off as well as it does. “It’s like the fall of the Roman Empire. You just can’t believe this man lived this life. This is kind of a microcosm of a much bigger story. They are kind of an outsider beating on Wall Street’s door. These guys are out in a chop shop in Long Island trying to emulate Gordan Gekko. They want to be these guys they admire. And Jordan found a tiny loophole and just kept pushing it further and further and the money took over and the women , and the drugs and pretty soon he was in over his head,” he said. It’s also interesting that Scorsese cast three directors in straight acting roles including Spike Jonze, Jon Favreau and Rob Reiner who got big laughs when he said, “if you get a director who can also act a little bit, then for the director making the film it makes it a little easier because we know what they are going through. We aren’t going to be a pain in the ass. ‘You know in this scene, what’s my motivation? Fuck your motivation. Just say the fucking words Hill said, “I saw it today, this morning for the first time and it’s taken until now to digest what I saw. Martin Scorsese is my favorite artist in the world and to get to play that kind of character in this kind of film, this is the ultimate dream of my life,” he said while also hilariously describing an instant movie classic scene involving taking ludes with Di Caprio and another in which he swallows a live goldfish. Paramount threw a party afterwards in the lobby based on the wild one in the movie and . also like in the movie, hired a marching band to play during the festivities. Understandably, with killer competition getting a head start out there, the studio wants to do everything it can to say The Wolf Of Wall Street has arrived and staked a place in the race. Indeed it has. http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/oscars-scorsese-and-dicaprio-back-in-the-race-as-wolf-of-wall-street-makes-a-raucous-debut/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
December 1, 201311 yr All I can say is thank you all SOOO MUCH for the new reviews and screenign pics! I am seriously soooo stoked to see people are loving it...and it just sounds so awesome. I mean these Goodfellas comparisons I can't even (also anybody who hasn't seen Goodfellas you should go see it. Like now ) Review from IMDB
December 1, 201311 yr All I can say is thank you all SOOO MUCH for the new reviews and screenign pics! I am seriously soooo stoked to see people are loving it...and it just sounds so awesome. I mean these Goodfellas comparisons I can't even (also anybody who hasn't seen Goodfellas you should go see it. Like now ) Review from IMDB ^ Not sure about that one kat since Ray Liotta was one bad ass motha...*shut your mouth* in that movie Looking good though thanks for the updates He was. But its leo damn it
December 1, 201311 yr Pictures of Leo from the screening yesterday: http://fan-girl.org/2013/12/leonardo-dicaprio-with-fans-at-the-writers-guild-theater-in-beverly-hills/
December 2, 201311 yr Thnks oxford for more reactions and calibi for the photos. Like this close uphttp://fan-girl.org/2013/12/leonardo-dicaprio-with-fans-at-the-writers-guild-theater-in-beverly-hills/010-610/
December 2, 201311 yr i love his hair styled like that, i wonder if he'll keep it that length for the run of promotions or if he'll chop it/shavei also hope he keeps that red shirt, such a gooooood color
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