Leonardo DiCaprio - (Please Read First Post Prior to Posting)

[FashionDream]

At the 20:17 mark is the Marvin's Room interview... then Deniro appears but Leo starts talking again at 20:46. I bet there's more to this interview than was shown though.

[BarbieErin]

calibi and ox: thanks for the tweets, more reviews and Leo pic.

 

fash: thanks to find the video.

[calibi]

Sidney Iwanter ‏@greenbushboy 

Just saw Wolf of Wall Street at WGA. So far best movie I've seen this year.

 

Sidney Iwanter ‏@greenbushboy 

Just saw Wolf of Wall Street. Brilliant.

 

Nick Antosca ‏@nickantosca 

2 in 2 days. WOLF OF WALL STREET a masterpiece. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

 

Tyler Hall ‏@T_HallSwag51 

Just saw the directors cut of Wolf of wall-street wasn't Leonardo's greatest but I liked it a lot

[calibi]

Greg Marcks ‏@gregmarcks 

The Wolf of Wall Street is debaucherously funny. Gordon Gekko by way of Hunter S. Thompson.

 

Justin Britt-Gibson ‏@Justamani 

Wolf of Wall Street is too much fun.

 

TS Faull ‏@faullguy 

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is fucking hilarious. In the first 5 minutes DiCaprio blows coke up a hooker's asshole. They'll be snorting Oscars!

 

BenDavid Grabinski ‏@bdgrabinski 

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is fucking bonkers.

 

BenDavid Grabinski ‏@bdgrabinski 

Leonardo DiCaprio is all time in that movie. It's somehow both endless and extremely entertaining.

 

Nick Smoke ‏@nickysmoke 

The Wolf of Wall Street with @AmeliaRBlaire at the DGA! We're both a little grossed out. Watch it. See people like this exist. Be better.

 

Todd Bouldin ‏@rtoddbouldin 

I saw "Wolf of Wall Street" tonight. Got to hear Leo talk about it too. A serious comedy from Marty Scorsese about excess unlike his others.

 

Eddie Quintana ‏@eddiequintana 

The Wolf of Wall Street is unbelievably good. Like really, really, unbelievably fucking amazingly good.

 

Ryan Case ‏@film114 

The Wolf of Wall Street was Scorsese's best since Goodfellas. Him + Terence Winter + Leo at his best.

[oxford25]

More Wolf screening tweets

Spaghetto ‏@SPAGHETTO 1h

Just saw a pre release screening of Scorsese's Wolf Of Wall Street @ the Directors Guild & it was so good! DiCaprio's performance is amazing

[oxford25]

From Hollywood Reporter : 'The Great Gatsby' Leads Australian Academy Honors Nominations

The Baz Luhrmann film gets 14 noms, including for stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, Aussie Oscar hopeful "The Rocket" scores 10 noms, and Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake" leads the TV nominees.

Baz Luhrmann's rollicking reinterpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby leads the nominees for the third annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) honors,b] scoring a total of 14 nominations in virtually all categories, including best film and best director.

Gatsby stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan both picked up best acting nominations, while Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki and Isla Fisher all scooped nominations in the supporting actor and actress categories, respectively

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/great-gatsby-leads-australian-academy-661451

[oxford25]

Another possible film project for Leo ; the site with the news is the source as so far have seen no mention of this at Variety/Hollywood Reporter

Warner Brothers has snatched up the hot new Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin & Hobbes) biopic A BOY AND HIS TIGER from our very own TB Recommended writer Dan Dollar. The project, which will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Roy Lee and Rock Shaink, chronicles the early career of Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, and his struggle with the sudden popularity, coverage, and licensing battles that came with creating one of the most influential comics of a generation.

With the heat, and exceptional sales stemming from the recently released Calvin & Hobbes documentary “Dear Mr. Watterson” and the intensifying Oscar buzz for DiCaprio spilling from every early screening of “Wolf of Wall Street” thus far, I must admit I’m beyond intrigued to see this combo play out. DiCaprio, who made a point to step away from the camera earlier this year, has continued to add a bevy of potential biopics to his plate, this one following the ‘Woodrow Wilson’ one announced just a few months ago. With Calvin & Hobbes, he lands a surefire trip down nostalgia lane, with an audience that has been craving anything and everything Calvin & Hobbes since it’s disappearance almost 20 years ago in 1995.

Dollar, who is new on the scene (this marks his first spec and first sale) was one of our first TB Recommended writers with this very script. Following our recomendation he quickly began working with producers and landed a team of reps at Industry Entertainment with Michael Botti, and Jon Cassir & Alexandra Trustman at CAA before hitting the market. To say we’re jumping around like a group of proud parents is an absolute understatement.

Appian Way, Vertigo Entertainment and Romark Entertainment will also produce.

A big congratulations to Dan, and the entire team!

http://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exclusive-warner-brothers-leonardo-dicaprio-team-up-for-calvin-hobbes-biopic/

[oxford25]

Clip of Leo at last night's Wolf screening talking about what it is to be an actor

[myheartnexttoyours]

I found a cute story about Leo last night on twitter. Trying to post from my phone!

@rubieeliz: Twitter, something very surreal happened to me last night, and I feel like I should tell you the story.

@rubieeliz: I tripped on cobblestones in SoHo, caught some air, and fell hard. Really hard. Like, felt dazed and fuzzy & took a few seconds to come to.

@rubieeliz: When I did, a group of men had run over, asking if I was OK. I was completely mortified but grabbed an extended hand to help myself up.

@rubieeliz: Embarrassed, I muttered "Ugh sorry thank you" and looked up at the man connected to the hand. He had scruffy facial hair & a newsboy cap...

@rubieeliz: ...yep, the guy that helped me up from my humiliating fall was none other than Leonardo DiCaprio.

@rubieeliz: His friends encouraged me to sit w/them in the store (!) & get my bearings, but, still feeling fuzzy and stupid, I thanked them and ran off.

@rubieeliz: And that's how one of the most embarrassing moments of my life happened in front of a guy whose poster was on my wall as a teenager. The end

[BarbieErin]

wow, such a story, and Leo as always soo adorable.  thanks myheartnexttoyours.

 

ox and calibi: thanks for the news.

[Nanda23]

^^ Aww, really cute . God bless. Thanks, myheartnexttoyours.

 

Thanks Ox and Calibi for all the tweets, pics and video. So far so good . Also tks Fash and Lua for the articles.

 

Thanks Barbie for the videos.

[katchitup]

Aww how cute, thanks for that story! what a shame she was too disoriented to go have a sit with leo

 

Thank you all for the updates!

[magali]

Oh, so beautiful story. Leo is so adorable.

[katchitup]

Clip of Leo at last night's Wolf screening talking about what it is to be an actor

Loved this interview, he seemed so relaxed, I hope this continues into other interviews!

[Marjo92blabla]

 

The laughs and cheers continued into the Q&A, where DiCaprio, also a producer on the film, described reading Belfort’s book and comparing him to a modern-day Caligula. When it came time for audience questions, DiCaprio recognized a young man in the audience and after an exchange of pleasantries, the man asked how he stayed on the top of his game, being such a great actor for so long. Hill instantly jumped in, “Thank you for asking…”, causing DiCaprio and the audience to explode into laughter.

 

[neonntiger92]

 

 

The laughs and cheers continued into the Q&A, where DiCaprio, also a producer on the film, described reading Belfort’s book and comparing him to a modern-day Caligula. When it came time for audience questions, DiCaprio recognized a young man in the audience and after an exchange of pleasantries, the man asked how he stayed on the top of his game, being such a great actor for so long. Hill instantly jumped in, “Thank you for asking…”, causing DiCaprio and the audience to explode into laughter.

 

 

Love that question Leo is such a great actor ! *.*

 

[katchitup]

Screening schedule, looks like the next ones are taking place in San Francisco (unless they already did that while he was in Cali) and in London

 

‘Wolf of Wall Street’: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Bring Sex, Drugs and Money to the Oscar Race

 

Scorsese’s wild three-hour movie has become the hot screening ticket as voting deadlines approach

Everybody loves Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” – including, perhaps, people who haven’t even seen it.

The three-hour real-life tale of financial skullduggery and personal excess has become the hottest screening ticket in town in the first few days of its guild screenings, with Paramount turning away viewers at SAG, AMPAS, DGA and WGA screenings that began on Saturday afternoon and will continue all week in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and London.

The studio is also rolling out the film to critics on a need-to-vote basis, showing it to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the New York Film Critics Circle ahead of their voting deadlines, and scheduling additional screenings for other critics’ groups who will cast ballots in upcoming weeks.

Reviews are embargoed, but it’s safe to say that early reaction has been on the wildly positive side for Scorsese’s take on the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, a freewheeling and wickedly funny 179-minute chronicle of sex, drugs, enormous wealth and even more enormous misbehavior.

he most controversial praise for the film came from the International Press Academy, a group of journalists formed in 1996 by Mirjana Van Blaricom, a former president of and defector from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The group gave the “Wolf” five nominations for their 18th annual Satellite Awards.

The curious thing about the nominations: IPA members hadn’t been invited to see the movie.

Did they vote for Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and screenwriter Terence Winter because they thought they should, or because they were hoping to up the star power at their March 9 show? That’s the conclusion drawn by Hitfix’s Kris Tapley, who broke the news that the IPA had nominated “Wolf” without seeing it.

Van Blaricom disputed that account in an interview with GoldDerby’s Tom O’Neil, claiming that she and 26 other IPA members had seen it as guests of SAG members at a Saturday screening, and that many members saw the film at other weekend screenings. AFTRA and SAG members, she said, “are permitted to bring two guests and we go with them. That way we get to see movies first.”

Paramount, though, pointed out that the only SAG nominating committee members were allowed to bring guests to the “Wolf of Wall Street” screenings – and that only 20 nom-com members brought guests, all of whom were known to the studio. “The IPA was not at the SAG screening this Saturday,” a Paramount rep flatly told TheWrap.

But regardless of how “Wolf” fared with Satellite voters, it seems likely that the movie will also fare well among voters with considerably more credibility.

Based on Monday night’s Writers Guild screening (at which WGA members were allowed to bring guests), Scorsese’s big, bold and excessive movie is the kind of last-minute entry that could impact the awards race the way Quentin Tarantino’s big, bold and excessive “Django Unchained” did last December.

As a matter of record, I updated my predictions at the Gold Derby website late Monday night to put Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill into the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, respectively; to add Scorsese to my Best Director predictions; and to move Terence Winter’s screenplay into the second spot, right behind “12 Years a Slave.”

In a conversation with “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner that followed Monday’s WGA screening, Winter said that he wrote the script in 2007, and that Scorsese had only one request: “Could I write it in the style of ‘Goodfellas?’”

“Marty sparked to the idea right away … that this could be a great companion piece to ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Casino,’” he said.

In pre-production, Winter said, he sat in a room with Scorsese and DiCaprio every day for a month, going over each line of the script. “Didn’t you get defensive?” asked Weiner.

Winter laughed. “Oh yeah,” he said.

One thing he learned during that time: Don’t get too technical.

“Marty and Leo didn’t really understand it,” he said of the details of Belfort’s financial transgressions, which sent him to federal prison for securities fraud and money laundering. “I had to explain what an IPO is to them about 90 times. And finally I said, ‘All we need to know is, they made $27 million in three hours.’ And we put that explanation in the film.”

Winter said he spent a lot of time with Belfort, as did DiCaprio. But while the writer heard what a great speaker Belfort could be, none of his subject’s legendary exhortations to his staff had been filmed. So at one point, he said, he asked Belfort to deliver a new speech.

“I asked him, ‘If I could fill a room at CAA full of assistants and young agents, could you [give a speech]?’”

Weiner cringed at the idea putting a motivational speaker in front of a room of young agents. “Now, that’s all they need over there,” he said, laughing.

 

 

http://www.thewrap.com/wolf-wall-street-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-race-screening-reactions

[oxford25]

Filmmaker Rod Lurie comments about the Wolf of Wall Street

Wolf is everything you’d expected it to be and everything you’d hope it would be. It’s got Tom Wolfe on the brain and Hunter S. Thompson in its veins. You get the sense as you’re watching it that Marty Scorsese has never been happier in his career making a movie. It’s got verve and energy and there isn’t a split second that is not somehow engaging you and daring you. It seems to be the work of a man much younger than the maestro in question.”

[FashionDream]

So no wins for Wolf at NYFCC awards (New York Film critics). Redford won Best actor and American Hustle won Best Picture. Isn't American Hustle being campaigned for the comedy section at the Golden Globes...

 

Anyways, loved that story about Leo and his friends helping that woman up when she fell.

 

Oh and thanks for all the twit pics of Leo.