February 20Feb 20 17 minutes ago, akatosh said: Another new project: Town Says Aloha To A Hawaii-Set ‘Goodfellas’ Meets ‘The Departed:’ Scorsese, DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt Top Crime Drama Package EXCLUSIVE: The hot package in town is a pitch for a Martin Scorsese-directed untitled drama that would star Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. The thumbnail description: Imagine Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas, but as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, based on a real figure, who battled encroaching rivals for control of organized crime in Hawaii. To be written by Nick Bilton, the film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise. Producers include Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn. This would mean another big collaboration in an historic run for DiCaprio and Scorsese, who just recently worked together on Best Picture nominee Killers of Flower Moon, to go with highlights including The Aviator, The Departed, Gangs of New York, and The Wolf of Wall Street, This also marks a reunion for Blunt and Johnson, who worked together on Jungle Cruise for Disney. It is an especially big opportunity for Johnson, who has roots in Hawaii and long wanted to make a movie there. He has kicked around a movie about King Kamehameha, who in a much different way used his strength and persuasiveness to unite the islands to improve the dealing with the explorers that were finding their way to the island shores. Johnson is paired with Blunt on the Benny Safdi-directed Smashing Machine for A24, coming later this year. It was Blunt and Johnson who brought the idea to Scorsese and DiCaprio, and they all enlisted Bilton, who’ll start writing when this gets set up. Even though these principals are engaged in other projects, the town quickly sparked to the pitch, and we hear multiple bids are either on the table or are fast mobilizing. This is poised to be a big one. Stay tuned. https://deadline.com/2025/02/scorsese-dicaprio-crime-movie-dwayne-johnson-emily-blunt-1236295098/ I also found it on X, thanks for sharing @akatosh!♥️
February 21Feb 21 Next Scorsese Movie With The Rock, DiCaprio & Emily Blunt Sparks 5-Way Bidding War, Netflix Reportedly in Aggressive Pursuit. https://screenrant.com/martin-scorsese-dwayne-johnson-leonardo-dicaprio-emily-blunt-hawaii-movie-bidding-war/
February 21Feb 21 Leo will be working again soon Damien Chazelle’s Evel Knievel Biopic, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shoots This Summer Remember back in December when I reported on Damien Chazelle directing an Evel Knievel biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star? Well, not only is it now happening, but it’s coming much sooner than expected. Puck’s Matt Belloni is saying a deal is basically sealed for DiCaprio to star, and that the film is supposed to shoot this summer. William Monahan (“The Departed”) wrote the original draft, but the latest version has a draft by Terence Winter (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Sopranos”) with Chazelle revising. This will also not be a straightforward rise and fall biopic. Instead, the story is set in a single year, 1974, and tackles Knievel’s ambitious planning to jump across Idaho’s Snake River on his motorcycle. Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer, known for his motorcycle jumps (and bad temper). During his stunt career, Knievel suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime.” Knievel ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due to an unflattering book written about him. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm. Knievel served 6 months in jail, but lost all his endorsements and contracts. Chazelle’s last film, “Babylon,” tanked at the box-office, making $63M against a production budget of a little under $100M. “Babylon” ultimately lost Paramount an estimated $87 million. Oddly enough, it was a huge hit in France, with both critics and audiences. Earlier this year, Chazelle had mentioned almost being done writing a new script and that, although he was about to pitch it to a studio, an uncertainty lingered in his head as to how Hollywood would welcome him back into fold after “Babylon.” However, with someone like DiCaprio attached to star, it’s not that surprising to see that Paramount is greenlighting the project. If you remember, DiCaprio was originally supposed to star in Chazelle’s “Babylon” before having to drop out due scheduling issues. He was later replaced by Brad Pitt. DiCaprio recently wrapped shooting Paul Thomas Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” which is set for 2025 release. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/2/21/damien-chazelles-evel-knievel-biopic-starring-leonard-dicaprio-shoots-this-summer
February 22Feb 22 6 hours ago, akatosh said: Leo will be working again soon Damien Chazelle’s Evel Knievel Biopic, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shoots This Summer Remember back in December when I reported on Damien Chazelle directing an Evel Knievel biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star? Well, not only is it now happening, but it’s coming much sooner than expected. Puck’s Matt Belloni is saying a deal is basically sealed for DiCaprio to star, and that the film is supposed to shoot this summer. William Monahan (“The Departed”) wrote the original draft, but the latest version has a draft by Terence Winter (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Sopranos”) with Chazelle revising. This will also not be a straightforward rise and fall biopic. Instead, the story is set in a single year, 1974, and tackles Knievel’s ambitious planning to jump across Idaho’s Snake River on his motorcycle. Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer, known for his motorcycle jumps (and bad temper). During his stunt career, Knievel suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime.” Knievel ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due to an unflattering book written about him. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm. Knievel served 6 months in jail, but lost all his endorsements and contracts. Chazelle’s last film, “Babylon,” tanked at the box-office, making $63M against a production budget of a little under $100M. “Babylon” ultimately lost Paramount an estimated $87 million. Oddly enough, it was a huge hit in France, with both critics and audiences. Earlier this year, Chazelle had mentioned almost being done writing a new script and that, although he was about to pitch it to a studio, an uncertainty lingered in his head as to how Hollywood would welcome him back into fold after “Babylon.” However, with someone like DiCaprio attached to star, it’s not that surprising to see that Paramount is greenlighting the project. If you remember, DiCaprio was originally supposed to star in Chazelle’s “Babylon” before having to drop out due scheduling issues. He was later replaced by Brad Pitt. DiCaprio recently wrapped shooting Paul Thomas Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” which is set for 2025 release. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/2/21/damien-chazelles-evel-knievel-biopic-starring-leonard-dicaprio-shoots-this-summer Yeah, I'am so glad about this! And Very happy with all this new projects!
February 24Feb 24 More Plot Details for PTA's ‘One Battle After Another' February 24, 2025 Jordan Ruimy I’ve already reported on Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” having recently test screened, back in late January. I have more plot details on the film. This will be a brief summary of what awaits us in the PTA’s latest. Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor are the Bonnie and Clyde of the film, activists for civil rights who get involved with an anti-government group, which includes Alana Haim and Regina Hall’s characters. Regina mentors and trains DiCaprio’s daughter (Chase Infinit). Sean Penn is the villain, Sgt. Lockjaw, described as an “alt-right” Richard Spencer-type who joins a “white supremacy” group. The film, clocking in at close to 3 hours, is a relentless chase movie that has Lockjaw and the white nationalist group going after DiCaprio, Taylor, Hall and Infiniti. The film is being described as PTA’s most “commercial” effort to date; a 3-hour chase movie that goes from one big set-piece to the next. The action is relentless. It’s also highly political, and is supposed to “mirror” some of the hot button topics of today’s America. Warner Bros invested $140M+ on this film. “One Battle After Another” is supposed to be released in theaters on August 8, 2025, but word is that it might change that date for a fall launch, and will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September. For the time being, we’ve had no trailer, let alone any official stills, released of the film. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/2/22/pta
February 27Feb 27 Warner Bros. Believes PTA's ‘One Battle After Another' Will Gross $180M Domestically Contrary to what you might think, I’m not totally against what David Zaslav is doing over at Warner Bros. Sure, it’s wrong to not release already-completed films (“Coyote vs Acme”), but on the bright side, Zaslav is one of the very few, if not the only, studio exec willing to dish out hundreds of millions of dollars on auteur-driven passion projects. Who else is doing that? That’s right, absolutely nobody. Zaslav’s losses are our gains. Bloomberg now has a report describing Zaslav’s love for auteur-driven cinema, and how this infatuation for the medium might sadly, and quite epically, backfire on him in 2025. It’s not just “Joker: Folie a Deux, which cost $200M and bombed in 2024. Warner Bros has a bunch of other pricey auteur-driven films coming out, including Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride” ($100M), Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” ($150M), Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” ($100M) David Robert Mitchells’ “Flowervale Street” ($90M), and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” ($140M). With that said, Zaslav is starting to panic. Do you blame him? The Bloomberg report has him condemning Warner Bros film heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy in a meeting after ‘Folie a Deux’ flopped on opening weekend. It doesn’t that almost all of the titles I just mentioned had their original budgets balloon during production. The report goes on to state that, despite the Zaslav lashing, De Luca and Abdy are optimistic about their 2025 slate. In fact, internally, and with the “star power” of Leonardo DiCaprio at the helm, they are forecasting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” will earn $180M domestically. PTA’s most successful film (“There Will Be Blood”) only managed to make $76M worldwide. Sure, this latest one has DiCaprio — who is said to have earned $20M to star — and is banking on a splashy rollout, in IMAX, no less, but it’s turned into the definition of a RISK. There’s also zero chance it keeps that August release date. Regardless, what an enormous gamble this was for Warners, especially given that the most successful film of PTA’s career (“There Will Be Blood”) only managed to earn $76M worldwide. Sure, this latest one has DiCaprio but $180M might be stretching it. I hope I’m wrong. More recently, Warner executives were telling The Wall Street Journal that “DiCaprio’s box-office track record justifies the budget for Anderson’s latest”. Regardless, the real winner here is PTA who somehow managed to convince Warner Bros to shell out this much money for his new film. No matter how much this film makes, it’s damn-near miraculous he got the greenlight on a $140M+ Thomas Pynchon adaptation.
February 27Feb 27 I know this days is hard for a movie like this to do well at the box office, but fingers crossed for the audience and critics to like it 🤞
February 27Feb 27 2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said: Warner Bros. Believes PTA's ‘One Battle After Another' Will Gross $180M Domestically Contrary to what you might think, I’m not totally against what David Zaslav is doing over at Warner Bros. Sure, it’s wrong to not release already-completed films (“Coyote vs Acme”), but on the bright side, Zaslav is one of the very few, if not the only, studio exec willing to dish out hundreds of millions of dollars on auteur-driven passion projects. Who else is doing that? That’s right, absolutely nobody. Zaslav’s losses are our gains. Bloomberg now has a report describing Zaslav’s love for auteur-driven cinema, and how this infatuation for the medium might sadly, and quite epically, backfire on him in 2025. It’s not just “Joker: Folie a Deux, which cost $200M and bombed in 2024. Warner Bros has a bunch of other pricey auteur-driven films coming out, including Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride” ($100M), Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” ($150M), Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” ($100M) David Robert Mitchells’ “Flowervale Street” ($90M), and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” ($140M). With that said, Zaslav is starting to panic. Do you blame him? The Bloomberg report has him condemning Warner Bros film heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy in a meeting after ‘Folie a Deux’ flopped on opening weekend. It doesn’t that almost all of the titles I just mentioned had their original budgets balloon during production. The report goes on to state that, despite the Zaslav lashing, De Luca and Abdy are optimistic about their 2025 slate. In fact, internally, and with the “star power” of Leonardo DiCaprio at the helm, they are forecasting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” will earn $180M domestically. PTA’s most successful film (“There Will Be Blood”) only managed to make $76M worldwide. Sure, this latest one has DiCaprio — who is said to have earned $20M to star — and is banking on a splashy rollout, in IMAX, no less, but it’s turned into the definition of a RISK. There’s also zero chance it keeps that August release date. Regardless, what an enormous gamble this was for Warners, especially given that the most successful film of PTA’s career (“There Will Be Blood”) only managed to earn $76M worldwide. Sure, this latest one has DiCaprio but $180M might be stretching it. I hope I’m wrong. More recently, Warner executives were telling The Wall Street Journal that “DiCaprio’s box-office track record justifies the budget for Anderson’s latest”. Regardless, the real winner here is PTA who somehow managed to convince Warner Bros to shell out this much money for his new film. No matter how much this film makes, it’s damn-near miraculous he got the greenlight on a $140M+ Thomas Pynchon adaptation. Hopefully 🙌🙌
February 27Feb 27 Yes. I think a lot is resting on Leo’s shoulder’s with this one. Hard to know what will be a success anymore
February 27Feb 27 23 minutes ago, AliceT said: Yes. I think a lot is resting on Leo’s shoulder’s with this one. Hard to know what will be a success anymore True
March 2Mar 2 https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/3/2/pta I guess they’re still figuring out how to market it
March 3Mar 3 Not Leo related, BUT I need to say this: #JUSTICEFORFERNANDATORRESANDDEMIMOORE Nothing against Mikey Madison, but nope, that was not an Oscar worthy performance, HELL NO! Still, I'am happy for I'am Still Here winning best international picture, first time Brazil wins this award!
March 3Mar 3 13 hours ago, BarbieErin said: Not Leo related, BUT I need to say this: #JUSTICEFORFERNANDATORRESANDDEMIMOORE Nothing against Mikey Madison, but nope, that was not an Oscar worthy performance, HELL NO! Still, I'am happy for I'am Still Here winning best international picture, first time Brazil wins this award! Let's celebrate @BarbieErin♥️ Our country's first win!♥️
March 5Mar 5 Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted during a game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Los Angeles Lakers at http://Crypto.Com Arena in Los Angeles (March 4, 2025). More photos: https://leonardo-dicaprio.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=1039
March 5Mar 5 55 of the Most Anticipated Film Performances of 2025: Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julia Roberts, Nia Long and More 15 Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film’ Likely to carry the title “One Battle After Another,” the still-not-officially-titled movie from Paul Thomas Anderson already has the town buzzing. With Leonardo DiCaprio and PTA teaming up for the first time and plot details remaining under wraps, the pairing of the Oscar-winning star of “The Revenant” and “The Departed” with the mind behind “There Will Be Blood” and “Licorice Pizza” promises something bold and unforgettable. With Anderson’s signature storytelling and DiCaprio’s track record of awards-caliber performances and already buzzy roles from Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Hall, expect a cerebral, gripping film that will dominate the conversation. https://variety.com/lists/most-anticipated-movie-performances-2025/leonardo-dicaprio-untitled-paul-thomas-anderson-film/?fbclid=PAY2xjawI1NI9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpg1LumM1a5INdjfvc4q0JEXmJZUyGKv7-dg5C0IeDDOb8niu7YeXx-3X_Q_aem_IjYVAcG1PY-CbpNcJqjiyQ
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