Just a few months after the release of their latest film, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are looking to re-team again — this time on a biopic about the life of musician and actor Frank Sinatra. This would mark DiCaprio and Scorsese’s seventh movie together, following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have now made six movies together: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and last year’s Killers of the Flower Moon. (Seven if you want to count their little-seen short “The Audition.”) The two men have almost 25 years of creative history together — and their own history is informed by … Read more
He’s not the most prolific of American filmmakers, but he may be one of our best. Paul Thomas Anderson has made just one film in the 2020s, and only 3 in the last 15 years, but every single one has been a cinematic event. (Those last three, if you’ve forgotten, were Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, and Licorice Pizza. Pretty … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio can’t thank Sharon Stone enough for paying his salary on Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead. Leonardo DiCaprio has become one of our finest actors, but thirty years ago, he was an unknown who found his salary paid by Sharon Stone after the studio refused to hire him. Leonardo DiCaprio had auditioned … Read more
Mark Wahlberg redirected his career “out of necessity” so he wouldn’t lose as many projects to DiCaprio, Pitt and Cruise. Mark Wahlberg had a funky bunch of acting roles on his resume beginning in the mid-’90s but found that he had to put more focus on producing if he was going to try to compete … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio is still reportedly attached to Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie as plot detail start to emerge. Paul Thomas Anderson has been developing his next project for quite some time, with plenty of rumours swirling regarding an all-star cast said to consist of Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall and more. As the SAG-AFTRA strike is … Read more
Jake Gyllenhaal was considered for Batman in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy while WB wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy could have looked a whole lot different if writer David S. Goyer and the studio had gotten their respective ways. As it turns out, Goyer wanted Jake Gyllenhaal as Batman and … Read more
If the critics who’ve already seen Martin Scorsese’s new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, can be can be trusted, it is a crime epic worthy of the director and his cast, which includes both of his most frequent leading men: Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, along with Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, … Read more
Martin Scorsese’s latest historical crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, already premiered a couple months ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Those of us who don’t have a yacht anchored off the Côte d’Azur will have to wait to see it until the fall, unfortunately; that’s when the movie comes to theaters and then … Read more
Somehow, in all the movies Martin Scorsese has made with Robert De Niro, and all the movies Scorsese has made with Leonardo DiCaprio, he has never directed both men in a single movie. But finally, both of Scorsese’s key stars will appear in a single movie: Killers of the Flower Moonbased on David Grann’s non-fiction … Read more