EverythingisTerrible found this old video, which promises an exclusive look inside the private life of that famous heartthrob from Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio. He. Is. So. Fine. Some of the things you might learn from this video about 1995’s hottest Tiger Beat cover boy:
And no, I did not make any of those quotes up. EverythingisTerrible deserves an Oscar for finding this.
Martin Scorsese’s latest, Shutter Island (trailer below), was set for release October 2nd, but Paramount has decided to move it to February 19th, taking it out of contention for the 2009 Oscars (and a February release won’t help their chances in 2010 either). Via Nikke Finke:
An insider tells me. “It tested in the high 80s/low 90s and Scorsese even brought it down to 2 hours.” So what’s the problem? I hear that Paramount told the filmmakers it doesn’t have the financing in 2009 to spend the $50M to $60M necessary to market a big awards pic like this. [...] I’m also told that, among the many reasons for the move, Leo [DiCaprio] wasn’t going to be available to promote the pic internationally. So the studio settled on the release date of February 19th because “that’s when Silence Of The Lambs came out” back in 1991 and it won the Oscar.
Now Paramount can throw their full weight behind their other two big Oscar contenders, GI Joe and Transformers 2.
Below is the official trailer and some possible spoilers for Inception, the film Chris Nolan has to finish before he can work on the next Batman sequel (he already dropped out of The Prisoner). The official site for the movie is now live, although all that’s on it right now is this nifty buttplug.
YOUR MIND *sunglasses on* IS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME *YEEEAAAAAAAH!*
Did I leave the oven on?
The trailer for Chris Nolan’s latest, Inception, is going to play in theatres before many showings of Inglourious Basterds. But don’t let the fact that there will probably be bootlegs available in a day stop us from speculating on what’s in the trailer. Will there be tigers? Explosions? Whips and creatures? Secret dwarf whores? Well some people have already seen the trailer; let’s hear it from them. There’s a youtube trailer with 64 views (below) that I can sum up as, “uh . . . um . . . helicopter . . . and
. . . um . . . hallway . . . and . . . um . . . pretty cool.”
Slashfilm has a review from a tipster as well:
Ridley Scott, who just last week was announced as the director of an Alien prequel, is now said to be adapting everyone’s favorite high school English book Brave New World for Universal. Hollywood Reporter reports that Scott will be “producing with an eye to direct”, while Leonardo DiCaprio will “produce with an eye to star.” Forest Whitaker, meanwhile, is said to be reading the book “with an eye to the floor.”
Much of the timing going forward will depend on the script. Scott is not committed to direct any go projects beyond “Robin Hood,” his period actioner which is shooting in England. DiCaprio is shooting the Christopher Nolan adventure tale “Inception” but does not have a movie lined up after that.
“Brave” has had several go-rounds on television, including a Leonard Nimoy-Peter Gallagher pic on NBC in 1998. But Huxley’s idea-rich novel hasn’t had a shot on the big screen.
Huxley sets his book in a seemingly perfect 26th century world that has achieved harmony by tightly controlling birth, which takes place mainly in laboratories, and outlawing family. The world is populated by a series of five castes, each with its own defined roles.
Characters who figure in to the story are Bernard, a lower-caste member, and Lenina, the woman with whom he is infatuated. DiCaprio is would likely play Bernard, who is persecuted when the leaders of the society find his behavior antisocial.
I’m excited to see what Ridley Scott could do with Brave New World, but not if it means we never get to see his big-screen adaptation of Monopoly. Who will play the thimble? And what of the flying shoe? I WON $10 IN A BEAUTY CONTEST AND I’M DYING TO SPEND IT ON A MONOPOLY MOVIE, GODDAMMIT!
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