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One of the projects we’ve heard about off and on over the last year is the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Wolf Of Wall Street. Which follows “a drug-, alcohol-, and sex-addicted brokerage firm operator’s rise and fall — from multi-millionaire twenty-something in the go-go eighties to federal-convict thirty-something banned from the securities business for life in 1994.” Originally the film had Martin Scorsese set to direct, then he dropped out and Ridley Scott was going to helm the drama, but then somewhere along the way Mr. Scorsese was back on board as director. And now? Now Mr. Scorsese is officially no longer attached to direct as he is working on personal projects so the film has no director, but a studio has just required rights to the film (Red Granite Pictures if anyone is interested). It looks like DiCaprio’s company (Appian Way) will produce the film and there’s a good chance DiCaprio and the studio will be looking for financiers at Cannes over the next week and a half. Whatever happens, it looks like this thing will be moving forward in the next year or so.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and his girlfriend Bar Refaeli have called it quits, according to Page Six.

The couple ended their relationship last week after going through a rough patch.

“It was amicable, they’re still friends and they are still talking,” said a source close to the couple. “They just grew apart and went their separate ways.”

“Neither were ready to settle down, and both have busy careers that have been taking them in different directions,” the source added.

Leo and Bar were together for four years before taking a six-month break in 2009 and later getting back together.

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When a film already has Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire in its cast, it’s hard to get worked up about the arrival of a bona fide newcomer. But if Baz Luhrmann’s excited about adding Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki to his Great Gatsby ensemble, then who are we to disapprove?

Debicki has been tapped to play Jordan Baker in Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless novel, according to Deadline. The character is the love interest of Gatsby narrator Nick Carraway, who will be played by Maguire. DiCaprio will play Gatsby, while Mulligan has been cast as his Daisy.

As for the casting of a relative novice, Luhrmann proclaimed, “It was a surprising result, but Elizabeth’s grasp of the material and her chemical connectivity to Tobey Maguire, in addition to her striking, athletic appearance, had us in a place where we were fully confident and ready to take the leap of giving the role of Jordan Baker to what, I guess, people would term ‘a discovery’. We are thrilled.”

Everybody has to start somewhere, and for Debicki, this “somewhere” is pretty massive. About the only major role left for Luhrmann to cast is that of Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan. The part was Ben Affleck’s at one time, but he bowed out due to a scheduling conflict with his next directing gig, Argo.

Source: CinemaBlend.com

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play former finance prince and drug enthusiast Jordan Belfort in the big-screen adaptation of Belfort’s memoir, Wolf Of Wall Street.

Financing was locked up yesterday for the picture — Red Granite Pictures acquired the rights to the book and will produce the film.

Martin Scorsese is being floated as a possible director for the project.

No word on how DiCaprio’s commitment to this will influence development of the other scripts he’s shown interest in recently.

That to-do list includes an interpretation of Conspiracy Of Fools, based on Kurt Eichenwald’s book about an Enron employee who stumbles on in-house scandal.

The Wolf backdrop is nineties Manhattan hedonism — further supporting our theory that the decade is the hottest theme in Hollywood right now.

Source: Business Insider

In honour of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival where Robert De Niro will act as Jury president today’s issue of France’s Madame Figaro magazine compiled a list of his “spiritual sons”. My attempt at a translation.

Leonardo DiCaprio
Scorsese’s muse

Profile Gentle Leo, actor since his teens, is pretty like a boy band singer but annoyed not to have more masculine looks. In Hollywood – where he became a star – he’s bored. They give him a ship (Titanic). He sinks it. The Beach? He and his friends (Canet, Ledoyen) turn it into a playground for spoiled actors. Suddenly, the man who played the son-in-law of Robert De Niro in This Boy’s Life has an idea. What if he became caliph in the Caliph’s place?

Method Steal the director. To entice the great Marty (Scorsese), an outcast in Hollywood, he laid fantastic budgets at his feet. And achieved the impossible: to shoot four movies (soon five) with the master. Critics only see the fire. “Sadistically” treated by Scorsese, who loves breaking the image of his Leo and increasing difficult scenes – rat phobic Leo had to act with them for Shutter Island – the actor has reached his nirvana. Aged, magnified, mucked up, he finally got some substance and a Golden Globe (for The Aviator). While awaiting the Oscar.

Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t afraid to splash the cash.

The actor reportedly spent $1.2 million on a Salvador Dali painting at Christie’s last night.

DiCaprio did eye up two Picassos, but was outbid, according to the New York Post.

“He bid on the Picassos, but it was clear the Dali was what he wanted,” said Rachel Stekson, 23, who works in a Manhattan gallery. “He turned around and was like, ‘Yes!’”

DiCaprio’s acquisition, the surrealist “Chevaliers en parade,” depicts a knight and is signed by the artist. The star also owns a Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Source: Showbiz Spy