Martin Scorsese has described his new movie The Wolf Of Wall Street as an exciting story.

The movie will be the fifth collaboration between the Oscar winning director and Leonardo DiCaprio, their first project together since Shutter Island.

Filming on the movie is yet to get underway but Scorsese is keen to get started.

Speaking to ET Online the filmmaker said: “We’re aiming to start later this summer. It’s such an exciting story.

“Even though it’s set in the early ’90s, the attitude is there. The actions are the same. Our values are the same.”

“It’s not like we had solid values until 1998 — the issue is that we were founded on certain values, and tried to maintain them.”

Scorsese may be reuniting with DiCaprio on a Frank Sinatra biopic but he is yet to announce who will play the crooner.

DiCaprio has been linked to the role for some time but Scorsese hinted that he may yet cast an unknown actor for the part.

Scorsese found himself in the Oscar fold once again earlier this year as he was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture for Hugo.

The movie marked his first attempt at 3D and it was met with critical acclaim when it hit screens at the end of last year.

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Naomi Watts has blasted the Academy Awards for snubbing her J. Edgar leading man Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Aussie beauty says she is staggered Titanic actor Leo is not among the Best Actor nominees for this month’s Academy Awards following his stirring performance as disgraced FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover.

“I think he did an incredible job and it was a brilliant performance,” says Naomi. “I was quite shocked he wasn’t nominated actually because he certainly deserved it.”

Naomi recently admitted her nerves almost got the better of her at the start of her career.

“It is a hard slog,” says Naomi. “I think I had to learn how to be myself and relax before people noticed me.

“People in America like confidence and I wasn’t like that. It made it so much harder.”

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Look out Hugh Jackman — you’ve got some A-list competition in the charity coffee space.

Leonardo DiCaprio announced today that his environmental foundation is forming an alliance with coffee roaster La Colombe Torrefaction on a new new, ultra high-end coffee line, called LYON.

One-hundred percent of the net profits from the sale of LYON will be donated to environmental charities supported by the DiCaprio’s foundation.

“Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever,” said Leonardo DiCaprio. “I am thrilled to be a part of this new project with La Colombe that will help aid the shift to a truly sustainable future for the planet and its inhabitants.”‘

“Coffee employs over 100 million people worldwide, most of which is slash and burn and sold cheaply,” said Todd Carmichael, CEO and Co-Founder of La Colombe. “Sustainable coffee — specifically, coffee that is traded above fair prices and grown using earth conscious methods — not only adds much needed global biodiversity, but provides support for millions of families and communities in the developing world. The impact we are having in Haiti alone, just to bring this coffee to market, has changed the lives of thousands of peasant farmers, as well as the landscape of the country.”

He added, “We are excited to be working with and supporting The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and find it, as well as its namesake, uniquely qualified to carry out our hope, to make our planet a better place.”

Reflecting the luxe quality of the brand, LYON will be sold starting today in Williams Sonoma stores nationwide, La Colombe Cafes, and select Whole Foods. You can also bypass the masses and order your own online here. A 12oz bags sells for just under $13.

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Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed that he wants to turn his hand to directing. The Hollywood star said he would like to try working behind the cameras and would approach it in the same way as his J. Edgar director Clint Eastwood.

Speaking to GQ Australia he said: “Yeah. I do [want to direct]. And if I did direct, I would try to have the same approach to it as Clint [Eastwood] and his crew have.”

The Inception star continued to explain that there are “no frills” on the Million Dollar Baby director’s set saying: “It’s a small, tight-knit crew.”

Leonardo already has producing credits on his CV, on films such as Orphan, Red Riding Hood and The Ides Of March.

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Leonardo DiCaprio has admitted he’d love to bag an Oscar — but it’s not what motivates him.

Hollywood’s highest paid actor, Leonardo has been nominated for an Academy Award three times.

“I don’t think anyone would say that they wouldn’t want one. I think they would be lying,” the star said.

But Leonardo, 37, who could be nominated again for his title role in Clint EastWood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic, said: “I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles.

“I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

“I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry.

“That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.”

J. Edgar is in cinemas now.

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Leonardo DiCaprio was in awe after watching Titanic in 3D and was amazed by how young he looks in the movie, according to producer Jon Landau.

Director James Cameron has updated the 1997 blockbuster using new technology and will release the rebooted historical drama next year to mark the 100th anniversary of the luxury liner’s fatal maiden voyage.

DiCaprio watched newly-converted scenes on Sunday (December 4) while meeting with Landau in Australia and was blown away by the finished footage — as well as his younger self.

Landau recalls, “Leo, who was 20 when he shot the film, was at first very verbal when he saw the 3D version. He kept saying, ‘I don’t look like that anymore,’ but then he became absorbed into the film as if he’s seeing it for the first time.”

Landau also reveals the painstaking process of converting to 3D took Cameron and his effects staff 60 weeks, telling the Hollywood Reporter, “We’re treating each shot as a special effect shot. Our team and Jim Cameron are looking at it in a frame-by-frame basis… to use 3D to enhance the storytelling and to enhance the audience experience in the theatre.

“That’s what we want to do. We want to drive people out of their homes and into the cinema… Our use of 3D is not to create a world coming out of a window, but to open a window into a world.”

Titanic won 11 Academy Awards in 1998 and was the highest-grossing film ever until it was dethroned by Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar.

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The Titanic star plays the former director of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, and spent hours every day undergoing a facial transformation for the role.

But DiCaprio was not a fan of the prosthetics, and found the shoot extremely challenging.

He tells Britain’s Total Film magazine, “I found it to be incredibly claustrophobic at times, because you have so many different layers of prosthetic make-up on you, but I also had an incredible amount of weight that was put on me.

“Plus, it wasn’t just the physicality of it; it was inhabiting somebody that had 50 years of experience on people around him. You have to almost slow your heart rate down for that.”

Co-star Armie Hammer adds, “It was such a long process. You would have days where we’d show up at nine in the morning and be done with make-up by about five in the afternoon, and then start acting until about midnight, then spend two or three hours getting the make-up off.”

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Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio says he jumped at the chance to play J. Edgar Hoover because the FBI’s first director was “a Crock-Pot of eccentricities.”

“I think [screenwriter] Dustin Lance Black put it best when he said if we can better understand these people and their motivations and how their sort of ambition manifested itself into their politics, we can learn from them, we can learn from history,” DiCaprio said at a recent Los Angeles news conference promoting his new bio-picture J. Edgar.

“To me, you couldn’t write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable,” the actor laughed. “He was a Crock-Pot of eccentricities. We couldn’t even fit all of his eccentricities into this movie. We could go on and on, but the fact that this man was, if not the most powerful man in the last century, one of the most, in our country, and he lived with his mother until he was 40 years old. He listened to his mother for political advice.”

DiCaprio said his research into Hoover’s childhood offered some valuable insight into the controversial top cop Hoover would become.

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In a recent interview, Martin Scorsese revealed what we had all expected for so long, he wants Leonardo DiCaprio to play Frank Sinatra in his biopic, which is currently in development.

When asked “So you still have Leo in mind for Sinatra?” Scorsese replied “Yes I do, but we are staring again with a new script and so that should begin in January or February.”

However, Scorsese stated that he couldn’t reveal who would be penning the script, suggesting that Phil Alden Robinson, who was originally signed on to write the script, is no longer around.

Also, when asked how he would tackle the music, he said his “first instinct” would be to have recorded music of Sinatra on top of the actor, while still trying to make it not look like lip syncing. When asked about the possibility of it being in 3D, he replied “Why not? Open your minds.”

Another Scorsese project we will see shortly is The Irishman. When asked about a potential sequel to Taxi Driver, Scorsese said “that came and went and we (Scorsese and Robert De Niro) have another project in mind that we hope to get next year or so.”

When asked if it was the one based on the book, Scorsese confirmed “Yeah Paint Houses” which is of course the book I Heard You Paint Houses, which Scorsese has retitled The Irishman for his film.

We know that Sinatra, The Gambler and Furious Love are all in development with Scorsese at the helm and we can presume that The Snowman will also join that list. However, be the sounds of “next year or so” Scorsese still may not have decided whether to do The Irishman or, his long awaited passion project Silence, first. It had previously been stated that Silence would start in January, but with no mention of it here, it seems it may have hit yet another road block.

Hopefully as Scorsese does the rounds for his latest film, Hugo, we will find out more information on the status of his many upcoming films. And if we do, we’ll keep you posted.

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