Leonardo DiCaprio

DiCaprio to play Viking in Mel Gibson-directed historical action film

Mel Gibson will direct Leonardo DiCaprio in an untitled period drama centering on Viking culture, according to Variety. William Monahan – who wrote The Departed, Body of Lies, and the upcoming Gibson-starring Edge of Darkness – is penning the screenplay, with shooting expected to start in fall of 2010. According to the report, the principals ….

Dark Knight director’s sci-fi thriller Inception coming to IMAX

IMAX and Warner Bros. announced today that the sci-fi thriller Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) and starring multiple Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond, The Aviator), will be released to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s wide release in conventional theatres on July 16, 2010. The film marks the third IMAX project ….

Leonardo DiCaprio suspense thriller Shutter Island to receive graphic novel treatment along with film

According to ICV2, Leonardo DiCaprio’s upcoming thriller Shutter Island will also become a comic book, come 2010. Tokyopop will publish a full-color, 128-page graphic novel adaptation based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. The comic was originally adapted for French publisher Casterman by artist Christian de Metter. Tokyopop’s English translation will hit store shelves on ….

Todd McFarlane writing screenplay for a new Spawn movie

This is seriously exciting. I wonder what inspired McFarlane start hammering out this new script. Whatever it was, it’s about time. Spawn is one of my favorite cult comic characters. I look forward to seeing how this develops. McFarlane recently declared via Twitter that he is finally writing a script for a Spawn follow-up movie, ….

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new Twilight Zone film gets new writer

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way have taken a step closer to creating a film based on the cult classic TV show The Twilight Zone, by contracting TV series Life show creator Rand Ravich to write a screenplay for the project. Aside from creating Life, Ravich directed The Astronaut’s Wife and produced ….

Leonardo DiCaprio to headline online poker film written by Rounders scribes

Paramount has nabbed rights to a pitch from writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien that takes place in the world of Costa Rica-based online casino gambling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the film, and produce under his Appian Way banner, alongside Jennifer Davisson Killoran. The project is in ….

Revolutionary Road Blu-ray review

Director Sam Mendes works from screenwriter Justin Haythe’s adaptation of Richard Yates’s 1961 novel, to create another stunning work of suburban angst and dissatisfaction with marital conformity with Revolutionary Road. Audiences didn’t take to its blunt, piercing approach, however I found Revolutionary Road to be an enlightening tale that broke apart many of the illusions ….

The Scarecrow follows Christopher Nolan to the sci-fi thriller Inception

Marion Cotillard (A Good Year), Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Red Eye) and Ellen Page (Juno) are all in discussions to join Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Inception, which he is writing and directing. Leonardo DiCaprio is already attached to star in the film. Production on the film starts this summer for a ….

First look at the tech – and budget – behind Avatar…and Titanic coming BACK to theaters in 3D?

The New York Times posted an extended article on the making of James Cameron’s upcoming 3D epic Avatar. It has a lot of info on the film and the groundbreaking technology behind it from Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Jeffrey Katenberg, and Cameron himself. One of the major bits of information was that producers are digitalizing ….

Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the sci-fi action thriller Inception

Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in Inception, the sci-fi thriller that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan wrote and will direct as his next film, according to Variety. According to the report, Inception will shoot this year and is set to be released in the summer of 2010, with Nolan and Emma Thomas producing. The ….