Word: dicaprios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main focuses of the Berlin Film Festival, which runs through Feb. 21, is always the celebrities who've jetted into the frosty German capital for the festivities. Leonardo diCaprio, the star of Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller, Shutter Island, was the talk of town after being spotted at the Grill Royal, one of Berlin's top restaurants. Ewan McGregor hit the red carpet to plug his new film, The Ghost Writer, and Renée Zellweger is sitting on the festival jury. Director Roman Polanski was conspicuous by his absence. (He's still under house arrest in Switzerland on rape...
...familiar box office priorities may reassert themselves next weekend, with the opening of Martin Scorsese's take on the violent horror-mystery story Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. If that pricey effort should tank, Hollywood may have to consider the unthinkable: letting the tastes of women and little children lead them to box-office gold...
Recall that Titanic was a colossal gamble back in '97. With a $200 million budget, it was, some said, the most expensive picture ever made. (In real dollars, that dubious honor would probably go to the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra in 1963.) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were not yet established stars. The historical event lacked suspense: whatever else happened, that 1912 ocean liner would sink; there would be no Titanic II. Moreover, the scenario Cameron did invent was a love story, and that would scare off the guys. (See more about Avatar on Techland.com...
...Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its star-clogged Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Broadway and prime-time cutie Kristin Chenoweth. And Sunday night found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounding up all the usual suspects, plus famous folks not up for anything - Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to name but a few - to lend their allure to the 67th Golden Globe Awards. British comedian Ricky Gervais was the impish, entertaining host...
...when De Niro and DiCaprio flanked their frequent director Martin Scorsese - bestowing upon him the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - as Scorsese argued passionately for film preservation, quoting William Faulkner's "The past is never dead. It's not even past." At that moment it didn't matter who threw the party; it mattered only that the best movie people made it a memorable...