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Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Animated for The Guardians
4 December 2009 2:40 AM, PST
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has played a wide variety of roles during his career, from a drug-addicted teenager in The Basketball Diaries to the visionary industrialist Howard Hughes in The Aviator. Now, the three-time Academy Award-nominated actor is preparing to add a completely different type of character to his impressive resume by starring in his first-ever animated feature.
A recent DreamWorks press release has been announced that DiCaprio will lend his voice to the character of Jack Frost in The Guardians (working title), a feature-length animated film based on The Guardians of Childhood series of books by William Joyce. The DreamWorks release included a brief synopsis of the movie's plot.
When an evil spirit called Pitch becomes bent upon taking over the world by inspiring fear in the hearts of kids everywhere, a group of our greatest heroes — Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and Jack Frost — band together for the first time,
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tMF Talkback: Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Two awesome actors in similar mode?
5 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me which movie of Leonardo DiCaprio I remember the most, I'd say - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', and I'll have to add that even though Johnny Depp headlines the flick, both him and Leo stood out with their heartfelt performances- with DiCaprio earning an Oscar nom for his role. While I am inclined to say that Leo's role appears to be the more challenging, the acclaim he received stems from the fact that he really put himself into Arnie and he became that character.
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In putting some more perspective, let's see how the Lasse Hallstrom's movie fared with the critics - In 'Grape' Chicago Tribune's Roger Ebert said:
The special quality of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is not its oddness, however, but its warmth. Johnny Depp, as Gilbert, has specialized in playing outsiders ("Edward Scissorhands," "Benny
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Talkback: Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Two awesome actors in similar mode?
5 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me which movie of Leonardo DiCaprio I remember the most, I'd say - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', and I'll have to add that even though Johnny Depp headlines the flick, both him and Leo stood out with their heartfelt performances- with DiCaprio earning an Oscar nom for his role. While I am inclined to say that Leo's role appears to be the more challenging, the acclaim he received stems from the fact that he really put himself into Arnie and he became that character.
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In putting some more perspective, let's see how the Lasse Hallstrom's movie fared with the critics - In 'Grape' Chicago Tribune's Roger Ebert said:
The special quality of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is not its oddness, however, but its warmth. Johnny Depp, as Gilbert, has specialized in playing outsiders ("Edward Scissorhands," "Benny
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Talkback: Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Two awesome actors in similar mode?
5 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me which movie of Leonardo DiCaprio I remember the most, I'd say - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', and I'll have to add that even though Johnny Depp headlines the flick, both him and Leo stood out with their heartfelt performances- with DiCaprio earning an Oscar nom for his role. While I am inclined to say that Leo's role appears to be the more challenging, the acclaim he received stems from the fact that he really put himself into Arnie and he became that character.
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In putting some more perspective, let's see how the Lasse Hallstrom's movie fared with the critics - In 'Grape' Chicago Tribune's Roger Ebert said:
The special quality of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is not its oddness, however, but its warmth. Johnny Depp, as Gilbert, has specialized in playing outsiders ("Edward Scissorhands," "Benny
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Talkback: Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Two awesome actors in similar mode?
5 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me which movie of Leonardo DiCaprio I remember the most, I'd say - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', and I'll have to add that even though Johnny Depp headlines the flick, both him and Leo stood out with their heartfelt performances- with DiCaprio earning an Oscar nom for his role. While I am inclined to say that Leo's role appears to be the more challenging, the acclaim he received stems from the fact that he really put himself into Arnie and he became that character.
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In putting some more perspective, let's see how the Lasse Hallstrom's movie fared with the critics - In 'Grape' Chicago Tribune's Roger Ebert said:
The special quality of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is not its oddness, however, but its warmth. Johnny Depp, as Gilbert, has specialized in playing outsiders ("Edward Scissorhands," "Benny
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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Rip Punk Poet Jim Carroll
14 September 2009 3:02 PM, PDT
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Punk poet and author of The Basketball Diaries Jim Carroll passed away September 11th at the age of 60. His autobiography, which detailed his transformation from prep school basketball player to an increasingly desperate drug addict, was adapted for the big screen in 1995. Leonardo DiCaprio's raw performance as Carroll bolstered the young actor's rising star; the film also featured Lorraine Bracco as Jim's mom and Mark Wahlberg as one of his teammates and drug buddies.
Carroll also contributed two songs to the soundtrack, "Catholic Boy" and "People Who Died, " which was also used in the soundtracks for E.T. and the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
The rocker and writer was also featured in the documentary Poetry in Motion, along with other famous modern poets like Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Anne Waldman. Check out some clips from the movie here, courtesy of Monika Bartyzel. After the jump
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- Jenni Miller
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Leonardo DiCaprio On Jim Carroll
14 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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The New York Times' obituary for author/artist Jim Carroll came as sad news to many fans. Hit the link for full obit:
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The news of Carroll's death reminded us of the interviews we did (back in '95) for the big-screen adaptation of his classic coming-of-age story, The Basketball Diaries. Leonardo DiCaprio was very forthcoming in talking about [...]
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Punk-poet Jim Carroll dies, aged 60
14 September 2009 4:15 AM, PDT
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Punk-poet and Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll has died, aged 60. The writer's ex-wife Rosemary Klemfuss confirmed that he passed away at his home in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack, reports The New York Times. Carroll emerged from the New York art scene of the 1970s alongside Andy Warhol and Patti Smith and achieved acclaim in 1980 for his punk album Catholic Boy. The track 'People Who Died' went on to feature on Steven Spielberg's soundtrack to E.T. His other LPs included Dry Dreams and I Write Your Name. The Basketball Diaries, which (more)
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Basketball Diaries Writer Carroll Dead
14 September 2009 1:06 AM, PDT
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Punk musician and poet Jim Carroll has died following a heart attack. He was 60.
Carroll, best known for his memoirs, The Basketball Diaries, which were adapted into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995, passed away at his home in New York on Friday.
He published his biography in 1978, in which he told of his hellraising youth as a basketball player and a severe drug addict in Manhattan.
He went on to become an acclaimed poet and punk star, who worked with the likes of Lou Reed and The Doors.
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'The Basketball Diaries' author dies aged 60.
13 September 2009 11:28 PM, PDT
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The author of "The Basketball Diaries" died on Friday at the age of 60. His ex-wife Rosemary Caroll told the New York Times that he died of a heart attack at his Manhattam home.
Carroll, a poet and punk rocker, published a few poetry collections and his 1980 album called "Catholic Boy" has been called a landmark punk record.
It was "The Basketball Diaries" which brought him his biggest audience. The autobiography of his life as a sports star at the elite private high school Trinity, turned into a 1995 film starring Lionardo DiCaprio.
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Poet and Punk Jim Carroll has died
13 September 2009 10:31 PM, PDT
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Punk singer, poet and prolific author Jim Carroll, who penned "The Basketball Diaries," has died. Carroll chronicled his youth spent at a private school into .The Basketball Diaries,. wich was turned into a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll, age 60, died Friday of a heart attack in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. .The Basketball Diaries. was Carroll.s drug-fuelled recollections of his life as a teenage basketball star at a Manhattan private school during the 1960's. Atlantic records signed Carroll for his music, and he also published numerous poetry collections, including "Void of Course (1998)," .The Book of Nods. (1986) and .Fear of Dreaming. (1993). According to the Jim Carroll website, http://catholicboy.com/ : "I am
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- April MacIntyre
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Drew Barrymore's 'Whip It' Features Roller-Derby Superwomen
26 August 2009 10:42 PM, PDT
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'We all felt like action heroes!' said actress Juliette Lewis of her role in the movie.
By Eric Ditzian
Ellen Page and Landon Pigg in "Whip It"
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Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore and Juliette Lewis would wake up in the morning, do yoga and then strength-train together for two hours before going roller skating until nightfall. It was a bruise-inducing journey of female camaraderie, a two-month-long, check-your-ego-at-the-door boot camp for Barrymore's directorial debut, "Whip It." And as Lewis told MTV News as part of our weeklong fall movie preview, it was a chance for these actresses to become their own versions of superwomen.
"We all felt like action heroes!" the actress/singer said.
The film follows Page as a small-town Texas teen fed up with the beauty-pageant circuit who finds her way into an all-female league of roller-derby divas. Wiig and Barrymore play her tough-talking teammates,
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New Writers Brought In to Rewrite 'Shazam!'
20 August 2009 2:16 AM, PDT
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"Shazam!" apparently isn't as dead as what has been reported earlier this year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor-turned-writer Bill Birch has been picked up by Warner Bros. Pictures to reboot this adaptation of a DC Comics series that features Captain Marvel. In scripting the screenplay, he will get a helping hand from DC Comics writer Geoff Johns.
Currently writing Warners' "One Finger Salute", Birch who has starred in such series as "The Unit" and "Just Shoot Me!" is the sixth writer brought into the project to pen the screenplay. "The Princess Bride" scribe William Goldman, "The Basketball Diaries" writer Bryan Goluboff, "Garfield" screenwriters Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, and "Big Fish" penner John August have all taken a crack at adapting the comic series.
Birch's co-writer, Johns, is one of the three DC Comics heavyweights hired by the studio to act as consultants on DC projects. With the tapping of Birch and Johns,
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New Writers for DC's Shazam & DreamWorks' Rainbow Bridge
20 August 2009 1:04 AM, PDT
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A couple of new screenwriter updates today. Warner Brothers has hired former actor Billy Birch and DC Comics writer Geoff Johns to kick-start and co-write a new version of the Shazam! movie that never got off the ground. Birch is the sixth writer to take a crack at adapting the character Captain Marvel following William Goldman (The Princess Bride), Bryan Goluboff (The Basketball Diaries), Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Garfield) and John August (Big Fish, The Nines). Last we heard in back in January, the project was dead, but apparently Get Smart's Peter Segal is still attached to direct and is waiting for the new script.
In other news, Spielberg's new DreamWorks has hired Oscar winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost, Jacob's Ladder, The Time Traveler's Wife) to write an English remake of the 2002 Japanese cult hit Resurrection, which has tentatively been re-titled to Rainbow Bridge. Resurrection, or Yomigaeri
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- Alex Billington
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Wishlist 2: Young actors I wish would do more movies- Ezra Miller!
10 August 2009 7:18 PM, PDT
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Do you remember that young boy who starred with Omar Sharif in Monsieur Ibrahim? He's a young French actor and it was his first ever feature film, and he was incredible! What's his name again? Yes, its Pierre Boulanger! Oh, how about that naughty young boy who was cast alongside Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, his name if I recall correctly is Andrew Simpson, where is he now? How about that young and exciting German actor who portrayed the teenage Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf? Yes, Tom Shilling! And that awesome young guy in AfterSchool? I need to know if he has done more movies! Ezra Miller!
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"They ought to be in More pictures!" seems to be the perfect expression for these gifted young actors who have shown such talents but remain relatively unknown and waiting for more movie audiences to discover them.
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Wishlist 2: Young actors I wish would do more movies- Ezra Miller!
10 August 2009 7:18 PM, PDT
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Do you remember that young boy who starred with Omar Sharif in Monsieur Ibrahim? He's a young French actor and it was his first ever feature film, and he was incredible! What's his name again? Yes, its Pierre Boulanger! Oh, how about that naughty young boy who was cast alongside Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, his name if I recall correctly is Andrew Simpson, where is he now? How about that young and exciting German actor who portrayed the teenage Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf? Yes, Tom Shilling! And that awesome young guy in AfterSchool? I need to know if he has done more movies! Ezra Miller!
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"They ought to be in More pictures!" seems to be the perfect expression for these gifted young actors who have shown such talents but remain relatively unknown and waiting for more movie audiences to discover them.
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Wishlist 2: Young actors I wish would do more movies- Ezra Miller!
10 August 2009 7:18 PM, PDT
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Do you remember that young boy who starred with Omar Sharif in Monsieur Ibrahim? He's a young French actor and it was his first ever feature film, and he was incredible! What's his name again? Yes, its Pierre Boulanger! Oh, how about that naughty young boy who was cast alongside Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, his name if I recall correctly is Andrew Simpson, where is he now? How about that young and exciting German actor who portrayed the teenage Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf? Yes, Tom Shilling! And that awesome young guy in AfterSchool? I need to know if he has done more movies! Ezra Miller!
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"They ought to be in More pictures!" seems to be the perfect expression for these gifted young actors who have shown such talents but remain relatively unknown and waiting for more movie audiences to discover them.
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Watch the Trailer for Uwe Boll's Rampage or He'll Kill You!
31 July 2009 1:36 AM, PDT
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I can't help but get the feeling Uwe Boll needs a hug. He seems very angry and lately has been making movies that reflect that anger, that utter contempt for society, that deep down urge to destroy everyone and everything. He uncorked his rage in a serious manner with Seed and then comically so with Postal. His latest, Rampage, is shaping up to be the film that replaces The Basketball Diaries as the spree shooter movie manifesto.
Rampage is about a guy named Bill who grows fed up with his dead end existence and the world in general. Bill decides to vent his frustrations by stock-piling an arsenal of high-powered weaponry and constructing a full-body Kevlar suit of armor and going on a murderous rampage through the streets of his hometown, killing everyone in sight (I hear the film's body count crosses into triple digits), particularly the barista that failed
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Bryan Goluboff Switches from Diaries to 'Gonzo Files'
28 July 2009
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- Better known for penning The Basketball Diaries and best known nowadays for scripting HBO's In Treatment, scribe Bryan Goluboff will be taking he director's chair for his debut film currently lensing in Brooklyn. Production Weekly reports that the indie film will feature the likes of Amy Sedaris (Jennifer's Body), Campbell Scott (Phoebe in Wonderland) and Judah Friedlander (Chapter 27). The Gonzo Files was once set for an August shoot in Vancouver, but apparently it may have shifted locales. This is being described as a high school film with dark side of elements and a ...Say Anything kind of tone and includes a boy band turned actor Jesse McCartney in the lead and speaking of music, also includes Lenny Kravtiz's daughter Zoë Kravitz in a supporting role.
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Twilight star Robert Pattinson: this decade’s Leonardo DiCaprio
9 June 2009 3:02 AM, PDT
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Bright flashes greeted him at every turn. His face was the centerpiece of every magazine, and his name was a-tip every tongue in the free world. In 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio made his big break with Titanic, and the world would not forget his name.
At twenty-three years old, DiCaprio had already earned one Academy Award nomination for his work with Johnny Depp and Juliette Lewis in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? and had stunned his fair share of audiences with his brilliant portrayal of Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries. Some were hard-pressed to forget his name after his newcomer addition to the cast of Growing Pains back in 1991. His work in Romeo + Juliet would capture the hearts of many, and his work with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and Russell Crowe in The Quick And The Dead allowed DiCaprio to pass muster with film aficionados the world over. Yet, nothing could
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