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  • Leonardo DiCaprio honoured for environmental work

    Leonardo DiCaprio honoured for environmental work

    MUMBAI: The Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio was awarded with the prestigious Clinton Global Citizen Award for his work to protect the environment.

     

    Serving as the kickoff for the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, the 8th annual Citizen Awards, honoured outstanding individuals in civil society, philanthropy, public service and the private sector who exemplify global citizenship through their vision, leadership and impact in addressing global challenges.

     

    DiCaprio was presented his award by World Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts, who said, “Now more than ever nature needs a voice. Leonardo DiCaprio is that voice.”

     

    Accepting the award, the Hollywood star said, “Climate change is compromising the very livability of our planet. DiCaprio also urged the audience of global leaders and philanthropists to put environmental issues at the forefront of the human agenda.

     

    The evening was hosted by ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ host, Seth Meyers, and included performances from The Roots, Aloe Blacc, Natalie Merchant and Jason Mraz.

     

    Earlier some 300,000 participants, including DiCaprio, alongside fellow environmental activists Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo, Sting and Evangeline Lilly took to the streets in the largest march for climate change ever. DiCaprio will also be speaking at the UN Climate Summit this week.

     

    Eva Longoria, Seth Meyers, Randy Jackson and Chelsea Clinton also attended the award ceremony.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio named UN Messenger of Peace

    Leonardo DiCaprio named UN Messenger of Peace

    MUMBAI: The Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has been appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace to raise awareness about climate change.

     

    On the new appointment, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said, “DiCaprio is a credible voice in the environmental movement, and has a considerable platform to amplify its message.

     

     “I am pleased he has chosen to add his voice to UN efforts to raise awareness of the urgency and benefits of acting now to combat climate change,” he added.

     

    DiCaprio will also address a UN summit meeting on climate change on 23 September, a day before the UN General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders begins. Leaders from the 193 member states of the United Nations are expected to attend the climate session.

     

    “I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history – it is a moment for action. How we respond to the climate crisis in the coming years will likely determine the fate of humanity and our planet,” the actor said in a statement.

     

    The Academy Award-nominated star of The Wolf of Wall Street and The Aviator joins other celebrities, from Audrey Hepburn to Angelina Jolie, who have represented various UN organisations.

     

    In 1998, the actor established the ‘Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’, whose mission is protecting Earth’s last wild places and building a more harmonious relationship between humanity and the natural world, the United Nations said in the statement.

     

    The organisation has contributed funds toward protecting tigers in Nepal, elephants in the wild, and marine animals, including sharks.

     

    In February, DiCaprio pledged a donation of $3 million to marine conservation and followed with an additional $7 million pledge several months later.

     

    On 21 September, two days before the UN Climate Summit in New York, the Clinton Foundation will honour the actor for his committed environmentalism during a Manhattan gala event featuring Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.

     

    There are currently 11 other messengers of peace and one goodwill ambassador, the United Nations said. Other Hollywood industry notables who have been given the Messenger of Peace title by the UN in recent years include Edward Norton, Michael Douglas, Charlize Theron, George Clooney and Stevie Wonder.

  • Big B to open Indian Film Festival in Melbourne next month

    Big B to open Indian Film Festival in Melbourne next month

    NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bchchan, whose latest film ‘Bhootnath Returns’ was released this week, is to open the Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2014 on 1 May.

     

    The 2014 festival programme was launched in Melbourne by Louise Asher, Australian Minister for Innovation, Tourism and Major Events and Employment and Trade, and Bollywood diva and Festival Ambassador Vidya Balan. The Festival CEO Mitu Bhowmick Lange was also present.

     

    According to Asher, Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. So total was his dominance of the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director Francois Truffaut called him a “one-man industry”.

     

    Addressing media persons, Asher said that the festival will be held from 1 to 11 May and feature over 40 films, with more than half being Australian premieres. “Films will be shown in 20 languages and we will have five free screenings at Federation Square,” Asher said. “Victorians and all visitors to Melbourne are in for a treat of Indian films this year.

     

    “It will be an honour to have Bachchan here, just a year after he opened the Cannes Film Festival with his Great Gatsby co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio,” Asher said.

     

    “In response to community feedback, the festival has also added to the programme an exciting new section called New Voices, which will feature six films from first time filmmakers,” Asher said. 

     

    Other industry guests include Konkona Sen Sharma, Vijay Krishna Acharya (director of Dhoom 3), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (director of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag), Hassan Waqas Rana and  Shaan Shahid (producer and star respectively of Waar, Pakistan’s highest-grossing box office hit of all time), and South Indian actor-producer Suhasini Maniratnam.

     

    Asher said this year’s festival would see the return of Festival favourites, such as the interactive master classes, Western Union Short Film competition and the Telstra Bollywood Dance Competition, to be judged by the incredible actor/producer Malaika Arora Khan, a judge on TV show India’s Got Talent.

     

    Asher said “Balan is a great friend of Victoria, and known for her roles portraying strong female protagonists. She launched the 2012 and 2013 Festivals and it is an honour and a pleasure to have her back this year.”

     

    She added: “The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne brings prominent Indian filmmakers and screen professionals to Melbourne, helps promote Victoria as an international screen production destination, and provides opportunities todevelop Victorian and Indian screen partnerships.”

     

    Balan said she felt at home in Melbourne and would come back again with her husband soon. She thanked the Victorian government for supporting the IFFM 2014 and she considered the festival as a personal achievement.

     

    IFFM Festival director Lange said the 2014 IFFM would be the most exciting and ambitious festival yet. “We could not have asked for a better chief guest than the patriarch of Indian cinema and one of the most iconic Indians of all times, Amitabh Bachchan, to open the festival on 1 May.”

     

    “The inaugural IFFM Awards takes the festival to a new level and we are all very excited to see who the winners will be. I hope you will all join in with your friends and family to celebrate the magic of cinema!,” Lange ended.

  • Amitabh Bachchan hits 10 million fans on Facebook

    Amitabh Bachchan hits 10 million fans on Facebook

    MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan, the legendary Bollywood actor known to be quite active when it comes to social media, has managed to garner 10 million fans for his page. Bachchan has won many major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor (a record he shares with Kamal Hassan and Mammootty), a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies and fourteen Filmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall.

     

    Bachchan, commonly referred to as Big B, put up his 508th post on Facebook, stating, “B 508 -10 MILLION !!!!! Thank you all… just so overwhelmed ..what a way to start the day …”

     

    Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim sharing screen space with famous Hollywood actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

     

    Bachchan is set to make his debut in scripted television in a drama created by Anurag Kashyap.

  • ‘The Great Gatsby’ leads Australian Academy nominations

    ‘The Great Gatsby’ leads Australian Academy nominations

    Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, leads the nominees for the third annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) honors, scoring a total of 14 nominations in almost all categories, including best film and best director.

     

    The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan who have both picked up best acting nominations, while Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki and Isla Fisher are nominated in the supporting actor and actress categories.

     

    Other best film nominees include Satellite Boy from Catriona McKenzie, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year; Ivan Sen’s Outback crime drama Mystery Road, and Tony Krawitz’ Greece-set drama Dead Europe.

     

    The 3rd AACTA Awards will be held on 20 January in Sydney.

  • ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ avoids NC-17 after sex cuts

    ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ avoids NC-17 after sex cuts

    MUMBAI: Director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Street of Wall Street has garnered an R rating – instead of the dreaded NC-17 – after the filmmaker agreed to trim certain nudity and sex scenes, insiders confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

    Initially, the Classification and Ratings Administration Board indicated that Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as disgraced Wall Street broker and hedonistic party boy Jordan Belfort, was destined for the more restrictive rating because of abundant, explicit sex (not to mention drugs).

     

    Scorsese and Paramount, which is distributing the movie in North America, had several exchanges with the ratings board in terms of what was needed to secure an R rating.

     

    After cuts were made, the studio announced it would open Wolf of Wall Street on 25 December. Indications were that the running time had been reduced to two hours and 45 minutes, but the final count is two hours and 59 minutes, including credits (without credits, it is two hours and 53 minutes).

     

    At that length, Wolf of Wall Street has the distinction of being Scorsese’s longest film, beating Casino by a minute.

  • Paramount’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ set for Christmas Day release

    Paramount’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ set for Christmas Day release

    MUMBAI: The latest teaming of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will hit theaters just in time for an Oscar run. Paramount‘s The Wolf Of Wall Street is opening December 25.

    It originally was scheduled for 15 November. The studio cleared the Christmas Day slot last week when it moved the Chris Pine starrer Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit to 17 January.

    It’ll be a busy holiday at the megaplex, with Wall Street going up against openers including Universal’s Keanu Reeves actioner 47 Ronin, Warner Bros’ aging-boxer comedy Grudge Match, Ben Stiller’s take of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty for Fox, Open Road’s Justin Bieber docu Believe and the Weinstein Company’s August: Osage County.

  • Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scott Fitzgerald to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes

    Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scott Fitzgerald to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes

    It is on The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, that the curtain will rise at the inauguration of the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, in the Grand Théâtre Lumi?re of the Palais des Festivals, out of Competition in the Official Selection.

    Adapted from the famous novel by American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald and set against the roaring twenties on the East Coast of the United States, the film depicts the romantic and tragic figure of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), as narrated by his friend Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan, whose husband is played by Joel Edgerton. This prestigious occasion will also be graced with the presence of Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, as well as the American pop star, rapper Jay-Z.

    "It is a great honor for all those who have worked on The Great Gatsby to open the Cannes Film Festival. We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film Strictly Ballroom was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside Saint-Raphaël."

    Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, the film was scripted by Baz Luhrmann and his faithful co-screenwriter Craig Pearce, based on Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel.

    The opening film will be screened in 3D – for the second time during the history of the Festival, following Up by Pete Docter, in 2009.
    On the same day the Festival gets underway – Wednesday 15th May – The Great Gatsby will also open in cinemas nationwide. Both in France and internationally, the film will be distributed in 2D and 3D by Warner Bros. Pictures and in certain regions by Village Roadshow Pictures.

    Born in 1962 in Australia, Baz Luhrmann has twice been honoured by the Festival de Cannes for Strictly Ballroom (Un Certain Regard in 1992) and for Moulin Rouge! at the 54th Festival, in 2001, at an opening which is unlikely to be forgotten any time soon.

    Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby) has rarely been seen on the Croisette. He returns to Cannes for the first time since the 2007 presentation of The 11th Hour, a documentary on ecological issues which the actor himself produced.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Dennis Lehane to team up once again on ‘Travis McGee’

    Leonardo DiCaprio and Dennis Lehane to team up once again on ‘Travis McGee’

    MUMBAI: Leonardo Dicaprio is re-teaming with 'Shutter Island' writer Dennis Lehane. The Hollywood writer will write the screenplay for DiCaprio's crime picture 'Travis McGee', based on John D. MacDonald's 1964 book 'The Deep Blue Good-by' according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    The mystery novel was the first of a 21 book series focusing on the character Travis McGee, a self-described ''salvage consultant''. The film – to be developed by DiCaprio's Appian Way company – is seen by backers 20th Century Fox as a potential franchise.

    The screenplay will be the second book Lehane has adapted after 'Shutter Island' – which also starred DiCaprio. This will be the first film project Lehane has worked on which is not a direct adaptation of his own work.

    Lehane has also enjoyed Hollywood success with his previous novels, with both 'Mystic River' and 'Gone, Baby, Gone' adapted into films.

    His novel 'Live by Night' is also reportedly being prepared to hit soon on big screens.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Dennis Lehane to team up once again on ‘Travis McGee’

    Leonardo DiCaprio and Dennis Lehane to team up once again on ‘Travis McGee’

    MUMBAI: Leonardo Dicaprio is re-teaming with ‘Shutter Island‘ writer Dennis Lehane. The Hollywood writer will write the screenplay for DiCaprio‘s crime picture ‘Travis McGee‘, based on John D. MacDonald‘s 1964 book ‘The Deep Blue Good-by‘ according to The Hollywood Reporter.
     
    The mystery novel was the first of a 21 book series focusing on the character Travis McGee, a self-described ‘‘salvage consultant‘‘. The film – to be developed by DiCaprio‘s Appian Way company – is seen by backers 20th Century Fox as a potential franchise.
     
    The screenplay will be the second book Lehane has adapted after ‘Shutter Island‘ – which also starred DiCaprio. This will be the first film project Lehane has worked on which is not a direct adaptation of his own work.
     
    Lehane has also enjoyed Hollywood success with his previous novels, with both ‘Mystic River‘ and ‘Gone, Baby, Gone‘ adapted into films.
     
    His novel ‘Live by Night‘ is also reportedly being prepared to hit soon on big screens.