Knights Bridge will produce the blockbuster "Putin" starring DiCaprio. Knights Bridge will produce the blockbuster "Putin" starring DiCaprio The first blockbuster of DiCaprio's company
Announcements of a film about the Russian President under the same name “Putin” have appeared on the portal of the film company Knights Bridge Entertainment and in the special section of the world’s largest film database IMDB. These announcements state that the film is in "development" status.
Moreover, the opposition TV channel Dozhd learned that the main role of Putin himself will be played by the legendary American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. He, according to media reports, “gave preliminary consent to play the role of Vladimir Putin.”
“The producer of the project is Mark Damon. Work on the film Putin has been going on for the past year, and now the final version of the script is being approved. The film’s screenwriters were three authors, and the name of the director is “everyone’s heard.” Several top Hollywood stars are involved in the casting of the film , but names are not revealed before filming begins,” Dozhd quotes KBE top manager Valery Saaryan. According to journalists, filming will take place in Russia, the USA and Europe - starting in 2016. The film itself will be released in 2017.
The film company also published information that the film will be a "political thriller" based on "facts from the life and work of the president who found himself at the top of world politics." “From a KGB officer, prime minister - to president. A man-myth. A look at the personal life and career of one of the most influential people in the world,” reads the official description of the future film project.
Earlier, Leonardo DiCaprio (who spoke about his love for Russia and his Russian grandmother) told the German publication Welt am Sonntag that he dreams of playing the role of Vladimir Putin. “Putin would be very, very, very interesting, I would love to play him,” DiCaprio is sure.
“Look, on the one hand, Putin is the world’s No. 1 leader, the most influential person, a peacemaker, an unbending president of a great power. About him is like a third of the world’s news every day. On the other hand, now we and the West have almost “ “Cold War 2,” and Hollywood (let’s be honest!) has always worked as a means of influencing millions of people, “infiltrating” them in the ways they need,” said the famous Russian director, who asked not to use his name (yet).
He added that “Here everything comes down to the same DiCaprio. He loves Russia, and as far as I know, sincerely. Will he agree to outright “cranberries”, pumping up the myths “Putin has children”, “Putin is to blame for...” "Or will he refuse to act in this case - and there will be a scandal? Or will there still be a sane, honest film? You need to read the script."
The director also explained that “This film will not do without filming in Russia, near the Kremlin or in the Kremlin, in other “powerful” and iconic places. I think that the Kremlin will receive the film script when it is contacted for approvals - and then We'll find out what kind of blockbuster it will be."
As you know, he began acting at the age of two, his parents were happy to place their son in television shows, commercials and series, he even quickly got his own agent. DiCaprio became famous, received awards for his roles, and even appeared in the TV series Santa Barbara. But all this was clearly not enough for the boy, and a completely different life was destined for him. It began when Leonardo reached the age of seventeen. He himself selected him among 400 other young men for the main role in the film “This Guy’s Life.” DiCaprio had to play opposite him, and the young actor did a brilliant job, which was noted by American critics. A troubled boy who is in conflict with his troubled stepfather, lives with a troubled mother and is friends with a troubled homosexual classmate is another test for a young, albeit professional, artist. DiCaprio used expression - and won.Trailer for the film "This Boy's Life"
To play a leading role opposite DeNiro at the age of 17 – isn’t that the ultimate dream? But in the same 1993, everyone learned about DiCaprio - in connection with the film, where he played together with the then superstar. Depp also looked at many young actors and also chose DiCaprio among many other candidates, and Leonardo’s role was also very difficult - a weak-minded teenager with whom his older brother needs to constantly seek contact. Depp was the star, and DiCaprio had a clearly minor role, but the only nomination for the Golden Globe and Oscar was for the young actor, and from that moment DiCaprio became one of the chosen ones: before any mention of his name in the press, a note about his involvement in the main national film award.Trailer for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Streetball, girls, fights, drugs - the time has come for DiCaprio to play a real bad boy, but not an ordinary one, but a very talented guy with a future. Which we still have to live to see, especially considering the constant hallucinations where he shoots people with a gun. For millions of viewers of this film, it was obvious that the boy who was harassed in the shower by his trainer would grow into a famous poet and musician Jim Carroll. But DiCaprio merged so much with the role that everyone quickly forgot about Carroll: before the audience there was a bundle of nerves who lived through one borderline situation after another on the screen.Trailer for the film “The Basketball Diaries”
DiCaprio could not play to the limit here: he was approved for the role after the one who had previously received it died of an overdose, and it is unlikely that anyone expected that DiCaprio would be able to adequately replace him. By the way, it is believed that Phoenix was supposed to play in “The Basketball Diary,” but in fact he refused because he would no longer be able to convincingly portray a 15-year-old boy. But Arthur Rimbaud suited him just right, and in the way Leonardo DiCaprio embodied this image, there is a subtle shade of a requiem for a brilliant colleague. Rimbaud's role as Paul Verlaine's friend and lover required a certain courage, but DiCaprio had none of it. The film was not a commercial success, but it retains its cult status to this day.Trailer for the film "Total Eclipse"
This picture began a new period in DiCaprio's life. If before that he was an actor in “adult” dramatic films, which was loved more by critics than by the general public, now he has turned into a hero-lover for whom schoolgirls from all over the world are pining. Shakespeare's text became the basis for a youth postmodern blockbuster with guns and kisses. DiCaprio plays here a little less subtly than before, but he has not lowered the emotional level. The scene of Mercutio's death was played by him to the limit of human capabilities, and for this alone the picture is worth watching.Trailer for the film "Romeo + Juliet"
Not into superstars, but immediately into first place among everyone and everything - after Titanic, DiCaprio turned from a person into a symbol, a picture on a T-shirt, the dream of all women on Earth, regardless of age. A retro melodrama about a poor artist who falls in love with an aristocrat from the first class of the Titanic, unexpectedly even for the film's authors, it became the box office record holder in the entire history of cinema. Moreover, it became a phenomenon of mass culture, its turning point in the transition to the 21st century and at the same time a bridge between generations, because all ages cried over the tragic love of a young couple.Trailer for the film "Titanic"
Was this kind of fame what DiCaprio was looking for? Hardly. Because never again in his life did he play a young man in love, or a man in love, as commercial genre cinema suggests. The world has never seen such acting asceticism. There were a couple of cases that could be called exceptions (and failed exceptions), but overall DiCaprio did not betray himself. And soon after Titanic, he confirmed the seriousness of his intentions by playing in , which for any actor is a sign of the highest quality. Therefore, DiCaprio played a supporting role, and even one that many considered a self-parody: the young movie star is going crazy from the sudden fame. DiCaprio is a very serious person in real life, but he is always ready to joke about himself. And Woody Allen helped him a lot with this.Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "Celebrity"
For several years after Titanic, DiCaprio seemed unable to find a place for himself in cinema. All that was offered to him was either a repetition of what he had learned, or commercial crafts, where he had nothing to play and was simply not interested. The turning point in his career happened when, who had also been in another creative crisis for several years, invited DiCaprio to star in “Gangs of New York” - a cruel and monumental film about what immigration to the USA is. Leonardo DiCaprio had never played such a brutal character before, never played a leader, never carried out a massacre on screen. Spectators around the world were at first dumbfounded, and then came to incredible delight from this spectacle. Although among the film’s 10 Oscar nominations there was not one for DiCaprio, it became clear that this friendship must be continued and strengthened.Trailer for the film "Gangs of New York"
A notable example of this collaboration is the remake of the Hong Kong police thriller, also tough, uncompromising, but made not monumentally, but dynamically, as if not by a living classic, but by a nervous young genius. The incredible number of stars in the company of DiCaprio did not overshadow the merits of his performance. For his role as an undercover cop, he received a Golden Globe nomination, but the “academics” again ignored him. At this point, DiCaprio’s failure to receive a statuette was considered not so much unfair as simply ridiculous.Trailer for the film "The Departed"
Despite the fact that the film instantly became a cult hit, while also remaining a commercial hit, it became clear: DiCaprio again seemed to have nothing to play. Not too interesting. Just being the hero of a thriller, just participating in large-scale action scenes filled with special effects, and just playing drama to the extent that commercial cinema can afford is boring. And although next to “Inception” there is another remarkable film “Shutter Island”, DiCaprio does not show anything new there in comparison with his past works. It only became clear that he was increasingly gravitating toward negative, and not just complex, characters.Trailer for the film "Inception"
And it’s best to be an antihero. There has never been such a scoundrel in DiCaprio’s career: at the sight of his bloodthirsty plantation owner, the viewer’s hand itself reaches for the holster, even if in reality there is none. They said that DiCaprio already had an Oscar for his supporting role in his pocket, but the Academy chose not to notice this film, which was much brighter than the one it received the following year on the same topic.Trailer for the film "Django Unchained"
Here DiCaprio unexpectedly appeared in a completely new image. Indeed, it would be impossible to come up with a better candidate for the role of Gatsby, and given that the film itself is similar to the presentation of Fitzgerald’s book as if from Gatsby’s point of view, the Oscar seemed to be floating into DiCaprio’s hands. And again - nothing, despite the warm reception of the film in Cannes, where it opened the festival.Trailer for the film "The Great Gatsby"
The topic of the Academy’s financial fraud is much more interesting and much closer, here DiCaprio managed to at least get into the nominations. The film was a huge financial success, in which DiCaprio plays a skilled and cunning businessman playing the stock market, earning millions with the help of a team of adventurers and leading the most unbridled lifestyle imaginable.Trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street
The film, steeped in myths and legends, describing a fantastic story of revenge, brought DiCaprio a long-awaited triumph - an Oscar. DiCaprio played the implausible story, like a grotesque retelling of Jack London's northern tales, as if it were a documentary of his personal journey through the impossible. Academics, unmoved by the actor's dramatic talent, have always greatly valued overcoming physical obstacles, and although DiCaprio did not lose 30 kilograms for the role, such grueling conditions are rare in the United States. Since then, however, the Oscar has lost its main intrigue, which for a long time fueled interest in it.Trailer for the film "The Revenant"
From the stage, DiCaprio spoke not about his path in cinema, but about environmental issues. In 2014, the actor was appointed UN Peace Ambassador on climate issues, and it was clear that this issue has long occupied him much more than cinematic vanity fairs. In the new documentary, he talks about his discoveries, and although the frame alternates between the set of The Revenant and Donald Trump, it is clear that DiCaprio has dedicated himself to the fight against global warming with all his characteristic passion. And, probably, if you asked him which film he considers his main one, he would name this one. By the way, the Oscar once already went to a documentary about global warming, so the next ceremony now also has intrigue, and again thanks to DiCaprio.Trailer for the film "Save the Planet"
An actor who has proven many times the legitimacy of his place in the Hollywood elite. Congratulating Leo on his birthday, ELLE tells you the main thing you need to know about him.
1. DiCaprio earned his rare name for Hollywood in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence - pregnant Irmelin DiCaprio, an American of German and Russian blood, stood in front of a Da Vinci painting when her unborn son pushed his mother in the stomach for the first time. DiCaprio's agent strongly recommended that he abandon his father's beautiful name and Italian surname in favor of the neutral pseudonym Lenny Williams, but 10-year-old Leo did not follow the bad advice.
2. Before landing several television roles (including as young Mason Capwell in the 2,137-episode Santa Barbara), DiCaprio was fired from a children's television show for "disruptive" behavior (at the age of either three or five). and managed to scare teachers with shockingly authentic impersonations of Charles Manson. Leo’s Hollywood debut was a role in the humorous horror film “Nibblers-3.”
3. It was his eminent colleagues who were the first to appreciate DiCaprio’s talent. Robert De Niro personally selected Leo from four hundred candidates to play his adopted son in This Boy's Life. “When Leo works, you can’t tear yourself away from him,” said Meryl Streep, who played with him and De Niro in Marvin’s Room. “If necessary, I would wear it to filming myself,” echoed Sharon Stone, who donated part of her own fee for “The Quick and the Dead” to DiCaprio.
4. Directors, when it came to Leo, were more often overcome by doubts - say, the director of the drama “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” Lasse Hallström thought that the actor’s appearance would distract from his role as a mentally retarded teenager. DiCaprio brilliantly justified the trust placed in him, earned an Oscar nomination and the moral right to apply for other difficult roles. It is symptomatic that handsome Leo shared his first on-screen kiss with a man, David Thewlis, in “Total Eclipse.”
5. The title role in Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" was the preparatory shot for the salvo of all guns that turned out to be "Titanic" - a sentimental blockbuster that earned two billion dollars and 11 Oscars, making DiCaprio not just a superstar, but the most recognizable face on the planet . To the credit of the hero and victim of “Leomania,” he never blamed the phenomenal success of “Titanic” - although he regretted that filming the film deprived him of the chance to play in “Boogie Nights.”
6. Among the other roles that DiCaprio was forced to refuse are those that eventually went to Christian Bale (in the film adaptation of American Psycho), Matt Damon (in De Niro's The False Temptation) and Michael Pitt (in Bertolucci's The Dreamers ). Leo did not take the chance to star in “The Dreamers” not for the reason that everyone thought, but because he considered himself too old for the role of a 20-year-old student.
7. DiCaprio's acting maturity officially arrived in December 2002, when the films "Catch Me If You Can" by Steven Spielberg and "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorsese, in which Leo came face to face with Tom, were released in American theaters within a few days of each other. Hanks and Daniel Day-Lewis. Collaboration with Scorsese turned out to be especially significant for DiCaprio - the living classic found in him the second De Niro and led Leo to two Oscar nominations, for his roles in “The Aviator” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
8. DiCaprio avoided blockbusters for a long time and consistently - until he agreed to play the main role in Christopher Nolan's Inception, which captivated both critics and box offices. The current five-year period has proven that in an era when there are few reliable stars left in Hollywood, DiCaprio is one of the few who can be relied upon: five of Leo's last six films have earned a total of almost $2.3 billion.
9. No less impressive is the illustrated list of the actor’s victories on the personal front. Gisele Bündchen, Bar Refaeli, Toni Garrn and, who knows how, Blake Lively slipped in here gave rise to one of the most vulgar - and funniest - jokes of the penultimate Golden Globes distribution ceremony. Much less funny was an episode ten years ago when model Aretha Wilson hit Leo over the head with a broken bottle, severely injuring his face.
10. Before becoming the iconic Jay Gatsby and winning a Golden Globe for perhaps his most spectacular role (in The Wolf of Wall Street), DiCaprio promised to take a good break from cinema, focusing on outside work as an activist for the new “greens.” But he couldn’t resist the temptation to star in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu – the American premiere of the revenge western “The Revenant” is scheduled for Christmas.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney's first full-length animated film. In fact, it was the first cartoon ever to last more than 80 minutes. Therefore, many could not believe that children could sit for so long, and for parents this would not be a difficult test. Needless to say, even Walt Disney’s wife Lillian thought that he had messed up with “Snow White...”.
Nevertheless, the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released in 1937, earned $184.9 million at the box office. The film was considered groundbreaking and Disney won an Oscar.
Star Wars (1977)
Before the release of Star Wars, many doubted the commercial success of the film, since Lucas's creation was too different from other science fiction films. 20th Century Fox has only booked 40 theaters for the film's premiere. The problems of deep space were not close to the common American; the most popular films at that time were the harshly realistic All the King's Men and Taxi Driver.
Even George Lucas himself did not believe in the film's box office success. Therefore, in order to somehow distract himself, I went to Hawaii to visit my friend Steven Spielberg, who was filming Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark there.
When the film was released, it was such a success that it practically saved 20th Century Fox from impending bankruptcy. “Star Wars” brought in $215 million in the US and more than $337 million worldwide during theatrical release alone.
Titanic (1997)
Almost all film critics predicted Titanic to be a failure. The Los Angeles Times even ran a regular column in which journalists chronicled every budget increase and every postponement of the film's release. (Indeed, the three-dimensional model of the ship alone took 60 weeks to create.)
As a result, with a budget of $200 million, which, by the way, exceeded the cost of building the legendary ship itself, the film was launched. There is no need to remind you that it was a huge success, topped the box office for 15 weeks, earned 2.1 billion and won 11 Oscars!
"Avatar" (2009)
After the success of Titanic, Cameron took a 12-year break, after which he returned to the screens with another blockbuster, Avatar. As with Titanic, the film was released after numerous delays and multiple budget increases. Film critics and journalists unanimously believed that this time Cameron would definitely fail due to the almost three-hour duration and huge budget. Columnist Drew Magery launched a scathing article in which he promised that Avatar would suffer the opposite fate of Titanic.
They supposedly expected Titanic to be a failure, but the film smashed all the obstacles in its path. And they expect a lot from “Avatar,” but no pterodactyls and exoskeletons will help Cameron interest the viewer, since no one is interested in what is happening on another planet with incomprehensible creatures. (Apparently, the journalist was not familiar with the history of Star Wars.)
“Avatar” earned $2.7 billion and became the absolute leader at the box office; its record has not yet been broken.
"Inception" (2010)
After the success of The Dark Knight in 2008, Christopher Nolan became the number one director in Hollywood and was given carte blanche to shoot whatever his heart desired. But when Nolan began filming Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, producers were seriously concerned that audiences would not share the director's fascination with strange fantasies and trips into the subconscious.
No one, in essence, doubted Nolan’s talents, but the fact that the film would be able to recoup the 200 million spent on it raised serious doubts. Science fiction writer Jason Sanford predicted that Inception would be the end of Nolan. Critically acclaimed, it will not resonate with a wider audience.
Despite all the forecasts, the film “Inception” was received with a bang by audiences around the world and earned $825.5 million at the box office. In addition, he received 4 awards out of 8 Oscar nominations.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Despite the fact that Marvel is Hollywood's superhero forge, the appearance of a film about a superhero raccoon and a talking tree was received with skepticism by critics. The opinion has formed and strengthened that a film with unknown heroes (there aren’t even good comic books about them!) would not be interesting not only to mere mortals, but also to Marvel fans. Nevertheless, the picture immediately became a hit, was stolen by viewers into memes (for example, the well-known “I am Groot”) and earned $333,176,600 in the United States and $440,135,799 in other countries.
11.11.2014
Today, November 11, is Leonardo DiCaprio's 40th birthday, an actor who has proven many times the legitimacy of his place among the Hollywood elite.
1. Named after da Vinci
DiCaprio earned his rare name for Hollywood in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence - pregnant Irmelin DiCaprio (pictured right), an American, stood in front of a Da Vinci painting when her unborn son pushed his mother in the stomach for the first time. DiCaprio's agent strongly recommended that he abandon his father's beautiful name and Italian surname in favor of the neutral pseudonym Lenny Williams, but 10-year-old Leo did not follow the bad advice.
2. Fired from children's TV show for "disruptive" behavior
Before landing several television roles (including as young Mason Capwell in the 2,137-episode Santa Barbara), DiCaprio was fired from a children's television show for "disruptive" behavior (at the age of either three or five). and managed to scare teachers with shockingly authentic impersonations of Charles Manson. Leo’s Hollywood debut was a role in the humorous horror film “Nibblers-3” (pictured).
3. Famous colleagues were the first to appreciate talent
It was his eminent colleagues who were the first to appreciate DiCaprio’s talent. Robert De Niro personally selected Leo from four hundred candidates to play his adopted son in This Boy's Life (pictured). “When Leo is working, you can’t tear yourself away from him,” said Meryl Streep, who played with him and De Niro in Marvin’s Room. “If necessary, I would wear it to filming myself,” echoed Sharon Stone, who donated part of her own fee for “The Quick and the Dead” to DiCaprio.
4. First Oscar nomination - for the role of a mentally retarded
Directors, when it came to Leo, were more often overcome by doubts - say, the director of the drama “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” Lasse Hallström thought that the actor’s appearance would distract from his role as a mentally retarded teenager. DiCaprio brilliantly justified the trust placed in him, earned an Oscar nomination and the moral right to apply for other difficult roles. It is symptomatic that handsome Leo shared his first on-screen kiss with a man, David Thewlis, in “Total Eclipse.”
5. He regrets not starring in Boogie Nights because of Titanic.
The title role in Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" was the preparatory shot for the salvo of all guns that turned out to be "Titanic" - a sentimental blockbuster that earned two billion dollars and 11 Oscars, making DiCaprio not just a superstar, but the most recognizable face on the planet . To the credit of the hero and victim of “Leomania,” he never blamed the phenomenal success of “Titanic” - although he regretted that filming the film deprived him of the chance to play in “Boogie Nights,” a film about people from the porn industry.
6. Didn’t star in “The Dreamers”, considering himself old
Among the other roles that DiCaprio was forced to refuse are those that eventually went to Christian Bale (in the film adaptation of American Psycho), Matt Damon (in De Niro's The False Temptation) and Michael Pitt (in Bertolucci's The Dreamers , above in the photo). Leo didn’t take the chance to star in “The Dreamers” not for the reason that everyone thought (it’s a rather revealing role), but because he considered himself too old for the role of a 20-year-old student.
7. Spielberg and Scorsese - maturity
DiCaprio's acting maturity officially arrived in December 2002, when the films "Catch Me If You Can" by Steven Spielberg and "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorsese, in which Leo came face to face with Tom, were released in American theaters within a few days of each other. Hanks and Daniel Day-Lewis. Collaboration with Scorsese turned out to be especially significant for DiCaprio - the living classic found in him the second De Niro and led Leo to two Oscar nominations, for his roles in “The Aviator” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
8. Avoids blockbusters while earning tens of millions
DiCaprio avoided blockbusters for a long time and consistently - until he agreed to play the main role in Christopher Nolan’s Inception (pictured), which captivated both critics and box offices. The current five-year period has proven that in an era when there are few reliable stars left in Hollywood, DiCaprio is one of the few who can be relied upon: five of Leo's last six films have earned a total of almost $2.3 billion.
9. The actor’s victories on the personal front
No less impressive is the illustrated list of the actor’s victories on the personal front. Gisele Bündchen, Bar Refaeli, Toni Garrn and who knows how Blake Lively slipped in here - the list is long. But DiCaprio has never been married.
10. "Green"
Before becoming the canonical Jay Gatsby and winning a Golden Globe for perhaps his most spectacular role (in The Wolf of Wall Street), DiCaprio promised to take a good break from cinema, focusing on outside work as an activist for the new “greens” (on photo at the environmental march in New York). But he couldn’t resist the temptation to star in Alejandro González Iñárritu – the premiere of the revanchist western “The Returner” is scheduled for next Christmas.
11. He is Russian, that explains a lot
12. Leonardo and Oscar
DiCaprio has been nominated for an Oscar four times. For the films “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, “The Aviator”, “Blood Diamond” and now for “The Wolf of Wall Street”. One of the most caustic jokes about the eternal passing by is that the Oscar will be given to the actor who will play DiCaprio himself in the biographical film. The Chelyabinsk Chamber Theater also performed here, making a cast-iron Oscar specially for DiCaprio.
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