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Christopher Nolan says Leonardo DiCaprio is demanding

Christopher Nolan, the director of ‘Inception’, is all praises for Leonardo DiCaprio’s demanding nature during the making of the film.

He said in an interview that Dicaprio’s exacting standards helped him work out where in ‘Inception’ the emotional importance of the story is.

Nolan said that he always wanted to work with the 36-yer-old star and was delighted when he agreed to appear in his movie.

Christopher said: "Leo is someone I had been trying to work with for years. I'd met him many times and nothing had come together, but I finally managed to convince him with this one and he brought an incredible amount of emotional focus to his character.”



Both Leonardo and Nolan are known to stick to the same set of people to work with. Christian Bale has been a favourite with Nolan he has worked with him in three projects.

Leonardo has had a tremendous year career wise in 2010. He is the highest earning Hollywood actor with two biggest box-office draws to his credit-‘Inception’ and ‘Shutter island’. Leonardo gets innumerable movie offers but he says that he has pretty high standards when it comes to agreeing to do projects.

He explained: "I want it to be special and really original. For me, the three elements there have to be are; it has to be a great script, with a great director and great people to work with. That's what I want and I guess it would sum up the dream for any actor."

He has made the right career moves and his choice of scripts has been exceptional. His partnership with Martin Scorsese has seen him act in ‘The Aviator’, ‘Gangs of New York’ and ‘The Departed’ and ‘Shutter Island’. He is planning a biopic on Frank Sinatra with him.

Nolan himself is no mean director. He has critically acclaimed films, ‘The Prestige’, ‘Insomnia’ and ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight’ to his credit. For him to credit Dicaprio with helping him in finding the emotional quotient for the character in inception is indeed high praise for Leonardo.

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Leonardo DiCaprio is the highest grossing actor of 2010

Forbes has released their list of Hollywood’s Highest-Grossing Actors in 2010.

Quite predictably, blockbuster king Leonardo DiCaprio tops this year’s list — which is purely based on box office intake, and does not count animated films — with $1.1 billion, thanks to turns in the highly successful Shutter Island and Inception. But the list’s No. 2 finisher is the most shocking: 21-year-old up-and-coming Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska. Of course, the reason for her $1.0 billion gross over the year is mostly due to the list’s No. 3 finisher — Johnny Depp, who served as the main draw for Wasikowska’s summer film, Alice in Wonderland — and critical darling The Kids Are All Right, but it’s an impressive distinction to hold, considering most Americans don’t even know her name. (Not to mention how to spell it.)



Robert Downey Jr. comes in at No. 4 with $807 million, Daniel Radcliffe at No. 5 with $780 million, and Robert Pattinson at No. 6 with $749 million. (Thanks to Remember Me, Pattinson tops Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, who sits at No. 7 with $698 million.) And rounding out the top 10: Clash of the Titans‘ Sam Worthington with $494 million, and The Karate Kid‘s Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan with $359 million.
Source: popwatch, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes

Leonardo DiCaprio And Armie Hammer To Play Lovers

Clint Eastwood is currently developing a film on the controversial life of J. Edgar Hoover -which is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role - and The Social Network's Armie Hammer has just been cast as his GAY love interest!

According to reports, Hammer will play Clyde Tolson, the Associate Director of the FBI, which was founded by Hoover in 1935. Although it's never been proven, many have speculated that the two men were romantically involved.


Unfortunately, sources have claimed that the two will not be consumating their love - at least on screen.

They reveal:

"There is just smooching, no bedroom scenes."

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Reese Witherspoon Compares Rob Pattinson to Leonardo Dicaprio

Thank you, Reese Witherspoon for being the one to say it: Robert Pattinson is the heartthrob of the 2000s, just like Leonardo DiCaprio was in the 1990s. While promoting her upcoming rom-com "How Do You Know," Reese talked a bit about working with Rob on "Water for Elephants" and the crazed fan attention that he got on set.

"The only thing I can compare it to is when Leo was in 'Titanic,'" she told MTV News. "It was that kind of fervor about a person. The women lining up outside the set—it was just unbelievable—till 5 o'clock in the morning waiting to just glimpse him."

"Water for Elephants'" Tennessee set was across the country from "The Twilight Saga"'s Vancouver set, but that didn't stop fans from staking out to see their favorite sparkly vampire in action. And they already knew what Reese gradually learned on set: He is definitely a British babe. "He is extraordinarily attractive. I'm not gonna lie," she admitted.


That might be a bit weird coming from the woman who played Rob's mom in "Vanity Fair," but obviously a lot has changed since 2004. Rob was only 18 then and hadn't even starred in his breakout role in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" yet. Now he's the man that can send millions of women into swoons just by batting his eyelashes.

"Robert is such a great guy from a great family," Reese told us. "That's the thing that's so funny. He's not really this bad boy; he's just a great guy and really worked hard on 'Water for Elephants.' He really worked long hours, long days. He looks totally different in the movie."

We saw some paparazzi shots from "Water for Elephants" a couple months back, but we're still waiting on a trailer for it. Considering the film is set for release on April 15, you can expect that we'll be seeing one hitting the web soon.


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Leonardo DiCaprio Admits To Being Confused By 'Inception'

Leonardo DiCaprio confessed that even he was baffled when he first read Christopher Nolan's script for Inception. The actor said, "I needed to know implicitly where we were. It got incredibly confusing at certain points in the beginning, but the more we talked, the more I understood."

And he wasn't the only one! Nolan's wife admitted that Leo helped in making the script a little less complex, adding, "The work (DiCaprio) did on his character with Chris made the movie less of a puzzle and more of a story of a character audiences could relate to."

The "Leo Strut"

It all started with a "meme". In the case of "Strut Leo (" Proud/happy Leo"), this is a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio on the inception set

The must? The rap "Leo Strut" which explains how to parade ("to strut") like Leonardo. Already a cult!

"Inception" still #1 overseas!

It might not be making Dark Knight money, but Christopher Nolan's got to be mighty pleased with how well Inception is going. After topping the stateside box office for three straight weeks, grossing more than $220 million in the process, Inception continues to dominate the overseas market.




Variety reports that Inception posted $55 million over the July 31st-August 1st weekend, raising its international totals to over $171 million. The film debuted at number one in Germany, topping Pixar's Toy Story 3, and is on top for the second straight week in Australia and France.

The film has yet to open in a few key markets, including Spain and Brazil, which should only add to $477 million the pic has already earned. For a smart, intellectual sci fi film, that's pretty damn impressive. Well done Mr. Nolan, well done. Now, when's Batman 3 coming out?

"Inception" passes $200MIL on Tuesday; stands at $373MIL Worldwide.

Inception, the current no. 1 movie at the North American box office, crossed the $200m milestone on Tuesday, August 3, its 19th day out. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Nolan‘s thriller/sci-fier earned $4.12m for a cume of $201.7m, according to Box Office Mojo.




Co-starring Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, and Michael Caine, Inception can be found a no. 35 on Box Office Mojo’s chart (not adjusted for inflation or 3D/IMAX surcharges) of the fastest movies to reach $200m at the US/Canada box office.

Inception is sandwiched between the comedy Meet the Fockers (2004) and Disney’s animated Finding Nemo (2003).

Additionally, Inception is only the seventh 2010 release to pass the $200m mark. It’s also the only original live-action movie (as in, not a sequel, not a remake, not based on a another property) to have achieved that feat.

Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy Join Joseph GordonIn The Riddler Competition

With Christopher Nolan behind the next "Batman" movie, taking part in the film could be a dream for every performer. Words on the street are, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt who have worked with him in "Inception" are longing to star in untitled Batman 3 project.

The three actors are allegedly battling to play The Ridder in "The Dark Knight" sequel. Comic Book Movie, which obtains the information from an inside source, reports that Warner Bros. allows Nolan to hire one of the actors because of the extra publicity and attention it would bring to the movie as they were praised for their performances in "Inception".

While DiCaprio and Hardy are just added to the list of potential depicter of the movie's villain, Levitt has been linked to the role for quite some time. His status was just listed as "interested" on the list which reportedly mentioned The Riddler as a character which will appear in the upcoming film.

Christopher Nolan is expected to return to the directing seat of "Batman 3" which script is being written by Jonathan Nolan and David S. Goyer. Warner Bros. has secured July 20, 2012 slot for the U.S. release.

As of late, Leonardo DiCaprio was said deciding not to star in untitled Viking project which will be produced by Mel Gibson. The "Titanic" star, however, is on board for producing Catherine Hardwicke-directed thriller "Red Riding Hood".

Tom Hardy, who is possibly best known for playing the title role in British film "Bronson", is set to take a lead role in "Mad Max: Fury Road". He additionally will co-star Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine in "This Means War".

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in the meantime, has landed roles in such films as "500 Days of Summer" and "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra". He is currently in production for "Premium Rush" and will be soon seen in "Hesher" in which he stars as the title character.

A Bad Review for "Inception"

This is a new review from New York Press.

"Christopher Nolan’s two-and-a-half hour hackery "



Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a born filmmaker’s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he’s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood’s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?



Inception proves this is Nolan’s moment—a beginning-of-the-end moment for film culture, ha, ha—because it’s conceived to amuse an era hungry for hokum and a geek audience who, after his gross The Dark Knight pulled in $500 million, is primed for more baroque fantasia. it takes the form of a sci-fi adventure movie, updating the old Fantastic Voyage for the digital age, but instead of exploring the human body, leonardo diCaprio as dreamextractor dom Cobb goes inside people’s unconscious with the help of his young exploratory team: Joseph Gordon-levitt, ellen page and tom hardy.

“i am the most skilled extractor,” Cobb announces. “i know your mind better than your wife or therapist.” Mindfuck—Nolan’s specialty—is a perfect conman’s scheme that involves undermining a mark’s confidence. as Cobb’s dreamwarriors battle inside one industrialist’s head and then another’s, Nolan’s narrative, essentially a tale of corporate intrigue, goes from reality to dreams, then dreams within dreams. its essential con is that, as in Memento, Nolan ignores the morality of his characters’ actions; he accepts that they will do anything—which is the cynicism critics admired in Memento, the con-man’s motivating nihilism.

Stuck in film-noir mode, Nolan’s dark sentimentality may seem classical to naive filmwatchers. But the way his clichés manipulate viewers’ perception of the world and human behavior is merely timely, not profound. like Grand Theft Auto’s quasi-cinematic extension of noir and action-flick plots, Inception manipulates the digital audience’s delectation for relentless subterfuge. Cobb never runs into paradisiacal visions like What Dreams May Come—only terror, danger and violence. Nolan’s F/X set pieces are all large-scale fight scenes, like Gordon-levitt levitating/grappling with anonymous henchmen or page and diCaprio observing various apocalyptic destruction scenarios.

Nolanoids have been faithfully awaiting a vision, and in these crystal-clear (fake) annihilation scenes, Nolan out-Finchers Fincher and seeks Kubrickian misanthropy—but there’s a simple-minded sappiness at the heart of this cynical vision. if anything, the time and consciousness tricks stolen from The Matrix make Nolan a bastard Wachowski brother, not a son of Kubrick. despite its big budget (what Manny Farber would call a white elephant movie), Inception is full of second-rate aesthetics, yet when shoddy aesthetics become the new standard, it’s sufficient to up-end the art of cinema.

Inception’s gee-whiz tricks permit disbelief in reality. it substitutes fascination with exploring the physical and spiritual reality of the world (which the great critic andre Bazin posited as the glory of movies) with an unedifying emphasis on shallow, unreal spectacle. Nolan’s fascinated by his cast of narcissistic criminals indulging their own treacheries—nihilism chasing its own tail. it distracts from how business and class really work. his shapeless storytelling (going from paris to Mumbai to nameless ski slopes, carelessly shifting tenses like a video game) throws audiences into artistic limbo—an “unconstructed dream space” like Toy Story 3—that leaves them bereft of art’s genuine purpose: a way of dealing with the real world.

Reality is neither perceived nor penetrated in Inception. Cobb’s dream obsession suggests pop-culture addiction, mirroring how consumers habitually escape reality with video games and movies. But Nolan never critiques this as Neveldine/taylor did in Gamer. instead, gobbledy-gook like, “in dreams we create and perceive our world simultaneously,” or Matrix-isms like “the smallest idea is a resilient virus, it can grow to define or destroy you,” offer pseudo-distractions. this conceptual failure is apparent from diCaprio’s glib characterization. Nolan finally has the budget to work with his look-alike (leo’s an irresistible movie star), yet fails to write him a good role. Cobb suffers the same marital nightmares leo had in Shutter Island; this isn’t depth, it’s morbidity and the confusion is all over the screen. Inception should have been called Self-Deception.


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Leonardo DiCaprio On The 'Fireworks' Of His Dreams

'I've had plenty of them, whether they be wonderful, fantastic dreams I didn't want to end or horrific nightmares,' actor says.

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Last February on the red carpet of Leonardo DiCaprio's "Shutter Island," a film that keeps you in is-it-real-or-a-nightmare bewilderment for two hours, the Hollywood star confessed to MTV News that he himself never remembers his dreams.

"That's the weird thing about me," he said. "People talk about psychoanalysis, discovering who they are through the dream state. I have no recollection in the morning."

Now DiCaprio is back with another movie that explores the often ambiguous nature between the dream world and the real one. "Inception," out July 16, stars the 35-year-old actor as an expert dream thief, a guy with a piece of technology that allows him to enter another person's reverie and extract top-secret information. So Leo has two hallucinatory flicks on his 2010 résumé, but alas, it seems he's no closer to recalling his own dreams.

"Obviously, I've had plenty of them, whether they be wonderful, fantastic dreams I didn't want to end or horrific nightmares," he told us recently. "But obviously there are things we all suppress in our lives that come about in the fireworks of the unconscious."

That's not to say that he can't learn from his dreams. "I like just waking up in the morning not knowing what the hell I was dreaming but saying, 'Wow, why didn't I think of that before? Something's on my mind that I'm not dealing with,' or, 'That's an incredible idea, why didn't I think of that before?' " he said. "That's how I extract stuff from the dream world."

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