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Marco Ramirez will write the script based on the popular Japanese manga. “ Akira ” is alive and well at Warner Bros., which has hired “ Daredevil ” writer Marco Ramirez to adapt the popular Japanese manga, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap . Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way banner are producing with Andrew Lazar (“American Sniper”) and his company Mad Chance. Warner Bros. executives Drew Crevello and Nik Mavinkurve will oversee the reconfigured project for the studio. Jaume Collet-Serra was set to direct “ Akira ” back in 2012 but Warner Bros. pulled the plug on the project due to issues surrounding the budget, script and casting. At the time, the studio had been in discussions with Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Ken Watanabe and Helena Bonham Carter . The original “Akira” manga followed two brothers in rival biker gangs who clash when one of them begins abusing his new telekinetic powers. Ezra Miller had been eyed to play Hedlund’s brother,

FIRST LOOK at Leonardo DiCaprio in THE REVENANT . Deep in the uncharted American wilderness, trapper Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) is severely injured and left for dead by a traitorous member of his team, John Fitzgerald ( Tom Hardy ). With sheer will as his only weapon, Glass must navigate a hostile environment, a brutal winter, and warring Native American tribes in relentless quest to survive and exact vengeance on Fitzgerald. Based on a true story, THE REVENANT is directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Birdman," "Babel"). Release: December 25, 2015 (limited); January 8, 2016 (wide) Please Leave A Comment-

As the TV biz prepares to celebrate another ground breaking year tonight, underwritten in no small effort by feature talent, the remarkable thing to consider is how much more of this is coming. Here’s one that has great potential: HBO and Paramount Television are making deals to turn the 2010 hit film Shutter Island into a TV series. Tentatively titled Ashecliffe , the plan is for the pilot to be directed by Martin Scorsese from a script by Dennis Lehane, who wrote the bestselling thriller novel that Scorsese and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis turned into the hit film that Leonardo DiCaprio starred in. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

James Mangold , who directed Bale in "3:10 to Yuma," is directing the adaptation of the John D. MacDonald book. Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way banner are producing. The talks with Bale are in the very earliest of stages and the studio has not made him an offer for the role. But he discussed the role with Mangold, who directed him in 2007’s 3:10 to Yuma, and sources say he is keen to do it. The script is based on MacDonald’s 1964 mystery novel The Deep Blue Good-by. DiCaprio was at one point poised to star in the adaptation. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Moving fast to replace David Fincher on its highly anticipated Steve Jobs movie , Sony Pictures is in talks with Danny Boyle to direct the biopic of the late Apple Computer co-founder. Boyle is said to have approached Leonardo DiCaprio to star. As The Hollywood Reporter revealed earlier this month, Fincher fell out of the project due to his aggressive demands for compensation and control. Fincher had wanted Christian Bale for the title role, though the actor was not signed. The film is to be produced by Scott Rudin and written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), based on the best-selling biography of Jobs by Walter Isaacson. The Jobs film could mark a reteaming of DiCaprio and Boyle, the star and director, respectively, of 2000's The Beach. Neither has previously worked with Sorkin. The departure of Fincher dashed hopes of reuniting the team behind Social Network, which grossed $225 million worldwide in 2010. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

BOW TIE CINEMAS ZIEGFELD THEATER PRESENTS A FILM RETROSPECTIVE CELEBRATING THE CREATIVE COLLABORATION OF MARTIN SCORSESE AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO ON FEBRUARY 13th AND 14th. FEATURING A PANEL CONVERSATION WITH DICAPRIO, THELMA SCHOONMAKER AND TERENCE WINTER ON FEBRUARY 13TH Bow Tie Cinemas Ziegfeld Theater will celebrate the longtime collaboration between Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and Academy Award®-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio with a two day, five film retrospective on February 13th and 14th. Kent Jones of the New York Film Society at Lincoln Center will moderate a conversation with DiCaprio, Academy Award®-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker and Academy Award®-nominated writer Terence Winter prior to the screening of their latest film, “ THE WOLF OF WALL STREET ,” which has been nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The series begins on Thursday, February 13th with screenin

RUNNER, RUNNER Blu-ray Review By: MattInRC Here'e why the Ben Affleck thriller Runner, Runner should just keep running. In Runner Runner, Princeton grad student Richie ( Justin Timberlake ) has turned a profitable online gambling career into a disaster, losing his life savings during an online swindle. He flies to Costa Rica filled with data from his tech pals at the university to find the site's owner Ivan Block ( Ben Affleck ), who not only refunds his money, but offers him a job. Soon, Richie is living the high life, analyzing gambling data and wooing clients. But Block's business is a dangerous one, filled with payoffs to a creepy gambling and murder; Richie soon learns that he's part of an elaborate sting operation by the FBI, led by Pain and Gain's Anthony Mackie, who will break any rule to nab Block. As Richie learns that Block plans to pin him for the company's missing profits, he must decide if Block's assistant ( Gemma Arterton ) is dirt

Overall, the 2014 Academy Awards may represent one of the most crowded fields for quality film making in recent memory. This year's selections are filled with moving and memorable performances, from the enchanting Frozen to Matthew McConaughey's stunning turn in The Dallas Buyer's Club . At least the Motion Picture Academy casts a wider net with nine Best Picture nominations; the rest of the categories are capped at five. The nominations represent the official kickoff of the Oscars Awards season. From this moment forward, every name and film mentioned will be repeated countless times on TV talk shows and in commercials, tweets, Facebook posts and movie posters. Now that we have the full list (see the major award nominees below) you can start handicapping the winners (and catching all the films you missed) and then we can all watch together on March 2 when the academy hands out all those gold statuettes. Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas B

“The Wolf of Wall Street Soundtrack available on iTunes NOW!” Virgin Records has provided me with THE WOLF OF WALL STREET soundtrack to give to our fans in Fresno. The lucky winners will also be getting ROE passes to see the film. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET  is a 2013 American film directed by Martin Scorsese , based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name.  The screenplay was written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, a New York stockbroker who runs a firm, Stratton Oakmont, that engages in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s. The film also features Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey . It is the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, and the second between Scorsese and Winter after Boardwalk Empire. 1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy By: Cannonball Adderley 2. Dust My Broom By: Elmore James 3. Bang! Bang! By: Joe Cuba 4. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) By: Billy Joel 5. C’est Si Bon By: Earth

“The Wolf of Wall Street Soundtrack available on iTunes NOW!” Virgin Records has provided me with THE WOLF OF WALL STREET soundtrack to give to our fans in San Francisco. The lucky winners will also be getting a hat. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET  is a 2013 American film directed by Martin Scorsese , based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name.  The screenplay was written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, a New York stockbroker who runs a firm, Stratton Oakmont, that engages in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s. The film also features Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey . It is the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, and the second between Scorsese and Winter after Boardwalk Empire. 1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy By: Cannonball Adderley 2. Dust My Broom By: Elmore James 3. Bang! Bang! By: Joe Cuba 4. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) By: Billy Joel 5. C’est Si Bon By: Eartha Kitt 6. Go

“The Wolf of Wall Street Soundtrack available on iTunes NOW!” Virgin Records has provided me with THE WOLF OF WALL STREET soundtrack to give to our fans in Sacramento. The lucky winners will also be getting a hat. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET  is a 2013 American film directed by Martin Scorsese , based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name.  The screenplay was written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, a New York stockbroker who runs a firm, Stratton Oakmont, that engages in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s. The film also features Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey . It is the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, and the second between Scorsese and Winter after Boardwalk Empire. 1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy By: Cannonball Adderley 2. Dust My Broom By: Elmore James 3. Bang! Bang! By: Joe Cuba 4. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) By: Billy Joel 5. C’est Si Bon By: Eartha Kitt 6. Goldfinger By

Top 10 Movies of 2013 By: MattInRC Maybe it's just us, but 2013 was a bit of a letdown for films - perhaps 2012 was so boss that almost any year would be considered dull ( The Avengers, Lincoln, Ted, Argo, and Skyfall just to name a few). But, there were several that graced our local rat-infested screens that did keep us awake through other duds like Grudge Match , Identity Thief , and Admission . As always, our list is generated on factors such as memorability, quality, and a completely selfish desire of whether we would pay to buy it or care to watch it again. Many Oscar films might win awards for their technical mastery, but how many of them would you actually watch more than once? Therefore, allow the chastising to commence! 10. Gangster Squad (Dir.Ruben Fleishcer) Plot: Los Angeles, 1949: A secret crew of police officers led by two determined sergeants work together in an effort to take down the ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen who runs the city.(via IMDB)

The Wolf Of Wall Street Review By: MattInRC  An electric performance by Leonardo DiCaprio saves The Wolf of Wall Street from becoming a coked-up hot mess. As the Oscar season and 2013 concludes, we're treated a rather raucous submission: Martin Scorsese's epic The Wolf of Wall Street , a big, overbearing, coked-up, sexed-up delight of bacchanalia proportions that it almost OD's on itself. This is Gordon Gecko's Wall Street tuned up about 50 notches; the question is, does that make for an Oscar-winning experience? The answer is decidedly yes and no. Based on the Jordan Belfort autobiography, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the man behind the curtain, an investor and swindler with few morals who rides a wave of drugs, sex, and booze to financial ruin. At film's beginning, he's a wide-eyed stock lapdog looking for a break when a chance lunch meeting with an insane senior broker ( Matthew McConaughey ) opens Jordan's eyes to real wo

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For THE WOLF OF WALL STREET on Thursday, December 19th in San Francisco at 7:30. Revered filmmaker Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort ( Leonardo DiCaprio ). From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title – “T THE WOLF OF WALL STREET .” Money. Power. Women. Drugs. Temptations were for the taking and the threat of authority was irrelevant. For Jordan and his wolf pack, modesty was quickly deemed overrated and more was never enough. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Official Website - See how to win tickets after the Jump... Head on over to GOFOBO and enter Code: SAND7P9B DISCLAIM

Relativity Media has provided us with new images from the upcoming film Out of the Furnace . Out of the Furnace is an upcoming 2013 American thriller film, directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Produced by Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio for Relativity Media, the film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe and Sam Shepard . Russell Baze ( Bale ) and his younger brother Rodney Jr. ( Affleck ) live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother is lured into one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast – a mistake that will almost cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. See all the images after the Jump... Please