Tag: The Wolf of Wall Street
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Margot Robbie’s ‘Birds of Prey’ Producer Role Proves She’s an Influential, Necessary Voice
Just as we’ll remember 2013 as the year Margot Robbie made her break-out as an actor in The Wolf of Wall Street, I have a good feeling we’ll look back on 2020 as the year Robbie broke big as a producer thanks to Birds of Prey. Robbie has a decade and some change under her…
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‘Riding High’: Film Review
Fact-based “The Wolf of Wall Street” won criticism from some quarters for seeming to revel in its protagonist’s sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, while barely chiding him for the predatory, large-scale financial fraud that funded it. Cuneyt Kaya’s new “Riding High” offers a similar disconnect in its fictive tale of bold chicanery in…
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Jonah Hill Shares Screenwriting Advice & How He’s Writing Movies from Home
Since breaking out in Superbad as a comedy performer of startling vitality, Jonah Hill has transitioned into all kinds of interesting avenues in his career, from Oscar-nominated turns in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street to screenwriting turns in comedies like 21 Jump Street and Sausage Party. Hill made his feature directorial…
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Jonah Hill Says Nobody Saw His Best Performance Because ‘Amazon F*cked Up’ Releasing It
Jonah Hill is best known for breakout comedies like “Superbad” and his Oscar-nominated supporting turns in Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but the performance Hill holds in the highest regard is one most moviegoers probably have never seen. Hill was recently interviewed on GQ’s Instagram page and revealed he…
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Bernie Sanders Loves to Watch ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘Melancholia’ on His iPad
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who’s still currently vying for the top spot over Joe Biden in the ongoing primaries, is a cinephile, it turns out. As revealed in a recent New York Times profile of the Vermont Senator, his viewing habits are perfectly in line with the climate of the current moment — including…
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Box Office: ‘Uncut Gems’ Joins List of Top-Grossing Movies With the Most F-Bombs
Josh and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems is shining bright at the U.S. box office for more reasons than one.In less than two weeks in release, the indie crime-thriller has joined the list of the top-grossing movies with the most F-bombs, a rarefied group that also includes Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, the 2013…
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Will ‘The Irishman’ Netflix Debut Ding Thanksgiving Box Office?
In late 2013, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street debuted to $34.2 million at the U.S. box office over the five-day Christmas Day holiday on its way to grossing $392 million globally and landing numerous top Oscar nominations.Six years later, Scorsese’s The Irishman is bypassing a traditional theatrical release and instead will debut on…
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‘The Irishman’ Lenser on How the Mind of the Killer Influenced the Cinematography
Rodrigo Prieto, who first visited Poland’s Camerimage fest in 2000 to take the top prize for “Amores perros” and later filmed “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” says his cinematography in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” presented challenges that pushed him into new territory.The crime thriller, adapted from Charles Brandt’s book “I Heard You…
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Tom Holland Celebrates ‘Spider-Man’ McU Return With Epic ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ Speech
Tom Holland is reacting to the news that his Spider-Man character will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by letting Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street” do all the talking. The 23-year-old actor uploaded a famous scene from Scorsese’s 2013 black comedy in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort addresses his employees and passionately screams…
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PETA Pressures DiCaprio and Scorsese to Help Save ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Chimpanzee
Nearly two years after first contacting Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, PETA has reached out again this week to the film collaborators calling on them to help free the chimpanzee that was featured in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” PETA obtained new video of the chimpanzee being tied up and forced to perform in a…