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President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey served four years in prison until President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence in 1927, after which Garvey was deported to Jamaica.

Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Unia), which “aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture,” according to the National Archives. He created the Black Star Line, a Black-owned shipping company and passenger line created to bring goods and later people...

Here’s why Leonardo DiCaprio cannot work with Clint Eastwood ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

In 2011, DiCaprio signed on to star in J. Edgar, Eastwood’s biopic about the Og FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover. Leo was so hyped about the role that he cut his fee from a jaw-dropping $20 million to just $2 million. But this dream team? It didn’t last long.

Why? Eastwood’s infamous “one-take-wonder” style clashed hard with DiCaprio’s perfectionist approach. Clint’s vibe on set is all about keeping it raw and real. He skips the dramatic “Action!” for a laid-back “in your own time” and moves on after one take. Conversely, Leo lives for the grind—he’s all about redoing scenes until they’re flawless. So, when Leo asked for a retake during J. Edgar, Clint said, “Nope, we’re done for the day.”

And it didn’t stop there. DiCaprio insisted on using...

When Leonardo DiCaprio Sacrificed $18 Million of His Salary for Clint Eastwood’s Film—Here’s Inspiring Story Behind His Generosity! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Leonardo DiCaprio has built an illustrious career by collaborating with some of Hollywood’s most respected and talented directors. His long-standing partnership with director Martin Scorsese has resulted in iconic films like The Departed and The Wolf of the Wall Street. While DiCaprio has also worked with Quentin Tarantino in films like Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and Christopher Nolan’s Inception, he has solidified his position as one of his generation’s most celebrated and bankable actors. But there were more.

The Titanic actor also collaborated with another giant director in the industry, Clint Eastwood, for the 2011 biopic J. Edgar. The movie featured the life of the first FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover. DiCaprio portrayed the character physically and emotionally, capturing Hoover’s personal and professional life.

Elvis Presley was a major source of inspiration for John Lennon. He, like many other artists in his generation, heard “Heartbreak Hotel” and felt as if his life had changed. When he was a famous musician in his own right, Elvis agreed to meet with the band. While The Beatles walked away from the meeting feeling slightly disappointed, Elvis reportedly began to foster a simmering hatred toward Lennon.

Elvis Presley resented something John Lennon said when they met

In 1965, The Beatles finally had the opportunity to meet Elvis. They drove to Graceland and spent the night playing music with Elvis. Journalist Chris Hutchins said Lennon had long been asking him to set up the meeting, but things went awry between him and Elvis almost immediately.

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“John had annoyed Presley by making his anti-war feelings known the moment he stepped into the massive lounge and...

Clint Eastwood’s always been known for his unapologetic attitude, both on and off the screen. And when it comes to his Dirty Harry movies, he’s not about to change that. Critics may have taken issue with the ethical implications of the films, but Eastwood seems to have shrugged it all off with his signature coolness. Instead of getting bogged down in debates about morality, Eastwood focuses on what he does best: delivering gritty, pulse-pounding entertainment.

Clint Eastwood’s Harry throws away his police badge | Credits: Warner Bros.

So, while some may question the ethics behind Dirty Harry, Eastwood’s response is pretty clear—he’s here to make movies, not moral lessons. In the end, it’s this unflinching approach that keeps audiences coming back for more, decade after decade.

Clint Eastwood’s Rebel Spirit: How Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz Defied Critics and Defined His Legacy...

Clint Eastwood’s rise to global stardom wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. Before becoming the icon he is renowned as today, the actor’s initial days in showbiz saw him working as a contract actor for Universal, which didn’t last long, as he was eventually fired for his Adam’s apple, which Universal claimed stuck out too far.

Clint Eastwood in a still from A Fistful of Dollars | Credit: United Artists

But the setback didn’t hold his career back for too long as he’d soon land his breakout role and later headlined the iconic Dollars trilogy. However, his success outside Hollywood did little to garner him roles when he returned.

Clint Eastwood’s Success Overseas Didn’t Get the Ball Rolling in Hollywood

After rising to prominence following his stint in the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide, which he wasn’t particularly fond of, the actor then...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s tendency to play iconic roles has become more of a trademark than a neat trick. Over the years, he has starred in some of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, showing his range as an actor through roles like Jack in Titanic and The Wolf of Wall Street in Martin Scorsese’s classic.

A still from J. Edgar | Credits: Warner Bros

Although most of his works receive attention in the highest regard, in the flashing lights of science-fiction and character acting, some works get lost. In 2011, he starred in Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J. Edgar Hoover. The film covered several controversial subjects surrounding the life of the former director of the FBI.

During an interview, the cast and crew of the project talked about one specific aspect that left a lot of elements unconfirmed; Hoover’s love life.

Clint Eastwood’s Brave Choice in Leonardo DiCaprio’s J.

J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous FBI director, had a history of clashes with various political figures, but his rivalry with a former U.S. president was particularly intense. Hoover’s secretive and powerful hold over the Bureau spanned several decades, allowing him to accumulate vast amounts of sensitive information about America’s most influential people. This contentious dynamic even caught the attention of Clint Eastwood, who portrayed Hoover in his 2011 film J. Edgar.

Clint Eastwood was last seen in 2021’s Cry Macho | Warner Bros Pictures

Eastwood was so intrigued by Hoover’s complex relationship with the president that he conducted extensive research to capture the depth of their conflict in his $84M movie. The film dives deep into Hoover’s controversial career, revealing the intense personal and political battles he faced.

Eastwood’s J. Edgar reveals Hoover-Kennedy tension in stunning detail Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino | Credits:...

Leonardo DiCaprio may have had high hopes working with director Clint Eastwood as the latter is one of the most renowned filmmakers in the industry. The actor wanted to pick up 2011’s J. Edgar as he saw it as a way to vary his career and try out something new that he was even willing to cut his fees just to star in it.

Credits: Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar / Warner Bros.

Things did not go as DiCaprio planned after learning his acting style didn’t match Eastwood’s directing method. After that, the actor refused to work with him on future projects.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Perfectionism Reportedly Clashed With Clint Eastwood’s Unique Directing Approach

J. Edgar isn’t a popular work of Leonardo DiCaprio but his performance in the movie earned him critical praise and a Golden Globe Award nomination. He portrayed the famed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover,...

Clint Eastwood has made some of the most revolutionary films in his career both as an actor and a director. He has been making films since the 60s and still continues to be inspired and fascinated by the art of filmmaking. While mostly known for his spaghetti westerns with Sergio Leone, he has made some brilliant westerns of his own along with some Oscar-winning dramas.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi Watts in J. Edgar | Credits: Warner Bros

Eastwood directed the biographical film J. Edgar in 2011, based on the famed first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To ensure the film was as historically accurate as possible, the director went deep into his research and even went the extra mile, meeting the then-director of the FBI in person. Eastwood and the FBI disagreed on the inclusion of one disputed aspect of Hoover’s life in the film.

The FBI Was Apprehensive...

There is no shortage of variety in Leonardo DiCaprio’s filmography but when he signed up to play the role of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, he left fans and critics in awe. The film faced a few setbacks before it was finally set in motion. Luckily, Leonardo DiCaprio was ready to slash his fee down by a whopping ninety percent.

Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar (2011) | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

The film’s producer, Dustin Graze, had to rope in the help of renowned director Clint Eastwood to get a green light for his film. Clint Eastwood always gives his hundred percent to his films, no matter what the project might be. J. Edgar was no exception to the rule either as it saw the filmmaker get his hands dirty in order to give Leonardo DiCaprio and co-star Armie Hammer a lesson in violence.

Clint Eastwood Becomes a Mentor for...

Netflix’s German series Kleo has a funny disclaimer at the very beginning, which informs us that the show is based on a true story, but none of these things took place in real life. In simple words, the show is loosely inspired by real-life world events, such as the division of Germany and the creation of West Germany under the leadership of the Federal Republic (Frg) and East Germany governed by the Democratic Republic (Gdr). Along with these historical events, the show also introduced some real-life characters and organizations, about which I am going to talk further in this article. However, before moving forward, a full disclosure: the character of Kleo Straub is entirely fictional, and therefore, whatever happens with her in the series is created for dramatic purposes only.

In the series, Kleo was trained as a Stasi agent, which was a real-life secret police organization, also known...

Prince Philip has been named in a secret FBI document involving the Profumo sex scandal. J Edgar Hoover, who was the principal of the FBI at the time, suggested that Prince Philip was entangled with two women named Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davis.

John Profumo Lied About Having An Affair With 19-Year-Old Christine Keeler.

Keeler and Rice-Davis were at the heart of the scandal that brought down the government. The Profumo affair, which took place in July 1961, was a major scandal in British legislation.

John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan’s traditional government, had an affair with 19-year-old model and dancer Christine Keeler while married to British actress Valerie Hobson.

In March 1963, he lied about the affair to Parliament, but it was later confirmed that he did, in fact, have extramarital relations with Keeler.

He later resigned, claiming he “deeply regretted” deceiving the House of Commons.

The Emmys just paid tribute to the great Treat Williams: the 71-year-old actor who died in a motorcycle crash received a posthumous nomination for playing former CBS head and media tycoon Bill Paley in Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans. It was his final role before he died June 12, 2023 in Vermont.

The Ryan Murphy miniseries, which is an adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author as he stabs several of his female friends — whom he called his “swans” — in the back by publishing a roman à clef short story called “La Côte Basque 1965” in Esquire in 1975.

Last June, FX and 20th TV released this statement: “Treat Williams leaves behind a legacy of remarkable performances in film and television, and an indelible mark on the entire industry.

Next time someone from the Federal Bureau of Investigation wants Henry Winkler to shake their hand, they should sit on it instead.

For all the Winkler fans who know him best as the nebbish-y character actor on critically acclaimed shows like Arrested Development and Barry, it may be hard to believe that Gene Cousineau was once the coolest cat in sitcoms. Winkler’s performance as the slick, motorcycle-riding, leather-jacket-wearing Arthur “Fonzi” Fonzarelli on the ABC sitcom Happy Days was, and still is, one of the most iconic roles in all of TV comedy as Winkler encapsulated everything cool to mid-1970s America. And at a time when J. Edgar Hoover’s body was barely cold and his soul burningly warm, the G-men of the FBI didn’t have quite the affection and admiration of America’s youth that a pre-shark-jump Fonzi enjoyed.

As such, when a handful of die-hard Happy Days...

In response to a lawsuit by Rolling Stone and National Security Counselors, the Department of Justice has turned over two tranches of FBI documents related to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Rolling Stone’s Freedom of Information Act request, filed hours after the announcement of his death in November 2023, seeks expedited processing of FBI files related to the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Nixon. Kissinger is widely considered to be a war criminal for his role in the bombing of Cambodia, a coup in Chile,...

My name is Fredrika Newton. I am the widow of Dr. Huey P. Newton, who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 with Bobby Seale while they were both college students at Merritt College in Oakland, California.

Huey and the Black Panther Party are featured in a new series now streaming on Apple TV+ titled The Big Cigar, of which the final episode released on Friday. (André Holland portrays Huey P. Newton.) I was not involved in the creation of this series, but I do have a few things to say.

If you’ve been watching along, you’ll know that The Big Cigar is an adaptation of an extremely harrowing and dangerous time in Huey’s life, as he along with his first wife Gwen, escaped the United States for Cuba in 1974 after he was falsely accused of murder.

I was also a former rank and file member of The Black Panther Party.

On June 7, 1996, Buena Vista unveiled Michael Bay’s actioner The Rock, which paired Sean Connery with Nicolas Cage. The R-rated film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, went on to gross $134 million domestically that summer. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:

An above-average big-bucks action film with enough macho behavior and explosive thrills to please fans of the genre, Hollywood Pictures’ The Rock has the usual problems with credibility, but the ride is so fast and ferociously executed that one has fun with its excesses while admiring the solid performances from its trio of stars.

On target for a big breakout on its opening weekend, the final Simpson/Bruckheimer production is dedicated to the late Don of high-testosterone blockbusters. Furiously paced and ruggedly directed by sophomore helmer Michael Bay (Bad Boys), The Rock has firepower to spare and plenty of dramatic sparring, but no time for romance or genuine bonding...

Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon shined a light on one of the lesser-known dark chapters of American history – the wholesale slaughter of dozens of members of the Osage Indian Nation by their supposed guardians, neighbors and friends. A dramatic gut-punch of a film, it was adapted by Scorsese and Eric Roth from the 2017 David Grann book of the same name. The book took about five years to research, and the film took just as long to arrive on the big screen, with both taking great pains to authentically communicate the tragic nature of the Osage murders. While the film obviously takes a handful of liberties necessary to dramatize Grann’s book, by all accounts it’s an incredibly faithful telling of the story, accurately recreating the book’s major events as realistically as possible. Let’s take a look at What Really Happened to Killers of the Flower Moon.

Exclusive: Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal), Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy), David Costabile (Lincoln) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) have wrapped production in Arkansas on In Fortune’s Shadow, a new thriller from writer-director David L. Hunt (Greater) and his 2521 Entertainment.

Others set to star include Alexander Kane (A Day to Die), Leonard Wu (American Born Chinese), Lawrence Kao (Walker: Independence), and Billy Choi (The Affair). Check out a first-look still above.

The first film in a planned series titled The Underneath, In Fortune’s Shadow is billed as John Woo meets The Matrix or It’s a Wonderful Life with guns. The film centers on a legendary Keyser Soze-type figure known as The Man with the Answers, an ex-Knight of the Round Table now wandering in today’s underworld. The legend says that if you can find The Man and eat with him in a Chinese restaurant,...

Forty years later, it’s safe to say Sony and one of its most beloved film titles still ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost. They also apparently need not fear curmudgeonly film reviews either based on the solid performance of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire over last weekend’s box office.

Despite receiving a tepid Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score of 44 percent, the fourth or fifth film in the franchise—depending how you count Paul Feig’s 2016 remake of the same name—opened above expectations with an estimated $45 million in three days. That is nearly identical to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which opened at $44 million, and the aforementioned 2016 remake, which grossed $46 million in its debut. Given such similarities, it’s probably worth noting that one reason the 2016 reboot was perceived as a financial disappointment and Afterlife was not is because the former cost a reported $145 million while Afterlife’s price tag was about half that.

"This is an epic story of cosmic proportions!" Universal has revealed another full 3-minute trailer for The Fall Guy, opening at the start of May to kick off this year's summer movie season. Ryan Gosling stars as "The Fall Guy" – he's a stuntman, and like everyone else working in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. A hilarious, hard-driving, all-star apex-action thriller film + love letter to action movies and the hard-working, under-appreciated crew of people who make them. The Fall Guy also stars Emily Blunt as "The Director", with Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Teresa Palmer,...

On Feb. 20, 1939, more than 20,000 yelling, cheering people packed New York City’s Madison Square Garden. They weren’t there for a basketball game or a concert. They were supporters of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that was ready for an alternative to democracy. They waved Swastika flags and raised quite a ruckus. And they were hardly alone in their mission, as the new PBS American Experience documentary Nazi Town, USA makes abundantly clear.

While most Americans identified fascism and the Third Reich as existential threats to civilization, many...

Ahead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance of the civil rights leader. The presidential hopeful told Politico on Sunday that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. while attorney general, and President John F. Kennedy had a “good reason” for doing so.

In the interview, Kennedy Jr. claimed the administration permitted the wiretapping because they were “making big bets on King, particularly in organizing the March on Washington.” He added that...

This article contains Killers of the Flower Moon spoilers.

Few filmmakers in the annals of cinema have earned the right to take a bow like Martin Scorsese. For nearly 60 years, the maverick storyteller has pushed the limits of his art form and found new ways to leave an indelible mark on the audiences who still show up. So for more than a handful of critics who clapped at my screening when the maestro materialized at the end of Killers of the Flower Moon, it must have seemed like a well-earned mic drop; a chance for Scorsese to take visible ownership of a passion project he’s been shepherding to the screen for the better part of a decade.

Yet my personal reaction to the moment was initial bafflement and a curious melancholy. Staring directly into the camera, the director of Raging Bull and Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

Another year of films. Another year of depressingly hopeful favorites.

That’s not to say I didn’t love any comedies. The ones I did just had a tendency to punch you in the gut somewhere along the line. It’s a truth that probably says more about me than I could ever articulate on my own. Grief simply resonates—especially when it can hit hard while still allowing the affected character on-screen to smile in the face of it.

We need a little of that hope in the real world. An authentic, complex hope to mirror the dark, politicized era in which we currently reside. One where anyone who isn’t depressed twenty-four-seven is more than likely not paying attention to anything that’s happening beyond their own personal gain.

The 2024 Oscars is set for March 10, 2024 in its traditional home, the Dolby Theater. Films released theatrically from January 1 to December 31 of 2023 are eligible for consideration for the 96th annual Academy Awards. Scroll down for our updated 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Picture. (Only movies confirmed for release in 2023 are included; keep checking back as new contenders enter the race.)

Some of the early Oscar hopefuls were launched at Sundance in January and Cannes in May. Four more film festivals — Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York — will showcase more movies. However, the ongoing writers and actors strikes could reduce the visibility of those contenders. Likewise for those films that forego the festival circuit entirely.

Voting for the 10 shortlisted categories runs from Dec. 14 to 18, with the semi-finalists revealed on Dec. 21. Nominations voting kicks off on Jan. 11, 2024 for six days with the slate of final contenders announced on Jan. 23. Final voting starts on Feb.

Francis Ford Coppola's bleak Vietnam War picture "Apocalypse Now" is not only one of the best films of 1979, but is handily one of the finest, most important films of its decade. Using Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" as a template, Copolla transposed the book's action from the late 1800s Congo to the jungles of Cambodia, and, in so doing, exposed the madness and horror of the Vietnam War in harrowing, soul-hollowing terms. As Captain Willars (Martin Sheen) treks deeper and deeper into the chaos of the natural world -- drifting ever closer to the insane, cult-founding rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) -- reality begins to dissipate. Eventually, madness and violence are all that remain, and war is reduced to its base function: brazen, meaningless destruction and cruelty. "Apocalypse Now" is a great, great film.

Curiously, a lot of war enthusiasts love "Apocalypse Now," seemingly ignoring the film's...

Before Martin Scorsese decided to end "Killers of the Flower Moon" with a profound coda set amidst the melodrama of a classic true crime radio show, the filmmaker considered taking inspiration from a controversial, FBI-influenced 1959 movie. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scorsese opened up about the making of the film's somber surprise ending, and explained that the Jimmy Stewart-led film "The FBI Story," directed by Mervyn LeRoy, was almost the basis for the final sequence.

"It's a series of the greatest hits of the FBI," Scorsese told the outlet, but he didn't exactly offer a glowing review for the movie. He's not alone: it's often been labeled as overt copaganda in retrospect. "It's in beautiful Technicolor and actually has some very well-done scenes, but there is a section on the Osage murders that is reviled by the Native American community," the filmmaker explained, concluding simply, "It's a travesty.

Actor Clint Eastwood was rumored to be working with Joker star Joaquin Phoenix on a project that later went to Leonardo DiCaprio. But Eastwood took the time to address the speculation, and why it was wrong.

How Clint Eastwood responded to working with Joaquin Phoenix Clint Eastwood | Michael Kovac/Getty Images

Eastwood and DiCaprio teamed up to tell the story of J. Edgar Hoover in the titular feature J. Edgar. In an interview with The New York Times, DiCaprio shared that he jumped at the opportunity to do the film. Partially because it presented some unique challenges for his career.

“When I can’t immediately define the character, and there’s an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that’s when I say yes,” DiCaprio said. “I like those kinds of complicated characters. I just do.”

Likewise, Eastwood was impressed by DiCaprio’s willingness...

Exclusive: Snafu With Ed Helms, the iHeartPodcast hosted by Helms about history’s greatest screwups, has been renewed for a second and third season. The podcast is a production of iHeartPodcasts, FilmNation Entertainment & Pacific Electric Picture Co. in association with Gilded Audio. The second season is produced by Alyssa Martino and Tory Smith for FilmNation, and produced and written by Sara Joyner, Stephen Wood, and Albert Chen for Gilded Audio.

Executive producers for the second season are Helms and Mike Falbo for Pacific Electric Picture Co.; Milan Popelka for FilmNation Entertainment; Andy Chugg and Whitney Donaldson for Gilded Audio; Dylan Fagan for iHeartPodcasts; and Betty Medsger, author of The Burglary.

Hosted and executive produced by Helms, the podcast recently won two Signal Awards: a Gold Award for Best History Podcast and a Silver Award for Best Writing, both in the category of Limited Series & Specials. This year it was also...

Over the course of his years in the spotlight, Elvis Presley’s appearance and behavior drew criticism. When he rose to prominence in the 1950s, many worried that Elvis was a negative influence on young people. Though this concern lessened over time, particularly as other, more controversial groups rose to prominence, Elvis’ appearance still rankled some people. This included the person Elvis saw as the greatest living American, J. Edgar Hoover.

According to an FBI agent, J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t have liked Elvis’ appearance

In 1970, Elvis visited the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. with the hopes of seeing Hoover.

“Presley indicated that he has long been an admirer of Mr. Hoover, and has read material prepared by the director, including Masters of Deceit, A Study of Communism, as well as J. Edgar Hoover on Communism,” FBI agent M.A. Jones wrote in a memo, per the Washington Post. “Presley...

During an impromptu trip to Washington D.C., Elvis Presley met with President Richard Nixon. He wrote Nixon a letter about how he wanted to help reduce youth drug use. While Elvis was eager to meet with Nixon, his friend and employee, Jerry Schilling, worried that the meeting wouldn’t go well. He explained that Elvis rolled up to the White House looking like Dracula.

Elvis Presley looked like Dracula when he met with Richard Nixon

After instructing his father to fire his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis took off without telling anyone but Schilling where he was going. As it turned out, he had his eyes set on the White House. On the flight there, he wrote Nixon a letter about his plan to get kids off drugs.

“Elvis was never much of a letter writer, but he now wrote President Nixon a letter explaining how he could assist...

In 1970, Elvis Presley visited the FBI headquarters during a visit to Washington. He was in the city to meet with Richard Nixon but decided to see if he could visit J. Edgar Hoover as well. While Hoover wasn’t in town, Elvis got a tour of the building. During the visit, he expounded on his possible utility to the agency. Elvis explained that even his appearance was part of a careful effort to grow closer to anti-establishment young people.

Elvis Presley told the FBI that his appearance had a purpose

When Elvis visited the FBI headquarters, he had wanted to meet with Hoover. He saw Hoover as the “greatest living American.” Though Hoover was not there, Elvis happily accepted a tour of the building by M.A. Jones, who wrote a memo to his boss, Thomas E. Bishop, after the visit.

“Presley’s sincerity and good intentions notwithstanding, he is certainly...

Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember the people behind all the pain — the victims and survivors of rampant evil.

Based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann, the film centers on the Osage people of Oklahoma after the discovery of oil on...

What does it take to heal while you’re still surrounded by the descendants of those who committed a century-old communal betrayal? The vibrant, thriving Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma had set up an economy so strong and affluent that it was called Black Wall Street. That was until it posed a threat to the white population who, in an act of racialized vengeance a century ago, left the streets strewn with charred rubble and the bodies of its African American residents.

Just an hour west and beginning around the same time, a sinister darkness had cast its shadow over Osage County and the Osage tribe whose members became among the country’s wealthiest citizens when land they were assigned turned out to have vast pockets of oil. White locals and outsiders attached themselves to the tribe’s members looking for ways to steal the tribe’s wealth.

The federal...

Watch out! This post contains spoilers.

Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" takes a true-crime narrative and flips it on its head. The movie, based on author David Grann's nonfiction book of the same name, debuted in theaters on Oct. 20 and tells the true story of the murders of Osage Indians and the FBI investigation that finally identified some of the culprits. The involvement of the FBI - which was then just called the Bureau of Investigation - is a major part of the book; Grann's tome is subtitled "The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI." The book is a well-crafted true-crime story, and finding out who committed the murders is a shocking twist, but Scorsese takes a different perspective on the same material.

The identity of the killers is immediately apparent in the film. The FBI doesn't come into the picture until the movie's last act.

On October 20, 2023, Apple Original Films released “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Oscar winner Martin Scorsese‘s highly anticipated film in which members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.

The film premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in May and received raves from critics, holding fresh at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and bolstering in Gold Derby’s Oscar odds across the board. The critics consensus reads, “Enormous in runtime, theme, and achievement, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a sobering appraisal of America’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and yet another artistic zenith for Martin Scorsese and his collaborators.”

See Apple Original Films releases third trailer for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ in runup to Friday premiere: ‘You’re gonna make trouble, make it big’ [Watch]

The film based on the bestseller of...

This article contains spoilers for "Killers of the Flower Moon."

Martin Scorsese's new film "Killers of the Flower Moon," based on true events, takes place in the Osage Nation just after World War I. The Osage people have a vast reservoir of oil on their land and have, very quickly, become some of the wealthiest people on the planet. 

The movie mostly surrounds a man named Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio), a weak-willed former soldier who is just looking for a job. Ernest falls into the employ of his uncle, William King Hale (Robert De Niro), a real-life local politician who claimed to speak for the Osage people and to be a friend of the community, but who was in fact bilking the community for their money, murdering its citizens, and doing everything in his power to rearrange Osage wealth so that it flowed toward white men. Hale even encouraged white...

This article contains spoilers for "Killers of the Flower Moon."

It should not come as a news flash that America's pursuit of its manifest destiny necessitated the wholesale slaughter of the country's indigenous population. Every single celebrated aspect of American life exists because, over several hundred years, settlers hailing largely from Europe stole land. Multiple wars were fought to earn the right to wipe these people nearly off the face of the planet, and we should never, ever forget that everything we have is culturally counterfeit.

And in the final stages of this conquest, the architects of this theft exhibited an off-the-charts monstrousness that can be explained, but, for any decent human being, impossible to comprehend.

David Grann's "Killers of the Flower Moon" is a scalding read. As a piece of nonfiction, you know what you're getting into when you crack the spine: this is the tale of how...

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At the turn of the 20th century, a Native American tribe driven from their lands in Kansas onto what was thought to be a worthless patch of rocky land in Oklahoma became some of the richest people in the world almost overnight. Oil was discovered under the Osage Nation, and white men who wanted to access that oil had to buy leases. The land could be sold, but the mineral rights belonged in perpetuity to the Osage.

The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could. But the only way the mineral rights could be transferred was by familial inheritance. Thus began an insidious story that involved marriage, deception and murder.

As the body count continued to rise, the local authorities proved unwilling to solve the murders. This led to the involvement of the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation,...

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is no stranger to bringing true stories to life. His latest movie, "Killers of the Flower Moon," is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann, which details the disturbing, mysterious deaths of over 60 Osage people in Oklahoma in the 1920s, a period that was later deemed "The Reign of Terror."

The string of murders of the Osage people garnered widespread coverage across the country, and sparked an investigation by the Bureau of Investigation (Boi), a predecessor to the FBI. And yet, this brutal part of US history has rarely been explored in literature and school curriculum.

Actor JaNae Collins, who portrays the character Reta in the film, explained to Insider, "The story shows how racism and a general indifference toward Native lives allowed a genocidal land grab to happen and how a conspiracy of silence then prevented it from becoming part of our collective history.

Ahead of the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon in theaters around the world, including IMAX® theaters, this Friday, October 20, Apple Original Films today unveiled the final trailer for the upcoming feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone.

Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight after oil was discovered underneath their land. Killers of the Flower Moon also stars Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, and is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese,...

Continuing to build anticipation for the new Martin Scorsese-directed feature “Killers of the Flower Moon” that’s being released in theaters via Paramount Pictures this Friday, Apple Original Films dropped a trailer (its third) today that gives a quick overview of the $200 million Western epic. The film focuses on the murders of a number of wealthy Osage Nation members for their oil money in 1920s Oklahoma. It reunites Scorsese with his longtime acting collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio – who plays Ernest Buckhart, the charmingly conniving husband of Osage oil heiress Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone) – and Robert De Niro, who portrays the villainous business magnate William Hale. Watch the new trailer above.

The film earned rave notices out of its Cannes Film Festival world premiere in May. It’s been at or near the top of the combined Oscar handicap odds at Gold Derby since it premiered and finds itself in second...

The Indian fans of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will have to wait a little longer to watch their latest collaboration, Killers of the Flower Moon, on the big screen. The film, which is based on the best-selling book by David Grann, was originally scheduled to release in India on October 20, along with the US. However, IMAX, the premium cinema format that boasts of immersive visuals and sound, has announced that it will push the release date of the film in India by a week to October 27.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a historical crime drama that tells the story of the Osage Nation murders in the 1920s, when members of the Native American tribe were systematically killed after oil was discovered on their land. The film stars DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, a white man who marries an Osage woman named Mollie (Lily Gladstone), and Robert De Niro as William Hale,...

The month of October 2023 will be a feast for movie lovers, as two of the most acclaimed directors in cinema history, Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese, will release their latest epic films, Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon, respectively. Both films are co-produced by Apple TV+, which has invested heavily in original content to compete with other streaming platforms.

Napoleon: Ridley Scott’s Vision of the French Emperor

Napoleon is an epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Scarpa, based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann1 The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of the French, and features Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles, Ludivine Sagnier, and Rupert Everett in supporting roles1

The film depicts Napoleon’s rise to power through the lens of his addictive and volatile relationship with Empress Joséphine,...

The London Film Festival is kicking off on Wednesday, October 4, and with it comes some of the year’s biggest and most anticipated films finally screening on UK shores. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and “May December” are just three huge films that will undoubtedly become awards players over the next few months. But let’s take a closer look at some of the performances in these movies. Here are 10 performances from films playing at Lff that audiences should watch out for — they could be frontrunners for Academy Awards or they could be dark horses looking to sneak in.

Robert De Niro — “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Martin Scorsese‘s epic picture depicts the true-life murders of multiple Osage tribe members and the subsequent investigation into the death, which reached all the way up to J. Edgar Hoover. Robert De Niro teams up once again with Scorsese to play the murderous William Hale,...

Comedian and actor Chris Rock is in final talks to direct and produce a biopic on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with Steven Spielberg serving as an executive producer through his production company Amblin Partners.

The project will be an adaptation of “King: A Life,” a critically acclaimed biography of the civil rights leader written by Jonathan Eig and published earlier this year. The book draws from recently released documents related to King. These range from personal letters to White House telephone transcripts and FBI documents related to director J. Edgar Hoover’s hostile and racist surveillance of King.

It was not immediately clear whether Rock will also star in the film. He has played the lead in the three features he’s previously directed, as well as writing them.

The last feature Rock directed was 2014’s “Top Five.” Before that, he directed 2007’s “I Think I Love My Wife” and 2003’s “Head of State.

There is nothing better than a film festival. Sitting in cozy cinema theaters all day, catching the hottest hits about to catch fire with audiences, critics, and awards voters — it’s a cinephile’s dream. Over here in the UK, the London Film Festival is us Brits’ best chance of watching said films — and those aforementioned cozy theaters make a nice break from the crisp October London mornings.

Previous films that have played at Lff include “La La Land,” “The Favourite,” and “Marriage Story.” All of these went on to be big contenders in their respective years at the Academy Awards. This year looks set to be a special edition of Lff. There are some major players about to screen that will undoubtedly head into awards season as heavy favorites in some of the biggest categories. So, let’s take a look at 10 movies playing at Lff that could be big Oscar contenders.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese says that actor DiCaprio changes in life when he’s changing on film, singing praises of the ‘Titanic’ star’s range, calling him a very dynamic and versatile performer. Talking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, Martin Scorsese admitted that he loves working with Leonardo DiCaprio, and even praised the ‘Shutter Island’ star’s growth as an actor during the New York City premiere of his latest film, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ that features DiCaprio.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ has all the makings of a classic Western combined with elements of an investigative mystery and some level of horror. DiCaprio will essay the role of Tom White, an incorruptible Texas Ranger-turned FBI agent sent to Oklahoma in the early 1920s by J Edgar Hoover to answer a desperate call from the Osage Indian Nation.

The Osage become the wealthiest people per capita in the world due to...