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Keanu Reeves was encouraged to change his name when he first arrived in Hollywood.The 61-year-old star has enjoyed huge success in the movie business, but his manager thought Keanu's name might stunt his career prospects.During an appearance on the New Heights podcast, Keanu explained: "I got paid when I was like 16, so I was a professional actor around 16, 17 [years old]."I was in Toronto, Canada, and then I got a manager who lived in Los Angeles ... At 20 years old, I drove in my car to Los Angeles. Got out of my car and my manager said, ‘We want to change your name.’ So that’s like, a welcome to...

Leonardo DiCaprio thinks box-office numbers will always be "important".The 50-year-old actor - who is one of the best-paid movie stars in the world - acknowledges the ever-increasing importance of streaming platforms, but he believes the box-office will always be a significant element of the film industry.He told Variety: "I think there’s just an inundation of content and so much production going on now — which is a good thing, obviously. But I think box office is important because it means people are in the seats going to theatre, going to have that communal experience."DiCaprio stars alongside the likes of Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor,...

Leonardo DiCaprio is making his first-ever podcast appearance during his current press tour!

The 50-year-old Titanic actor appeared alongside Benicio Del Toro on the latest episode of New Heights with Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce.

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During the appearance, they spoke about working with different directors in the industry, and compared it to how NFL players work together with coaches, as well as getting their start in Hollywood.

At one point when he was about 12 years old, Leo revealed that he considered changing his name to Lenny Williams!

“I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic. I go, ‘What do mean?...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor pulled back the curtain on Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming One Battle After Another during Tuesday’s Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon, before revealing an extended clip from the forthcoming awards contender.

“I've been wanting to work with Paul for over, gosh, almost 20 years now, and he's one of the most unique talents of our time,” DiCaprio told the nation’s theater owners. As the story goes, Anderson initially wanted DiCaprio to star as Dirk Diggler in Anderson's breakout 1997 film, Boogie Nights. He also worked with DiCaprio’s father, George DiCaprio, on Licorice Pizza.

One Battle After Another is Anderson’s most expensive movie ever and will receive a significant theatrical release from Warner Bros. — including an IMAX run — when it debuts in theaters on Sept. 26. While continuously unmentioned in the marketing so far, the movie is heavily inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland.

If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

On Thursday, Warner Bros. released the first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie is the first that Anderson has made with DiCaprio. Still, it is not the first project Anderson has done with a member of DiCaprio’s family. The Oscar-winning actor’s father, George DiCaprio, appeared in Licorice Pizza. Anderson also originally wanted DiCaprio to star as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights.

As revealed in the new trailer — which dropped a week after Warner Bros. officially dated One Battle After Another for the fall — the film is heavily inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson, a dishelved counter-culture radical on a quest to find his missing daughter (Presumed Innocent star Chase Infiniti), who was abducted by a conservative military figure named Steve Lockjaw (Oscar-winner...

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio are ready to go to war.

On Thursday, Warner Bros. released the first teaser trailer for One Battle After Another, the acclaimed filmmaker and star's first-ever collaboration. According to the studio, the full trailer will arrive next week.

Little is officially known about One Battle After Another – so much so that its title wasn’t revealed until Wednesday night when it was reported the studio had shifted the project's release date from August to the fall (more on that below). However, online scuttlebutt suggests the project, Anderson’s most expensive ever, is at least inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. That novel — set in 1984 but with flashbacks to the 1960s to contextualize the cultural clash in America during those decades — focuses on a former hippie named Zoyd Wheeler and his 14-year-old daughter as they attempt to stay ahead of a villainous federal official. Watching...

Leonardo DiCaprio Donates $1M to Wildfire Relief (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Leonardo DiCaprio’s $1 million donation to wildfire relief has ignited a heated debate. Critics accuse him of hypocrisy after he was spotted fleeing Los Angeles on a private jet amid the devastating fires.

Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted arriving in Los Cabos, Mexico, by a private flight with his girlfriend, Vittoria Ceretti, his father, George DiCaprio, and his stepmother, Peggy Ann.

Was Leonardo DiCaprio’s story all about humble beginnings? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

This advice shaped Leonardo DiCaprio’s wild ride to stardom. He didn’t grow up with private schools and limo rides — Leo’s childhood was more Taxi Driver gritty than Hollywood Boulevard glamorous. We’re talking about a kid who witnessed crack deals in alleys and saw a prostitution ring on his street corner. Yeah, that was his reality. Yet, Leo went from that chaos to becoming The Wolf of Wall Street and one of Hollywood’s biggest names.

Leo’s secret sauce? Supportive parents who kept him grounded. After George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken split up early on, they made a pact to steer Leo clear of the traps that come with growing up in a tough neighborhood. In a 2016 speech, Leo gave a shoutout to his parents: “To my parents, thank you for listening to an overly ambitious,...

Leonardo DiCaprio is at a museum, discussing the origin of his name with his mother (Photo Credit – Koimoi)

Leonardo DiCaprio is synonymous with Hollywood stardom, but the story of how he came by it is charming and unique. In a 2014 NPR interview, DiCaprio revealed the delightful origins of his name: “My father tells me that they were on their honeymoon at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence… they were looking at a da Vinci painting, and allegedly I started kicking furiously while my mother was pregnant. My dad, being the artist that he is, said, ‘That’s our boy’s name.'” Talk about a divine sign!

The surname DiCaprio adds another layer to this intriguing tale. Leonardo’s father, George DiCaprio, was a half-Italian comic book artist and distributor, which hints at the artistic bloodline running through the family. Yet, Leonardo’s ancestry is a mixed bag, with German and Russian roots.

Leonardo DiCaprio almost played Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman, impressing Zack Snyder with his ideas for the character. DiCaprio's background in comics influenced Snyder, who considered his ideas for Superman fighting the Justice League. In another universe, DiCaprio was considered for the roles of Stan Lee and Spider-Man, showing his versatility as an actor.

At one point in time, Leonardo DiCaprio could have donned a bald cap (or shaved his head completely) to play Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder's DC Extended Universe. Snyder held the reins of the Dceu, which included films like Man of Steel, Batman v Superman (both directed by Snyder), Wonder Woman, and Aquaman, until James Gunn took over in 2022.

Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Zack Snyder confirmed long-running rumors about the actors he approached to play Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Snyder revealed one actor he...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been the center of Hollywood’s spotlight for more than two decades. However, despite offering fans critically acclaimed projects, it’s been only a couple of years since we started learning about his humble beginnings and unconventional childhood.

Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic

The renowned actor Leonardo DiCaprio was the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken, a German-born legal secretary, and George DiCaprio who was an artist and comic book distributor. While the actor grew up in a cozy family, it’s been only recently that fans found old photos of the trio from the 1970s, in Los Angeles.

Leonardo DiCaprio and His Unconventional Childhood

Rising to prominence through his work in James Cameron’s Titanic, alongside Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio achieved an envious success in his Hollywood career. Thereafter, the actor never had to look back on his career, for he steadily turned into one of the most...

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio marked his 48th birthday by throwing a party for all his celebrity friends including Bradley Cooper, Kate Hudson, Rebel Wilson, Ashton Kutcher, Sir Mick Jagger and Jamie Foxx at a private mansion in California.

Also present at the bash were actors Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Tobey Maguire and Adrien Brody, as well as basketball star LeBron James and his wife, Savannah, sports agent Rich Paul and Leonardo’s parents George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirke.

According to TMZ, guests were asked to place their phones into security bags to ensure pictures from the bash didn’t end up on social media, reports aceshowbiz.com.

A source told People.com: “It was a great party with music, drinks and catered food. Everyone seemed to have a great time.” However, despite the star-studded guest list there was apparently no sign of supermodel Gigi Hadid who was linked to the birthday boy in recent weeks.

Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t the only actor in his family! The Oscar winner’s father, George DiCaprio, has a cameo in Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age film, “Licorice Pizza”, and his son spoke with Et’s Rachel Smith about how he landed the part. “I haven’t seen it yet but my dad, George DiCaprio, has a cameo in a Paul...

Licorice Pizza Review — Licorice Pizza (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, James Kelley, Sasha Spielberg, Anna Cordell, Patrick Hoelck, Este Haim, Danielle Haim, John Michael Higgins, Skyler Gisondo, Maya Rudolph, George DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper and Benny Safdie. Filmmaker Paul Thomas [...]

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Who says you can't have a beach day in the fall? On Friday, Nov. 6, Leonardo DiCaprio, 45, was spotted at the beach in Malibu, Calif. alongside friend and The Girl Next Door star Emile Hirsch, 35. Both wearing swim trunks—Leonardo in a set of patterned gray and Emile in baby blue—the duo even hit the surely chilly waters. It seemed like a bros day out as the friends were joined by others, including the Titanic star's dad, George DiCaprio. Noticeably though, the day was missing Leo's longtime girlfriend Camila Morrone, 23. The couple made their first public appearance in Aspen, Colo. in Jan. 2018 and were in full-on Pda mode at Coachella a few months later, where...

Leonardo DiCaprio and his long-time friend Emile Hirsch were spotted enjoying a beach day in Malibu, California.

DiCaprio, 45, and his old pal Emile Hirsch, 35, met up on Friday to enjoy a day at the beach together.

The longtime BFFs showed off their beach bodies while going shirtless as they enjoyed the warm weather and cooled down in the surf along with a group of friends and Leo's father George DiCaprio.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Emile Hirsch spotted on beach (Pic Courtesy: Dailymail)

Leonardo DiCaprio stripped for some time as he took a dip in the water donning a pair of gray patterned swim trunks. Meanwhile, Emile Hirsch rocked a pair of baby blue boardshorts.

While in the water, the pair seemed to be having a great time as they chatted with some friends and smiled.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Emile Hirsch spotted on beach (Pic Courtesy: Dailymail)

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and In Good Company Films are developing the utopian series “Island,” based on Aldous Huxley’s novel “Island.”

Huxley’s final book, published in 1962, follows a cynical journalist shipwrecked on the fictional utopian island of Pala in the Indian Ocean. Originally tasked with exploiting Pala’s natural resources, he uncovers an independently developed society and embraces the people, their culture and traditions — including psychedelic adventures and alternative social structures. His experience alters the course of his mission.

Huxlery wrote “Island” as the utopian counterpoint to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel, “Brave New World.” “Island” explores the themes of freedom and the power of human potential. Huxley died of cancer in 1963.

Davisson and DiCaprio will executive produce for Appian Way along with George DiCaprio and Roee Sharon. Andrew Alter and Jason Whitmore will executive produce for Igc Films.

Appian Way launched in 2004 as a...

Exclusive: As documentary films and series continue to escalate in prominence in this age of binge watching, here’s a package that is creating some excitement as it is shopped this week and next. Imagine Documentaries and Appian Way Productions have partnered to produce Timothy Leary: Follow Me to Freedom, a docuseries that draws upon Leary’s vast archives and is fueled by exclusive access to his longtime personal archivist, Michael Horowitz. Malcolm Venville is set to direct what the filmmakers believe will be the definitive account of Timothy Leary’s odyssey, with never-before-seen access to Leary’s personal archive.

This is thanks to resources provided by Horowitz, a rare books and manuscripts specialist who was building a library in San Francisco on the history of mind-altering drugs when he learned that psychedelic scientist/LSD advocate Leary had been imprisoned in Governor Ronald Reagan’s crackdown.

"Is it game over...? Or is it game on? As we have at hand, the ability, the capacity, and solutions that can reverse global warming... not mitigate, not reduce, not stabilize, but reverse?" HBO has debuted an official trailer for the documentary Ice on Fire, which is premiering today at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. This urgent, inspiring new documentary focuses on many never-before-seen solutions designed to slow down our escalating environmental crisis. It's produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, George DiCaprio, with Mathew Schmid, and is directed by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour). This isn't the only DiCaprio produced climate doc, the other one being And We Go Green which also got a new trailer this week. Even though some say there are too many climate change docs, in all honesty, there are not enough. And we will continue to highlight them and talk about them as this still is the...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been in the spotlight for over 20 years, but we've only recently begun to find out more about his humble beginnings and unconventional childhood. The 43-year-old actor is the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken, a German-born legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an artist and comic book distributor, and the three are featured in a series of heartwarming family photos taken in Los Angeles in January 1975, when Leo was just a baby. His parents, whom Leo has called "Bohemians in every sense of the word," divorced when he was a year old, and Leo grew up with Irmelin around La; to this day, Leo has gushed about both his mother and father, saying, "They're the people I trust the most in the world," and bringing them as his dates to award shows. In 2016, George accompanied his famous son to the Golden Globes - and after winning at the SAG Awards that year,...