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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto told Insider in a new interview that Leonardo DiCaprio wore butt padding for the scene in which Robert De Niro has to repeatedly spank him. Prieto recalled watching the scene on set and thinking, “Oh, that must hurt.” He commended DiCaprio for being open to try anything Scorsese asked him to during production. “I don’t think that was in the first script,” Prieto said of the spanking scene.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour topped the US box office for a second week, seeing off competition from Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon.According to Deadline, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour took $32million (£25.5m) in its second weekend in the region, a 67 per cent drop. Globally, film has taken $164.8million following its release on October 12 in the US across AMC theatres and October 13 in other territories.Killers Of The Flower Moon, meanwhile, took $23million (£18.9m) in its opening weekend at the US box office, which is the third best opening for Scorsese, following 2010’s Shutter Island ($41m) and The Departed ($26.9m) in 2006.Scorsese’s film, however, topped the worldwide box office with $44million (£36.2m), with Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour slipping to second with $41.5million (£34.1m) globally in its second week (via Screen Daily).While Scorsese’s latest film may struggle to become profitable against its estimated $200million budget, the opening numbers are considered a success due to its lengthy 206-minute running time and the fact it’s a period movie skewed towards adults.Killers Of The Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, is also set to release on Apple TV+ at an unconfirmed date.In a five-star review, NME wrote: “Each conversation between De Niro and DiCaprio is an exercise in clever euphemism and while some may find the tempo a bit too stately, the story of an entire people’s eradication deserves to be told in full.

Naman Ramachandran Lokesh Kanagaraj‘s Tamil-language “Leo: Bloody Sweet,” starring Vijay, debuted in third position at the global box office over the latest weekend, with $31.2 million planetwide, according to estimates released on Sunday by Comscore. The weekend was won by Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, with $44 million, followed by “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” with $41.5 million. However, in terms of worldwide cumulative among new releases, “Leo” scored $48.5 million (after four days) compared with the $44 million earned by “Killers of the Flower Moon.” An homage to David Cronenberg’s 2005 film “A History of Violence,” “Leo” released on Oct.

Leonardo DiCaprio may be an Oscar-winning actor, but you just can’t deny Taylor Swift’s fandom.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Taylor Swift’s movie is presiding over Martin Scorsese’s in North American theaters, but the “Mean Streets” director has outstripped the “Mean” singer at the international box office. Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a crime epic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, has generated $21 million from 63 overseas markets. In terms of weekend ticket sales, it’s pacing ahead of Swift’s “The Eras Tour,” which added $10.5 million in its second weekend of release.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Martin Scorsese‘s star-studded crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” impressed in its box office debut, collecting $23 million from 3,628 North American theaters over the weekend. The film also brought in $21 million from 63 international territories for a global total of $44 million.

Killers of the Flower Moon,” by David Grann, which details how the Osage fell victim to a string of murders.One was killed with poisoned whiskey (there may have been more), others got shot and Bill and Rita Smith, a white man married to an Osage woman had their home blown up. The pure greed of it all was made evident when William King Hale (often referred to, simply, as King), a wealthy rancher who held considerable sway over Native Americans and whites alike, took out a $25,000 life insurance policy on an Osage man named Henry Roan. A doctor who examined Roan for the policy asked Hale if he planned on killing Roan.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” reigned supreme in theaters for the second Friday in a row, earning $10.4 million, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.After her negotiations with movie studios failed, the songstress struck an unprecedented agreement with AMC Theatres for its distribution.Some fans told The Post that they are getting reprimanded by fellow Swifties and theater employees for singing and dancing while watching the movie. Swift managed to beat out Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which saw sales of $9.4 million on Friday, its opening night.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This article has minor spoilers for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” now playing in theaters. There is a scene near the beginning of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” that shows crude oil spurting out from the ground — “black gold.” It’s a joyful moment for the Osage tribes. “Scorsese kept talking about oil gushing up in the air,” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto tells Variety. “When you find oil, it bubbles under the surface, but he wanted to do something surreal and joyful, which contrasts with what that black gold brought them.” So, the shot required an oil pump as well as a derrick oil rig.

Concerned that a prolonged actors strike would bring long-term, irreparable harm to the industry, Hollywood’s biggest stars on a Zoom call this week with SAG-AFTRA leaders pledged to commit $150 million over three years to remove a cap on union dues to bring more coin to guild coffers, and they suggested a streamer residual structure that would put actors on the bottom of the call sheet before them, in hopes that getting money faster would help more struggling actors qualify for benefits.

Killers of the Flower Moon” earned $9.4 million from 3,628 theaters on its opening day, a figure that includes $2.6 million in Thursday previews. The epic-length historical drama is now projecting a finish of $23.5 million over the three-day opening frame, tracking behind the second weekend of Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese’s $200 million epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book, centers on the Reign of Terror, a term the Osage Nation used to define the murders of at least 60 community members in the late 1920s. The film tells this true crime tale through the lens of a marriage between Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a World War I veteran who relocates to Oklahoma to work with his rancher uncle, and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), a local Osage woman whose family was one of the community’s wealthiest. Robert De Niro stars as Ernest’s uncle, William Hale.

Barbie and Wednesday will be among this year’s most popular Halloween costumes. Last year, highlights included Lizzo dressing as Marge Simpson and Diddy going as Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight.SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, began its strike on July 14 over an ongoing labour dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

Tony Goldwyn Director Tony Goldwyn writes about the experience of working with his longtime friend, writer Tony Spiridakis, on the movie “Ezra,” which screened at TIFF and won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival. Bobby Cannavale stars as the father of an 11-year-old autistic son who sets off on a road trip with his son, without the permission of his son’s mother or his father, played by Robert De Niro, whose car he has “borrowed.” The friendship began before I could shut the door of my blue ’77 Chevy Nova. I had made the two and a half hour drive from college in Boston through the heart of the Berkshire mountains to Williamstown, Mass.

Leonardo DiCaprio‘s “endless” ad-libs in Killers Of The Flower Moon left Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro “rolling their eyes”, according to the director.Scorsese’s 26th film is based on the true story of the murder of more than 60 Native Americans in 1920s Oklahoma and stars De Niro and DiCaprio as an uncle and nephew plotting to steal the oil underneath the tribe’s land.DiCaprio is renowed for improvising his lines in films, but while filming the period piece, the actor apparently tested the patience of his co-star and director.His improvisations were “endless, endless, endless”, Scorsese told The Telegraph, while “Bob [De Niro] didn’t want to talk.”The 80-year-old director, who has made multiple films with both actors, said: “Every now and then, Bob and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit. And we’d tell [DiCaprio]: ‘You don’t need that dialogue.’”This comes after Scorsese recently revealed that DiCaprio asked for a major overhaul of the film’s script two years into the writing process.While the film ended up being told from the perspective of the Osage tribe, that wasn’t the original plan.

A long-gestating medical drama that’s inspired by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks has been handed a series order at NBC.

Jordan Moreau This weekend at the box office is a showdown of two pop culture titans: Martin Scorsese and Taylor Swift. The “Mean Streets” director and “Mean” singer each have a movie facing off this weekend, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” Scorsese’s latest movie has so far made $2.6 million in Thursday previews at the box office. “Eras Tour” made $5.9 million on Thursday, Oct.

The AMC distributed Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour returned yesterday, Thursday, at around noon after a three day pause, pulling in $5.9M per industry estimates. This takes the running total of the Sam Wrench directed concert film to $98.7M at 3,855 theaters. Meanwhile, Apple Original Films big splash into wide theatrical releases with Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, distributed by Paramount, drew $2.6M in previews that began at 2PM. Why so early? The Leonardo DiCaprio Robert De Niro movie is 3 hours and 26 minutes long.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are two of the biggest movie stars of all time, but they have very different acting methods.

Editor’s note: This interview was originally published on May 16 during the Cannes Film Festival. It is being rerun now to coincide with the film’s domestic release and interviews were carried out prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Goldman called them “thoughtful human movies” — the ones, he said, “that don’t have the big marketing hook or are not genre pictures or horror or action movies have become increasingly difficult to get made.”

Martin Scorsese releases epic new film Killers Of The Flower Moon on Apple TV+, and has more projects up his sleeve.The legendary 80-year-old director’s new film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, and is based on a series of murders in the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.Speaking to NME about the film, Scorsese said: “For some reason, the story stuck with me. And I think a lot of it had to do with the nature of the system that was created in Oklahoma at that time.

Martin Scorsese‘s Killers Of The Flower Moon lands on Apple TV+ this week, and has a love story at its heart.The film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, is based on a series of murders in the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart in the film, with his wife Mollie portrayed by Lily Gladstone. In the film, the pair are embroiled in a complicated and turbulent love story.In a five-star review of the film, NME wrote: “This is among Scorsese’s most important work.

Martin Scorsese‘s new epic Killers Of The Flower Moon on Apple TV+, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Ernest Burkhart.DiCaprio is joined by Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro in the new film, which is based on a series of murders in the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.In a five-star review of the film, NME wrote: “This is among Scorsese’s most important work. Popular music from the 1920s, Native American songs and Robbie Robertson’s bluesy score help round off this remarkable Western, a film that will linger in the minds of its audience for a long time.”With the new film out now, DiCaprio has multiple new projects to work on next, including more as part of his still-fruitful relationship with Scorsese.After the release of Killers Of The Flower Moon, DiCaprio will reconnect with Scorsese for new movie The Wager.Speaking to The Times, Scorsese confirmed that this will be his next project, and is based on the novel The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann, the same author who wrote the book that Killers Of The Flower Moon is based on.There is not a great deal of information available about Scorsese’s adaptation of the book, but The Wager concerns the real-life fate of the crew of the HMS Wager, a British navy ship wrecked off the coast of Chile in the mid-1700s.Another team-up between the legendary actor and director pair will come in a Teddy Roosevelt biopic, while other DiCaprio and Scorsese projects in the works include The Devil In The White City.The latter is an adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 book which concerns H.

Martin Scorsese‘s Killers Of The Flower Moon lands on Apple TV+ this week, and comes complete with an epic soundtrack.The film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, is based on a series of murders in the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.A synopsis reads: “In the 1920s, members of the Osage Native American tribe of Osage County, Oklahoma, are murdered after oil is found on their land, and the FBI decides to investigate.”In a five-star review of the film, NME wrote: “This is among Scorsese’s most important work. Popular music from the 1920s, Native American songs and Robbie Robertson’s bluesy score help round off this remarkable Western, a film that will linger in the minds of its audience for a long time.”Alongside a score from Robbie Robertson, who died in August of this year after completing the score, the film’s soundtrack features a host of popular music from the 1920s and Native American songs.1. ‘(Intro) The Sacred Pipe’2. ‘Osage Oil Boom’3. ‘My Land…My Land’4. ‘Heartbeat Theme/ Ni-U-Kon-Ska’5. ‘They Don’t Live Long’6. ‘The Wedding’7. ‘Tribal Council’8. ‘Reign Of Terror’9. ‘Insulin Train’10. ‘Tulsa Massacre Newsreel’11. ‘Shame On Us’12. ‘Too Much Dynamite’13. ‘Not If it’s Illegal’14. ‘Salvation Adagio’15. ‘Still Standing’16. ‘Tupelo Blues’ – Rayna Gellert, Kieran Kane, Philip Jamison & David Mansfield17. ‘Livery Stable Blues’ – Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks18. ‘The Gallop, Chasse, Pas de Bourree’ – Adam Nielsen19. ‘Metropolis (A Blue Fantasie)’ – Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks20. ‘Mollie’ – Andy Stein21. ‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)’ – Osage Tribal SingersTalking to NME about his relationship with Robertson and his score for the film, Scorsese said: “We knew each other for 50 years.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter They say the book is always better than the movie, but the real money is on the screen. So for decades, Hollywood has mined the written word — from Shakespeare to Hemingway to Fitzgerald all the way to the eight films based on “Harry Potter.” The industry needs reliable IP more desperately than ever, and so the months ahead bring a slew of adaptations to movie theaters and TV. From the apocalyptic gates of Panem to the glittery streets of Oz to the dusty plains of Oklahoma, here are 10 buzzy page-to-screen adaptations we’re excited to see.

EXCLUSIVE: While it will continue to have a deal with Skydance Media for tent pole live action film and TV fare, Apple is parting ways with Skydance Animation, the company run by former Pixar chief John Lassiter. Their multi-year deal has come to a conclusion, and Apple is making other kinds of films, notably this weekend’s opener Killers of the Flower Moon, which opens globally Friday.

The AMC-distributed Taylor Swift concert movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which paused weekday play from Monday-Thursday, is looking at a 60%-70% dive in its second weekend with $27M-$37M off its first weekend of $92.3M. Those industry projections are based on the front-loaded nature of female-skewing pics, per sources.

A new trailer for Leonardo DiCaprio‘s highly-anticipated new movie has been released.

Robert De Niro has seven children. The 80-year-old actor recently had a new baby, Gia Virginia Chen De Niro, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen. In a new interview, he’s opened up about parenthood and the differences between having a kid when you’re young and then when you’re older.

Britney Spears revealed in an excerpt from her upcoming book, “The Woman in Me,” that she unknowingly slipped into method acting while filming the 2002 drama-comedy “Crossroads.” “My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind,” Spears, 41, wrote in an excerpt obtained by People. “I think I started Method acting — only I didn’t know how to break out of my character. “I really became this other person.

One of the biggest movie events of the year is almost here: Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” hits theaters this Friday. And to keep the hype machine humming and turning, Apple Original Films has a final trailer for Scorsese’s film, with all-new scenes not seen in previous previews.

Facebook Monday.She died just one week before her 85th birthday.“For more than 50 years, our lives were intertwined through our mutual love of literature, writing, and acting,” Scott wrote of her late “Dark Shadows” co-star.“We could not have been more unalike, and therein lay the magic of our enduring friendship. My thoughts are with her family in this sad time of grief and remembrance.”Parker’s daughter, Caitlin Hawkins, confirmed her mother’s death in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.Before kickstarting her career in entertainment, Parker enrolled in Vassar College in New York, where she roomed with none other than Jane Fonda.She later completed her undergraduate degree at Southwestern at Memphis, which is now Rhodes College, before graduating from the University of Iowa with a master’s degree in drama.She went on to marry her first husband, Tom Parker, and the pair welcomed two sons, Rick and Andy during their time living in Wisconsin.Lara then decided to kickstart her acting career, and traveled to NYC where she landed a role in Dan Curtis’ series, “Dark Shadows.”During her stint on the six-season-strong show, the actress starred in a film based on the series, “Night of Dark Shadows,” in 1971.A year prior, she starred alongside Robert De Niro in Brian De Palma’s “Hi, Mom!”After wrapping “Dark Shadows,” Lara relocated to LA to continue expanding her onscreen portfolio, including a role in the 1973 drama “Save The Tiger,” which earned Jack Lemmon a Best Actor Oscar.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival set for Torun, Poland, for Nov. 11-18, has announced that high-profile award contenders “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Black Lies” and “All of Us Strangers” will be featured in its main competition. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the latest pic from director Martin Scorsese, takes audiences on a journey through 1920s Oklahoma to tell a heartbreaking tale of love, greed and betrayal.

Martin Scorsese was two years into writing the script for Killers Of The Flower Moon when Leonardo DiCaprio requested an overhaul, the filmmaker has revealed.Speaking to The Irish Times, Scorsese revealed that he had been working on the upcoming true crime film’s script for two years when Leonardo DiCaprio read it and asked for it to be reworked.Killers Of The Flower Moon is based on a series of murders in the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone and Brendan Fraser.While the film is now being told from the perspective of the Osage tribe, that wasn’t always the case. According to Scorsese, the film’s original script was told “from the point of view of the bureau agents coming in to investigate”, which prompted DiCaprio’s issue with the script.Scorsese explained: “Leo came to me and asked, ‘Where is the heart of this story?’ I had had meetings and dinners with the Osage, and I thought, Well, there’s the story.

Robert De Niro opened up about co-parenting his six-month-old daughter Gia with girlfriend Tiffany Chen.