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    'Another Round' Director Weighs In on Leonardo DiCaprio Doing English Language Remake

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    Thomas Vinterberg, who won Best International Film with the dramedy at the 2021 Oscars, touched many with his acceptance speech which he dedicated to his late daughter.

    Apr 27, 2021

    AceShowbiz –
    Thomas Vinterberg’s acclaimed movie “Another Round” is on the fast track for a Hollywood English-language remake a day after it scored the Best International Film prize at the 2021 Oscars.

    The project has been picked up by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company as a possible starring vehicle for “The Revenant” star. He is likely to play the role Mads Mikkelsen took on in the film about four middle-aged teacher friends, who decide to test a theory that life is best lived in a permanent state of mild intoxication.

    DiCaprio and his partners outbid Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories and Elizabeth Banks for the rights to Vinterberg’s film, according to Deadline.

    The director gave one of the most touching acceptance speeches at the Academy Awards when he dedicated the Best International Film win to his late daughter Ida, who was set to play the daughter of Mikkelsen’s character when she was killed in a car crash.

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    “We wanted to make a film that celebrates life,” the 51-year-old Danish filmmaker said. “We ended up making this movie for her, it’s her monument.” He then gave a shout-out to his late daughter, “You’re part of this miracle. Maybe you’ve been pulling some strings somewhere.”

    While news of “Another Round” remake was met with mixed reaction, Vinterberg explained to IndieWire why he looks forward to it. “I’ve seen various interpretations of my work before,” he pointed out. “It’s an interesting artistic thing to see something grow into different versions.”

    “Now it’s in the hands of the finest actor you can get and besides being a brilliant actor, he’s made very intelligent choices throughout his career,” the director continued. “I feel there’s a lot of integrity in the choices he’s made. I’m full of hope and curiosity about what they’re up to.”

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      Leonardo DiCaprio Butted Heads With Screenwriter Over Script of Martin Scorsese's New Movie

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      The Oscar-winning actor argued with screenwriter Eric Roth over the script written by the latter for the upcoming true-story movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.

      Nov 18, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Leonardo Dicaprio and Eric Roth have clashed over the script for Martin Scorsese’s new movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
      Screenwriter Roth has revealed he and Leo butted heads as he was crafting the script because the Oscar-winning “The Revenant” star didn’t like everything he read.
      “I spent four or five years on this book, Killers of the Flower Moon, which everybody should read. It’s a wonderful book,” Eric told IndieWire. “My screenplay, I think, was accurate to the book.”
      “It’s the story of Osage Indians, 1921, the poorest people in America who discover oil in this terrible land in Oklahoma, where they’ve been driven to. Then every killer in America comes to kill 184 of them for their money, but this really heroic guy comes in (to help).”

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      “That’s supposed to start filming in March once the COVID clears out… They’ll be continuing rewrites with that. Leonardo wanted some things changed that we argued about. He won half of them (arguments). I won half of them. So that’s happening.”
      The film will also feature another Scorsese regular, Robert De Niro.
      “When I read David Grann’s book, I immediately started seeing it – the people, the settings, the action – and I knew that I had to make it into a movie. I’m so excited to be working with Eric Roth and reuniting with Leo DiCaprio to bring this truly unsettling American story to the screen,” Scorsese previously said.
      The director previously teamed up Leonardo DiCaprio on “Gangs of New York” (2002), “The Aviator” (2004), “The Departed” (2006), “Shutter Island” (2010) and most recently “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013).

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      Leonardo DiCaprio Teams Up With Barry Jenkins in Film Adaptation of 'Virunga'

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      The 2014 documentary itself was written and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, and followed rangers as they risked their lives to save endangered gorillas in Africa.
      Jun 24, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Oscar winners Barry Jenkins and Leonardo DiCaprio are joining forces for a movie adaptation of Orlando von Einsiedel’s Netflix documentary “Virunga”.
      The 2014 film, which DiCaprio helped produce, picked up an Oscar nomination and now “The Revenant” star will be fronting the feature adaptation, written and directed by Jenkins. Von Einsiedel will produce the revamp.
      The film will chronicle the efforts of two rangers risking their lives to save endangered gorillas in Africa.

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      Taylor Swift Channels Leonardo DiCaprio as a Man in New Music Video

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      The ‘Lover’ singer transforms into a man and recreates scenes from Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ in a music video supporting her feminist anthem ‘The Man’.
      Feb 28, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift donned drag to transform herself into an obnoxious, hard partying man for her new music video.
      The “Bad Blood” hitmaker has directed the promo for the track “The Man”, from her “Lover” album, and went through an intensive makeup transformation to play a sexist playboy in the short film, which debuted Thursday, February 27, 2020.
      In the video, Taylor as The Man berates co-workers in an office, manspreads on the subway while smoking a cigar, urinates on a station wall, parties with bikini-clad models on a yacht, and throws a tantrum at a women’s charity tennis tournament.
      At the end of the video, Taylor, as director, is shown talking to the actor playing The Man, voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and tells him he needs to be “sexier” and “more likeable.” The credits then reveal the makeup transformation the 29-year-old popstar underwent to play the role.
      It also contains a dig at music manager Scooter Braun, who she has feuded with over his decision to buy up her back catalogue, and a jokey namecheck for Leonardo DiCaprio – with many of the video’s scenes bearing a resemblance to his movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
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      Before releasing the video, the star hosted a YouTube Q&A session with fans in the comments section of her YouTube Premiere account, revealing what it was like to direct the video – and hinted at some of its secrets.
      “I loved the months of prep, meetings, location scouting, set design, mood boards, deciding every detail down to the wardrobe each actress/actor wore and working with them on set,” she wrote. “So um all of it.”
      She also described the person playing The Man as “A bo$$” and hinted that there would be cameos in the video “but not in the way you think.”
      One person who does make a full cameo in the video is Taylor’s dad Scott, who appears briefly as a tennis umpire.

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