Martin Scorsese has been flirting with The Wolf of Wall Street for years, with the project often seeming close to being his next movie, before he moves on to something else. However now it appears he’s finally going to make it, as Variety reports Scorsese is now locked in, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring and a plan to start shooting this summer.
Based on Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio will play Belfort, looking at his dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street, along with his hard-partying lifestyle and tumultuous personal life, which included drug and alcohol addiction. Terence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) wrote the screenplay.
Production on The Wolf of Wall Street is slated to begin in August in New York. It’ll be Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth movie together.
A couple of years ago, Hugh Jackman was all set to star in Avon Man, with the actor eyeing it as a priority. However for various reason he ended up dropping out of the film, and since then it’s pretty much been in stasis. Now though, 
Once Gary Ross officially confirmed that he wouldn’t direct Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, there’s been a lot of speculation over who would replace him. Lionsgate has been scrambling to find a replacement so that the movie can keep with its plan to shoot this autumn (something that’s vital as Catching Fire needs to wrap by December so Jennifer Lawrence can move on to X-Men: First Class 2).
It’s ridiculous that it’s taken six years for Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to make a follow-up movie, but finally Ruby Sparks is on its way and the first trailer has been released. In the film Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby (Zoe Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person. It hits US cinemas in July, but no UK date is currently set.
Virginia (or Whats Wrong With Virginia? as it was initially titled) debuted with mixed-to-bad reviews at the Toronto Film Festival a few months ago, but Dustin Lance Blacks directorial debut still seems like itll be worth a look. Its out on the US in May and should reach the UK later this year. Black is, of course, best known as the screenwriter of Milk and J. Edgar, but here thing are less historical and more satirical. In the film, a sheriff (Ed Harris) sees his state senate bid slide onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman (Jennifer Connelly) with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decades-long affair. Some have commented that the trailer seems deceptive, as the film they saw plays out more tragic than the comic tone of the promo, However it has been completely re-edited since its TIFF debut, due to some of the severe criticism it came in for. Hopefully Dustin will have sorted things out, as the trailer does make the movie look decent enough.
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