- 12/22/2006 Sfgate.com: Lawsuit against Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire is dismissed (Don's Plum case).
A producer's lawsuit claiming actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire blocked the release of a movie made before they became stars
has been dismissed.
Superior Court Judge Mary Ann Murphy heard arguments in the case Sept. 27 and issued her ruling Wednesday, according to court records
released Thursday.
Murphy said no further changes could be made to the already revised lawsuit filed by producer John Schindler in December 2004.
- 12/16/2006 Blood Diamond Contest Ended.
Winners have been posted on www.heartofdestiny.com. Thanks for participating.
- Warner Brothers Award Site.
Warner Brothers has posted an Official Awards site for both the Blood Diamond and the Departed.
- 12/14/2006 Leo nominated for Blood Diamond and The Departed.
The Golden Globe Awards, given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, gave 6 nominations to "The Departed".
Leo has been nominated for Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - drama for "The Departed" and "Blood Diamond."
Read more at the Hollywood Foreign Press official website.
- 12/13/2006 Usatoday.com: Leonardo DiCaprio asks Yahoo! users for answers to global warming.
Leonardo DiCaprio knows global warming is a problem, and he wants answers. That's why the award-winning actor posted a question on the
"Yahoo! Answers" website, prompting visitors to share their solutions.
- 12/12/2006 Hollywoodreporter.com: Twin noms for DiCaprio a BFCA first.
Leonardo DiCaprio will face off against Leonardo DiCaprio at the 12th annual Critics Choice Awards, which will be handed out Jan. 12.
The hard-working DiCaprio has received best actor nominations for his work as a smuggler in "Blood Diamond" and an undercover cop in
"The Departed" from the Broadcast Film Critics Assn., which will announce its year-end film nominations today.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, and E! Entertainment Television will broadcast the ceremony Jan. 20.
- 12/07/2006 JewReview.Net: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ed Zwick Search For The Blood Diamond.
A Blood Diamond Interview with Leonardo DiCaprio talking about the Blood Diamond (Credit to Samuel Reuven).
- 12/07/2006 Iht.com (AP): Leonardo DiCaprio promotes movie and its message at 'Blood Diamond' premiere.
Just hours after being named one of the year's 10 best films by the National Board of Review in New York, the new political drama
"Blood Diamond" got the red-carpet treatment in Hollywood...
- 12/06/2006 AudioHollywood.com: Blood Diamond Audio Interview.
Hear Audio Interviews with: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ed Zwick (director), Djimon Hounsou and Charles Leavitt (writer), Jennifer Connelly, Paula Weinstein and Marshall Herskovitz (producers).
- 12/05/2006 Blood Diamond Contest.
The Blood Diamond Contest is now open. Please view this page setup by heartofdestiny.com.
Thank you and Please submit. Click here. Don't forget to watch the Blood Diamond in Theaters, December 8th.
- 12/04/2006 Leonardo DiCaprio at the "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
He's starring in a powerful new film. What Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to know.
- 11/30/2006 Variety.Com: Green Hollywood.
Today variety named its Green Hollywood 20, twenty people in the entertainment industry that are at the forefront of green issues. Naturally Leo made the grade.
- 11/30/2006 Abc.go.com: DiCaprio Puts Diamond Industry on Edge.
Leonardo DiCaprio's new film is making the international diamond industry nervous, and the 32-year-old two-time Oscar nominee says he
never anticipated such an uproar.
"Blood Diamond," which hits theaters Dec. 8, examines the multi-million-dollar strip mining business that fueled Sierra Leone's
devastating civil war in the 1990s.
After four months on location in Africa, DiCaprio sits down with ABC News Radio's David Alpert and a few other reporters to reflect on
the controversial film and on filming in Mozambique -- a country where four out of 10 people are said to have HIV or AIDS.
- Screen Directory: Leo is in Screen Directory's Hot List.
- 11/29/2006 Wireimage: Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore at the GQ Man of the Year Awards.
- WB's Blood Diamond Contest:
Warner has contacted us to host a contest for the Blood Diamond. The contest will be held at heartofdestiny.com because of this
site's problems. The Link will be posted here as soon as I finish the page for it.
- 11/25/2006 Newsindpress.com: DiCaprio only buys diamonds for his mum!
The actor insists that he would only buy diamonds for his mother, if she wanted one, but that he can't remember the last time he did.
DiCaprio also urges potential diamond buyers to check the authentication of gems before paying, so they can ensure the stone isn't a
"conflict diamond".
- 11/23/2006 Wireimage: Blood Diamond Conference Pics.
- 11/22/2006 MTV: Movie File: 50 Cent, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio & More.
President Theodore Roosevelt once famously urged, "Dare mighty things," an edict Leonardo DiCaprio seems to have taken to heart with a
recent string of high-profile, adult material. Now the 32-year-old actor's next project will take things one step further, as he reunites
with Martin Scorsese to step into Roosevelt's shoes.
- 11/20/2006 ANI: Leonardo DiCaprio turns real-life hero!
Hollywood hunk Leonardo DiCaprio played real- life hero when he saved actor Djimon Hounsou from a killer. The Titanic actor stood between
his his co-star Hounsou and a killer intent on shooting him.
- 11/16/2006 Photos of Leo at the Press Conference for "Blood Diamond", Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles.
See Gettyimages.com.
- 11/09/2006 Sohh.com: Nas Links With Leonardo DiCaprio, Drops Jewels On Diamond Industry.
Nas revealed that he will be featured on the soundtrack to the forthcoming Leonardo DiCaprio film "Blood Diamond" during a radio
interview yesterday (November 8) with Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex.
- 10/29/2006 New York Times: The Baby-Faced Kid Has Developed Quite a Stare
WHILE no one was looking past his movie-star baby face, Leonardo DiCaprio began to morph into Meryl Streep — the Streep who turned up
for every film with yet another odd accent. With a Boston accent, he gives one of his best performances as an undercover cop in Martin
Scorsese's current hit, "The Departed." His accent is vaguely South African as a mercenary in Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond" (set to
open Dec. 8), an Oscar-bait movie with a social conscience, about gun running and the diamond trade.
- 10/27/2006 Business Wire: Warner Bros. Moves "Blood Diamond" Release to December 8.
Blood Diamond release date change, instead of December 15th the executives decided to change it to December 8th.
- 10/18/2006 Eonline.com: DiCaprio's Eco-Friendly Development Deal.
Leonardo DiCaprio wants his green TV.
The Departed star's production company, Appian Way, has a reality show in the works with the goal of educating viewers about global
warming, according to trade reports. The series, called E-topia will follow a construction team, architects, environmentalists and
urban planners as they take a rundown town and give it an eco-friendly makeover from top to bottom.
Also teaming up to produce E-topia are Pilgrim Films and Television and Madison Road Entertainment.
- 10/15/2006 Independent.co.uk: DiCaprio joins the Green wing.
Hollywood heart-throb turned environmental campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio brings his green gospel to Rome today. DiCaprio will be in Rome
to present two short films he has made on ecological issues.
The official reason for the actor's presence in town is to appear at tonight's Italian premiere of Martin Scorsese's The Departed, one
of the highlights of the very first Rome Film Festival, which opened this weekend. But DiCaprio will also be appearing this afternoon
outside the festival at the Tor della Monaca Theatre to present his short films Global Warning and Water Planet.
- 10/12/2006 Contactmusic.com: DiCaprio Intimidated by Boston Accent.
Leonardo DiCaprio was terrified he would fail to master the Boston, Massachusetts accent while making The Departed, and anger Bostonian castmates Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.
- Film.Com: Weekend Box Office: The Departed Arrives in Style
Martin Scorsese's latest crime drama, The Departed [my review] thrilled fans of serious film to the tune of $27 million this past weekend -- even better than the $23.3 million Laremy predicted on Friday, which he deemed (correctly) would be a "tremendous weekend" for the film.
- Actuacine.net: New Movie Stills
- Ivillage.com: New Pics from Making of the Departed.
- 10/10/2006 Los Angeles Times: Blood Diamond's' PR War.
'"Blood Diamond," Ed Zwick's film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly, doesn't open until Dec. 15, but it's already getting more free publicity than Warner Bros. could have dreamed of.
- 10/06/2006 If Magazine.com: Leonardo DiCaprio plays with fire and Jack Nicholson in the Departed.
In the new Martin Scorsese film THE DEPARTED, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan a State Police trainee who is pulled from training and assigned to infiltrate the organization of gangster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson).
- 09/26/2006 Allafrica.com: Botswana: Basarwa Appeal to Leonardo Dicaprio.
The Basarwa of the Kalahari have made a desperate appeal for help to Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in the forthcoming film 'The Blood
Diamond'. The appeal appears as a full-page advert in Variety magazine. The Basarwa have also sent a letter to Leonardo...
- 07/24/2006 Sfgate.com: DiCaprio Helps Concertgoers.
Leonardo DiCaprio came to the rescue of two wheelchair-bound fans caught in a crowd surge at a Madonna concert in New York City last week.
- 06/28/2006 Variety.com: DiCaprio will turn on, tune in for Leary pic.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way is moving forward with a biopic on Timothy Leary, hiring scribe Craig Lucas and Leary archivist Michael
Horowitz to develop the screenplay.
The DiCaprio-produced take on the life of the writer-psychologist will follow him from his enrollment at West Point in the early 1940s
through his escape from prison in 1970. Though Leary's work touched on many different fields, he is best known as an advocate of the
therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD...
- 06/09/2006 Gettyimages.com: Photos of Leonardo with his mother and grand-mother during day thirteen of the French Open Tournement at Roland Garros
on June 9th, 2006 in Paris, France.
- 06/03/2006 Sina.com (AP): Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon to promote 'The Departed' in Hong Kong.
Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, who star in "The Departed", a remake of the Hong Kong blockbuster "Infernal Affairs,"
will visit the Chinese territory to promote the film, a news report said Saturday. The crime thriller will be promoted in Hong Kong
and may even have its world premiere here. They will be accompanied by Martin Scorsese.
- 05/07/2006 Timesonline.co.uk: IRA mole seeks to stop DiCaprio film.
A movie to be made by the actor Leonardo DiCaprio about British spies infiltrating the IRA is being threatened with legal action.
The Hollywood star is working on the drama for Warner Brothers, with a script based on an American magazine article that told how
British intelligence planted spies in the terrorist organisation.
Warner Brothers optioned the rights to the cover story in April's Atlantic Monthly of an interview with Kevin Fulton, a former British
soldier who turned bombmaker but spied on the IRA. Now he is threatening legal action if the movie goes ahead.
Last week he told the movie companies that he would sue them, and Matthew Teague, the author of the Atlantic article, for copyright
theft. Fulton said the writer did not have permission to sell the film rights...
- 04/22/2006 Washingtonpost.com (AP): Actor DiCaprio Injures Leg on Set.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday.
The accident happened Friday on the set of "Blood Diamond," Ken Sunshine said in a statement.
- 04/13/2006 Mywire.com: Leonardo DiCaprio Dedicates a Tree for Mother's Day.
This Mother's Day, actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be dedicating a grove of trees to honor his mother and grandmother through TreePeople's
Gift of Life program. "Planting trees is a great way to say thank you to the mothers in our lives," says DiCaprio. "By joining forces
with TreePeople -- on Mother's Day and every day -- we're helping reforest the decimated Southern California mountains," DiCaprio
continues. "It's time to do what we can for the planet."
- 03/06/2006 Premiere Props: Gangs of New York Props for Sale.
Miramax is selling all props and wardrobe from Gangs of New York.
- 02/28/2006 Hollywoodreporter.com: Warner cuffs "Kite," DiCaprio. (Borys Kit)
Warner Bros. Pictures has pre-emptively picked up "Kite" a prison drama from writers Michael Lander and Ryan Roy, for Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Simpson to produce via their Appian Way shingle.
- 03/24/2006 Philly.com: Here's a chance to sort through DiCaprio's old playthings.
Getting top billing are the vintage toys owned by Leonardo DiCaprio, the 31-year-old actor and activist. All proceeds from the sale of
his more than 300 lots - boxed or carded TV, movie and character toys - will go to the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which champions
environmental protection.
The sale will be at Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pa., where chief operating officer Dan Morphy has been friend and collecting consultant
to DiCaprio for seven years.
- 02/23/2006 Yahoo! News: Blood Diamond Commences Production.
The action drama Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Courage Under Fire) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Oscar
nominee for The Aviator and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?), Jennifer Connelly (Academy Award winner for A Beautiful Mind) and Djimon
Hounsou (Oscar nominee for In America) has commenced production in South Africa and Mozambique. The announcement was made today by
Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
- 02/22/2006 Fort Frances Times Online: Riverside Dinner.
In the company of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio, tickets for the "Come As You
Are or Come As A Star" fundraiser should be the latest addition to Hollywood's "hot list."
- 02/21/2006 MoneyCNN.com: Toyota: The Birth of the Prius.
Leonardo DiCaprio bought one from a Hollywood dealer in 2001.
- 01/19/2006 Boxofficemojo.com: Interview with Lasse Hallstrom.
Here is an excerpt of a recent interview with Lasse Hallstrom at boxofficemojo.com. Asked with whom he would most want to work, he answered:
"Leonardo DiCaprio. I made the mistake of bailing out of a movie I was supposed to do with him, and it was a stupid decision?the movie
was Catch Me If You Can?and my only consolation is watching the film and seeing what Steven Spielberg did with it. It's a great film.
At the time, I was shooting The Shipping News and [Miramax founder Harvey] Weinstein didn't like the idea of me going off, though I
had the contractual right. He bullied me into not doing it."
- 01/17/2006 Wireimage.com: Pics of Leo at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards.
- 01/15/2006 Calendarlive.com: New picture of "The Departed."
- 01/12/2006 Hollywoodrag.com: Photo of Leonardo on his new scooter.
- Yahoo! News: Photo of Actor Leonardo DiCaprio watching the NBA game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers in
Los Angeles January 12, 2006.
See also Getty's website.
- 01/06/2006 Yahoo! News: Leonardo DiCaprio Set as Presenter at Golden Globe Awards.
"The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards" Will Be Telecast Live on NBC Monday, January 16.
Evangeline Lilly, Virginia Madsen, Tobey Maguire, and Hilary Swank have been set as presenters at "The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards"
to be telecast live on NBC Monday, January 16 (8 - 11:00 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton. They join previously announced presenters
Jessica Alba, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Jamie Foxx, Natalie Portman, Emmy Rossum, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, and Denzel
Washington...
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