Leonardo DiCaprio News

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off yesterday and already the South of France is getting flooded with celebrities.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers during a photo call for The Great Gatsby at the 66th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday.

Whether you think of him as the modern day Robert De Niro or an overpraised Norman Lamont -lookalike , you can't deny that Leonardo DiCaprio has been in some excellent films in the course of his 20 year career - and was the obvious choice to take the title role in Baz Lurhmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby .

Bernie: Directed by Richard Linklater and boasting a strong performance from Jack Black, this true-crime character study is unexpectedly amusing.

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in a scene from "The Great Gatsby."Book lovers who haven't yet read "The Great Gatsby" but hope to do so before seeing the new Baz Luhrmann film adaptation may still find themselves being influenced by the Hollywood machine.

All things considered, the success of The Great Gatsby is good news for filmgoers who like mainstream films that don't necessarily involve IMAX-sized action sequences, superheros, and/or CGI animated adventure.

Leonardo DiCaprio may have opened the Cannes Film Festival this week with his latest movie, "The Great Gatsby," but it has been Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, that has stolen the show.

In her inaugural Scene & Heard column, Sharon Swart navigates the wet red carpet to find Baz Luhrmann, Brian Grazer and attorney Mickey Mayerson, who says: "I've never seen it this busy." If water equals prosperity in Feng Shui, then the rain bucketing down in Cannes on opening eve could be a sign of a lucrative market ahead.

Amitabh Bachchan posed for the shutterbugs at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival photocall this evening, just before the screening of The Great Gatsby , the opening night film Bachchan was sharing the stage with director Baz Luhrmann and co-stars Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Elizabeth Debicki, Catherine Martin, Isla ... (more)

If you're not familiar with the plot, here it is, nutshelled: millionaire Jay Gatsby attempts to impress old flame Daisy Buchanan with his lavish lifestyle.

Not everyone is a fan of "The Great Gatsby'''s hip-hop flavored soundtrack, but director Baz Luhrmann says using modern music was essential to capturing the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel.

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WINNER OF THE WEEK: The Great Gatsby soundtrack. Not since the swing craze of the late Nineties have so many popular artists been so obsessed with tuxedos and the Lindy Hop.

Leonardo DiCaprio chats about his upcoming Hollywood blockbuster The Great Gatsby, and Torchwood star Eve Myles talks about her new drama series Frankie.

Star Trek Into Darkness should take No. 1 at the weekend box office with an unbeatable three-day take in the universe of $90 million, projections say.

In this Dec. 1, 2012 file photo, Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan arrives for the Tribute to Hindi Cinema at the Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco.

The 38-year-old actor requested specially-made work from 33 artists - including the elusive Banksy - as well as offering one of his own paintings by Andreas Gursky to sell at his 11th Hour auction at Christie's auction house in New York, where 13 of the items set new record highs.

Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann are expected on the red carpet in Cannes later as their new film The Great Gatsby opens the annual film festival.

This spring F. Scott Fitzgerald' s acclaimed novel, The Great Gatsby , has come to life in yet another film adaptation, this time starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby .

Director Baz Luhrmann on set with Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio. -- PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOLDEN VILLAGE, WARNER BROS Film-makers will get a certain amount of flak when adapting any work of literature, but director Baz Luhrmann did not make things any easier for himself when he chose The Great Gatsby, a classic, and ... (more)