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HOLLYWOOD -- Leonardo Dicaprio has moved on from Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” opposite Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, to Martin Scorsese’s film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” opposite Robert De Niro. This will be Dicaprio’s sixth film with Scorsese and the 11th teaming for De Niro with Scorsese. Netflix plans to release Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which brought De Niro together with Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, into movie theaters later this year for award consideration.
Set in the 1920s, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a drama about the FBI’S rise to prominence after investigating the suspicious deaths of Native Americans killed to obtain their oil-rich land. De Niro and Dicaprio worked together twice before, in “This Boy’s Life” (1993) and “Marvin’s Room” (1996).
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt has the sci-fi film “Ad Astra,” with Tommy Lee Jones and Ruth Negga; as well as producing “The King” (based on Shakespeare’s “Henriad”), with Robert Pattinson and Joel Edgerton; and the crime drama “Kajillionaire,” with Evan Rachel Wood. Margot Robbie has an untitled drama with Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Kate Mckinnon, Allison Janney, John Lithgow and Malcolm Mcdowell (in theaters Dec. 20); the DC Comicsbased superhero film “Birds of Prey,” with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosie Perez and Ewan Mcgregor (out Feb. 20); and is producing the thriller “Promising Young Women,” with Alison Brie, Connie Britton and Laverne Cox.
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The 1986 movie musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” which starred Rick Moranis, is getting the remake treatment. Josh Gad, who starred in Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon,” in five “Frozen” films (as Olaf) and as Gaston’s friend Lefou in “Beauty and the Beast,” is in talks to play Seymour. Rebel Wilson -- of “Pitch Perfect,” “The Hustle” (with Anne Hathaway) and the upcoming “Cats” film -- is in talks to play Audrey.
Also in the works is a third Sherlock Holmes film, again with Robert Downey Jr. The first two films, which each grossed over $545 million, were directed by Guy Ritchie, Madonna’s former husband. Ritchie has recently completed the crime film “The Gentlemen,” with Matthew Mcconaughey, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant and “Downton Abbey’s” Michelle Dockery.