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Cannes: Red Granite Acquires Leonardo DiCaprio Pic 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'
Red Granite Pictures, which just formed an international sales division to be headed by ex-Nu Image execs Danny Dimbort and Christian Mercuri, has just bought into a big project. Red Granite chairman/CEO Riza Aziz and vice chairman Joey McFarland have acquired rights to Jordan Belfort's memoir The Wolf of Wall Street and will produce with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Killoran's Appian Way and Alexandra Milchan's Emjag Productions. DiCaprio has long wanted to play Belfort, with directors Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott among those who's sparked to directing the film. There were reports recently that Scorsese might resurface, but no director is set yet and there isn't a start date. The project had been set at Warner Bros and nearly got made several years ago, but a tug of war between that studio and Paramount (where Scorsese has his overall deal) led them to instead collaborate on Shutter Island.»
- MIKE FLEMING
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Cannes Update: Weinstein Co. Closing in on The Artist
On the acquisition front, Harvey Weinstein is on the case. In advance of Cannes, he's trying to persuade producers and sellers to show him movies in advance so he can get ahead of his competitors. IFC was in Paris taking advance meetings. Cannes screenings start Wednesday. One movie the Weinstein Co. got a gander at and is chasing hard--which is being sold by Vincent Maraval's WIld Bunch--is the last addition to the Cannes Fest competition, Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white English-language French production The Artist, which debuts Sunday May 15. No deal has been confirmed. Wild Bunch is repping films from Ken Loach, Abel Ferrara and Nicolas Winding Refn, whose Drive is a hotly anticipated title to be released by FilmDistrict stateside. Set in Hollywood in 1927, »
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