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Brazil's president accuses Leonardo DiCaprio of financing Amazon fires

Marcelo Teixeira and Eduardo Simões, Reuters
Posted at Nov 30 11:49 AM

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed on Friday that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rainforest, without presenting any evidence, the right-wing leader's latest broadside in casting blame over forest fires that have generated international concern. Read more »

Review: ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ is Tarantino at his warmest and most vulnerable

Andrew Paredes
Posted at Aug 27 05:13 PM

His latest film exposes the Pulp Fiction auteur as a former enfant terrible looking back on the glory days — and trying to get a feel if he still owns the cred that once put him in the Hollywood pantheon. Read more »

Leonardo DiCaprio urges government action on Amazon fires 'tragedy'

Megu Jones, Reuters
Posted at Aug 27 06:47 AM

TOKYO (Reuters) - A crisis over burning forest in the Amazon is “incredibly tragic”, actor Leonardo DiCaprio said on Monday, urging governments to do more, amid growing international outrage over the damage to the world’s largest tropical rain forest. Read more »

Could Jack have fit? A ‘Titanic’ question for Leonardo DiCaprio

Emily S. Rueb and Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times
Posted at Jul 18 08:25 AM

As the frozen lovers Rose and Jack clung to a bobbing slab of timber in the icy Atlantic waters during the final moments of “Titanic,” audience members believed their love should have gone on. Read more »

Tarantino rolls into Cannes with 'dazzling' ode to cinema

Sarah White and Johnny Cotton, Reuters
Posted at May 22 05:54 PM

With Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in tow, Quentin Tarantino unveiled his latest opus in Cannes on Tuesday, a story about movie magic and acting pains that wowed many critics -- at least in parts. Read more »

WATCH: 'Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood' trailer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 07:52 AM

'Pulp Fiction' director Quentin Tarantino has revealed the first trailer for his latest film "Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood", which teams up Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie for the first time.  Read more »

Thai bay made famous in 'The Beach' shut indefinitely

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 04:03 PM

The glittering Thai bay immortalized in the movie "The Beach" will be closed indefinitely to allow it to recover from the impact of hordes of tourists, an official said Wednesday, as a temporary ban on visitors expired. Read more »

DiCaprio, Pitt team up for new Quentin Tarantino movie

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 20 04:37 PM

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt -- two of Hollywood's biggest stars -- are teaming up for Quentin Tarantino's next project, a movie set in the 1969 Hollywood hippy era around the Charles Manson murders. Read more »

Chinese trawlers travel farthest and fish the most: study

Gerry Doyle, Reuters
Posted at Feb 23 07:34 AM

China has the world's largest and farthest-ranging fishing operation, outstripping the next 10 biggest combined, according to what researchers say is the most comprehensive and data-intensive study on the subject. Read more »

DiCaprio to star in Charles Manson-era Tarantino movie

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 10:52 AM

Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a movie set around the Charles Manson murders, Hollywood entertainment publications reported on Friday, but he will not play the role of the American cult leader. Read more »

Leonardo DiCaprio shares before/after photos of PH beach once filled with trash

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 10:56 PM

DiCaprio placed an unflattering spotlight on the Philippines after Greenpeace tagged it as the "third biggest source of ocean plastic pollution in the world." Read more »

Leonardo DiCaprio hails Mexican ban on fishing net killing porpoises

Reuters
Posted at Jul 01 02:09 PM

MEXICO CITY - Mexico on Friday banned fishing with gillnets in the northern Gulf of California as part of its pledge to save a critically-endangered species of porpoise whose cause has been championed by Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and others. Read more »

Mexican President tweets DiCaprio in reply to rare porpoise plea

Dave Graham, Reuters
Posted at May 12 02:47 PM

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote to Leonardo DiCaprio on Twitter on Thursday in a bid to reassure the Hollywood actor his government was taking steps to protect a rare porpoise in Mexican waters teetering on the brink of extinction. Read more »

Actor DiCaprio says climate action is US's 'biggest economic opportunity'

Megan Rowling, Reuters
Posted at Dec 18 08:16 AM

Tackling climate change is the "biggest economic opportunity" in the history of the United States, no matter who holds political office, said Hollywood star and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio. Read more »