Martin Scorsese really loves 3-D … a lot. 

Since Scorsese's Oscar nomination for "Hugo," filmed in 3-D, the director said he plans to shoot all future films in 3-D. 

In fact, he's so enthralled with the technology Scorsese said, given the chance, he would have shot all films "post-'Raging Bull" in the format at a CinemaCon panel Wednesday.

Right. This is great and all, but 3-D is so two years ago. The director should set his sights on something revolutionizing such as shooting films at 48fps like Peter Jackson … on second thought, maybe not. 

Look, Scorsese. We get it. We see the appeal of 3-D. "Avatar" was amazing. 

However, did you see the latest "Harry Potter" flick? How about the Disney conversions (We love Disney, but we're still not sure what was so 3-D about "Beauty and the Beast").

Scorsese is like a kid in a candy store discovering 3-D for the first time. 3-D movies were a novelty when "Avatar" came out in 2009. The films brought back a nostalgia from when we picked up cardboard glasses and looked at moving images on paper. 

Of course, there are some films that are extraordinary in 3-D (again, "Avatar," "How to Train Your Dragon"); however, with the amount of quick 2D to 3-D conversions (a la Disney and for a quick cash grab,) 3-D has become an eyesore at times.

The result shows at theaters as 3-D films haven't fared as well at the box office since 2010. 

In 2010, 3-D revenue from the box office dropped drastically from "Alice in Wonderland ($80m+) in March to "Cats & Dogs" ($6.9m). 

Last year, at least 30 films were made in 3-D, the majority of them being sequels. The films accounted for 16.7% of total box office revenue ($1.7 billion) down from more than $2 billion in 2010.

Bottom line, 3-D is good for some things (i.e. original concepts), but kills others. Needless to say, making every single one of your future films in 3-D would kill a good thing.

In the meantime, get ready to shell out more for a Scorsese flick. We hope Leonardo DiCaprio likes 3-D. 

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There's nothing more annoying—or awkward to set straight—than people mispronouncing your name.

But, what happens when you're a celebrity and millions of people are saying your name wrong every day?

We're not talking about hard-to-pronounce, consonant-filled tongue-twisters. We're looking at commonplace names. 

Not every name in Hollywood is as easy to pronounce as, say, Fergie. 

And although Rihanna's name is ubiquitous, the majority of us aren't even saying it right.

Here are the most commonly mispronounced names in Hollywood.

How do you say the name of actor Ralph Fiennes?

You may think it sounds how it looks, but that's not the case. Some people say Ralph "Fee-ehn." It's actually ...

(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

If you pronounce Rihanna's name with an emphasis on the soft "a," you're wrong ...

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Talk about procrastination.

Director Martin Scorsese and his production company Sikelia are being sued by Cecchi Gori Pictures for not making a movie he agreed to film 22 years ago.

The proposed film is an adaptation of the book "Silence," which Scorsese allegedly agreed to co-produce and direct in 1990, as soon as he finished working on "Kundun," which was released in 1997. 

The suit then alleges Scorsese arranged to postpone the project until after completing 2006's "The Departed," 2010's "Shutter Island," and 2011's "Hugo."

Upon news that the director planned to next shoot "The Wolf of Wall Street," Cecchi Gori, notified Scorsese of the alleged breach of contract.

Cecchi Gori, who have produced films such as "Seven" and "A Bronx Tale," is now suing for unpaid fees on "Hugo" and any other movies made before "Silence."

The producers want a flat fee of $1.5 million, as well as the value of Scorsese's producer title on "Hugo" and 20 percent of his back-end on Oscar-winning "Hugo," according to TMZ.

Looks like we're going to be waiting a long time for "Departed 2." 

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We get very excited anytime there's a new Wall Street moving coming up. The sheer suspense of waiting to see who is cast, where it's shot... well, what's better?

Reading the script early — that's better.

We've now obtained a copy of The Wolf of Wall Street script, written Terence Winter. The movie is being directed by Martin Scorsese, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and is based on the autobiography of Wall Street castaway, Jordan Belfort.

Back in the 1990s, Belfort ran Stratton-Oakmont, a Long Island based pump and dump that found itself on top of the Wall Street world. Think: Drugs, hookers, parties with performing midgets.

And then it all came crashing down. Belfort went to jail for 20 months and lost everything.

We think you'll agree that this is a movie worth watching, and here are some of the moments that we think will make it really sing.

The movie opens with a very professional commercial about Belfort's firm, and then goes into a scene of he and his brokers having a dwarf throwing contest.

According to the script, classical music plays as "a conservative group of smiling ethnically diverse actors surrounding their young chairman Jordan Belfort" pose through a Gene Hackman voice-over.

Then you head to Stratton-Oakmont headquarters and 700 20-something stockbroker bros are chanting and throwing around dollars bills to see who can throw a cape-clad dwarf into a dollar sign bulls-eye.

Jordan is being played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

More chaos: Jordan's first day in the bullpen L.F. Rothschild in 1980s suspender wearing Wall Street.

Jordan walks in and is immediately berated by his supervisor, Scott Mollen, who tells him he'll be "the connector" calling 500 clients all day. "You are lower than f*cking pond scum," Mollen tells him.

Luckily, Belfort also meets Danny Porush (played by Jonah Hill), Mollen's much more polished superior. "F*ck him," he tells Jordan, "I'm senior broker here and he's just a worthless piker. Let's grab lunch later."

And then then the opening bell rings as Porush yells, "Let's f*ck!" And the race begins — brokers dial like crazy and everyone is screaming — it's the sound of greed, says Jordan's voice-over.

At lunch, Danny and Jordan have a martini drinking contest until one of them passes out.

They're at a high-end restaurant and Danny is doing coke from a spoon when the Maitre'D comes over. He tells him:

"Here's the game plan Luis. Bring us two Absolute martinis straight up. Precisely seven and half minutes later you deliver those you'll deliver two more, then two more after five minutes until one of us passes out."

Jordan says he doesn't drink and tries, and fails, to order a 7-Up.

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We already know that the story of the Wolf of Wall Street is full of drugs, sex, and excess. We've read the book before, and we also recently read the script for the upcoming movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

However, in the movie business, the script is just the jumping off point. Some scenes are cut, rewritten etc., especially when you're working with a veteran director like Martin Scorsese

So there's still a lot of mystery as to how the whole thing will come out.

Now, thanks to Page Six (h/t EV Grieve) we have a clue. Apparently, DiCaprio was filming a super raunchy strip club scene at the new Midtown location of iconic drag queen bar, Lucky Cheng's. His co-star Matthew McConaughey was in the scene as well.

Here's how Page Six told it:

“The girls were rubbing their breasts in Leo’s face,” says a source. “There were five or six of them, but he seemed very professional and looked great in an ’80s-style suit. They did five or six takes, more or less the same scene over and over, with girls dancing and rubbing on him.” At one point in the scene, a few of the strippers were fully naked, according to our source, who noted that between takes the women covered themselves with towels.

Sounds intense.

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Stunning former Wall Street stockbroker Diana C. Cano posted this photo on Instagram today as she was heading to a fitting for "The Wolf of Wall Street" --  a movie adaptation of Jordan Belfort's best-selling memoir directed by Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio. 

Cano told Business Insider that she's playing an extra in the film.  

As an experienced financial service professional, we think she definitely has Street cred for the movie, though. 

FINRA records show that Cano worked at investment banking and securities brokerage firm Meyers Associates LP.  Prior to that, Cano worked E1 Asset Management Inc, according to FINRA records and her LinkedIn profile.  

Check out the shot below.  We've also included more information about Cano. 

Here's what we've learned about Cano from her bio.   

• She's 26 years old and a native of Ecuador
• She moved to the U.S. in 2005 and learned to speak English 
• Cano holds a degree is psychology from Baruch College, according to her LinkedIn profile.
• She was on Univision's reality television series "Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011" 
• She has competed in several beauty pageants and hosts shows in Ecuador 
• She is also a fitness trainer and a motivational speaker 

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On Monday, "The Wolf of Wall Street"—the Martin Scorsese directed film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey—took over the swanky Milan luxury condo building on East 55th street between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

Outside of the building, which also serves as the Van der Woodsen's home on "Gossip Girl," the street was taken over by eight huge trucks full of production supplies, one large trailer for Mr.DiCaprio to relax in, and a craft services tent full of gourmet food and fresh fruit.

Inside the building, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese shot scenes in the penthouse, which will act as DiCaprio's character Jordan Belfort's apartment before he buys a house. Later Monday afternoon, DiCaprio's stunt double was thrown off the penthouse's terrace.

But it isn't cheap to rent out the penthouse apartment of a luxury building in Manhattan.

One set source reveals exclusively to Business Insider that production is shelling out roughly $25,000 per day to have access to the apartment for three weeks, in addition to a hefty donation of nearly $200,000 to the building.

The estimated $725,000 allows production to change everything about the already-swanky, multi-million dollar apartment. The front door, wall paper and furniture has all been swamped out to portray the lifestyle of Belfort, the real life Wall Street castaway whose autobiography the film is based on.

DiCaprio, who plays Belfort, "comes in and looks straight, doesn't talk to anyone" one building source tells us, while Jonah Hill, on the other hand, "is really friendly, he's hilarious." McConaughey doesn't have any scenes in the building.

Eight production trucks are currently lined up outside of the luxury condo building, The Milan, for the 3-day "Wolf of Wall Street" shoot on 55th Street and 2nd Ave.

Production supplies like this fill each truck. For 3 days of shooting, production pays the building and its tenant a total of $725K.

A full tent is devoted to craft services. It is filled with fresh fruits, peanut butter, salami and cheese, among other gourmet foods for the crew, director Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.

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HBO and Martin Scorsese are partnering on a documentary about Bill Clinton, with the full cooperation of the 42nd president, the network announced Monday.

"I am pleased that legendary director Martin Scorsese and HBO have agreed to do this film,” Clinton said. “I look forward to sharing my perspective on my years as president, and my work in the years since, with HBO's audience.”

The documentary, to be produced by Steve Bing, is Scorsese’s fourth collaboration with HBO, following the documentaries “Public Speaking," the Emmy-winning “George Harrison: Living in the Material World” and the hit series “Boardwalk Empire,” for which he serves as an executive producer. He also won an Emmy for directing on the series.

"A towering figure who remains a major voice in world issues, President Clinton continues to shape the political dialogue both here and around the world,” said Scorsese, who will produce and direct the documentary. “Through intimate conversations, I hope to provide greater insight into this transcendent figure.”

The film will include the former president's work with the William J. Clinton Foundation, which promotes global health, stronger economies, healthier childhoods and protecting the environment.

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People have been buzzing about Martin Scorcese's new movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, for almost a year now, but until now, no one was exactly sure when the movie would come out in theaters.

This week, we got an answer to that question. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the movie will hit the silver screen in November, and we can't wait.

That's parly because we've already read a copy The Wolf of Wall Street script, written Terence Winter. It's based on the autobiography of Wall Street castaway, Jordan Belfort, and it is definitely captivating.

Back in the 1990s, Belfort ran Stratton-Oakmont, a Long Island based pump and dump that found itself on top of the Wall Street world. Think: Drugs, hookers, parties with performing midgets.

And then it all came crashing down. Belfort went to jail for 20 months and lost everything.

We think you'll agree that this is a movie worth watching, and so we've compiled some moments from the script that we think will make it really sing.

The movie opens with a very professional commercial about Belfort's firm, and then goes into a scene of he and his brokers having a dwarf throwing contest.

According to the script, classical music plays as "a conservative group of smiling ethnically diverse actors surrounding their young chairman Jordan Belfort" pose through a Gene Hackman voice-over.

Then you head to Stratton-Oakmont headquarters and 700 20-something stockbroker bros are chanting and throwing around dollars bills to see who can throw a cape-clad dwarf into a dollar sign bulls-eye.

Jordan is being played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

More chaos: Jordan's first day in the bullpen L.F. Rothschild in 1980s suspender wearing Wall Street.

Jordan walks in and is immediately berated by his supervisor, Scott Mollen, who tells him he'll be "the connector" calling 500 clients all day. "You are lower than f*cking pond scum," Mollen tells him.

Luckily, Belfort also meets Danny Porush(played by Jonah Hill), Mollen's much more polished superior. "F*ck him," he tells Jordan, "I'm senior broker here and he's just a worthless piker. Let's grab lunch later."

And then then the opening bell rings as Porush yells, "Let's f*ck!" And the race begins — brokers dial like crazy and everyone is screaming — it's the sound of greed, says Jordan's voice-over.

At lunch, Danny and Jordan have a martini drinking contest until one of them passes out.

They're at a high-end restaurant and Danny is doing coke from a spoon when the Maitre'D comes over. He tells him:

"Here's the game plan Luis. Bring us two Absolute martinis straight up. Precisely seven and half minutes later you deliver those you'll deliver two more, then two more after five minutes until one of us passes out."

Jordan says he doesn't drink and tries, and fails, to order a 7-Up.

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Gatsby won't be the only wealthy lord Leonadro DiCaprio plays this year.

DiCaprio returns to the big screen this fall as overly wealthy New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street" throwing parties that look bigger and badder than those he threw in "The Great Gatsby."

Back with director Martin Scorsese ("The Departed,""Shutter Island"), DiCaprio stars with Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey in the biographical crime drama based on the memoir by Belfort. 

The trailer is played to the overture of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead" from his new album, Yeezus.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" is out in theaters November 15. Perfect timing for Oscar season.

This is the best part of the trailer:

In case you're not convinced this is a more current "Gatsby" (minus the tragic love story):

"Wolf of Wall Street":

"Gatsby":

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People have been buzzing about Martin Scorsese's new movie, "The Wolf of Wall Street," for over a year now, and finally we get a peek at what it's going to look like.

The trailer is out!

And it looks as wild as we had hoped. How could it not? The true story of the Wolf of Wall Street is completely out of control.

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The story is the memoir of Jordan Belfort, a Long Island kid who rose to become a millionaire penny stock scammer and boiler-room boss.

Back in the 1990s, Belfort ran Stratton-Oakmont, a Long Island-based pump and dump that found itself on top of the Wall Street world. Think: Drugs, hookers, parties with performing midgets.

And then it all came crashing down. Belfort went to jail for 20 months and lost everything.

You can check out the trailer below:

We've also already taken a look at "The Wolf of Wall Street" script, written by Terence Winter, and luckily a bunch of the most awesome scenes seem to have stayed in the movie.

We've put them together for you here. [WARNING: Spoilers follow.]

The movie opens with a very professional commercial about Belfort's firm, and then goes into a scene of him and his brokers having a dwarf-throwing contest.

According to the script, classical music plays as "a conservative group of smiling, ethnically-diverse actors surrounding their young chairman Jordan Belfort," pose through a Gene Hackman voice-over.

Then you head to Stratton-Oakmont headquarters and 700 20-something stockbroker bros are chanting and throwing around dollar bills to see who can throw a cape-clad dwarf into a dollar sign bulls-eye.

Jordan is being played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

More chaos: Jordan's first day in the bullpen of L.F. Rothschild in 1980s suspender-wearing Wall Street.

Jordan walks in and is immediately berated by his supervisor, Scott Mollen, who tells him he'll be "the connector" calling 500 clients all day. "You are lower than f*cking pond scum," Mollen tells him.

Luckily, Belfort also meets Danny Porush(played by Jonah Hill), Mollen's much more polished superior. "F*ck him," he tells Jordan, "I'm senior broker here and he's just a worthless piker. Let's grab lunch later."

And then then the opening bell rings as Porush yells, "Let's f*ck!" And the race begins — brokers dial like crazy and everyone is screaming — it's the sound of greed, says Jordan's voice-over.

At lunch, Danny and Jordan have a martini-drinking contest until one of them passes out.

They're at a high-end restaurant and Danny is doing coke from a spoon when the Maitre'D comes over. He tells him:

"Here's the game plan Luis. Bring us two Absolute martinis straight up. Precisely seven and half minutes later you'll deliver two more, then two more after five minutes until one of us passes out."

Jordan says he doesn't drink and tries, and fails, to order a 7-Up.

Why does Hollywood insist on portraying Wall Street as a place of villainy? The late Larry Ribstein, a law professor seriously interested in how Hollywood portrayed business, crafted the best explanation I've come across: resentment. From his paper "Imagining Wall Street":

[F]ilms' portrayal of business reflects the tension between filmmakers and the capitalists who finance them. The artists resent that the capitalists, on whom they depend to finance their productions, demand business rather than artistic success, forcing them sometimes to compromise their art. Filmmakers are more prone to this resentment than other artists, such as novelists, who may need to earn a living in a profit-obsessed world, but at least can create their works without having to deal with the capitalists.

In other words, Hollywood hates Wall Street at a deep, personal level. Ironically, Wall Street doesn't mind this very much. Each of those movies I named above—"Wall Street,""Boiler Room,""American Psycho"—are loved by many who work on Wall Street. No doubt "The Wolf of Wall Street" aims at entering the pantheon.

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When Martin Scorsese wants to take his time editing his movie, you damn well let him, even if that means losing one of your few holiday season efforts that can be both a critical and commercial success. The Wolf Of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, had been looking like one of the fall season's best bets, but according to The Hollywood Reporter it may not be a fall movie at all. Multiple insiders-- including some we've spoken to-- say the film definitely won't be ready in time for its November 15 release, and the question now is whether it will be ready in time for Christmas, which is a lucrative moviegoing period as well as the cutoff for Oscar eligibility.

If it can make it in time for Christmas, Paramount reportedly plans to give it that slot and bump Jack Ryan, the reboot of the Tom Clancy hero starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner. Though Jack Ryan was looking like a promising holiday release, it doesn't have the same awards hopes as Wolf, and could jump out of 2013 without quite as much difficulty. According to THR the studio is eyeing Martin Luther King Day weekend in January as a potential new home for Jack Ryan, and that date has special significance for the studio-- when Cloverfield opened that weekend in 2009, it nearly doubled its budget and proved that good movies can make a mark in January, which is often just a dumping ground for the crap they can't release any other time of year.

With the current cut of The Wolf of Wall Street standing at over 3 hours, and destined for a rumored NC-17 rating, Scorsese and his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker are working to figure out how to trim it-- but, again, they get to call the shots, and it's unclear if the film will even be ready in time for Christmas. With stars like Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin and Kyle Chandler on board in addition to DiCaprio, Wolf has tons of hit potential for the studio no matter when it's released, but Oscar buzz sure can't hurt. While we wait to figure out what Paramount will do with its late arrival, check out the incredible Wolf of Wall Street trailer below. Below that is a gif of DiCaprio dancing, just because.

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It's no secret that we've been waiting for Martin Scorcese's 'Wolf Of Wall Street' with bated breath, and now that the premier is almost here (December), more details are coming out.

Like how a crazy marching band/stripper parade party on the trading floor scene featured in the trailer was filmed.

'Wolf Of Wall Street' is the true story of Jordan Belfort, a trader that ran a pump and dump called Stratton Oakmont. He was eventually caught by the Feds and went to jail.

But not before he sunk a yacht and threw some killer parties.

The WSJ caught up with Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio (who plays Belfort), and co-star Jonah Hill for an extensive interview on how the movie was made.

The whole thing is worth a read, but the best part is possibly how DiCaprio explains his preparation for the film. He spent a lot of time with Belfort, interviewing him and getting details that didn't make it into the biography he wrote (also called 'Wolf of Wall Street').

One of those details was a monkey on roller skates (from WSJ):

The attitude, the lingo, the type of music he listened to, the drugs he took, how he took those drugs, the effects that it had on his mind and his psyche." Asked for an example of this research, DiCaprio describes a large-scale scene, in which Belfort throws a wild party to celebrate his firm's success: "We reach our monthly quota, and I make it a big celebration," says DiCaprio. "A gigantic marching band and a bunch of naked strippers come into the salesroom." Production managers booked trained horses, hired scores of extras and midgets who would be dressed in Velcro suits and thrown at targets, per Belfort's memoir. Then, just days before the shoot, DiCaprio remembered something crucial from his conversations with Belfort and sought out Scorsese: "I said, 'Jordan also mentioned that he had a chimpanzee on roller skates in a diaper that was handing out tickets to all the stockbrokers.' And Marty's like, 'That's great, how do we get a chimpanzee?' And I said, 'I don't know.' And he's like, 'All right, somebody get on it.' "Scorsese's longtime producer Emma Tillinger laughs. "The party scene was choreographed to the T," she says. "We'd auditioned marching bands, hired the animals, then Marty calls. I'm like, 'Well, there's a chimpanzee who can roller-skate, but it's in Florida.' "

"Next thing you know," DiCaprio continues, chuckling, "there's a chimpanzee, and I'm toting him around the salesroom."

For the full interview, head to WSJ>

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After nearly a full month of speculation, there is finally some good news and bad news in the developing story surrounding the release of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.

For weeks we have been hearing rumors that the movie wouldn't be finished on time to be released in 2013, but the good news is that the film is officially staying in this year's Oscar race. The bad news is that we will have to wait a little more than a month of extra time before we get to see the finished product. While The Wolf of Wall Street was originally going to hit theaters on November 15th, The Wrap is reporting that Paramount Pictures has shifted the film to Christmas Day. 

While Scorsese fans started panicking about the movie when they noticed that it wasn't being listed for any of the fall's big film festivals, rumors of a more serious delay for the project began in late September when it was reported that a cut version of the film was over three hours long and was looking at a potential NC-17 rating. At the time it was feared that the movie wasn't releasable, and while the director and editor Thelma Schoonmaker were hard at work cutting the movie down, it wasn't clear if they would be able to finish in time for the release date deadline. Presumably they've spent the last month working with the studio to figure out a plan and eventually came to the agreement that a finished, releasable version of the movie would be ready to come out right before the New Year. 

All that said, am I the only one out there who hopes that the first cut will be featured on the Blu-ray? 

Based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort and adapted by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire,The Sopranos), The Wolf of Wall Street tells the epic true tale of Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he made millions upon millions working as a stockbroker in New York during the 90s. Unfortunately, this all comes crashing down to the ground when the federal government begins making inquiries about crime and corruption. While Scorsese has always had a knack for attracting amazing ensemble casts, the one in his latest film may be his best, the movie also starring Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal, Margot Robbie, Spike Jonze, Jean Dujardin, Ethan Suplee, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner and more. Now that it has a more secured release date hopefully we'll get to see a brand new trailer soon. In the meantime, watch this previously released one, which remains one of my favorite trailers of the year. 

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Now that we know "The Wolf of Wall Street" will definitely be released this year, Paramount has released another trailer for the Martin Scorsese flick.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the film follows the rise and fall of wealthy stockbroker Jordan Belfort. The film also features Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and Jon Bernthal ("The Walking Dead").

Unlike the first trailer, which played to the tune of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead," this time we get Belfort's backstory. 

Sorry, no crazy GIFs of DiCaprio this time.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" is in theaters Christmas Day, December 25, 2013.

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In the last 24 hours, two awesome pieces of news about Martin Scorcese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" film have broken — first, that it will hit theaters on Dec. 25, and second, that there's a new trailer out (you can watch it below).

We've already taken a look at the script, written by Terence Winter, and luckily a bunch of the most awesome scenes seem to have stayed in the movie.

You can check out scenes from the movie script here (spoiler alert) »

The movie tells the story of Jordan Belfort, a Long Island kid who rose to become a millionaire penny stock scammer and boiler-room boss.

Back in the 1990s, Belfort ran Stratton-Oakmont, a Long Island-based pump and dump that found itself on top of the Wall Street world. Think: drugs, hookers, parties with performing midgets.

And then it all came crashing down. Belfort went to jail for 20 months and lost everything.

Check out the new trailer below:

The movie opens with a very professional commercial about Belfort's firm, and then goes into a scene of him and his brokers having a dwarf-throwing contest.

According to the script, classical music plays as "a conservative group of smiling, ethnically-diverse actors surrounding their young chairman Jordan Belfort" pose through a Gene Hackman voice-over.

Then you head to Stratton-Oakmont headquarters and 700 20-something stockbroker bros are chanting and throwing around dollar bills to see who can throw a cape-clad dwarf into a dollar-sign bullseye.

Jordan is being played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

More chaos: Jordan's first day in the bullpen of L.F. Rothschild in 1980s suspender-wearing Wall Street.

Jordan walks in and is immediately berated by his supervisor, Scott Mollen, who tells him he'll be "the connector" calling 500 clients all day. "You are lower than f*cking pond scum," Mollen tells him.

Luckily, Belfort also meets Danny Porush(played by Jonah Hill), Mollen's much more polished superior. "F*ck him," he tells Jordan, "I'm senior broker here and he's just a worthless piker. Let's grab lunch later."

And then the opening bell rings as Porush yells, "Let's f*ck!" And the race begins — brokers dial like crazy and everyone is screaming — it's the sound of greed, says Jordan's voice-over.

At lunch, Danny and Jordan have a martini-drinking contest until one of them passes out.

They're at a high-end restaurant and Danny is doing coke from a spoon when the Maitre'D comes over. He tells him:

"Here's the game plan Luis. Bring us two Absolute martinis straight up. Precisely seven and half minutes later you'll deliver two more, then two more after five minutes until one of us passes out."

Jordan says he doesn't drink and tries, and fails, to order a 7-Up.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" will still be the longest film of the holiday season, just shy of three hours, even after trimming a few steamy scenes.  

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio flick had to cut out drug and sex scenes in order to get an R-rating from the MPAA.

It's no secret Scorsese's next movie — following the downward spiral of stockbroker Jordan Belfort — has had to return to the edit bay.

Originally, the film was set to be released mid-November before getting pushed back. 

It then looked like the film may not come out until next year before it finally settled on a Dec. 25 release. 

At two hours and 59 minutes, "The Wolf of Wall Street" will be Scorsese's longest movie yet.

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"The Wolf of Wall Street" is going to be a monstrous hit. 

It is the kind of movie that will inspire (mostly) men of a certain age (I am guessing 15 to 55) to memorize scenes and forever trade their favorite lines over and over. I won't give any of them away. But this movie will enter the pantheon of Martin Scorsese classics like "Goodfellas" and "The Departed."

I was lucky enough to see a screening at the Director's Guild Theater on 57th Street on Thursday night. This is not a movie review.

Just an early heads-up that this movie is epic. And it will be huge. 

Leonardo DiCaprio compares "The Wolf of Wall Street" to a "modern-day Caligula"in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. And he's not far off. There's gratuitous t&a. So much so that my wife Natasha asked me why there were so many orgy scenes. I didn't have a good answer. There's so much nudity and sex that I was surprised to learn that the film had EVEN MORE in an earlier version — but additional sex scenes were cut to avoid an NC-17 rating. So prepare yourself for flesh.

Then there are the drugs.

From Quaaludes to cocaine, crack and booze — the drug scenes are exquisitely staged. Drug use fuels the whole movie, especially 'ludes. DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort character (the movie is based on Belfort's memoir of the same name) seems to thrive on 'ludes — a tranquilizer that you'd be hard-pressed to find in the U.S. today. But the drugs act as a fuse for all of the Wall Street selling that Belfort oversees at his firm in the late 1980s and early '90s.

The movie is also incredibly long. I am going to guess that the cut we saw was almost 3 hours. 

There's more to this movie though than sex, drugs and 165 minutes.

DiCaprio revels in his role as Belfort — a cult-like figure who inspires his sales team to unload crappy penny stocks to unwitting buyers. There's a scene at a country club that will forever be associated with the Great Actor Leo. He is so convincing that the audience last night didn't know whether to laugh. I couldn't. But many people did. 

And Jonah Hill — in the role of Belfort's business partner — plays it straight, to a point, and is memorable as soon as he comes on screen. He kills it in his second, third, and fourth scenes too. 

Surprisingly, it's less a movie about Wall Street and more about salesmen, posing as brokers. (And I mean men. Hundreds of them. Women are few and far between unless they're naked.) They happen to be selling penny stocks, but might as well be selling fake real estate plots. Or encyclopedias. They are selling. Period. Because people want to buy. 

Scorsese focuses hard on all the big-time sins: greed, gluttony, lust, envy and pride. Add it all up and it makes it hard to look away.

Wall Street will be pleased.

The film will be released on Christmas Day. (You should all go see it.)

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It isn't a flattering portrayal, necessarily.

In "The Wolf of Wall Street," Martin Scorsese's upcoming adaptation of a book about criminal excess in finance, Daniel Porush is an executive at Stratton Oakmont. It's a hedonistic, morally bankrupt business, and in the book and the movie, Porush (played by Jonah Hill in the movie) is a ringleader.

The real Daniel Porush told Mother Jones that he takes issue with some of "Wolf of Wall Street's" scenes — namely that they didn't happen.

From Mother Jones:

Porush says he never heard anyone at the firm refer to Belfort as the "wolf." And while sex was nearly as integrated into office life as the scams that made the firm's owners millions, Porush strongly denies a long-established piece of Stratton lore detailed in the book, and dramatized in the film adaptation: that brokers became so debauched that Belfort was forced to issue a memo declaring the office a "f**k-free zone" from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on workdays.

Porush also takes issue with the massive office party, complete with dwarf throwing and a monkey on roller skates:

"There was never a chimpanzee in the office," Porush maintains. "There were no animals in the office ... I would also never abuse an animal in any way." And while Porush admits the firm hired little people to attend and mingle at at least one party, "we never abused [or threw] the midgets in the office; we were friendly to them," he emphasizes. "There was no physical abuse."

Porush did, however, once tell a trader to shape up, or he'd eat the trader's goldfish. When the trader's performance wasn't up to snuff, Porush ate the goldfish as promised.

So there's that.

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