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She always struck us as more of a Versace gal, but Angelina Jolie is taking a theatrical, if not sartorial, step toward Gucci, signing on to star in a drama chronicling the decadent highs and murderous lows of the fashion empire.

According to Variety, Jolie will be stretching her acting muscles as the femme fatale Patrizia Reggiano, the woman who was sentenced to nearly three decades behind bars for plotting the 1995 murder of ex-husband Maurizio Gucci.

The film will be set in the design house's '70s and '80s heyday, when Maurizio emerged, in the wake of a vicious power struggle, to take over the family business. Prior to the show that would relaunch the brand (courtesy of designs from Tom Ford, incidentally), Maurizio was shot dead in front of his Milan home.

Talk about one day you're in and the next you're out.

No actor has signed on to play Jolie's ill-fated love in the film, which starts production next year, though Leonardo DiCaprio has been approached by director Ridley Scott.

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What's nearly two billion dollars look like in 3-D?

More than 10 years after becoming king of the movie world, James Cameron's Titanic may soon be padding its $1.8 billion worldwide gross with a 3-D rerelease, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The trade paper says the upcoming rerelease of the Toy Story films has got other studios around town looking to pull films out of the vault and back into theaters with some souped-up effects.

So if you've ever wondered what Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet would look like if she were stretching her arms out right toward your face, well, dreams do come true.

Frankly, we aren't sold on the idea.

But maybe it's just Titanic we aren't needing to watch in special glasses. Are there any films you'd like to see rereleased in 3-D?

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We were all given chills back in June when Paramount launched the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio thriller, Shutter Island.

Two months later, we were all reminded of how awesome it looks when the trailer made its way to theaters before the showing of sci-fi sensation District 9 boasting an October release.

And now, the studio behind the highly anticipated psychological flick is pushing back its release date by four months!

Shutter Island now hits theaters Feb. 19, 2010, quite possibly knocking both DiCaprio and Scorsese out as Academy Awards contenders. Fall films tend to gain momentum for awards season, while few nominees emerge in later months.

So why the schedule shift? Blame the economy...

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Who says a Brave New World has to be all bad? In fact, it sounds like the dystopian future just got hunkier.

Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with director Ridley Scott to produce and star in a film version of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz blog.

Set in a future when birth is regulated, family outlawed and sex, drugs and shopping rampant, the book's title has become shorthand for any kind of change that hints at a worrisome future.

Still, as much as the 1932 novel has been a staple of school reading lists, it's not hard to imagine a future in which students prefer to skip reading and just watch this film instead.

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UPDATE: And...he shoots, he scores. More than a year after reaching a tentative agreement, DiCaprio and his neighbors finalized the terms of their settlement and a judge has dismissed the case.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's settlement process has hit a snag.

A deal reached in June to settle a property dispute between the actor and a couple who live next door to him in the Hollywood Hills is still not resolved.

"We're still talking and hope to have the kinks worked out," David Glubok, who reps plaintiffs Ronald and Joan Linclau, who claimed that a basketball court that DiCaprio installed undermined a slope in their backyard.

They sued the Body of Lies star for negligence, trespass and nuisance, after which DiCaprio filed a cross-complaint against the contractors who handled the court job, asking that they be forced to foot the bill for any damages the Linclaus might win from him. Then the contractors started suing each other.

Another hearing has been set for December. "Hopefully we'll have it signed, sealed and delivered by then," Glubok said.

(Originally published Oct. 25, 2008, at 4:25 p.m. PT)

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As celebrities go, Leonardo DiCaprio seems a safe bet.

So while you're still shuddering over the scary Shutter Island trailer, Variety reports that DiCaprio has doubled down to produce and star in a new project: a film about online casinos based in Costa Rica.

OK, maybe online gamblers—often unfairly characterized as PJs-wearing shlubs tapping away at their PCs—don't sound as sexy as the guys in Oceans Eleven. But with Leo and the writing team behind Rounders and—hello!—Ocean's Thirteen, the odds look good on this one.

What else is going on in the casting world?

• Natalie Portman is limbering up for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, a supernatural thriller set in the world of ballet, says the Hollywood Reporter. Hey, if she can dance half as good as she can rap, we're in.

• The Disney comedy You Again has added a trifecta of talented thespians: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Chenoweth and—wait for it—Betty White. We are so there.

Martin Scorsese? Check. Period outfits? Right. Boston accent? Um, yes.

We're on to you, Leonardo DiCaprio. Shutter Island looks peppered with elements from your other recent movies, excluding, of course, the evil madhouse doctors, violent hallucinations and psycho dude from Watchmen. To be fair, it looks a bit more My Bloody Valentine than Blood Diamond.

Set in 1954, the film features DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshall investigating a secretive mental institution for the criminally insane run by Ben Kingsley. But it's more like an Island populated with potential Oscar nominees, with a cast that includes Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Max Von Sydow and Jackie Earle Haley.

So do you like the whole "something wicked-awesome this way comes" vibe? As island getaways go, it seems pretty grim. But you tell us: Think you'll go crazy for it?

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Apparently, stripping down and using her body as a blank page for Stephen King's words wasn't the type of dedication to her country that a former high-ranking military man was looking for from Bar Refaeli.

Retired Israeli Major-General Elazar Stern lashed out at the model after the 23-year-old received an exemption from the nation's otherwise mandatory stint in the armed forces.

Refaeli's immunity so enraged Stern that he lashed out at Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend during a speech this week criticizing Tal Law, which excuses yeshiva students from military service, and said he began a boycott of companies that use Refaeli as a model "ever since they decided to put a draft-dodger on their products—external beauty overpowering internal beauty."

"I called the companies and the managers of those companies, and they told me 'that's what the youths like.' I told them our job is to stress what the youths should like, not what they like now."

Refaeli is in good company. Back in 2002, fellow Israeli-born star Natalie Portman got slack for allegedly dodging the nation's draft, but explained that she was exempt from serving as only citizens who reside primarily in the country are required to enlist.

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• Shia LaBeouf tries his one good hand at becoming a music video director and the result looks lifted straight out of 8 Mile. What say you?

• Once he's done judging American Idol and before he hands out the next America's Best Dance Crew trophy, Randy Jackson is going to try to be a lot like Tori Spelling. We wouldn't joke about something like this.

• First Jessica Simpson follows Jennifer Love Hewitt's John Mayer-dating footsteps, but now their roles are reversed. J.Love is romancing the idea of a country album.

• As if you didn't see this one coming. Leonardo DiCaprio supposedly has already started taking voice lessons so he can say he did it his way if/when Martin Scorsese casts him as Frank Sinatra.

• We really hope Anna Faris texts us next.

• Dear Chris Pine: Heed our warning—don't do it. We know you don't want to deal with Justin Bobby baggage. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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Ol' Blue Eyes and young red hair are returning to the big screen—separately, that is.

Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct and produce a biopic of none other than Frank Siantra.

Sinatra, the first big-screen film on the entertainment legend, will touch on his love affairs and marriages (two of his four wives were Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner), his friendships with John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Rat Pack, his singing and acting career and, of course, his possible Mafia ties.

No actor is attached to the film, though Scorsese's go-to guy, Leonardo DiCaprio, is already being touted as a possible frontrunner. Universal has secured the rights to Sinatra's back catalog, so the lead won't need to sing, just lip-sync along with the classics.

Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan has finally managed to land a gig, and 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, Mark Ruffalo, Ray Liotta and Mila Kunis are also hopping on the casting couch.

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