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Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Revenant’ Wows CinemaCon Audience | Variety

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-revenant-cinemacon-1201478399/

Dave McNary

“The Revenant <http://variety.com/t/the-revenant/>,” Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu <http://variety.com/t/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/>’s first film
since “Birdman,” received a warm reaction Thursday as Fox unveiled the
first footage at CinemaCon <http://variety.com/t/cinemacon/>.

A scraggly Leonardo DiCaprio <http://variety.com/t/leonardo-dicaprio/>, who
stars as a fur trapper in the 1820s, dominated the footage — which included
several battle scenes set alongside a river. Fox said Inarritu is shooting
in the Canadian wilderness, using only natural light.

In his intro, Fox chief Jim Gianopulos — who hosted the hourlong event with
new studio co-chair Stacey Snider — noted that Fox Searchlight and New
Regency have won back-to-back Best Picture Oscars with “12 Years a Slave”
and “Birdman.”

New Regency and Brett Ratner’s Ratpac Entertainment are financing the
survival drama. Twentieth Century Fox plans to open the film in limited
release on Christmas Day next year before a wide release on Jan. 8, 2016.

The footage also included glimpses of co-stars Tom Hardy and Will Poulter.
Gonzalez Inarritu and Mark Smith wrote the screenplay based on the Michael
Punke novel “The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge” published in 2003. The
story, set in 1823, centers on a fur trapper who’s mauled by a grizzly bear
and robbed by the two men enlisted to stay with him.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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