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Leonardo DiCaprio

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Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer born in 1974 in Los Angeles, California. DiCaprio is critically acclaimed for his roles in films such as Titanic, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Romeo + Juliet, The Basketball Diaries, Catch Me If You Can, Inception, Gangs of New York, Blood Diamond, and The Departed. Accolades he has achieved during his career include two Golden Globe Awards, two MTV Awards, a People’s Choice Award, and a Critic’s Choice Award.

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13 Oct, 2015

Buys VW scandal film rights

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DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way and Paramount Pictures buy the film rights to an as-yet-unwritten book about the VW scandal, where the company admitted that 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide are fitted with software that beat emission tests. The book will be written by Ewing, a New York Times journalist, and it will reportedly explore the “more, better, faster” ethos and how it played into the scandal. It is not known whether DiCaprio will star in the film.