Details from Inception,  the much-hyped, much-confusing next film by Christopher Nolan, have slowly been leaking due to interviews with the films stars. While Nolan has most certainly told them all to keep their mouths shut we have been able to put (very) small pieces of the puzzle together. Most recently, Leonardo DiCaprio talked with Empire Magazine about the upcoming summer blockbuster while doing press for Shutter Island:

“It is complicated. It’s a complicated story-structure but it’s sprung from the great filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s mind, and he’s been able to take highly complex jigsaw puzzles in a narrative and put them together in an entertaining way that we could have never foreseen. Like you look at ‘Memento’: I don’t how a filmmaker is able to pull a narrative like off and have you be fully engaged.”

“This is another one. It’s done on a much grander scale with more spectacle to it but it is a plot-structure that’s working on multiple layers simultaneously – and quite literally when I say simultaneously, I do mean multiple narratives simultaneously. So everyone’s going to be in for a treat when they see it, including myself, I want to see how it plays out together.”

Although these are general comments, it’s enough to get me more hyped. Inception is easily my most anticipated film of the summer.

The film which stars DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Lukas Haas hits theaters July 16th.

What do you think about DiCaprio’s comments? Are you more excited for Inception?

What do you think of Mel Gibson as a director?

All in all, the man’s been pretty successful, with four well-made films to his name: The Man Without a Face, Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto.

2010, though poised to be a year of career rebirth for Gibson after half a decade of PR recovery, got off to a shaky start with the lukewarm action-thriller Edge of Darkness. Yet despite Darkness’s poor box office performance, Gibson’s got plenty of opportunities/months to make up for it.

Later this year, he’s starring in Jodie Foster The Beaver, adapted from Kyle Killen’s Blacklisted screenplay, along with being announced to star in two separate, high-profile films (Shane Black’s Cold Warrior and Adrian Grunberg’s How I Spent My Summer Vacation) as well as direct an epic Viking drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, written by William Monahan. [The Playlist]

Here’s what Gibson had to say about the Viking project (via L.A. Times):

“We’re going hammer and tongs on the script right now,” Gibson said. “When I was 16, learning about the history of the English language I became fascinated with Vikings. And I imagined what they would sound like, how would they talk and that’s what I will be going for in this film. It’s a challenge though. There’s never been a good Viking film, not that I’ve seen. I think I have found the right way to get into it, though, but I don’t want to say too much. The real problem is making those guys sympathetic. They were monsters.”

Here’s what producer Graham King had to say:

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It’s not much, but when it’s for a film this high profile it’s enough to warrant a news story.

So here it is:

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The fourth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio has proven to be their best. The duo have not only beat out 2002’s Gangs Of New York, 2004’s The Aviator, and 2006’s The Departed, but also their personal record. The Departed was previously Scorsese’s best with $26.8M, while Leo’s was $30M for Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can. We can all forget about that as Shutter Island made $40.2M this weekend. This puts it in the Top 20 R-rated openings of all-time as well as in the Top 10 February openings of all-time. Read the full story

Leonardo DiCaprio is still interested in starring in the upcoming Alcon Entertainment thriller Prisoners. It is clear that his participation in the flick is dependent on the director. Antoine Fuqua was initially tagged to direct, but has since left the project. DiCaprio has a long history with only a small number of big-name directors, notably Martin Scorsese, and is no doubt going to be picky about this project as well. Read the full story

Remember Cape Fear? Where Scorsese bombarded and frightened us with surreal images and a more-than-unsettling atmosphere? Shutter Island represents that side of Scorsese. It’s quite possibly his most tense film yet. While it’s difficult to label it as “scary”, it certainly knows how to make one feel consistently uneasy. This is a wonderfully crafted psychological horror film. Read the full story

The release of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island marks Leonardo DiCaprio and the renowned director’s fourth film together after The Aviator, Gangs of New York, and The Departed. In honor of the duo, here are my top ten Director/Actor collaborations over the years of cinema. Read the full story

Never say Martin Scorsese wasn’t willing to try something new. Much like Spielberg or Coppola, the auteur jumps at the opportunity to tackle subject matter not immediate to the modus operandi that developed his reputation: tough-talking New York City Italians with a penchant for violence.

So it is with Shutter Island, the closest thing we’ll get to a Hitchcock film these days: a fresh experiment in fear and psychoanalysis. And not an Italian in sight. But violence personified.

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Christopher Nolan’s next movie Inception might be as mindblowing as Memento if what star Leonardo DiCaprio says is true.  In an interview with Inquirer Entertainment, the bona fide movie star indicated that he wasn’t even sure what the final product was to be. Read the full story

The Playlist has translated a report from a foreign site regarding John Curran’s The Beautiful and The Damned, an F. Scott Fitzgerald biopic. Curran, who was behind The Painted Veil, as well as this year’s Stone, which stars Edward Norton and Robert De Niro and is one of our most anticipated films of the year. The report states that the Fitzgerald biopic is set to shoot this spring in Croatia with Keira Knightley to play his wife, Zelda. It isn’t confirmed yet, but Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to play the lead. The Playlist reports on the film below. Read the full story