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Leonardo DiCaprio has been dominating headlines this week as his latest film One Battle After Another with director Paul Thomas Anderson continues its impressive box office run. Deadline reports the film has now crossed the one hundred million dollar mark globally, pulling in nearly twenty two million dollars internationally over its second weekend with only a twenty two percent drop. The thriller sees DiCaprio playing Bob Ferguson, a washed up explosives expert and former border abolitionist revolutionary who must rescue his daughter from a corrupt military officer played by Sean Penn.
What's particularly fascinating is seeing DiCaprio adapt to modern marketing strategies. IWMBuzz highlighted how the notoriously private actor is now making Instagram Reels to promote the film, including one using the trending song Out of My Mind by B.o.B., playing on the fact that his character's name is Bob Ferguson. He's also been making the podcast rounds, appearing on New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce where he revealed a shocking story from his early career. DiCaprio disclosed that when he was just twelve or thirteen years old, an agent told him his name was too ethnic and tried to rebrand him as Lenny Williams, using his middle name Wilhelm. His father apparently ripped up the headshot with the new name and said over my dead body. His costar Benicio Del Toro shared a similar experience, saying he was told to go by Benny Del.
Meanwhile, on a more somber note, DiCaprio took to social media to pay tribute to legendary primatologist Jane Goodall following news of her passing at age ninety one. The Hollywood Reporter shared his heartfelt message calling her a true hero for the planet and a dear friend, praising her groundbreaking chimpanzee research in Tanzania.
In streaming news, Collider reports that DiCaprio's two thousand two film Gangs of New York with Daniel Day Lewis is surging on HBO Max's global top ten, twenty three years after its release, creating an interesting parallel as both actors have major theatrical releases right now.
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