First Trailer for Real-Life Drama 'True Story' starring James Franco and Jonah Hill

James Franco stays busy pretty much all year 'round, but when Sundance comes along he kicks it into another gear. Once again he's got multiple films debuting in the wintry climate of Park City, and both based on real-life stories. One is the gay activist drama, I Am Michael; the other is True Story, which sounds too crazy to be believed.

Franco stars alongside his pal Jonah Hill but don't think this is some stoner comedy. The first trailer for True Story suggests something seriously bizarre but not at any kind of heightened level. Hill plays New York Times journalist Michael Finkel, with Franco as wanted murderer Christian Longo. Longo had been on the run from the FBI and hiding under Finkel's identity, leading to a weird relationship when they encounter one another.

This isn't how we're used to seeing Hill and Franco together on screen, but that's also part of what makes True Story intriguing.  Also starring Felicity Jones and Gretchen Mol, True Story opens in theaters on April 10th 2015.

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Jonah Hill Confirmed for 'Arms and the Dudes'; Miles Teller may Join Him

With a pair of Oscar nominations under his belt, Jonah Hill is no longer just the kid from Superbad, he's someone directors seek out for any variety of roles. A few months ago we learned he may be considering a role in Arms and the Dudes, a true crime comedy from The Hangover director, Todd Phillips, and now Hill has been confirmed for it while another actor circles a role.

According to THR, Hill has taken one of the lead parts in Arms and the Dudes, which Phillips will direct and  co-write with Jason Smilovic, writer of the action-comedy Lucky Number Slevin. And that's not all as The Wrap says Whiplash and Fantastic Four star Miles Teller is s eying a role in the story of two Miami Beach stoners who become arms dealers after winning a $300M contract with the government. Jesse Eisenberg, Shia LaBeouf, and Chris Pratt have been circling the film for weeks but it looks like Teller is the frontunner at this point.

Hill is currently filming the Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar!, while Teller can be seen in theaters now in the jazz drumming thriller, Whiplash, opposite JK Simmons.

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Jonah Hill Rumored for Harmony Korine's 'The Trap'

After landing the likes of Selena Gomez, James Franco, and Vanessa Hudgens for Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine is looking to add even bigger names for his next film, The Trap. We recently learned that Jamie Foxx and Benicio Del Toro were eying roles in the long-developing crime drama, and that Robert Pattinson may be involved as well, but now a rumor has surfaced that Jonah Hill could be next to come aboard.

The story comes from The Tracking Board (grain of salt time), who say Hill is "attached to appear" in the film about " two childhood friends now in their mid-to-late 30s — one of whom is very successful and the other has spent the majority of his adult life in jail. On the eve of a big recognition for the successful man, the other is released from jail and determined to get even." It doesn't sound like the kind of controversial effort we're used to from Korine, but then again it's almost certainly not going to be a straight-up crime picture, either. It would be another interesting move for Hill, who has a role in the Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar.

So we'll see what happens. Filming on The Trap begins early next year,

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Paul Greengrass May Direct Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in Olympic Bombing Drama

The combination of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill proved to be a potent one in The Wolf of Wall Street, and by all accounts they got along famously. So it wasn't a surprise when they moved quickly on their next project together, and an altogether more serious one. They're set to star in an adaptation of the Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell", penned by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) and centering on the real-life investigation surrounding '96 Olympics bombing. Ray recently wrote the script for Paul Greengrass' acclaimed drama, Captain Phillips, and they may be looking at a re-teaming, also.

According to Deadline, Paul Greengrass is circling the untitled drama, which would have Hill starring as Jewell, a security guard who discovered a suspicious package during the '96 Olympics in Atlanta and tried to get people out of harm's way. Soon after the tables turned and Jewell found himself the FBI's primary suspect in the case and the object of national scorn. DiCaprio would play the southern lawyer who helped guide Jewell through the nightmare.

This would be a perfect choice landing a director like Greengrass who excels with real-life dramas and documentaries. Greengrass hasn't signed on yet but if a deal comes together is there any reason to think this won't turn out great?

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'23 Jump Street' is No Longer a Joke as Sony Hires Writer

In a film that was chock full of huge laughs, 22 Jump Street's closing credits topped everything. The extended sequence followed through on the film's mocking of arbitrary sequels by taking it to a ridiculous degree, showing about two dozen increasingly ridiculous sequels stretching far into the future. 24 Jump Street in Moscow? Yeah, that's in there. Foreign exchange students? Medical school? It's pretty silly, and seemed like an easy way for Phil Lord and Chris Miller to brush off the franchise in one fell swoop. But Sony has other plans, especially after the film made over $310M worldwide.

Deadline reports 22 Jump Street co-writer Rodney Rothman has been hired to pen 23 Jump Street, but does that mean Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill will be headed to Medical School like was teased in the movie? That much isn't clear, nor is it certain Lord and Miller will be back to direct although Sony wants them back. The duo turned down a chance to direct sequels for The Lego Movie and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs after taking both animated movies to the top of the box office charts.

So there's a lot Sony has to consider now that they're officially moving forward on 23 Jump Street. For now, relive that hilarious credits sequence. Which one of these movies would you want to see most?

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Will Ferrell Could Play Russ Meyer in Biopic 'Russ & Roger Go Beyond'

With the amazing Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself in theaters and VOD right now (my 4-star review here), this is a pretty good time to start exploring a fascinating and weird period in the film critic's life. A few years ago David O. Russell was planning a biopic on legendary B-movie director Russ Meyer, but it never quite came together. Now another one is in the works titled Russ & Roger Go Beyond, and none other than Will Ferrell is circling the Meyer role.

As you might have guessed, the film will tell the wild story of how Meyer and Ebert teamed up and hit Hollywood to write the lousy counter-culture flick Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The pairing was an odd one but Meyer wanted to work with Ebert, who was then just another lowly critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and was one of the few who gave his trashy exploitative movies good reviews. It was equally strange that 20th Century Fox gave a green light to the project, thus securing Meyer his one real shot at legitimacy. This would be a big, high-profile gig for Ferrell and only the second time he's played a real-life figure. In 1996 he played Bob Woodward in the political comedy, Dick.

The script for this one comes from Christopher Cluess (SNL), and it's apparently coming together quickly. Edgar Wright is said to be interested in directing but he's got a couple of projects that take precedent, and Deadline suggests Jonah Hill or Seth Rogen could be perfect for the Ebert role.

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*UPDATE* Scarlett Johansson and Jonah Hill Join the Coen Brothers for 'Hail Caesar'

*UPDATE* The Wrap now says Jonah Hill is eying an unspecified role in Hail Caesar. This would be his first time working with the Coens. It does give him a chance to team up with his 22 Jump Street pal, Channing Tatum.

The Coen Brothers have been so incredibly consistent over the course of their career that a film like 2001's black & white noir, The Man Who Wasn't There, has been forgotten a little bit despite the acclaim it received. Much of the attention was focused on the style and performance of Billy Bob Thornton, but also great in a smaller role was Scarlett Johansson, and now after all this time she's finally working with the Coens again.

Johansson has joined the all-star cast of Hail Caesar, starring alongside George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin, and Ralph Fiennes. Clooney plays a 1950s Hollywood fixer tasked with keeping the studio's stars in line and out of the press. Johansson will take on a small role as an actress who learns she is pregnant just before her film is about to go into production.

Filming on Hail Caesar is expected to begin this fall and we should see it in theaters in 2015.  [Variety]

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Review: '22 Jump Street' Starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill

There's a running gag throughout Phil Lord and Chris Miller's hilarious 22 Jump Street that it's basically your typical sequel, ripping off the same old jokes and situations while just making things bigger. The more Meta the film gets the funnier it is, and the truth is that they aren't really lying. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as best buds and keystone coppers Jenko and Schmidt; they're busting up another student-run drug ring; and the same polarizing forces that broke the duo up the last time are again in effect. But you know what? You'll be laughing too damn hard to care that sometimes 22 Jump Street feels a little familiar, especially since that is kind of the point.

What Lord and Miller have done is up the ante on a follow-up nobody thought would ever happen. The "inside joke" of 21 Jump Street was that it was always sort of destined to fail being a remake of a silly TV show few actually watched. So 22 Jump Street cuts loose and indulges in the bombastic and formulaic nature of movie sequels, dutifully ripped through the welcome return of Nick Offerman's deadpan police sergeant. He tasks Jenko and Schmidt to basically do the exact same thing as before, shipping them off across the street to 22 Jump Street where the unit has taken up shop at the bigger, gaudier Vietnam Church appropriately described as something Iron Man would love.

When the perpetually angry and arguably even angrier Capt. Dickson (Ice Cube) ships them off to college to find the supplier of a new designer drug, Jenko and Schmidt are thrust into a campus life they are ill-equipped to handle. Not only aren't they fooling anybody because of their obvious advanced age, but they begin to feel the pull of the social pecking order. Jenko joins the football team and becomes friends with Zook (Wyatt Russell, a dead ringer for his father Kurt), the squad's QB and potential suspect in the case. Meanwhile, Schmidt is feeling left out until he hooks up...in more ways than one...with brainy art student Maya (Amber Stevens) who brings him more trouble than expected.

And it's to Lord and Miller's credit, along with the trio of screenwriters, that for all the intentional riffs on what came before, there is still plenty left to be discovered. So yes, we get the token "bad drug trip" scene, which is still pretty funny when those are usually phoned in, and the plenty of Michael Bay-inspired action sequences. But we also get a lot more of Ice Cube as Dickson is woven into the plot in a way that powers the humor for the entire second half. There are so many jokes that a second or third viewing will be necessary to catch them all and even then it may not be enough.

Say what you want about Channing Tatum but he'll do literally anything he's asked to do comedically. While he still has great chemistry with Hill, who continue to seem like the bestest buds ever, Tatum shoulders much of the physical and emotional burden here. We've seen this same "falling for a girl out of his league" storyline for Schmidt before, but Jenko is finally in a place where he is truly comfortable and not a fish out of water. It causes some interesting friction between the two partners that is played up nicely for a while, but then becomes just an endless stream of tiresome homoerotic jokes. With all of the trouble Hill has had with the LGBT community lately the frequent use of gay humor seems misplaced, and certainly isn't edgy. More than just Hill, Tatum, and Cube get in on the fun. The supporting cast never lets us down, and we may be looking at a Rebel Wilson-style breakout from Workaholicsstar Jillian Bell as Maya's grumpy roommate.

You'll want to stick around throughout the awesome credits teasing an increasingly ridiculous string of sequels (2121 Jump Street? It's a thing.) that you'll really want to see happen. Whether Jenko and Schmidt eventually head to 23 Jump Street (hey, it's right next door!) we'll find out soon enough, but for now 22 Jump Street is a sequel that lives up to an incredibly high standard.

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Channing Tatum Goes to Work in New '22 Jump Street' Red Band Trailer

"Why every time you speak I want to throw the fuck up"? With less than a week until Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and scene-stealer Ice Cube return for 22 Jump Street, Sony Pictures has released a new red band trailer as a reminder of how raunchy and vulgar the film will get. That's something which may have been lost a little bit in the first film; that for all the stupid sophomoric jokes it went pretty far out there and earned its R-rating. Clearly this one will too as the sex, F-bombs, and violence pile up during the duo's investigation of a drug ring on a college campus.

Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller with Peter Stormare, Dave Franco, and Nick Offerman co-starring, 22 Jump Street opens June 13th.


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Bradley Cooper to Produce Todd Phillips' Next Film, 'Arms & the Dudes'; Jonah Hill May Star

The partnership between Todd Phillips and Bradley Cooper has been beneficial to both over the last few years. The Hangover basically put them both on the map and while the franchise failed to live up to the initial success, it set them both up for a future of basically doing whatever they want. And what they want to do is work together again in another capacity, forming their own production company and developing Phillips' next film, Arms & the Dudes.

THR reports that Cooper will produce the film which is being set up over at Warner Bros. Phillips will direct after picking up the rights to Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone article back in 2011. The true story sounds like it may be a little offbeat like Pain & Gain, following "two stoners from Miami Beach who ended up becoming arms dealers for the U.S. government." There's a bit more to it than that, with 25-year-old David Packouz (now an entrepreneur) and his pal Efraim Diveroli winning a $300M contract to arm Afghan allies, leading to all sorts of congressional hearings and fraud convictions. 

It doesn't appear that Cooper is planning to star but Jonah Hill has been loosely attached to it since last November. The plan is to begin filming later this year.

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New International '22 Jump Street' Trailer Starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum

Before Channing Tatum puts on his guy-liner and attempts to save the galaxy in Jupiter Ascending, he'll party like a rock star with his pal Jonah Hill in 22 Jump Street. A new international trailer for the buddy cop sequel has been released, and it again puts bumbling cops Jenko and Schmidt undercover to bust a drug ring. The only difference is now they've moved up to college where they get a taste of the frat party, spring break lifestyle they missed out on before. There isn't a ton of new footage here but there's every indication this will be as funny as 21 Jump Street was.

Co-starring Ice Cube and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 22 Jump Street opens June 13th.


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'22 Jump Street' Hits the Streets with a Final Red Band Trailer

After releasing the first clip from 22 Jump Street just hours ago, Sony has decided to top it off with the final red band trailer. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as keystone coppers, Jenko and Schmidt, who have been ordered by their boss (Ice Cube) to infiltrate a college and bust up a drug ring. There isn't much that has changed, although as the trailer shows, their friendship is going through another rough patch. The only things that can fix it? Wild parties, wildly inappropriate behavior, and lots of gunplay as they plunge into the college experience they never had before.

Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 22 Jump Street opens June 13th.

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First '22 Jump Street' Clip Goes Deep Cover

At this point, Phil Lord and Chris Miller can do no wrong. Everything they've touched has turned to $200M gold, and if they had chosen to direct Ghostbusters 3 that probably would have, too. Perhaps the most impressive win in their incredible run was spinning gold out of 21 Jump Street, a relic of the '80s nobody was anxious to see return. But the buddy comedy was a hit and one of the year's funniest films, and now the bumbling cops return in 22 Jump Street.

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as Jenko and Schmidt, who continue to flounder their way into big cases. This time they're moving on up to college to break up a drug ring, and in this first clip we see them going deep undercover as Latino gangbangers, with hilariously awful results.

22 Jump Street opens June 13th. [MTV]

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Billy Ray to Pen 'The Ballad of Richard Jewell' for Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill

Billy Ray's screenwriting career got off to a dubious start, one that it took a long time for me to get past. He first wrote Color of Night, a terrible Bruce Willis "thriller" that had me snoring in my theater seat. But Ray has since gone on to pen and direct some great films such as Shattered Glass, Breach, and writing The Hunger Games. He really scored this year with his script for Best Picture nominee, Captain Phillips, and now he's moving up to work on a biopic spearheaded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.

Variety reports Ray will script The Ballad of Richard Jewell, about the life of the security guard who in 1996 became a hero and then a suspect in the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Ray will be adapting the Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner that serves as the basis for the story, detailing how the Jewell's personal and professional life was ruined by the false accusations. Hill is expected to play Jewell, with DiCaprio as the Southern lawyer who helps him through the media firestorm.

Still no word on a director, but given Ray's previous credits and obvious grip on dramatic biopics such as this, hopefully he'll be given some consideration.

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New Footage in the Latest '22 Jump Street' Trailer

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are currently on top of the world with The LEGO Movie selling out everywhere and selling lots and lots of toys. But the directing duo have another comedy on the way targeted at a different audience who are sure to turn out in droves. A new green band trailer has been released for 22 Jump Street, the sequel to the $200M-grossing 21 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.There's new footage to be found and a greater emphasis on action, plus a bit more of Ice Cube who seems to have a larger (and less angry) role this time.

Co-starring Nick Offerman, Craig Roberts, and Amber Stevens, 22 Jump Street opens on June 13th 2014. Check out the trailer and full synopsis below.


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PLOT: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio ReTeaming for Film on Falsely Accused Olympic Bombing Suspect

With Best Picture contender The Wolf of Wall Street earning Oscar nominations for both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, it's obvious that their pairing yielded incredible results. But they also became great friends on the set, with DiCaprio popping up during Hill's SNL hosting gig, not to mention their plans to develop a TV series based on the golden era of hip-hop. And now they're set to work together one more time on something that sounds a lot more serious than any of their previous collaborations.

According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox has picked up the rights to the Vanity Fair article 'American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell', about the heroic security guard who discovered a suspicious package at the '96 Atlanta Olympics and helped get bystanders out of the area, saving many. When the package exploded, Jewell found himself the subject of media scrutiny and was vilified as a potential suspect, ruining his professional and personal life. Eric Rudolph eventually admitted to the crime, exonerating Jewell once and for all, but the damage had been done long before that.

In what should continue his remarkable turn towards the dramatic, Hill is expected to play Jewell with DiCaprio as the little-known Southern lawyer who helped him navigate the media firestorm. No word on a director yet but given the success they've had together thus far (they also appeared in Django Unchained together) there should be no shortage of volunteers.

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Jonah Hill, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, and Kristen Wiig to Voice 'Sausage Party'

The gang behind This is the End have formed their own little stoner brat pack of sorts, and for the most part it's been a formula for success. Last year's apocalyptic comedy made over $120M, not bad for a hard R-rated flick in the middle of summer. Now they hope to recreate that success with the "adults only" animated comedy, Sausage Party.

Hill revealed his plans for the film a few years ago but it took a step forward when Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Greg Tiernan came aboard to direct. Now The Wrap reports Hill, Seth Rogen, James Franco, David Krumholtz, and Michael Dera will lead the voice cast, with Kristen Wiig, Edward Norton, and Nick Kroll joining in. Rogen and Evan Goldberg pitched in on the script which takes place at a supermarket and follows a sausage's quest to discover the truth of his existence after falling out of a shopping cart. With the 4th of July sale approaching, he and his friends must hurry to get back to their aisles in time.

Much like the talking M&M's from the commercials, apparently these anthropomorphic foods don't realize what the end game is.

Sony plans to release Sausage Party some time in 2015.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill to Team with Q-Tip for Hip-Hop TV Series

In case you couldn't tell by my glowing review of Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, or my fanboy-ish interview with Phife Dawg, I grew up in the hip-hop era of the late '80s and '90s. That was the time when groups like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and others in the collective known as the Native Tongue were most prominent, and hip-hop at its most creative and positive. The idea of 'Tribe' leader Q-Tip passing along his experiences as part of the group in a TV series is worth getting excited about on its own, but throw in Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill and it's downright amazing.

Deadline reports that Q-Tip is teaming up with The Wolf of Wall Street co-stars DiCaprio and Hill for a new, scripted TV drama series loosely based on his time as part of A Tribe Called Quest, which he founded in 1985 with Phife, Jarobi White, and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammed. There's no writer yet for the series, but it's said to reflect on the group's friendship and how their music influenced the music then as it does now.

DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way shingle, and maybe they can get him to make a cameo as MC Serch or something? No? I could totally see Jonah Hill as Pete Nice. Okay, maybe not. We all know DiCaprio is a big hip-hop enthusiast, hanging out at ball games with Jay-Z and bustin' a move in The Wolf of Wall Street. So his participation makes sense, and only makes this more exciting. Now excuse me as I crank the volume on "Electric Relaxation" up to 10.

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Review: Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Starring Leonardo DiCaprio

My first thought after the credits rolled on Martin Scorsese's 3-hour symphony of greed and depravity was, "How in the hell did this not get an NC-17 rating"??? Followed quickly by "What the f**k was in that fourth hour Marty cut out"??? The Wolf of Wall Street is a relentlessly depraved and aggressively hedonistic tour de force and certainly the director's blackest, funniest movie to date. The coked-up sex-fueled criminality committed by Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) make Gordon Gekko look like Pope Francis by comparison, and while it's not exactly a complete take down of the "greed is good" culture, it works as a deliciously sinful cautionary tale.

After an army of bleak dramas and corny tear-jerkers infecting the awards season, rides in on a rocket sled. There's simply never a dull moment in Belfort's real-life meteoric rise and descent into chaos, so that the lengthy run time never becomes a factor. DiCaprio wears his good guy image only temporarily as Belfort, an upstart Wall Street rookie looking to make his bones in an honest way, until he learns fairly quickly there's no such thing. Working at one of the most respected brokerage firms in the world, he's introduced to the daily insanity by his boss, a chest-thumping, coke-snorting guru played with scene-stealing hilarity by Matthew McConaughey. He teaches young padewan Belfort that in order to survive the Wall Street zoo, you need to do two things: jerk off constantly and snort enough blow "to sedate Manhattan". But he also learns something else: that this isn't a business where the client is always right. The client's just a mook; a sheep ready to be fleeced to the benefit of the broker. Customer satisfaction does not have its privileges.

As terrible as we know this advice to be, there's a twisted logic to it that drives every ridiculous thing that occurs afterwards. We're talking about people who live in the eye blink of time, where a fraction of a second can mean thousands if not millions of dollars. Of course they're going to look for that same instant gratification anywhere, and from anyone, they can get it from.  Belfort learns a lesson early on about the volatility of the market on his very first day, during the epic crash of 1987, and in an effort to make a living and keep supporting his loyal wife (Cristin Milioti); he begins trading at a rinky dink firm shoveling penny stocks on working stiffs. "Garbage men and postmen. There's always postmen" the head of the firm (Spike Jonze) says. The sales are small but the commissions are huge, and soon Belfort is rolling in dough and gathering up his own crew of stiffs to start their own shop.

But it's not until he gets that first hit off the ol' crack pipe that Belfort's world goes bananas, provided by his right-hand man Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), an extremely Jewish mattress salesman who drops everything to get a taste of the high life. "High" being the operative word as the two rail cocaine out of hookers' orifices like it was going out of style, and that's just the least of their indulgences. Okay, maybe the midget tossing is the least. Belfort cheats on his wife with the sexy "Duchess" Naomi (Margot Robbie) before dropping her altogether; taunts the FBI officials sniffing around his financial empire; buys literally everything in sight while robbing America blind. Look up crony capitalism in the dictionary and you'll find Jordan Belfort's smirking mug.

Scorsese recounts this sordid tale in the same rat-a-tat-tat style of Goodfellas, structuring it in essentially the same manner to the point where one can easily tell which phase of Belfort's downfall we're in. Like Henry Hill from that classic mob flick, Belfort is a guy we know is awful but we love him anyway, and as he reveals his screwed up thoughts over extensive voice-over we root for him to get away with it. There aren't many redeeming qualities for a guy like Belfort but Scorsese, screenwriter Terence Winter, and DiCaprio find just enough to make us like him. Perhaps it's our realization that Belfort isn't really a bad guy in the shark tank he exists in 24 hours a day; he's just a by-product of the criminal nature of a corrupt capitalist system. In that sense, The Wolf of Wall Street doesn't aim to impart some new wisdom about dangerous excess, and its fall-from-grace storyline begins to take a familiar shape once the action starts to wind down.

DiCaprio follows up The Great Gatsby as another character of overabundant riches, delivering a manic and wildly unhinged performance that makes last year's villainous turn in Django Unchained seem tame. DiCaprio's proven he can make us laugh before, but physical humor is something we've seen much less of. Here he gets to put all of his comedic gifts on display, especially in one epic scene where Belfort downs a rack of expired Quaaludes, which fail to kick in so he devours more, only to lose all sense of body control at the absolute worst time possible, finding what he calls the "cerebral palsy phase" in a bit that is destined to be an classic. It's just one of many such moments thanks to a supporting cast that is terrific all around.

The Wolf of Wall Street is the ballsiest movie Scorsese's ever, and proves he hasn't even begun to lose his edge.

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Watch Leonardo DiCaprio Lose It in New 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Clips and Images

If watching Leonardo DiCaprio snort more cocaine out of more unusual places while delving into the depths of perversion and depravity sounds like something you'd like to see, then The Wolf of Wall Street should make for a fine Christmas gift.  Martin Scorsese's three-hour (could've been four!) celebration of white collar sleeze follows stockbroker Jordan Belfort as he gets sucked in to the excesses granted the wealthy elite, and boy does he take full advantage consuming every drug under the sun and breaking every rule of common decency.

A trio of new clips and a handful of images show two sides of Jordan: the liar and the charming scumbag. Besides DiCaprio's crazy performance you also get a look at Rob Reiner as his worrying father, Jonah Hill as his loyal (and equally insane) sidekick, and Margot Robbie as his "duchess" Naomi. But the real showstopper is Matthew McConaughey as DiCaprio's mentor, and let's just say he sets the tone for the lunacy to come.

Christmas Day rings the opening bell on The Wolf of Wall Street.

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