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It looks like Martin Scorsese wants to snap up his muse Leonardo DiCaprio before Christopher Nolan adds him to the list of "Inception" actors returning for its sequel "The Dark Knight Rises," because now the duo are finally reteaming again with "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The two had been working on this one for a while, but recent reports pegged Ridley Scott as the man to adapt Jordan Belfort's 1990 novel (which also could have meant DiCaprio would be starring in it). Now, Deadline reports that Scorsese and DiCaprio will shoot the film once the director has finished work on "Silence," his summer-shooting adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel that has Benicio Del Toro and Daniel Day-Lewis attached.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" follows a drug-, sex- and alcohol-addicted brokerage firm operator's rise from a 20-something multi-millionaire in the 1980s to a 30-something federal convict banned from the securities business for life in 1994. This will be Scorsese and DiCaprio's fifth film together, which means DiCaprio is only three films away from being Scorsese's official new muse (since Scorsese and Robert De Niro have done a total of eight films together). Click on after the jump for a quick recap on their previous work together!

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Tags Gangs of New York, leonardo dicaprio, martin scorsese, shutter island, The Aviator, the departed, The Wolf Of Wall Street

Are you top ten-ed out? Probably? But damn it, I didn't see a zillion movies this year (OK, around 150) to not earn the right to subject you to a list of my 10 favorites. Honestly this list is probably more for me than for you guys. As we head into the awards season (People's Choice is just days away, get your powder blue tux ready!), what better way to get into the right mindset of endless accolades than to bestow my own. So here we go folks... the top 10 films of 2010* according to me.

*List void on January 1st when I'll surely change my mind about a few of these.

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Tags 127 Hours, Best of 2010, black swan, catfish, inception, kick-ass, let me in, rabbit hole, shutter island, The Social Network, True Grit

1. "Alice in Wonderland" ($62 million)
2. "Green Zone" ($14.5 million)
3. "She's Out of My League" ($9.6 million)
4. "Remember Me" ($8.3 million)
5. "Shutter Island" ($8.1 million)

Even with four new wide releases in theaters this weekend, director Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" proved its staying power by claiming the gold medal at this weekend's box office. Suffering a 46.6% drop from last weekend's $116.1 million intake, "Alice" still managed an impressive $62 million stateside result. Combined with foreign box office numbers, "Alice" has made $429.6 million worldwide in just two weeks. Read more...

Tags alice in wonderland, green zone, remember me, She's Out of My League, shutter island

1. "Alice in Wonderland" ($116.3 million)
2. "Brooklyn's Finest" $13.5 million)
3. "Shutter Island" ($13.3 million)
4. "Cop Out" ($9.1 million)
5. Avatar" ($7.7 million)

The vast majority of moviegoers traveled through the looking glass and into theaters to see "Alice in Wonderland" this weekend, Disney and director Tim Burton's 3-D exploration of the classic Lewis Carroll tale that debuted at the box office with a decisive first place finish. Read more...

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1. "Alice in Wonderland" ($41 million)
2. "Brooklyn's Finest" $4.7 million)
3. "Shutter Island" ($4 million)
4. "Cop Out" ($2.8 million)
5. The Crazies" ($2.3 million)

Moviegoers opted to take a trip down the rabbit hole in a very big way on Friday, as director Tim Burton's unique version of "Alice in Wonderland" claimed the top spot at the box office with an impressive $41 million haul. Read more...

Tags alice in wonderland, brooklyns finest, Cop Out, shutter island, the crazies

Spoiler alert. Might as well get that out of the way from the outset. Expect a more in-your-face warning immediately preceding the major "Shutter Island" spoiler after the jump.

Martin Scorsese's latest has a whopper of a conclusion. It's almost a note-perfect adaptation of Dennis Lehane's book. "Almost" because there's one comment made at the end which throws the entire house of cards constructed by the author into question. Lehane already told us that he stays out of the writing process once an agreement has been made to adapt one of his books. But he did share his thoughts on the slightly altered ending seen in the film. Seriously: don't hit the jump if you haven't seen this movie. Read more...

Tags Dennis Lehane, leonardo dicaprio, martin scorsese, shutter island

Coming off of a long-overdue Best Picture Oscar win for "The Departed," Martin Scorsese left himself with a hard act to follow. Instead of taking it easy with another tale of gangsters living and losing the high life, he went for a challenge: Dennis Lehane's compelling thriller "Shutter Island," which has about as much to do with gangsters as "Goodfellas" does with magic.

In "Shutter Island" we follow two U.S. Marshals who are dispatched to the titular location -- home to an institution for the criminally insane -- to investigate the disappearance of one of the inmates there. Scorsese vision falls close to the one laid out by Lehane in the book, a necessity given the careful staging of events as the story unfolds. Seeing the movie will give you some context for what's discussed, but rest assured that there are no spoilers to be found here. Read more...

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1. "Shutter Island" ($22.2 million)
2. "Cop Out" ($18.6 million)
3. "The Crazies" ($16.5 million)
4. "Avatar" ($14 million)
5. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" ($9.8 million)

The ghosts of "Shutter Island" continued to haunt the box office this weekend with another first place finish. Having already won the top spot last weekend and on Friday, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio's most recent collaboration remained in front of the pack by Sunday's conclusion with $22.2 million. With a domestic gross of $75 million and a foreign intake of $4.6 million after two weeks in theaters, Paramount's latest thriller is a stone's throw away from earning back its $80 million production budget. Read more...

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1. "Shutter Island" ($6.7 million)
2. "Cop Out" ($5.975 million)
3. "The Crazies" ($5.97 million)
4. "Avatar" ($3.1 million)
5. "Valentine's Day" ($2.9 million)

Friday initiated a relatively quiet start to the weekend as director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio's "Shutter Island" continued its first place lead at the box office with $6.7 million. With Friday's intake, Paramount's latest thriller now boasts a cumulative total of $59.5 million from domestic ticket sales and an additional $4.6 million at the foreign box office. It's likely that "Shutter Island" will recoup its production budget of $80 million by the weekend's conclusion. Read more...

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1. "Shutter Island" ($40.2 million)
2. "Valentine's Day" ($17.2 million)
3. "Avatar" ($16.1 million)
4. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" ($15.3 million)
5. "The Wolfman" ($9.8 million)

This weekend, the romance of "Valentine's Day" succumbed to the horror of "Shutter Island," Paramount's newest thriller from director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio. "Shutter Island" easily took the box office's first place prize with a $40.2 million haul, but DiCaprio and Scorsese didn't just top the other box office competitors — they also topped themselves. Read more...

Tags avatar, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, shutter island, the wolfman, Valentine's Day