The movie is the first Chinese film to star a major Hollywood actor.
It also cements DiCaprio as a bona fide movie star who can open a film and take it to a big payday.
Back in 1975 Elstree Film Studios was struggling and got to make the original Star Wars movie because Lucas was a new boy, on a tight budget.
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Byung-hun Lee, a major Korean movie star, was put in one of the film's title roles.
We are going to talk with the director about the movie, as well as the star of the film, Elliot Ruiz.
Now in his 50s, the evergreen Hong Kong star of song and film stayed popular last year with the movie Blind Detective.
Forty-four years later, the 21st official film in the second most lucrative movie franchise in history (after "Star Wars") has made its London premiere.
We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the former is a better measure of a movie star's ability to generate income for a film.
We then used data gathered for our annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate each star's estimated earnings on each film (including upfront pay and any earnings from the movie's box-office receipts, DVD and TV sales).
Leinart, the dazzling first-round draft pick who won the Heisman Trophy at the University of Southern California, is a quarterback with movie star looks who, some think, could go on to a second career in film.
The film was also a triumph of concept over star power, as it represented the appeal of the idea versus the movie star.
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The film, based on the Stephanie Meyer book, is up for best movie and male breakthrough performance for its star, British actor Robert Pattinson.
"As a colleague in Los Angeles said, 'Didn't like the movie, but God, isn't Sydney a star, '" says the state Film and Television Office's Kingston Anderson.
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