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Margot Robbie dug into some of the biggest moments of her career in a rare onstage appearance as the latest subject of BAFTA's popular A Life In Pictures series Tuesday. The session was lengthy and wide-ranging, but off the bat, Robbie was asked about her experience shooting her breakout Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: A feature documentary about the 1MDB scandal and one of the fund’s alleged masterminds, international fugitive Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, has started production this week in London. Man on the Run will chart how Low Taek Jho was born to a rich family from Penang Island, Malaysia, and educated at…

Money laundering charges against The Wolf Of Wall Street producer Riza Aziz have been dropped by a Malaysian court, in exchange for the return of overseas assets, reportedly worth $107.3M. Aziz is the founder and CEO of Red Granite Pictures and had initially been arrested in July last year over his alleged role in…

Immersive theater and alternative cinema experiences have been all the rage in recent years thanks to canny producers such as Punchdrunk and Secret Cinema. The latest buzzed-about production in this space is based on a familiar Hollywood movie. UK immersive theater experience The Wolf Of Wall Street will take place in…

Almost a year to the day that former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested by anti-corruption investigators over his alleged role in dodgy financing deals linked to 2013 Hollywood hit The Wolf Of Wall Street and others, his stepson Riza Aziz has now been arrested. Riza, the founder and CEO of Red Granite…

Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly secretly testified before a Washington, DC grand jury as part of a federal investigation into a Malaysian government investment fund. The case, which involves some of the highest members of the Malaysian government and some major U.S. investors, centers on financier Low Taek Jho. Low…

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been arrested by anti-corruption investigators and will be charged over his alleged role in the multi-billion-dollar embezzlement of a state investment fund linked to the financing of 2013 Hollywood hit The Wolf Of Wall Street. A government task force said Najib's…

The Wolf of Wall Street producer Riza Aziz has been summoned to appear on Tuesday before the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, according to multiple reports out of the country. Aziz is CEO of Red Granite Pictures and stepson of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Both Red Granite and Razak have…

Red Granite Pictures, the Hollywood financier and producer of Oscar-nominated The Wolf of Wall Street and other movies, has reached a settlement with the U.S. government for a portion of a wide-ranging federal investigation involving a fund known as 1 Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB. Deadline was the first to…

If Red Granite Pictures and the federal government thought they'd get a rubber stamp from a federal judge in their mutual desire to bring a third party to help run the company during the ongoing investigation, District Judge Dale Fisher took the celebratory fireworks out of their Fourth of July. "The United States and…

UPDATED with statements from Red Granite and DiCaprio reps: The U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section has outlined the tangled web of money laundering and the ill-gotten finances that were funneled into Red Granite and used to fund Hollywood films. In a government filing today, the DOJ…

Authorities in Singapore and Switzerland have seized assets connected to Malaysian businessman Jho Low. He is at the center of yesterday’s Department of Justice filing that also alleges Red Granite, a company that Low helped to finance through his alleged friendship with Riza Aziz, was used to launder funds illegally…