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The 15-minute film, a multimillion-dollar short movie
promoting the opening of Melco Crown Entertainment's new casino
in Macau, sees Scorsese, De Niro and DiCaprio playing
themselves, and even Brad Pitt makes an appearance.
Originally slated to screen at the Venice Film Festival in
September, "The Audition" premiered on Tuesday as the
Hollywood-themed Studio City resort opened its doors.
"The premise of this competition was very humorous for both of
us because we've both done a lot of films with Mr Scorsese,"
DiCaprio told a news conference. "So what would it be like if we
both showed up at this casino; we're competing for the same role
but we didn't know it yet."
Scorsese, known for films such as "Goodfellas" and "Gangs of New
York", said he wrote the script with his "Wolf of Wall Street"
collaborator Terence Winter.
"A short film is even tougher in a way because it has to be a
film. It has to be not something that is a prologue to a bigger
work, it has to be contained in of itself," he said.
"We all pulled together and we came up with these ideas ... and
we shot five days straight. We also tried to make it a
heightened ..., not biographical but reality-based with humor
about ourselves."
Melco Crown's $3.2 billion Studio City is its third casino in
the southern Chinese territory of Macau.
(Reporting by Reuters Television in Macau; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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