Important calendar update for Leo Lovers!
Just got an email from the crack PR team at Warner Brothers informing that me that Oprah has moved the date of the show featuring "Blood Diamond" stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and director Ed Zwick from Dec 6 to Dec 4th.
Who knows why. I have no clue. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Photo Credits: Get a dose of "Blood Diamond" earlier than expected. Tune into Leo Decr 4.
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The Publicity Pot is on a full rolling boil as the Dec 8 release of “Blood Diamond” draws near.
The latest developments:
“Blood” stars Leonardo Di Caprio, Djimon Hounsou and director Ed Zwick were in Chicago yesterday taping an episode of “Oprah” that will air either Friday or next Monday.
A rubber Blood Diamond bracelet was handed out last night to guests at Amnesty International’s salon on issues raised by the film, and attended by “Blood” filmmakers Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Paula Weinstein.
The red bracelet - sure to be a must-wear at the December 6 Los Angeles premiere - goes on sale tonight ($2) on the NGO’s joint Blood Diamond Action website launched yesterday.
There’s a two-hour “Blood Diamond” documentary on the illicit diamond trade and the civil war in Sierre Leone set to air on Dec. 23 on The History Channel.
Russell Simmons – who has a line of diamond jewelry - has agreed to meet with Amnesty International (and possibly Roy Sesana of the Botswana Bushmen tribe) before he embarks on his fact-finding tour of Africa, funded by the diamond industry.
Hot rapper Nas has recorded music for “Blood Diamond," included on his new album. The song may be on the AI/GW Blood Diamond Action site next week.
“Blood” stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly will tape PSAs tomorrow which will go up on the site next week.
At last night's educational salon held at the CAA offices in Beverly Hills, AIUSA’s Artists for Amnesty director Bonnie Abaunza spoke about the film's importance to the conflict stone and child soldier issues. “The movie represents Sierra Leone's recent history,” says Abaunza. “But the devastating and very real issues it raises still exist in other African countries and beyond.”
Zwick, who had rushed back from the "Oprah" taping, sat in the audience with producers Herskovitz and Paula Weinstein. Usually the one under fire with blood diamond questions, Zwick said afterwards that he relished being able to just listen to the panel of experts: Jimmie Briggs, author of "Innocents Lost- When Child Soldiers Go to War,” Charmain Gooch, executive director of Global Witness, Bill Brummel, producer of the History Channel documentary on the civil war in Sierre Leone and Professor Alyson Warhurst, Chair of Strategy and International Development, Warwick Business School, who has worked with companies- including De Beers - on creating and sustaining social development around the world.
The big question: can "Blood Diamond" really make a difference?
