James Packer is pulling out the stops on promoting the opening next year of Melco Crown’s Studio City on Cotai and is producing a short film bringing together the star power of
Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will star in a short film directed by Martin Scorsese to promote Melco Crown Entertainment’s new Studio City resort casino.
The first occasion that De Niro, Pitt and DiCaprio have worked with Scorsese together on the same film, the short will premiere next year at the opening of the US$2.4 billion Studio City in the territory’s booming Cotai resort district.
The film also will be used to promote Melco Crown’s expansion in Asia and globally and co-Chairman James Packer, the Australian casino mogul whose Crown Resorts owns 34 percent of the company, is producing the big-budget short through his independent film company, RatPac Entertainment, which has partnered with Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
It’s reported that Pitt broke off his working honeymoon with new wife, Angelina Jolie, to film scenes in New York alongside De Niro.
The film has been scripted by Terrence Winter, who wrote Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, which starred DiCaprio, and created the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire.
Packer, who counts De Niro and Tom Cruise among his friends—DeNiro’s Nobu hospitality venture will run one of the branded hotels at Melco Crown’s City of Dreams Manila opening in the Philippine capital later this year—says his aim is “to bring together Western and Eastern culture” through the creation of a global entertainment brand.
