The Wolf of Wall Street

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Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Produced by	Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Riza Aziz Joey McFarland Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Screenplay by	Terence Winter
Based on	The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio
Cinematography	Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by	Thelma Schoonmaker
Studio	Red Granite Pictures Appian Way Productions Sikelia Productions Emjag Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (United States) Universal Pictures (Europe)
Release dates	December 17, 2013 (New York City premiere) December 25, 2013 (United States)
Running time	179 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100 million
Box office	$129,177,000

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The Real 'Wolf' of Wall Street

1. Real life 'Wolf' Jordan Belfort has a cameo at the end of the film. The former banker, who is now a motivational speaker, introduces Leonardo DiCaprio (aka himself).

2. The actors snorted vitamin B tablets in the scenes that show the bankers doing cocaine. PJ Byrne told American OK! Magazine: "I was scared as hell, but it’s oddly very easy."

3. Margot Robbie has said she accidentally slapped DiCaprio harder than she was supposed to in one scene. She told GQ: "I got a little lost in the moment. I slapped his face and said, ‘F**k you!’ There was a stunned silence then they all burst out laughing."

4. DiCaprio has said to Ellen DeGenres that he didn't have to learn dance moves for the film because "I used to be a pop-locker". One scene shows him pulling out these impressive moves:

5. Jonah Hill has revealed he used a prosthetic penis for the scene that sees him masturbating. He told the Daily Beast: "I had to tell everyone that while their first instinct was to laugh, I had to take it very seriously so that we got the appropriate response.”

6. Leonardo DiCaprio revealed in an interview with Page Six that Jordan Belfort coached him on his character, advising him on his reaction to the scenes where he is taking drugs. “I didn’t know anything about Quaaludes, and he had taken a tremendous amount of them, [so] I videotaped him on the floor, rolling around."

7. Belfort claims half of his cut from the film will go to his victims. He disputes recent court papers that claim he has repaid only $11.6million of the $110million compensation it was ruled he owes to those he cheated.

8. Jonah Hill did put a real goldfish in his mouth for one scene, but tells Grantland.com: "I want everything that could be real to be real [but] PETA wouldn’t let me eat a real goldfish."

9. DiCaprio has said the scene where Jonah Hill sticks ham to his face took 70 takes. He said on the Ellen Show: "They couldn't get this ham to stick on my face [so] they had to put K-Y Jelly, and there's literally a guy there behind this giant window with a plastic spoon just flicking ham on my face."

10. Some of the film's most impressive scenes are created using special effects. Take a look at the video below to see how the office-prowling lion was super-imposed and how the beach party setting was built up.

Use of animals

The Wolf of Wall Street uses animals including a chimpanzee, a lion, a fish, and dogs. The chimpanzee and the lion were provided by the Big Cat Habitat wildlife sanctuary in Sarasota County, Florida. The four-year-old chimpanzee, Chance, spent time with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and learned to roller skate over the course of three weeks. The sanctuary also provided a lion named Handsome because the film's trading company used a lion for its symbol. Danny Porush, who was Jordan Belfort's partner, denied there being any animals in the office.

In December 2013, prior to the film's premiere, the organization Friends of Animals criticized the use of the chimpanzee and organized a boycott of the film. Variety reported, "Friends of Animals thinks the chimp... suffered irreversible psychological damage after being forced to act."The Guardian said, "Criticism of The Wolf of Wall Street's use of a chimpanzee arrives as Hollywood comes under ever-increasing scrutiny for its employment of animals on screen," referring to a November 2013 report in The Hollywood Reporter that was critical of the American Humane Association's treatment of animals in films. PETA also launched a campaign to highlight mistreatment of ape actors and to petition for DiCaprio not to work with great apes.