 Red Riding Hood , directed by Catherine Hardwicke , was Appian Way 's first release in 2011 . In the film , which is set in a village haunted by werewolves , a young girl falls in love with an orphan woodcutter , much to her family 's displeasure . Earlier in production , the film was titled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood . Although it was poorly received by critics — Mary Pols of Time named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011 — it performed modestly at the box @-@ office . The company 's final release in 2011 was Detachment , a Tony Kaye @-@ directed drama on high school education system . Three films were produced by the company in 2013 ; the first was Runner Runner , an ensemble crime thriller , which The Guardian 's Xan Brooks described as " a lazy , trashy film that barely goes through the motions " . The thriller Out of the Furnace , the company 's second release , was also negatively received by critics and was a box office bomb . Scorsese directed the company 's final film in 2013 — The Wolf of Wall Street , a biopic on the life of Jordan Belfort ( DiCaprio ) , a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that engages in securities fraud and money laundering on Wall Street in the 1990s . The screenplay was adapted by Terence Winter from Belfort 's memoir of the same name . The film was banned in Kenya , Malaysia and Nepal for its controversial depiction of events , explicit sexual content , profanity , and hard drug use . Nonetheless , it was a major commercial success and it went on to be the 17th @-@ highest @-@ grossing film of 2013 . According to copyright infringement tracking site Excipio , the film was the most widely infringed of 2014 , as it was downloaded illegally over 30 million times via torrent sites . The film was nominated for several Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Actor , although it failed to win in any category . 
