'Basketball Diaries' Director Scott Kalvert Dead at 49, Suicide Suspected

Basketball Diaries director Scott Kalvert is dead of an apparent suicide.

Kalvert, who directed the 1995 drama in which Leonardo DiCaprio starred, was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday, March 5.

The death is suspected to have been a suicide.

"[Kalvert] was found in his home in Woodland Hills on Wednesday and pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m.," The Hollywood Reporter revealed on March 7. "The L.A. Coroner's Office is investigating the death as a possible suicide."

On Dec. 12, 2013, Basketball Diaries was involved in some drama when Mark Wahlberg told The Hollywood Reporter that DiCaprio had demanded Walberg not be cast alongside him in the film (which he eventually was).

"Leonardo was like, 'Over my dead f---ing body. Marky Mark's not going to be in this f---ing movie,' " Wahlberg recalled. "Because we'd had a thing -- I didn't even realize it, [but] I was a bit of a dick to him at a charity basketball game. So he was like, 'This f---ing asshole is not going to be in this movie.'"

Following the news of Kalvert's passing, Donnie Wahlberg shared a photo of him on Twitter along with the hash tag, "R.I.P. Scott Kalvert."