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How do you make the prospect of an Oliver Stone movie even more anticipated than just having the director on board? Give it an incredible cast. That’s exactly what’s happened with Stone’s upcoming film, Savages, which is due to be released in the autumn this year. Co-written by acclaimed best-selling crime novelist Don Winslow and [...]
When Billy Hayes is caught by Turkish customs officers trying to smuggle hash out of the country he suddenly finds himself caught up in a draconian, harsh judicial and prison system. Initially hopeful of a more lenient sentence, he is eventually convicted of drug trafficking rather than possession and in the face of several decades [...]
Blake Lively, best known for her role as Serena van der Woodsen in The CW’s hit TV show Gossip Girl, has taken the lead female role of Ophelia in the upcoming Oliver Stone crime thriller, Savages, Variety reports. The ever impressive John Travolta has also signed on for the film, taking the role of a [...]
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) has been added to the cast of Savages, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Don Winslow. Oliver Stone will direct from a script by Winslow and Shane Salerno. In addition to Lawrence’s casting, Stone is also meeting with several top actors, including Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island), Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass), Tom [...]
The old adage “what goes up, must come down” is particularly relevant for the life of a Hollywood megastar in the fickle land of show business. One day you’re king of the world, the next you’ve found yourself down the entertainment foodchain, struggling to find that audience you once relied on to bring in the [...]
Ellen Mirojnick worked as costume designer on 80s classic Wall Street, as well as last year’s sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Her work on the film was so successful that she has been nominated in the ‘Excellence In Contemporary Film’ category in this year’s Costume Designers Guild awards. We were recently given the opportunity [...]
This is an tasty piece of pre-production news which could be a potential game-changer for the world of 3D. During an electronics convention in Las Vegas (on a panel with fellow filmmakers Michael Mann and Oliver Stone) Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann revealed that he has workshopped his upcoming project The Great Gatsby in 3D. The [...]
This is a bit of news we missed in the relative festive downtime, but it’s an intriguing prospect for both Oliver Stone and Shia LaBeouf. Following their turn together in last year’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Stone revealed in the WS: MNS Blu-ray commentary track that during the making of the film Stone and [...]
Shia LaBeouf (currently rouge trading at the box office in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), appears to be interested in taking on a smaller film project next time around, having recently finished tussling with those Transformers again (part 3 is out next summer). Slash Film are reporting that he may take the role of a [...]
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the follow up to Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street and he is back in the directing chair here. The film surrounds the recent economic meltdown that hit America and the rest of the world. The film has an impressive cast including Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, [...]
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps arrives in UK cinemas on 6th October. To celebrate 20th Century Fox has given us three goodie bags to give away. In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Michael Douglas returns in his Oscar winning role as Gordon Gekko, disgraced former titan of the financial world. Emerging from a lengthy stint [...]
Oliver Stone’s belated sequel to 1987’s Wall Street has gone straight to the top of the US box office this weekend. Michael Douglas (reprising his role as deviant, underhanded broker Gordon Gekko) is joined by Shia LaBeouf and it-girl of the moment Carey Mulligan (playing Gekko’s estranged daughter) in this follow-up (entitled Money Never Sleeps), [...]
One of the most anticipated sequels to come our way this year is Oliver Stone’s walk down memory lane – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. A revisiting rather than a reboot or a remake, Stone’s film has garnered positive reviews when it played the festival circuit. We saw the film at Cannes and you can [...]
The 2010 movie award for ‘The One We’ve All Been Waiting Far too Long to See’ has to go to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps! It was originally due for release in April this year and then got shifted back 5 months and is coming to UK cinemas 6th October which really isn’t that far [...]
It’s not too long now until we can accompany Oliver Stone on his return to his old haunt with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and tonight there’s a new clip showing three of the film’s main stars locking horns. Josh Brolin and Michael Douglas face off while Wall St newboy Shia LeBeouf looks on like [...]
Zac Efron and Justin Timberlake are seemingly vying for the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the Broadway musical, Memphis. While there has not yet been an official announcement about a film version, Oliver Stone sparked buzz about the project when he attended the musical earlier this year. A rep for Stone has reportedly [...]
We’re still annoyed that Oliver Stone’s return to Wall Street was delayed from its original May release date, but October 8th isn’t too far away and we’ve now got a new poster to make those summer months fly by. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the latest in a long line of franchise revisitings, and [...]
Although I still can’t get past that awful title and the casting of one of my least favourite actors, Shia Lebouf, the trailers released so far for Oliver Stone’s follow up to his 1987 film Wall Street have looked promising. Hopefully Gordon Gekko’s return to the big screen will be a great one as he has [...]
Now that the film schedule has been announced, and Ive discovered that my day-early departure means I will only miss ‘Burnt By The Sun 2: Exodus’ of the films I was definitely keen to see, I have a better idea of the films showing, and have come up with the ten most important films showing [...]
