Fox have decided to hold back release on Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel, subtitled Money Never Sleeps, until September 24th. This will put it up against Kevin McDonald’s Eagle of the Ninth, Zack Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians and Andy Fickman’s You Again with Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver.
Posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Deadline is reporting that Oliver Stone has signed a deal to direct a big screen adaptation of Don Winslow’s drug cartel thriller Savages, which the director hopes to helm after Wall Street 2.
Posted on Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Apparently there was a secret Los Angeles screening last night for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It must have been pretty exclusive, because I can’t seem to find any details in all the usual places. A friend of Jeffrey Wells’ friend attended, and wrote up a short review for Hollywood Elsewhere. Here is a short excerpt:
“…it’s a strong return to form for both Stone and Douglas. It also proves Shia can play with the big boys. A surprisingly satirical movie. It’s the first time I’ve heard a Stone movie described as ‘fun.’”… “It’s an entertaining movie with Shia a better match for Douglas than Sheen, who was a stiff. It’s a sardonic, slightly satirical film with Josh Brolin and particularly Frank Langella scoring well.” … “Stone handles the show without either his heavy left hand or his neutered right one that made W not what we’d hoped it. Douglas is the big-ticket item, of course, and revisiting this character is clearly a joy for him…”
Posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
A full length international movie trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has been released in The Sun. The trailer shows a lot more than the domestic teaser trailer (probably giving away too much of the plot this early on), and sports a much better soundtrack: the Rolling Stone’s song Sympathy For The Devil. Watch the trailer after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
What a weird teaser this is. Pushed along by an unlikely chugging rock score, bookended by the Fox logo and movie title card (above) that are nearly identical, this is Oliver Stone’s return to the world of Gordon Gekko? I wasn’t sure what to expect when Stone moved forward with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the long-dormant sequel to his landmark 1987 film Wall Street. But I didn’t quite expect this. Read More »
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Hunter Stephenson
With the release of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps set for April, its publicity game is just starting to ramp up. Fitting then that Vanity Fair, former mag-home of the late Dominick Dunne, has a new photo shoot for this sequel of modern greed and murder courtesy of flashy, money-strapped photog Annie Leibovitz. After the jump is a new image of Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko, a vacant behind-the-scenes vid of the shoot, and thoughts on Gekko’s lease on life post-prison.
Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Brendon Connelly
Sean Stone’s first IMDB credits as director are video featurettes documenting the making of his father’s ill-fated epic Alexander. Subsequently, he directed the science fiction short Singularity, again collaborating with the old man- at least in the sense that it’s a loose remake of a film Stone Sr. had made in his youth. The film won an emerging cinematographer award for DP Eduardo Mayen and you can see Mayen’s reel of his favourite shots from the film after the break.
Sean is about to embark on his first feature directing gig… and dad’s coming along again, as an actor in the cast. The film is Shadowland, already compared to The Blair Witch Project, which I assume means it will be a fake documentary, and set around the mental asylum where Rosemary Kennedy was lobotomized back in the 40s. Yes, Rosemary Kennedy. The apple doesn’t fall far.
In the history of misunderstood movies, one that stands tall is Oliver Stone’s original Wall Street. The 1987 film was not even thinly veiled in its contempt of money players like Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Yet to this day Stone still meets people on the street who quote Gekko’s lines (”Greed…is good”) and claim that the movie, and Gekko’s character in particular, pushed them into a career on the real Wall Street. “There’s an absurdity to it,” Douglas told the New York Times, which also spoke with Stone about the reasons for finally making a sequel on the eve of the shoot for Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, which will reunite Stone and Douglas after 23 years. Read More »
Blowing in the trades’ ear late this evening is news that Susan Surandon has joined the cast of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps for director Oliver Stone. Cue the loud sax and cat calls. Surandon will play the mom to Shia LaBeouf’s ambitious, young day trader.
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
In addition to working on the sequel to Wall Street, Oliver Stone is creating a ten-part documentary series for Showtime called The Secret History of America. The series purports to uncover the true stories that “at the time went under-reported, but crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history of the last 60 years.” Stone will narrate. Read More »
