• Oliver Stone Drops MLK Biopic; Darren Aronofsky Won't Direct 'Red Sparrow'

    We talk all the time here about new projects for our favorite directors, but today we're going to talk about two films that have just been dropped by their respective helmers. According to new reports, Darren Aronofsky has walked away from the thriller Red Sparrow, after circling the picture for months. Meanwhile, Oliver Stone is kicking…

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  • Oliver Stone Wanted For Martin Luther King Biopic, Jamie Foxx May Star [Updated]

    Oliver Stone is going back to his favorite subject matter: influential American personalities, particularly those of the past middle century. He's already chronicled JFK and Nixon (and George W. Bush) and now Stone is in early talks to make a film about Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of a few different MLK films…

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  • Exclusive 'Savages' Featurette: "On The Set: Cartel Take-Down"

    In July, Oliver Stone is going back to his lurid daylight noir style (think U-Turn) with his adaptation of Don Winslow's novel Savages. The film features Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson as a couple of pot growers whose business ends up in the crosshairs of a more powerful Mexican drug lord (Salma Hayek). Her henchman…

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  • CinemaCon Reactions: 'Savages', 'TED', 'Bourne Legacy', 'Les Miserables', Judd Apatow's 'This Is 40', ' 47 Ronin', 'Oblivion', 'R.I.P.D.'

    Thursday afternoon at CinemaCon, Universal Pictures presented footage, clips and trailers from their upcoming 2012 line-up and beyond. Included in the presentation were clips from Snow White and the Huntsman, Oliver Stone's Savages, Seth MacFarlane's TED, The Bourne Legacy, Les Miserables, Judd Apatow's This Is 40, Carl Erik Rinsch's 47 Ronin, Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, and…

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  • 'Savages' Trailer: Oliver Stone's Colorful Drug War

    Yesterday we saw the first bit of footage from Oliver Stone's new film Savages, in which the girlfriend (Blake Lively)of two pot growers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, the better to get said growers to work for the bigger outfit. The film features the sort of cast you'd…

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  • First Footage From Oliver Stone's 'Savages' Has A Colorful '90s Glow

    Think back to the Oliver Stone films of the 1990s. Not so much JFK and Nixon; more like U-Turn, Natural Born Killers and Any Given Sunday. Those films had a stylized, hyper-saturated color palette that clearly gave Tony Scott some ideas. For instance, on U-Turn, Stone's cinematographer Robert Richardson shot on reversal film stock --…

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