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…
Read MoreThursday 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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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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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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Good news for those eager to find out exactly why Benicio del Toro is picking on Blake Lively in that first image from Savages: Universal has just shifted the opening date for Oliver Stone's latest from September 28 to July 6. Savages is the only film currently scheduled to go up against Marc Webb's The…
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Briefly: Oliver Stone's new film is Savages, based on Don Winslow's novel of the same name, about two small-time pot growers (Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson) and their shared girlfriend O (Blake Lively). Their little world gets messed up when O is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel as a means of strong-arming the two…
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Scarlett Johansson may seem like an unlikely lead for a Judd Apatow film, but in this context her casting actually makes a lot of sense. Johansson has signed on to star in Can a Song Save Your Life?, which will be written and directed by John Carney (Once) and produced by Apatow. The film follows “a…
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Universal just added one entry to the 2012 Oscar race and two to the 2013 Summer box office bonanza. They just announced that Oliver Stone's adaptation of the Don Winslow novel Savages, starring Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Emile Hirsch, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Uma Thurman and John Travolta (wow), will bow on…
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From Weeds to weed -- Demian Bichir is making the move into Oliver Stone's world. The director is making Savages, based on the book by Don Winslow. He already has quite the cast lined up: Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play up and coming pot dealers coerced into working for a drug cartel when their…
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Oliver Stone is quickly locking down the cast for Savages, the adaptation of Don Winslow's novel about two pot dealers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) whose mutual girlfriend (Blake Lively) is kidnapped by a drug cartel (Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro) in an effort to coerce the guys into bowing to the cartel's will.…
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Jennifer Lawrence was closing in on a starring role in Oliver Stone's Savages -- an adaptation of Don Winslow's novel of the same name, in which the polyamorous gal playmate of two pot-dealing buddies is kidnapped and held ransom by a drug cartel -- but that fell apart when she got swept off to compete…
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The last couple of times we reported on American Reunion, the newest installment in the American Pie franchise, we couldn't help noticing that Alyson Hannigan's name was oddly absent from reports of casting negotiations. Well, fret no more: Deadline reports that Hannigan has officially signed on to reprise her role as Michelle for Reunion. As…
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Oliver Stone's adaptation of the novel Savages, in which two pot-dealing friends are roped into working for the drug cartel that kidnaps their young female companion, is becoming a hot property. The combination of a young cast, a long-established major director and lively material tends to do that. Multiple studios were in contention for distribution…
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Oliver Stone is assembling Savages, which adapts the book of the same name by Don Winslow and has Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch set to star as best friends and pot growers who get roped into working for a drug cartel when the bad guys kidnap their friend/girlfriend. Salma Hayek is a possible pick to…
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A year ago Oliver Stone signed up to direct an adaptation of the Don Winslow novel Savages, and a month ago Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games) was set for a key role. But some things have changed. While Oliver Stone is still making the movie, Jennifer Lawrence has dropped out…
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At this time last year, the name Jennifer Lawrence meant very little to casting directors in Hollywood. Now she has an Oscar-nomination under her belt, is about to be a super hero and is set to top line an Oliver Stone movie. Lawrence is in final talks to star in Savages, based on a critically-acclaimed…
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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. The 320-page novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in July (available for preorder on Amazon for $16.50). The book tells…
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