Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps had a screening in France a couple days ago, and the primary Out of Competition screening was this morning. Reception to the film seems to be generally positive, with a few mixed notes. But what about a third movie? As director Oliver Stone has been doing the press rounds…
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In addition to the films playing each year at the Cannes Film Festival every year, Hollywood pays millions to install banners, billboards, and hotel front skins on the Croisette to promote upcoming releases. Most of the advertising has never been seen before anywhere. This year's marketing offerings include Kane & Lynch, the Jack Black 3D…
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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…
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Quick, who's the most obvious cameo to have in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps? I guess I've already given it away right there in the headline, but you should have had the answer anyway: Donald Trump. The cameo is so on the nose that I would have disbelieved it if I only read the…
Read More[No photo] Some new photos from rhe set of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps have shown up online, including a first look at Michael Douglas reprising his role as Gordon Gecko, a part which earned him an Academy Award. See the photo of Douglas as Gecko after the jump. [No photo] The…
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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…
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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. In past /Film entries, several of us, myself…
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Frank Langella is in talks to join the cast of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Langella would play Lewis Zabel, an old-time broker who mentors Shia LaBeouf's character, a young Wall Street broker named Jacob. It is not clear if this is the same role that Javier Bardem , and later, Bardem's No…
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