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Oliver Stone to Direct Robert Moses Biopic for HBO

Three time Academy Award-winning director Oliver stone will direct an adaptation of Robert Caro's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Power Broker, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Caro's text is a biography of the controversial Robert Moses, an urban planner largely responsible for the modernization of New York City following the Great Depression, often referred to as "New York City's Master Builder".  read more

John Travolta and Uma Thurman May Reunite for Oliver Stone's Savages

According to Deadline, Pulp Fiction co-stars John Travolta and Uma Thurman are in talks to join the large cast for Oliver Stone’s upcoming film, Savages....  read more

Oliver Stone Develops TV Series for Epix

Oliver Stone news lately has revolved around the director’s films, like his latest Wall Street flick and his Hugo Chavez documentary coming stateside. But now he’s focusing his efforts on the small screen, developing a TV series for the premium TV channel Epix....  read more

Oliver Stone's Hugo Chávez Documentary is Coming to American Theaters

Filmmaker Oliver Stone’s controversial documentary of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez premiered at last September’s Venice Film Festival amidst much attention and gossip. Had Chávez been required to pay his own way to Italy, while Stone’s travel expenses were comped? Why was the South American leader not officially announced to the audience (ultimately Stone took the liberty of raising the president’s hand to present him to the crowd)? Time magazine deemed that early autumn evening as “amateur night,” saying South of the Border was “lopsided and cheerleadery.”...  read more

Release Date for Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gets Pushed

Back in January, we showed you the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps trailer, director Oliver Stone’s sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street (both versions star Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko). Everything’s still a go with the flick, which was previously set to hit theaters in April, but Fox has announced they’re pushing the release date back to September....  read more

Watch the Trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

In 1987, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his turn as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, and in 2010, Douglas will reprise the role on the silver screen. The sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, picks up where its ‘87 predecessor left off. Gekko gets out of jail, meets his estranged daughter’s fiancé, a young trader named Jacob (played by Shia LaBeouf), and tries to help the latter amidst the current economic crisis....  read more

Wall Street 2 Details Leak

Details have emerged about Oliver Stone’s fast-tracked sequel to Wall Street, and they sound like they could go either way. ...  read more

Oliver Stone Set to Direct Wall Street Sequel

"If you need a friend, get a dog." The wise words of I'll-do-anything-to-get-to-the-top Gordon Gekko are set to come once again to a theater near you in the sequel to 1987's Wall Street. Oliver Stone is set to direct the sequel, according to MTV Movies Blog, despite the fact that he said over a month ago that he would not revisit the project. ...  read more

Oliver Stone preps Hugo Chavez documentary

Oliver Stone will continue his infamous tradition of films about real-world political figures with a new documentary about Hugo Chavez, the flashpoint Venezuela president whose influence the United States has publicly tried to subdue in recent years. ...  read more

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One of the unwritten rules for a biopic is that...  read more