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To celebrate the release of the Natural Born Killers 15th Anniversary Director’s Cut, available on Blu-ray/DVD on October 13, 2009. Warner Bros. has created a really cool online trivia game.
How well do you know your Natural Born Killers movie?
Yes, that is Robert Downey, Jr. with Woody Harrelson in the picture.
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Oliver Stone is a pretty big name as far as filmmaking goes. He’s done some really impressive titles over the years, and I won’t waste your time and mine rattling them off. But even he had to be a little taken aback when he discovered who actually accepted his invitation to see the Venice Film Festival premiere of his movie South of the Border.
Love him or hate him or just plain think he’s a spittle-emitting lunatic dictator who’d probably be better served by just putting on his tinfoil hat and hiding out on some island in the back end of nowhere, the guy is a major name. The current president of Venezuela managed to get out and see a movie in Venice, and that movie is Oliver Stone’s.
South of the Border, in case you haven’t heard of it already, is a look at South America during Chavez’s term in office, and the changes that have taken place down there since the beginning of his time in.
No word yet on what Chavez thought of the film, but chances are he liked it–Chavez is already reportedly a Stone fan, and Stone certainly sounded enamored with Chavez when discussing him.
I am surprised to hear that Susan Sarandon is in negotiations to join the cast of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps directed by Oliver Stone. Don’t get me wrong. She is perfect for the role. I just never thought of her in an Oliver Stone film.
Sarandon will play the mother of Shia LaBeouf , who plays a young Wall Street trader. She falls under the irresistible power of Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas. Frank Langella also stars as LaBeouf’s mentor. Filming is set to start next month in New York.
Bill Maher’s Friday night show with Oliver Stone, as one of three guests, talks about many things; but most important for us Screenheaders the forthcoming sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street. Stone says he plans to start filming in August for an early 2010 release. The Wall Street sequel talk begins around the seven minute mark.
Oliver Stone is taking on a documentary about contentious President Hugo Chavez.
According to Variety, Stone has been working on the untitled doc for six months and is hoping to have it ready for next year. He told Variety that “It’s about Chavez and the South American revolution.”
Chavez helped broker the release of hostages held by the militant FARC group in neighboring Colombia, Stone was with Chavez at the time. Yet, the documentary will not focus on the hostage situation. It will focus on the opposition Chavez faced at home and abroad, particularly with the Bush administration.
Fox is set to revisit if greed is indeed good by setting in motion Wall Street sequel, titled Money Never Sleeps.
Allan Loeb has been set to write the script in what is being expressed as a page one rewrite according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story line is a secret, right now. One thing we do know the character of Gordon Gekko, the corporate raider immortalized by Michael Douglas in the 1987 Oliver Stone film, will be in the story.
Douglas, who won an Oscar for the role, is attracted to the idea of reprising the character. He will make his decision of whether to return based on the script.
Take a look at who is showing up for the New Yorker Festival that runs October 3 through 5. Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and Stephen Colbert are some to name.
Event hosted in various venues by the venerable magazine is a mix of 50 events, most of them panels and interviews venues.
New Yorker film critic David Denby will interview Stone about his work as a director and will host clips from the upcoming George Bush biopic W.
Oliver Stone did it again. James Brolin looks like Bush and sounds like Bush.
It seems that hit HBO show Entourage is rather prophetic in its satire. Just like Vince Chase’s Medellin project, it seems that reality’s attempts to make a film about the insane exploits of Columbian drug baron/philanthropoligist Pablo Escobar is fraught with difficulties also. Javier Bardem, who would have been perfect for the role, has dropped out of the adaptation of Killing Pablo. Bardem would have starred alongside Christian Bale as Major Steve Jacoby.
Director Joe Carnahan has, however, found a replacement in actor Edgar Ramirez, best known for his role in The Bourne Ultimatum, as the assassin Paz, and also for Vantage Point. But here’s where is gets confusing. It’s well know that two Escobar films are in production at the moment, the other being Escobar, produced by Oliver Stone and directed by Antoine Fuqua. But IMDB has Ramirez playing Escobar in the latter, and not Killing Pablo. This has been known foe sometime. Is it a case of wrong information, or has Ramirez been whisked away to the bigger film?
Escobar and Killing Pablo both aim to see a 2009 release.
Turn on your plasma screen this weekend and watch Oliver Stone’s “Alexander the Great” on American Movie Classics, June 21 8PM/7C and June 22 8PM/7C. As Alexander the Great, Colin Farrell pouts and contemplates as he conquers the known world by the time he is twenty-five. Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer also star.
I think telling any story about a great man from ancient history is not easy. Oliver Stone did a grand job. The above trailer shows it all.