“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Oliver Stone’s sequel to his somewhat iconic eighties portrait of unbridled ambition, gained some buzz late last week when the teaser trailer and a one-sheet landed online. Response has been mixed, but we didn’t think much of it. Anyway, another one-sheet has arrived and the only difference is that the impeccably tailored Shia LaBeouf is now standing beside Michael Douglas instead of sitting. Meh. “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” will try to line Stone’s pockets on April 23rd.
Hey, remember Joel Schumacher? His last film was the ill-advised Jim Carrey thriller “The Number 23.” Well, audiences better steel themselves as the director struck a deal at Sundance worth a cool $2 million with new distributor Hannover House (a book publisher striking out into films…good luck with that) for his latest creation, “Twelve.” The film is about “drug-dealing among privileged Manhattan teens” and stars Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford, Ellen Barkin, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Zoe Kravitz and thespian 50 Cent. Schumacher and 50? Boy, we can hardly wait.
Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” is just a couple of weeks away from unveiling at the Berlin Film Festival. A new trailer hit the web a couple of weeks ago, and now a couple of new stills have made their way online. Nothing earth shattering to be sure but we’ll take what we can get until the film opens stateside sometime in the spring via Summit.