Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Friday Box Office – JACKASS 3D Has Giant $21.7 Million Debut; RED in Second with $7.1 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 16th, 2010 at 8:54 am

Who knew? Ten years after a group of bleary-eyed dreamers with nothing but a shopping cart, a staple gun and a complete lack of social boundaries found their way to MTV on the series Jackass, it looks like the market for watching men perform their own vasectomies has only grown. And I mean seriously grown. The third installment in the Jackass cinematic dynasty, Jackass 3D, has debuted with a staggering $21.7 million from 3,081 locations. Not only does that give Jackass 3D the biggest debut of the entire franchise it also makes it, by far, the biggest debut of the fall – outstripping the 3D Resident Evil: Afterlife by more than $10 million. In fact, you would have to look all the way back to Inception last July to find a film that matches Jackass 3D’s opening day. At this point it looks like Jackass 3D could realize as much as $40 million through Sunday. I repeat: who knew?  Summit’s DC comic adaptation Red came in second with $7.1 million from 3,255 locations. That is just over the debut of Wall Street 2 which means that, finally, fall 2010 may have a weekend that doesn’t fall short by 2009 standards.  We’ll update you tomorrow.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Jackass 3D	$21,700,000	$21.7
2	Red	$7,100,000	$7.1
3	The Social Network	$3,300,000	$55.4
4	Life as We Know It	$3,000,000	$22.6
5	Secretariat	$2,800,000	$20.8

Ten Clips from Oliver Stone’s WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 8th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

We have ten clips from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.  Michael Douglas returns as corporate criminal Gordon Gekko and is accompanied by Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, and Josh Brolin.  The sequel to his classic 1987 film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is Stone’s latest topical movie, the first two being World Trade Center and W. This time around, Stone seizes on the economic crisis of 2008, but are audiences really willing to shell out money for a reminder of how the big banks screwed them over?  We’ll find out when the film opens on September 24th.  Hit the jump to check out the clips.

Carey Mulligan Interview; Talks MY FAIR LADY, EFFIE, WALL STREET 2, NEVER LET ME GO, Working for Mark Romanek, and a Lot More

by Sara Wayland    Posted: March 25th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

Since her Oscar nominated performance in An Education, all eyes have been on British actress Carey Mulligan. With a role in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, recently pushed back to a September 24^th release date, and the intriguing dramatic thriller Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, everyone wants to know what she’ll be doing next.

According to the actress herself, she stated during the press day for her latest drama The Greatest (which we’ll have more on closer to the April 2^nd release date) that she has not signed on to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, nor has she received a call to do Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, at this point, but she is looking to play really interesting characters that challenge and terrify her.  She also talked about working for director Mark Romanek.  Check out what she had to say after the jump:

New Images from INCEPTION, KILLERS, WARRIOR, SEASON OF THE WITCH, EAT PRAY LOVE, WALL STREET 2 and More

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 18th, 2010 at 1:52 am

In their sneak preview of 2010 movies, the LA Times has new images from Christopher Nolan’s Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page, Season of the Witch starring Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Cage’s ridiculous hair extensions, male soul-destroyer Eat, Pray, Love starring Julia Roberts, Oliver Stone’s continued quest for relevance, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps starring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas; and plenty of other films including Killers, Warrior and a good helping of images we’ve already seen from other films.  We’ve included the new ones along with a brief synopsis for each after the jump.

Oliver Stone Interview; Talks WALL STREET 2, 3D, and His Documentary Series SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICA

by Sara Wayland    Posted: January 15th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

In the middle of editing his sequel to Wall Street, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, filmmaker Oliver Stone made an appearance at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour to talk about his 10-part documentary series Secret History of America for Showtime.

Airing in the Spring, the series focuses on human events that, at the time, went under-reported, but crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history over the last 60 years. A small group of historians and archivists have meticulously combed through the national archives of the U.S., Russia, South Africa, England, and Japan, in search of papers, letters, memoranda, film and photographs to assist in the documentation of unknown historical figures and events that have rarely, if ever, been revealed.

After the panel for this project, Oliver Stone also took some time to give some updates on Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, due out on April 23^rd. Check out what he had to say, after the jump:

Images and Behind the Scenes Footage from the Annie Leibovitz Vanity Fair Photo Shoot for WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 14th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

In this month’s Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz has taken some shots of the Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps cast.  Included are Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, and Carey Mulligan.  They’ve also released a behind the scenes video when they were setting up some of the shots in downtown New York.  Hit the jump to see the pictures and watch the video.  Wall Street 2 arrives April 23.

The 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2010

by John Rico    Posted: December 31st, 2009 at 9:38 am

For many people, a new year means a time for new habits, resolutions, and fresh starts.  For myself though, it’s always been about one thing and one thing only:  365 days of brand-new films!

And of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, there’s the usual litany of sequels, super-hero spectacle, remakes, and state-of-the-art Hollywood summer craziness filled with all manner of digital monsters and explosions.  But there’s also new films from Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and – most intriguing of all – a ballet thriller from Darren Aronofsky.  Come on, admit it – you know you got excited when you heard the words “ballet thriller!”  All that, and we also see the return of Michael Douglas in his seminal role as Gordon Gecko.

Read on after the jump for my list of the ten films that – for reasons both good and bad – I’m most looking forward to seeing in the new year.

First Set Photo of Michael Doulgas as Gordon Gecko in Oliver Stone’s WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 22nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm

The first photo of Michael Douglas picking up the part of Gordon Gecko from Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” has just popped up online and it ain’t doing much for me.  I’m left wondering if Gecko is trying to be slick 2000s guy or slick 80s guys stuck in the 2000s.  The plot of the film has a formerly-incarcerated Gecko teaming up with Shia LaBeouf’s character Jacob to find out who killed Jacob’s mentor (played by Frank Langella) and to warn the financial world of the impending credit crisis.  See, that right there–warning the financial world about the credit crisis–that’s idiotic.  That’s like warning a gambler that even though he keeps doubling-down, he will eventually lose it all.  The gambler knows this, but does it anyway.  If Oliver Stone can’t even do this tiny piece of borderline-common sense research on this, then I don’t really care what Gordon Gecko looks like after twenty years.  If you still do, hit the jump.

Shia LeBeouf, Oliver Stone and Frank Langella Take WALL STREET 2 To Central Park

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: September 11th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Filming got under way on “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” in New York City this week and already some photos have surfaced online of director Oliver Stone and stars Shia LeBeouf and Frank Langella doing their thing in Central Park.  Check them out after the jump.

WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Update – Josh Brolin Confirmed as Villain, Charlie Sheen To Cameo as Bud Fox

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: September 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am

At the end of July we told you that Oliver Stone was about to extend an offer to Josh Brolin to play the hedge fund-manipulating villain in “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps”.  And while we all took it as gospel that Brolin would want to reteam with his “W.” director for the sequel to Stone’s 1987 opus on greed, apparently it took a bit of time to actually cement the deal.  This weekend, however, Stone finally confirmed that Brolin would appear in “Wall Street 2″.  He also added another interesting angle to the film’s already well-appointed cast.  All will be revealed after the jump.

Susan Sarandon May Play Shia LaBeouf’s Mother in WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 25th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Susan Sarandon, has carved out a great niche as a supporting actress (although it certainly speaks to how Hollywood handles its actresses once they can no longer be one the cover of Maxim), and she’ll soon be seen in both “Solitary Man” (starring Mary-Louise Parker and Michael Douglas) and “Leaves of Grass” (starring Edward Norton) at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.  She also co-stars in Peter Jackson’s upcoming film, “The Lovely Bones”.  Now she’s got another supporting role in the works.  Hit the jump to wonder how Susan Sarandon and Shia LaBeouf could be from the same gene pool.

Frank Langella Joins WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 9th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

According to Variety, Oscar-nominated actor Frank Langella has come on board to Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps”, a film whose existence is justified because we’re currently in the midst of an economic crisis although it would seem like the original would just have a stronger resonance.

Shia LeBeouf and Michael Douglas are on board to star (with possibly Josh Brolin and Carey Mulligan in talks to join). Langella would play Lewis Zabel, an old broker and mentor of Shia LaBeouf’s character. Variety says, “The mentor’s fate plays a major part in the film’s plot.”  My translation: “He dies.”

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