The estimates are in and it looks like, for once, the financial analysts got it right… I mean the box office analysts. Oh, what’s the difference anyway? There was indeed enough equity left in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street premise after 23 years to put the sequel – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – in the top spot for the weekend with an estimated $19 million.

The sequel to Wall Street – director Oliver Stone’s iconic commentary on 1980s greed – has arrived in theatres in time to comment on the greed of recent years… and to make a bunch of money. Ain’t capitalism grand?  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps topped the box office on Friday; earning an estimated $8 million from its 3,565 locations. When adjusted for inflation, that is just a few thousand over what the original made in its debut back in 1987. It is also more than double what Stone’s last major feature, W., made just under two years ago. Last weekend’s number one movie, The Town, pulled off another surprise heist – snatching Friday’s number two spot over two newcomers: Disney’s You Again and director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. It’s been months since a strictly family film dominated, and with Wall Street 2 now projected to make over $20 million by Monday, it doesn’t look like that streak will be ending anytime soon. Full details on Wall Street weekend when you check back tomorrow.

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.

In 2033, when you feel like taking the robot wife out to dinner and a 4D movie on your tandem jet pack, an Oliver Stone-directed Wall Street 3 may be among your options.  The first sequel–titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps–hits theaters this September, nearly 23 years after the 1987 original.  In an interview with Reuters*, the inquisitor jokingly asked whether a similar time frame would yield a third movie in the franchise.  Stone responded, “Why not? We left it open at the end in a way on which we can hang a Wall Street 3. We’ll have Gekko back and maybe Josh Brolin, too.”  More after the jump:

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.