Oliver Stone

FOX411: Oliver Stone Feels Sorry for Bush

Fox News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Oliver Stone's 'W' premiered last night in New York, and it's a surprisingly level headed conjuring of the life and times of George W. Bush.

Oliver Stone: Bush legacy 'a hard one to live down'

CNN (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

President Bush is "a disgrace, frankly," film director Oliver Stone said Wednesday, two days before the release of his biopic on the 43rd U.S. president.

What Do Batman And George W. Bush Have In Common? Oliver Stone Explains…

MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

This weekend, moviegoers will hope to escape the economy, the war, and other real-life problems brought about after 8 years of George W. Bush by going to see a movie about…George W. Bush? But before you head out to see Josh Brolin’s award-worthy transformation into our 43rd President, it’s intriguing to contemplate the notion that [...]

Wilshire & Washington: Declare Yourself’s Early Voting Campaign, the Final Debate and Oliver Stone’s “W”

TeresaCentric (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Join Ted, Maegan and I — along with special guest Erika Johansson of Declare Yourself for our discussion of early voting, the youth vote, the stakes in tonight’s debate, and Oliver Stone’s biopic of George W. Bush. And be sure to join us again tonight on Wilshire & Washington at 9:00 p.m. PST for our post-debate [...]

Jon Friedman's Media Web: How unpopular is Dubya? Oliver Stone's 'W' will tell us

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

Exactly how unpopular is George W. Bush right now?

Oliver Stone on George W. Bush: 'He Thinks Differently--He Doesn't Examine His Life'

The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

As the Daily Transom walked up 54th Street towards the Ziegfeld Theater Tuesday evening, we silently congratulated the PR firm handling the premiere of Oliver Stone 's W. on the little spectacle they'd created for our benefit--the rows of black SUVs lining the sidewalk, the suited "Secret Service" officers, the "snipers" installed on the roof of the neighboring building. Taking our place among the...

This Week's Voice: Best Of! Also Maxwell, Of Montreal, the Clash, Oliver Stone's W., Etc...

Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

In this week's Village Voice . . . Best Of ! Arts & Entertainment is here ; Rob Harvilla's essay on New York's music scene, "In Praise of the Hype Machine," is here ; People & Places, Shopping & Services, and more, here . There remains, however, a regular Music Section , in which Maxwell stops by to say: "There are not enough panties on my stage tonight." Kevin O'Donnell talks to Of Montreal's Kevin...

W. : Oliver Stone Presents Our Sad Recent National History

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush has all the queasy appeal of a strychnine-laced acid flashback. Hideous re-creations of...

Actor Josh Brolin Plugs Oliver Stone's W. on 'Today'

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday

The "Today" show has yet to promote the conservative satire An American Carol, that spoofs Michael Moore but they did find time to invite on Josh Brolin to plug Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush bio-pic W. on Tuesday's show. Co-anchor Matt Lauer interviewed Brolin, who plays the title character, and noted critics were expecting "a political hatchet job" of the President, to which Brolin, defended Stone...

CBS’s Smith Reviews Oliver Stone Movie: ‘Phenomenal, Phenomenal Stuff’

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday

As part of the promotion of his new Bush-bashing drama ‘W,’ director Oliver Stone appeared on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show and co-host Harry Smith gushed: "And there are so many interesting portrayals in this, we don't have time to go into them all...Stunning, stunning, stunning ...Phenomenal, phenomenal stuff." Smith even suggested that some people saw the movie as sympathetic to Bush, though not Smith...

Oliver Stone shows surprising restraint with Bush biopic ‘W’

TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

LOS ANGELES – Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush was unqualified to be president. However, the filmmaker found him an irresistible figure for drama. After months of speculation over whether Stone’s film biography would be a hatchet job on Bush, “W.” arrives as a surprisingly empathetic - though hardly sympathetic - portrait of the president. Stone, the [...]

• Stone shows surprising restraint with 'W.' - MSNBC.com
• Stone shows surprising restraint with Bush pic `W' - San Fransisco Chronicle
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Oliver Stone talks to Maddow about ‘W.’

McConfuse (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Oliver Stone talks to Maddow about 'W.' Author: Director4u2c Keywords: Obama Biden Wins Added: October 14, 2008

New Yorker Festival: Oliver Stone's Got Guts

Emdashes (Free subscription) | yesterday

"I'm a dramatist, not a journalist." This is currently Oliver Stone's favorite mantra, repeated at the Director's Guild Theater with David Denby and, for instance, on Bill Maher's HBO show last week. I take it as a sign that his aims have become more modest than in his _JFK_ days, if not an outright shield against the legions of fact-checking critics who, in _W.,_ will doubtless find much fault with...

Greed Might Be Good: Wall Street II Attracts Douglas

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Michael Douglas may be interested in a "Wall Street" sequel currently called "Money Never Sleeps" dealing with modern-day Wall Street, according to the trades . Douglas hasn't yet committed, but producer Ed Pressman attached himself and Oliver Stone may have some interest as well. Charlie Sheen , the original Bud Fox, will not be involved, Variety says. Allan Loeb is writing the screenplay in which...

• Fox To Make 'Wall Street' Sequel - KillerMovies
• Perfect Time For Wall Street Sequel! [The Panic Of '08] - Gawker
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Oliver Stone sees "W" Bush as UNFIT TO LEAD!! ;)) CHECKMATE BUSH + McANUS!!

Billion Dollar Baloney (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

CHECKMATE BUSH + McANUS!! Originally uploaded by BillyWarhol Oliver Stone sees "W" Bush as UNFIT TO LEAD!! Oh really'?? What was our First Fucking Clue!!!!! Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty!!!!! Wake the Fuck America U Stoopid Fucking Brainwashed Religious Taliban-like Zealot Idiots + Morons!!!!!!! LOS ANGELES — Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush was unqualified to be president. However, the filmmaker...

Hollywood churning out presidential contenders

2ess.com | 07/30/2008

Hollywood is getting presidential this election year, but will moviegoers say they approve this message? Films about U.S. presidents — past, present and fictional — start this week. VYING FOR YOUR VOTE: Box office's presidential race begins Friday • Swing Vote , opening Friday, stars Kevin Costner as a blue-collar worker who becomes the focus of two candidates (Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper) after

"W." stars Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright arrested

soulfullvibes | 07/14/2008

"W." stars Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with five other members of the film's crew, were arrested Saturday morning in Shreveport, La.

Paging Adrian Grenier- Pablo Escobar productions are all plagued with potential problems!

lainiek | 10/26/2007

You could've seen this one coming a mile away. After Joe Carnahan ’s White Jazz lost two principle actors in as many weeks due to scheduling issues, and with his passion project Killing Pablo in serious jeopardy thanks to Oliver Stone nipping at his heels, the embattled director is seriously considering flipping the timeline on the two projects: “White Jazz is something, that as much as it kills me...