Last year, three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone made his 20th directorial outing with Snowden—a look at the life of former NSA consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden. The film took Stone on numerous trips to Russia, where Snowden has lived in exile since 2013, which then led to a series of interviews with Russian…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: Congress can't get anything right. In its effort to slam Oliver Stone's new movie, Snowden, the House Intelligence Committee…

EXCLUSIVE: Oliver Stone opened his 20th narrative feature as a director today with Snowden, a look at the former NSA contractor who exposed a massive U.S. surveillance operation that violated the privacy of its citizens. The film has received some of Stone’s best reviews in years, because of the subtle, non-judgmental…

After making a Google chat appearance at Comic-Con for Snowden, the upcoming movie about his life, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will appear via satellite from Moscow for “Snowden Live,” a Fathom Events/Open Road event that will include Oliver Stone, who’ll be beamed in from New York. The event will occur in 700…

Putting aside any Oscar action, on which my colleague Pete Hammond has a close eye, the rapidly accumulating lineup for the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, set to run September 8-18, brings some twists, turns and potential intrigue to a fall film season that clearly has no intention of waiting for the fall…

Following a screening of Oliver Stone’s biopic Snowden at Comic-Con tonight, a panel discussion was held with the filmmaker and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley — who were joined via Google Hangout from Russia by Edward Snowden himself. What followed was a discussion ranging from the political topics…

A spirited discussion of civil liberties, privacy and the role of government in the lives of Americans was the order of business during today’ Snowden panel in Hall H at Comic-Con. The event featured not only appearances by Snowden stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Zachary Quinto but also the first-ever…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films has scheduled an unofficial screening of the Oliver Stone-directed Snowden at an undisclosed location in downtown San Diego during Comic-Con, which kicks off Wednesday. It’ll be the first time the movie will be seen at all, and it will be followed by a Q&A with Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt…

UPDATE with more details: President Barack Obama today appeared at Austin’s The Long Center for the Performing Arts where he made an impassioned and unusually partisan plea to technology professionals and tech-minded citizens to apply their ideas and talents toward solving some of the country’s biggest challenges and…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road has just set a date for Oliver Stone's Snowden — it will now bow on May 13 after being pushed off its Christmas Day date last month and, therefore, out of Oscar contention. The film, which stars The Walk‘s Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Divergent franchise’s Shailene Woodley, is about Edward…

“One nation, under surveillance, for liberty and justice for all.” There’s no footage from the movie but the message is clear in the teaser trailer that just dropped for Snowden, the Edward Snowden movie that is co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in one of the 21st centuries most…

The morning after The Daily Show host Jon Stewart schooled Rolling Stone‘s publisher Jann Wenner, in re how “journalism” works, in the wake of a damning report about the magazine’s botched UVA rape report, HBO released more footage from its exclusive interview with much-in-the-news Edward Snowden, conducted by Last Wee…