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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…

Oliver Stone has been selected to receive the 2017 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement by the Writers Guild of America West. He’ll be honored during the 2017 WGA Awards held February 19 at the Beverly Hilton. “Oliver Stone may be our most committed screenwriter, using an unparalleled sense of conflict and drama…

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Field and his Radar Pictures haven't exactly been strangers to legal action in recent years, and today Fernando Sulichin has added a potentially pivotal fraud claim to his ongoing lawsuit over a bridge loan for Kickboxer: Vengeance. In a proposed motion for an amended complaint now seeking at least…

5TH UPDATE, Sunday AM: What happened this weekend at the box office to completely deep-six three wide releases? The casualties: Blair Witch (Lionsgate, est. $9.65M, $5M production cost, mid-to-high $20M), Bridget Jones’s Baby (Universal/Working Title/Miramax/StudioCanal, est. $8.2M, $35M production cost) and  <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/snowden/" id="auto-tag_snowden"…

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…

Traitor? Patriot? Hero? Villain? Edward Snowden has been called all of these and more, but I went into Oliver Stone’s new biopic about him fully expecting the iconic filmmaker of such movies as JFK, Nixon, W., Natural Born Killers, Platoon, Born on the Fourth Of July and so many others to take sides. Although…

After accumulating $42.7M through yesterday, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Sully is expected to remain at a high altitude in its second weekend, potentially veering Lionsgate’s horror follow-up Blair Witch off a course toward No. 1. Sully‘s midweek momentum — Tuesday was up 54% over Monday with $4.6M — points toward…

“There were plenty of warnings about 9/11. Plenty of them. Bush saw them, Condi Rice saw them, they neglected them because their minds were on bigger things,” Oliver Stone exclaimed recently at Deadline’s Toronto International Film Festival studio. As we mourn today the tragedies that occurred 15 years ago at the Twin…

A film about a family torn apart when an only daughter becomes a terrorist (American Pastoral), an Oliver Stone movie taking a sympathetic view of a man described by some as an American traitor (Snowden), a movie in which a woman expresses conflicted reactions to a brutal rape (Elle), a controversial movie about a…

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…

Whether you consider him a whistleblower doing a public service or a traitor who betrayed his country (or even if you have mixed feelings), there’s probably no one in the United States who doesn’t have a strong opinion on Edward Snowden. The man behind the 2013 leak of classified NSA documents exists more as an icon…

Oliver Stone wants you to turn off your smartphone while you’re in a theater watching a movie — which he surely thinks should probably be his upcoming Snowden, but that’s beside the point. Or is it? The Oscar-winning filmmaker taped a new PSA which, by the way, debuted in front of a screening of Snowden held during…