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New ‘Wall Street’ Poster; ‘In Bruges’ Director Teams With Tom Waits; Schumacher’s Sundance Film ‘Twelve’ Sells

“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Oliver Stone’s sequel to his somewhat iconic eighties portrait of unbridled ambition, gained some buzz late last week when the teaser trailer and a one-sheet landed online. Response has been mixed, but we didn’t think much of it. Anyway, another one-sheet has arrived and the only difference is that the impeccably tailored Shia LaBeouf is now standing beside Michael Douglas instead of sitting. Meh. “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” will try to line Stone’s pockets on April 23rd.

“In Bruges” is a favorite among Playlist scribes, and we can’t be more thrilled to hear writer/director Martin McDonagh has teamed up with none other than Tom Waits for this next project. Joining them will be longtime Waits stage collaborator Robert Wilson. Wilson and Waits have previously worked together on such stage projects as “The Black Rider,” “Alice In Wonderland” and “Woyzeck.” Details are scarce at this time, but the Waits/Wilson/McDonagh project is set to premiere in Paris in 2011. Don’t count on a film, but hopefully we get to hear whatever musical oddities Waits comes up with. For McDonagh fans (which we count ourselves amongst) this is an interesting move, as the playwright said around the time of his debut film, “In Bruges,” that he was done with the stage and wanted to focus on films only. Maybe the team of Wilson and Waits was too good to pass up. But does this sadly mean McDonagh’s auspicious film career has been sidetracked for now?

Hey, remember Joel Schumacher? His last film was the ill-advised Jim Carrey thriller “The Number 23.” Well, audiences better steel themselves as the director struck a deal at Sundance worth a cool $2 million with new distributor Hannover House (a book publisher striking out into films…good luck with that) for his latest creation, “Twelve.” The film is about “drug-dealing among privileged Manhattan teens” and stars Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford, Ellen Barkin, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Zoe Kravitz and thespian 50 Cent. Schumacher and 50? Boy, we can hardly wait.

Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” is just a couple of weeks away from unveiling at the Berlin Film Festival. A new trailer hit the web a couple of weeks ago, and now a couple of new stills have made their way online. Nothing earth shattering to be sure but we’ll take what we can get until the film opens stateside sometime in the spring via Summit.

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