Oliver Stone’s film ‘Snowden’ may change US public opinion and garner support to pardon the whistleblower, who performed a public service in the public interest, says James Bamford.

Hollywood director Oliver Stone wanted a hit - and the chance to put America’s most famous dissadent on screen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow the film got made.

Edward Snowden, the man who exposed the activities of agencies of the US government, not only endorsed the film about what he did, but makes an appearance in it.

With the Wimbledon tennis championships just around the corner, the heavyweight global sports brands will once again battle for supremacy at one of the highest profile sporting events in the world.

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Oliver Stone is putting together a version of the story behind Edward Snowden, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role

A recent survey of NFL players found an alarming number of them don’t trust their team doctors.

The Edward Snowden story played out on the world stage, and now there's a fictional movie about it all.

Sometimes a single actor can bring down an entire production, and that's the case with Christian Bale and The Deep Blue Good-by.

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Soul’s James Brown is the latest singer to have his life story filmed, in a ‘rags to riches’ genre that began with the first ‘talkie’ in 1927.

If anyone was in the slightest doubt how much technology touches all our lives, they only have to look to the success of the annual Web Summit in Dublin.

Ryle Dwyer examines the Warren Report into Kennedy’s assassination 50 years after publication and finds its failure to examine all the evidence undermined its conclusions

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There is a scene towards the end of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK where Kevin Costner, playing the role of District Attorney Jim Garrison, walks, defeated, out of the courthouse, telling his son that he will have to wait at least 30 years before finding out if his theory about the pPresident’s assassination was correct.

Tomorrow’s Oscars won’t just inspire cinema audiences. They’ll inspire countless holidays and city breaks too.

This weekend sees Scorsese and DiCaprio unite once again, and an unholy union of ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.

Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 74.

Colin Farrell takes harsh criticism personally.

Killing Them Softly ****

Bad things happen to bad people. In Oliver Stone’s films, the wicked pay heavily for their manifold sins and the Oscar-winning writer-director certainly doles out tough justice to the godforsaken characters in this serpentine and sexually-charged immorality tale co-written by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow.

Al Pacino is set to play late American football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming biopic.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the autumn ahead.

Salma Hayek is still acting thanks to Oliver Stone.

The Bourne Trilogy has topped a poll of film fans to find the best conspiracy theory movies.

Blake Lively was "very scared" shooting sex scenes with Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson.

John Travolta will soon be back on the big screen, but weeks of negative headlines have focused on his personal life and not on the return of one of Hollywood’s top stars.

When wealthy and famous clients need a private plane or engagement ring, Ciara Egan has no problem sourcing them.John Daly reports

A lawyer for Kevin Costner told a court his fame was the only reason fellow Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin and another person were suing him over their investments in an oil clean-up device tried out after BP’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

As the current financial crisis attests, money makes the world go round and when the flow of capital is restricted, the ripple effect is felt from one continent to the next.

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BEING Colin Farrell has doubtless been the fantasy of many a man, what with those good looks, the talent and money.

Aaron Johnson is to become a father for the second time.

When Mal O’Kelly joined Leinster they didn’t have dressing rooms but when he left the only thing they didn’t have was a ladyboys’ tag

MONEY never sleeps — as actor Michael Douglas knows very well by now.

Charlie Sheen was booed early today by audience members who walked out of his variety show debut in droves, demanding their money back.

Michael Douglas is surprised people looked up to his ‘Wall Street’ character Gordon Gekko.

Shia LaBeouf is in discussions to star in war drama 'Pinkville'.

Michael Douglas’s ex-wife has lost a bid to cash in on the actor’s earnings from his recent 'Wall Street' follow-up, with a judge saying her case is too much of a Hollywood divorce to set a sequel in a New York court.

Michael Douglas hopes his acting has improved “like an old car” over 20 years.

Greed is good, as Wall Street villain Gordon Gekko said in the original Wall Street film of 23 years ago … it still is, given the current state of the world economy.

FILM fans are investing in Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which opened as the number one weekend movie in the US with $19 million (€14m), according to estimates.