Oliver Stone lived his heyday as one of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood with his acclaimed titles, including Wall Street and Kevin Costner-starrer JFK. Stone, who also has two Oscars to his credit for directing Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, however, found himself amid an investigation.
Oliver Stone. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
A report published by a team of investigative journalists from Europe links the acclaimed director to real dictators as Stone was allegedly roped in to whitewash a few dictators in a series of documentaries. Stone finally broke his silence over the matter.
A Report Linked Oliver Stone With Real Dictators Oliver Stone. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) alongside a few European outlets organized an investigation against the celebrated director Oliver Stone. The investigation found that he was exclusively linked with a series of unmade documentary projects that would be...
Oliver Stone. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
A report published by a team of investigative journalists from Europe links the acclaimed director to real dictators as Stone was allegedly roped in to whitewash a few dictators in a series of documentaries. Stone finally broke his silence over the matter.
A Report Linked Oliver Stone With Real Dictators Oliver Stone. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) alongside a few European outlets organized an investigation against the celebrated director Oliver Stone. The investigation found that he was exclusively linked with a series of unmade documentary projects that would be...
- 4/2/2024
- by Lachit Roy
- FandomWire
Updated on March 10, 2024, at 5:43 am Pt with comments from Oliver Stone.
A team of investigative journalists in Europe has published a new report that links Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone to a planned series of documentaries intended to act as de facto propaganda for several autocratic leaders worldwide.
The investigation — a joint effort by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp), German public broadcaster Zdf, Austrian newspaper Der Standard, German news magazine Der Spiegel and independent Kazakhstan media outlet Vlast — found that Russian American producer Igor Lopatonok pitched a series of hagiographic documentaries about such notorious leaders as Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which were to star Stone as the on-air interviewer.
In an interview with Occrp, Lopatonok said Stone was aware of the projects and supported them, though the investigation did not turn up a direct link to the director to support that claim.
A team of investigative journalists in Europe has published a new report that links Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone to a planned series of documentaries intended to act as de facto propaganda for several autocratic leaders worldwide.
The investigation — a joint effort by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp), German public broadcaster Zdf, Austrian newspaper Der Standard, German news magazine Der Spiegel and independent Kazakhstan media outlet Vlast — found that Russian American producer Igor Lopatonok pitched a series of hagiographic documentaries about such notorious leaders as Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which were to star Stone as the on-air interviewer.
In an interview with Occrp, Lopatonok said Stone was aware of the projects and supported them, though the investigation did not turn up a direct link to the director to support that claim.
- 3/8/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oliver Stone’s 2021 documentary about Kazakhstan’s former authoritarian ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, reportedly received at least 5 million in funding from a charitable organization run by none other than Nazarbayev, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, directed by Igor Lopatonok, was released last year as both a feature film and an eight-hour miniseries. Stone produced the project and featured in it, interviewing Nazarbayev about his nearly 30-year reign in Kazakhstan, which began in 1991 and ended in 2019. The new report states that at...
Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, directed by Igor Lopatonok, was released last year as both a feature film and an eight-hour miniseries. Stone produced the project and featured in it, interviewing Nazarbayev about his nearly 30-year reign in Kazakhstan, which began in 1991 and ended in 2019. The new report states that at...
- 10/12/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
An ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine dating back to the collapse of the Soviet Union has become a full-out war with global — and commercial — reverberations. Russia’s booming film and TV industry, with its deep, government-backed coffers, lost its grip on the world stage virtually overnight amid growing fallout from Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount all paused distribution of new movies in Russia, and “SNL” opened last weekend’s show with a Ukrainian chorus in solidarity with the country under attack. Cannes barred the Russian delegation from attending its May festival.
For Ukraine’s creative community, the situation is a matter of life-or-death. Though the Russian attack has met with fierce Ukrainian resistance, millions have been forced into makeshift shelters to escape bombings. The United Nations has so far recorded more than 100 deaths. On March 1, Russian bombs targeted a TV tower in Ukrainian capital Kyiv,...
Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount all paused distribution of new movies in Russia, and “SNL” opened last weekend’s show with a Ukrainian chorus in solidarity with the country under attack. Cannes barred the Russian delegation from attending its May festival.
For Ukraine’s creative community, the situation is a matter of life-or-death. Though the Russian attack has met with fierce Ukrainian resistance, millions have been forced into makeshift shelters to escape bombings. The United Nations has so far recorded more than 100 deaths. On March 1, Russian bombs targeted a TV tower in Ukrainian capital Kyiv,...
- 3/2/2022
- by Manori Ravindran, K.J. Yossman and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Oliver Stone has responded to comments he made in an interview with Vladimir Putin published as a transcript by the Kremlin earlier this week. In that interview, the “Platoon” director expressed support for Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. The law, which Putin signed in June 2013, makes the distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships” among minors an offense punishable by fines.
The two men were talking to promote “Revealing Ukraine,” a new documentary executive produced by Stone (and directed by Igor Lopatonok) that includes interviews with Putin — Stone had previously directed the four-hour Showtime series “The Putin Interviews” that aired in 2017. The Oscar-winner had previously produced Lopatonok’s 2016 documentary “Ukraine on Fire.”
“I don’t know what is going on with the American culture,” Stone told Putin. “It’s very strange right now. So much of the argument, so much of the thinking, so much of the newspaper, television commentaries about gender,...
The two men were talking to promote “Revealing Ukraine,” a new documentary executive produced by Stone (and directed by Igor Lopatonok) that includes interviews with Putin — Stone had previously directed the four-hour Showtime series “The Putin Interviews” that aired in 2017. The Oscar-winner had previously produced Lopatonok’s 2016 documentary “Ukraine on Fire.”
“I don’t know what is going on with the American culture,” Stone told Putin. “It’s very strange right now. So much of the argument, so much of the thinking, so much of the newspaper, television commentaries about gender,...
- 7/26/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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