As promised on Monday, the first trailer for Oliver Stone's Savages has arrived online, following up the nicely executed poster that debuted at the beginning of this week.  Narrated by Blake Lively, the trailer lays out the basic story, which starts with a pair of Orange County entrepreneurs whose with a thriving marijuana concern that ends up bringing them to the attention of the Mexican Baja Cartel.

After a reportedly wondrous test-screening earlier this year, Universal Pictures rescheduled Savages from September to smack dab in the middle of summer.  Accordingly, marketing for the action-thriller directed by Oliver Stone should be getting underway in earnest shortly.  A trailer is set to arrive this Thursday, April 5th.  The first one-sheet for Savages has arrived online today, and it gives a feel for the story, but mostly highlights the ensemble cast with a nifty vertical design.

Just last week the first image from Savages arrived online, showing Benicio Del Toro rather menacingly blowing smoke into Blake Lively's face.  It was probably an appropriate introduction to the new film from Oliver Stone, one which follows a battle of wills and probably over the top violence between a trio of California pot-dealers and a vicious drug cartel.  Now there's a visual representation of the movie, and it looks like Universal is pretty confident in Savages, as the studio has moved the release date into prime summer territory.

Most any avid user of one of America's favorite illicit substances knows that it is a good and charitable thing to be euphemistically smoked out, but the first image from Savages makes the term look altogether threatening.  The film is co-written and directed by Oliver Stone, a filmmaker comfortable with violence, but even if you didn't know that, you'd know something unsavory is going on between Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro, with the latter blowing smoke into the former's face in an entirely uncharitable manner.

In 1983's Scarface – a remake of the 1932 original directed by Howard Hawkes and Richard Rosson – Cuban immigrant-turned-cocaine-inhaling drug lord Tony Montana said many true things, including his immortal declaration that all he had in this world were his balls and his word, and he broke neither for anyone.  If these words proved inspiring and you now dream of leaving in your own palatial Miama estate complete with grenade-launching automatic weaponry, then you'll no doubt be interested in tomorrow's livestreaming event, which will reunite the cast in anticipation of Scarface's impending Blu-ray release.

Emile Hirsch is the latest actor to join the already-stacked cast of Savages, the adaptation of Don Winslow's novel from director Oliver Stone.  Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Uma Thurman, and Benicio del Toro are all starring in the film, as well, leading one to wonder if they've seen any of the films Stone has directed since 1995.

Wall Street was a stylish and addictive look at the power of greed and all things that are green (well, really just money). Oliver Stone created a mythos with Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko. He is a commanding and dangerous corporate raider who mentors a young Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) leading him into a corrupt and morally questionable world of business and high stakes.

Yet money never sleeps right?

With Oliver Stone’s latest, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, he revisits familiar territory. Yet this time around, things have changed. Cell phones have gotten smaller and there are far more enemies that you need to watch out for. At least this is the case for Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf). He is smart, young stock trader and has a beautiful fiancé named Winnie Gekko (Carey Mulligan). He’s got it all, including a very lucrative career working for Louis Zabel (Frank Langella).