Rumor: Ben Affleck's 'The Batman' Script Is A Mess And Warner Bros Doesn't Care To Fix It
Read the Batman Bret Easton Ellis comments. The American Psycho author claims he's heard Ben Affleck's upcoming DC superhero movie is a mess.
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'American Psycho' Trivia: Bret Easton Ellis Once Wrote A Script For David Cronenberg
In the early '90s, David Cronenberg was working on an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' satire. The author reflects on this piece of American Psycho trivia.
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'Yeezus' Trailer: Kanye West Is Coming To The Movies
The first Yeezus trailer has debuted on Kanye West's website. What is Yeezus? West doesn't quite say, but it appears to be a concert movie by Hype Williams.
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'American Psycho' Writer Bret Easton Ellis Penned A Movie For Kayne West
Bret Easton Ellis's last film, The Canyons, didn't get much in the way of critical acclaim, but it nevertheless received a lot of attention for a splashy cast that included Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. Now, for his next project, he's joining forces with another tabloid-friendly celebrity: Kanye West. According to Ellis, it…
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Kanye West Scores "Remixed" Trailer For 'The Canyons'
We've wondered about the Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis film The Canyons for months, after watching the casting, the spectacle of the production dealing with Lindsay Lohan, the festival rejection, and all those slapdash early trailers. The film is out now, and reviews, well, aren't great. But the folks at IFC have come up…
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'The Canyons' Trailer: Is Cinema Dead, Or Is Lindsay Lohan Just Bored?
The Canyons, that ultra-low-budget film cooked up by Bret Easton Ellis (screenwriter) and Paul Schrader (director) has been the subject of much talk for a solid year. The two cast Lindsay Lohan when no one else would, and profiles have detailed her difficult behavior even as Schrader praises his leading lady as a Marilyn Monroe…
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Latest NSFW 'The Canyons' Teaser Channels A '30s Vibe
I feel like the team behind The Canyons is just playing with us at this point -- can the movie really be as lifeless as the teasers indicate? Is the listless acting part of the point, and meant to be some comment about the lives of the rich and idle in southern California? Written by…
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'The Canyons' Trailer: Atrocious Acting, 1950s-Style
Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' The Canyons was never going for subtlety or elegance, and the marketing seems to be having some fun playing up that fact. The first trailer was cut to mimic grindhouse and exploitation movies of the '70s, whereas the latest one has been done up like black-and-white '50s pulp. No…
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'The Canyons' Trailer Shrouds Lindsay Lohan And Porn Actor Co-Star In A Sleazy 42nd St. Vibe
Has Paul Schrader created a film that might have played at a theater his defining character Travis Bickle might have visited in Taxi Driver? Schrader directs The Canyons, written by Bret Eason Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. The first real trailer for the film is cut in a style meant…
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TV Bits: 'Parks & Recreation', 'Justified', 'Bates Motel', 'Once Upon A Time', Donald Glover, Bret Easton Ellis, Michael Bay
Everyone's got new shows brewing, from Community favorite Donald Glover to Fifty Shades fan Bret Easton Ellis. After the jump: Donald Glover could get his own show at NBC Bret Easton Ellis writes teen monsters for The CW A&E orders an occult drama from Michael Bay Jonathan Mostow will direct TNT's The Last Ship Breaking…
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Bret Easton Ellis Won't Adapt 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', But 'Cars 2', 'The Killing', Or 'Saving Mr. Banks' Scribes Might
Plenty of high-profile actors and filmmakers have devoted time to deflecting Fifty Shades of Grey movie rumors in recent months, but one industry figure who's made no secret of his burning desire to bring the S&M novel to life is Bret Easton Ellis. The American Psycho author has been pushing hard for the screenwriting job over…
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Lindsay Lohan Joins Porn Star James Deen In Bret Easton Ellis And Paul Schrader's Psychosexual Thriller 'The Canyons'
We're still waiting to find out what comes of Bret Easton Ellis' campaign to adapt E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, but in the meantime another of his projects is coming together with some attention-grabbing casting. Lindsay Lohan has just joined porn star James Deen in The Canyons, a sexual thriller that Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader …
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Bret Easton Ellis Wants To Adapt S&M Bestseller 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'
Angelina Jolie's people may be denying that the actress-turned-filmmaker has been in talks to direct the erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey, but there's one Hollywood figure who's being totally upfront with his interest in getting involved. Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction, has announced via Twitter that he…
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Sequel Bits: Bret Easton Ellis Considering An 'American Psycho' Sequel, Plus: '[REC]3: Genesis' Trailer, 'X-Men: First Class 2', 'The Fighter 2', 'Terminator 5'
In this edition of Sequel Bits, it is once again hip to be square. As well as to be mutated, undead, and/or cyborgian. After the jump: Yes, Jennifer Lawrence wants to do X-Men: First Class 2 Bret Easton Ellis says Patrick Bateman would want to get it on with Chris Brown and Rihanna [REC]3: Genesis gets…
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Details On Bret Easton Ellis-Penned L.A. Noir 'The Canyons' Surface As Casting Begins For Summer Shoot
As the Paul Schrader-directed, Bret Easton Ellis-penned "L.A. noir micro budget" film approaches its summer start date, fresh details have been revealed about the story, cast of characters, and release plan. Titled The Canyons, the "psycho-sexual thriller" will center around a circle of young and glamorous but deeply messed-up Angelenos. In other words, exactly what…
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Bret Easton Ellis Writing L.A.-Set Noir For Paul Schrader, Wants Porn Star James Deen For Lead
Normally, if a Hollywood screenwriter named a porn star as his top choice to lead a mainstream film, it would come as a bit of a surprise, but when the scribe in question is Bret Easton Ellis, it just makes so much sense. The controversial writer has tweeted that he's currently working on a "L.A.…
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Now Lionsgate Is Remaking 'American Psycho;' Screenwriter Hired For New Version
We've heard rumblings and now the threat is real: Lionsgate is developing a new film based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho. The studio has just hired Noble Jones to write the script. Jones seems at first like an unknown quantity, as his few IMDB credits include second-unit director on part of The…
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Bret Easton Ellis Says Roger Avary Will Direct 'Glamorama' Next Year
The association between author Bret Easton Ellis and screenwriter/director Roger Avary goes back a decade. Avary directed a film version of the Ellis novel The Rules of Attraction, released in 2002, and used footage shot for that film to create another movie, Glitterati, which is tangentially related to The Rules of Attraction. Glitterati has never…
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Paul Schrader Set To Direct Shark-Infested Thriller 'Bait' From Writer Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) has been working on two new scripts in the past couple years. One is the very tantalizing The Golden Suicides, which chronicles the fall of art-world power couple Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan, who trapped themselves in a bubble of paranoia that burst only with their double…
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Could Gaspar Noe Direct The Bret Easton Ellis Script 'The Golden Suicides'?
Gaspar Noe's third feature, Into the Void, was one of the more divisive films of the past couple years, and easily one of my favorites. I've admired his peculiar and confrontational approach to storytelling, and the superb technical craft that underlies his narrative bravado. But those very qualities I admire, and the working methods they…
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Hayden Panettiere And Nikki Reed To Star In 'Downers Grove'
Whether or not you've read American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction or Less Than Zero, the name Bret Easton Ellis conjures up a pretty specific set of themes: some combination of twisted social commentary, biting humor and gratuitous violence. And though Ellis has adapted one of own his books to a screenplay, he's just written…
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Bret Easton Ellis Talks About 'The Golden Suicides'
One of the more promising films on the horizon -- rather far on the horizon, unfortunately -- is The Golden Suicides, scripted by Bret Easton Ellis. The story of an art world superstar couple who perished in a double suicide originally came up as a co-authored project between Ellis and Gus Van Sant. Now we…
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Fox Searchlight May Produce Imperial Bedrooms, The Bret Easton Ellis 'Sequel' To Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis has a long history with Hollywood. Over twenty years ago he was less than impressed with the film version of his novel Less Than Zero, though thirteen years later Mary Harron would adapt his American Psycho into a film that quickly attained cult classic status and The Rules of Attraction generally stayed…
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Angelina Jolie Not Doing Cuaron's Gravity After All? Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis Wrote The Golden Suicides With Her In Mind
Earlier this week it was reported that Angelina Jolie had dropped out of Wanted 2, effectively killing that film (no great loss) and that she would instead star in Alfonso Cuarón's upcoming 'space thriller' Gravity. Cuarón doing a space thriller? Fantastic. Doing it with Jolie's financial pull? Potentially incredible. But now it seems the report…
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American Psycho Stage Musical In The Works With Music By Duncan Sheik
It says a lot about the performance of Christian Bale as the murderous banker Patrick Bateman that, when most people hear the title American Psycho, they immediately think of Mary Harron's 2000 movie rather than the original novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Can any cohort of singing and dancing performers hope to upstage Bale's Bateman,…
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Eerie: Tom Cruise Was Christian Bale's Inspiration For Patrick Bateman
Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale's inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What's more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise's go-getter, '80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman's yuppie, psychopathic…
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Gus Van Sant And Bret Easton Ellis Team To Write Suicide Film
How's this for a pairing: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming to write a screenplay based on Vanity Fair's 2008 article The Golden Suicides. Ellis had previously been announced as the screenwriter for the Lionsgate project, but the addition of Van Sant makes the thing even more interesting. The article looks into…
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