• '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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  • Kanye West Still Creative Director Of 'The Jetsons' Movie, Says Kanye West

    Back in January, a weird news story broke saying rapper/producer Kanye West was taking meetings to be the creative director on a movie adaptation of the sci-fi sitcom cartoon The Jetsons. At the time, the news came from West's personal Twitter account, but was quickly deleted. That was the last we heard of it. Soon after,…

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  • WTF: Kanye West Could (Maybe) Be Creative Director On The 'Jetsons' Movie?

    Kanye West says a lot of stuff on Twitter -- so much so, sometimes, that his account should be labeled with that old tag that adorned cheap novelties and pinball machines, "for amusement only." Last night he went on a long tweet-spree, the contents of which are mostly out of our editorial jurisdiction. There was…

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  • Cool Stuff: Life-Size 'Akira' Replica Bike

    While looking around Craigslist last night, I came across a listing for a Life Size replica of Kaneda's Bike from Akira. Built by Hollywood Fabricator Eddie Paul for Rapper/singer/record producer  Kanye West, this Akira Bike is for sale for only $4,000. The only catch is that it is a collectible meant to be displayed, not…

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  • Kanye West Channels 'Enter The Void' In His Latest Video

    My original title for this piece was 'Kanye West Loves Enter the Void, But Not Enough to Credit It.' Because the video for the Kanye West single 'All of the Lights' is dominated by strobing full-screen text missives that are pure imitations of the brilliant and assaultive credits sequence for Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void.…

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  • Robert Rodriguez's Nike Short Film 'The Black Mamba'

    NBA All Star Weekend has just concluded and besides the All Star Game, 3-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk Contest, one of the biggest happenings in the world of the basketball was a new film by Robert Rodriguez. The director of Sin City and Spy Kids teamed up with Nike and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe…

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  • VOTD: Spike Jonze's We Were Once A Fairytale, Starring Kanye West

    Months ago we knew that Spike Jonze would be working again with Kanye West, for whom he'd recently directed the video for 'Flashing Lights'. At the time we heard the new collaboration would be a short film called We Were Once a Fairytale, but we didn't know if it would be an extended music video,…

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