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American Psycho (2000) More at IMDbPro »
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Bait, Written by Bret Easton Ellis, is a Tale of Revenge, With Sharks
6 November 2009 8:19 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant, where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The other project is another writing gig that we haven't known much about. But many things become clear during the American Film Market, where indie pics are shopped for financing and distribution. The latest Ellis script is a revenge tale that takes place among a group of rich kids when they get involved with a working class kid in a beach resort town. The film is called Bait, and the main character seeks to use an unusual and possibly entertaining method of gaining his revenge: he wants to feed the rich kids to sharks. Ellis really must struggle with hating the rich. (And, to some extent, with »
- Russ Fischer
Afm '09: Bret Easton Ellis' Teen Thriller 'Bait' Being Adapted
5 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Bloody Disgusting learned that Brad Furman will be getting behind the camera for the latest Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, Bait, which is being produced by Myriad Pictures. Beyond the break you'll find the Afm sales art, along with a full synopsis. Ellis is best know for writing "American Psycho," "Less Than Zero" and "Rules of Attraction." Cole is a quiet young man, unassuming, who works as waiter at a posh beach club. But underneath his polite demeanor is a suppressed rage at hte wealth and bounty that surrounds him and is out of his reach. The arrogance and dismissive nature of the rich fuels his anger at the unfairness of the world, and he is a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode. »
Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten
5 November 2009 1:07 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
What follows is my original top ten list of 2000... or rather the revised version I published in 2002. Let's discuss each year of this decade as it winds down! Who's with me?!? It's always interesting to see which films remained at the forefront of our memory and which fade... both for a variety of reasons, quality being only one factor. New comments are in red.
Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2000. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were released in their home country or in La or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Une Liaisons Pornographique, Nurse Betty, You Can Count On Me, Before Night Falls, Pola X, Chicken Run, American Psycho, Wonder Boys and Billy Elliott Um... What The Hell are some of these movies doing outside the top ten list? You Can Count on Me »
- NATHANIEL R
Bret Easton Ellis Thriller Gets Title, Synopsis
5 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Myriad Pictures' untitled thriller penned by "American Psycho" scribe Bret Easton Ellis is being shopped at the American Film Market under the moniker Bait . The film is still a directing vehicle for Brad Furman ( The Take , the forthcoming Valet ) and is said to be in pre-production. The complete synopsis is below - what you'll read sounds like pretty standard revenge fare...with sharks. Cole is a quiet young man, unassuming, who works as waiter at a posh beach club. But underneath his polite demeanor is a suppressed rage at hte wealth and bounty that surrounds him and is out of his reach. The arrogance and dismissive nature of the rich fuels his anger at the unfairness of the world, and he is a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode. One night, a group of... »
Update: Trio to Star in Breaking the Girl
4 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Update: Cory Monteith of Glee has also joined the cast. Jamie Babbit is slipping behind the camera for the teen thriller Breaking the Girl . She'll do so for Myriad Pictures ( Jeepers Creepers II ) and a 2011 release is being eyed. Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner ( American Psycho ) penned the screenplay about a naive college student who falls in with a manipulative classmate who implicates her in a murder. Amanda Crew ( The Haunting in Connecticut ) and Adrianne Palicki ( Legion ) are set to star. "Amanda and Adrianne are perfectly cast as the two students who become almost more than friends before the truth about Alex is revealed, says Myriad's Kirk D'Amico said. "It's sexy and scary and we expect it to fall into the same genre category as films like... »
Bret Easton Ellis writing HBO series
30 October 2009 5:04 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is to write a new dramatic series for HBO. The 45-year-old scribe is slated to pen The Follower, an adaptation of a crime novel by Jason Starr, reports Variety. The satirical show will revolve around a stalker who follows the romantic lives of young New Yorkers. Paranormal Activity's Jason Blum has been tapped to executive produce the project along (more) »
- By Mike Moody
Jamie Babbit directs Guinevere Turner's thriller 'Breaking the Girl'
30 October 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
The Guinevere Turner-penned thriller Breaking The Girl is now in pre-production from Myriad Pictures, and will star Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki and be directed by Jamie Babbit (But I'm a Cheerleader.) Guinevere Turner previously wrote the screenplays for horror films American Psycho and Bloodrayne.
The plot: Two attractive college students - the innocent and scholarly Sara and the manipulative and sexy Alex, become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other's nemesis. But Alex soon grabs the upper hand and Sara discovers she is being set up for murder.
Expect it in 2010.
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- Superheidi
Lucas' Horror Movie Terror
28 October 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actor Josh Lucas's childhood terrors have left him too frightened to watch horror movies - even if he is in them.
The 38 year old has starred in a string of scary films, including Brad Anderson slasher Session 9 and 2000 thriller American Psycho.
But Lucas admits he is too terrified to sit through any gory scenes and won't even watch his own work.
He tells the New York Daily News, "I won't see scary movies. I've been in them and then I've been like, 'Whoa, this is too scary for me!' I guess I've held on to those little childhood moments - when you're in the dark and there's a rattle outside your house and you're thinking there's a monster under your bed." »
Let’s watch the first 5 minutes of ‘Boondock Saints II’, shall we?
27 October 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
IGN was issued the first five minutes from the upcoming Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day film. The clip contains a bit of nudity and language, so it might not be safe for work. Check it out below.
Directed by Troy Duff , the Boondock sequel will be released on October 30th, and stars Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery, Clifton Collins, Julie Benz, Judd Nelson, Robert Cochrane Marley Jr., Brian Mahoney, David Ferry, David Della Rocco, Peter Fonda and Billy Connolly.
Source: IGN
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- Reel Loop News Staff
Bsb: Nicolas Cage runs lines from Vampire's Kiss
26 October 2009 1:54 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Just for fun... I'm sure that more than a handful of you Fangorian's are fond of a little semi-lost late 80's horror satire called Vampire's Kiss.
Robert Bierman's film -which incidentally makes a fantastic double feature with Mary Harron's American Psycho - features a young, method acting Nicolas Cage as a soul dead corporate slug named Peter Leow who believes his one night stand (Jennifer Beals from Flashdance) was a vampire and that he himself is slowly sharing her bloodsucking fate. As his supernatural psychosis increases, Peter becomes more and more abusive to his poor, put upon secretary Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso) resulting in an uprorious scene where Cage leaps onto his desk and screams "Am I getting Through to youuuuu, Alva!" Check out the trailer here:
The film is berserk and Cage is brilliant. Outside of Wild At Heart and the upcoming Werner Herzog remake of Bad Lieutenant, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Let's Exploit Dead People
25 October 2009 6:24 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Welcome to an oversized edition of "The Good, The Bad and the Wtf," to make up for last week's absence. This time, we take a look at X-Men updates, a Turtles buyout, David Spade's shamelessness, a Michael Jackson controversy and how Denzel Washington is allegedly the worst person on Earth.
The Good
• Talking to Empire mag, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner updates fans on the status of future X-Men projects. Good news for those of you who were pissed off by Wolverine's treatment of Deadpool, because this is what Donner said about the proposed Deadpool movie:
I want to ignore the version of Deadpool that we saw in Wolverine and just start over again. Reboot it. Because this guy talks, obviously, and to muzzle him would be insane.
Cue collective sighs of relief.
• Here's the first official photo of the new A-Team. I'm not holding my breath for this one, »
- Arya Ponto
Bale used Cruise as inspiration for 'American Psycho'
23 October 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise was the inspiration for Christian Bale's frightening portrayal of a bloodthirsty maniac in 'American Psycho', according to the movie's director Mary Harron.<p>'The Dark Knight' actor took on the role of Patrick Bateman in the 2000 thriller, playing a wealthy young investment banker who apparently leads a double life as a vicious multiple murderer, reports hollywood.com.</p><p>Director Harron has revealed Bale based the character's smarmy persona on Cruise after seeing the Hollywood superstar give an interview on a Us TV channel.</p><p>'We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave,' she said.</p><p>'And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very »
Christian Bale uses Tom Cruise as inspiration for killer in ‘American Psycho’
23 October 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Tom Cruise is a raging psychopath.
American Psycho director Mary Harron says that Christian Bale, who played the yuppie killer Patrick Bateman in the film, based his performance on Tom Cruise.
In an interview with Black Book magazine, Harron stated that Bale was “trying to work out the right way to behave.”
Nothing says “acting right” like Tom Cruise.
“We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet [and] watching what people did,” Harron says. “And then one day [Christian] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”
In 2005, Cruise fired his publicist, Lee Anne DeVette, who is also his sister, and replaced her with one of H-town’s veteran PR men, Paul Bloch. The Top Gun »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Tom Cruise Inspired Christian Bale's American Psycho
22 October 2009 7:39 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Before he become known on his own terms for being a kind of tightly wound guy who would go nuts on his family members or directors of photography at the slightest provocation, Christian Bale was well known as, well, a tightly wound guy who would go nuts on people, and then kill them. I'm talking, of course, about his role in American Psycho, in which he played the killer yuppie Patrick Bateman long before his Batman growl made him a household name. And this week, for no evident reason, American Psycho director Mary Harron is coming forward with Bale's inspiration for the character-- and no, it's not his own endless supply of inner anger. "one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy, »
Is Tom Cruise Really an American Psycho?
22 October 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Almost 10 years after the film American Psycho re-introduced the world to actor Christian Bale in the most devilish of ways, that film's director, Mary Harron, is now opening up about Bale's inspiration for the character in a new interview with Black Book. Now, when playing a nicely dressed, well-to-do serial killer, you'd think one would look for similar real-life killers throughout history for inspiration. Nope, not Christian Bale – because according to Harron, his inspiration was none other than Tom Cruise. Harron says, "We talked about how Martian-likePatrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been...
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Quick List: Celebrities With The Worst Reputations
22 October 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Perception is everything, and I don't mean to get all metaphysical on you, but sometimes it's how the world sees us that can define who we are -- but what if the world thinks you're a psycho? In an interview with American Psycho director Mary Harron, she was reminiscing about the black comedy, and as it turns out, her star Christian Bale based his vision of the murdering yuppie on -- wait for it -- Tom Cruise. According to Harron, she and Bale had been collaborating on the character when "...he [Bale] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy."
Actors take inspiration from all kinds of places, but you can't help but wonder if Bale saw something that we would all be made painfully aware »
- Jessica Barnes
Cruise 'was Bale's inspiration for Psycho'
22 October 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
The director of American Psycho has claimed that star Christian Bale based his performance on Tom Cruise. Mary Harron helmed the 2000 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which was set during the 1980s and featured a yuppie killer named Patrick Bateman. She told Black Book magazine that the Dark Knight actor struggled in "trying to work out the right way to behave". "We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Christian Bale's 'American Psycho' Inspiration: Tom Cruise
22 October 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
We hope that no one is really as soulless as Patrick Bateman, but Christian Bale's performance in 2000's 'American Psycho' was so frighteningly believable he must have had some real-life inspiration. Turns out Bale studied Tom Cruise's mannerisms to bring the clean-cut murder addict to life. The movie's director, Mary Harron, revealed in an interview with BlackBook: We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy. Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter!... »
- Katy Hall
Bale Used Cruise For American Psycho
22 October 2009 8:56 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Tom Cruise was the inspiration for Christian Bale's frightening portrayal of a bloodthirsty maniac in American Psycho, according to the movie's director Mary Harron.
The Dark Knight actor took on the role of Patrick Bateman in the 2000 thriller, playing a wealthy young investment banker who apparently leads a double life as a vicious multiple murderer.
Director Harron has revealed Bale based the character's smarmy persona on Cruise after seeing the Hollywood superstar give an interview on U.S. TV.
She tells BlackBook magazine, "We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave.
"And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy." »
Which Of These Tom Cruise Late Show Appearances Inspired American Psycho?
21 October 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
After yesterday's unprompted accusation by Bronson Pinchot that Risky Business-era Tom Cruise was homophobic, another random Cruise character assault bubbled to the surface today. In an interview with BlackBook, American Psycho director Mary Harron alleges that Christian Bale based his performance of serial killer Patrick Bateman on Cruise after the movie star made one particularly "Martian-like" Letterman appearance. But which one was it? »
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