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Andrew McCarthy to Direct 'Gossip Girl' Episode
7 December 2009 4:38 PM, PST
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Andrew McCarthy, the star of some of the most iconic teen movies of the 1980s ("Pretty in Pink," "Less Than Zero"), is getting back to his roots by taking on The CW’s sexy drama "Gossip Girl."
McCarthy, who will direct an episode set to air in the spring, says the show’s young stars are different from the ones who came to be known as the Brat Pack. “They are much more savvy than we were,” McCarthy said. “We were just a bunch of dumb kids running around.”
McCarthy recently played the father of a teenager on USA's
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’80s Heartthrob Andrew McCarthy to Direct Gossip Girl
7 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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Andrew McCarthy, the star of some of the most iconic teen movies of the '80s (Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero), is getting back to his roots by taking on the CW's sexy drama, Gossip Girl.
McCarthy, who will direct an episode set to air in the spring, says the show's young stars are different than the ones who came to be known as the Brat Pack. "They are much more savvy than we were," McCarthy tells People of Gossip Girl's cast. "We were just a bunch of dumb kids running around."
And while his experience in teen
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'Gossip Girl' Wrap-Up: "Bad Romance" Is An Understatement (Lady Gaga's First!)
16 November 2009 1:17 PM, PST
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Don't get me wrong: that was a good episode, Gossip Girl! Full of Blair-power, Chuck-heroism, and Dan-doofusness! Plus, Nate basically became a genius therapist, and that's fun, because everytime I think you can't top the last thing that made no sense, you do it! You top it, with something that makes even Less than Zero sense! It sounds mathematically impossible, but you manage it, every time. You also put Serena in shoulder pads, and made Rufus say "gonorhhea"! You even gave me Lady Gaga. So: Bravo, Gossip Girl! A truly momentous episode.
But it really was full of bad, Baaaad romances.
Dan and Vanessa? Been there, barfed that. But I guess... they work.
Serena and Tripp? In the sense that I can't decide who is a bigger hypocrite, I guess they work, too.
Blair and the uppity, ugly theater kids? B, you're better than that. Conquering the school is
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Their Best Role: Brad Pitt and 'Fight Club'
12 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best.
Brad Pitt has taken on a myriad of roles over the years. He's fly fished, hunted down sadistic killers, played a romantic devil, dallied in thievery, suffered through pain in his Achilles, and even showed up as the notorious Jesse James. And while he may have earned Oscar nominations for his turn as a mental patient in 12 Monkeys and a backward-aging man in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, his best role lives in cult fandom as the corporation-loathing anarchist Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
I know. It's strange of me to pick this role out of the list -- especially in light of his time in 12 Monkeys. Fight Club was the film Edward Norton got recognized for -- not so much Brad Pitt. But
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Afm '09: Bret Easton Ellis' Teen Thriller 'Bait' Being Adapted
5 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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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.
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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for 'Golden Suicides'
14 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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One remade Hitchcock's "Psycho," the other wrote the novel "American Psycho." and they each often explore screwed up young characters, but otherwise Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and author Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero") have little in common. The most significant contrast between them is that Van Sant's characters tend to have good souls, while Ellis' seem to have no souls at all. This makes it all the more exciting and curious to see how the duo collaborates on a script about the tragic true story of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
The lovers, who both ended their lives in 2007, were not household names, but they were important figures in the art world, and they both made contributions to cinema. Duncan, one of the first designers of video games for girls, made an animated short titled "The History of Glamour" (watch it here), and Blake did the
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Bret Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sant to Film The Golden Suicides
14 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT
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Love him or hate him, you must admit that Bret Easton Ellis’ writing is some of the most innovative and unique work to arise out of the past few decades — Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho not only stunned on the page, but translated into three very good films.
However, his only work at adapting his novels into a screenplay by his own hand was the critically lambasted The Informers, which I have been told to avoid at all costs. I’d like to think, however, that this is simply a fluke, because Ellis’ talents will soon be used to adapt The Golden Suicides with Gus Van Sant (Milk, Elephant) at his side.
Currently, Van Sant is only involved in a co-writing capacity, adapting a Vanity article by Nancy Jo Sales that considers the suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. According to Variety:
“Duncan and
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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Commit The Golden Suicides
13 October 2009 11:14 PM, PDT
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In 2007, two artists who were hot in the California scene committed suicide, one after the other, following fits of paranoia the two suffered, fearing the government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. Theresa Duncan, a video game designer for girls, killed herself in her bedroom. Jeremy Blake, a popular “digital painter,” found her there and ended his life by walking into the ocean a week later. And Nancy Jo Sales wrote an article for “Vanity Fair” about it. Now, two years later, perhaps the worst combination of writers imaginable are teaming up to pen the film. Find out more about the project, and why Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis spell disaster, after the jump.
The screen rights to this property were acquired by three different production companies working together. The first is PalmStar Entertainment, best known for producing the indie drama “Fifty Pills”–a surprisingly uninteresting film
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What if William Baldwin Never Left 'Thelma & Louise'?
28 September 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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Brad Pitt had a whole lot of gigs before he nabbed his career-propulsioning role in Thelma & Louise -- from an uncredited preppie kid in Less Than Zero, to the soap opera wonder of Another World and Dallas, to sitcoms like Growing Pains. He's an actor whose notoriety rose with his talents -- he paid his dues and worked his way up from goofy commercial gigs shilling Pringles to big-screen success. But what if he never got to play with Thelma and Louise?
See, Pitt was the third choice for the role. According to IMDb, William Baldwin was the first choice, but he gave it up to star in Backdraft. (George Clooney also lobbied hard for the gig.) The choice makes sense. Why play some bit part when you can star in a Ron Howard flick with Kurt Russell, Robert De Niro, and Donald Sutherland? If only the sensible always made sense.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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James Spader Talks About Playing a Villain in Shorts
22 August 2009 11:30 AM, PDT
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James Spader has made quite a career out of playing villains, notably in Less Than Zero and Pretty in Pink, but no experience has been quite like playing the nefarious Mr. Carbon Black in Shorts. Spader spoke to MoviesOnline about the shoot, calling it "a whirlwind".
When they called me up and sent me the script. I thought, "Well, I don't know how the hell I'm going to do this 'cause I'm shooting Boston Legal and we're on hiatus and I need to take a break." They called up and they said, "It's going to take us about 5 days to shoot you" and I was just "Okay." I went down there, I think as much for anything else, just to see how the hell they could possibly do that and they did. I think they shot me out in 5 or maybe 6 days. It was a function of Robert. Robert Rodriguez
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James Spader Remembers John Hughes
11 August 2009 8:03 AM, PDT
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James Spader returns to the villain roles that made him famous in Shorts, the new family film by writer-director Robert Rodriguez. But during the film's recent press day, the star of such '80s classics as Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero took a moment to reflect on his experiences working with John Hughes, who passed away last week at the age of 59.
"I actually was very lucky on [Pretty in Pink]," Spader said during a roundtable interview on Saturday. "John [Hughes] wrote and produced that film; Howard Deutch directed it, and it was just such fun. That was a picture where John was on the set every day, I was living in New York at the time and I was out here on my own, and John and I got along really well."
"He'd invite me over to the house a lot on weekends to have lunch with his family," he continued.
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Cinema release inspirations including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
17 July 2009 2:44 AM, PDT
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After the months and months and months of waiting, it’s finally here – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Its release postponed from last November to this July, the sixth adventure of the boy wizard opened in cinemas on Wednesday and is already breaking records, the J.K. Rowling adaptation proving to be a cinematic juggernaut that is swamping theatres with multiples screens dedicated to it. Look around and there are a couple of other new movies also out from today such as sci-fi space mystery Moon and ensemble drama The Informers, however, for the majority of you if you fancy catching a film this weekend, prepare to be Pottered!
If you see… Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) take on a new mission with Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) all the while trying to cope with teenage romances in family blockbuster Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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The Informers Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on August 25th
15 June 2009 9:14 AM, PDT
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You can bring the latest Brett Easton Ellis adaptation home on DVD and Blu-ray this August. The Informers will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 25.The DVD will be priced at $24.95 Srp while the Blu-ray will be priced at $34.95 Srp. We don't have the cover art images as of yet, but we'll update this story with the images as soon as we have them. The film stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Chris Issak, Brad Renfro and Amber Heard.
In his bestselling novels, author Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) established himself as a modern chronicler of decadence, revealing dark shadows behind lives of wealth and glamour. In this new film, Ellis co-writes a script inspired by his own stories. Academy Award winners Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger, Academy Award nominees Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke star in an interweaving tale
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Bret Easton Ellis Script Finds Love at Roseblood
21 May 2009 2:02 AM, PDT
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Screen Daily reports Myriad Pictures and Rko Pictures' genre division The Roseblood Movie Company are co-financing and producing a film based on an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis.
The film is currently untitled, but Brad Furman (The Take) is directing with shooting set to begin in late summer. The script tells the story of an awkward social outcast who, after being humiliated by a group of peers, takes revenge by taking them hostage. Sounds to me a lot like Stephen King's novella "Rage" if you ask me.
For those that don't know, Bret Easton Ellis' novels have served as the inspiration for such films as 1987's Less Than Zero, the Christian Bale starrer American Psycho and Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction. However, his most recent adaptation didn't exactly sit well with critics, so much so I skipped the screening based on the consistent barrage of
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Has ‘The Frog King’ Abdicated His Throne?
11 May 2009 6:18 AM, PDT
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It’s been some time since we heard anything about Brett Easton Ellis’ script adaptation of Adam Davies’ 2002 novel The Frog King, which is set to star Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Now, the “500 Days of Summer” star reveals to MTV News that the project isn’t exactly moving forward.
“That movie’s having logistical troubles,” says Gordon-Levitt, “It’s not worth writing about at this point.” Fine Joseph. We won’t.
Despite the abysmal reviews and box office take of Easton Ellis’ “The Informers” last month, his American Psycho cred is still serving him well, as there are several adaptations of his other work in development. Among them are the semi-autobiographical “Lunar Park,” which may star Benicio del Toro in the role of the the acclaimed author. There’s also word of a potential sequel to the film version of “Less Than Zero,” which Ellis hopes would feature a return performance by Robert Downey Jr.
Similarly,
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Movie Review - 'The Informers'
24 April 2009 1:15 AM, PDT
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The Informers
Starring Billy Bob Thorntpn, Kim Basinger, and Mickey Rourke
Directed by Gregor Jordan
Rated R
The new film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel The Informers might be the first movie in which you know more about the characters before it begins than after it ends. That's particularly ironic given the title. I felt decidedly uninformed by the whole thing.
Featuring a confusing plot that somehow also manages to go nowhere, The Informers is strikingly reminiscent of Ellis' Less Than Zero, at least at its core: It's a meditation on life among young, petulant rich kids in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
The period touches are all there – the distinctive synth-pop soundtrack, the shame-inducing clothes, the silly hairstyles – and director Gregor Jordan manages to weave them into the surroundings with little effort. Unfortunately, the fact that this looks like it was made in 1983 is the only thing The Informers does right.
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Sex, Drugs & Tedium
23 April 2009 9:53 PM, PDT
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If anything can kill America's long-running love affair with the '80s, it may be Gregor Jordan's "The Informers," a tedious and tawdry adaptation from that decade's self-proclaimed poet laureate, Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero").
Sort of a brain-dead "Short Cuts," this risible film follows an interchangeable collection of empty-headed blonds (of both sexes) who hop from bed to bed and from drug to drug.
A pointless accidental death launches the aimless narrative, which is specifically set in 1984. We
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Discuss: Can You Ever Forget Reality on the Big Screen?
23 April 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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The last time we got to see Mel Gibson on the big screen, it was in The Singing Detective. Six years, some violent films, and an infamous arrest later, and we're finally getting another dose as he plays a homicide cop in Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness. The film centers on a cop (Gibson) who watches his daughter (Bojana Novakovic) die, and then sets out to find the people who killed her.
Darkness is slated to hit screens later this year, and to kick off the buzz, an image has been released to Empire, which you can see in its entirety here. The image shows Gibson kneeling over a body, in front of a cop car and parts of what seems to be another totaled car, looking peeved. Try as I might, but I can't view this picture in the proper context. All I can see is a cautionary
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Bret Easton Ellis Rates His Movie Adaptations
22 April 2009 6:57 AM, PDT
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Less Than Zero is obviously bad, and we don’t need to talk about why that didn’t work. And American Psycho—that is, I think, an impossible book to adapt. But whatever, it was the greatest hits from the book, more or less. Mary did a very good job of keeping that movie together, as did Christian Bale, and I think Roger did a terrific job. And with The Informers, I think there is really an outstanding movie floating out there somewhere, and I hope one day people mig
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Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Elisabeth Shue in Piranha 3-D, Less Than Zero Sequel, American Pie: Book of Love
19 April 2009 3:26 PM, PDT
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I didn't get around to posting a Weekend Wrap-Up last Sunday, so this installment will collect two weeks' worth of leftover news stories. Some of the biggest discussions over the past week focused on the Observe and Report controversy and Billy Bob Thornton's on-air hissyfit, but some intriguing new projects from Errol Morris and Sofia Coppola were also announced. Elsewhere, we heard some casting news for the remakes of Piranha and Clash of the Titans, plus yet another American Pie direct-to-dvd sequel. Hey, Eugene Levy's gotta get a paycheck from somewhere!
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Sofia Coppola Returns to the Director's Chair with Somewhere [1]
Blogosphere Frowns on Crank: High Voltage Live Twitter Event [2]
Errol Morris and This American Life Make Fictional Cryonics Film [3]
Turkish Rambo Coming to DVD [4]
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Probably Getting Cancelled [5]
Jackie Chan to Star in Ong Bak 4? [6]
Billy Bob Thornton Acts Like Rock Star A-
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