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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
The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe
29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.
Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal »
Jocelin Donahue ('The House of the Devil', 'The Burrowers')
18 October 2009 12:02 AM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Jocelin Donahue is a thoughtful actress. Thoughtful films would be her genre: The former Nyu Sociology-History undergrad has starred in period pieces like The Burrowers, a horror-western that was as much about settling the wilderness of the West as about what beasts lurk beneath that harsh terrain. She has been in abstracted short films like The Masquerade and Express 831. Sitting with me in a room at the Four Seasons, draped in the catalog-sharp attire that befits her past career as a model, Jocelin tells me she is drawn to acting because she is fascinated by the formation of identity.
We are here because of a film that radiates identity—Ti West’s The House of the Devil, which is storming the festival circuit from Sheffield, UK to Austin, Texas...
Fixated on the “Satanic Panic” of the early 80s, The House of the Devil devotedly follows the cinematic trends of that era. »
- M C Funk
[Movie Review] New York, I Love You
16 October 2009 4:08 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If you've seen Paris, je t'aime, you would know the basic concept of New York, I Love You. Some of the world's celebrated filmmakers create short tales of romance based in a metropolitan city, compiled in an anthology film. The stories stand on their own, but connected together by the common theme of love and the mood of its location.
What's different—and consequently better—about New York, I Love You is that the individual stories are interconnected, to illustrate a web of people that links New Yorkers in unexpected ways. It could be that two strangers hail the same cab, or go to the same Chinese laundromat, or know the same pharmacist. Furthering these links is Emilie Ohana, playing a video artist who circles the city with a video camera and continually runs into the other characters.
Unlike the segmented and showcasey Paris, je t'aime, this film is much more fluid. »
- Arya Ponto
Adam Lambert's Plum Premiere, Lady GaGa's Tour, Gus Van Sant's New Project, Gays In Space, and more
15 October 2009 3:06 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
AfterElton is not implying that Zac is a member of the undead army.
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
Because out hottie sex columnist Dan Savage thinks you need to know: In case of the zombie apocalypse, it is not cool to have sex with zombie Zac Efron, pictured above in his pre-zombie state. And knowing is half the battle. Adam Lambert gets plum spot to premiere his music video from 2012 prior to showings of Michael Jackson's This Is It. If only there was a television channel dedicated to playing music videos... Showtime has greenlit a pilot for the U.S. version of Shameless with William H. Macy in the lead, and set in present day Chicago. Casting ideas for gay teen Ian? Or my personal favorite, Mickey? Buy a bear, »
- lostinmiami
Van Sant and Ellis are suicidal together
15 October 2009 10:44 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Gus Van Sant and author Bret Easton Ellis will collaborate on a screenplay about the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.According to Variety, PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams and K5 Film have acquired screen rights to "The Golden Suicides," a Vanity Fair article written by Nancy Jo Sales.Van Sant is involved only as writer at this point.Ithaka Entertainment's Braxton Pope will produce with PalmStar's Kevin Frakes and Celluloid Dreams' Hengameh Panahi.Duncan and Blake were a popular couple in the downtown New York and Venice, California, art scenes. Duncan was one of the first videogame designers for girls. Blake.s "digital paintings," which were kaleidoscopic images shown on plasma screens, established his art credentials.The two descended into a self destructive, »
- Adnan Tezer
The Family That Slays Together: Ten Domestic Slashers
15 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
If you feel like you've seen this week's new slasher flick "The Stepfather" before, you probably have, even if you're not a fan of the 1987 original starring "Lost"'s Terry O'Quinn. That's because the family-bands-together-to-fend-off-the-one-member-who-turns-on-the-rest trope is at the heart of dozens of horror movies.
Need proof? Here's a list of ten different types of immediate and extended family members and a notable cinematic example of each going medieval on their loved ones.
Killer Mom
I'd wager that everybody has said "My parents are crazy!" at least once in their lives. But the filicidal mother in 2008's "Baby Blues" is so far gone into Crazytown that she'll make you want to call your own mom to apologize for ever implying she was nuts. Colleen Porch plays the killer in question, an exhausted mother of four with a truck-driving husband, who snaps one day and begins picking off her own children slasher movie-style; at one point, »
- Matt Singer
Suicide Brings Van Sant and Easton Ellis Together
15 October 2009 3:44 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Sad times are known to pull people together, and two unlikely candidates - film-maker Gus Van Sant and novelist Bret Easton Ellis, united only by their two-part surnames - have been drawn close by a mysterious double suicide which they plan to commit to celluloid.
Inspired by a Vanity Fair article titled The Golden Suicides, the pair will recount the death pact between artist lovers Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake who killed themselves within days of each other in 2007.
Van Sant, having piqued the Academy's interest with his gay-rights biopic Milk, is currently working on morality tale Restless for Columbia Pictures, which will star Tim Burton's new Alice Mia Wasikowska. He will co-write the Golden Suicides project with Easton Ellis - who follows his most recent film outing The Informers, with an adaptation of Lunar Park due in 2011 - but so far neither is attached to direct.
The story »
Edge Of Darkness Trailer Now Online
15 October 2009 12:21 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The trailer for Edge of Darkness is now online, and it looks like a movie throwback to an earlier time for several reasons. First of all, it's clearly a gritty cop drama with a grizzled lead (Mel Gibson, returning to acting for the first time in ages), involving quite a bit of violence but no bullet-time. Secondly, it features someone saying "Fasten your seatbelts", which we haven't heard in years.It's all based on the 1985 BBC TV series of the same name, but before you throw up your hands in disgust and dismiss it as just another remake, it's worth noting that this is directed by Martin Campbell, who also made the much acclaimed series. That makes it less like Gus Van Sant's Psycho and more like Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own film, The Man Who Knew Too Much.The film's out on February 19, 2010 in the UK, »
Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant Writing a Suicide Screenplay
14 October 2009 6:10 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant may already have another project in the works (Restless), but that's not stopping him from teaming with author Bret Easton Ellis (The Informers, Rules of Attraction) to write what sounds like a wholly depressing piece of cinema. Variety reports that Van Sant and Ellis are adapting The Golden Suicides, a Nancy Jo Sales article from Vanity Fair, about the double suicide (in 2007) of the artist and socialite couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Though Van Sant certainly has the experience behind the lens, it sounds like he will only be brought on board as a writer for this project. Variety sums up the couple's troubles and tragic ends here for those who are interested: "Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, California, art scenes. She was one of the first videogame designers for girls, and his 'digital »
- Ethan Anderton
Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for 'Golden Suicides'
14 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
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 »
- Christopher Campbell
Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for a Feature
14 October 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Gus Van Sant has been known to pick up a book or two to adapt in his time. Most recently, it was the less-than-stellar Paranoid Park. But now he's getting ready for something a little different. Rather than grabbing a finished work from a popular scribe, he's teaming with the writer to kick off the process. Variety reports that Van Sant is joining forces with Bret Easton Ellis to write a film about the double suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake -- a step up from last year's news that the scribe would be writing as Van Sant consulted.
You probably heard about their deaths back in 2007. The filmmaker/game designer Duncan died after mixing Tylenol Pm and alcohol, while her long-term artist boyfriend Blake was last seen walking into the Atlantic Ocean a week later to join her in death. But it wasn't just some sort of star-crossed death pact. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Gus Van Sant and American Psycho Author Take On Story of Artists' Double Suicide
14 October 2009 8:41 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Director Gus Van Sant is well-known for making movies focused on outsiders struggling for a sense of identity (Milk, Paranoid Park, My Own Private Idaho). Author Bret Easton Ellis is perhaps most famous for his novel about an outsider who also happens to be an outright sociopath (American Psycho). Now, Variety writes that the two will collaborate on the story of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, a couple who committed suicide two years ago.
Blake and Duncan were stars of the multimedia art world — he was a well-renowned digital artist, painter, and designer, while she was a filmmaker, video game designer, and critic — but shortly before their deaths, their behavior grew erratic. At one point, the couple became paranoid that they were under attack by Scientologists. Blake returned home on July 10, 2007 to find Duncan already deceased from ingesting a combination of medicines and alcohol. One week later, he drowned himself »
- Rich Z Zwelling
Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team to Write Suicide Film
14 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
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 the dual suicides of 'golden couple' Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, who each committed suicide in 2007, and may have done so after developing delusions of persecution and conspiracy. Variety reports that Gus Van Sant is currently involved only as a writer, with he and Ellis working from the original article by Nancy Jo Sales. (Sales was briefly married to the 'radical Episcopalian priest' who was a confidant of the suicidal couple.) I'm reading the article for the first time now, and it's some crazy stuff: a powerful creative couple (he was an artist, she a ... »
- Russ Fischer
Vanity Fair article about mysterious suicides optioned as film
14 October 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
In 2007 the suicides of video game designer/filmmaker Theresa Duncan and artist Jeremy Blake stunned their circle of friends and a larger group of people who follow the subculture of parapolitical news. Duncan, who maintained a blog, began to write numerous posts that she was being targeted by shadowy groups including Scientologists. Her body was found in the apartment she shared with Blake in July 2007 and her death ruled a suicide by overdose. One week later it's believed that Blake committed suicide by walking into the Atlantic Ocean.
The deaths caused a larger ripple to spread out amongst the east coast art community, Duncan's blog readers and those attracted to the bizarre circumstances surrounding the tragedies.
In January 2008 Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales had her article "The Golden Suicides" published, a chronicle of the events lead up to the suicides and their resulting aftermath. Now word breaks that Milk »
- Patrick Sauriol
Van Sant, Ellis Team to Pen Suicide Saga
14 October 2009 7:40 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Variety
Gus Van Sant and author Bret Easton Ellis will team to write a feature about the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams and K5 Film have acquired screen rights to "The Golden Suicides," a Vanity Fair article written by Nancy Jo Sales.
"Milk" director Van Sant is involved only as writer at this point.
Read more in Variety.
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- Lisa Horowitz
Brett Easton Ellis And Gus Van Sant Team Up To Depress You
14 October 2009 7:11 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
I was thinking for a while that Gus van Sant was tapping into a lighter side of his personality with his upcoming project, the teenage love story Restless. But apparently it's still all gloom and doom inside the head of the director who, in one year, made a movie about a civil rights leader who was murdered (Milk) and a teenager who accidentally murdered someone (Paranoid Park). For his next screenwriting project, van Sant will team with novelist Brett Easton Ellis to write a screenplay based on the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides," about a pair of artists who killed themselves within a week of each other. According to Variety, Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake (pictured)were a popular videogame designer (her) and digital artist (him) until they developed paranoid fears that the government and religious organizations were trying to get them, and a week after Duncan killed herself, »
Suicides is Painless for Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis
14 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· While he already has a directing project going at Columbia, Gus Van Sant is aboard as a writer on an adaptation of The Golden Suicides, a Vanity Fair feature about the life and shocking death of the art-world darlings Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Which would be intriguing enough, except that novelist Bret Easton Ellis will collaborate with Van Sant to achieve the maximum level of decadent ennui allowed by law. The director's chair remains open for now; I've got $10 on Julian Schnabel. [Variety]
Chris Pine is reportedly being groomed for a top spy slot, the Tommy Lee Jones-Matthew McConaughey project you've been desperately awaiting is here, and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump. »
Bret Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sant to Film The Golden Suicides
14 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
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 »
- John Cooper
Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to team for The Golden Suicides
14 October 2009 5:36 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") are teaming to write a feature about the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams and K5 Film have acquired screen rights to the Vanity Fair article called "The Golden Suicides" written by Nancy Jo Sales. Braxton Pope of Ithaka Entertainment will produce alongside PalmStar's Kevin Frakes and Celluloid Dreams' Hengameh Panati. Blake and Duncan were a popular couple in downtown New York and Venice, California art scenes. »
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