Tag: American Psycho
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Mary Harron Knew The Music Of American Psycho Had To Set A Tone
“American Psycho” satirizes the culture of the 1980s, and you can’t talk about the decade and leave out the era’s music. The ’80s were a conservative decade, with an ascendant political right-wing, the financialization of the global economy, and more commercial art compared with the subversiveness of the 1960s and ’70s.Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in…
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Josh Lucas Originally Thought Christian Bale’s Performance In ‘American Psycho’ Was “Terrible” But Now Considers It “Next Level”
“American Psycho” is a film that people fully embrace now, more than 20 years after its release. However, at the time, Mary Harron’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis classic novel was actually thought to be silly and just not good. And a lot of that comes down to the tricky tone of the film,…
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The Best Horror Movies: Maika Monroe, Jennifer Tilly, and More Scream Queens Share Their Picks
From the carefully considered outline of a Final Girl to the intoxicating nebulousness of the Scream Queen moniker, women are the bloody, brooding, beating heart of the horror genre.On screen and off, women have long proved an essential linchpin to the success of scary movies. Actresses have served as horror’s marquee-topping centerpieces since even before…
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Christian Bale Says He Made Less on ‘American Psycho’ Than the Film’s Makeup Artists
It’s almost psychotic to think that Christian Bale made pennies on the dollar compared to his collaborators on “American Psycho.”Bale’s iconic role as yuppie-turned-serial-killer Patrick Bateman came to be only due to director Mary Harron’s vision for Bale in the role — after Leonardo DiCaprio turned it down.“Nobody wanted me to do it except the…
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‘White Noise’ Producer Buys Rights to Don DeLillo’s ‘Americana’ (Exclusive)
Don DeLillo’s debut novel, “Americana,” is set to be adapted 51 years after it was first published.“White Noise” producer Uri Singer has bought the rights to the 1971 novel, continuing his streak of adapting a string of DeLillo works that have been deemed “unadaptable.”“Americana” tells the story of David Bell, an out-of-touch television executive who…
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Ezra Miller Won’t Be Cut from ‘Dalíland,’ Says Director: ‘Nothing Bad Happened During Our Filming’
Ezra Miller had no issues on the set of TIFF closing night premiere “Dalíland,” as the persistence of memory goes to show.Director Mary Harron (“American Psycho”) had Miller, who stars as a younger version of Salvador Dalí in the movie, in mind for over a decade to star in the biopic. “At that point, the…
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Year Of The Vampire: The Moth Diaries Puts A Teen Girl Twist On Traditional Vampire Tropes
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)”The Moth Diaries” is a moody horror piece directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho“), based on Rachel Klein’s gothic novel of the same name. It was lambasted by critics…
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Why Mary Harron Refused To Meet With Leonardo DiCaprio For American Psycho
Not sure if you all have heard about it, but in the year 1997, this movie called “Titanic” came out. It was a hit! One of the stars of that film was a young man by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio. Thanks to his role in this film and in Baz Luhrmann’s “William Shakespeare’s Romeo…
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Antlers Director Scott Cooper Would Love To Make A Romantic Comedy Starring Christian Bale [Exclusive]
You might be under the belief that Christian Bale has never and will never appear in a romantic comedy, probably since that’s pretty much exactly what he came out and said a few years back when he basically said “American Psycho” is the closest he’ll ever get to one. The Oscar-winning actor saying “I was asked…
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What’s Coming to Hulu in June 2019
If you’re not already, Hulu should get you in the summer mood with its June releases. Go to summer camp with the slasher flick “Friday the 13th” — and seven sequels. Listen to the breezy tune “Stuck in the Middle With You” from “Reservoir Dogs.” Compare thee to a summer’s day with “Shakespeare in Love”…