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There's good news for Christian Bale fans this month, with one of his best films getting a new streaming home. American Psycho arrives on Paramount+ on March 31.

Bale's career took off after his portrayal of the serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. The satirical black comedy film, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, stars Bale as a New York City investment banker by day and serial killer by night. The film's ensemble cast included Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto and Reese Witherspoon. A commentary on yuppie culture and consumerism, American Psycho has become a cult classic in the years following its release.

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American Psycho was directed by Mary Harron from a script she co-wrote with Guinevere Turner. The film boldly explores themes of toxic masculinity and narcissism. It...

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of director Mary Harron’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here), which has come to be known as a cult classic – and for a while, news reports made it seem that, as an anniversary gift, we’d be getting an American Psycho remake from director Luca Guadagnino, whose credits include Challengers, Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Queer, and the Suspiria remake. Guadagnino reportedly signed on to direct the film from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) back in October, and in December we heard that Austin Butler (Elvis) and Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) were being considered for the lead role of Patrick Bateman, the character who was played by Christian Bale in Harron’s film. But then, Ellis said on his podcast that he thought the remake talk was “fake news” and that deals hadn’t even been secured with Guadagnino or Burns yet.

As anyone with a social media account is aware of, there are numerous celebrities, artists, and public figures who've fallen from grace these days, their reputations and careers falling under the banner of that oh-so-ominous term of "cancelled." While the term is frequently used erroneously, the people who actually have been shunned from the spotlight they once enjoyed are often extremely well-deserving of their fate, so much so that any attempt to make a comeback would have to be an extremely delicate and well-considered one.

Time and again, The Cancelled keep making bizarre, creepy, unwelcome mistakes as they embarrassingly struggle to regain the reputation that they've since lost. Today, we can add Armie Hammer to that unfavorable list of actors looking to mount a Hollywood comeback by jumping onboard a project that wouldn't be favorable in any capacity, let alone to a disgraced celebrity. According to Variety, Hammer has signed...

Bret Easton Ellis has come out to state that Lionsgate's supposed American Psycho reboot movie doesn't exist, suggesting that the reported production is simply part of a ploy to gauge interest. Mary Harron's darkly comedic and satirical psychological horror brought Ellis' 1991 novel to the big screen in 2000, telling the story of a vain, egotistical banker living a double life as a serial killer. American Psycho starred Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, alongside Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto.

On his The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the author recently debunked rumors of American Psycho's reboot on his podcast. He suggested that no contracts with Butler or potential director Luca Gudagino have been signed and have simply been reported to gauge audience interest:

I have a feeling it’s fake news. I heard somewhere, from someone, that there are no contracts. Austin Butler hasn’t signed anything to play Patrick Bateman.

While not the first adaptation of one of the author's novels, American Psycho certainly remains the most popular Bret Easton Ellis-based movie. After 25 years and numerous rewatches later, it's easy to see why. Ellis' work first made its way to the screen with the Robert Downey Jr.-starring Less Than Zero, an underrated gem tackling similar themes to Psycho, and later continued with 2002's The Rules of Attraction, which is technically connected to the Christian Bale-led movie, and 2008's The Informers.

Based on the book of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho follows Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) an investment banker in New York in 1987 who leads a double life as a serial killer. As investigators circle Bateman after the disappearance of a colleague, he finds himself trapped in a spiral of murder and excess, unable to stop himself from giving in to his increasingly dark urges.

Update: It turns out that Austin Butler starring in Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho remake isn’t a sure thing. While it’s true that he’s being considered for the role, no deals have been made. We’ll keep you updated when this changes.

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2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of director Mary Harron’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here), which has come to be known as a cult classic – and as an anniversary gift, we’re getting an American Psycho remake from director Luca Guadagnino, whose credits include Challengers, Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Queer, and the Suspiria remake. The first film was carried by the incredible performance delivered by lead actor Christian Bale… and now we know who will be following in Bale’s footsteps. Variety reports that the character of Patrick Bateman in Guadagnino’s film will be played by Austin Butler,...

Austin Butler has been cast as Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho remake. Co-written and directed by Mary Harron, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the cult classic film from 2000 stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie who leads a double life as a serial killer during the 1980s. In October, it was announced that Luca Guadagnino would direct a new interpretation of the novel American Psycho with Scott Z. Burns writing the script.

Now, a few months later, the new adaptation has found an actor to replace Christian Bale. According to Variety, Austin Butler is set to star as Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho. The casting puts an end to months of rumors and speculation regarding who would play the highly coveted role of Patrick Bateman after Christian Bale.

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Sav Rodgers’ documentary Chasing Chasing Amy premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival and has been making the festival rounds ever since, screening at 76 festivals around the world to date. Level 33 Entertainment gave the film a theatrical release last month, and now we’ve learned that Chasing Chasing Amy will be available to rent or own on VOD as of next Tuesday, December 17th!

MediaPlayNews reports that in the documentary, filmmaker Sav Rodgers takes a journey of self-discovery while making a documentary about Kevin Smith’s 1997 film Chasing Amy and its polarizing reputation among LGBTQ+ people. They go on to reveal that Chasing Chasing Amy explores the transformational impact of the ’90s cult classic on a 12-year-old queer kid from Kansas, coming of age and to terms with his identity. For young Sav Rodgers, the Kevin Smith cult classic became a life raft. As Rodgers examines the film and its making...

In the spring of 1997, Chasing Amy hit theaters, serving as a comeback for writer-director Kevin Smith. Earlier in the decade, the New Jersey filmmaker had launched onto the scene with Clerks, a low-budget comedy about some foul-mouthed buddies who worked at a convenience store, earning rave reviews and announcing Smith as a promising new indie talent. But he tarnished that reputation with his follow-up, Mallrats, which was a commercial bomb and critically derided. It’s no exaggeration to say that Smith’s career was hanging in the balance when he released Chasing Amy, a bittersweet love story about a comic-book artist, Holden (Ben Affleck), who falls in love with a fellow artist, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams). They seem to click, but there’s a problem: She’s gay, thinking of him only as a friend. But the more time they spend together, the more she starts to develop romantic feelings for him.

This time of year, major fall festivals give way to regional fests around the country, which program a mix of Oscar contenders and international Oscar submissions. The better-resourced festivals bring in talent to regale the Academy members on hand, from the Hamptons and Woodstock to Savannah. Audience award winners gain momentum, such as “Conclave” (Focus Features), which won at both Middleburg and Mill Valley. And at this year’s BendFilm Festival in Oregon, ex-Sundance festival director John Cooper launched the inaugural BendFilm: Basecamp.

Filmmakers and their casts did not make the trek to the Orcas Island Film Festival (October 16-20), which has built up a passionate following over 10 years. Coaxing distributors to send them DCPs is Carl Spence, veteran of the Seattle, Palm Springs, Miami, and Sonoma fests, who runs Orcas Island with local culture impresario Donna Laslo. It was fun taking the puddle jumper from Seattle to Orcas Island...

Sav Rodgers’ documentary Chasing Chasing Amy premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival and has been making the festival rounds ever since, screening at 76 festivals around the world to date. Now, Level 33 Entertainment is gearing up to give the film a theatrical release on November 1st, and we have the trailer embedded above.

MediaPlayNews reports that in the documentary, filmmaker Sav Rodgers takes a journey of self-discovery while making a documentary about Kevin Smith’s 1997 film Chasing Amy and its polarizing reputation among LGBTQ+ people. They go on to reveal that Chasing Chasing Amy explores the transformational impact of the ’90s cult classic on a 12-year-old queer kid from Kansas, coming of age and to terms with his identity. For young Sav Rodgers, the Kevin Smith cult classic became a life raft. As Rodgers examines the film and its making as a cornerstone of LGBTQ+ cinema, he finds himself at a complicated crossroads.

American Psycho has developed a cult following over the last two decades since the Christian Bale-led film was first released in 2000. The film is based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name and gained notoriety for its commentary on consumerism and 1980s yuppie culture, which are reflected in Bale’s memorable performance.

Christian Bale’s American Psycho will receive a new interpretation (Credit: Lionsgate).

Recently, a new adaptation of the popular novel was revealed to be in the works. The forthcoming film is expected to be helmed by director Luca Guadagnino and will update the core story centered on Patrick Bateman for a new audience. However, unlike Bale’s performance, which was based on Tom Cruise, the new film offers an opportunity for a fresh take on the cult character, which might vindicate Cruise.

The New American Psycho Movie Might Finally Vindicate Tom Cruise

American Psycho features Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman,...

Luca Guadagnino is set to direct a new interpretation of American Psycho for the big screen. Christian Bale’s 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ original novel was helmed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Guinevere Turner. Harron’s film is a cult hit and fans aren’t happy that Guadagnino is directing a “remake.”

Christian Bale in American Psycho | Credits: Lionsgate

However, Lionsgate has enlisted Scott Z. Burns to write the screenplay, which will stay close to the original material, unlike Harron’s film. Moreover, some fans are against the move, sharing that the success of Bale’s movie stemmed from the female vision behind it, namely Harron and Turner.

Luca Guadagnino Can Pull Off A Modern American Psycho Despite Criticisms Luca Guadagnino | Credits: Maximilian Bühn, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

According to Variety, Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations to helm the modern adaptation of American Psycho for Lionsgate.

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations for a new interpretation of the Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho for Lionsgate with a script by Scott Z. Burns. Rather than a remake, the film will be a new adaptation of Ellis’s novel.

The book was previously adapted by director Mary Harron from a screenplay by Harron & Guinevere Turner, with Christian Bale starring.

The Lionsgate film will be produced by Frenesy Films and executive produced by Sam Pressman, the son of Edward R. Pressman, producer of the first adaptation, through his company Pressman Film.

“We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate,” said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson. “Luca is a brilliant artist and the perfect visionary to create a whole new interpretation of this potent and classic IP.”

Luca Guadagnino’s most recent film, Challengers, starring Zendaya, opened in first place at the box office,...

Luca Guadagnino is in final talks with Lionsgate to direct a new version of American Psycho based on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 satirical novel.

Scott Z. Burns, whose writing credits include The Bourne Ultimatum and Contagion, will write the screenplay to what is conceived as a new adaptation of the novel, rather than a remake of the 2000 version directed by Mary Harron from a screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner.

That film starred Christian Bale as the titular character and Lionsgate distributed in North America.

In the novel, Patrick Bateman is a mentally unstable Manhattan-based banker who hails from a wealthy clan.

Thanks to Luca Guadagnino, Patrick Bateman will be back.

The auteur is in final negotiations with Lionsgate for a new interpretation of iconic novel “American Psycho,” the studio announced Friday, October 18. The Bret Easton Ellis book was first brought to the screen in 2000. Christian Bale led the original film alongside Guadagnino’s frequent collaborator Chloë Sevigny.

Scott Z. Burns will adapt Ellis’ novel. Rather than a remake of the 2000 feature, Burns’ screenplay will be a new adaptation of the IP. Mary Harron directed the original film from a screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner.

Guadagnino’s iteration of “American Psycho” will be produced by Frenesy Films and executive produced by Pressman Film’s Sam Pressman, the son of Edward R. Pressman, who was a producer of the first adaptation.

“We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said. “Luca is a brilliant artist,...

Nearly 25 years after the original movie's release, a new American Psycho adaptation is in development with Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino at the helm. Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel centers on New York City investment banker Patrick Bateman who frequently indulges in his more sadistic urges as a serial killer, murdering many of his fellow yuppies and women. American Psycho was previously adapted by Mary Harron, with Christian Bale leading the cast and garnering rave reviews for his performance, with the movie having garnered a cult following in the years since.

Lionsgate is officially moving forward with a new American Psycho movie, which is being described as a "new interpretation" of Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel of the same name. Guadagnino is currently in final negotiations with the studio to direct the new adaptation, with The Bourne Ultimatum's Scott Z. Burns penning the script. In addition to Lionsgate, the new movie will...

Luca Guadagnino is in final talks to direct a new adaptation of “American Psycho” for Lionsgate, the company announced Friday.

Scott Z. Burns is writing the new script. Rather than a remake, the new “American Psycho” film will be a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel.

The book was previously adapted by director Mary Harron from a screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner, with Christian Bale starring. The Lionsgate film will be produced by Frenesy Films and executive produced by Sam Pressman, the son of Edward R. Pressman, producer of the first adaptation, through his company Pressman Film.

“We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said in a statement to TheWrap. “Luca is a brilliant artist, and the perfect visionary to create a whole new interpretation of this potent and classic IP.”

Guadagnino’s most recent film “Challengers,...

One of Christian Bale’s winning traits as an actor is his inability to deliver a bad role. Whether as the lead or the supporting character, Bale’s filmography has a rare combination of iconic performances that keep the audience falling only deeper in love with him, his irrefutable talent, and his magnetic on-screen presence.

Christian Bale in American Psycho [Credit: Lionsgate Films]

Sadly, however, despite being one of the best actors in the world, Christian Bale did not have such a smooth sailing start to his career. After trying (and failing) to rebel against the Hollywood studio system and his heartbreaking realization about the importance of fitting into a mold behind the scenes, the actor finally let up and danced to the tune of the studios for the sake of his art.

In 2000, a director put two and two together, recognized the wild, untapped, ingenious potential hidden beneath the layers of his put-together personality,...

Stars: Bella Thorne, Frank Whaley, Ryan Phillippe, Rebecca De Mornay, Jan Luis Castellanos, Bart Johnson, Dylan Flashner, Joy Rovaris | Written by Mitzi Peirone, Guinevere Turner | Directed by Mitzi Peirone

Like most teenagers, Clare Bleeker (Bella Thorne) is a normal teenage girl who harbours secrets. But, unlike most teenagers, Clare is a serial killer intent on ending the lives of predacious men. But Clare is not your garden-variety sociopath, as she believes what she is doing is in the service of God. As she reminds us: “Everything I have said and done has been in the hands of God. I was born to do this. I am not afraid.” Accompanied by Bob (Frank Whaley), an apparition of one of Bleeker’s past victims, Clare journeys through the 90-minute runtime, lurching from disaster to the next as she descends into the seedy criminal underworld.

Based on Don Roff’s novel, “Clare at...

Prepare to witness a chilling descent into darkness as Saint Clare, the highly anticipated thriller starring Bella Thorne, makes its UK premiere at this year’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest in London. The film, set to screen on 25 August, promises to be a standout at the festival, offering a unique blend of psychological horror and supernatural intrigue.

Directed by Mitzi Peirone, the award-winning filmmaker behind Braid, and co-written with American Psycho’s Guinevere Turner, Saint Clare tells the harrowing story of a young woman with a divine mission to rid her small town of evildoers. Thorne, known for her roles in Midnight Sun and Scream: The TV Series, delivers a powerful performance as Clare, a solitary figure haunted by mysterious voices that guide her to eliminate those who believe they can act with impunity.

But as Clare’s vigilante justice leads her deeper into a labyrinth of corruption and human trafficking,...

Back in 2019, it was announced that Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch had signed on to star in a horror comedy called Clare at 16, which was going to be written and directed by Mark Pavia, the filmmaker behind the 1997 Stephen King adaptation The Night Flier, and based on a novel by Don Roff. That iteration of the project didn’t make it into production, and in 2022 Bella Thorne (Infamous) not only signed on to star in the title role of what was now being called Saint Clare, but she also brought Dying to Play (a.k.a. Braid) director Mitzi Peirone on board to write and direct the film. Saint Clare just had its premiere at the Taormina Film Festival, and during the event Thorne revealed to Deadline that she helped edit the serial killer movie.

The Don Roff novel told the following story: The small town of Pickman Flats offers a...

Saint Clare is a haunting, blood-soaked thriller set for its UK premiere in August at London’s FrightFest. Bella Thorne delivers an outstanding performance as the eponymous lead in a spiritually charged small-town tale in which American Psycho meets Joan of Arc.

In a small town, a solitary young woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate people with bad intentions who think they can get away with it. But her last kill changes everything and sucks her headlong down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and twisted visions from the beyond. Can Saint Clare save herself from unimaginable terror as her pursuit for retribution takes a dangerous turn, carrying her deep into an unknown hell?

Based on a novel by Don Roff, the film is expertly helmed by award-winning Italian director Mitzi Peirone (Braid) who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). The stellar cast also includes Ryan Philippe,...

Italian directer and writer Mitzi Peirone’s Taormina Film Festival opener Saint Clare employs a number of cues from the story of Joan of Arc, the 15th century warrior and martyr who believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England.

Saint Clare is set in a small town where a solitary, young woman (Bella Thorne) is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill-intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, the trafficking of young women and visions from the beyond. It’s based on Don Roff’s novel, Clare at Sixteen.

Peirone, who took a crack at co-writer Guinevere Turner’s (American Psycho) version, explained, “The Italian in me had to bring European, Joan of Arc, had to bring history, had to bring Renaissance paintings and chiaroscuro,...

“Chasing Chasing Amy,” a documentary feature which has played at over 75 film festivals and featured on The Popcorn List of outstanding undistributed films, has been picked up for world sales by Level 33 Entertainment.

The film explores the complex legacy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 cult classic movie “Chasing Amy” on LGBTQ+ people and its life-saving impact on Sav Rodgers, who makes his feature-length directing debut with the documentary. The film explores the transformational impact of the rom-com on a 12-year-old queer kid from Kansas, coming of age and to terms with his identity. Rodgers says it took him a “lifetime” to make.

Smith’s “Chasing Amy” chronicles the impact on the long-term friendship of two new Jersey comic book artists when they are joined by a third artist, who turns out to be lesbian. The fallout includes heartbreak and jealousy. It starred Ben Affleck, Jason Lee and Joey Lauren Adams.

The Frameline Film Festival has announced the winners from its 2024 program.

The top honors went to Luke Gilford’s “National Anthem,” which took home the Outstanding First Feature Award, and Chloé Barreau’s “Fragments of a Life Loved,” which won Outstanding Documentary Feature.

Frameline, the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ film festival, ran from June 19–29, with 120 screenings, programs and events held in theaters across the Bay Area, including the Herbst Theatre and Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

Highlights of the festival included the Castro Theatre’s first-ever celebration of Juneteenth — a block party that featured the official re-lighting of the venue’s iconic neon blade sign and marquee, performances from the all-Black drag collective and a special outdoor screening of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.”

Other highlights included a special 30th anniversary screening of the 4K restoration of “Go Fish,” attended by Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner, the...

Believe it or not, June is almost over. That can mean only one thing! Okay, it can actually mean lots of things, but for the purposes of this story, we're specifically talking about new titles coming to Netflix for July. Every month, the streaming giant says goodbye to a few movies and TV shows to make room for new stuff. These days, most of the new entries that hit Netflix are Netflix originals, but there are still a handful of library titles that arrive as well. And as June rolls into July, we're looking at one genre specifically: horror! Now, you might be one of those folks who only watches horror around Halloween season, but any month is a good month for a horror movie — even in the middle of summer.

And as the calendar flips over from June to July, you might be craving something scary. Thankfully, Netflix will...

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne and Ryan Phillippe will open Italy’s Taormina Film Festival.

The film is described as a “thriller” and is based on Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen. Set in a small town, the story follows a solitary young woman who is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill-intended people and get away with it until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking, and visions from the beyond.

The film is directed by Italian film director and screenwriter Mitzi Peirone (Braid), who also co-wrote the script with Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). Thorne (Divinity) stars in the titular role with Ryan Philippe (Crash) and Rebecca DeMornay (Wedding Crashers) supporting. The pic was produced by David Chackler, Arielle Elwes, and Joel Michaely. The original soundtrack is by Zola Jesus.

“We couldn’t have dreamed of a better debut for...

Mitzi Peirone’s feature Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival, organizers unveiled Monday.

Thorne, who plays the lead in the adaptation of Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen, will attend the screening, the film’s world premiere, at the festival’s iconic Teatro Antico open-air theater, Saturday July 13. Thorne plays a solitary young woman in a small town who is haunted by voices that lead her to kill the nastier folks in town and get away with it.

Peirone (horror thriller Braid) co-wrote the script with Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). Ryan Phillippe and Rebecca De Mornay co-star. David Chackler, Arielle Elwes and Joel Michaely produced the film, with an original soundtrack by Zola Jesus.

“We couldn’t have dreamed of a better debut for our oneiric film than the gorgeously historic Taormina. We are elated and humbled, especially for a...

U.S.-based Italian director Mitzi Peirone’s comic horror thriller “Saint Clare” has been set as the opening night film of Italy’s upcoming Taormina Film Festival with protagonist Bella Thorne in attendance.

“Saint Clare” follows Peirone’s debut, the horror film “Braid,” which launched from Tribeca in 2018.

Based on U.S. author Don Roff’s novel “Clare at Sixteen,” “Saint Clare” is set in a small town where “a solitary young woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond,” as the provided synopsis puts it.

Peirone co-wrote the “Saint Clare” script with Guinevere Turner (“American Psycho”). Thorne stars in the lead with Ryan Philippe (“Crash”) and Rebecca DeMornay (“Wedding Crashers”) in supporting roles. The film is produced by David Chackler,...

Directed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner, the 2000 Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here) has come to be known as a cult classic, carried by the incredible performance delivered by lead actor Christian Bale – but during a new interview published by Vanity Fair, Bale’s co-stars Josh Lucas and Chloë Sevigny have admitted that they weren’t blown away by Bale on set. In fact, Lucas thought he was doing some terrible acting, while Sevigny found his process difficult to deal with.

During the interview, Lucas said he didn’t realize exactly what American Psycho was while he was working on it. “I didn’t realize what a subversive comedy it was. I didn’t realize the way that Mary was going to turn it on its head. I don’t know if you felt this way, but I actually truly remember...

Chloë Sevigny is recalling her time filming American Psycho and recently revealed she found Christian Bale’s acting process “very intimidating.”

In a new interview with her other American Psycho co-star, Josh Lucas, the pair reminisced about working with Bale.

“I was trying to respect his process, which I found challenging because I’m very gregarious and silly and goofy, unbeknownst to the general public,” she told Vanity Fair. “When people take themselves so seriously, I kind of shut down, even though I take my work very seriously and I love acting and whatnot.”

Sevigny found it difficult to cope with Bale’s “Method acting,” saying she “was really intimidated by his process and intimidated by him.”

“I wanted a little more generosity to make myself feel more at ease, which is my own ego. It was a really challenging dynamic for me, but I don’t think that I thought he was bad,...

NewFest and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) have announced the fourth annual lineup for their “Queering the Canon” retrospective film series, this year subtitled “Besties.”

This year’s lineup of films screening at Bam in downtown Brooklyn (April 11 – 15) includes a 4K restoration of Rose Troche’s lesbian classic “Go Fish,” the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Brian Sloan’s queer romantic comedy “I Think I Do,” 35mm screenings of Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” and F. Gary Gray’s “Set It Off.” The “Go Fish” screening will be accompanied by a Q&a with Rose Troche in person along with star Guinevere Turner.

The repertory series was created by NewFest, co-curated by NewFest’s Nick McCarthy (director of programming) and Kim Garcia (technical director and programmer), and is presented in partnership with Bam.

The event will also include a panel discussion, “Best of the Besties,...

A few years ago, we heard that Lionsgate was developing TV shows based on American Psycho and the Saw franchise. Obviously those projects didn’t go anywhere, as Saw has since been revived with the film Saw X and now industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider is reporting that Lionsgate has decided to revive American Psycho not with a TV show, but with a remake. In the same report, Sneider reveals that It producer Roy Lee is also developing a new version of a different Stephen King story, The Dead Zone.

Based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the 2000 version of American Psycho was directed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. The film has the following synopsis: Patrick Bateman is a young, handsome, Harvard educated Wall Street success, seemingly perfect with his stunning fiancé and entourage of high-powered friends. But his circle of...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Candy Land Blu-ray from Mvd

One of last year’s indie horror standouts, Candy Land is getting a Blu-ray release on February 5 from Mvd and Roxwell Films. Special features include a commentary by director John Swab and a digital zine.

Swab writes and directs. Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Virginia Rand, Guinevere Turner, and William Baldwin star.

In her review, Meagan Navarro said “Candy Land gives a refreshing perspective through its condemnation of religion and its positioning of sex workers as protagonists. It’s a more nuanced and lived-in approach to the sleazy slasher format, and its affecting characters elevate the familiar.”

Art the Clown Doll from Living Dead Doll

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A movie's protagonist is often an inherently heroic person. They do the right thing, save the day, and focus on making things better for others. Anti-heroes are still heroic in their own ways, even if their methods or personalities are not. However, in some films, the main character is unquestionably the villain.

Villainous main characters may have redeeming features, and they may even win the audience's sympathy, but these villains are not good people. They work toward evil ends, torment others, and commit all manner of terrible deeds. Such a protagonist can be hard to write without losing the audience, but some villainous protagonists have gone down in cinematic history.

Updated by Robert Vaux on January 8, 2024: Villainous protagonists are one of (if not) the most polarizing archetypes in movies. Despite the controversies they inspire, these characters are still popular and flocked to for a reason. This list was updated...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Leonardo as Creature from the Black Lagoon Figure from Neca

Leonardo as Creature from the Black Lagoon will join Neca’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Universal Monsters toy line in January. Pre-order are up for $34.99.

Packed to the gills with accessories, the 7” scale action figure comes with six interchangeable hands, two harpoon katanas, attachable wrist bone blade, and turtle. It’s packaged in a window box with opening flap featuring art by Daniel Horne.

This is the line’s eighth release, following Raphael as Frankenstein, Leonardo as Ygor, Michelangelo as The Mummy, April as Bride of Frankenstein, Splinter as Van Helsing, Donatello as The Invisible Man, and Casey Jones as The Phantom.

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The question of what really happened in Paul Allen's apartment in American Psycho is left ambiguous, as Patrick Bateman's capacity for self-delusion blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. The theory that Mrs. Wolfe helped clean up the apartment, concealing the crimes, aligns with the movie's dark satire and highlights the self-obsession and indifference of society. The ambiguous ending of American Psycho reflects Bateman's mental state and his ability to convince himself that the gruesome events didn't occur, making him an even more terrifying character. The sequel to the film nearly ruins the mystery and fear created by the original ending.

In the final scene of American Psycho, serial killer Patrick Bateman returns to the apartment of his earlier victim, the location of some of his worst crimes, and finds it to be clean and free of bodies leading audiences to wonder what happened to Paul Allen's apartment.

Featuring: Joey Lauren Adams, Andrew Ahn, Trish Bendix, Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith, Guinevere Turner | Written and Directed by Sav Rodgers

On 1st May 2020, a Ted Talk video went live of Sav Rodgers sharing how 1997’s Chasing Amy saved his adolescent life while growing up queer in Kansas. Film critic Roger Ebert’s description of the film described how it forced a young artist to question all ideas he had about himself, something which is also true of Sav’s journey. This led him to make Chasing Chasing Amy, a documentary about Kevin Smith’s third feature film.

As the video was shared, wider interest was ignited in the documentary Sav mentioned that he was making, leading to Kevin Smith himself reaching out. The writer/director is reflective of his past, offering friendliness while recounting how the film kept his career alive, the real-life inspirations for the story, and the regrets which linger in hindsight.

Chasing Chasing Amy examines the legacy of Kevin Smith's film and its problematic depiction of queer people in a media critique. The documentary explores gender and queerness while addressing the flaws of Chasing Amy as a conversion narrative with harmful tropes. Chasing Chasing Amy is a personal reflection for director Sav Rodgers, who credits the flawed film with saving his life and tells his own queer love stories through the documentary.

In Chasing Chasing Amy, director Sav Rodgers deftly examines Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy, the harmful-yet-preservative film that shaped him. A follow-up to 1994's indie darling Clerks and the now-cult classic Mallrats, Chasing Amy continues to be as divisive as it was in 1997. Contemporary viewers can't help but wonder if the film has a truly happy ending — a question that continues to plague media that centers LGBTQ+ characters and stories. While the answer remains elusive, that very question is,...

Sharpen your ax, order new business cards, and crank up some Huey Lewis and the News because the LA-based comic book publisher Sumerian is bringing an American Psycho comic book to shelves. According to Deadline, the four-issue series, publishing later this year, “will have a dual narrative, one showing a different perspective of Bateman’s killing spree (with a notable “twist”) and another revealing a modern-day arc with “surprising connections to the past.” The new arc is a sequel to the 2000 thriller from director Mary Harron.

Sumerian’s American Psycho comic book centers on “an all-new psychopath as social media obsessed millennial, Charlie (Charlene) Carruthers, goes on a downward spiral filled with violence. Drug fueled partying leads to bloodshed as Charlie leaves a trail of bodies on her way to discovering the truth about her dark nature.”

Sumerian acquired derivative rights to American Psycho through producer Pressman Films. The deal...

The tension between uncovering hidden aspects of film history and respecting the lives of those contained within it form the undergirding conflict of Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, a film of such multitudinous interests and storytelling pursuits that it replicates the ecstasy of newfound romance. The film’s crux, beyond the blossoming lesbian relationship at its core, is Dunye’s aligning of hidden historiographies with the hassle of dating—of searching for something (or someone) that, at the surface, cannot be immediately seen with the naked eye.

Dunye establishes the problem of incomplete histories as Cheryl (Dunye) and Tamara (Valarie Walker) debate the value of, as Tamara puts it, watching “mammy shit from the ’30s.” They do so from behind the counter of a Philadelphia video store, where their employ is less driven by cinephilia—though Cheryl clearly knows her shit—than economic necessity. Unlike Kevin Smith’s Clerks,...

Sav Rodgers’ documentary feature debut, Chasing Chasing Amy, is at its core a transition story. Not so much about his own transition, though it is addressed in the 95-minute movie examining the cultural and personal impact of the 1997 Kevin Smith-directed Chasing Amy. But the transitory process that is coming of age; being in love; being a fan; and perhaps most significantly, the realization that under its glitz and glamour, Hollywood is not inherently the romantic place it’s sold as onscreen.

“My mom would always say this thing to me when I was a kid, which is, ‘I need you to understand that I am just a person and your parents are just people. We’re not exceptional. We make mistakes,'” Rodgers recalls, while discussing the takeaways of his doc with The Hollywood Reporter during the film’s 2023 Tribeca Festival run.

That transitory through line is not just...

With “I Shot Andy Warhol” in 1996, Mary Harron launched her filmmaking career by depicting an artist with a complicated legacy, and that fixation never left her. Her latest effort, “Dalíland,” follows that trajectory with a trenchant look at the later years of Salvador Dalí. While the legacies of many legendary creators have been reevaluated in modern times, Harron’s own fixations haven’t kept from appreciating her troubled subjects.

“There are a lot of artists’ work that I do not want people to cut themselves off from,” the director told IndieWire in a recent interview. “I love reading Dostoyevsky, who was anti-Semitic and had crazy political ideas. I was very influenced as a young person by Polanski, who did terrible things and really should’ve been in prison for them. But that doesn’t mean his films didn’t continue to inspire.”

As for Dalí: The Surrealist may have been...

We all have our problematic faves. Especially if you’ve been watching movies for longer than, say, yesterday. The #MeToo reckoning didn’t just reveal the monsters in Hollywood’s closet, it also made it impossible to ignore the pervasive sexism, misogyny, and power imbalances permeating every aspect of the industry. So pervasive, in fact, that very few projects weren’t touched by the stench. In the case of Kevin Smith, his career is directly tied to Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax, which produced and distributed four of his early films, including one of his biggest hits, “Chasing Amy.”

Released in 1997, “Chasing Amy” followed on the heels of Smith’s debut hit “Clerks” and the sophomoric flop “Mallrats.” The film stars Joey Lauren Adams as an effortlessly cool lesbian and Ben Affleck as the persistent straight man who falls in love with (and eventually seduces) her. Funny, romantic, and a total straight man’s fantasy,...

With the unfortunate history of portrayals of many marginalized communities, the first films to kick open the door to mainstream representation were often made outside of a community, resulting in work that is deemed problematic in today’s environment. Chasing Amy being one such example: though the third film from Kevin Smith met some controversy, it did not have picket lines that his fourth, Dogma, would invite.

For Sav Rodgers, a kid growing up in Kanas who adored Ben Affleck, Chasing Amy became a gateway into understanding themselves and, ultimately, who they wanted to become. In his highly personal feature film debut, the trans filmmaker expands upon his viral Ted talk, unpacking multiple problems with Chasing Amy and the ’90s independent film scene. It was a time of gatekeepers that often, intentionally or not, suppressed mainstream LGBTQ films made from within the community, bankrolling and elevating voices like Kevin Smith––in his sheer provocation,...

This month sees the theatrical release of the documentary about Midnight Cowboy that made the festival circuit last year. At the same time, a new doc about another controversial gay-themed movie has its world premiere at Tribeca. Chasing Chasing Amy will also close next month’s Outfest in Los Angeles. This picture has a backstory as fascinating as the tale told in Kevin Smith’s 1997 romantic dramedy, Chasing Amy.

Filmmaker Sav Rodgers, a transgender man, recounts his own obsession with Kevin Smith’s movie, which played a crucial role in his coming out and later transitioning. Rodgers grew up in Kansas and, like many gay teenagers, felt like a freak and outsider in a conservative community. When he saw Chasing Amy on video, it was his first exposure to a proud lesbian character (played by Joey Lauren Adams), who eventually has a love affair with a male comic book artist...

“Do you understand why I love this movie so much?” asks Sav Rodgers, the director whose adoration of Kevin Smith’s 1997 rom-com Chasing Amy has led them on a pilgrimage to parts of New Jersey so ungentrified that, 25 years later, they’re — seriously — almost all still there. “No,” says Shana Lory. Which is a bit of a shock, given that she was the casting director.

Although it set out to be a love letter, Rodgers’ never-less-than-engaging film always was facing an uphill struggle, and it’s to their credit — to prevent spoilers, they/them pronouns will be used here just for the purposes of this review — that they’re even prepared to debate such “problematic” material at a time when pop culture is cheering on the cancellation of major artists such as Pablo Picasso by people with less gravitas than the UK’s Princess of Wales, who at least can...

It’s been more than 25 years since Chasing Amy hit theaters, and documentary filmmaker Sav Rodgers is ready to shine new light on Kevin Smith’s cult phenom in his new documentary Chasing Chasing Amy. Fitting that this powerful and moving doc arrives during Pride month, having its world premiere at Tribeca Festival June 8th. Rodgers is a trans man and Chasing Chasing Amy, which illuminates his journey of self-discovery while making a documentary about Smith’s film, has a polarizing reputation among LGBTQ+ people. More on that in a moment…

This documentary shines from beginning to end. It’s an outstanding achievement for Rodgers, who shares the producer hat here with Carrie Radigan, Lela Meadow-Conner, and Matthew C. Mills.Rodgers explores the transformational impact of that ‘90s rom-com on his 12-year-old queer kid self. He was growing up in Kansas and coming of age when the film arrived in 1997.

Smith was on the rise.

Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe to open, Chasing Chasing Amy to close Los Angeles fest.

For the first time features by trans filmmakers will bookend Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival (July 13-23), with opener Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe and closing selection Chasing Chasing Amy.

Both Aitch Alberto and Sav Rodgers are alumni of Outfest’s artist development programmes. Alberto took part in the Outfest Screenwriting Lab in 2007 and has returned to mentor young filmmakers in Outfest’s programmes.

Rodgers is an alum of both OutSet – Outfest’s filmmaking lab and...