Bret Easton Ellis

  • Gallery

American Psycho: 10 Things You Didn’t Know, In Honor of Christian Bale’s 50th Birthday

American Psycho was a breakthrough for Christian Bale, who turns 50 today. Here are 10 facts about the film.

3 months ago
  • Movie News

Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says

The Zodiac Killer continues to loom large, half a century after his murders terrorized Northern California: Every year, it seems,…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Boba Fett Trailer; Box Office Rebound; Vanilla Ice; Wolf Talk

Box office bounced back last month; Dune keeps it going; Vanilla Ice looks back on a movie he made 30…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

So You've Made an Armie Hammer Movie; Inside Avengers Campus; Our New Cover

In today's Movie News Rundown: The director of Armie Hammer's latest film describes what that's like; a special announcement from…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

'Why Is Armie Trending?': Crisis Director Details the Film's Armie Hammer Crisis

Nicholas Jarecki says he had been getting lots of good news about his latest film, Crisis, when he received a…

3 years ago
  • November Rundown

The Rundown: Tarantino Has 2 Books Coming; Scorsese’s Birthday Advice; Pieces of a Woman Trailer

In today's Movie News Rundown: Advice from Martin Scorsese on his 78th birthday; Quentin Tarantino turns a film into a…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast

For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held readers rapt with an…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Peter Bart Predicts 1960s-Style ‘Reinvention’ of Movies

Peter Bart, who helped oversee films including Rosemary's Baby and The Godfather, says he believes cinema is ready for a…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News: We Saw Tenet; Chadwick Boseman Tributes; Culture v. Economy

In today's Movie News Rundown: I felt safe seeing Tenet in a theater, but I'm in the minority; Chadwick Boseman tributes from…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News: Fighting Over Trolls; RIP Irrfan Khan; Support Online Film Festivals

In today’s Movie News Roundup: The success of Trolls World Tour sparks a huge feud between a studio and theater chain; remembering…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut

When director Mary Harron first sent Christian Bale the script for American Psycho, he didn’t know much about it—except that…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

American Psycho Ending Explained — By Its Writers

The American Psycho ending has confounded viewers of the film for 20 years. Like the Bret Easton Ellis novel that…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Bret Easton Ellis: Parasite Backlash Proves ‘Social Media Is a Hate Machine’

Did Bret Easton Ellis finally say something everyone can agree on? The American Psycho writer, who has been blasted online…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Cameron Douglas Shares Memories of Grandfather Kirk Douglas With Bret Easton Ellis

The day after his grandfather, Kirk Douglas, died at 103, Cameron Douglas went through with a long-scheduled interview with author…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Bret Easton Ellis Reviews Likely Oscar Contenders

Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and most recently the memoir White, has become one of our most interesting…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Caution Moviemakers: Directing Movies with Sensitive Subject Matter

An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten more politically correct. There…

5 years ago
  • Inside MM - Screenwriting

Bret Easton Ellis: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis’ debut novel, Less than Zero, was published, introducing the 21-year-old author as a cataloguer of…

5 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Allow Your Characters to Introduce Themselves With These Seven Ways to Reveal Their Names

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The go-to screenwriting topics of…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Paul Schrader: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances,…

7 years ago