Christian Bale

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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
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The 10 Best Thor Actors, From Matt Damon to Natalie Portman

The Thor movies, more than any other Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, have always drawn critically acclaimed, Oscar-magnet actors, from Matt…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

How The Pale Blue Eye Reverse Engineers the Works of Edgar Allen Poe

About 88 minutes into The Pale Blue Eye, Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling) recites a poem for his beloved, Lea…

1 year ago
  • The Rundown

Romeo and Juliet Lawsuit; Christian Bale Q&A; George Romero on The Last of Us

Romeo and Juliet stars say they were exploited as minors; Christian Bale tells us he's finally old enough to star…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Christian Bale and The Pale Blue Eye Director Scott Cooper on Their Creative Friendship

Christian Bale is doing something he rarely does: talking about his personal life. “I don’t like to bring my own…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

John Fetterman Appears in Pennsylvania-Filmed Christian Bale Film The Pale Blue Eye

John Fetterman can always go into acting if the politics thing doesn't work out: the newly elected Pennsylvania senator and…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Christian Bale Faces an Edgar Allan Poe Mystery in The Pale Blue Eye Trailer (Video)

Christian Bale plays an intrepid detective tasked with solving a grisly murder in Scott Cooper's new Netflix mystery The Pale…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Why David O. Russell Insisted Margot Robbie Go Brunette in Amsterdam

David O. Russell wants all of his actors to appear in his films "as they've never been seen before." That's…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Christian Bale Isn’t Mad That Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Offered Every Role First: ‘Good For Him’

Christian Bale isn't salty about Leonardo DiCaprio getting offered so many movie roles before he does. "Good for him, he's…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Colleges’ Favorite Movie; Alec Baldwin Jeopardy; Christian Bale Isolates

The most-assigned film in colleges is a total surprise; bad news for Alec Baldwin; Christian Bale has a good reason…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Deconstructing Thor; Christian Bale’s Range; a Stranger Things Spinoff

How Thor: Ragnarok deconstructed the Viking spaceman; Christian Bale out-chameleons chameleons; Chrissy Judy is a gay drag platonic love story…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Amsterdam Trailer Has Almost Every Single Hollywood Actor Ever (Video)

The trailer is out for David O. Russell's new historical drama Amsterdam, and it has just about every Hollywood actor in…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Rundown: Armie Hammer Exits Shotgun Wedding; What Night Stalker Leaves Out; David O. Russell Adds A-Listers

In today's Movie News Rundown: Armie Hammer exits the Jennifer Lopez film Shotgun Wedding for some reason; Netflix's new Night…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The American Psycho Secret Christian Bale Learned From Josh Lucas on the Set of Ford v. Ferrari

Twenty years before they made Ford v. Ferrari, Christian Bale and Josh Lucas appeared together in American Psycho. When Bale…

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
  • Movie News

Movie News: Tom Brady Goes Hollywood; Black Widow’s Taskmaster; Bernie Sanders’ Film Tastes

Welcome to MovieMaker’s Movie News Roundup, where we succinctly summarize movie news and just movie news — always with links…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

Christian Bale: American Psycho Patrick Bateman Would Run for President Today

Christian Bale, soon to play a Thor villain, says his American Psycho bad guy Patrick Bateman would likely run for president if…

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 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

How Ford v Ferrari Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael Filmed Christian Bale at Racing Speed

For our 2020 Complete Guide to Making Movies, Ford v Ferrari cinematographer Phedon Papamichael shared his techniques and reflected on…

4 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Small Cities and Towns

"The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles," director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Art of Darkness: Hostiles‘ Scott Cooper on Genre, Race, and the American Soul

“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation…

6 years ago
  • Best Of

ICYMI: The Best of April 2017 on MovieMaker.com

When it rains it pours, and in April 2017, showers of weirdness and wisdom came down on MovieMaker.com. Christian Bale,…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

The Family That Makes Movies Together Stays Together: Working With Your Kids? It’s Possible, Say These Clans

When veteran moviemaker Larry Fessenden was shooting his 2001 feature Wendigo in upstate New York, his wife, director Beck Underwood,…

7 years ago