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The Medium is Not Enough TV blog — Film Chris Pine to play Jack Ryan? Trailer for The Expendables A Millennium movie without Chris Carter? Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to make film about double suicide Screen rights acquired to Rashida Jones' Frenemy of the State Justin Long joins The Conspirator Gary Ross moves from Venom to Matt Helm DJ Caruso to direct Chris Pine in The ...

Gus Vant Sant writing The Golden Suicides
Total Film News — Gus Vant Sant and Brett Easton Ellis are combining their writing skills for what sounds like a hilarious romp. Okay, not so much: they're tackling a story of real-life suicide. Despite his predilection for directing, Van Sant is only writing this time out, adapting a Vanity Fair article called The Golden Suicides by Nancy Jo Sales. And what's the cheery piece about? Er, the double suicide of artistic couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The pair were a popular couple on the art scenes of New York and California's Venice and were both established talents. But then they fell into a paranoid ...

Gus Van Sant, Bret Easton Ellis team for ‘Suicides’
News Briefs — Filmmaker Gus Van Sant is teaming with author Bret Easton Ellis to write a feature film about the double suicide of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, Variety reports . The film will be adapted from Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article The Golden Suicides , about the artist couple who killed themselves in 2007. Van Sant is only invovled as a writer at this point and is not attached to direct.

Coincidence or Cosmic Amazingness? You Decide
Stale Popcorn — In a strange, and yet utterly divine, coincidence I have spoken about both Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis. Today came news that the two are collaborating on a screenplay about suicidal artists. I actually thought while watching Less Than Zero that if it were to be remade today that Van Sant would be a perfect director. The disillusioned youth "thing" would be ideal for Van Sant, even if he has been down that road many a time. Unfortunately, it appears that he won't be directing the film, but merely ...

Early buzz: Jonze, Dylan, E.T., Braff and more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — Early buzz: Jonze, Dylan, E.T., Braff and more Hey, guys -- hope you're feeling fine. I've got a fun day planned that involves attending a taping of That Metal Show , so I'll let you know how that goes. [image] Today's Early Buzz pic comes from Blain H., who says, "In 1982, I wanted to be E.T. for Halloween. I was lucky that my mom always made my costumes, and I would definitely consider this to be one one of her masterpieces. (The ghost to the left is her ironing board with a sheet on it.)" Wow! A few headlines: - I thought this roundup of the median ages of new fall shows was fascinating. For instance, the average viewer of Cougar Town is ...

Van Sant, Ellis Tackle Double Suicide Bio-Pic
Get The Big Picture — ... Variety says that Van Sant is not linked to the film as a director, but is right now only serving as a co-writer with the usually depressing and evocative Ellis on a project that doesn't need much of Easton's trademark nihilism. ...

Gus Van Sant Joins Bret Easton Ellis To Write 'Suicides' Story Of Artists Jeremy Blake & Theresa Duncan
:: The Playlist :: — At the beginning of this year we reported that novelist/ screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") had been hired by Lionsgate to write a screenplay based on Vanity Fair's Nancy Jo Sales' coverage of artists Theresa Duncan and her partner Jeremy Blake, the East Village couple who mysteriously committed suicide last year. Now the picture has a filmmaker in Gus Van Sant who has come on board to help realize the project, though according to Variety he's only helping out in a writing capacity so far as he does ...

Brett Easton Ellis And Gus Van Sant Team Up To Depress You
Cinema Blend News — ... 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 ...

I’M SURE THIS WON’T BE PRETENTIOUS
FilmDrunk.com — ... The couple descended into a paranoid spiral when the artists developed a consuming belief that government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. She killed herself in 2007. Blake found her body on the floor of their bedroom, and walked into the Atlantic Ocean a week later, ending his life. [Variety] ...

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team to Write Suicide Film
/Film — ... 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 game designer and filmmaker) began to exhibit eccentric and downright bizarre behavior, requested ‘loyalty oathes’ ...

Floudering Hollywood Wants to Plant One on Chris Pine [Trade Round-up]
Gawker — Firings, sell-offs, suicide stories and Joe Pesci's leftovers; It's a bummer of a day for everyone in Hollywood who is not locked into the role of James T. Kirk. • Meet your new action hero overlord: Chris Pine. Already fronting the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Pine has signed on to play the Jack Ryan role previously portrayed by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin in a new go-around adapting Tom Clancy's series of espionage novels. [Variety] • For those CBS and Viacom employees who feel each day the burden of the Redstone yoke, you can take heart today; Sumner is now less your owner than he was last ...

Floudering Hollywood Wants to Plant One on Chris Pine
Gawker: defamer — Firings, sell-offs, suicide stories and Joe Pesci's leftovers; It's a bummer of a day for everyone in Hollywood who is not locked into the role of James T. Kirk. • Meet your new action hero overlord: Chris Pine. Already fronting the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Pine has signed on to play the Jack Ryan role previously portrayed by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin in a new go-around adapting Tom Clancy's series of espionage novels. [Variety] • For those CBS and Viacom employees who feel each day the burden of the Redstone yoke, you can take heart today; Sumner is now less your owner than he was last ...

Floundering Hollywood Wants to Plant One on Chris Pine [Trade Round-up]
Gawker — Firings, sell-offs, suicide stories and Joe Pesci's leftovers; It's a bummer of a day for everyone in Hollywood who is not locked into the role of James T. Kirk. • Meet your new action hero overlord: Chris Pine. Already fronting the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Pine has signed on to play the Jack Ryan role previously portrayed by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin in a new go-around adapting Tom Clancy's series of espionage novels. [Variety] • For those CBS and Viacom employees who feel each day the burden of the Redstone yoke, you can take heart today; Sumner is now less your owner than he was last ...

Floundering Hollywood Wants to Plant One on Chris Pine
Gawker: defamer — Firings, sell-offs, suicide stories and Joe Pesci's leftovers; It's a bummer of a day for everyone in Hollywood who is not locked into the role of James T. Kirk. • Meet your new action hero overlord: Chris Pine. Already fronting the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Pine has signed on to play the Jack Ryan role previously portrayed by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin in a new go-around adapting Tom Clancy's series of espionage novels. [Variety] • For those CBS and Viacom employees who feel each day the burden of the Redstone yoke, you can take heart today; Sumner is now less your owner than he was last ...

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for a Feature
Cinematical — ... 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 ...

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for 'Golden Suicides'
MTV Movies Blog — 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 ...

Gus Van Sant & Bret Easton Ellis To Adapt THE GOLDEN SUICIDES!! But WIll Gus Direct??
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — Merrick here... Gus Van Sant and author Bret Easton Ellis [image] are working on a film about the suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Their script will be based on a Vanity Fair piece by Nancy Jo Sales (read it HERE ). Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, Calif., art scenes. She was one of the first videogame designers for girls, and his "digital paintings" -- kaleidoscopic images shown on plasma screens -- established him as a rising star on the circuit. The couple descended into a paranoid spiral when the artists developed a consuming belief that government and religious ...

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to Pen The Golden Suicides
BuzzSugar — ... Their compelling story is now getting the movie treatment: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are working on a screenplay together for a film based on the Vanity Fair article. ...

Film: Newswire:Team up: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis working together
A.V. Club — As pairings go, a collaboration between Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t necessarily sound inevitable, but it still makes sense. Both have returned to the topics of addiction and doomed youth, after all. Variety ...

Why Not?: Gus Van Sant, Bret Easton Ellis Teaming Up
I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever — Joining Spider-Man and Werewolf in the ranks of team-ups I didn't see coming but could see working out pretty well, Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis have decided to collaborate on adapting the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" into a new film script. Variety, please explain the story: Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, Calif., art scenes. She was one of the first videogame designers for girls, and his "digital paintings" -- kaleidoscopic images shown on plasma screens -- established him as a rising star on the circuit. The couple descended into a paranoid ...

Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant Writing a Suicide Screenplay
FirstShowing.net — ... ), 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 ...

Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant Writing a Suicide Screenplay
FirstShowing.net — ... ), 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 ...

Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis join forces on film
Film | guardian.co.uk — ... Variety reports that director Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis, writer of American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction, are to work on the screenplay for a new film about the lives and deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, a couple who became darlings of the downtown New York and Venice, California art scenes. Their script will be based on a Vanity Fair article, ...

MD News Desk: Holy Musical Number!
Movie Dearest — Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk: Out in Film: - Neil Patrick Harris stars as "The Music Meister" in a sneak peek of what may be the gayest Batman episode ever. - Seth Rudetsky chats with Tony Award winner Michael Rupert and the hilarious playwright Christopher Durang. - Ian McKellen on his "geek projects", The Hobbit and X-Men Origins: Magneto. - Matt Lucas has officially withdrawn from the West End production of Prick Up Your ...