Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire are renowned for being some of the biggest elites in the entire entertainment industry. For ones who started their career as heartthrobs, the pair have managed to keep their reputation still and continue to reside in fans’ hearts even after being almost fifty years old, all the while leading thriving decades-old careers.
Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby
But these thriving careers and reputations of theirs were almost ruined during their very start. All because of their notoriety and roguishness as newly made Hollywood heartthrobs, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire almost ruined their careers after their group got dubbed by critics as the “P—y Posse”.
Suggested“Holy sh*t, I blew it”: Leonardo DiCaprio Beat His Close Friend Tobey Maguire to Earn His Big Break in Hollywood by Screaming at Robert De Niro
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire almost...
Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby
But these thriving careers and reputations of theirs were almost ruined during their very start. All because of their notoriety and roguishness as newly made Hollywood heartthrobs, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire almost ruined their careers after their group got dubbed by critics as the “P—y Posse”.
Suggested“Holy sh*t, I blew it”: Leonardo DiCaprio Beat His Close Friend Tobey Maguire to Earn His Big Break in Hollywood by Screaming at Robert De Niro
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire almost...
- 2/18/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
Sofia Coppola. Depostiphotos
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and actress, born on May 14, 1971. She is the youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia made her debut in the film industry as an infant in her father’s acclaimed crime drama film, The Godfather, in 1972. Later, she appeared in several music videos and played a supporting role in Peggy Sue Got Married in 1986. In 1990, Sofia portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III, but her performance received criticism, which led her to shift her focus to filmmaking.
Sofia made her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides in 1999, which was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. In 2004, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and actress, born on May 14, 1971. She is the youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia made her debut in the film industry as an infant in her father’s acclaimed crime drama film, The Godfather, in 1972. Later, she appeared in several music videos and played a supporting role in Peggy Sue Got Married in 1986. In 1990, Sofia portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III, but her performance received criticism, which led her to shift her focus to filmmaking.
Sofia made her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides in 1999, which was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. In 2004, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
- 6/21/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The story of Alexis Haines’ entanglement with a circle of Los Angeles-area home invaders has been told multiple times over: In the reporting of Nancy Jo Sales, who profiled her for Vanity Fair in 2010; on her own reality show, “Pretty Wild,” which aired on E! in 2010; and in Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film “The Bling Ring,” based on Sales’ work. Now, Haines (formerly Alexis Neiers), along with former associate Nick Norgo (formerly Nick Prugo), attempts to set the record straight in the Netflix documentary series “The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.”
The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s. It’s not that Haines’ and Norgo’s stories, told with both respective parties’ permission in this doc, don’t have inherent interest: Both of them became entranced by the concept of celebrity and, as...
The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s. It’s not that Haines’ and Norgo’s stories, told with both respective parties’ permission in this doc, don’t have inherent interest: Both of them became entranced by the concept of celebrity and, as...
- 9/19/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Nancy Jo Sales, someone is still talking about your story. More than 12 years ago, Alexis Neiers delivered an unforgettable phone call to the Vanity Fair journalist who was investigating her involvement in the bling ring. While the unscripted moment, captured by Pretty Wild cameras, resulted in countless memes, Alexis still doesn't think fondly of the reporter who she says mischaracterized her story. "I don't think Nancy Jo is capable of being honest with herself and her motives, still to this day," Alexis exclusively shared with E! News. "Nancy and I live in very different universes and that she is just not capable of owning the fact that she tore me down in order to build...
- 9/13/2022
- E! Online
Are you from New York, even? Princess Nokia brings the early 2000s flow with her new single “No Effort” — and makes us envious of her puffer jacket-rockin’ crew as she “reclaims the co-opted aesthetic” and “brings it back to Harlem” in the song’s video.
“Look at me, so clean, no effort/Ponytail, ripped jeans, no effort,” she raps in the chorus. “Face clean, gold ring, no effort/Insane, my chain, big pressure.”
The visual follows Princess Nokia hanging out with her friends, all sporting North Face puffer jackets, at...
“Look at me, so clean, no effort/Ponytail, ripped jeans, no effort,” she raps in the chorus. “Face clean, gold ring, no effort/Insane, my chain, big pressure.”
The visual follows Princess Nokia hanging out with her friends, all sporting North Face puffer jackets, at...
- 3/18/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
This mumblecore drama about a man’s obsession with an online sex worker is uncomfortably funny and semi-insightful
In a 2016 Vanity Fair article, Nancy Jo Sales wrote about prostitution going mainstream, describing a new economy of young people selling their bodies to pay off student loans or just to get by in the tough economic climate. On the same theme, Ben Hozie makes his feature debut with this semi-insightful, uncomfortably funny indie drama about a man who becomes obsessed with an online sex worker. It’s a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But it’s hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age.
It’s set in the self-consciously hip New York art scene where Jack (Peter Vack) calls himself a professional gambler; though watching him max out his credit cards playing...
In a 2016 Vanity Fair article, Nancy Jo Sales wrote about prostitution going mainstream, describing a new economy of young people selling their bodies to pay off student loans or just to get by in the tough economic climate. On the same theme, Ben Hozie makes his feature debut with this semi-insightful, uncomfortably funny indie drama about a man who becomes obsessed with an online sex worker. It’s a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But it’s hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age.
It’s set in the self-consciously hip New York art scene where Jack (Peter Vack) calls himself a professional gambler; though watching him max out his credit cards playing...
- 2/11/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
This June, E! turns 30! To celebrate we're looking back at the most monumental moments in pop culture. We're taking a trip down memor-e! lane in honor of E!'s 30th anniversary! Before current E! shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Total Bellas and Botched, there were classic hits that paved the way. And because we can never get enough '00s nostalgia, we're revisiting some of our favorite reality shows and more from years' past. Who can forget Alexis Neiers' post-bling-ring-arrest phone call with Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales on Pretty Wild? And before Denise Richards joined the drama on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she was telling her story...
- 6/19/2020
- E! Online
"Have a nice life... goodbye." Those were the last (infamous) words reality TV star and soon-to-be convicted felon, Alexis Neiers, said to journalist, Nancy Jo Sales, after reading a profile of herself on Vanity Fair in March 2010. For those who didn't watch Pretty Wild on E!, follow the "Bling Ring" burglars, who stole from the rich and famous and were convicted of robbery, or see Sofia Coppola's 2013 film based on the high-profile case, then here's a refresher. Back in mid-2008 and early 2009, Calabasas teens burglarized celebrity homes, including Orlando Bloom, Audrina Patridge, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale and more. For her involvement in the crimes,...
- 1/22/2020
- E! Online
In today’s roundup, Netflix’s “Big Mouth” comes back for Season 2, and Disney Channel releases a preview for its animated series “Star Wars Resistance.”
First Look
The new preview for “Stars Wars Resistance” featured creator Dave Filoni as he introduced Team Girl, the core group in the Disney Channel animated series, as well as interviews with the main voice actors. The series follows pilot and Resistance spy Kazuda Xiono (“Kaz”) and some familiar “Star Wars” faces, and will have a one-hour premiere on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on Disney Channel, DisneyNOW, and Disney Channel VOD, with further airings on Disney Xd. Watch the preview below:
Dates
Season 2 of Netflix’s animated comedy “Big Mouth” will arrive Oct. 5. Best friends Andrew (voiced by John Mulaney) and Nick (Nick Kroll) are still stumbling their way through seventh grade and puberty in embarrassing and hilarious ways. Season 2 sees the return of Kroll,...
First Look
The new preview for “Stars Wars Resistance” featured creator Dave Filoni as he introduced Team Girl, the core group in the Disney Channel animated series, as well as interviews with the main voice actors. The series follows pilot and Resistance spy Kazuda Xiono (“Kaz”) and some familiar “Star Wars” faces, and will have a one-hour premiere on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on Disney Channel, DisneyNOW, and Disney Channel VOD, with further airings on Disney Xd. Watch the preview below:
Dates
Season 2 of Netflix’s animated comedy “Big Mouth” will arrive Oct. 5. Best friends Andrew (voiced by John Mulaney) and Nick (Nick Kroll) are still stumbling their way through seventh grade and puberty in embarrassing and hilarious ways. Season 2 sees the return of Kroll,...
- 8/29/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
The Women’s March on Washington no doubt owes a debt of gratitude to Hillary Clinton, but apparently not enough to name her an official honoree.
The self-described “women-led movement” released its Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles on Thursday, which included the names of 27 women who were singled out as “revolutionary leaders who paved the way for us to march.”
It came as a surprise to many that the first woman to win the nomination for president of a major political party did not make the cut.
A petition to have Clinton’s name added to the list quickly popped up on Change.
The self-described “women-led movement” released its Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles on Thursday, which included the names of 27 women who were singled out as “revolutionary leaders who paved the way for us to march.”
It came as a surprise to many that the first woman to win the nomination for president of a major political party did not make the cut.
A petition to have Clinton’s name added to the list quickly popped up on Change.
- 1/20/2017
- by Daniel Goldblatt
- PEOPLE.com
It’s the moment you wait for the entire horror film. It’s not just a plot twist or a payoff but a trigger to your deepest emotions. You want to be shocked and sickened and saddened when the killer is revealed, the hero suddenly dies, or the mystery is solved. Most of all, you want your jaw to be on the floor. **Spoilers obviously ahead**
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The Brood (1979)- Mommy knows best
David Cronenberg’s third horror film is his first truly great movie and also his first superbly acted film. The Brood’s ensemble is solid but Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar stand out as maverick doctor Hal Raglan and his disturbed patient Nola Carveth. Nola’s estranged husband Frank (played by Art Hindle) teams up with Dr. Raglan in the film’s suspenseful climax. He confronts Nola while Raglan attempts to rescue Frank’s young daughter from a group of murderous deformed children.
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The Brood (1979)- Mommy knows best
David Cronenberg’s third horror film is his first truly great movie and also his first superbly acted film. The Brood’s ensemble is solid but Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar stand out as maverick doctor Hal Raglan and his disturbed patient Nola Carveth. Nola’s estranged husband Frank (played by Art Hindle) teams up with Dr. Raglan in the film’s suspenseful climax. He confronts Nola while Raglan attempts to rescue Frank’s young daughter from a group of murderous deformed children.
- 10/26/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Dating app Tinder went on a lengthy Twitter tirade after Vanity Fair published an article suggesting the app is responsible for the “dating apocalypse.” Vanity Fair’s Nancy Jo Sales wrote the story, which details the rise of hook up culture and the effect it is having on society at large. Tinder was not amused and proceeded to post a string of tweets defending the easy-to-use matchmaking service. “@VanityFair Little known fact: sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched,” the team behind the app wrote in their opening salvo against the magazine. “It’s disappointing that @VanityFair thought that the tiny.
- 8/12/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Tinder's tweets read like a letter from a scorned lover Tuesday. The dating app's social media team posted more than 30 tweets in response to a Vanity Fair article titled "Tinder and the Dawn of the 'Dating Apocalypse.'" Author Nancy Jo Sales' feature, published in the magazine's September issue, surveyed the so-called "hookup culture" among men and women in their 20s and explored how dating apps have helped millions of people use "their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex partner as easily as they'd find a cheap flight to Florida." Tinder, admittedly, lost its chill: nullnullnullnullnullnullSales then...
- 8/12/2015
- E! Online
Tinder Blasts Vanity Fair Via Twitter for "One-Sided Journalism," Dating App Admits It "Overreacted"
Nancy Jo, this is Tinder calling. Tinder went off against Vanity Fair via Twitter on Tuesday, Aug. 11, accusing the magazine of "one-sided journalism" and an "incredibly biased view" of the popular dating app in its juicy new piece, "Tinder and the Dawn of the 'Dating Apocalypse.'" After the dating app's rant went viral, a spokesperson for Tinder released a statement to Us Weekly admitting it had "overreacted." Tinder first directly blasted the writer of the piece, Nancy Jo Sales, who is famously the author of The [...]...
- 8/12/2015
- Us Weekly
On June 22, 1998, New York magazine published a much talked about cover profile of stratospheric actor Leonardo DiCaprio under the title “Leo, Prince of the City.” Written by staff writer Nancy Jo Sales, the exposé is a fascinating snapshot of fame in 1998, tracking Leo and his infamous “Pussy Posse,” as well as the young celebs of the moment they bumped up against on the party circuit. Popping up in the story are: Elizabeth Berkley, fresh off Saved by the Bell and Showgirls (then in a serious relationship with an actor from the Porky's movie franchise); Leo’s pal Jay R. Ferguson, then best-remembered as the kid actor from the Burt Reynolds sitcom Evening Shade, now known as art director Stan Rizzo on Mad Men; and Vanessa Haydon, then a model and alleged paramour of Leo, now Donald Trump Jr.’s wife. We’ve republished it today for your long-reading pleasure; it's...
- 11/19/2013
- by Nancy Jo Sales
- Vulture
“Can you be a little less of a bitch to those girls?” Sofia Coppola asks Claire Julien, which actually sounds like a fairly bitchy thing to say to someone.
Coppola isn’t being cruel or dismissive, though. She’s just directing Julien’s character Chloe, a jaded, cooler-than-thou Los Angeles teen who gets swept up in the now-infamous “Bling Ring” — the group of brand-obsessed high schoolers who robbed their celebrity idols of more than $3 million in shoes, clothes, and other glossy signifiers of wealth and status.
“You’re kind of friends with them…you don’t know them that well,...
Coppola isn’t being cruel or dismissive, though. She’s just directing Julien’s character Chloe, a jaded, cooler-than-thou Los Angeles teen who gets swept up in the now-infamous “Bling Ring” — the group of brand-obsessed high schoolers who robbed their celebrity idols of more than $3 million in shoes, clothes, and other glossy signifiers of wealth and status.
“You’re kind of friends with them…you don’t know them that well,...
- 9/17/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Taylor Swift is not going to be happy: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have reportedly been asked back to host the 2014 Golden Globes. That's the word from Deadline.com reporter Nellie Andreeva, who stresses that no actual negotiations have occurred between the dynamic duo and Dick Clark Productions, the company that produces the Golden Globes event for NBC. For what it's worth, Fey and Poehler didn't become the official emcees of the 2013 Golden Globes ceremony until October of 2012.
While Fey has long said she wouldn't host the Oscars, the idea of returning as Golden Globes has seemed more palatable to the former "30 Rock" producer, writer and star. "Oh my gosh, we'll see, we'll see," Fey told Access Hollywood after this year's Golden Globes. "It certainly was fun, we did have a good time. We'll see if they want us back."
They probably do: The 2013 Golden Globes were the awards show's most-watched broadcast in six years.
While Fey has long said she wouldn't host the Oscars, the idea of returning as Golden Globes has seemed more palatable to the former "30 Rock" producer, writer and star. "Oh my gosh, we'll see, we'll see," Fey told Access Hollywood after this year's Golden Globes. "It certainly was fun, we did have a good time. We'll see if they want us back."
They probably do: The 2013 Golden Globes were the awards show's most-watched broadcast in six years.
- 8/27/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
Rachel Bilson, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom were among the stars victimized by The Bling Ring, a group of Los Angeles teenagers who robbed the houses of celebrities in 2008 and 2009. The group's exploits were chronicled in Sofia Coppola's recent film "The Bling Ring," but not everyone was pleased with Coppola's decision to depict the criminal events onscreen.
"I thought it was weird to glorify something that was so upsetting for a lot people," Bilson told the UK edition of Cosmopolitan in a new interview. Bilson lost thousands of dollars in jewelry and other items when Bling Ring members broke into her home. "It's important to detach from material things, but the special, personal things I lost are hard to forget," she said.
Of course, Coppola's film could have been even worse for Bilson. In real life, Bling Ring member Rachel Lee reportedly defecated in the actress's bathroom...
"I thought it was weird to glorify something that was so upsetting for a lot people," Bilson told the UK edition of Cosmopolitan in a new interview. Bilson lost thousands of dollars in jewelry and other items when Bling Ring members broke into her home. "It's important to detach from material things, but the special, personal things I lost are hard to forget," she said.
Of course, Coppola's film could have been even worse for Bilson. In real life, Bling Ring member Rachel Lee reportedly defecated in the actress's bathroom...
- 7/5/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
This true story of a gang of celeb-obsessed thieves startles with its sharpness
For a satire on America's modern day celebrity culture, The Bling Ring is hard to beat. And, like all tales that come from the Us that sound too far-fetched and redolent with symbolism to be real, it is entirely true.
Between 2008 and 2009, a group of five teenagers, one boy and four girls, spent their weekends on the outskirts of Los Angeles doing typical modern-day, middle-class American teenager stuff: updating their Facebook pages, going to Pilates classes, reading celebrity gossip on the internet, taking photos of themselves on their iPhones. And then, when they were done with all that, they would get drunk, get high, and get in a car. But after that they did something different: they raided the houses of celebrities they'd spent the day reading about on the web.
The celebrities, perhaps feeling protected by their own fame,...
For a satire on America's modern day celebrity culture, The Bling Ring is hard to beat. And, like all tales that come from the Us that sound too far-fetched and redolent with symbolism to be real, it is entirely true.
Between 2008 and 2009, a group of five teenagers, one boy and four girls, spent their weekends on the outskirts of Los Angeles doing typical modern-day, middle-class American teenager stuff: updating their Facebook pages, going to Pilates classes, reading celebrity gossip on the internet, taking photos of themselves on their iPhones. And then, when they were done with all that, they would get drunk, get high, and get in a car. But after that they did something different: they raided the houses of celebrities they'd spent the day reading about on the web.
The celebrities, perhaps feeling protected by their own fame,...
- 7/4/2013
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
The Bling Ring hits UK cinemas tomorrow 5th July and our friend James Kleinmann sat down with writer / director Sofia Coppola to talk about the movie which stars Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Taissa Farmiga, Erin Daniels, Nina Siemaszko, Maika Monroe and Kirsten Dunst.
In the interview, James talks to the daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola about the cinematic potential that she saw in the original Vanity Fair article (The Suspect Wore Louboutins) written by Nancy Jo Sales. They talk about the contemporary culture that affects young people today, what it’s like to have to be seen with the right people, wearing the right clothes etc and how this peer pressure has been affected by The Internet.
Sofia also talks about trying to their their rehearsals for her movies to be as fun and authentic as possible getting them to create vision boards to help them process how their characters would behave.
In the interview, James talks to the daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola about the cinematic potential that she saw in the original Vanity Fair article (The Suspect Wore Louboutins) written by Nancy Jo Sales. They talk about the contemporary culture that affects young people today, what it’s like to have to be seen with the right people, wearing the right clothes etc and how this peer pressure has been affected by The Internet.
Sofia also talks about trying to their their rehearsals for her movies to be as fun and authentic as possible getting them to create vision boards to help them process how their characters would behave.
- 7/4/2013
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas this week following its Cannes Un Certain Regard debut, Sofia Coppola follows up 2010's so-so Somewhere with The Bling Ring (2013). Based on journalist Nancy Jo Sales' Vanity Fare article 'The Suspect Wore Louboutins', Coppola's latest is a hyper-stylised satire on the role of celebrity - but how far can a film about shallowness go before it becomes shallow itself? The Bling Ring charts a gang of over-privileged, under-achieving teens whose obsession with the lives of the rich and famous leads them into committing a series of housebreaks across the palatial mansions that litter the Hollywood Hills.
Using entertainment blogs to alert them of when their idols will be out of town, this conceited teen crime movie also reflects a world where social networking has diluted the principles of privacy, bringing the once unattainable stars of stage and screen within touching distance. They eventually get caught, but...
Using entertainment blogs to alert them of when their idols will be out of town, this conceited teen crime movie also reflects a world where social networking has diluted the principles of privacy, bringing the once unattainable stars of stage and screen within touching distance. They eventually get caught, but...
- 7/3/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Chicago – “The Bling Ring” is the latest film from director Sofia Coppola. Her universe of the American Dream is filtered through a circumstance of Hollywood privilege. Who better to understand the end of the world than a director in the grasp of the modern film industry? The end is near.
The following are five signs of the coming apocalypse as filtered through “The Bling Ring.” The white hot nature of the left coast comes through as they are closest to the flame of the end, and therefore produce entertainments that presuppose those days. “The Bling Ring,” besides being excellent social commentary on L.A. society, has the following signs of the essential end of times.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The Celebrity Culture Becomes Culture
The worship of celebrity becomes so acute in “The Bling Ring...
The following are five signs of the coming apocalypse as filtered through “The Bling Ring.” The white hot nature of the left coast comes through as they are closest to the flame of the end, and therefore produce entertainments that presuppose those days. “The Bling Ring,” besides being excellent social commentary on L.A. society, has the following signs of the essential end of times.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The Celebrity Culture Becomes Culture
The worship of celebrity becomes so acute in “The Bling Ring...
- 7/1/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – “The Bling Ring” is the latest film from director Sofia Coppola. Her universe of the American Dream is filtered through a circumstance of Hollywood privilege. Who better to understand the end of the world than a director in the grasp of the modern film industry? The end is near.
The following are five signs of the coming apocalypse as filtered through “The Bling Ring.” The white hot nature of the left coast comes through as they are closest to the flame of the end, and therefore produce entertainments that presuppose those days. “The Bling Ring,” besides being excellent social commentary on L.A. society, has the following signs of the essential end of times.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The Celebrity Culture Becomes Culture
The worship of celebrity becomes so acute in “The Bling Ring...
The following are five signs of the coming apocalypse as filtered through “The Bling Ring.” The white hot nature of the left coast comes through as they are closest to the flame of the end, and therefore produce entertainments that presuppose those days. “The Bling Ring,” besides being excellent social commentary on L.A. society, has the following signs of the essential end of times.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The Celebrity Culture Becomes Culture
The worship of celebrity becomes so acute in “The Bling Ring...
- 7/1/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring was initially based on Nancy Jo Sales's Vanity Fair article "The Suspect Wore Louboutins." The author eventually expanded her initial piece into a full-fledged book called The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World. By virtue of its length, it is able to delve much deeper into the case than the article or even Coppola's film. Here are our ten favorite tidbits from the book:1. Other notable attendees of Indian Hills, where the Bling Ring attended high school? “Erik Menendez, who killed his parents ... and Katie Cassidy, David’s daughter; she was on Gossip Girl.” 2. Bling Ring leader Rachel Lee did, in fact, hit the bathroom during the robbery of Rachel Bilson’s house. Says Nick Prugo: “We were in Rachel Bilson’s bathroom and Rachel just had to go, so she just ... yeah.
- 6/24/2013
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
The true story of a teenage gang who burgled the homes of Hollywood stars is a classic of our times
Like all the best fabled morality tales this one begins in a walk-in wardrobe. The wardrobe belongs to Paris Hilton and the interlopers into that strange fantasy land are a pair of bored high school dropouts who have wandered here in search of adventure (and free designer stuff).
Nick Prugo, 18, and Rachel Lee, 17, are a Bonnie and Clyde for the 00s, kind of. In October 2008 in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, they were spending their days watching reality TV shows, browsing gossip websites and flicking through fashion magazines, until one evening they decided they would try that life on for size themselves.
They found Hilton's address on Mulholland Drive from a website called Celebrity Address Aerial, drove there, walked up to the front door of the 7,493 sq ft yellowstone villa and rang the bell.
Like all the best fabled morality tales this one begins in a walk-in wardrobe. The wardrobe belongs to Paris Hilton and the interlopers into that strange fantasy land are a pair of bored high school dropouts who have wandered here in search of adventure (and free designer stuff).
Nick Prugo, 18, and Rachel Lee, 17, are a Bonnie and Clyde for the 00s, kind of. In October 2008 in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, they were spending their days watching reality TV shows, browsing gossip websites and flicking through fashion magazines, until one evening they decided they would try that life on for size themselves.
They found Hilton's address on Mulholland Drive from a website called Celebrity Address Aerial, drove there, walked up to the front door of the 7,493 sq ft yellowstone villa and rang the bell.
- 6/24/2013
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
When Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" hits movie theaters nationwide this weekend, all eyes will be on Emma Watson, who plays Nicki, one of a group of Los Angeles teens accused of breaking into celebrity houses and stealing upwards of $3 million worth of property.
Watson's character is based on now 21-year-old new mom Alexis Neiers, whose legal trials and tribulations were documented on the 2010 E! reality series "Pretty Wild," which also starred her younger sister Gabby Neiers, her mother Andrea Arlington and their adoptive family member and fellow model Tess Taylor (who inspired the "Bling Ring" character Sam, played by Taissa Farmiga).
The series (and one phone call to "Vanity Fair" journalist Nancy Jo Sales, in particular) became the butt of many jokes when it appeared Alexis wasn't taking her situation seriously. But behind the scenes, Alexis was dealing with a very serious addiction to heroin.
In an exclusive...
Watson's character is based on now 21-year-old new mom Alexis Neiers, whose legal trials and tribulations were documented on the 2010 E! reality series "Pretty Wild," which also starred her younger sister Gabby Neiers, her mother Andrea Arlington and their adoptive family member and fellow model Tess Taylor (who inspired the "Bling Ring" character Sam, played by Taissa Farmiga).
The series (and one phone call to "Vanity Fair" journalist Nancy Jo Sales, in particular) became the butt of many jokes when it appeared Alexis wasn't taking her situation seriously. But behind the scenes, Alexis was dealing with a very serious addiction to heroin.
In an exclusive...
- 6/20/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Chicago – Actress Katie Chang is in the high school graduating Class of 2013. But in a sense, she has already graduated to the big time with her lead role in director Sofia Coppola’s new film, “The Bling Ring.” Chang portrays Rebecca, the leader of a gang of teenage burglars who rob the homes of celebrities, including Paris Hilton.
The young Ms. Chang has come into show business with not only Coppola credentials, but independent film credibility, as she also plays a supporting role in the upcoming “A Birder’s Guide to Everything.” The Chicago area native hails from the suburb of Winnetka, and has just graduated from New Trier Township High School.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The softer and unassuming Ms. Chang is a far cry from Rebecca, her brassy kleptomaniac character in “The Bling Ring.
The young Ms. Chang has come into show business with not only Coppola credentials, but independent film credibility, as she also plays a supporting role in the upcoming “A Birder’s Guide to Everything.” The Chicago area native hails from the suburb of Winnetka, and has just graduated from New Trier Township High School.
L-r: Taissa Farmiga, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Claire Julian are ‘The Bling Ring’
Photo credit: A24
The softer and unassuming Ms. Chang is a far cry from Rebecca, her brassy kleptomaniac character in “The Bling Ring.
- 6/19/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"Pretty Wild" is returning to E! in celebration of "The Bling Ring."
The network will air a marathon of the 2010 reality series that followed Alexis Neiers, Tess Taylor, Gabby Neiers and their mom Andrea Arlington, on Friday, June 21, the same day Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" hits theaters nationwide.
The two-hour "Pretty Wild" marathon will feature episodes that follow Neiers' legal issues in regards to her alleged involvement with the group of teenagers who burglarized homes of celebrities from October 2008 through August 2009. The group reportedly stole $3 million in cash and belongings from figures such as Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson.
Coppola wrote and directed the film based on Nancy Jo Sales’s 2010 Vanity Fair story, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins," the one that prompted one of the most famous moments in reality TV history. (Neiers claimed she wore "four-inch little brown Bebe shoes" to court, not six-inch Louboutins.
The network will air a marathon of the 2010 reality series that followed Alexis Neiers, Tess Taylor, Gabby Neiers and their mom Andrea Arlington, on Friday, June 21, the same day Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" hits theaters nationwide.
The two-hour "Pretty Wild" marathon will feature episodes that follow Neiers' legal issues in regards to her alleged involvement with the group of teenagers who burglarized homes of celebrities from October 2008 through August 2009. The group reportedly stole $3 million in cash and belongings from figures such as Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson.
Coppola wrote and directed the film based on Nancy Jo Sales’s 2010 Vanity Fair story, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins," the one that prompted one of the most famous moments in reality TV history. (Neiers claimed she wore "four-inch little brown Bebe shoes" to court, not six-inch Louboutins.
- 6/19/2013
- by Chris Harnick
- Huffington Post
By this point, everybody and their former lingerie model mother knows that Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" is based on a true story. What they may not know, however, is that the truer true story, told in journalist Nancy Jo Sales' reportorial book "The Bling Ring" (expanded from her original Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins") is even wilder than the drug-fueled, celebrity-obsessed months depicted in Coppola's film.
You know how they say you can't make this s**t up? Yeah, that. Like alleged Bling Ring leading lady Rachel Lee leaving a stinky something in Rachel Bilson's house, or the self-obsessed monologues alleged accomplice-turned-reality TV star Alexis Neiers (oh yeah: She got a reality TV show, not that you'll see that hubbub on the big screen) delivered: All real.
Ahead, 16 crazy but realer-than-botox things you may not have known about the real story behind "The Bling Ring.
You know how they say you can't make this s**t up? Yeah, that. Like alleged Bling Ring leading lady Rachel Lee leaving a stinky something in Rachel Bilson's house, or the self-obsessed monologues alleged accomplice-turned-reality TV star Alexis Neiers (oh yeah: She got a reality TV show, not that you'll see that hubbub on the big screen) delivered: All real.
Ahead, 16 crazy but realer-than-botox things you may not have known about the real story behind "The Bling Ring.
- 6/17/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
In this weekend's "The Bling Ring," audiences will get reacquainted with Alexis Neiers and Tess Taylor, the "sisters" who inspired Emma Watson's Nikki and Taissa Farmiga's Sam respectively in the the Sofia Coppola film. But in addition to all the Burglar Bunch drama, the girls made names for themselves on E!'s 2010 reality series "Pretty Wild."
The show, which Richard Lawson of Gawker at the time deemed "the worst television show ever made," only lasted a season (it was canceled reportedly due to photos that leaked of Alexis and Tess doing drugs). But it has certainly left a legacy.
From excessive Adderall ingestion to home schooling lessons about Angelina Jolie to the most legendary voicemail in reality TV history, relive some of the best (worst?) moments from "Pretty Wild," featuring then 20-year-old Tess, a model and Playboy Cyber Girl; then 18-year-old Alexis, a model and pole dancing, pilates...
The show, which Richard Lawson of Gawker at the time deemed "the worst television show ever made," only lasted a season (it was canceled reportedly due to photos that leaked of Alexis and Tess doing drugs). But it has certainly left a legacy.
From excessive Adderall ingestion to home schooling lessons about Angelina Jolie to the most legendary voicemail in reality TV history, relive some of the best (worst?) moments from "Pretty Wild," featuring then 20-year-old Tess, a model and Playboy Cyber Girl; then 18-year-old Alexis, a model and pole dancing, pilates...
- 6/15/2013
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Huffington Post
Nancy Jo Sales is having a moment. The Vanity Fair contributing editor's terse 2010 article about the largest robbery ring in Hollywood history, “The Suspect Wore Louboutins” hits the big screen today, as the source material for Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring.” And Sales just released her first book, a companion release to the film (also titled “The Bling Ring") that happens to be perfect summer reading: a play-by-play on the motivations and methods of a group of fame-obsessed L.A. kids who systematically stole some $30 million in gems, clothes, and other valuables from the homes of unsuspecting celebrities. That too, during the global recession. In researching this latest project, Sales, who has long covered what she calls the "kids beat," considered the shifting American fixation with wealth, fame and celebrity. The Huffington Post sat down to chat with the writer for her take on what ails us.
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- 6/14/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
As The Bling Ring opens today, it’s important that we don’t forget the film’s roots. In 2010, Vanity Fair’s Nancy Jo Sales wrote a brilliant exposé on the trial and trivialities of the real-life teen thieves who stole from Hollywood’s rich and famous. Alexis Neiers — the unwitting star of the story, later the intentional star of E!’s train wreck reality show Pretty Wild — was “petrified” by how Sales represented her in the piece and called the journalist to unload.
Of course Sales didn’t answer the phone, which left Neiers to make no less than...
Of course Sales didn’t answer the phone, which left Neiers to make no less than...
- 6/14/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring hits theaters today, June 14, and as we all know it's based on the real-life group of fame-obsessed teenagers who tracked down celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes. Emma Watson takes on the role of Nicki, a character that is assumed to be modeled after former E! reality show star Alexis Neiers. So, before you run off to see this "based on a true story" flick, you must watch this obscene scene from Neiers and her family's Pretty Wild program.
If you missed this E! show, it was only on for one season in 2010, cameras followed Alexis around during the time she was being charged for robbing celebrity homes. In what was one of the more memorable scenes, Alexis, 19 at the time, calls Vanity Fair contributor Nancy Jo Sales to express her disappointment after reading the article written about her.
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If you missed this E! show, it was only on for one season in 2010, cameras followed Alexis around during the time she was being charged for robbing celebrity homes. In what was one of the more memorable scenes, Alexis, 19 at the time, calls Vanity Fair contributor Nancy Jo Sales to express her disappointment after reading the article written about her.
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- 6/14/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
If you live in New York City or Los Angeles, today is the day: "The Bling Ring" is finally here. (Sorry, rest of the country, you'll have to wait until next week for the movie to go wide, but until then you can content yourself with reviews and our wall-to-wall coverage.)
We're more obsessed with this story of teenage celebutante wannabes-turned-burglars than said teens were with, well, Paris Hilton. And they stole Paris Hilton's used underpinnings, so that says a lot about how into this we are.
Before writer-director Sofia Coppola, spawn of Hollywood royalty herself, perked up and turned the real-life story of Valley Girl (and guy) thieves into a feature film, there was Nancy Jo Sales' Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins," detailing the alleged crimes of real-life Bling Ringers Nick Prugo, Alexis Neiers, Rachel Lee and their friends. Concurrently, there was a work of artistic...
We're more obsessed with this story of teenage celebutante wannabes-turned-burglars than said teens were with, well, Paris Hilton. And they stole Paris Hilton's used underpinnings, so that says a lot about how into this we are.
Before writer-director Sofia Coppola, spawn of Hollywood royalty herself, perked up and turned the real-life story of Valley Girl (and guy) thieves into a feature film, there was Nancy Jo Sales' Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins," detailing the alleged crimes of real-life Bling Ringers Nick Prugo, Alexis Neiers, Rachel Lee and their friends. Concurrently, there was a work of artistic...
- 6/14/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
Sofia Coppola’s fifth feature, The Bling Ring, is her most stylish and least interesting. It’s the true story (documented by Nancy Jo Sales in Vanity Fair) of a group of L.A. teens, some privileged, who broke into the manses of famous materialists like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and made off with millions of dollars of designer clothes, shoes, purses, etc. Coppola has made a specialty of evoking spiritual dislocation in fabulous locales, all while moving among (and designing for) the people whose existence she finds so hollow. That’s fine — they’re her tribe. And she’s not without empathy. Or hasn’t been till now.On the evidence, she hates every lying, vacuous character in The Bling Ring — except maybe the boy, Marc (Israel Broussard), who trails after Rebecca (Katie Chang) because she’s beautiful and confident and he’s new in school and sexually...
- 6/14/2013
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Sofia Coppola's new movie The Bling Ring is officially based on a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales. But there are so many moments yanked directly from the short-lived E! reality series Pretty Wild that you'll wonder whether the movie was secretly inspired by some sort of late-night Netflix Instant binge Coppola is too embarrassed to cop to. Pretty Wild, which aired in 2010 (and was produced, oddly enough, by Chelsea Handler), was intended to follow 19-year-old Alexis Neiers as she lived a glamorous party-girl life on the fringe of the Hollywood club circuit. But then real life intervened: In the very first episode, Neiers is arrested for crimes connected to the Bling Ring, the gang of larcenous teens who stole from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom.Suddenly, the manufactured reality of these Kardashian-emulating lifestyle shows begins to rub up against the very definite reality of a...
- 6/12/2013
- by Lindsey Weber,Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Title: The Bling Ring Director: Sofia Coppola Starring: Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Georgia Rock. Sofia Coppola’s latest crime drama goes “Bling-Bling.” The Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales, ‘The Suspects Wore Louboutins,’ inspired the movie that opened the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes 2013. Rebecca is the ringleader of a group of fame-obsessed teenagers, who use the Internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to rob their homes. Marc, Nicki, Sam and Chloe, and Rebecca form the so called “Bling Ring” as they rob the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr. ‘The [ Read More ]
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- 6/11/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Maybe it was the toxic convergence of celebrity worship, hyper-materialism, shitty parenting, and Adderall: Starting in late 2008, a gang of spoiled Valley kids walked into the unlocked homes of Paris Hilton, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge, and others, pilfering over $3 million in designer clothing, jewelry, artwork, and Brian Austin Green's handgun. Inspired by Nancy Jo Sales's March 2010 Vanity Fair article on the real-life criminals, Lost in Translation auteur Sofia Coppola's artful, thrilling The Bling Ring taps into the arrogance and ennui of this teen mob. It's not so much this season's hedonistic answer to Spring Breakers as it is a post-Internet-generational The King of Comedy, with all that film's sadness, insolence, and absurdity.
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- 5/22/2013
- Village Voice
This story comes courtesy of La Weekly
By Siran Babayan
"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity homes in 2008 and '09 did happen. And somebody did buy it — director Sofia Coppola, whose upcoming film "The Bling Ring" (out June 14) is inspired by the Hollywood crime spree. It's also the subject of Sales' new book, likewise titled "The Bling Ring."
Coppola hired Sales as a consultant on the film after optioning her 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Realizing she had enough material on the case for a book, Sales started writing "The Bling Ring" last summer. It hits bookstores next week.
The Bling Ring,...
By Siran Babayan
"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity homes in 2008 and '09 did happen. And somebody did buy it — director Sofia Coppola, whose upcoming film "The Bling Ring" (out June 14) is inspired by the Hollywood crime spree. It's also the subject of Sales' new book, likewise titled "The Bling Ring."
Coppola hired Sales as a consultant on the film after optioning her 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Realizing she had enough material on the case for a book, Sales started writing "The Bling Ring" last summer. It hits bookstores next week.
The Bling Ring,...
- 5/18/2013
- Huffington Post
Cannes 2013: The girls have gone wild in 'The Bling Ring,' Sofia Coppola's most provocative film yet
I’m writing my first post here at Cannes while I sit at one of my favorite side-street bistros, digging into a bowl of spaghetti carbonara, which is somehow less fattening than it would be in the U.S., because there are so many less additives in European food. That’s kind of how I feel about Sofia Coppola’s filmmaking: It’s additive-free — a series of simple and direct gazes, purged of the usual syrup and glop, though maybe I should add that it’s deceptively simple, because the way that Coppola now works is to take her refreshingly unhurried,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Over two years ago, we learned that American Psycho author and The Informers screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis was working with Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant to adapt The Golden Suicides, a Nancy Jo Sales article from Vanity Fair, about the 2007 double suicide of the artist and socialite couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. However, Van Sant decided not to sit in the director's chair for the film allowing Enter the Void director Gaspar Noe to step up and helm the feature. Now, according to some recent Twitter activity from Ellis, there's a chance that Ryan Gosling could end up starring in the film. Read on. Before getting into the meat of this casting story, here's a refresher on the demise of this socialite couple: "Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, California, art scenes. She was one of the first videogame...
- 12/21/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis — probably best-known for his controversial American Psycho and the equally-divisive Christian Bale film adaptation — most recently tried his hand at the cinema with The Informers, which, despite being based on his own collection of California-based short stories, ended up being a significant flop, both critically and commercially. (BoxOfficeMojo lists its worldwide box-office total at a stunningly low $382,000.)
However, back in 2009, Noé was selected to pen the screenplay for The Golden Suicides, an adaptation of Nancy Jo Sales’ 2008 article for Vanity Fair, which detailed the mysterious and unusual suicides of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Ellis must have just put his finishing touches on the script, as it looks like Muse Productions (The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, The Killer Inside Me) is currently trying to land a director for the project. [The Playlist]
Gaspar Noé is perhaps the most eye-opening candidate for the position; his dynamic...
However, back in 2009, Noé was selected to pen the screenplay for The Golden Suicides, an adaptation of Nancy Jo Sales’ 2008 article for Vanity Fair, which detailed the mysterious and unusual suicides of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Ellis must have just put his finishing touches on the script, as it looks like Muse Productions (The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, The Killer Inside Me) is currently trying to land a director for the project. [The Playlist]
Gaspar Noé is perhaps the most eye-opening candidate for the position; his dynamic...
- 5/17/2011
- by Danny King
- The Film Stage
It's an announcement to strike fear into even the most steel-hearted cinema-goer: Gaspar Noe is in talks to direct The Golden Suicides, from a screenplay by Brett Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sant.Not usually a director-for-hire, the idea that Noe (the controversial talent behind Seul Contre Tous, Irreversible and Enter the Void) could be employed on someone else's project is an odd one. Ellis' involvement could be a clue to the attraction however: the author's penchant for mixing the bleak, the violent and the absurd seeming a good fit for an artist who told a botched-rape-revenge drama backwards and made a three-hour FX extravaganza from the Pov of a dead guy.The Golden Suicides stems from a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales, and is based on the true story of the double suicide of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan, popular New York artists who, for reasons unknown,...
- 5/17/2011
- EmpireOnline
It's been a couple of years since we've had any news about The Golden Suicides, the script from Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis was hired in 2009 to pen the adaptation of "The Golden Suicides", which was originally published as a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales. The last news piece that we had on it was that Gus Van Sant would be teaming up with Ellis on the script. There were also rumors attaching James Franco and Angelina Jolie to the script.
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Read more on Gaspar Noé could be directing The Golden Suicides, a script by Bret Easton Ellis...
- 5/16/2011
- by Jessica Dorrell
- GordonandtheWhale
Gaspar Noe To Direct Bret Easton Ellis Script The Golden Suicides
Some potentially very interesting news here. The provocateur/mad man/genius Gaspar Noe, most recently known for fucking your eyeballs with a kaleidoscope in Enter the Void, could be getting ready to direct a script from a similarly mad yet genius provocateur, Bret Easton Ellis. The film will be called The Golden Suicides, and it is a script that Ellis has adapted from a Vanity Fair article of the same name.The article originally written by Nancy Jo Sales, concerns the story of Jeremy Thomas and Theresa Duncan who killed themselves after being harassed by Scientologists, even though the circumstances of their death are considered mysterious. Originally names like Gus Van Sant and Angelina Jolie were linked to the project but after two years the project went dead. Now Muse Productions, who were responsible for bringing American Psycho to the screen,...
Some potentially very interesting news here. The provocateur/mad man/genius Gaspar Noe, most recently known for fucking your eyeballs with a kaleidoscope in Enter the Void, could be getting ready to direct a script from a similarly mad yet genius provocateur, Bret Easton Ellis. The film will be called The Golden Suicides, and it is a script that Ellis has adapted from a Vanity Fair article of the same name.The article originally written by Nancy Jo Sales, concerns the story of Jeremy Thomas and Theresa Duncan who killed themselves after being harassed by Scientologists, even though the circumstances of their death are considered mysterious. Originally names like Gus Van Sant and Angelina Jolie were linked to the project but after two years the project went dead. Now Muse Productions, who were responsible for bringing American Psycho to the screen,...
- 5/16/2011
- by Will Chadwick
- We Got This Covered
This week, incarcerated starlet Lindsay Lohan began serving her 90-day sentence in a Lynwood, California, jail. Although the Los Angeles Country sheriff’s office estimates that she will likely only remained locked up for two weeks, Access Hollywood reports that the brief time she is in jail will be spent next to one Alexis Neiers, infamous member of the Hollywood Bling Ring. Neiers was the subject of an E! reality show, Pretty Wild, as well as an interviewee profiled in Nancy Jo Sales’s article about the teen burglary troupe in the March 2010 issue of Vanity Fair.
- 7/21/2010
- Vanity Fair
Bret Easton Ellis has written six books (his seventh, Imperial Bedrooms, comes out next month), and all six have been optioned by Hollywood. Of those six, four were made into movies, and they run the gamut from iconic to underseen, acclaimed to lambasted. Each day this week, Ellis has tackled a different adaptation of his books for Movieline, giving his take on what worked, what didn't, and what went on behind the scenes.
So far this week, Movieline's talked to Bret Easton Ellis about movies made from his own books -- movies he often didn't script himself. His upcoming screenplay, The Golden Suicides, is for a very different film entirely. Adapted by Ellis from a Nancy Jo Sales article for Vanity Fair and written for producer Gus Van Sant, it's based on the true story of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan (pictured above), a glamorous couple who eventually secluded...
So far this week, Movieline's talked to Bret Easton Ellis about movies made from his own books -- movies he often didn't script himself. His upcoming screenplay, The Golden Suicides, is for a very different film entirely. Adapted by Ellis from a Nancy Jo Sales article for Vanity Fair and written for producer Gus Van Sant, it's based on the true story of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan (pictured above), a glamorous couple who eventually secluded...
- 5/21/2010
- Movieline
Alexis Neiers and Vanity Fair’s Nancy Jo Sales. Alexis Neiers, protagonist of E!’s “reality” “show” Pretty Wild and a subject of Nancy Jo Sales’s investigation for Vanity Fair, pleaded no contest to felony burglary and has been sentenced to serve up to six months in jail, followed by three years of probation, according to the Associated Press. Neiers and other Los Angeles neighborhood riffraff allegedly burglarized the homes of Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton, and Rachel Bilson, among other stars.
- 5/10/2010
- Vanity Fair
Between October 2008 and August 2009, a group of privileged teens from the L.A. suburbs regularly burglarized the homes of Hollywood celebrities including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and The Hill’s Audrina Partridge. Allegedly led by the 19-year-old insatiable clotheshorse Rachel Lee, the so-called “Bling Ring” stole over $3 million in clothing, jewelry, and artwork. Though the story has been tabloid fodder for months, V.F.’s own Nancy Jo Sales was able to dig deeper to get exclusive interviews with suspects Nick Prugo, who has become the State’s star informant, and Alexis Neiers, whose court drama has been filmed by E! for an upcoming reality show. Nancy Jo’s story, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” appears in V.F.’s March issue. Here, she talks to Vf Daily about getting to the bottom of the Bling Ring and dishes a few juicy anecdotes that didn’t make it into the piece.
- 2/5/2010
- Vanity Fair
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