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| 12th of March 2000 |
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| 1st of March 2000 |
Lions Gate have gone for the profit and trimmed American
Psycho from a US Nc17 to a R rating. Stating "Though we were
reluctant to make any changes to Mary's original cut of the film, we are
pleased we were able to trim the scene only slightly yet still maintain
its integrity." (CSO) Also on DH there is news of the internet
Campaign to Go with the show.
The psychotic Patrick Bateman is about to make a comeback it seems, and
I don't mean in just live-action. Lions Gate Films and Pseudo.Com
are set begin a month-long Internet campaign for the movie with the highlight
being "Am. Psycho 2000", a continuation of the novel created specifically
for the Net and supervised by AP author himself Bret Easton Elis. These
additions will take on the form of several e-mails from the Patrick Bateman
character and will be released in a kind of 'serial sequel' form on different
dates, along with streaming video from the movie ranging from outtakes to
cut footage deemed to controversial to make the final print. Those interested
can register for free on the American Psycho official
site. (DH) (HFA NEWS) |
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| 21st of Feb 2000 |
American Psycho, so what is becoming of those
scenes cut in the US version.. Well not much, the film will only be slightly
cut according to a DH correspondent.
"So what's cut? The part of the word "hole" from asshole,
from when Patrick tells one of the prostitutes to "get on your knees,
Christie, so Sabrina can see your ass____."; A second or two of the
two prostitutes simulating oral sex on Patrick - you never really saw anything
anyway, it was just a shot of their heads bobbing above Patrick's crotch;
And they dropped frame on one scene where you used to see Patrick's and
Chrities hips bumping, now it's cut just above the waist.
That's pretty much it, the scene still rocks - I really love the shots of
Patrick flexing his muscles to himself in the mirror as he is doing the
girl's double doggie style. The whole scene is cut to that 'Susudio' song
and it's just terrific, it really does a great job of showing the process
of self delusion that dominated the 80's." (DH) (HFA
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| 20th of Feb 2000 |
New shots from "American Psycho"
have begun popping up on the Internet. They are available at "Entertainment
Weekly". (DH) (HFA NEWS) |
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| 13th of February 2000 |
| American Psycho is getting more than its
share of free publicity from the morality merchants. Now in Canada it seems
the ratings board is going to let the film through as an R rated film while
still including the sex scenes. Meanwhile in the USA Jack Thompson the lawyer
who took the Basketball Diaries to court after a recent school shooting.
Thompson is threatening to take Lionsgate and the MPAA to court if the film
is not given an NC17 rating (higher than R in the USA), on the proviso that
a person under 17 watches the film and than goes into psycho killer mode.
Okay so any kids out there Jack Thompson has just offered you an invitation
to slaughter as many folks as you like once you have seen "American
Psycho", he has just given you a scapegoat. Opportunities like this
don't come around every single day. But really when are lawyers and journalists
going to realise that media effects were simply thought up to sell advertising
time on Commercial networks, and its a simple fact of life that people kill
people. It happened way before TV and movies and it will continue to happen
whether or not this film is released R rated or NC 17. Geez, that's my cow
for the week honest. (DH) (HFA NEWS) |
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| 12th of February 2000 |
The trailer for American Psycho is up click
here for it (plug in required). The soundtrack list for the film has
also been released. Some 80s classics in there, definite PSYCHOTIC music.
1. Introductory monologue w/ Score - Bateman & John Cale
2. You Spin Me Round - Dope
3. Watching Me Fall -The Cure (remix by Underdog from Massive Attack)
4. Something In The Air (American Psycho Remix) - David Bowie
5. Trouble - Daniel Ash with Adrian Utley of Portishead
6. Who Feels It Knows It (Remix) - The Tom Tom Club
7. American Psycho - Coldcut
8. Monologue w/ Score - Bateman and John Cale
9. True Faith - New Order
10. Pump Up The Volume - MARRS
11. I Wanna Know (What You're Thinking) - Information Society
12. Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix) - Eric B. & Rakim
13. Hip 2 Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
14. Closing monologue with Score - Bateman and John Cale
(DH) (HFA NEWS) |
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| February 4th 2000 |
| Lions Get Films has decide to cut their film "American
Psycho" down from an NC 17 rating to as R rating in the US.
It'll only mean a few seconds, but it was something that they originally
were not going to do. So the prostitute scene will be cut down for
the cinematic release in the US. (CSO) (HFA
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| 26th of January 2000 |
| Trailer/ sneak peek at "American Psycho"
has finally arrived at the official site for the film. Clcik here
for it. It is a Real Media file. There is also a review
on the DH site, which is very positive. (DH) (HFA
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| 18th of January 2000 |
The official site for "American Psycho"
has opened up with the brilliant poster as one of its delectable delights.
The film has been slapped with an NC 17 in the USA by the MPAA and will
premiere at the SUNDANCE FILM FEST. The harsh rating is baased on a a threesome
in the film between Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) and two prostitutes
(Cara Seymour & Krista Sutton). The scene is included to show as "The
scene is not about sex, but about sex as a transaction so we made it deliberately
banal and distant...his (Bateman) expression sums up his frighteningly detached
relationship to the world around him." Sounds kind of Zen like
in a a Banal and Distant way.. But I guess that would have been lost if
he just threw money at 2 half naked girls and lit up a cigarette as they
walked out. OR would it.. ?? The MPAA must think the director is a dirty
old perv.. Just kidding. Nah Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) has her head
on straight, once again the MPAA are wrong.. (DH) (HFA
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| 5th of November 1999. |
 
The first picture from "American Pscyho"
have appeared on Darkhorizons. (DH) they are both of Christian Bale the
star of the film. |
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