Bret Easton Ellis
Is TV ready for Bret Easton Ellis? Ever since the 1985 release of his best-selling tale of L.A. youth-gone-amoral, Less Than Zero, young Hollywood — including television faves like James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder and Austin Nichols — have populated the feature-film adaptations of Ellis' edgy, unsettling novels. Now, with the 25-years-in-the-waiting publication of the engrossing Zero sequel, Imperial Bedrooms, Ellis is gearing up to take on the small screen. If a certain cable network has the guts, that is...
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SyFy
Syfy will make room in its schedule for Three Inches.
The cable channel has ordered a 90-minute pilot, which revolves around an underachieving superhero who can move objects with his mind — but only for the titular distance. He then recruits a team of fellow heroes, each with their own subpar abilities.
Felicia Day to headline Syfy's Red
Mark Stern, Syfy's executive vice president of development, announced the order ...
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Having accrued critical success with the delicious Mad Men, AMC is eyeing a bevy of new (and different) projects. Among them, Variety reports: Fort Smith, a Western from 24 exec producer Robert Cochran and revolving around a posse patrolling the post-Civil War West; another Western centered on Comanche leader Quanah Parker; Uninvited Guest, a quirky drama from Less Than Zero screenwriter Harley Peyton and following a fella with multiple personality disorder; and Greenfields, in which a psychiatrist breaks his patient out of jail.
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Question: There's a movie about a burglar who breaks into a house on Christmas Eve; the house belongs to a couple who bicker constantly. Their son lives there, too, and a bunch of awful relatives are on their way over for Christmas. In the end the dad and son help the burglar out. Can you tell me what it is?
Answer: It's the mean-spirited The Ref (1994), which stars Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey as the squabbling parents, Dennis Leary as the burglar who takes them hostage in their own home, and the incomparable Christine Baranski as the bitchy sister-in-law who can make the word "slip
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