Gus Van Sant News

November 17, 2009 by Arlen Schweiger Remakes or "updated versions" of original classics can be very hit or miss, even with top directors on board .

The casting process of Columbia and Imagine's untitled Gus Van Sant drama is keeping with the project's familial theme.

It's Gus Van Sant directing "Breaking Dawn." Because the third Twilight installment isn't beneath the guy who did "Milk" and "Drugstore Cowboy." Although, reminding everybody about that Psycho remake could be a powerful bargaining chip.

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant , where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

This is the time of the year when Hollywood does its best to spook the pants off of unsuspecting movie audiences.

Acclaimed movie director Gus Van Sant plans to direct his next feature film in Oregon, state officials announced Monday.

Oregon's most noted film director will make his next film in and around Portland.

Gus Van Sant will join novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis in writing a film for Lionsgate about the double suicides of New York artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan.

Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming up to write a new script based on the double suicides of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

She may not be a household name yet , but 19-year-old Australian actress Mia Wasikowska will soon be thrust into the spotlight when her performance as the title character in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland hits theaters in March.A However, the teen actress is already moving onto her next role as THR reports that she is the first actor to join ...

Kelley Baker is a filmmaker. An angry filmmaker. Seething. Kelley Baker has directed three full-length movies, Kicking Bird , The Gas Cafe , and Birddog .

The TBA catalog boasts a short blurb by James Franco in which the popular actor reveals that Erased James Franco, screening at Whitsell Auditorium as part of the Time-Based Art Festival, features his "favorite performance of any ever done." A more instructive assessment of the experimental feature can be gleaned from an interview The Guardian ...

Have you been in Gus Van Sant withdrawal ever since Milk left theaters? Or, was it since the early 90s, when My Own Private Idaho captured your inner teen angst? Then you'll be pleased to hear the director selected his newest project.

Have you been in Gus Van Sant withdrawal ever since Milk left theaters? Or, was it since the early 90s, when My Own Private Idaho captured your inner teen angst? Then you'll be pleased to hear the director selected his newest project.

This cinematographer is best-known for his association with childhood friend writer and director Gus Van Sant, though in recent years he has successfully worked with other directors as well.

This cinematographer is best-known for his association with childhood friend writer and director Gus Van Sant, though in recent years he has successfully worked with other directors as well.

So, your favourite film is about to be remade. Question: why do you care? Oh, I used to be like you.

Hollywood loves to cannibalize itself. Every summer, the studios plunder past glories with sequels, prequels, reboots - and remakes.

The movie remake is an interesting breed of cat. Essentially, at least the way I understand it, you're taking an established work made years ago and either trying to modernize it, improve on it, or ride on its reputation for a nice payday.

Michael Pitt and fiancA©e Jamie Bochert, as photographed by Stephen Meisel for Vogue Italia.