Chloë Sevigny wants in on Luca Guadagnino‘s new American Psycho film.
Sevigny played Patrick Bateman’s secretary, Jean, in the 2000 satire, directed by Mary Harron. When she heard that Guadagnino would direct a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name, she made her interest known to the filmmaker.
“I pitched to him that I should play Jean again and that they do that reverse-aging on me. I thought that would be something that he would be into, conceptually having the same actress play the same part,” Sevigny recently told IndieWire.
The Monsters actress continued, “He said he was going to think of something else for me.” Casting is still underway for the role of Jean, but it is also for the lead, Bateman, who Christian Bale originally portrayed.
Many actors’ names have been rumored to play Bateman, such as Austin Butler and Patrick Schwarzenegger, to name a few. The original film’s casting director, Kerry Barden, told The Hollywood Reporter last month that Jared Leto’s role of Paul Allen would be a better fit for Butler. “I would cast Austin in Jared’s role because he’s that beautiful, and that’s why we cast Jared, is because he’s that beautiful,” he said. “Jared is certainly a great actor as well, and obviously, Austin has a lot of depth as an actor, too. But not every person has that kind of beauty.”
As far as Schwarzenegger, he replied to a fan’s tweet on X on Wednesday suggesting Bateman would be his “breakout role,” by writing, “I’d love nothing more,” followed by a winking emoticon.
Guadagnino’s American Psycho is set at Lionsgate with a script penned by Scott Z. Burns. The release date is yet to be announced.
Vivek Chaudhary’s I, Poppy, a film about an activist son fighting corrupt officials and systemic oppression in India, while his mother tends the family poppy farm, picked up the best international feature prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Friday night.
The top jury prize win at the festival means Chaudhary’s film, which world premiered at Hot Docs, will qualify for consideration in the best documentary feature category at the Academy Awards. The win for I, Poppy also marks the second year in a row where a protest documentary from India won the top jury prize at Hot Docs.
Last year, Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a film about Indian farmers rising up against new laws, took home the Hot Docs best international feature documentary honor. Other winners this year at Hot Docs included the special jury prize for the international feature documentary going to director Sasha Wortzel’s River of Grass, a film about environmental challenges and other issues around the Florida Everglades.
The best emerging international filmmaker trophy went to Amilcar Infante and Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez, directors of Unwelcomed, a doc about a migrant crisis in Chile after the country’s most violent anti-immigrant protest, sparked by an influx of migrants from Venezuela. And the best Canadian feature documentary award went to director Amalie Atkins’ Agatha’s Almanac, a portrait of a simple life led by a fiercely independent Mennonite woman on her ancestral farm in southern Manitoba.
In other prize-giving, the special jury prize for a Canadian feature documentary was given to Denis Cote for Paul. The Quebec director’s documentary about a young man who does domestic chores for dominant women to cope with depression and social anxiety had a world premiere in Berlin.
The best social impact documentary trophy went to Talal Afifi and Giovanna Stopponi for Khartoum, a doc about displaced Sudanese filmmakers helping five of their fellow citizens to re-enact on screen their nation’s descent into civil war.
In all, 14 awards were handed out in Toronto on Friday night as the Hot Docs festival continues through Sunday, May 4.
Patrick Schwarzenegger is hoping to take a stab at a choice role that happens to bear his first name.
Schwarzenegger, who has made no secret over the years of his affinity for American Psycho, is continuing to publicly voice his interest in lead character Patrick Bateman in director Luca Guadagnino‘s planned feature adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 best-selling novel. Christian Bale played the investment banker harboring murderous fantasies in director Mary Harron’s cult-favorite film version that hit theaters in 2000 from Lionsgate.
In response to an X (formerly Twitter) user posting Wednesday that playing Bateman could be Schwarzenegger’s “breakout role,” the actor replied, “I’d love nothing more,” adding a winking emoticon.
This is not the first time that Schwarzenegger, who earned acclaim for his work on the recently concluded third season of HBO’s The White Lotus, has made it known that he has his heart set on donning Bateman’s designer suits. When development on Guadagnino’s project was first reported last fall, Schwarzenegger responded to a post about the news with, “My dream.”
In 2021, Schwarzenegger dressed as Patrick Bateman for a Vanity Fair photo shoot celebrating notable films from the early 2000s.
Christian Bale in American Psycho.
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Guadagnino appeared in a video segment during Lionsgate’s presentation at CinemaCon last month to tease his new American Psycho. The Challengers filmmaker praised Ellis’ book — which satirizes the 1980s yuppie culture — as influential to him and noted that the script from Scott Z. Burns “is coming out very handsomely.”
At the time, Guadagnino said he was in “conversation with very exciting performers to play the leads” but did not name anyone specifically. Rumors circulated late last year about Austin Butler being eyed to play Patrick Bateman.
During a recent conversation with The Hollywood Reporter to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Harron’s American Psycho, that film’s casting director Kerry Barden offered his thoughts on whether Butler might be a good fit for the part.
“I would cast Austin in Jared [Leto’s] role because he’s that beautiful, and that’s why we cast Jared, is because he’s that beautiful,” Barden said of the banker character named Paul Allen that Leto portrayed in the first movie. “Jared is certainly a great actor as well, and obviously, Austin has a lot of depth as an actor, too. But not every person has that kind of beauty.”
When speaking with THR for a story published last month for the White Lotus finale, Schwarzenegger said he planned to be patient before deciding on his next projects amid the career heat from the buzzy show. The actor’s previous credits include American Sports Story, Gen V and Midnight Sun.
“I really want to find something that’s right,” Schwarzenegger explained. “You know, there is one thing that I’m working on with this amazing director, a director that I’ve looked up to for my whole career. I’ve loved his projects, and we’re making something, and I hope it happens later this year. That would be extremely difficult and would put me through the most challenging, probably, life experience and acting experience.”
I’d love nothing more ????
— Patrick Schwarzenegger (@PSchwarzenegger) April 30, 2025
Robert Downey Jr. has assembled the Avengers to support the Thunderbolts*.
The former Iron Man star shared a photo on Instagram of himself and a few of his Avengers: Doomsday co-stars Friday after they watched the MCU’s latest installment. Downey congratulated the “So cool, fresh and deep” film alongside “the Old Avengers” and a few new faces with a group shot.
“Just wow!!! Dinner and a show with the Old Avengers. So cool, fresh, and deep. Big congrats. #thunderbolts,” Downey wrote on Friday.
He posed for a group shot alongside a few of his Avengers: Endgame co-stars, including Thor’s Chris Hemsworth, Ant-Man lead Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, who’s been a part of Captain America for years and recently took over the franchise, and Winston Duke, who played M’Baku in Black Panther.
Fellow Marvel alum Simu Liu, who previously starred in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, was also featured in the picture alongside MCU newbies and fellow Doomsday cast members Channing Tatum, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Tatum debuted in the MCU in Deadpool & Wolverine as the X-Men character Remy LeBeau/Gambit. Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will portray Sue Storm/The Invisible and Ben Grimm/The Thing, respectively, in Fantastic Four: First Steps later this summer.
After departing from the mega-franchise following Endgame in 2019, Downey announced his return to the MCU as infamous villain Doctor Doom last July. Next year, he will originate the character in Doomsday along with a second slated appearance in 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
Thunderbolts* notably “assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes.” Sebastian Stan, who has reappeared in multiple stints across the franchise, returns as Bucky Barnes, though the rest of the cast are relatively new MCU stars. Stan leads the film alongside Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Wyatt Russell (John Walker), David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian), Lewis Pullman (Bob), Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost), Olga Kurylenko (Taskmaster) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (CIA director Valentine Allegra de Fontaine).
Samuel L. Jackson and Pierce Brosnan have their eyes on a missing stash of gold in the trailer for the Western movie The Unholy Trinity.
Saban Films and Roadside Attractions are set to release director Richard Gray’s feature in theaters nationwide June 13. Brandon Lessard, Veronica Ferres, Gianni Capaldi, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tim Daly, Ethan Peck, Katrina Bowden and David Arquette round out the cast.
Set in Montana in the 1870s, The Unholy Trinity centers on Henry Broadway (Lessard), who heads to the town of Trinity with a plan to murder the man who framed his late father. Once he arrives, Henry is caught in a feud between the upstanding new sheriff (Brosnan) and the mysterious St. Christopher (Jackson).
“Let me give you a bit of advice: Keep your ancestry between us,” Brosnan warns Lessard in the trailer after learning of his father’s identity. “Not every man who is known is loved.”
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Later, Jackson boasts, “I know your daddy real well. Me and him stole enough gold to pave the streets of heaven.” He goes on to add, “In case it ain’t obvious, you will find that gold.”
Gray (Murder at Yellowstone City) directed the film from a script by Lee Zachariah. Serving as producers are Gray, Carter Boehm, Kellie Lessard Brooks, Jeanne Allgood Gaisford, Michele Gray, Colin Floom and Cameron Lessard.
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter late last year to promote his drama The Last Rifleman, Brosnan reflected on his busy schedule of late.
“I’ve got four movies in the can,” the actor said at the time about Black Bag and other projects. “I’m at a very joyful time to be able to move around the stage and to be able to have choices and hopefully to be able to equip myself within the roles.”
Marvel Legends action figure of the symbiote suit webslinger from “Spider-Man 3,” LEGO is turning the incredible train sequence from “Spider-Man 2” into a LEGO set.
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But that’s not all, because LEGO also continues to build out the legacy Batman on both the silver screen and the flickering box. Along with massive sets like the LEGO “Batman Returns” Batcave and the “Batman: The Animated Series” LEGO Gotham City skyline, they’ve also been dabbling in the Dark Knight’s signature Batmobiles, from the original 1966 TV series to Robert Pattinson’s terrifying hot rod in “The Batman.” This year, they’re finally giving the Batmobile from “Batman Forever” its due in building brick form, and I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve always thought it was the coolest Batmobile from any movie.
Take a look at the new “Spider-Man 2” and “Batman Forever” LEGO sets below!
The new Spider-Man 2 LEGO set has a train to catch
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Plenty of movie fans agree that “Spider-Man 2” is still one of the best superhero movies of all time, and the train sequence with Doc Ock battling Spider-Man while sending an elevated train through New York City at a dangerous speed is simply fantastic. That action-packed scene is being brought to life in LEGO form, albeit in a slightly scaled down version.
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While LEGO fans won’t be getting an entire train to recreate the famous sequence, the 393-piece set does provide the front car that Peter Parker has to stop from careening off the end of the track and into the busy city streets of New York.
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Along with the train, the set includes minifigures of Doc Ock and his mechanical arms, as well as Spider-Man with some webbing and both a masked and unmasked head for the minifigure. Joining them is Aunt May, even though she’s not part of this sequence in the movie, and just because he doesn’t fit in well in any other LEGO set, we’re getting a minifigure of J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson. But if you want other passengers inside the train to cower in fear, you’ll have to get a different assembly of minifigures.
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This is the kind of set you could place on a track in the middle of a big LEGO city diorama and give yourself a cinematic scene to play out among the rest of your plastic blocks. Should be a fun build!
The “Spider-Man 2” LEGO set is available to pre-order now for $54.99, and it will ship on August 1.
Will chicks still dig the car when it’s a LEGO Batmobile?
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Meanwhile, over in Gotham City, we’ve got one of the most stylish and impractical Batmobiles that has ever graced the big screen. From “Batman Forever,” a movie that could have been much darker, this version of the Caped Crusader’s signature ride had a teal glow inside of it, as well as glowing wheels featuring the Bat symbol as hubcaps.
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But perhaps the coolest trait of the “Batman Forever” Batmobile was the trademark spoiler, which was situated as a single batwing coming out of the back. However, when Robin takes the vehicle out for a spin, referring to it as his “love machine,” the batwing is split in two, making it look even more awesome. Sadly, you can’t split the batwing into two in this LEGO set, but it still looks sick.
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Batman is also included as a minifigure in this 909-piece set, and he even gets a little stand to display him. This one will certainly go well next to all of the other LEGO Batmobiles from “Batman,” “The Batman,” “Batman: The Animated Series,” “Batman ’66” and more.
The “Batman Forever” LEGO Batmobile is available for pre-order for $99.99, and it will ship on August 1.
