James Ellroy
  • Movie Review: 'Street Kings'

    ...colleague Det. Paul Diskant (Chris Evans). You can also see the fingerprints of "L.A. Confidential" novelist James Ellroy, who co-wrote the screenplay (with Kurt Wimmer and Jamie Moss) and who serves up yet another deeply cynical portrait......

  • DVD Review: 'Zodiac: Director's Cut'

    ...but the actors are just spice for a separate recording session that includes screenwriter James Vanderbilt and author James Ellroy, who describes the movie as "one of the half-dozen great American crime films." There's perhaps a bit too much......

  • 'Wanted' and 'Watchman' Employ Common Sense

    ... According to The Hollywood Reporter , Common will also play a drug dealer posing as an undercover cop in James Ellroy's "The Night Watchman" (a film the other trade paper thinks has been retitled "Night Watch"). The David Ayer......

  • Off to 'Tehran' for Clooney

    ...Universal. Other projects on the company's slate include the Coen Brothers ' " Burn After Reading ," the James Ellroy adaptation "White Jazz" and John Grisham 's "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town."...

  • 'House' Star Works the 'Night' Shift

    ...since beginning his Golden Globe -winning run on "House." Laurie has booked a key supporting role in the James Ellroy-scripted, David Ayer-directed thriller "Night Watch," set up at Fox Searchlight. In addition to Laurie......

  • Clooney Has a Professional 'Crisis'

    ...Clooney. Other projects on the company's slate include the Coen Brothers ' " Burn After Reading ," the James Ellroy adaptation "White Jazz" and John Grisham 's "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town."...

  • Fox Wants Forest in 'Night'

    ...Night Watchman." According to the industry trade papers, David Ayer ("Harsh Times") will begin directing the James Ellroy-scripted procedural on May 21. That's already nearly a month later than the studio was hoping to begin production......

  • Reeves on 'Watchman' Duty

    ...Watchman," another long-gestating project. According to Variety, David Ayer ("Harsh Times") will direct the James Ellroy-scripted drama , which has attracted and baffled a slew of A-list directors including David Fincher ......

  • Clooney, DeNiro May Fight Crime Together

    ...Reading ," a reunion with the Coen Brothers . The Oscar winner's 2008 will then include a starring role in the James Ellroy adaptation "White Jazz," leading into directing duties on the heist flick "Belmont Boys." He also snagged the......

  • Clooney Snags Grisham's Latest

    ...Reading ," a reunion with the Coen Brothers . The Oscar winner's 2008 will then include a starring role in the James Ellroy adaptation "White Jazz," leading into directing duties on the heist flick "Belmont Boys." As always, George......

  • Clooney Grooves to 'White Jazz'

    ...Clooney will produce "White Jazz" along with his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov . The long gestating version of James Ellroy's novel has been written by Matthew Carnahan and will be directed by Joe Carnahan ("Narc"). The project......

  • Ellroy Discusses 'The Black Dahlia' for the Last Time

    James Ellroy is talking to reporters about Brian DePalma 's adaptation of "The Black Dahlia," but the very first reporter makes the......

  • 'The Black Dahlia'

    ...you may have heard about Josh Hartnett , Hilary Swank , Scarlett Johansson and Aaron Eckhart . James Ellroy's pitch black story of obsession, doppelgangers, murder and sexual depravity could hardly be more in DePalma's......

  • Hartnett Blooms in 'The Black Dahlia'

    ...when I was much too young to play Bucky," says Hartnett of an earlier, David Fincher -directed version of the James Ellroy thriller. "I was 23, maybe I was just about to turn 23. So, I was really young. But, I recognized how great the......

  • 'Black Dahlia' Blooms in Venice

    Brian DePalma 's long-anticipated adaptation of James Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia" will have its world premiere at the 63rd Venice Film Festival. The thriller, which stars Scarlett......

  • News and Notes from the L.A. Film Festival

    ...will be released sometime this summer. Black (and Blue) Dahlia: A Conversation with James Ellroy In a room containing novelist James Ellroy, film critic Elvis Mitchell and "Hostel" director Eli Roth , Roth is the least outrageous......

  • McGowan's 'Charmed' Life Comes to an End

    ...movie in the can, playing aspiring actress Sheryl Saddon in Brian DePalma 's "The Black Dahlia," based on James Ellroy's fictionalized version of the famous unsolved Los Angeles murder case, due out this autumn. Although McGowan......