the informers

Billy Bob Thornton Has Strange New Plan To Combat His Death Curse

8:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Though we’ve pointed out how many of Billy Bob Thornton’s co-stars suffer untimely fates, we had no idea the star was taking extreme, air-shunning steps to curtail the curse. More »

‘The Informers’: A Movie Cannot Survive On Amber Heard’s Breasts Alone

7:00AM Kyle Buchanan | The Informers features the nuttiest Sundance cast this side of Push: Billy Bob Thornton, Mickey Rourke, the late Brad Renfro, Winona Ryder, and, of course, Amber Heard’s breasts. So what went wrong? More »

‘The Informers’ Loses Its Fangs, But Will It Lose Its Fans Too?

3:30AM Molly Friedman | When it comes to intertwining underage sex, loveable drug addicts and coldblooded serial killers, nobody does it better than Bret Easton Ellis. So when we heard a while back that The Informers would finally follow in the footsteps of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction and make its way to the big screen, we couldn’t have been more giddy. But now, IGN is reporting that Brandon Routh’s turn as Jaime, the vampire-like leading man with a penchant for sucking blood, will be left on the cutting room floor; as anyone who has read the book will attest, his character was both a central figure in and a critical element of the depraved stories Ellis included in this book. The question is this: with no blood, gore, zombie fangs or Superman, will The Informers even be The Informers at all? Or will it just be Less Than Zero: The Sequel, minus the sight of a drugged up and passed out Robert Downey Jr. sprawled on the beaches of Malibu? More »