On the 10th anniversary of the cult classic, the story of how it began…(by Helen O’Hara) It was one of the most controversial films of 1999, a bitingly funny, pitch dark look at modern consumer culture and the difficulty this generation has in connected in any meaningful way. That, or an ultraviolet fascist fantasy, depending […]
Rolling Stone Profiles Successful Australians in Hollywood
Ross Grayson Bell knew that finding success in Hollywood would be difficult. What the Australian-born producer didn’t realise was that he would run up a $60,000 credit card debt along the way. His payoff however was making the cult classic Fight Club. Ross Grayson Bell knew that finding success in Hollywood would be difficult. What […]
Variety – RUSH HOUR Scribe Jim Kouf tees up to pen INGLE WOODS
New Line Cinema has acquired the comedy pitch “Ingle Woods” from Duane Martin and Lawrence Bender Prods., with Jamie Foxx attached to star. New Line will hire a writer to pen the script from Martin’s story. Comedy is the story of Ingle Woods, a golfer raised in Inglewood who plays golf when he isn’t working […]
Variety – New Line tees up Foxx pic INGLE WOODS
Studio seeking scribe to pen comedy. New Line Cinema has acquired the comedy pitch “Ingle Woods” from Duane Martin and Lawrence Bender Prods., with Jamie Foxx attached to star. New Line will hire a writer to pen the script from Martin’s story. Comedy is the story of Ingle Woods, a golfer raised in Inglewood who […]
Variety – Bender Inks 2 Producers
Lawrence Bender Prods. has signed first-look deals with producer and producer Ross Grayson Bell (“Fight Club”). Bell also served as the executive producer of “Under Suspicion” starring Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. Barber, who first produced “The Adventures of Sebastian Cole,” began her career working with filmmakers Abel Ferrara and Robert De Niro. Bender most […]
Sydney Morning Herald – Hungry for a Big Break (Interview – Garry Maddox)
Hungry For a Big Break, Australian Producer Ross Grayson Bell Comes Up With a Bunch of Knuckle Sandwiches. It starts with a cabaret off Sydney’s Oxford Street. It ends up – so far anyway – with Fight Club, David Fincher’s brutal new film about an underground network of bare-knuckle boxers. Or maybe it starts later […]
FIGHT CLUB – World Premiere – Mann’s Village Theatre, Westwood
FIGHT CLUB finally opened to night to an amazing audience reaction. Click on the link to see photos of the red carpet arrivals.
Hollywood Will Take It On The Chin For Fox’s Morally Repulsive FIGHT CLUB
Hollywood Will Take It On The Chin For Fox’s Morally Repulsive ‘Fight Club’, says Editor Anita M. Busch. The ultra-graphic violence of Fox 2000’s FIGHT CLUB has drawn more gut anger from the industry than I’ve ever heard. And for good reason. The film, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, Is David Fincher’s big-budget tirade […]
Anita M. Busch criticizes FIGHT CLUB – Ross Grayson Bell responds
In last week’s On the Beat Column, editor Anita M. Busch criticized those responsible for bringing the violent FIGHT CLUB to the screen. Ross Grayson Bell, one of the producers of the film, responds: After Anita M. Busch’s comments last week about “Fight Club,” I felt the need to respond on a personal level. As […]
Variety – SMOKE SIGNALS director Chris Eyre to helm New Line’s ROUSTABOUT
Just a few weeks after picking it up off turnaround from Fox 2000, New Line has tapped Chris Eyre (“Smoke Signals”) to direct “Roustabout,” to which Winona Ryder is attached to star. Newcomer Kathleen Orillion has been hired to adapt Michelle Chalfoun’s 1997 debut novel about a modern day female circus roustabout. Ryder also will […]