'The Canyons,' Lindsay Lohan-Bret Easton Ellis Film, Goes to IFC

IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to "The Canyons," a Paul Schrader film starringLindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen from a script by Bret Easton Ellis. The many complications in making the film were detailed in a New York Times Magazine story that described Schrader at one point taking off his own clothes to persuade Lohan to do a nude scene. The article described how the film was supposed to revive the careers of Lohan, "Taxi Driver" screenwriter Schrader, and Ellis, the author of "Less Than Zero" »