IFC Films Acquires ‘The Canyons,’ Lindsay Lohan Movie With a Tale Behind It
Jeff Minton for The New York Times On the set of “The Canyons” in Los Angeles last summer: Amanda Brooks, Lindsay Lohan and Paul Schrader. If you’ve read about “The Canyons” and wondered what it might look like on a screen you’ll soon you’ll be able to see this Lindsay Lohan movie in a theater or on a television near you. IFC Films said on Friday that it had acquired for North American distribution “The Canyons,” a sexual thriller directed by Paul Schrader (the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and director of “Affliction”), written by Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho”), and starring Ms. Lohan and the pornographic film actor James Deen. “The Canyons” drew some early attention for the online strategies of its filmmakers and producer Braxton Pope, who opened some roles up for casting on the Web, and raised money for the movie through crowdsourced contributions. But “The Canyons” is arguably better known for an article on the making of the movie, written by Stephen Rodrick for The New York Times Magazine, in which he chronicled, among other incidents, the temperamental behavior of Ms. Lohan on the set and a sex scene that Mr. Schrader filmed while he was in the nude, in an attempt to make his lead-