Bret Easton Ellis Directs Thriller Series for Fullscreen

LOS ANGELES: Fullscreen, which is launching its SVOD platform tomorrow, has partnered with best-selling author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis for his directorial debut on a new series, The Deleted.

Ellis is best known for American Psycho, Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction. In the new original thriller The Deleted, the disappearance of three seemingly unconnected people from Los Angeles triggers a collective paranoia among a group of twentysomethings, all of whom escaped from a cult ‎several years back.

The platform is also introducing a first-ever for SVOD daily sketch show, Party in the Back. Twaimz, Josh Leyva, Rachel Scanlon and Brandon Armstrong will upload content onto the channel every day giving a behind-the-scenes look at their efforts to create new programming while working at Fullscreen. The ad-free subscription service is producing a series of talk formats, including Explain Things to Me, featuring Anna Akana and Brad Gage; Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia, a sleepover with best pals Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark; and Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, in which comedian brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal invite guests to their apartment to talk rap music, NYC and food.

Targeting audiences ages 13 to 30, Fullscreen becomes available tomorrow on fullscreen.com and via iPhone, iPad, select Android phones and Chromecast for $4.99 per month.

“We created a new kind of entertainment experience which merges the things we love about premium content and social media,” said George Strompolos, Fullscreen’s founder and CEO. “We’re building it for an audience we know and love—a social-first mobile-first generation. We look forward to creating, learning and evolving at internet speed.”