"I don't think L.A. has changed at all,"  said Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote the book on which the film is based -- about life in Los Angeles in 1983. "Well, I guess there's more smog and silicone, but that's about it."

Deciding to make the film, which marks Senator Entertainment's first official U.S. release, was a no-brainer, according to distribution prexy Mark Urman. Ellis and Urman previously worked together on "American Psycho" when Urman was prexy at Lionsgate.

" 'The Informer' was always my favorite novel of his, so it was only a matter of time," said Urman.