Thursday 30 August 2012
Billy Burke & JD Pardo featured in ‘Revolution’ poster !!
NBC’s new tv show Revolution will debut on 9/17/12 which stars our very own Billy Burke (Charlie) and JD Pardo (Nahuel in Breaking Dawn 2).
Watch the first trailer for ‘The Company You Keep’ starring Anna Kendrick!!
The first trailer for The Company You Keep, starring Anna Kendrick, has been released. The film will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival next month!
Kristen Stewart Confirmed To Be In Balenciaga’s Fall Campaign!!
From NYMag:
Today, Balenciaga sent out a press release about their forthcoming Florabotanica fragrance, which included the following paragraph:
Balenciaga muse and actress Kristen Stewart will also be featured in the national print campaign this Fall as her rebellious style perfectly embodies the Florabotanica spirit.
So, anyone worried about the status of her contract with the brand can rest easy for now. In other news, the scent will cost $125 and hit select stores in September.
Wednesday 29 August 2012
New, Shorter Cut Of 'On The Road' Will Premiere At The Toronto International Film Festival!!
It looks like audiences at TIFF this year will see a shorter version of On the Road than the original version! Here is what IndieWire is reporting.
Decades in the making, the Francis Ford Coppola produced, Walter Salles directed "On The Road" finally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May to a mixed response. The adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel of a generation was never the easiest thing to bring to the screen, and our review by James Rocchi from the Croisette called it "lustrous but long winded." And indeed, running nearly 2 hours and 20 minutes, this writer was definitely checking his watch during the film. Now as it heads to TIFF, it looks like Salles has hit the editing bay one more time for a new, slimmer cut.
IndieWire recently chatted with IFC Films honcho Jonathan Sehring, and he elaborated on what audiences in Toronto will see. "The response at Cannes was that some people loved it and some people were respectful of it, like some people loved the book. And Walter took a lot of that to heart. He’s gone back, and we’re unveiling a new cut in Toronto, which is about 15 minutes shorter. It’s a little over two hours now. He’s added certain things that weren’t in the cut that was in Cannes," he explained. "He has been in New York and Rio and L.A. working on it the past couple of months, and it’s going to be very wet when it gets to Toronto. We’re locked, but they’re finishing the mix up right now. We’re very, very excited about it."
It will be interesting to see what elements and moments get axed, shuffled and added to the movie, and certainly with an extensive cast featuring a number of actors in brief appearances, we wonder who might ultimately end up on the cutting room floor. If we were to take a wild stab in the dark, we'd wager that Alice Braga might be one who could get sliced out. She plays Terry (aka Bea Franco), a young Mexican woman Kerouac meets on his journey and exchanges letters with that he fictionalized in the novel, and her role is already quite small and a bit inconsequential in the film.
Whether this makes for a smoother, sharper "On The Road" remains to be seen. If anything, Salles has kept the ambling nature of the source material intact, though the cut we saw certainly could've used a bit of a pacing punch up, and this may do the trick. And as Sehring notes, it's the kind of movie that will split audiences. "That novel and that whole Beat thing, people take it so personally. Either they passionately love it or they passionately hate it, and that’s one of the things that really attracted us [to the film] across the board, everyone in the company," he said.
"On The Road" will play TIFF next month. No release date has been set yet for the film.
New ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2′ Movie Stills & Interview!
According to director Bill Condon ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ has a running time of 56 minutes. Read his interview with MTV here.
Bill Condon talks to MTV News about the film's 'beautiful' visual effects and why filming was the 'biggest party ever.'
MTV's Fall Movie Preview continues in conjunction with "Twilight" Tuesday to bring you brand spankin' new images from "Breaking Dawn -- Part 2". New photos feature more new vampires along with a swoonworthy shot of Edward (Robert Pattinson) looking postcard perfect.
And that's not all, we've got a double dose of "Twilight" goodness with a few juicy details about the film straight from director Bill Condon, during which we learned the official running time, which vampire power has the coolest visual effect and why the film's climax will take your breath away.
MTV News: How are you feeling? What stage of the post-production process are you in?
Bill Condon: We're at the stage of mixing and doing color timing and adding that last big bunch of visual effects shots, and that's where it gets complicated because the [most challenging] ones always come in last, so it's just making sure that they look as good as they can, that's the big thing right now.
MTV: Is there one specific FX shot that you're particularly pleased with?
Condon: Oh man, there are so many that are so beautiful. I love the way, it's very creepy, but I love the way that Alec's mist looks. He has that mist that can make you blind, deaf and dumb, so that's looking really good. It feels like the best Hammer [horror] movie you've ever seen. It's a little different [type of mist] and sort of has tentacles that can get inside you and all that stuff.
MTV: I'm so excited to see all the powers! I spoke with Mackenzie Foy recently, the most adorable person the planet, and she talked about how she had fun filming her "power scenes."
Condon: I know, she's adorable, right? Her power, she touches somebody and she can show them what's in her head and that you develop. There are some visual things, but a lot of that is done through Carter Burwell's score, but then just recently in the mixing Dane Davis, who is a brilliant sound designer, he did "The Matrix" and so many other movies, he had her just speak and read poetry and things like that, and he's turned it into hundreds of tracks. You don't actually hear words but it becomes the chattering of her [voice], it's a very abstract effect that I've never heard before. It's really cool.
MTV: In the last stages of mixing and production, is there something that during filming you liked but have come to love in seeing onscreen?
Condon: There's a lot of that. I would say the whole climax, I feel like it's the biggest musical number I've ever directed. It does feel, when you finally get the rhythm of that right, it makes it, I hope, very satisfying.
MTV: What was the biggest, busiest most fun day on set?
Condon: The biggest and most fun, just because of the surprise they pulled off, we went to the top, top, top as far as you can get in this arena to get the widest shot of the [battle]field with the Volturi on one side and the Cullen group on the other and on the last take suddenly you hear the Eurythmics and they all start to do this intimately choreographed dance that they'd worked out. It was a huge day and the biggest party ever.
MTV: Well we can only hope that that ends up on the DVD.
Condon: I think it is, yeah.
MTV: Have you made any more decisions about the soundtrack? You have so many musicians in that cast.
Condon: Oh yeah, that's interesting. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it yet but we've just now finally firmed it up so that's exciting.
MTV: How about the running time? Is that official yet?
Condon: Yeah. The running time is one hour and 56 minutes, one minute shorter than the first one and as such, I think the shortest of all of them.
MTV: We talked about the biggest and busiest day, what about the most quiet, emotional moment?
Condon: There are a lot of those, I would say. ... I don't want to talk about one scene because that's a surprise but you know what, the scene when Charlie meets vampire Bella for the first time and then meets Renesmee. This is a movie that really only has one fully human person, if you treat Taylor [Lautner] as a magical creature, so Charlie is our way into this whole thing. If Charlie can believe it and understand, I think the rest of the audience can too. Of course, Billy Burke is such an incredible actor who can really humanize any moment, so watching him and Kristen together in that scene, I remember everything was a total pleasure in that.
MTV: It's a little ways off yet, but have you planned a vacation?
Condon: [Laughs] My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out. I think I'll do something like that.
MTV: What advice do you have for the fans on how to pass the time before the movie comes out?
Condon: Oh that's an interesting question. There's a slight surprise with the score. [They should] listen to all the old CD's of all the composers [of the other "Twilight" films], maybe that, refresh themselves on the different themes.
Tuesday 28 August 2012
Entertainment Weekly to release ‘Twilight: The Complete Journey,’ available for pre-order
Thanks to the keen eyes of Amanda over at Twilight Examiner, we’ve spotted another retrospective about the Twilight Saga filming experience. Entertainment Weekly will be releasing Twilight: The Complete Journey. The details of the book (magazine?) that are currently available on Amazon are as follows:
A gorgeous all-access guide to the Twilight saga from the magazine whose writers and photographers covered the phenomenon before anyone else and better than anyone else. “The Twilight Journey” follows author Stephenie Meyer and stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner on their wild, five-year journey from the set of the first movie to the premiere of 2012′s “Breaking Dawn, Part 2.” With funny, intimate, often shockingly frank interviews as well as set visits, trivia, book and movie guides, and dozens of now-iconic photographs. The book is not only a keepsake for fans to pore over but also a revealing portrait of an unassuming first-time author and three very different young actors coping with a fame so sudden and overwhelming that it not only transformed their lives but Hollywood itself. Includes five posters based on original EW covers.
The publication is set to be released on October 2 and, although we don’t yet have an image to share, can be pre-ordered on Amazon now.
Sunday 26 August 2012
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