Saturday, December 31, 2011

Investikudos Weekly Update: December 26 2011 - January 1 2012



Current Projects

*BEL AMI
- New trailer:





- More Screencaps and gifs from the trailer(LINK)

- More release dates:
France - June 27, 2012.
Germany - April 26, 2012.
Turkey - February 24, 2012.
IMDb has the US release date scheduled on March 2 2012.

- BEL AMI is RATED R by the MPAA (LINK)

*BREAKING DAWN PART 1
- Junket interviews:
Part 1: LINK
Part 2: LINK
Part 3: LINK
Part 4: LINK
Part 5: LINK

- Breaking Dawn Part 1 promo has finished. The movie is out and very succesful. It's made more than $650 million worldwide.
Find links to all the events UPDATED with all available videos etc. here (LINK)

* COSMOPOLIS
Cosmopolis preview in Total Film Magazine



* ON THE ROAD
No news

* SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN
2nd trailer, now in English



- Nick Frost talks about Kristen and SWATH sequels (LINK)

- More from Nick Frost (LINK)
“It was our last day on Friday, and she has kind of a big rabble rousing speech, and she’s great. She’s fun on set. She’s a fantastic actress,” said Frost while promoting “The Adventures of Tintin.”

Frost feels that people can discount Stewart unfairly because of her previous work, but there are a few things they don’t keep in mind. “I think people forget she’s fairly young still, but she’s dedicated and she wants to do a good job,” he said. “Often, I don’t think people take that into consideration. She’s doing ‘Twilight’ and stuff like that, but she’s dedicated.”

It’s the combination of Stewart’s age and the amount of work that “SWATH” demanded that really left an impression on Frost. “How old is she? Twenty-three, twenty-four?” Frost asked. “I don’t know that many twenty-three or twenty-four year-olds that get picked up at 4 am and work until 10 at night, six days a week. She comes on set smiling and laughing, and she knows her lines.”


IN OTHER NEWS

- Rob is E!'s Celebrity of the Year (LINK)


Sixty-four celebs, five weeks of voting, four fiercely contested brackets and a surprising wild card round later, Robert Pattinson comes out on top.The great-haired hunk has won the E! Celeb of the Year honor—for the second year in a row!

Team Jacob and Twilight haters can get to steppin' because the evidence is crystal clear: You guys love R.Pattz. And what's even better? Pattinson's competitor for the final round of 2011's tournament was his "sexy goddess" Kristen Stewart. Again.

Here's how it went down:
More than a month ago, we introduced the 64 big-name contenders—Kate Middleton, Charlie Sheen, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears, to name a few—who all had a lot going on this year. (For the record, the new Duchess of Cambridge came super close to grabbing this title.)

So what made Rob stand out above all the pop stars, royals, Oscar winners and warlocks who dominated 2011?Was it all about the jaw-dropping Breaking Dawn: Part 1, the sparkly vamp's latest blockbuster, which hit theaters last month and is still making bank? Or was it his bold steps to more challenging roles like Cosmopolis? Or maybe it was that mind-of-its-own hair or his? Or was it just the smooch?

Whatever the case may be, we clearly can't escape the power of Pattinson. Congrats, Rob!
The question remains: What charity will he choose to have E! donate the $25,000 prize? We'll keep you posted.


- Rob and Kristen's Five Hottest Moments of the Year (Posted before, but a nice reminder on this final day of the year!)
(LINK)



- Reminder: Rob and WFE are nominated for 3 People's Choice Awards. The show airs live on January 11 2012

* Favorite Movie Actor
* Favorite Drama Movie
* Favorite Book Adaptation

Vote here (LINK)

CASTING RUMOR MILL/DOWNTIME
No news on rumored projects.

Rob and Kristen are currently in L.A. to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Investikudos wishes you all a wonderful 2012!

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Investikudos Weekly Update: December 12 - 18 2011



Current Projects

*BEL AMI
New stills





- Movie will have a limited release in Belgium on January 3-4 and a nationwide release on January 31st.

- More release dates:
Lithuania - 2 March 2012
UK 2 March 2012
France 27 June 2012

*BREAKING DAWN PART 1
New wedding pictures




BTS look (LINK)

Rob and Kristen in "dream wedding" get-up


First look at Vamp-Bella:



- Breaking Dawn Movie Companion (LINK) to more



Order it here (LINK)

- New Bill Condon Interview


- Breaking Dawn DVD release: Feb 11 2012


- Junket interviews:
Part 1: LINK
Part 2: LINK
Part 3: LINK
Part 4: LINK
Part 5: LINK

- Breaking Dawn Part 1 promo has finished. The movie is out and very succesful. It's made more than 500 million worldwide. Find links to all the events UPDATED with all available videos etc. here (LINK)

* COSMOPOLIS
New poster (Russian - says PATTINSON - CRONENBERG 12-12-12


- More from David Cronenberg on casting Rob (LINK)

* ON THE ROAD
No news

* SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN
Filming is done. Wrap party took place December 11.

First look from Empire Magazine





Transcript: (LINK)
"This is not a girl by the well with tweety birds" says Director Rupert Sanders. "I actually wanted to do a war movie" It's clear that Sanders take on the Snow White storey will be as grim as it is Grimm. While competing 2012 Snow White project, Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror goes for fairy tale bright colours and high camp scheming, this one shows its Snow (Kristen Stewart) in armour, and promises less sweeping and dusting and more sweep and dust-ups.
Charlize Theron is the Evil Queen who consumes young women to keep herself young and beautiful; Stewart's Snow White is the big prize who will keep her that way forever; Chris "Thor" Hemsworth plays the fearless Huntsman ordered to hunt Snow through the big, scary forest; and On Stranger Tides Sam Claflin is the Prince (How charming he is remains to be seen).
The eight dwarves (yes, eight. Disney holds the copyright on seven) are played by some of the best British character actors around, from Nick Frost and Ian McShane to Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins.
You wouldn't know it to look at him - or the budget - but Sanders is a first-time feature director. He is, however, one of the highest-profile commercial men around and a look at his Halo, Call of Duty: Black Ops or Nike spots suggest that the action won't even make him break a sweat.
Stewart, Speaking in LA recently, sounds as fired up as her director. "It's a true telling of the fairy tale, a little bit closer to the Grimm stories than other versions." That puts it in direct contrast to Mirror Mirror's more child-friendly approach; where this one goes for the look of Gladiator or Robin Hood, that Julia Roberts/Lily Collins effort chooses a more farcical, knockabout tone in a clearly artificial world.
Which one could debate which of the pair is more faithful to the original, there shouldn't be much danger of confusing the two - as Stewart acknowledges "The great thing about having such a brass-tacks base is you can rethink who your characters are within the fairy tale and still remain completely true to it because they are fairly undefined. You have really basic attributes and in this case we are bringing it out, I think, un-expected things"
"A lot is expected of me on this" Adds, Stewart, who's been training intensively. "being strong will not be just an aesthetic thing. I need to have endurance. "Snow is someone who has a lineage of leadership in her blood, and she has been beaten down, along w/ her entire kingdom and her people. I know it sounds really obvious, but it's a story that should champion people who aren't obsessed with vanity, someone who has a true heart. It's a really simple story but it really knocks me out"


- Nick Frost mentions Kristen (LINK)
We’ve seen ten or fifteen minutes of it on set, and it’s great,” he revealed. “It’s very gothic, and I think the dwarves try to bring a little comedy into it, and there’s heart to it, and Kristen Stewart’s great as Snow White. On the one hand, she’s fragile, and you want to kind of give her a cuddle. But on the other hand, she wears armor, and wields a sword like any warrior. I like that, and I think that’s quite unique, really, that you can do that. She can, on one hand, be one thing, and literally on the flip of a coin she can turn into this other thing. So I think it should be pretty good – I’d like to think it’s going to be pretty good, anyway.”

New trailer in German


IN OTHER NEWS

- Top Grossing Actors of 2011 List from Forbes (LINK)

To compile our list we used global box office numbers from Box Office Mojo...Robert Pattinson ranks fourth on our list with $750 million. He tops his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart (who ranks sixth with $633 million) thanks to the film adaptation of Water for Elephants. The film wasn’t a big hit in the U.S. but globally it brought in a healthy $117 million – pretty good considering the budget was only $38 million. Read more

Number 4 Robert Pattinson -$750 million
Pattinson's biggest hit of the year was Breaking Dawn, the fourth Twilight movie. But he also earns from Water for Elephants which brought in $117 million.

Number 6 Kristen Stewart - $633 million
The only woman on our list, Stewart earned only from the latest Twilight movie this year. Next year she’s got the potential to earn a lot more thanks to a final Twilight movie and Snow White and the Huntsman.


- New Pictures of the Mulberry fashion show.



- Rob and Kristen's Five Hottest Moments of the Year (LINK)


- New Video of Rob at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards (at 3:16 and around 4:00)


- Reminder: Rob and WFE are nominated for 3 People's Choice Awards. The show airs live on January 11 2012

* Favorite Movie Actor
* Favorite Drama Movie
* Favorite Book Adaptation

Vote here (LINK)
The show airs live on January 11.

CASTING RUMOR MILL/DOWNTIME
No news on rumored projects.

Kristen is currently in L.A. There's been some back and forth on where Rob is (London, L.A. the moon...) but occam's razor points to L.A.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Investikudos Weekly Update: December 5 - 11 2011



Current Projects

*BEL AMI

New still:


Bel Ami will be in a few selected cinemas in Belgium starting early January (LINK)

*BREAKING DAWN PART 1
New TV Spot


- How Kristen hurt her thumb during BD2 filming:


- New London Interview


- More From the Los Principales Interview


- Junket interviews:
Part 1: LINK
Part 2: LINK
Part 3: LINK
Part 4: LINK
Part 5: LINK

- Breaking Dawn Part 1 promo has finished. The movie is out and very succesful. It's made more than 500 million worldwide. Find links to all the events UPDATED with all available videos etc. here (LINK)

* COSMOPOLIS
- David Cronenberg on why he casted Rob (LINK)

Your casting of Robert Pattinson in 'Cosmopolis,' someone whose acting might not be as critically lauded as Mortensen's, was obviously a well-thought-out decision, then.
Well, Keira's acting doesn't always get praise from high-brow critics, either. I would use that parallel. You have a young actor who's found success with a franchise just like Keira did with 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' who's underrated because of that. In each case, they're too pretty and too successful so people are jealous. As a result, people assume that they can't possibly be good actors.

So what was the exact motivation for casting Pattinson in 'Cosmopolis'?
He's the right age, he's got the right screen presence, and when I looked at his other work I thought he'd be really interesting for the role. Casting is a black art – it's a bit mysterious how you come to these things – and it's subjective, too, of course. As a director, there are no rules to guide you. You have to go with your gut, ultimately.


- David Cronenberg gives an update on Cosmopolis

"Probably the last couple of days was where there was just a long, long, maybe 15-minute scene with Paul Giamatti, just the two of them in a couple of rooms," Cronenberg said. In "Cosmopolis," Pattinson plays Eric Packer, a young millionaire who just wants to get his hair cut. Things go awry when his limo gets stuck in traffic and a stalker, played by Giamatti, causes even more trouble.

Cronenberg said that one of the biggest testaments to Pattinson's skill as an actor was the effect he had on his Academy Award-nominated co-star. "They were both brilliant, and Paul was really impressed," he said. "If Paul's impressed, he's a good judge of other actors, and he said so publicly."

The director is simultaneously promoting "A Dangerous Method" and putting the finishing touches on "Cosmopolis." Cronenberg said that juggling both has never been an issue: "I've edited 'Cosmopolis,' and I'm about to go to Paris next week to do the sound mix of it, but I can switch over. It's like having two kids. When one kid comes through the door, you're there for that kid."


* ON THE ROAD
No news

* SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN

SWATH trailer (in Mexican) with new footage


Translation: (SOURCE)
"This story is more than legend. I witnessed. I was there.A beauty so cruel that with its wickedness poisoned the land. And a kindness so pure inspired us" - The Huntsman.
"I want you to follow her and bring me her heart." "And if I refuse?" "You, hunter, are going to do what I'm saying."
"Now, that the darkness is over us, I will fight with the bravest, the most beautiful of all." - The Huntsman
"Mirror, mirror, just tell me one thing, who among them is the most beautiful?" - The Queen.


Some stills:







- Wrap party is Monday December 12. Several actors have finished filming already.

- UK Premiere for SWATH is set for May 14 2012. (Not officially confirmed, so rumor)


IN OTHER NEWS

- New Hand/Footprint ceremony pictures



(MORE)

- More TV Week Outtakes (LINK)





- Kristen tops Forbes Best Actors for the Buck List, Rob 3rd (LINK)
The way this is calculated: how much money does an actor generate for every dollar they get paid.

- Reminder: Rob and WFE are nominated for 3 People's Choice Awards. The show airs live on January 11 2012

* Favorite Movie Actor
* Favorite Drama Movie
* Favorite Book Adaptation

Vote here (LINK)

CASTING RUMOR MILL/DOWNTIME
No news on rumored projects.

Rob is currently in L.A. and Kristen is finishing up SWATH in London. She is expected to return to L.A. after December 12.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Investikudos Weekly Update: November 28 - December 4 2011



Current Projects

*BEL AMI
No news.

*BREAKING DAWN PART 1

- Better quality wedding stills:



- Breaking Dawn Production Designer Richard Sherman mentions Rob and Kristen (LINK)
Everyone had a good time. The three main actors are all very fun to work with. Kristen is quite serious. Rob and Taylor are a little bit wild. Rob and Kristen are actually a couple in real life. When he’s with her, he’s a little more restrained. When she’s not around, like most guys when their wives or girlfriends aren’t around, he’s a little looser. Taylor’s a kid—he’s 19—so he was bouncing all over the place.


- Rob and Kristen answer fan questions for Ticket - El Salvador.


- Rob and Kristen in 8Days Magazine- Singapore (LINK)

- Rob and Kristen's Patrick Stoner BD - Interview


- Rob and Kristen's Interview with NBC LA


- Junket interviews:
Part 1: LINK
Part 2: LINK
Part 3: LINK
Part 4: LINK
Part 5: LINK

- Breaking Dawn Part 1 promo has finished. The movie is out and very succesful. It's made more than 500 million worldwide. Find links to all the events UPDATED with all available videos etc. here (LINK)

* COSMOPOLIS
- David Cronenberg talks about Cosmopolis and Rob to Indiewire and NY Magazine

* ON THE ROAD

- Excerpts from One and Only - The Untold Story of On the Road. Mentions Kristen.



- Lionsgate will now handle the release of On The Road in the UK. It was originally Icon Film Distribution UK. (SOURCE)

- Viggo Mortensen mentions Kristen and OTR (LINK)

* SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN
- Charlize Theron talks about a show-down between her and Kristen in SWATH (LINK)

- Nick Frost (one of the dwarfs in SWATH) mentions how much he enjoys filming SWATH(LINK)

- A reminder: SWATH wrap party is set for December 12 2011.

IN OTHER NEWS

- Funny: Romance movie posters starring Twilight characters (LINK) to more





- Rob One of HeatUK Magazine's Richest Entertainers.
Robert Pattinson, lead actor of the rival fantasy film franchise “Twilight,” moved up to third from fifth and leapfrogged two of Radcliffe’s Potter co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, according to the celebrity magazine. (Rob's estimated wealth is £24.9 million or $38.5M as per MetroUK )


- Bear makes it onto the Best New Star Pets List of People Magazine (LINK)

- Reminder: Rob and WFE are nominated for 3 People's Choice Awards. The show airs live on January 11 2012

* Favorite Movie Actor
* Favorite Drama Movie
* Favorite Book Adaptation

Vote here (LINK)

CASTING RUMOR MILL/DOWNTIME
No news on rumored projects.

Rob is currently in L.A. and Kristen is finishing up SWATH in London. She is expected to return to L.A. after December 12.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Investikudos Weekly Update: November 21 - 27 2011



Current Projects

*BEL AMI

From Bel Ami UK
“Here it is the news we have all been waiting for confirmed just minutes ago:

UK theatrical release date has been added to the calendar for 2nd March 2012
Official social media channels for the film will soon be set up and we will have all those details here once they are made available.”


*BREAKING DAWN PART 1
See Breaking Dawn News down below.

* COSMOPOLIS

- News about an upcoming trailer (LINK)


- Lots of talk from DDavid Cronenberg on Rob and Cosmopolis this week. A round up:


From The LA Times
R.K.: Your next film is “Cosmopolis,” which is adapted from a Don DeLillo novel. What can you tell me about it?
D.C.: It's the story of a young billionaire played by Rob Pattinson who travels across Manhattan to get a haircut. That's the plot. Robert's a very underestimated actor. I think he'll blow some people away.

From Living in Cinema
JT: In addition to budgetary reasons, do you prefer shooting in one or two takes for creative reasons as well?
DC: I did the same with A Dangerous Method and the same with my latest movie Cosmopolis. One or two takes…if you’re working properly with your actor and your actor is properly prepared, you don’t need more than that. The idea of doing ninety-nine takes like David Fincher is supposed to have done…it’s a completely different way of filmmaking.

JT: Cosmopolis is slated for next year, which is a return to screenwriting for you and features a stellar cast. What can you tell us about it, in particular Robert Pattinson, who seems a unique choice for a Cronenberg leading man?
DC: I think he’s kind of parallel to [Knightley] really. I think he’s a very underrated actor who’s really good.
And so he proved to be. I think he’s fantastic in the movie… He’s really great. You can ask Paul Giamatti who’s said that publicly, because he does a big scene with him. Cosmopolis is based on a novel by Don DeLillo. It couldn’t be more different from A Dangerous Method, except that it to has a lot of dialogue. But it’s a very different kind of dialogue. You’ll have to wait and see.
via RPLife

From Cinemablend
Working with Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis, is it that same process of really focusing on your actor and giving him a lot of freedom?
He's in every scene. It's quite a different structure from A Dangerous Method. I think the only similarity really is that there's a lot of dialogue, but it's a very different kind of dialogue, a completely different kind of movie. I did shoot it even more ascetically. We finished 5 days early, and I did my director's cut in two days. That's a record for me. And yet it seems to work really well. Basically you're not giving your editors much to work with. At moments he was begging me to do coverage and I wouldn't. I said I don't need that closeup, I don't want that. I'm confident that letting it hang in the long shot is the way to do it. There are classic mistakes that young directors make, they get so enamored of this tricky dolly shot or steadicam shot, then they don't want to do closeups because they think they've done this genius shot, then in the editing room they realize all the emotion, they can't see it. you have to do closeups. But that's a lesson you learn very early on in your career as a director. You have to have unshakeable confidence if you're not going to do that coverage. You have to know this is exactly what I want it to be.

From Gothamist
Viggo Mortensen, Magneto, and a movie with Rob Pattinson next, with all that Twilight hoopla around him. You don’t mind stars with franchise baggage it seems.
It’s like with Viggo with The Lord of the Rings, frankly. We’ve talked about this a lot. He wouldn’t have been a candidate for A History of Violence if it hadn’t been for Lord of the Rings because he wasn’t well-known, he was really kind of a B actor, character actor before Lord of the Rings made him a star. Therefore, he would not be somebody who could get you the financing that you need. It’s something about casting that people don’t think about but as a director, you really have to think about it because your producers make you think about it and so do your distributors. You say, “I want this guy,” and they say “Forget it! Nobody knows who he is and we can’t build a campaign around him to release to movie.” So not only do you have to get the right guy, you have to figure out who that guy is creatively but he has to want to do it to, you have to be able to afford him, he has to be available at the time you want him and he has to have the star power to get your movie financed. It’s very tricky casting a movie and for a director it’s a huge part of what you do, to weave your way through this mine field and end up with the right guy in your movie. Because if you make a huge miscasting mistake, it can kill your movie before you’ve even shot a foot of film.

Have you ever made any huge casting mistakes?
Yes, but I won’t talk about them! [laughs] But not enough to kill the movie, I must say. There are only one or two that I would maybe have rethought. But you get lucky sometimes and sometimes the right person not only says yes and sometimes the right person says no. In other words, for some reason you’ve decided to go with somebody and you later realize, “Thank god that guy didn’t do the movie because this guy is the right guy.” But about Rob Pattinson, yeah, of course, if it weren’t for Twilight I don’t think we could have financed the movie around him because he wouldn’t be known. But aside from that, that was a good thing not a bad thing and of course I have to think about all that.

Especially with a movie that’s so focused on one character.
Absolutely. You make a bad choice and you’ve killed your movie right away or at least you’re staggering through it trying desperately to compensate for what’s not there that should have been there. I felt really lucky to have Rob, he’s fantastic, and I think people will see that it’s obvious. I don’t think it’s going to be a surprise.

From Bloomberg News
Warner: The film stars Robert Pattinson of “The Twilight Saga” series. Do you think he can escape his vampire pigeonhole?
Cronenberg: He’s a terrific actor, which will be obvious when you see the movie. Any director who’s looking to see what he can do will see that he can do a lot.

source

- Josh Horowitz (MTV) asks David Cronenberg about Cosmopolis


- David Cronenberg mentions Rob and Cosmopolis in Popsugar Interview (around 2:00)


- David Cronenberg talks to Movieweb (LINK)

* ON THE ROAD
No news.

* SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN


More new SWATH pics (LINK)

- SWATH wrap party is set for December 12 2011.

IN OTHER NEWS

- Vote for Rob and Kristen to become Glamour UK's Best Dressed (LINK)


- Rob and WFE are nominated for 3 People's Choice Awards

* Favorite Movie Actor
* Favorite Drama Movie
* Favorite Book Adaptation

Vote here (LINK)

CASTING RUMOR MILL/DOWNTIME

- Rob talks about the mysterious projects with Wyck Godfrey. (And mentions SWATH trailer)



He says "Yeah" he saw the SWATH trailer, “It’s great. Amazing.”
And about his collab with Wyck, he comments "Yeah, I'm doing a bit of that. I mean, I'm doing a bit of everything. It's very cryptic."


- Rob and Kristen are currently together in London where they enjoyed several nights out together.

***BREAKING DAWN PART ONE WEEKLY ROUND UP

- Possible details on the Breaking Dawn DVD/Bluray (LINK)
Covers:




- New stills and People Magazine wedding/honeymoon scans (LINK)

- Composer Carter Burwell talks about creating the Breaking Dawn Part 1 Movie Score (LINK)

- Bella's visual transformation in Breaking Dawn Part 1 (LINK)

- Bill Condon, Melissa Rosenberg and Wyck Godfrey talk about Rob and Kristen in Breaking Dawn Part 1 and more (LINK to Bill and Melissa's interview) & LINK to Wyck's interview.

- Rob and Kristen talk to EW about Breaking Dawn wedding (LINK)

- Rob talks about working with Bill Condon (LINK

- Mackenzie Foy talk about Rob and Kristen (LINK)

- Bella's wedding dress going on sale (LINK)

- Breaking Dawn Movie extra talks about filming (LINK)

- Wyck Godfrey talks about vampire Bella (LINK)


- All the junket interviews so far:
Part 1: LINK
Part 2: LINK
Part 3: LINK
Part 4: LINK
Part 5: LINK


- Breaking Dawn Part 1 promo has finished. The movie is out. Find links to all the events UPDATED with all available videos etc. here (LINK)