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More Pics of Kristen at the OTR Premiere at the AFI Festival in LA (Part 2)
Kristen at the “OTR” LA Premiere at the AFI Festival
Dear Twilight Fans, Summit Entertainment is pleased to announce that we are able to increase the size of Fan Camp from 1200 to 1500 campers! Confirmation emails are going out soon, so please check your inbox to see if your registration was selected for camp, as well as further instructions and details. Unfortunately, even with this increase in camp size, we still aren’t able to admit all of the registrants this year (due to the overwhelming number that we received!). Fear not, if your registration was not selected in the random drawing, you will be notified via email today and will receive instructions on how to add yourself or your group to the wait list. Please read it carefully. You must notify us within 48 hours if you wish to be added to the wait list. Please Note: No new registrations will be accepted. The wait list is only for campers who received a registration confirmation during the initial registration window. Confirmed Campers: Please be courteous to your fellow Twihards! If you can no longer attend, let us know as soon as possible at bd2fancamp@lionsgate.com so that we can admit campers off the wait list. Your confirmation is not transferable (i.e. you cannot give it to a friend). Please know that Summit is currently working on sourcing additional camp space so that we can admit more campers, but until we do, please make sure you get on the wait list in the event that there are cancellations. Thank you for your patience during this entire process and, as always, thanks for your tremendous support of The Twilight Saga! Team Twilight (aka Summit Entertainment)
Breaking Dawn Part 2 LA Premiere Camping Update – IMPORTANT!!
New Picture of Rob Back in LA
Breaking Dawn: Part 2 LA Press Junket to be on November 1st
Win a Trip to LA for the Breaking Dawn Part 2 Premiere
Cosmopolis Released in NYC and LA Today – Get your tickets now + Poster/Soundtrack/Book Giveaway
Get Your Tickets Now!
In NY you can get tickets at Landmark Theaters – Sunshine and Film Society Lincoln Center
In LA at Landmark Theaters – Los Angeles
Ticket information for the rest of the country will be provided shortly. ETA: Added the list of theaters playing Cosmopolis on August 24 at the end of the post
Win a Cosmopolis poster, soundtrack and book
In support of the release, eOneFilmsUS sent us an awesome prize pack that includes a Cosmopolis poster, soundtrack and book.
To participate on the giveaway you only have to RT THIS TWEET on twitter. US followers only
Updated list of theaters playing Cosmopolis (Source)
08/17/2012 Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center, New York, NY
08/17/2012 Sunshine Cinema 5, New York, NY
08/17/2012 The Landmark 12, West Los Angeles, CA
08/24/2012 Kendall Square Cinema 9, Cambridge, MA
08/24/2012 Criterion Cinemas 7, New Haven, CT
08/24/2012 Palace 17 & Odyssey, Hartford, CT
08/24/2012 Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia, PA
08/24/2012 E Street Cinema, Washington, DC
08/24/2012 Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Chicago, IL
08/24/2012 Cedar Lee Theatres, Cleveland Heights, OH
08/24/2012 Lagoon Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
08/24/2012 Sandy Springs 8, Atlanta, GA
08/24/2012 Ballantyne Village 5, Charlotte, NC
08/24/2012 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Austin, TX
08/24/2012 Arbor Cinemas at Great Hills 8, Austin, TX
08/24/2012 South Beach 18, Miami Beach, FL
08/24/2012 Sunset Place 24, Theatres South Miami, FL
08/24/2012 Gateway 4, Fort Lauderdale, FL
08/24/2012 Delray Beach 18, Delray Beach, FL
08/24/2012 Shadowood 16, Boca Raton, FL
08/24/2012 Winter Park Village 20, Winter Park, FL
08/24/2012 Denver Film Center/Colfax, Denver, CO
08/24/2012 Los Feliz 3, Los Angeles, CA
08/24/2012 Art Theatre, Long Beach, CA
08/24/2012 Playhouse 7, Cinemas Pasadena, CA
08/24/2012 University Town Center 6, Cinemas Irvine, CA
08/24/2012 Rancho Niguel 8, Cinemas Laguna Niguel, CA
08/24/2012 Cinemas Palme D’Or 7, Palm Desert, CA
08/24/2012 Hillcrest Cinemas, San Diego, CA
08/24/2012 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA
08/24/2012 Shea 14 Theatre, Scottsdale, AZ
08/24/2012 Tempe Marketplace 16, Tempe, AZ
08/24/2012 Fox Tower 10, Portland, OR
08/24/2012 Meridian 16, Seattle, WA
08/24/2012 Varsity Theatre, Seattle, WA
08/24/2012 Lincoln Square Stadium 16, Bellevue, WA
08/24/2012 Embarcadero Center Cinema 5, San Francisco, CA
08/24/2012 Camera 7, Campbell, CA
08/24/2012 Shattuck Cinemas 10, Berkeley, CA
08/24/2012 Rialto Cinemas 9, Sebastopol, CA
Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg interview with LA Times – New York Press Junket
NEW YORK
“Media culture is a monstrous thing,” Pattinson lamented Wednesday afternoon, jamming fries into his mouth between puffs on his electronic cigarette. “You can’t win. The annoying thing is that you can’t attack them, but you can’t defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday.”
The 26-year-old actor has run a gantlet of publicity this week that was nominally about promoting his new film, “Cosmopolis,” which opens Friday.
Sitting alongside Pattinson for moral support at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Columbus Circle was “Cosmopolis” director David Cronenberg. The Canadian filmmaker, whose challenging art house films almost never garner such wide attention, was there as a sort of buffer but also appeared to be quietly amused by the media circus. The actor’s manager would not allow Pattinson to sit alone for an interview with The Times, and even suggested that reporters not ask him about his personal life, or “Twilight.”
But “Twilight,” of course, is how Pattinson has become perhaps the most widely recognized young actor of his generation. In the movie franchise, based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling young adult novels, he plays a brooding vampire who falls in love with a human girl (Stewart). The film series has grossed over $2.5 billion worldwide since launching in 2008 and will conclude in November with a fifth installment, “Breaking Dawn — Part 2.” Pattinson’s off-screen romance with Stewart only stoked the popularity of the vampire movies.
That could help Pattinson as he strives to craft a post-”Twilight” career. While both of his “Twilight” costars, Stewart and Taylor Lautner, have each taken center stage in studio pictures, Pattinson has mostly stayed in the indie world. His biggest non-”Twilight” film to date was last year’s “Water for Elephants,” a modestly budgeted period romance with Reese Witherspoon that took in a respectable $117 million worldwide. Pattinson’s less-commercial projects, however, have tanked at the box office — the Sept. 11 drama “Remember Me” only collected $8 million domestically in 2010, and the 19th century-set drama “Bel Ami” flopped in June, never expanding beyond 15 theaters.
In “Cosmopolis,” Pattinson plays a young billionaire on the verge of financial ruin who self-destructs over the course of one day, and he has earned some of the best reviews of his career for his performance as the detached whiz-kid.
Cronenberg, who adapted “Cosmopolis” from Don DeLillo’s book of the same name, said he felt Pattinson was right for the part largely because of his good-looking face, which appears in nearly every frame of the movie. Before casting him, the director watched all of the films the London native has appeared in, and viewed a number of interviews with Pattinson on YouTube to get a better sense of his personality.
“The strength of the ‘Twilight’ movies is not the acting,” acknowledged Cronenberg. “But it’s not understood that doing ‘Twilight’ requires presence and professionalism. Are you saying this is an Academy Award performance, or Alec Guinness? That’s a whole other discussion. But you throw somebody on a grueling set like that — a normal person would be dead in an hour.”
Warming to his own defense, Pattinson interjected: “With this movie people keep saying, ‘Is this gonna be the movie where he can prove he can act?’ It’s like, ‘What do you think I have been doing?’”
“By the way,” Cronenberg added, “he’s a British guy doing an American accent. People don’t realize that there are a lot of very good actors who cannot do accents, and they don’t give Rob credit for that.”
“Oh, give me anything!” Pattinson said with a laugh and taking a drag on his cigarette, which glowed an electronic red with each inhale.
Still, it’s clear Pattinson sometimes questions his acting ability. Before production began on “Cosmopolis,” he said he was so unsure of his ability to pull off the role that he sat “trembling, absolutely terrified” during the first screen test.
The nerves are somewhat surprising, considering Pattinson’s part in “Cosmopolis” doesn’t seem all that distant from his own life. Like his character in the film — who remains isolated in a limousine for hours as he slowly traverses Manhattan to get a haircut — Pattinson said that since “Twilight” opened, he has “had four years of gradually being put more and more into smaller and smaller boxes, and you have a desire to break out.” He’s also a part of the 1% — according to Forbes, he earned $12.5 million for the last two “Twilight” pictures — a number he says is “completely not true.”
“Weirdly, I went to the bar the other day and there were a bunch of people protesting some 1% thing,” he recalled. “I drive this kind of [junky]-looking truck sometimes because I started surfing — it’s this 2001 Silverado I bought off of Craigslist for, like, $2,000 or something. So I was hiding in the back of the truck when I saw the protest thinking, ‘I don’t want to get involved in this.’”
The demonstrators, Pattinson said, didn’t recognize him and a friend. “When the protesters saw us, they were like, ‘We’re not even shouting at you. You’re driving this piece of …. You’re not part of the 1%.’”
Pattinson insists he’s terrible with his finances: “The only thing I’m good at with money is blowing it. I don’t even understand [what I spend it on]. I have the exact same lifestyle as when I was 15.”
“Look at the way he dresses,” chimed in Cronenberg, alluding to Pattinson’s informal, almost frat-boy get-up of a polo shirt, jeans and backward cap.
The actor said he feels a pressure to appear “unbearably conservative” because he senses his every move is being scrutinized. He says he’d like for bankers to be hunted by paparazzi and TMZ instead, but knows that’s unrealistic.
“The tabloid industry does terrible, terrible things for the world. It makes people stupid,” he said, his cheeks flushing. “People say [tabloids] are about escapism, and people have got to get away from the misery of the world. It’s like, ‘No, people are lazy, and they don’t want to try.’ … Every time I’ve looked at a magazine like that, I’ve regretted it. I gain absolutely nothing from it. And neither does anyone else.”
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