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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

New Fan Picture of Rob at the Toronto Airport Today

From earlier today.

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Lea Michele Photographed For First Time After Cory Monteith’s Death

A little more than two weeks after Cory’s death, Lea was spotted out with a friend in Los Angeles.

Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/07/30/lea-michele-after-cory-monteith-death-spotted-first-photos/

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Lea Michele Photographed For First Time After Cory Monteith’s Death

A little more than two weeks after Cory’s death, Lea was spotted out with a friend in Los Angeles.

Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/07/30/lea-michele-after-cory-monteith-death-spotted-first-photos/

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Official Press Release: 'Maps To The Starts' Starts Filming + Synopsis and Details About Rob's Character

ETA: Screendaily relesed the first official image of the movie. A behind the scenes still of Cronenberg, Olivia Williams and John Cusack. Unfortunatelly, no Rob yet. Click for UHQ.
ETA2: Added a second 'Maps To The Stars' image. A still of John Cusack's character (Variety)

"Cosmopolis" star Robert Pattinson is moving from the back seat of a limousine to the front, as "Maps to the Stars," his next collaboration with director David Cronenberg, has started its 30-day shoot, which runs through August in Toronto and Los Angeles.

Entertainment One and Prospero Pictures are co-financing the Los Angeles-set movie, which stars John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, Evan Bird and Pattinson.

A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society, story follows the Weiss family, which is led by Stafford (Cusack), a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife (Williams) is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son (Bird), a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter (Wasikowska) has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver (Pattinson) who is also an aspiring actor.

One of Stafford's celebrity clients is Havana (Moore), an actress with an unusual new assistant. Havana’s dream of reprising her dead mother’s (Gadon) starring role from the 1960s slowly crumbles while ghosts, death and all manner of vices collide.

Cronenberg is directing "Maps to the Stars" from a script by Bruce Wagner. The film is produced by Prospero Pictures founder Martin Katz, as well as SBS Productions’ Saïd Ben Saïd ("Carnage") and Michel Merkt. Sentient Entertainment's Renee Tab and eOne’s Benedict Carver are exec producing. Integral Films’ Alfred Hürmer co-produces, while longtime Cronenberg collaborator Walter Gasparovic serves as associate producer.

"'Maps to the Stars' marks a return to the shocking and audacious cinema Cronenberg fans love, with a fantastic cast of award-winners and hugely talented newcomers," said Katz.

eOne Films International is handling worldwide rights, and eOne will directly distribute "Maps to the Stars" in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Australia/New Zealand. The film is produced with the support of Telefilm Canada, The Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Harold Greenberg Fund.

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Source: http://robpattinson.blogspot.com/2013/07/official-press-release-maps-to-starts.html

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Fruitvale Station's success a 'surprise' for first-time director Ryan Coogler

Made for less than $1m, Coogler's first feature film is garnering early Oscars buzz for its riveting portrayal of Oscar Grant

When Ryan Coogler decided to make a film about the real-life story of a young black man killed by a white transit police officer he had modest expectations.

Coogler was an untried, first-time director. Few outside the black community in Oakland, California, had heard of – or cared about – his subject, Oscar Grant, gunned down on a train platform on new year's day 2009.

Hollywood, and by extension audiences, were assumed to have limited appetite for a rounded portrait of a small time ex-con who died as he lived, anonymous.

Yet Fruitvale Station, named after the station where Grant died, has this week burst into the box office top 10, powered by glowing reviews, word-of-mouth buzz and an anguished national debate over the Trayvon Martin case.

"I just wanted to raise awareness about this certain issue, about this person, Oscar," Coogler, 27, who also wrote the film, told the Guardian in an interview on Monday. "This reception … is a great achievement for the film-makers involved. I've been surprised at every step of the way of the process."

Coogler said he hoped moviegoers, regardless of colour or background, would relate in some way to Grant, played by Michael B Jordan, who made his name on The Wire.

"The most moving thing is to see it open in theatres. Our hope was to focus on the specifics of Oscar's life. I wanted people to see a little of themselves in Oscar even if they were outside of that community."

After a limited initial release Fruitvale Station opened across the US last weekend, showing in more than 1,000 theatres. Garlanded at Sundance and selected for Cannes, it is tipped for Academy Award glory.

Coogler's film arrives amid debate over racism, gun violence and the killing of young black men in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal earlier this month for shooting Martin, an unarmed teenager who was visiting his father in Florida.

There are parallels with Grant, a 22-year-old who was returning home after celebrating new year's eve in San Francisco when police detained him and several friends following a fight on a Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) train.

Grant was lying on his stomach, handcuffed, when an officer, Johannes Mehserle, shot him in the back. Mehserle said he intended to reach for a Taser and shot by mistake. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years.

The independent film, made for less than $1m, has triumphed critically and commercially during the so-called "summer of doom" for Hollywood blockbusters, with audiences ignoring many mega-budget productions.

What is the value of a young black man's life – a question that should have been settled a long time ago – had been posed anew with uncanny timing and force, said David Denby in the New Yorker.

It opens with real videophone footage of the shooting, then rewinds to a partially fictionalised account of the last 24 hours of a convicted felon with a quick temper who adores his mother, cheats on his girlfriend, dotes on their daughter and tries to go straight.

"One has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being," wrote the Guardian's reviewer.

Coogler, who is from Oakland and studied film at the University of Southern California, said race could obscure another's humanity. This galvanised him to create a rounded character. "How somebody looks plays into how I feel about someone. If you're African American in this society oftentimes a lot of negative processes come from that, from just looking at you."

The film touched on the fact so many young black men died on US streets, he said. "Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away."

The violence had multiple sources and did not always cross racial boundaries, he noted. "Black on black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America," he said.

Coogler praised President Obama's recent speech about race and growing up a young black man, a subject of suspicion.

"Every human being feels their own reality and it's difficult to understand someone else's reality until you walk in their shoes. He was being very honest and open about his own particular reality. Sometimes when you do that you run the risk of turning people off, the people who haven't had that experience. So I think what he did was very honest and very brave."

Fruitvale Station, which stars Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer as Grant's mother, focused on the loss of a losing a loved one. "It's the human element. People are gone, they can't come back. I was really interested in looking at it from about the lives of the people most affected."

The Weinstein Company, which bought and distributed the film, said the release date was planned before the Zimmerman trial started.

Coogler and Jordan are due to team up again to make Creed, a spin-off of the Rocky saga in which the grandson of Apollo Creed, Rocky's rival and friend, takes up the gloves. Sylvester Stallone is due to reprise the role which made him a star in what would be the ageing pugilist's seventh cinema outing.

That film is in the early stages, said Coogler, who will write and direct. Like Fruitvale, it would be a very personal project, he said. "It's about an experience I had with someone very close to me. Rocky was my father's favourite movie."

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/30/ryan-coogler-fruitvale-station-race

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'Percy Jackson' Exclusive Clip: Attacking The 'Sea Of Monsters'

In the first look at the summer flick, Alexandra Daddario hatches a plan to save her demigod friends — including Logan Lerman.
By Eric Ditzian

Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario in "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters"
Photo: Fox

"Bigger story, bigger monsters, bigger effects."

That's the promise Logan Lerman made to us about the follow-up to 2010's YA riff on Greek mythology. One look at the trailer we debuted last spring made clear Logan wasn't messing around.

A brand-new exclusive clip, however, shows off the quieter side of "Sea of Monsters" — though it's a side with stakes just as big. In the fresh footage, Camp Half-Blood — the training area where Lerman's Percy and his friends are holed up after the events of the first film — is under attack, and the demigod Annabeth Chase (Alexandra Daddario) and her half-human, half-goat satyr pal Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) have a plan to keep everyone safe. But the camp's head honcho, Dionysus, (a scene-stealing Stanley Tucci) isn't so keen on the idea.

"If you could just listen to me for one moment," Annabeth says.

"I am listening — you want to go on a quest," Dionysus replies. "Oh, it must be Thursday."

The quest she wants to go on is the one that propels "Sea of Monsters" forward — and the one that brings Percy and his friends face-to-face with those enormous monsters: they need to find the mythical Golden Fleece, which can heal anything, including the barrier that protects Half-Blood from attack.

Sipping his wine (as gods of wine are wont to do), Dionysus explains why this is not a smart plan — namely because of the prospect of near-certain death as one enters the Sea of Monsters, known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle.

"[I]t's a risk I'm willing to take for the good of the camp," Grover says.

Dionysus responds, "It's a terrible idea."

Perhaps. But that doesn't mean they won't give it a try.

"Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" hits theaters on August 7.

Check out everything we've got on "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters."

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