Showing posts with label Catherine Hardwicke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catherine Hardwicke. Show all posts
Monday, July 11, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Catherine Hardwicke To Direct 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Star... And A Slew Of Others!
Ever since her directorial talents brought the "The Twilight Saga" to life back in 2008, we've been keeping close tabs on Catherine Hardwicke—and not just because she's still holding onto those uncensored early audition tapes of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, either. Catherine's flair for the visual and skillful handling of young actors has made her a coveted choice for studios everywhere, and her movies have an unmistakable appeal.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Step Up Women’s Network to Honor Catherine Hardwicke at 2011 Inspiration Awards
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Step Up Women’s Network will honor Emmy-nominated actress Christina Hendricks, critically-acclaimed director and writer Catherine Hardwicke, and corporate honoree Dermalogica at its eighth annual Inspiration Awards event at the Beverly Hilton on June 10. The fundraising luncheon celebrates professional and philanthropic accomplishment, honoring influencers, executives and Step Up members and teens alike.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
‘Twilight’ Director Weighs in on Kristen Stewart’s MTV Movie Awards Nods
Monday, May 9, 2011
‘The Lab Magazine’ Interview With Catherine Hardwicke
New Lab Magazine interview with Catherine Hardwicke!
It’s no secret Catherine Hardwicke’s interested in teenage life. Just take a look at most of the movies she’s made – Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown. And it’s not hard for her to explain why. “This is a time when a lot of crazy things happen,” she says. “Drinking, leaving home, having sex, crashing cars, and figuring out who you are as a person.” Her films, however, focus on some pretty specialized teen activities: whippits and amateur navel piercings in Thirteen; sexual tension with werewolves and vampires in Twilight; skateboarding empires in Lords of Dogtown. No trips to the mall or soccer practice here. Instead, hormone-driven sexuality and aggression play out in moody, detailed environments.
Hardwicke has a degree in architecture from the University of Texas. “I designed and built a bunch of houses in Texas before deciding that real architecture might be a bit of a creativity stifler. I applied to grad school in Film at UCLA and people said ‘You’re an architect, why don’t you design my movie?’” Her design influences range widely. “Before shooting Thirteen I watched Mean Streets and A Woman Under the Influence. So Scorsese and Cassavettes and also Baz Luhrmann are a big influence. For design, my favorite architect is Antonio Gaudi. I also love European hill towns and lots of third world architecture. Treehouses and surfboards are cool, too.”
It’s no secret Catherine Hardwicke’s interested in teenage life. Just take a look at most of the movies she’s made – Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown. And it’s not hard for her to explain why. “This is a time when a lot of crazy things happen,” she says. “Drinking, leaving home, having sex, crashing cars, and figuring out who you are as a person.” Her films, however, focus on some pretty specialized teen activities: whippits and amateur navel piercings in Thirteen; sexual tension with werewolves and vampires in Twilight; skateboarding empires in Lords of Dogtown. No trips to the mall or soccer practice here. Instead, hormone-driven sexuality and aggression play out in moody, detailed environments.
Hardwicke has a degree in architecture from the University of Texas. “I designed and built a bunch of houses in Texas before deciding that real architecture might be a bit of a creativity stifler. I applied to grad school in Film at UCLA and people said ‘You’re an architect, why don’t you design my movie?’” Her design influences range widely. “Before shooting Thirteen I watched Mean Streets and A Woman Under the Influence. So Scorsese and Cassavettes and also Baz Luhrmann are a big influence. For design, my favorite architect is Antonio Gaudi. I also love European hill towns and lots of third world architecture. Treehouses and surfboards are cool, too.”
Friday, March 11, 2011
Catherine Hardwicke thinks Kristen is Perfect for “Snow White”
E’s Marc Malkin is reported that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was recently asked her thoughts about Kristen being cast as the lead in the movie Snow white and the Huntsman. According to Catherine :
"I love it,” Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke told us last night at the Hollywood premiere of her new flick, Red Riding Hood. “She’s going to be a bad ass, learning how to hunt. That is perfect for Kristen!
“She’s an athlete,” Hardwicke continued. “She’s a kick-ass chick. She’s going to do good in that.”
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"I love it,” Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke told us last night at the Hollywood premiere of her new flick, Red Riding Hood. “She’s going to be a bad ass, learning how to hunt. That is perfect for Kristen!
“She’s an athlete,” Hardwicke continued. “She’s a kick-ass chick. She’s going to do good in that.”
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Oldman: Hardwicke understands teens
Garry Oldman has praised Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke for understanding teens.
The Fifth Element star plays werewolf hunter Father Solomon in Catherine's new medieval-set horror film starring Amanda Seyfried as Red Riding Hood and Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez as her two would-be lovers.
Gary said: "She's got a knack for it - she kind of understands this coming-of-age and teenage-angle angst. And she is very good at casting."
Catherine made Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner household names when she cast the trio of young actors in Twilight in 2008.
The Fifth Element star plays werewolf hunter Father Solomon in Catherine's new medieval-set horror film starring Amanda Seyfried as Red Riding Hood and Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez as her two would-be lovers.
Gary said: "She's got a knack for it - she kind of understands this coming-of-age and teenage-angle angst. And she is very good at casting."
Catherine made Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner household names when she cast the trio of young actors in Twilight in 2008.
Catherine Hardwicke, Nikki Reed, & 'Twilight' at the 'Red Riding Hood' premiere
Last night, the premiere for Red Riding Hood took place in Hollywood, California, and Catherine Hardwicke (director of the film and Twilight) and Nikki Reed ("Rosalie Hale" in the Twilight Saga) joined stars from the film like Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, and Gary Oldman on the red carpet for the event (note: while Billy Burke does star in Red Riding Hood, he has been busy in Vancouver, British Columbia filming The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, so chances are that is why he was not in attendance).
While on the premiere line, several outlets posed the question of how the film relates to Twilight, aside from being directed by Hardwicke and featuring Burke.
Per USA Today, the question was fielded rather well by Catherine Hardwicke.
"It kind of starts in that (Twilight) world, two people madly crazy in love . . . But then a murder happens right away
While on the premiere line, several outlets posed the question of how the film relates to Twilight, aside from being directed by Hardwicke and featuring Burke.
Per USA Today, the question was fielded rather well by Catherine Hardwicke.
"It kind of starts in that (Twilight) world, two people madly crazy in love . . . But then a murder happens right away
Max Irons - "Robert Pattinson Is Going To Have A Long, Long Career"
Max Irons may be being compared to Robert Pattinson but the Red Riding Hood star reckons R-Patz has been “gifted and cursed” with fame.
The son of acting couple Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack hit the red carpet in Hollywood to premiere the new thriller in which he plays Amanda Seyfried’s love interest.
Having been cast and directed in the movie by Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke, Max confessed he takes any Pattinson comparisons as a compliment.
“Well Robert’s a lovely actor, [but] this is a different beast to the film that shall not be named!” he joked, before adding: “You know, I think he’s been gifted and cursed.”
The son of acting couple Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack hit the red carpet in Hollywood to premiere the new thriller in which he plays Amanda Seyfried’s love interest.
Having been cast and directed in the movie by Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke, Max confessed he takes any Pattinson comparisons as a compliment.
“Well Robert’s a lovely actor, [but] this is a different beast to the film that shall not be named!” he joked, before adding: “You know, I think he’s been gifted and cursed.”
Monday, February 28, 2011
Catherine Hardwicke, the fairy tale fixer
On a gloomy and wet California day, director Catherine Hardwicke curls up in her office
on the Warner Bros. lot with a book in her hand. This isn ’ t your average bedtime story. It’ s called Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. She only recently discovered it, and she flips through the pages like a schoolgirl
hyped on caffeine. “ Maybe you like ‘ Red Riding Hood’ when you ’ re 5,” Hardwicke says. “ When you ’ re 10, you start latching on to it for another reason — why did she get in bed with the wolf ?” Hardwicke even compares the beast to a love interest. “ It represents a dark animal nature which is close to sexuality. In the traditional story, the wolf cross-
dresses and lures her into bed. That’ s pretty kinky right there! The wolf is the original tranny. What a kinky wolf !” Her entire face lights up. “ A granny tranny !” The kinky wolf is no match for Hardwicke herself, who wears sexy leather boots and
once gave a member of her crew a dominatrix costume as a present. Not to worry, Mom
and Dad. Hardwicke ’ s kinkiness is decidedly PG-13. “ It was a tasteful dominatrix, ” she says. Hardwicke has a knack for taking the traditional girl-in-peril tale and teasing out
sexual tension without crossing the line. She became the most commercially successful
female director in Hollywood with Twilight, a film that radiates heat even though
Edward and Bella never even get to second base. Now she ’ s heading to Grandmother’ s house with Red Riding Hood, an adaptation of the fairy tale with a bodiced Amanda
Seyfried. Julie Christie plays her bohemian grandmother. Like the late John Hughes, who discovered the teenage actors who became the Brat
Pack, Hardwicke has created many of this generation ’ s tween idols. Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown ), Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner (Twilight ) all got their big breaks in a Hardwicke film. She dishes about them like an older sister; how Hirsch was too lazy to do sit-ups and drew abs on his stomach
with mascara or why Pattinson had to pluck his eyebrows. “ They were a bit bushy, ” she says. “ We needed to see some eyes !” Seyfried says Hardwicke, 55, is “ a child herself. She’ s so connected to that youthful essence. She still walks around with a backpack and sneakers. ” But unlike Hughes ’ s films, her movies are very dark.Hardwicke ’ s childhood sounds like a chapter from Roald Dahl ’ s memoirs. She grew up in McAllen, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, where her family lived on a giant farm off
the Rio Grande. She frequently saw illegal immigrants paddling across or drug dealers
creeping in the shadows. “ It was a wild life, ” she says. In high school, her principal was stabbed three times. A friend ’ s father was shot in the back, and another friend was murdered. And yet life could be wonderful at the same time. “ It was a Huck Finn life, too,” she says. “ We had rope swings and mud fights and we ’ d make rafts. ” She graduated from college with an architecture degree, and after her father bought a 20-
acre real-estate complex, she designed the property ’ s 120 townhouses. Above each front door, she molded a mask of each owner ’ s face, a way to make each of her creations stand apart. She still has the pictures. But the work she was offered began to feel too cookie-cutter, so she fled to Hollywood,
where she landed a job as a production designer. She did 20 films with directors such
as David O. Russell, Cameron Crowe, Lisa Cholodenko, and Richard Linklater. “ Of course, I tried to learn from everybody, ” she says. “ How did he pull that one off? I always knew that I wanted to make my own movies. ” She stumbled on that chance while trying to help a troubled teen. Nikki Reed, a friend ’ s daughter, had fallen in with a bad crowd at school. “ How do I get her to do something creative instead of destructive ?” Hardwicke wondered. “ She said, ‘ I want to act. ’ I thought, that’ s going to make your life worse. But if you take the model of actors who write their own material, that expands your
horizons.” They wrote the first draft of a screenplay together in six days, during Christmas break. Hardwicke directed the film herself and cast Reed as the bad-girl costar.
“ I saw the raw talent, and I helped, ” she says. Thirteen earned Hardwicke the directing award at Sundance in 2003, establishing her as Hollywood ’ s hot new filmmaker at 47. Reed says that Hardwicke is “ a great teacher,” and one of the reasons she draws young actors into her world is her sleepy, cool-chick demeanor. In high school, Hardwicke
taught overweight girls how to swim. As an adult, she taught herself how to surf.
“ When I was 5, ” Reed says, “ Catherine wanted to massage my innate desire to be an actress. She put this dog collar on me. I would crawl on my hands and knees, and she
would tell people I was a dog. ” For Twilight, Hardwicke had trouble finding an actor otherworldly enough to play
vampire Edward Cullen. Then she got a call about a guy in London. “ I looked at a couple pictures and was like, ‘ I’ m not sure,’?” Hardwicke says. “ He had been fired from his last job, he was unemployed, he was in debt. ” Pattinson flew to Los Angeles on his own dime to read with Stewart. “ I have footage of their first meeting at my dining-room table,” Hardwicke says. “ Kristen was like, ‘ It’ s got to be Rob!’ She felt connected to him from the first moment. That electricity, or love at first sight, or whatever it is. ” Hardwicke gave him the part, but he had to make a promise. “ You ’ ve got to realize that Kristen is 17 years old, ” she told him. “ She’ s underage. You ’ ve got to focus, dude, or you ’ re going to be arrested. I made him swear on a stack of Bibles. ” Despite Twilight ’ s $400 million global success, Hardwicke left the franchise when it came to the sequel. She said it was her decision, despite a blog report that she was fired.
“ I couldn’ t even be fired, that ’ s what ’ s so funny, ” she says. “ In my contract, I had the first right of refusal.” She turned down the second film, she says, because the studio wanted to rush it out. “ I do not regret it at all, thank the Lord, ” she says. “ The truth is I liked the first book the best. ” There is something of the vampire in Hardwicke herself. Just as Edward will never grew
old, Hardwicke refuses to abandon the mischievous joys of youth. There ’ s nothing formal about the way she does business. She frequently invites her protégés over to
audition or rehearse. Her home is “ right on the beach,” says Shiloh Fernandez, who plays the hunky Peter in Red Riding Hood. “ It’ s like a loft for a young surfer guy. ” It’ s not Grandma’ s house. But there is a bed. And she lures young actors onto it, though not in the traditional casting-couch way. When Hardwicke auditioned Evan Rachel Wood for
Thirteen, she had her get into her bed with Nikki Reed. That ’ s also where Pattinson kissed Stewart for the first time in his Twilight screen test. “ That bed made Pattinson who he is right now, ” says Reed. Asked about her lair, Hardwicke laughs. “ MTV came and did an episode in my house filming the bed. It ’ s legendary, ” she says, flashing a wide — dare we say wolfish — grin.
on the Warner Bros. lot with a book in her hand. This isn ’ t your average bedtime story. It’ s called Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. She only recently discovered it, and she flips through the pages like a schoolgirl
hyped on caffeine. “ Maybe you like ‘ Red Riding Hood’ when you ’ re 5,” Hardwicke says. “ When you ’ re 10, you start latching on to it for another reason — why did she get in bed with the wolf ?” Hardwicke even compares the beast to a love interest. “ It represents a dark animal nature which is close to sexuality. In the traditional story, the wolf cross-
dresses and lures her into bed. That’ s pretty kinky right there! The wolf is the original tranny. What a kinky wolf !” Her entire face lights up. “ A granny tranny !” The kinky wolf is no match for Hardwicke herself, who wears sexy leather boots and
once gave a member of her crew a dominatrix costume as a present. Not to worry, Mom
and Dad. Hardwicke ’ s kinkiness is decidedly PG-13. “ It was a tasteful dominatrix, ” she says. Hardwicke has a knack for taking the traditional girl-in-peril tale and teasing out
sexual tension without crossing the line. She became the most commercially successful
female director in Hollywood with Twilight, a film that radiates heat even though
Edward and Bella never even get to second base. Now she ’ s heading to Grandmother’ s house with Red Riding Hood, an adaptation of the fairy tale with a bodiced Amanda
Seyfried. Julie Christie plays her bohemian grandmother. Like the late John Hughes, who discovered the teenage actors who became the Brat
Pack, Hardwicke has created many of this generation ’ s tween idols. Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown ), Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner (Twilight ) all got their big breaks in a Hardwicke film. She dishes about them like an older sister; how Hirsch was too lazy to do sit-ups and drew abs on his stomach
with mascara or why Pattinson had to pluck his eyebrows. “ They were a bit bushy, ” she says. “ We needed to see some eyes !” Seyfried says Hardwicke, 55, is “ a child herself. She’ s so connected to that youthful essence. She still walks around with a backpack and sneakers. ” But unlike Hughes ’ s films, her movies are very dark.Hardwicke ’ s childhood sounds like a chapter from Roald Dahl ’ s memoirs. She grew up in McAllen, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, where her family lived on a giant farm off
the Rio Grande. She frequently saw illegal immigrants paddling across or drug dealers
creeping in the shadows. “ It was a wild life, ” she says. In high school, her principal was stabbed three times. A friend ’ s father was shot in the back, and another friend was murdered. And yet life could be wonderful at the same time. “ It was a Huck Finn life, too,” she says. “ We had rope swings and mud fights and we ’ d make rafts. ” She graduated from college with an architecture degree, and after her father bought a 20-
acre real-estate complex, she designed the property ’ s 120 townhouses. Above each front door, she molded a mask of each owner ’ s face, a way to make each of her creations stand apart. She still has the pictures. But the work she was offered began to feel too cookie-cutter, so she fled to Hollywood,
where she landed a job as a production designer. She did 20 films with directors such
as David O. Russell, Cameron Crowe, Lisa Cholodenko, and Richard Linklater. “ Of course, I tried to learn from everybody, ” she says. “ How did he pull that one off? I always knew that I wanted to make my own movies. ” She stumbled on that chance while trying to help a troubled teen. Nikki Reed, a friend ’ s daughter, had fallen in with a bad crowd at school. “ How do I get her to do something creative instead of destructive ?” Hardwicke wondered. “ She said, ‘ I want to act. ’ I thought, that’ s going to make your life worse. But if you take the model of actors who write their own material, that expands your
horizons.” They wrote the first draft of a screenplay together in six days, during Christmas break. Hardwicke directed the film herself and cast Reed as the bad-girl costar.
“ I saw the raw talent, and I helped, ” she says. Thirteen earned Hardwicke the directing award at Sundance in 2003, establishing her as Hollywood ’ s hot new filmmaker at 47. Reed says that Hardwicke is “ a great teacher,” and one of the reasons she draws young actors into her world is her sleepy, cool-chick demeanor. In high school, Hardwicke
taught overweight girls how to swim. As an adult, she taught herself how to surf.
“ When I was 5, ” Reed says, “ Catherine wanted to massage my innate desire to be an actress. She put this dog collar on me. I would crawl on my hands and knees, and she
would tell people I was a dog. ” For Twilight, Hardwicke had trouble finding an actor otherworldly enough to play
vampire Edward Cullen. Then she got a call about a guy in London. “ I looked at a couple pictures and was like, ‘ I’ m not sure,’?” Hardwicke says. “ He had been fired from his last job, he was unemployed, he was in debt. ” Pattinson flew to Los Angeles on his own dime to read with Stewart. “ I have footage of their first meeting at my dining-room table,” Hardwicke says. “ Kristen was like, ‘ It’ s got to be Rob!’ She felt connected to him from the first moment. That electricity, or love at first sight, or whatever it is. ” Hardwicke gave him the part, but he had to make a promise. “ You ’ ve got to realize that Kristen is 17 years old, ” she told him. “ She’ s underage. You ’ ve got to focus, dude, or you ’ re going to be arrested. I made him swear on a stack of Bibles. ” Despite Twilight ’ s $400 million global success, Hardwicke left the franchise when it came to the sequel. She said it was her decision, despite a blog report that she was fired.
“ I couldn’ t even be fired, that ’ s what ’ s so funny, ” she says. “ In my contract, I had the first right of refusal.” She turned down the second film, she says, because the studio wanted to rush it out. “ I do not regret it at all, thank the Lord, ” she says. “ The truth is I liked the first book the best. ” There is something of the vampire in Hardwicke herself. Just as Edward will never grew
old, Hardwicke refuses to abandon the mischievous joys of youth. There ’ s nothing formal about the way she does business. She frequently invites her protégés over to
audition or rehearse. Her home is “ right on the beach,” says Shiloh Fernandez, who plays the hunky Peter in Red Riding Hood. “ It’ s like a loft for a young surfer guy. ” It’ s not Grandma’ s house. But there is a bed. And she lures young actors onto it, though not in the traditional casting-couch way. When Hardwicke auditioned Evan Rachel Wood for
Thirteen, she had her get into her bed with Nikki Reed. That ’ s also where Pattinson kissed Stewart for the first time in his Twilight screen test. “ That bed made Pattinson who he is right now, ” says Reed. Asked about her lair, Hardwicke laughs. “ MTV came and did an episode in my house filming the bed. It ’ s legendary, ” she says, flashing a wide — dare we say wolfish — grin.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
What would happen if “Wuthering Heights Heathcliff and Catherine” Auditioned for “Twilight”
In November 2009, McSweeney’s, a humor website published a piece written by Jamie Quatro titled “Catherine and Heathcliff audition for Twilight”. As those of us who have read the books know, in Eclipse Edward and Bella often compare their characters and relationships to that of Wuthering Heights lead characters Catherine and Healthcliff written by Emily Bronte. In this piece written by Jamie Quatro, he creates a funny satire of what it would be like if Catherine and Heathcliff were the ones to audition for Catherine Hardwicke when she was casting for Twilight.
Here’s an excerpt from the dialogue:
SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERAMAN:Twilight auditions, forest scene, take one.
DIRECTOR CATHERINE HARDWICKE: Roll camera … and … action!
CATHERINE: Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever. Your veins are full of ice water, but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chilliness makes them ….
HARDWICKE: Cut! Bella, the line is “Your skin is pale white and ice cold.” Let’s try it again.
2ND A.C.: Twilight auditions, forest scene, take two.
HARDWICKE: Rolling … and … action!
CATHERINE: Wilderness of furze and whinstone—your bliss lies, like Satan’s, in inflicting misery!
HEATHCLIFF: (to HARDWICKE) This lamb of yours threatens like a bull! It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles.
HARDWICKE: Cut. Okay, that was, you know. Messed up. Catherine, Edward’s the one whose speech is supposed to sound like it’s from a different time. Heathcliff, the lamb stuff was good, and you’ve got the whole I’m-fighting-the-bloodlust thing going. But can you give me a little more tenderness?
CATHERINE: He’s not a rough diamond, a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic. He’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. An unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation ….
HARDWICKE: Wait—have you even readTwilight? Because the wolf thing is way more important in New Moon.
To read the entire story click here
Source:
Here’s an excerpt from the dialogue:
SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERAMAN:Twilight auditions, forest scene, take one.
DIRECTOR CATHERINE HARDWICKE: Roll camera … and … action!
CATHERINE: Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever. Your veins are full of ice water, but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chilliness makes them ….
HARDWICKE: Cut! Bella, the line is “Your skin is pale white and ice cold.” Let’s try it again.
2ND A.C.: Twilight auditions, forest scene, take two.
HARDWICKE: Rolling … and … action!
CATHERINE: Wilderness of furze and whinstone—your bliss lies, like Satan’s, in inflicting misery!
HEATHCLIFF: (to HARDWICKE) This lamb of yours threatens like a bull! It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles.
HARDWICKE: Cut. Okay, that was, you know. Messed up. Catherine, Edward’s the one whose speech is supposed to sound like it’s from a different time. Heathcliff, the lamb stuff was good, and you’ve got the whole I’m-fighting-the-bloodlust thing going. But can you give me a little more tenderness?
CATHERINE: He’s not a rough diamond, a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic. He’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. An unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation ….
HARDWICKE: Wait—have you even readTwilight? Because the wolf thing is way more important in New Moon.
To read the entire story click here
Source:
Friday, January 28, 2011
EW.com: 15 Hot Movies of 2011
EW.com has listed “15 Hot Movies of 2011″ and the list includes Breaking Dawn, of course, but also some other ventures from our Twilight gang!
RED RIDING HOOD (March 11) [Catherine Hardwicke]
This is not the fairy tale you remember. In this telling, Amanda Seyfried is the heroine Valerie, whose village is being terrorized by a werewolf that goes on to kill someone close to her. A hunter (Gary Oldman) stokes the villagers’ paranoia, while Valerie is in a love triangle with the man her parents want her to marry (Max Irons) and the one she really loves (Shiloh Fernandez).
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (April 22) [Robert Pattinson]
”To have a costar who is this reliable, this sensitive and circumspect and intelligent — it’s just fabulous,” says Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds). He’s not talking about Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, who play the star performer and veterinary student in an adaptation of Sara Gruen’s best-seller about a traveling circus in the 1930s. He’s talking about Tai, a 9,000-pound Asian elephant.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (July 15) [Jamie Campbell Bower]
The final Harry Potter film brings Daniel Radcliffe’s titular boy wizard nose-to-snake-snout with Ralph Fiennes’ villainous Voldemort in a wand duel to the death. ”It’s very much an action film,” says producer David Heyman. ”Part 1 was more akin to a road film. Part 2 is all about the destination.”
THE HELP (August 12) [Bryce Dallas Howard]
Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, and Octavia Spencer (former roommate of the director, Tate Taylor) all star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s hit 2009 novel about the enmeshed worlds of African-American maids.
BREAKING DAWN: PART 1 (Nov. 18)
Even if you don’t know each plot twist and turn from the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series, every self-respecting Twihard is aware that Breaking Dawn features Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) becoming vampire man and wife and sharing a marital bed for the first time. ”Finally!” laughs director Bill Condon. ”It is one of the most anticipated scenes, and I spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about it. You want to play with what people expect and maybe subvert it a little and surprise them.”
See the full list here.
RED RIDING HOOD (March 11) [Catherine Hardwicke]
This is not the fairy tale you remember. In this telling, Amanda Seyfried is the heroine Valerie, whose village is being terrorized by a werewolf that goes on to kill someone close to her. A hunter (Gary Oldman) stokes the villagers’ paranoia, while Valerie is in a love triangle with the man her parents want her to marry (Max Irons) and the one she really loves (Shiloh Fernandez).
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (April 22) [Robert Pattinson]
”To have a costar who is this reliable, this sensitive and circumspect and intelligent — it’s just fabulous,” says Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds). He’s not talking about Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, who play the star performer and veterinary student in an adaptation of Sara Gruen’s best-seller about a traveling circus in the 1930s. He’s talking about Tai, a 9,000-pound Asian elephant.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (July 15) [Jamie Campbell Bower]
The final Harry Potter film brings Daniel Radcliffe’s titular boy wizard nose-to-snake-snout with Ralph Fiennes’ villainous Voldemort in a wand duel to the death. ”It’s very much an action film,” says producer David Heyman. ”Part 1 was more akin to a road film. Part 2 is all about the destination.”
THE HELP (August 12) [Bryce Dallas Howard]
Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, and Octavia Spencer (former roommate of the director, Tate Taylor) all star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s hit 2009 novel about the enmeshed worlds of African-American maids.
BREAKING DAWN: PART 1 (Nov. 18)
Even if you don’t know each plot twist and turn from the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series, every self-respecting Twihard is aware that Breaking Dawn features Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) becoming vampire man and wife and sharing a marital bed for the first time. ”Finally!” laughs director Bill Condon. ”It is one of the most anticipated scenes, and I spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about it. You want to play with what people expect and maybe subvert it a little and surprise them.”
See the full list here.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Twilightees in Moviefone's 2011 Movies Preview: 75 Films We Can't Wait to See This Year
Water for Elephants
Release Date: Apr. 22
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon (Kat: Don't forget Thai!)
What It's About: A veterinary student joins a traveling circus as their animal vet after both of his parents are killed.
The Buzz: All eyes are on Pattinson as he takes on another major role outside of the 'Twilight' series; Oscar buzz has already begun.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part I
Release Date: Nov. 18
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner
What It's About: Love is in the air for our favorite couple, as Bella and Edward move one step closer to marriage and -- spoilers! -- babies.
The Buzz: Oscar-winning director Bill Condon is at the helm, which could add some high-brow prestige to this hugely successful blockbuster franchise.
See the full list HERE - some great movies other than Rob's (what?) to look forward to this year.
'Red Riding Hood'
Release Date: Mar. 11
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman, Lukas Haas
What It's About: A dark re-imagining of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale; here, a young girl falls for a young woodcutter who is deadly when the moon becomes full.
The Buzz: It's directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who did the first 'Twilight' and the harrowing coming-of-age film 'Thirteen.' Plus, a horror take on a fairy tale? What big ambitions you have, grandma!
'Abduction'
Release Date: Sept. 23
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina
What It's About: 'Twilight' hunk Taylor Lautner stars as a teen who sets out to discover the truth about himself after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
The Buzz: This will be Lautner's first major lead role away from the 'Twilight' series, and it'll be one that will test just how ready he is (and we are) for him to become Hollywood's next big action star.
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Shiloh Fernandez talks about auditioning for the role of ‘Edward’
Shiloh Fernandez was revealed by Catherine Hardwicke to be one of the final candidates for the role of Edward Cullen before Robert Pattinson was given the role. In the latest issue of VMAN Magazine, Shiloh (who also co-stars with Ashley Greene in her film Skateland, and is the star of Hardwicke’s latest film Red Riding Hood) discusses auditioning, and, ultimately, losing out on the role.
On missing out on the role of Edward Cullen: “No one had any idea what Twilight would become. At the time, it was just another audition. I didn’t realize I was missing out on stardom and giant paychecks. Now, looking back on it, I certainly wouldn’t have been mentally stable enough to deal with all that. Lucky for me, not getting that part led to other work that was a much better fit for me.”
On his experience working on Red Riding Hood: “To be given this great part with this very complicated backstory is such a learning experience. And [director Catherine Hardwicke] has created this world that’s so detailed and so beautiful. I loved being a part of it.”
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