According to the Phoenix Film Festival, James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now has been added to the lineup and will open the fest which will run from April 4th-11th and celebrate its 13th year of bringing a fine selection of new and award-winning films to Arizona.
TSN is the opening night film and and director James Ponsoldt will be on hand as well to introduce and offer a Q&A.
You can find out more about the film by visiting the official site.
Mary is currently making the rounds in two new magazines. She’s currently featured in the February/March issue of Wonderland Magazine and she’s also on the cover of the spring issue of Zooey Magazine, hitting newsstands on April 2nd. The Wonderland magazine is already out. Head to the gallery to check out the pics of Mary looking gorgeous in both mags! Shoutout to Britov for first posting the Wonderland scans.
Zooey Mag
I went ahead and capped all the deleted scenes from the Smashed DVD. Be sure to check them all out in the gallery and I will continue capping the special features from the DVD throughout the week.
Deleted Scene– “Kids Asking Kate the Gender of the Baby”
Deleted Scene– “Kate and Charlie Play Piano”
Deleted Scene– “Santa’s Village”
Deleted Scene– “Kate Cooks for Charlie”
Deleted Scene– “Longer Shares at AA Meeting”
Thanks to Melanie, we’ve uploaded over 1000 screen-caps of Mary’s amazing performance in Smashed. Head to the gallery to check them out.
I’ve also begun capping the deleted scenes. The first deleted scene is already up in the gallery as well.
Be sure to keep checking back! I’ll be adding more caps from the DVD extras. Additionally, a new interview with director James Ponsolt, who directed Smashed has been posted online and he talks about why he chose Mary and how they filmed the emotional scene towards the end of the film. Click HERE to read the full interview. Below is James’ reason as to why he picked Mary for the lead role:
I knew Mary from many movies, especially Scott Pilgrim which I really loved her in. That’s obviously a hyper-stylized live-action cartoon of a movie but she gives a really grounded, naturalistic and strong performance in it. And I think there’s a reason Mary has been in a number of action and horror movies: she’s tough, she doesn’t feel weak and fragile. And it was important to us that the person who was going to play Kate to be someone who could be a surrogate for the audience. It was important for us to have someone who was brilliant and had a great sense of humor; who would allow us to laugh with her and not just at her. It was a strong and complicated person. And Mary knew she hadn’t done films before where she was in every single scene and acted this kind of way. So she was nervous and shouldered the burden of the film. The movie lives or dies by her performance. I didn’t ask her to audition, but when we first met over lunch and had a long several-hour conversation getting to know each other, she offered to put herself on tape to give her take on the character. So she did that at home and did a lot of scenes, including this one. I watched them with my wife and we were just blown away by her.
As the title reads, tickets are now available to purchase to see director James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now at the Atlanta Film Festival. The film will close the festival on March 23 with a screening time of 7:00 pm. Be sure to buy your tickets today! You can do so by clicking here.
There’s a new video out of Mary at the Independent Spirit Awards where she was asked about the power of independent films. Skip to the 1:18 mark to see Mary’s response:
It’s been announced that James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now will be released on August 2, 2013:
Upstart distributor A24 has set an August 2 limited release for the James Ponsoldt-directed The Spectacular Now. The Spectacular Now was scripted by (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber and stars Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Elizabeth Winstead in a drama about a mismatched young high school students. It was bought at Sundance in January.
During the Independent Film Spirit Awards, IFC spoke with Mary Elizabeth Winstead on the red carpet and asked if she’d like to work with her Scott Pilgrim Vs the World director Edgar Wright again:
Wright is known for using his favorite actors in multiple films, so we couldn’t resist asking Winstead when we caught up with her at the Spirit Awards if she would ever want to work with the director again.
“Oh yeah,” she told IFC on the red carpet. “I mean, he’s so busy. I can never keep track.”
Wright definitely does know how to keep himself busy, having just completed “The World’s End” and now gearing up for his Marvel superhero movie “Ant-Man.” When we asked Winstead if she would try to finagle herself a part in that movie — after all, it still hasn’t cast any leads yet — she laughingly admitted that she’d love to be involved.
“Sure, I can be in ‘Ant-Man.’ Why not?” she said. “I love him and hopefully we’ll work together again.”
“Ant-Man” is slated to launch the third wave of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films after “The Avengers 2? hits theaters. It was announced back in October that the movie will have a November 6, 2015 release date, which means Wright has plenty of time to figure out the way he wants to approach the lesser known superhero’s story — and who he wants to cast as its leads.
