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New Alex of Venice Poster!!

A brand new poster for Mary’s upcoming film Alex of Venice, directed by ‘The Mindy Project’s’Chris Messina has hit the web via ET. Head to the gallery to check out the brand new poster! A release date has also been revealed–April 17th!

Speaking with ET, Messina had this to say about Mary’s performance in the film:

Thankfully, it seems, this time he had an incredible cast to lean on, including Winstead (Smashed, The Spectacular Now) and Don Johnson, as Alex’s father who is suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s. For the former, Messina says of her casting, “Women that age, unfortunately, there aren’t enough roles for them. We had a lot of really great people wanting to do it, but Mary came in and she’s just an extraordinary actress.”

Her turn in Alex of Venice is just as extraordinary, playing one of those flawed, complex female protagonists that cinema desperately needs more of. “I recognize myself in movies when nobody is bad or good, we’re just human,” Chris said on the subject. “You can look at me, myself, Chris, and you could say ‘Oh, he seemed OK in this interview’ and then I hang up this phone and start yelling at someone in my car. We’re just human we make mistakes and we’re complicated, and that’s what I saw in [Alex.]”

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New Faults Stills and Trailer for The Returned

The Film Society Lincoln Center’s 15th edition of Film Comment magazine has announced it’s new film festival line-up and among the many movies is Mary’s latest film, Faults. The movie will play Monday, February 23 at 8:30 pm. Tickets are available on the site which you can purchase here. New stills have also been released which you can view in the gallery.

Also, IGN has premiered a brand new trailer for Mary’s new show, The Returned, based on the French series Les Revenants. View the trailer below and head to the gallery to check out the full set of trailer screencaps.

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Faults Trailer Lands Online

Following the release of the poster yesterday, iTunes has released the trailer for Riley Stearns’ feature film, Faults. Head to iTunes now to see it (link above), or view it below. I’ve also posted screencaps in the gallery.

Alternatively, you can view the trailer below:

You can also pre-order the film to view over at iTunes or on Vimeo where  you can rent it for $6.99. The film heads to theaters and VOD March 6.

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Debut Poster for Faults Arrives

Indiewire has debuted a fantastic poster for Riley Stearns’ feature film, Faults. The film premiered last year at SXSW to great reviews, and it was be headed to theaters on March 6 and available for VOD the same day. Also starring Leland Orser, Chris Ellis and Beth Grant, here’s the film’s synopsis:

Claire is under the grip of a mysterious cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents set out to recruit Ansel Roth, one of the world’s foremost authorities on cults and mind control. But Ansel’s specialty, deprogramming cult members and returning them to their families, is not an exact science, and a series of financial setbacks has left him in debt to his manager. Ansel warns Claire’s parents that his deprogramming methods are risky and expensive, but they agree to hire him to kidnap and deprogram their daughter. Claire quickly reveals herself to be a formidable challenge. Her belief is unshakeable and her logic is undeniable. A battle of wits develops between the two as they delve deeper and deeper into each other’s minds.

Head to the gallery to see the full-sized poster.

 

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Indiewire Names Faults One of the Best Films of ’15; Returned Update

A quick update for all of us looking forward to seeing Mary in the new A&E series The Returned: According to Twitter, tomorrow A&E will be at the winter TCA to present the upcoming show with some of the cast in attendance. Hopefully we’ll get a teaser trailer out of this! 🙂 *Fingers crossed.*

Also, Faults was among IndieWire‘s top ’25 best films of 2015 we’ve already seen’ list. Here’s what they said about the film:

“Faults”
Director: Riley Stearns
Cast: Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis
Synopsis: A washed-up TV guru/cult expert decides to de-program a young girl from a cult called Faults, in order to pay off the remainder of his debt.
Verdict: Riley Stearns writes and directs his first feature like a man who’s been making compelling, darkly funny, and unpredictably twisted films for years. Films about cults tend to either veer towards undiluted horror (“The Wicker Man,” “Children of the Corn”), eerie drama (“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “The Master”) or strict genre-fare (“Kill List”), so it’s a testament to Stearns’ talents that he manages such a formidable balancing act of a spooky genre story masquerading as a suburban drama of horrors. Crumbling societal values and power trips with identity make for some of the blackest humor we’ve seen recently, and with the underused Leland Orser absolutely ripping it in a spectacular lead performance, followed so closely by the excellent and instinctive Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “Faults” is likely to end up as one of the year’s very top directorial debuts.
Our Review:
Here’s William’s B grade review from SXSW
Release Date: March 6th

The Austin Chronicle also praised the film:

Sharing much of the cast with one of my favorite gonzo action/slasher hyrbids ever, The Guest, Faults could not be more tonally different. Leland Orser plays a washed-up cult deprogrammer named Ansel Roth, hired to get a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) back with her family. What quickly and disturbingly unfolds is not just a battle of wits, but a Beckett-meets-Mamet descent into interpersonal darkness. Orser gives one of the year’s best performances, while Winstead’s aura of blank innocence gives director Riley Stearns space to take the movies to incredibly dark places. As I wrote during SXSW, “Stearns’ graduation to the feature leagues may be the most quietly impressive since Craig Zobel opened up the Great World of Sound.”

 

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‘Faults’ to Debut at the 2015 Film Comment Selects Festival

The Film Society of LINCOLN Center announced its lineup for the 15th edition of Film Comment magazine’s essential, eclectic festival, taking place February 20 – March 5, 2015. Among those films selected to play is Riley Stearns and Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s new film Faults.

Film Comment Selects series tickets will go on sale Tuesday, February 10. A pre-sale to Film Society members will begin Friday, February 6. Below is the film’s description and time/date it will debut at the fest.

Faults
Riley Stearns, USA, 2014, DCP, 89m
Ansel Roth is at the end of his rope. Once a prominent authority on mind control and cult organizations, he’s now broke and alone, resorted to doing lame, sparsely attended seminars and book signings at crappy hotels. On the edge of suicide he is approached with a new assignment: to help “save” a distraught couple’s 28-year-old daughter Claire from the mysterious titular religious cult. He reluctantly accepts, and as the five-day deprogramming mission is carried out, events become increasingly messy and bizarre, with Ansel’s outside troubles also paying an inopportune visit. This contained film-mostly taking place within the walls of a motel room-is guided by the dynamite lead performances of Leland Orser as Ansel and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Claire, and a strikingly clever script (written by first-time feature director Riley Stearns) that is as funny and dark as it is surprising. A Screen Media Films release.

Monday, February 23, 8:30pm

Congrats, Mary and Riley!

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Filed in Faults Gallery Updates The Returned

New Social Media Pages for Mary’s Upcoming Projects

Two new social media pages for Mary’s upcoming projects are now active. The first is a Facebook page for the March release of her psychological film Faults and the second is a Twitter page for her new TV show The Returned, rumored to begin airing in January 2015 on A&E. There is also a Facebook page here.

Be sure to follow both pages for the latest news on Mary’s work and in addition, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

Also, a teaser poster for The Returned has been released, which you can view in the gallery.

(*Note: Mary’s only official social media pages are her Twitter and Instagram. She has no Facebook.)
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Kill the Messenger Blu Ray Features Announced

After it was revealed via Amazon that Kill the Messenger was available for pre-order in February, Blu-Ray.com has unveiled that the date it will hit shelves is February 10th, 2015 in Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD format.

The Blu-ray release of Kill the Messenger is presented in 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround. Special features include:

  • Feature Commentary with Director Michael Cuesta
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Cuesta
  • Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast
  • Crack in America
  • Filming in Georgia

Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets. He further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.

Be sure to mark your calendars and pick up your copy!

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New Today Show Candids

I have added a few new candids of Mary leaving The Today Show studio last month in New York when she stopped by to promote her film Kill the Messenger. You can head to the gallery to see the new additions as well as the full set.

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