Jeremy Renner, who stars in Kill the Messenger, stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where he promoted his new film and while he was there, a new clip between Renner and Mary was shown. You can view it below. Kill the Messenger opens in limited release this Friday.
Mary looks absolutely lovely in the latest issue of Rhapsody Magazine. In her interview, Mary discusses how she landed the part of Anna Simons in Kill the Messenger (Renner and director Michael Cuesta saw her work in Smashed and reached out to her), and how being known as a scream queen was “something that sort of happened”. You can read the rest of her interview and check out her stunning photo in the gallery.
Mary is absolutely stunning in the latest issue of Institute Magazine. In the interview, Mary talks about her new films, Kill the Messenger and The Hollars, which actor has influenced her the most, and more. You can read the full interview here, along with some highlights below. And be sure to check out the gallery for the amazing new pictures!
Additionally, Yahoo! Movies debuted a new clip yesterday from Kill the Messenger, which you can now view below. The film will hit theaters on October 10th. I’ve also added caps of Mary into the gallery. You can view the full set by clicking on the thumbnails.
Institute: What drew you to the part of Anna Simons? Institute: How was it working alongside Jeremy Renner?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: I was very excited to play Anna, as she’s the editor of the paper and quite an authoritative figure. And yet, she is still young and relatively inexperienced and not perfect. She’s smart and strong, but also fallible. She gets in a little over her head when the story breaks and her relationship with Gary becomes strained. It was great to get to play out this friendship/working relationship with Jeremy onscreen. He’s such an incredible actor and it was so easy to feel so many things for him in any given scene. Gary can be very frustrating for Anna at times, but what she sees him go through is ultimately heartbreaking.
Institute: You have worked alongside some incredible talent, who has been the most influential?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: It was great to watch Jeremy work- he’s such a free and instinctual actor. You never know what choices he’s going to make from scene to scene and that’s always really exciting and invigorating to act alongside. I’ve been lucky to work with a lot of actors who inspire me in so many ways.
Institute: What has been a stand-out out moment in your career so far?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: I’ve had a few that have felt like personal milestones for me, but I think the film that still stands out for people is Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. I feel proud to be known as “Ramona Flowers” to the fans of that film. It’s gained quite a cult following over the past few years and I really hope it continues to grow. I’d be more than happy if that turns out to be the project I’m remembered for because it’s just such a great and completely unique film.
As the title reads, Mary will be making an appearance on the Today Show to talk about her new film Kill the Messenger. She will be on the show Friday October 10 between the 9-10am hour. Mark your calenders and set those DVRs people!
KTM will hit theaters October 10th. And as always, be sure to come back to check out the interview once it’s gone online! 🙂
The 23rd Philadelphia Film Festival has revealed its lineup for this year. The event will kick off with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman” and close with Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Wild,” starring Reese Witherspoon.
Starting on October 16 and running until October 26, Mary’s new film Faults, directed by her husband Riley Stearns and also starring Leland Orser, lands in the spotlight category meaning that it is among some of the most highly-anticipated movies from some of the biggest names in the industry.
For free tickets, register here at the festival’s site. You can check out the rest of the Philadelphia Film Festival line-up here.
Congrats to Mary and Riley! And in case you missed the news, FAULTS already has a distribution deal for VOD and also be released nationwide in theaters on March 6, 2015.
Variety is reporting that The Newsroom‘s John Gallagher Jr has joined Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman in Paramount Insurge and Bad Robot’s “The Cellar”, now retitled Valencia.
The majority of the movie takes place in an underground cellar and revolves around a young woman who wakes up after a severe car accident and fears she has been abducted. Her captor, a doomsday prepper, tells her he saved her life and that there has been a terrible chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable. As tensions rise, she decides she must escape regardless of the terrors that await outside.
Dan Trachtenberg will direct, with J.J. Abrams producing for Bad Robot.
No word yet on who Gallagher will be playing.
Screen Media Films, who recently picked up the distribution rights for Mary’s new film Faults, has also acquired worldwide rights to Mary’s other film Alex of Venice. Winstead stars alongside Don Johnson, Derek Luke and Katie Nehra.
“Alex of Venice” is a drama that follows a workaholic environmental attorney named Alex Vedder (Winstead) who’s forced to reinvent herself after her husband (Messina) suddenly leaves the family. Dealing with an aging father (Johnson) who still aspires to succeed as an actor, an eccentric sister (Nehra) and an extremely shy son (Sklar Gaertner), Alex is bombarded with everything from the mundane to hilariously catastrophic events without a shoulder to lean on. Realizing she will thrive with or without her husband, Alex discovers her hidden vulnerability as well as her inner strength as she fights to keep her family intact in the midst of the most demanding and important case of her career.
The indie movie previously played at the Tribeca, Seattle, and San Francisco Film Festivals, and is scheduled to continue on the festival circuit with stops at the Deauville, Napa Valley and Hollywood Film Festivals, before hitting theaters and VOD day-and-date in the first half of 2015.
Focus Features has released new stills from the upcoming film Kill the Messenger and among them, two of them feature Mary as editor Anna Simmons. Head to the gallery to check out the new pics.
Kill the Messenger will hit theaters October 10 in limited release before expanding later in the month.
After much wait, it’s been announced that Faults, the cult thriller starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead will be released early next year.
Screen Media Films has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Riley Stearns’ indie thriller “Faults,” which also stars Leland Orser, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis, Jon Gries and Lance Reddick, the company announced Tuesday.
“Faults,” which serves as Stearns’s directorial debut, made its world premiere earlier this year at SXSW. Screen Media will give the film a nationwide theatrical release on March 6, 2015 that will be accompanied by a day-and-date VOD platform release.
Faults follows Claire (Winstead), who 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 (Orser), 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 mind.
This news comes after it was announced that Mary has the lead in the new film The Cellar.
Chalk up a new film for our girl! Variety is reporting that Mary is set to star in Paramount and Bad Robot’s “The Cellar.”
The majority of the movie takes place in an underground cellar, and revolves around a young woman who wakes up in the cellar after a severe car accident and fears she has been abducted. Her captor, a doomsday prepper (Goodman), tells her he saved her life and that there has been a terrible chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable. She does not know what to believe and as tensions rise, she decides she must escape, regardless of the terrors that await outside.
The film will also star John Goodman and filming is scheduled to begin in the fall.
Congrats, Mary! 🙂