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.
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.
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.
In anticipation of the March 12 DVD release date, Sony Pictures Classics has released a small clip that shows how the film was made.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, SMASHED is an intensely moving story about love, fidelity and what it means to love someone and be committed to them, while recognizing the need to change your life…and the heartbreaking discovery that your partner won’t be changing with you.
Blu-ray & DVD Special Features include:
• Commentary with Director James Ponsoldt & Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead
• Deleted Scenes
• Two Featurettes:
o Making Smashed
o Toronto Film Festival Red Carpet and Q&A
SMASHED has a run time of approximately 91 minutes and is rated R for alcohol abuse, language, some sexual content and brief drug use.
In an interview with Screen Crush, star of The Spectacular Now Miles Teller, told the site that TSN will have an August release date. Here’s what he said:
You finished wrapping up ‘The Spectacular Now’ a while ago, and I haven’t seen it, but a couple of my colleagues have and they were very impressed with your performance. So congratulations on that.
Thank you.
I’ve been reading that it’s going to SXSW.
Yeah, I think it’s playing March 11 at SXSW.
What’s the current plan to bring this film to the masses more?
Yeah, it was picked up by A24. A24 is a distribution company, they’re doing ‘Bling Ring,’ Sofia Coppola’s movie. They’re also doing ‘Spring Breakers.’ I think the goal for this is August 2 it’ll start out in select cities and then platform.
I think ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ and the fact that movie did so well and really found a big audience, I think that kind of opened the door probably a little bit for this.
Tickets aren’t available yet, but according to the SXSW website, Spectacular Now will be playing March 11 at 9:30 pm at the Topfer Theatre. Meanwhile, the film will be closing the Atlanta Film Festival on March 23.
Last night, Mary along with Showing Up director James Morrison and from 2006’s Black Christmas (who also co-starred with Mary in that film and played her mother in Magnificat) were at the SAG Foundation to do a Q&A about the film and talk about the audition process. During the Q&A, Mary said that she still gets nervous to do auditions and how her views on the audition process changed from when she filmed her segment in Showing Up to how she feels about them today. Check out the full interview below:
Loved Mary’s responses! 🙂
It’s been announced by the Atlanta Film Festival that James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now will close out the festival in March.
This week, the Atlanta Film Festival made opening and closing film announcements for the March 15-24 fest, with tickets expected to go on sale soon. Four other fest bookings already are on sale.
“The Spectacular Now,” directed by Athens native James Ponsoldt (”Smashed”), will close the fest on March 23, also at the Plaza. (March 24 is dedicated to encore showings.) It stars Miles Teller (”Rabbit Hole”) as a charmer with a drinking issue who catches bookish Shailene Woodley (”The Decesendants”) on the rebound. After a Sundance showing, Entertainment Weekly called it a “soulful and authentic” teen movie “about the experience of being caught on the cusp and truly not knowing which way you’ll land.”
Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but you could always check back on the official site.
