I have added even more photos of Mary at the Sundance Film Festival. The first set features Mary and her SMASHED co-stars as well as the film’s director attending the Variety Studio At The 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Moreover, pics from a cast interview at the Sundance channel, a SMASHED photoshoot and Mary attending a Grey Goose Vodka event have all been added to the gallery!
“Smashed” Portraits
Grey Goose Blue Door event
The Sundance Channel Interviews the cast of “Smashed”
This is super exciting! Smashed is only a few days from premiering at Sundance 2012 and Mary has been getting a bunch of early online buzz for her performance as well as one of the films to check out if you’re attending Sundance. Huge congrats Mary! This is only the beginning of one heck of an amazing career! We’ll keep you posted on all Sundance updates and photos of Mary!
THR for one, named Mary as one of the six faces to watch out for:
Although the 27-year-old actress has done her share of studio work (The Thing, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Final Destination 3), her raw performance in the competition film Smashed as a woman struggling to shed her marriage’s dependence on alcohol showcases stripped-down dramatic chops that could open doors.
NextMovie also praises Mary’s acting, saying it’ll show audiences her acting chops. Something we’ve all known she’s always had. š
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“The Thing”) has long been one of our favorite young actresses, but up until now she’s never really been given the chance to show what we knew she had all along — real acting chops. That all looks to change with her reportedly harrowing turn in “Smashed,” an intense drama in which she stars as Kate, a hard partying elementary schoolteacher forced to get her life on track. Winstead is the reason we’re psyched to see this, but the film also boasts a solid supporting cast that includes Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) and “Will and Grace” funny-lady Megan Mullaly.
FilmSchoolRejects also echoes the same feelings…
While many films look at addiction and the downward spiral it can send users into, SmashedĀ looks to focus on the point between rock bottom and recovery as Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) sobers up and realizes that her marriage to Charlie (Aaron Paul) may have been rooted in booze rather than love. Paul has been getting critical acclaim for his work on AMCāsĀ Breaking Bad and it should be interesting to see him playing against Windstead (whose performance was one of the highlights in last yearās The Thing) with TV royalty Nick Offerman and wife Megan Mullally rounding out the cast.
Another short film Mary has a small role in as ‘the computer voice’ for director BenDavid Grabinski’s “Cost of Living”, will be premiering online this Valentine’s Day.
Grabinski took to his Tumblr and posted some behind the scenes footage, which was done by Mary’s husband Riley. Cost of Living reunites Mary with her Scott Pilgrim vs the World star Brandon Routh.
We’ll be sure to post the video in full once online, but for now, enjoy the teaser footage.
Cost Of Living – Behind the Scenes Teaser from BenDavid Grabinski on Vimeo.
Well, congrats to them! The team for The Thing has been nominated for a visual effects award for ‘Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture’.
The 10th Annual VES Awards will take place on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and will air exclusively on ReelzChannel.
Here’s the films they’re up against:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Ukranian Ironbelly
Yasunobu Arahori
Tom Bracht
Gavin Harrison
Chris LentzPaul – Paul
Anders Beer
Julian Foddy
Jody Johnson
David LowryRise of the Planet of the Apes – Caesar
Daniel Barrett
Florian Fernandez
Matthew Muntean
Eric ReynoldsThe Thing – Edvard/Adam
Lyndon Barrois
Fred Chapman
Greg Massie
Marco Menco
Best of luck and we’ll keep you updated on this once the awards happen!
It’s been a while since we heard anything on the Magnificat front, but today, Riley took to his Twitter to reveal the poster for his short film, Magnificat starring Mary.
Hopefully we’ll get some news as to the film premiering at some festival really soon. Fingers crossed!
In the meantime, head over to the gallery to see the photo full-sized. It looks so great!
IGN is hosting their best of 2011 & The THING has been nominated for Best Horror Film of 2011. Head HERE to vote for The Thing.
The results will be posted on Tuesday, January 17, when IGN announces the Peopleās Choice winners and hand out the best overall awards, including IGNās 2011 Game of the Year.
So spread the word and vote!
The more I hear about this film, the more I want to see it. Following the video we posted with director James Ponsoldt talking about Smashed, Indiewire caught up with the director and spoke a little bit more about the film. Here’s what he had to say about it:
“My co-writer ā Susan Burke ā and I set out to write a screenplay about an alcoholic that didnāt deal in objectification. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who plays our lead, āKateā) is an amazing, vulnerable, and profoundly empathetic actor, so her ability to fully inhabit the character and make her relatable helped us tremendously. And Susan is sober and has a lot of experience with recovery, so our story should feel authentic.”
“Basically, this was my breakthrough: hire people who are smarter and more talented than yourself, explain your story and ideas clearly, listen to what they have to say and then give them the autonomy and creative freedom to elevate your film. Itās liberating. You can always respectfully disagree if you donāt like something. But to treat everyone as an equal, a collaborator, and to let the best idea win out (wherever it comes from). If a director doesnāt enjoy that, they should probably take up something more solitary, like knitting or whittling.
“I hope audiences like hanging out with the characters in our film; I sure do. And whether āKateā and āCharlieā ā the married couple at the center of “Smashed” ā make good partners, or are co-dependent and enable each otherās worst behavior and are better off apart, well, I think it would be great if audiences are completely divided. Iām very curious to hear how people feel.”
I’m so excited to see this film & the way James describes Mary’s acting is so great.
About two weeks and counting until SMASHED premieres at this year’s Sundance! Until then, Sundance has posted this video with the film’s director, James Ponsoldt, talking about his upcoming film and why people will be drawn to his film.
Check out his interview below:
This is pretty cool! The first teaser posters for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter have come online via IGN.
The official plot for the film has also been released:
“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of “Wanted”) bring a fresh and visceral voice to the blood-thirsty lore of the vampire, imagining Lincoln as history’s greatest hunter of the undead.”
The screenplay is by Seth Grahame-Smith, based on his novel of the same name. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opens June 22, 2012.
The Fox film stars Benjamin Walker as an Honest Abe opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead (as Mary Todd Lincoln), Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie and Dominic Cooper.
Head on over to the gallery to see the posters in hi-res!
Over the weekend, Mary attended a midnight screening of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and did a Q&A session with the film’s director Edgar Wright, comic book creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, co-writer Michael Bacall, and actors Thomas Jane and Clifton Collins Jr. (Vegan Police!)
I’ve added some photos that people took of Mary at the event & have uploaded the Q&A session that btacgnol has kindly uploaded.
You can see the pics in the gallery & watch the video below:
