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:
Sundance has released the synopsis for Smashed which is as follows:
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter. . .and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.
Many films indulge the dramatic highs and lows of addiction. Refreshingly, Smashed is interested in the unglamorous middle path—what stumbling through recovery looks like. As Kate tests new boundaries and shoulders the consequences of her choices, this subtle story of imperfect transformation taps into truths about the challenges and losses intrinsic to living life honestly. Genuine performances and a grounded sense of place create an authentic, textured world where three-dimensional characters—neither all bad nor all good—occupy the uncomfortable grey zone of being human.
The screening schedule for the film during the Sundance Film Festival has also been posted:
Screenings
Time Date Event Code Venue City 8:30 pm 1/22/2012 SMASH22LN Library Center Theatre Park City 9:30 pm 1/23/2012 SMASH23GN Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Salt Lake City 8:30 am 1/24/2012 SMASH24EM Egyptian Theatre Park City 11:30 am 1/25/2012 SMASH25LD Library Center Theatre Park City 3:30 pm 1/27/2012 SMASH27CA Eccles Theatre Park City
Also, Mary will be attending the New Beverly theater tonight in Los Angeles at midnight for a screening of Scott Pilgrim. If any pics come online, we’ll be sure to post them.
It’s been a long time since we heard anything about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but some news has finally come forward. Film Music Reporter says that Henry Jackman has signed on to score next summer’s movie adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Jackman is coming off a busy year with three scores being released in 2011, including X-Men: First Class, Winnie the Pooh and Dreamworks Animation’s Puss in Boots, which is currently playing in theaters. Coming up next month for the composer is the thriller Man on a Ledge.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is set for a release in 2D and 3D on June 22, 2012 by 20th Century Fox.
Now that the film has a composer, hopefully the teaser trailer isn’t too far off! 😀
Riley took to his Magnificat site and updated us about the film.
I’ll admit it, I’m bummed Magnificat wasn’t chosen to be part of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. I was really hoping we had a shot at Park City at Midnight (the genre portion of the festival) but I knew the chances were very slim considering the number of films submitted. I did hear that they liked the short though so that’s at least a bit of a consolation.
So what’s next? Mary’s film “Smashed” is in competition at Sundance this year so I’ll be tagging along with her and hopefully seeing a bunch of great movies. As far as the short goes, we’ve submitted the film to 15 other fests so far and we’ll slowly begin to hear from them after the new year. I’m so proud of the film and excited for people to see it. Fingers crossed.Thanks,
Riley
Best of luck to Riley and Mary on their short!
Oh, my goodness. This is awesome! Check out the first official still of Mary and her co-star, Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul, in SMASHED. In the film, Mary and Aaron play a married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol and gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.
Looks like they’re all lovey dovey before Mary decides to stop drinking. Seriously cannot wait for this film.
You can check out the full pic in the gallery!
Aaah! SO exciting! It has just been announced that Mary’s newly upcoming indie film “Smashed” has been entered in the Sundance Film Festival 2012 for dramatic competition.
For the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, 110 feature-length films were selected, representing 31 countries and 44 first-time filmmakers, including 26 in competition. These films were selected from 4,042 feature-length film submissions composed of 2,059 U.S. and 1,983 international feature-length films. 88 films at the Festival will be world premieres:
Smashed / U.S.A. (Director: James Ponsoldt, Screenwriters: Susan Burke, James Ponsoldt) — Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and… drinking. When Kate decides to get sober, her new lifestyle brings troubling issues to the surface and calls into question her relationship with Charlie. Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally.
Huge congrats to Mary, Aaron, Octavia, Nick and director James Ponsoldt along with the rest of the cast and crew.
The Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
If you want to check out the rest of the films that were chosen, check out the Sundance site here.
An expedition of a lifetime becomes a subterranean nightmare in The Thing, the thrilling prelude to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name. Debuting on Blu-ray(TM) Combo Pack with UltraViolet(TM), DVD, Digital Download and On Demand on January 31, 2012, The Thing stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,) as paleontologist Kate Lloyd who, along with the crew’s pilot Carter (Joel Edgerton, Warrior), discovers a mysterious organism buried in the ice.
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Continue reading The Thing Blu-Ray DVD Hitting Shelves January 31
Mary is looking stunning in a new feature up on the Flaunt Magazine web site. In it, she talks about her upcoming film Smashed and The Thing. Here’s what the magazine offers:
Regards the reprisal of classics like Carpenter’s, Winstead remarks, “With The Thing, there’s this fan base that loves the original. Then there’s this whole other group of people that are like, ‘I like that—it looks awesome,’ and have no clue about John Carpenter’s. And that’s the gap they’re trying to bridge. But I think that there are a lot of reprisals that are not being done with the same kind of respect as the The Thing, and I think it’s getting out of hand. We really do need to go back to original material and we need to seek out writers who have original ideas.”
On Smashed:
Winstead says of Smashed, “I’ve spent years just wanting to do something like this—years of wanting to do something small and performance-focused, and everybody saying, ‘You’re not a financial name. We need somebody who’s a financial name.’ And then finally realizing that that’s not always true. You just have to go out there and find the people that are willing to make movies just for the sake of making good movies. You have to get out there and do it.”
“We’re trying to make it so that it’s a story about somebody surviving, and not a sad, depressing story of this person who’s messed up their life,” she says of her Smashed character who attempts sobriety while her lover, Paul’s character, continues to booze. “Something that’s a little bit more powerful and forward moving than that. That’s the main challenge of it—not getting bogged down and indulged in the emotion of it, of just sobbing and crying.”
Hit the link above to check out the full interview and see the latest pics of her photoshoot in the gallery!
I finally took the time to re-upload 1500+ captures of Make It Happen, Mary’s dance film from 2008. Click here to check them out!
Mary’s upcoming film Smashed is one of many films being considered for the Sundance film festival. Here’s what they had to say:
An integral part of the indie filmmaking scene, when not contributing to Filmmaker Magazine helmer James Ponsoldt appears to be busy mounting his next project and five yearsafter his breakout debut Off the Black (a Sundance entry in 2006) we now have his sophomore pic – a dramedy featuring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul along with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Look for Smashed to grab a U.S Dramatic or Premieres spot.
Gist: Co-written by James Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, this is the story of a married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober and begins attending AA.
Producers: Jennifer Cochis (Douchebag), Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling (Sympathy for Delicious)
This is great news for everyone in the film involved. Very cool!