In a new interview with Time, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul revealed that his & Mary’s upcoming movie Smashed will head to the Toronto International Film Festival:
What’s next for you after Breaking Bad? What other projects are you working on?
I have a film [Smashed] coming out that debuted at Sundance. It’s going to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and then it’ll be released in theaters in mid-November. It’s a story of a young couple in love, and they’re also in love with drinking, and they’ve never known what it’s like to be sober together. Mary Elizabeth Winstead [plays the wife] and she starts to notice that her life is spiraling out of control, and she decides to try sobriety. And it kind of throws a wrench into the marriage, because they’ve never known what it’s like to be sober, and it loses its spark in a way. They try to figure out how to continue their lives without alcohol — with one trying to be sober and one continuing down his path of chaos.
FYI: The 37th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) is scheduled to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 16, 2012.
FX Acquires TV Rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
In case you missed seeing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in theaters, FX has come to your aide…in case you never feel like renting the DVD. The network announced that they’ve acquired The Amazing Spider-Man and Savages as two of the latest acquisitions. Both will reportedly air in late 2014. The network’s other summer movie acquisitions include Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, That’s My Boy, and Battleship.
FX also locked up five of the six No.1 titles this summer including The Avengers, Men in Black 3, Snow White and the Huntsman, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, and Ted.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to Hit DVD/Blu-Ray on September 18
Talk about quick!
Dread Central has announced (via bluray.com) that the DVD for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will hit stores on September 18:
It’s only been 3 weeks since Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter began axe-chopping Confederate bloodsuckers at the box office, but we have to wait just 2 months before our 16th President emancipates our Union from the undead on DVD/Blu-ray.
Blu-ray.com just announced that 20th Century Fox will be rushing the Tim Burton-produced, Timur Bekmambetov-directed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to DVD and Blu-ray as early as September 18th. No specific details, artwork, word of a 3D Blu-ray, or anything else regarding the release has been revealed yet other than the Blu-ray will also include both a digital and basic DVD copy.
We’ll have more details when they become available.
Mary Talks Filming Action Scenes and The Avengers in New Interview
In a new interview with AsiaOne, Mary discussed missing out on action scenes in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and about screen-testing as SHIELD agent Maria Hill for The Avengers. I’ve posted part of the interview, the rest can be read by clicking the link above:
Winstead, who is best known for her performances in Quentin Tarantino’s cult hit, Death Proof (2007), graphic novel-adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010) and last year’s sci-fi flick The Thing, is far from pleased about the “relative ease” she enjoyed in her role as Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.
“I’m actually very jealous,” said the North Carolina native with a laugh, during a round table interview with reporters at The Ritz-Carlton Central Park.
“When I first signed on to do this movie, I was happy to take a break from action, as I had just finished Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, for which I did three months of martial arts training.
“Then, one day, I saw people doing stunts on set and I was like, ‘Oh man, I wish I could be one of them!’
“I remember I had a particular scene with Erin (Wasson) where she did a flip backwards…Right then, I was trying to stand up in my seat, because I wanted to do that too.”
On missing out playing the role of Agent Maria Hill in The Avengers, which went to Cobie Smulders:
“It was a matter of timing,” she explained.”At that time (during casting of The Avengers), I was more excited to find something small, which I felt would be the right type of project for me. So I did (indie flick) Smashed and it went to the Sundance Film Festival and got really good reviews.”
Mary also talked a little bit about her marriage towards the end, and about her new moves we’ll be seeing in an upcoming movie:
“I’m in this new movie where I have a small kick-boxing scene,” she said.
“After I made my moves, everyone was visibly surprised…Some asked me, ‘how did you know how to do that?'”
New Video and Gallery Updates; New BTS Pic from The Cub
Over the weekend, I added some new photos. First, I added a new photoshoot pic from Mary’s Esquire shoot, the Complex magazine scans (credit to boloround), new pics from the ALVH NY premiere and Melanie capped a new interview of Mary from the premiere. All of this of course, can be seen in the gallery. Also enjoy a new video of Mary signing autographs before leaving to the ALVH premiere.
Be sure to also check out the first pic of Mary in the new short film, The Cub. She doesn’t star in it, but instead serves as an executive producer with her husband, Riley Stearns who wrote, directed and also exec-produced the film.
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Complex Magazine–
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ALVH interview caps–
New Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Interview Videos and Box Office Update
A couple of new interview videos with Mary have been posted online, which you can now view below. The first two are just quick soundbites of her being asked one question, while the other was an interview question asked during the ALVH press junket:
Also, in it’s second weekend at the movies, ALVH came in 6th place this weekend making an additional $6 million for a total gross of $29 million.
New “Passions” Captures
Melanie has added some new captures of Mary as Jessica Bennett when she was on the soap opera, “Passions”. Be sure to check out the new caps in the gallery.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Opens #1 at the UK Box Office
Despite debuting #3 at the U.S. box office, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has taken first place across the pond in the U.K.
Here’s the scoop from Flickering Myth:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter debuted in first place at the UK box office, although its opening haul of £1,119,117 is far from spectacular, especially considering it benefited from two days of preview screenings, without which the Timur Bekmambetov action-fantasy would have found itself languishing in fifth.
Here are their top 5 opening films from the box office:
1. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, £1,119,117 weekend (New)
2. Men in Black III, £1,072,033 weekend; £19,062,351 total (5 weeks)
3. The Five-Year Engagement, £1,058,897 weekend (New)
4. Prometheus, £1,029,758 weekend; £21,641,986 total (4 weeks)
5. Snow White and the Huntsman, £870,402 weekend; £13,413,970 total (4 weeks)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Lands #3 at the Box Office
This news really isn’t surprising to me, but Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has come in #3 at the office, making $16.5 million its opening weekend. The top 5 films this weekend were:
| Title | Weekend | Total | |
| 1 | Brave | $66,700,000 | $66.7 |
| 2 | Madagascar 3 | $20,200,000 | $157.5 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | $16,500,000 | $16.5 |
| 4 | Prometheus | $10,000,000 | $108.5 |
| 5 | Snow White & the Huntsman | $8,012,000 | $137 |
Here’s what THR wrote about the film:
Managing only a third-place finish was 20th Century Fox’s 3D genre epic Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The R-rated film, playing like a horror pic, grossed a soft $16.5 million in its opening. Fox had predicted a debut in the $15 million range, but box office observers believed the film could get to $20 million.
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and featuring Tim Burton in the producer’s seat, Abraham Lincoln received a C+ CinemaScore.
Abraham Lincoln, costing $68 million to produce, features the storied U.S. president as a vampire hunter and is based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who also wrote the adapted screenplay. The film is an important test for the “mash-up” genre, with Lionsgate queued up to make the film adaptation of Grahame-Smith’s book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Fox believes the film, which skewed male, will have good legs.
“Audiences will continue to seek out Timur’s daring and brilliant vision of Abraham Lincoln,” Fox’s incoming president of domestic distribution Chris Aronson said.
Mary Discusses ALVH and Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan Role
In a new interview with Film School Rejects, Mary talks about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the appreciation fans have for Scott Pilgrim Vs the World and her role in Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. As always, posting a few snippets on here, but click the link above tor read the full interview:
So, when you read a passage detailing a vampire throwing a horse, is that the sign-me-up moment?
Oh my God, that scene is insane [Laughs]. Most of those scenes I had no concept of what they were going to look like, since I wasn’t even there when they were shooting them. I was blown away when I saw that for the first time. You do think, “I have no idea how they’re going to do that and I have no idea how that’s going to look,” but that’s kind of exciting. There’s a mystery factor to it.
You do have the makeup challenge, though. To what degree do you have to readjust how you act?
You do have to do that a little bit. It’s harder to be expressive, because you got so much stuff on your face it can be hard to make facial expressions. That’s a bit of a challenge. At the same time, it added so much for me, because I didn’t know how I was going to play someone about 20 years older than me. As soon as they put the aging makeup on, it became easier and made more sense. Naturally it just became easier.
Roman Coppola made A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III sound pretty surreal. How do you describe that movie?
It’s basically about this man going through a bit of a crisis, and it’s shown through his perspective and what’s going on in his head. He’s quite imaginative. It takes place in the 70s, but it’s highly-influenced by 1930s musicals. There’s a lot of musical numbers, fantastical set pieces, and things like that. It’s very whimsical and sweet.
Did all that call for a more heightened performance?
Well, it’s always different, and it depends on what it is. This one was so heightened that you had to go over the top and have fun with it. I’m in a fantasy sequence where I play this dominatrix military type of office, calling out commands to other women. In his head, that’s what he thinks women are like when men aren’t around. Of course, he’s totally wrong and it’s totally ridiculous. You just have to go with it and chew the scenery.