Riley Stearns has uploaded 4 additional behind the scenes pictures from the Magnificat shoot and I have added them to the gallery here. Again, if you haven’t seen the short so far, click HERE to see it – Mary is absolutely incredible in it! 🙂
So by now, we know that the teaser trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be out on Monday, but in the meantime, CBS did an interview with Benjamin Walker, Mary’s co-star in the upcoming film who plays Abe himself. In the interview, we get to see him check out some of Abraham Lincoln’s real-life artifacts and how much of his life remains a mystery. We also get several snippets of the upcoming trailer & it looks insane! See for yourself in the video below:
Also, BenDavid Grabinski, who directed Cost of Living which stars Brandon Routh and Bret Harrison, did an interview with Bloody-Disgusting & talked about how Mary’s part of “The computer voice” came to be:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays the voice of this computer that seems to be taunting the heroes at times. Did she get involved before or after Bret and Brandon?
Mary’s husband Riley is a good friend of mine. I wrote the computer voice for her. It’s a ‘HAL’ type character that’s sort of mixed with the female villain from “Portal 2”. Without her, you can’t really have a lot of story economy. It would be hard to whittle the whole thing down to just 9 minutes. She was the first person I had. I had a location and a crew but no cast aside from her. Seven days out I didn’t have Bret or Brandon yet. Mary suggested Brandon, and it had never occurred to me in my wildest dreams I could get him. But I love Brandon and I thought he hadn’t been used in a way that exploited his full potential comedically. He’s really funny in Scott Pilgrim, but that’s not as the hero. I thought he would be really funny as a John Carpenter/Kurt Russell hero. The character in my head was always a cross between Snake Plissken and Jack Burton. She sent the script to Brandon, we went and talked for hours over sushi and he said “so when are we shooting?”
Cost of Living will be premiering online on Valentine’s Day so check back in a few days to see it in full!
We’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter teaser trailer, and although it was thought to be released on Friday, it is scheduled to be released this Monday according to Mary who tweeted the following:
Be sure to check back Monday for the release!! Also, follow @AbetheHunter for updates on AL:VH. Last night on Friday, they did a live Q&A with the director, the author and Benjamin Walker and I think one of the producers.
P.S., be sure to follow us on Twitter as well if you haven’t @MissWinsteadCom. 🙂
Yay, Mary! Way to rack up the movie roles! Variety is reporting that our girl Mary is set to star in the psychological thriller “The Darkness” by “The Last Exorcism” director Daniel Stamm.
In the film, Mary will play an American student looking after her tutor’s two children in a remote English manor house. She soon comes to believe that she and the children are being haunted when their lives are threatened by mysterious events.
Filming will begin in Europe this summer.
Congratulations, Mary!! 🙂 🙂
Also be sure to check out this new MTV show coming soon called After Hours that’ll have Mary as one of the guests.
Riley has debuted the full video for his first short film, Magnificat and it’s really awesome! Be sure to check out the video below & enjoy. Mary did a fantastic job! 🙂 Congrats to her & Riley and everyone else who worked on the film. Caps will be added soon.
Magnificat from Riley Stearns on Vimeo.
Super exciting! The first teaser trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is hitting the ‘net this Friday according to the film’s director, Timur Bekmambetov. He tweeted:
“Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter” teaser coming this FRIDAY.
Let the countdown begin! I’ll be sure to add the trailer & make any caps of Mary when it’s released. Stay tuned!
Yes! Exciting news! A studio has finally picked up the rights to Mary’s new film, SMASHED. Here’s the report via The Wrap:
Sony Pictures Classics is about to buy the Sundance movie “Smashed,” starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an alcoholic schoolteacher who decides to get sober. James Ponsoldt directed the film, which he wrote with Susan Burke.
Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling and Jennifer Cochis produced.
“Smashed” is about Kate and Charlie, a married couple whose alcoholism sends their lives spinning out of control. Winstead plays Kate and Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”) plays Charlie. When Kate decides to get sober, she has to confront the lies she has been teling at work and the true nature of her relationship with her husband.
Schwartz and Sperling also produced “Nobody Walks,” which Magnolia picked up at this year’s Sundance. Myriad Pictures has acquired international rights to that movie, and will shop it at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Schwartz and Sperling, of Super Crispy Entertainment, were honored at Sundance with a special jury prize for excellence in independent film producing for “Smashed” and “Nobody Walks.” They also produced last year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie, “Like Crazy.”
In January, Winstead told TheWrap that “I was trying to find something that would challenge me. … I was getting jealous of other actors who were doing what they believe in, who were not working within a box. I was getting scared of not being a better actor, of not growing and changing.”
Hopefully a release date isn’t too far off as well as a trailer! 🙂
This is just a quick reminder that the The Thing DVD/BluRay is out now, so be sure to get your hands on a copy! I am currently having my exams at university but as soon as I’m done I promise to finally upload good quality captures of Mary’s performance as paleontologist Kate Lloyd as well as other captures from Sundance, so stay tuned! DVD/BluRay extras are the following by the way:
– The Thing Evolves
– Fire & Ice
– Deleted & Extended Scenes
– Audio Commentary by Director Matthijs Van Heijningen
– Picture in Picture Commentary with Producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman
Check out this great new interview of Mary, director James Ponsoldt and the film’s co-writer Susan Burke did for SirkTV talking about the film Smashed! During the interview, you can see new clips of Mary as her character Kate in AA as well as several other scenes. Check out the video below!
