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 People’s Choice winners and hand out the best overall awards, including IGN’s 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 – Susan Burke – and I set out to write a screenplay about an alcoholic that didn’t deal in objectification. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who plays our lead, “Kate”) 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. It’s liberating. You can always respectfully disagree if you don’t 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 doesn’t 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 “Kate” and “Charlie” – the married couple at the center of “Smashed” – make good partners, or are co-dependent and enable each other’s worst behavior and are better off apart, well, I think it would be great if audiences are completely divided. I’m 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:
Aah, cannot believe how quickly 2011 came and went and now we’re in 2012! This is going to be one busy and amazing year for Mary with the several films she has coming out. Smashed, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan and hopefully they’ll get around to premiering Magnificat this year at a festival. Can’t wait to see them all.
Also, thanks for all the love and support you guys give us! It’s appreciated.
Here’s to a great 2012!
Following the Scott Pilgrim Vs the World screening at the New Beverly a little over a week ago, photogs caught Mary leaving the cinema with her husband, Riley. You can check out the pics in the gallery.
On Tuesday night, Mary attended the DeLeon Tequila Tidal Issue Dinner With Kate Beckinsale And FLAUNT event at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles. The issue celebrated at the event was the one Mary recently appeared in.
I have added some new photos of Mary at the event, which you can view in the gallery.
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:
Hollywood.tv has uploaded a video of a couple of celebrities out shopping in the grove in Los Angeles and they managed to have a little chat with Mary. Skip to the 2:30 mark to check out the little interview.
Also, some new Filler Magazine outtakes have made their way online which you can view here.
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.