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Mary Attends Lynn Hirschberg’s It Girls Event

on January 11, 2015 by Jessica Comments Off

Mary stepped out on Saturday Afternoon to attend Lynn Hirschberg Celebrates W’s It Girls with Piaget and Dom Perignon pre Golden Globes event in Los Angeles. At the event, she was seen posing with her former Sky High co-star Danielle Panabaker as well as actresses Alison Brie and Allison Williams.

While there, The Hollywood Reporter asked Mary what makes a guy an “it boy”:

“Kindness and a strong sense of self. Security. Sense of humor. Not taking yourself too seriously is a big thing for me.”

Head to the gallery to check out the new photos of Mary. Her outfit is amazing. Love the coat.

Gallery Updates The Returned

TCA Winter Event Photos; First Returned Stills!

on January 9, 2015 by Jessica Comments Off

The first promo stills from Carlton Cuse’s upcoming mystery drama The Returned have hit the web and I’ve added the stills featuring Mary to the gallery. You can view them by clicking the thumbnails below:

I’ve also added pics of Mary featuring her, Carlton Cuse and her co-stars at the TCA panel from today.

Additionally, The Returned‘s executive producers Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker emphasized that they weren’t out to fix or amend the French version of the show. “The starting point is similar, but our show becomes quite different around episode 6 where in the French version it becomes quite genre and incident heavy at episode 8,” said Cuse. He further mentioned that the FremantleMedia French series is “working independently on season two currently. Our show going forward will be wholly original.”

When asked about The Returned‘s similarity to Lost in its mysterious intrigue, Cuse said, “The show is a mosaic like Lost. We’re filling in tiles but not in a straight order. The weave of the characters is how the projects are similar.”

Those who did watch Les Revenants will find that the plot line is somewhat similar, since the characters are near carbon-copies from the original. Mark Pellegrino portrays patriarch Jack (Jérôme in the French version), Sophie Lowe plays Lena (versus Léna), Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Rowan (versus Adèle), India Ennenga as Camille, and Sandrine Holy as Julie. (The latter two have the same character names.) “I do think that their performances are quite different from the original French series,” executive producer Raelle Tucker says. “I feel that each one of these people brought the essence of the character. I think over episodes, you will see how those characters are quite different and shift a lot.”

Gallery Updates

Mary Attends W Magazine’s Golden Globes Event

on January 9, 2015 by Jessica Comments Off

With awards season officially kicked off, one of the first Golden Globes parties was had last night, this time with Mary attending the W Magazine Celebrates The ‘Best Performances’ Portfolio And The Golden Globes party. Head to the gallery to see the pics of Mary looking lovely in her chic gold dress.

Also, come back later today to see new photos of Mary at the winter TCA event where she’ll have promoted her new TV series The Returned.

Faults The Returned TV News

Indiewire Names Faults One of the Best Films of ’15; Returned Update

on January 8, 2015 by Jessica Comments Off

A quick update for all of us looking forward to seeing Mary in the new A&E series The Returned: According to Twitter, tomorrow A&E will be at the winter TCA to present the upcoming show with some of the cast in attendance. Hopefully we’ll get a teaser trailer out of this! 🙂 *Fingers crossed.*

Also, Faults was among IndieWire‘s top ’25 best films of 2015 we’ve already seen’ list. Here’s what they said about the film:

“Faults”
Director: Riley Stearns
Cast: Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis
Synopsis: A washed-up TV guru/cult expert decides to de-program a young girl from a cult called Faults, in order to pay off the remainder of his debt.
Verdict: Riley Stearns writes and directs his first feature like a man who’s been making compelling, darkly funny, and unpredictably twisted films for years. Films about cults tend to either veer towards undiluted horror (“The Wicker Man,” “Children of the Corn”), eerie drama (“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “The Master”) or strict genre-fare (“Kill List”), so it’s a testament to Stearns’ talents that he manages such a formidable balancing act of a spooky genre story masquerading as a suburban drama of horrors. Crumbling societal values and power trips with identity make for some of the blackest humor we’ve seen recently, and with the underused Leland Orser absolutely ripping it in a spectacular lead performance, followed so closely by the excellent and instinctive Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “Faults” is likely to end up as one of the year’s very top directorial debuts.
Our Review: Here’s William’s B grade review from SXSW
Release Date: March 6th

The Austin Chronicle also praised the film:

Sharing much of the cast with one of my favorite gonzo action/slasher hyrbids ever, The Guest, Faults could not be more tonally different. Leland Orser plays a washed-up cult deprogrammer named Ansel Roth, hired to get a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) back with her family. What quickly and disturbingly unfolds is not just a battle of wits, but a Beckett-meets-Mamet descent into interpersonal darkness. Orser gives one of the year’s best performances, while Winstead’s aura of blank innocence gives director Riley Stearns space to take the movies to incredibly dark places. As I wrote during SXSW, “Stearns’ graduation to the feature leagues may be the most quietly impressive since Craig Zobel opened up the Great World of Sound.”

Gallery Updates The Returned

First Look at Mary in The Returned

on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by Jessica Comments Off

Following the news that The Returned would be premiering March 9th on A&E, Mary’s The Returned co-star Agnes Bruckner posted a first look photo of the cast featured in the latest issue of TV Guide Magazine. In it, there are character descriptions. Mary’s character is named Rowan Blackshaw who is a single mother recovering from the loss of her musician fiance.

Head to the gallery to see the HQ scan!

The Returned TV News

THE RETURNED to Premiere March 9 On A&E

on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

Yahoo! TV has revealed that A&E’s The Returned, a remake of the French series Les Revenants, will air March 9th at 10 p.m.

The show follows a Washington mountain town that experiences the sudden freakish reappearance of long-lost loved ones and those once left behind aren’t sure whether to rejoice or run. “Technically, it’s a zombie show, but they’re not horrible creatures trying to eat people. They don’t remember anything about how they died and want to reconnect, but life moves on, they’re not quite the same as when they were alive, and It’s impossible to pick up where you left off,” executive producer/writer Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) explains. “It’s a character-centered meditation on love, loss, and grief with a genre element. We view death as the ultimate event, but what if it isn’t?”

Foreign Exchange: While Cuse says the first six episodes contain a fair amount of overlap with the spooky French favorite, “we tried to fill in character backstories.” And this version, adds Cuse, cuts down on the original’s sense of ennui: “We had to address the different tonal approaches and cultural differences for it to work for an American audience.”

The Returned stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Agnes Bruckner, Mark Pellegrino, Kevin Alejandro, and Sophie Lowe.

Be sure to check your local listings, tune in and set your DVRs!

Faults Movies

‘Faults’ to Debut at the 2015 Film Comment Selects Festival

on December 27, 2014 by Jessica Comments Off

The Film Society of LINCOLN Center announced its lineup for the 15th edition of Film Comment magazine’s essential, eclectic festival, taking place February 20 – March 5, 2015. Among those films selected to play is Riley Stearns and Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s new film Faults.

Film Comment Selects series tickets will go on sale Tuesday, February 10. A pre-sale to Film Society members will begin Friday, February 6. Below is the film’s description and time/date it will debut at the fest.

Faults
Riley Stearns, USA, 2014, DCP, 89m
Ansel Roth is at the end of his rope. Once a prominent authority on mind control and cult organizations, he’s now broke and alone, resorted to doing lame, sparsely attended seminars and book signings at crappy hotels. On the edge of suicide he is approached with a new assignment: to help “save” a distraught couple’s 28-year-old daughter Claire from the mysterious titular religious cult. He reluctantly accepts, and as the five-day deprogramming mission is carried out, events become increasingly messy and bizarre, with Ansel’s outside troubles also paying an inopportune visit. This contained film-mostly taking place within the walls of a motel room-is guided by the dynamite lead performances of Leland Orser as Ansel and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Claire, and a strikingly clever script (written by first-time feature director Riley Stearns) that is as funny and dark as it is surprising. A Screen Media Films release.

Monday, February 23, 8:30pm

Congrats, Mary and Riley!

Faults Gallery Updates The Returned

New Social Media Pages for Mary’s Upcoming Projects

on December 20, 2014December 20, 2014 by Jessica Comments Off

Two new social media pages for Mary’s upcoming projects are now active. The first is a Facebook page for the March release of her psychological film Faults and the second is a Twitter page for her new TV show The Returned, rumored to begin airing in January 2015 on A&E. There is also a Facebook page here.

Be sure to follow both pages for the latest news on Mary’s work and in addition, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

Also, a teaser poster for The Returned has been released, which you can view in the gallery.

(*Note: Mary’s only official social media pages are her Twitter and Instagram. She has no Facebook.)

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger Blu Ray Features Announced

on December 12, 2014 by Jessica Comments Off

After it was revealed via Amazon that Kill the Messenger was available for pre-order in February, Blu-Ray.com has unveiled that the date it will hit shelves is February 10th, 2015 in Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD format.

The Blu-ray release of Kill the Messenger is presented in 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround. Special features include:

Feature Commentary with Director Michael Cuesta
Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Cuesta
Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast
Crack in America
Filming in Georgia

Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets. He further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.

Be sure to mark your calendars and pick up your copy!

Got A Girl Music/News

EO Products and Got A Girl Unveil Two Oil Perfumes

on December 11, 2014 by Jessica Comments Off

Looks like all those awesome Got A Girl products we saw in the band’s teaser videos earlier this year are finally becoming available to the public! Be sure to visit the link to check out the perfume bottles as well.

EO Products, the leader of natural and organic personal care products, today announced a unique collaboration with Got A Girl — the musical partnership between hip-hop producer, Dan the Automator, and actress and singer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who recently released the album I Love You But I Must Jump Off This Cliff Now. EO and Got A Girl collaborated to develop two signature fragrances for the Got A Girl brand. Girl and Boy, luxurious essential oil perfumes are launching this week in limited editions and are available to order online and at EO Exchange store locations, shipping in time for the holidays.

“This collaboration came about as a result of mutual respect and a shared passion for artistry and ethical choices,” said Brad Black, co-founder of EO Products. “The perfumes, Boy and Girl, are the physical representation of the alchemy that occurs when like-minded people come together and create.”

The partnership between EO and Got A Girl began earlier this year when Dan and Mary came by EO. Susan, Brad, Dan and Mary sat around the creative table in EO’s headquarters. Susan brought out her private collection of essential oils, a box of tiny blue glass bottles with handwritten labels. Dan and Mary began opening bottles and smelling the essential oils. Sometimes the bottle was put aside immediately, but when they arrived on an oil they loved, the mixing began — hinoki, jasmine, honey and ylang ylang were blended together, and the new scents were passed around. It was an easy, organic process between friends. As a result, two beautiful and enticing signature scents were born.

• Boy is a woodsy scent created by Dan with bottom notes of Hinoki and top notes of Yuzu. A suggestion of Black Pepper gives this fragrance a spicy finish. Dan’s driving sensibilities are evident in this warm scent.

• Girl is a soft, floral scent created by Mary with bottom notes of Jasmine and top notes of Honey. A hint of lavender and cypress give this fragrance its woodsy finish. This fragrance captures the essence of Mary’s sweet, sultry vocals.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

• Boy is like walking in a forest at the edge of a meadow — warm and woodsy with a hint of flowers at the edge, $69.00

• Girl is in the meadow, flowery and sunny — but you can still smell the forest nearby, $69.00

Got A Girl fragrances are Limited Editions and available to order online at EO Products and Got A Girl, in addition to EO Exchange stores in Northern California.

The perfumes will ship in time the holidays and will be accompanied by a chic poster only available when purchasing Boy or Girl.

The collaboration of Brad and Susan created EO, and for twenty years they have been the leading experts on essential oils and personal care essentials. The collaboration of Dan the Automator and Mary Elizabeth Winstead brought you Got A Girl, and in two years they have released an album, developed an olive oil, bubble bath, a Pinot Noir and two signature scents together.

“Collaboration is key to creativity — when like-minded people work together, synergy happens, and the sum becomes more than the total of its parts,” said Dan the Automator and cofounder of Got A Girl. “This has been a brilliant experience and rewarding partnership.”

“I never expected to be involved with creating a fragrance. Dan and I really enjoyed making these together,” added Mary Elizabeth Winstead, cofounder of Got A Girl. “And the scents add one more unusual layer to our Got A Girl collaboration.”

Very exciting and cool news!