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ROBsessed: Tell us something we might not know about Rob and David.
McKenzie: They are two of the sweetest men in Hollywood.  Both are extremely humble in person and lack pretension.   I felt very comfortable around both of them.  David Cronenberg gave me a big hug the first time I ever saw him, and he said he was happy to finally meet me, which was so disarming, charming and fatherly.  I think that is when I fell in love, because I will give everything to a director that makes me feel as safe and protected as a child.  And Cronenberg is so patient.  He gives everyone on set all the time they need to do their best work, and speaks quietly to keep the atmosphere on set very calm and enjoyable.  David was also very patient with my fawning over him at the warp party, because I was so appreciative of his work style I just couldn't help gushing like a schoolgirl with with a crush, very embarrassing in retrospect. I didn't expect Rob to be so tall, and so charming.  

Everyone loved him on set.  He  can carry his own in any conversation and takes pains to make others feel at ease.  He is very down-to-earth and low-key, the kind of guy that just chills with his dog, or with a pint. What's his dogs name, Bear? I'm pretty sure I remember that from playing with him, although it's possible I heard the name somewhere, but anyone who calls a small dog "Bear" has a good sense of humour. I had two 95lb boxers named Zeus and Troy,  that I was missing, so it was fun to play with that friendly little Bear.  Anyway, I got the impression that he preferred a dark pub, to cruising on a yacht, or anything fancy.  He actually called me "fancy" because yes, if there's an occasion, I may prefer boating to beers on a hot summer day, but otherwise, I like to stay home and immerse myself in my own world.

 

Read the full interview at the Source:

http://www.robsessedpattinson.com/2013/05/robsessed-award-winner-patricia.html

eOne is one of the industry’s most significant buyers. 

The US remains largely a home entertainment business for eOne but the company is beginning to grow its theatrical ambitions in the territory. 

Lara Thompson, eOne’s Los Angeles-based acquisitions head, has been busily planning for the future.

“The idea is to have a mixture of home entertainment, day-and-date and theatrical releases,” says Thompson. “Clearly the US is very competitive. But we have just acquired David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars, which will be our biggest theatrical release in the territory to date.”

 

Read more about eOne’s Cannes acquisition strategy: http://www.screendaily.com/reports/lara-thompson-eone-buying-power/5055883.article

Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, and John Cusack are set to star in Maps to the Stars. The film is about something that seems to be on just about everyone’s mind at one point or another – celebrity and fame. At a recent press day in NYC for The English Teacher that Opposing Views attended, Julianne Moore talked about the movie and her thoughts on celebrity culture.

“The movie is based on a book by Bruce Wagner who’s a wonderful writer and L.A. satirist,” Moore said. “It’s not only about celebrity culture, but the pursuit of fame at any cost. I was talking to my husband about this the other day, why do people want to be famous, what is it that people are interested in, why are they looking at it? I think every human being has a desire to be seen; to be seen for who they are authentically and sometimes they misinterpret it as being seen in a different light.

“Because really where we feel best and most successful is when we are seen for ourselves in a personal relationship and yet celebrity culture has sort of distorted it and made it about people valuing people being seen as like pictures or images,” Moore continued. “There’s this weird disconnect that the celebrity culture enforces and I don’t know how we got there. I feel like it happened really rapidly too because when I started out as an actor it wasn’t quite the same.”

Maps to the Stars is set for release in 2013 and is directed by David Cronenberg. The film is being described as indie ghost story.

 

Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/celebrities/julianne-moore-talks-maps-stars-movie-robert-pattinson-john-cusack

Directed by David Cronenberg. With John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Julianne Moore, Sarah Gadon. Complex look at Hollywood and what it reveals about Western culture.

 

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172584/

Eric Maddox - interrogator, author of book "Mission:Blacklist", responsible for the process of finding and capturing Saddam Hussein.

This same story is encapsulated in his book, “Mission: Blacklist #1,” on which a movie will be based starring Robert Pattinson, who will play Maddox.

“Somebody wants to make a movie about my story - it’s very exciting,” Maddox said.

Maddox said he has already met and gotten to know Pattinson. “He’s a great guy,” Maddox said. “When they brought his name up to me, I had never heard of him before. I don’t believe in vampire movies and stories. I just didn’t know who he was.”

Maddox said he wore a single blue shirt for months in his search for Hussein, with no other changes of clothes. The shirt has a bigmouth bass embossed on it, Velcro pockets and bloodstains. “I’ve still got it [the shirt.] I think Rob is gonna wear it in the movie,” Maddox said.

Maddox had to wait five years to tell his story and write the book due to the U.S. government preferring to keep it classified, he said. “Since then, the United States government wanted me to endorse the movie, and wanted me to say who I am and what I do,” he said.

 

Read more: http://www.oudaily.com/news/2013/mar/28/maddox-full-story/

Plot Summary:

Led by the loathsome yet funny and touching child-star Benjie, we witness the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of their twisted machinations, Agatha, Benjie’s tormented, apparently psychotic sister. As much as it is a sharp, comic look at a vacant and corrupt world, MAPS TO THE STARS is also a haunting ghost story.

 

Cast:

Julianne Moore
Robert Pattinson
John Cusack
Mia Wasikowska
Olivia Williams
Evan Bird

 

Status: In Development

 

"Maps to the Stars" will be presented at Cannes Film Market (Le Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes) by producer Martin Katz, President of Prospero Pictures, a production and finance company specializing in international coproductions. Countries Sought for Coproduction: France, Germany

 

Sources:

http://international.eonefilms.com/films/maps-to-the-stars

https://twitter.com/ChristophGreuet/status/333580056972644353

http://www2.telefilm.ca/05/516/Cannes/2013/producers.php?id=2188

Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams and Evan Bird have joined the cast of David Cronenberg’s thriller Maps to the Stars ahead of a July shoot in Toronto and Los Angeles.

Newcomer Bird will play a troubled, drug-addicted child star, while Williams will play his manipulative mother, and Wasikowska his disfigured, schizophrenic, fame-obsessed sister.

The trio join Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon who were earlier cast.

 

Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mia-wasikowska-olivia-williams-join-519449

Carey Mulligan talks to Josh Horowitz from MTV Rough Cuts about Robert Pattinson and Hold on to Me at the Great Gatsby Press Junket.

 

Source: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/905411/carey-mulligan-wants-to-get-started-on-walk-of-the-dead.jhtml

Missionblacklistfrance got the chance to interview the screenwriter for Misson: Blacklist's - Dylan Kussman. Here are the parts in which he mentions Rob and the movie.

Q: Tell us about your work for Mission: Blacklist and how you ended up being a part of this project?
A: "I became involved with Mission: Blacklist when head writer and Executive Producer Erik Jendresen contacted me about contributing to the project. At the time, he and his co-writer Trace Sheehan were deeply immersed in adapting Staff Sergeant Maddox's book, Mission: Black List #1, and were looking for an additional voice to help flesh out the main character and structure his remarkable story as a movie...."

Q: Was it complicated for you to work on this book and, particularly, on this subject?
A: "The most challenging part about working on the project for me personally was absorbing the vast amount of research Erik and Trace had compiled before I came onboard.  On top of the book itself, there were hundreds of pages of interviews they'd conducted with the Staff Sergeant, firsthand accounts of the Iraq War and of the American presence in Baghdad and Tikrit after Saddam's fall -- I had to get up to speed in a hurry.  ... Incredible human beings don't always make compelling onscreen protagonists, but between the work we've done as writers, Jean Stephane Sauvaire's guiding hand as director, and Robert Pattinson's committment to playing this inspiring figure with the fearless honesty for which he's known, I don't think that will be the case here."

Q: Did you work directly with Eric Maddox to sort out what to take or not take from the book?
A: "Both Erik Jendresen and Trace Sheehan worked more directly with Eric Maddox than I did, and Mr. Pattinson has spent an extended amount of time with him at this point. They will be able to speak to your question better than me."

Q: What do you think of Robert Pattinson's choice as the lead man?
A: "Robert Pattinson is a phenomenal choice. We were all thrilled when he came onboard. More importantly, after spending lengthy one-on-one time with Staff Sergeant Maddox, and getting Maddox's personal blessing to portray him in the movie ... he is the only choice."

 

Read more (in English and French):

http://missionblacklistfrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/interview-exclusive-de-dylan-kussman.html

 

Werner Herzog was interviewed by Zeit Online and they asked him about Robert Pattinson & briefly about "Queen Of The Desert".

 

Translation of excerpt in German:

Q: How do you assess the creative power of the teen star Robert Pattinson, who you will be working with soon? 

A: This is a very intelligent man. Writes well. Knows exactly what he's doing. He also knows that he must be out of this short-lived type of role of Teen Stars.

Q:What can you say about your current project, the film adaptation of the life of an archaeologist and undercover agent Gertrude Bell?

A: I talk about it only when it is filmed.

Source: http://www.zeit.de/2013/16/99-fragen-werner-herzog

Source: http://autumndewilde.tumblr.com/post/47053277255/dewilde

 

See more: http://autumndewilde.tumblr.com/post/47053193510/dewilde

A 90-minute interview with Canadian director David Cronenberg, conducted on 15th of March 2013, marking his 70th birthday with a reflection on his life and work.

Source: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?display=1&mode=play&obj=35323

Excerpt from interview:

 

RSN: Fast forward 20 years and now you are making huge movies. After Spider there were a few and then A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson.

MK:  I think it was great for us and the movie that Rob was interested in making that type of move at this time. I think he is great in the movie and he will bring a new type of audience to David’s world. His relationship with Kristen is private, but the intense focus on it is bizarre. It’s a funny world. It brought us a lot of publicity for our US launch. We could not in a million years have bought that much publicity. I’m sorry it came at the expense of his personal life, but he’s a celebrity.

 

RSN:What’s next for the ever evolving Martin Katz?

MK: I have two things that I am excited about. I am working on my fourth collaboration with David Cronenberg called Maps To The Stars. It is an absurdist comedy about the entertainment business. We hope to be able to work with many of the people we have worked with before including Rob Pattinson.

 

Read more:

http://www.realstylenetwork.com/blogs/celebrities/2013/01/interview-martin-katz-cosmopolis-producer-talks-about-his-fascinating-career/