Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis hits US theaters August 17th - LA and NYC first

Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis hits US theaters August 17th - LA and NYC first



Indiewire broke the news and we finally have a release date for Cosmopolis in the states:

Entertainment One Films US has set a date for David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis." On August 17th, the film will open in New York and Los Angeles, expanding into additional markets soon after.
Based on the novel by Don DeLillo, the film stars Robert Pattinson as a 28-year old financial whiz kid who heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father’s old barber. Along the way, he's joined by a cast including Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti.

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Entertainment One is releasing the film in the US well after it does so in Canada and the UK, where release dates are set for June 8th and June 15th, respectively.

Canada and UK! Make sure you see the film this weekend and next! Support Rob :)

Robert Pattinson jokes about setting up a PayPal account just to work with David Cronenberg again

Robert Pattinson jokes about setting up a PayPal account just to work with David Cronenberg again



NOW Toronto got a chance to sit down with Rob and David during Cosmopolis promo in Canada. Of course there was insight and hilarity. :)

Robert Pattinson wasn’t expecting to star in Cosmopolis. In point of fact, he didn’t think a director like David Cronenberg would even consider him for the project.

“I never really took myself seriously as an actor before,” he says, barely awake the morning after the movie’s gala Toronto premiere. “And [then] you get cast in a movie like this, and it gets to Cannes and it’s not a total disaster, and I haven’t brought down David’s entire career…”

Cronenberg’s eyes crinkle. “We’ll see,” the director says. “That’s still in the future.” (Tink: These two need to go on the road...oh wait...)


On the verge of burning out after shooting the two-part Twilight finale, Breaking Dawn, Pattinson had been thinking seriously about pulling back from movies.

“I was fully intending on hiding for a couple of years,” Pattinson says. (Tink: *wide eyed* That's the scariest thing I've ever read.) 

“I only wanted to do small parts. The time is gone – for me, especially – when you could learn on the job. I mean, even the idea of going to a repertory company or something – everybody’s going to be filming it on their phone, and it’s exactly the same thing in movies pretty much. So I wanted to try to do small parts in movies I thought I could learn something from. But then this came up.” (Tink: So basically we have David Cronenberg to thank for preventing a devastating, indefinite drought.)

“This” was the role of Eric Packer, a billionaire financial wizard who experiences a professional and personal collapse over one very long car ride across Manhattan in Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s allegorical novel. The way Cronenberg structured the movie – shooting in sequence, often sealing Pattinson and his co-stars into a limousine and directing them remotely – pushed Pattinson to a kind of creative epiphany.

“It takes away a lot of the problems of self-consciousness,” he says. “I did a movie where a lot of it was underwater” (that’d be Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, which put him on the map as doomed golden boy Cedric Diggory), “and it kind of felt a little bit like that. You feel like you have very little to prove when you’re in such a tiny space. There’s very little of the outside world coming in, so it’s pretty simple.”

Cronenberg so enjoyed putting Pattinson through Packer’s paces that he’s eager to repeat the experience, possibly with another member of his repertory company.

“You meet people that you work with and you feel you’d really like to work with them again,” he says. “I felt that way about Rob, and I felt that way, obviously, about Viggo [Mortensen]. And then I started to think, ‘Wow, Rob and Viggo in the same movie would be terrific,’ because I know they’d get along, but I also think creatively, onscreen, it’d be fantastic. But I don’t have a project, exactly; we have some possibilities. So we’re talking about it. It’s possible it’ll never happen, because it’s just so hard to get things made, really – especially anything interesting. That’s sort of where I am, making movies that are hard to get made.” (Tink: GAH. This really needs to happen. Fingers crossed!)

In all seriousness, though, the two do expect to collaborate on another picture.

“We feel that fate will bring us together again,” says Cronenberg.

“I’m setting up a PayPal account,” Pattinson laughs.

“Yes, that’s right,” Cronenberg says. “We’re crowdsourcing. Please, if you’ve got any money on you right now, just put it on the table.” (Tink: They're joking but they should do this. Can you imagine? Rob sets up a PayPal account and wow. Watch the fandom money flow in. I know I'd finance anything for Rob. I'll sell the farm and my kidney. Anything for Rob. *wink*)

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Handsome Robert Pattinson in New HQ Pictures from Toronto Cosmopolis Photo Call

Handsome Robert Pattinson in New HQ Pictures from Toronto Cosmopolis Photo Call

He's crazy handsome. He really is. It stuns me time and time again. This smirk dimple kills me.



*giggle* This is like sexy disgust. That slight sneer.



And this is just HandsomeRob. *sigh*



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New yummy glimpse of Robert Pattinson on the George Stoumboulopoulos show

New yummy glimpse of Robert Pattinson on the George Stoumboulopoulos show

"I want to do something at least a little worthwhile."



Click HERE if you missed the highlight video of Rob on the show. We'll have the video up tomorrow as soon as it's available.

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Kristen Stewart talks about working with Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon mentions their Cosmopolis characters

Kristen Stewart talks about working with Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon mentions their Cosmopolis characters

The first mention comes from Kristen who squashed the Ciné-Télé (Belgium) comment allegedly from Rob that we posted HERE. We put a grain of salt on that post because it was translated and print. You know those two things are a classic combo for the grain of salt. Kristen says "we are constantly working but no".


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Sarah Gadon talked about Eric and Elise, dominating the indomintable guy and a cool thing to consider regarding the seating position of her and Rob in Cosmopolis:

M&C: Your character’s relationship with Eric Pattinson) her husband, is oddly straightforward – it’s love/hate.  It’s brittle, combative and sexual.  What's your take on it?
 
Gadon: So often as a female actress you’re accustomed to reading material where the male character projects onto you exactly what you’re feeling and exactly what you’re working in and exactly what your actions are in a scene. 
 
What I thought was so hilarious about the two of them is that he spent the entire time trying to project onto her – “I want to fuck you, I think you’re sexy, I want this. That, you’re sad, you’re happy”. 
And she spends the whole time saying “No, no” until the end of the arc when he says “I’m not going to be the man you want me to be” and she says "Okay well, I’m out”.  It was so refreshing to me to read that also terrifying.  There is a charisma to the way she does it.  But there is no blazing moment where the screenwriter is saying “fall in love with this woman” because she’s a woman.
 
M&C: Was your purpose was to dominate the indomitable guy?
 
Gadon: I think that’s why women are so responsive to the character.  Men say to me “So she’s really cold” [laughs] but that is what is so great about David is that as a filmmaker, he leaves so much open to interpretation and he allows for the female and male spectator. 
He’s not assuming all audiences members are young men.   He’s saying “I'm going to give you a guy like this or a girl like this and then a woman and a sex scene like that”.  That’s what I find so stimulating about his work.   I'm speculating into the void now but I think he really does account for audiences that are both men and women.
 
M&C: He has a strong wife and daughter.  He’s interesting to see him grow over the years; he seems to have relaxed as a director now, perhaps less of a control freak now.
 
Gadon: But he is not a lax director.  Everything is so defined.  He spent a lot of time getting the script to get to that point.   So often, as Rob Pattinson says, you get material that is not fully developed and just because of the nature of the industry now, you don’t know what’s going to get green lit. 
It has nothing to do with the script and everything to do with the casting, director, financing, so an actor may go to camera with a script that is not going to be developed anymore.
 
It creates a different kind of role for an actor.  So often you’re trying to figure out a scene, the action, intention, emotion with the director on the day and it’s just a lot messier.   With David it’s already there. 
 
There is that difference, but on the day.  He’s there watching and listening and he comes up and says something, even a word, “comprised”, not composed”, and you’ll say it and it will change your whole performance.
 
Rob and I had breakfast, lunch and dinner in the movie and he wanted us to sit side by side.  He asked us to sit outward until the end of the scene when we face each other.  Things like that that change your performance.   He likes to play like he’s laid back!

Cosmopolis Reviews Part 3 - Robert Pattinson is "excellent in a difficult role"

Cosmopolis Reviews Part 3 - Robert Pattinson is "excellent in a difficult role"



We've been gathering the reviews and they've been really great for Rob!

• Part 1 - "Robert Pattinson giving a commanding, sympathetic portrait!"
• Part 2 - "Sensational central performance from Robert Pattinson"
• Spoiler Post - "Intellectually demanding...visually beautiful...Rob's performance is extraordinary."

We're going to start a new batch because I'm addicted to people outside of our world praising Rob. It's about time they see what we see.

Excerpt from CBC (Canada):

In this realm, it's obvious why Pattinson has become Cronenberg's new Viggo: he has the aquiline profile of a Cronenbergian protagonist and a certain feral cunning in his cold, dark eyes. More importantly, there's nothing standing in the way of the script. Pattinson is a vessel, a piece of glass. In between delivering his lines of dialogue, he is so still that one questions his existence. It's a quandary magnified by the introduction of a parade of employees connected to the billionaire.
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In and out of the limo they go, each more emotional than the last, while Packer crawls toward his destination. At one point, the limo is enveloped by rioters waving rats and spray-painting its windows. Even as the protesters rock the car on its chassis, Pattinson rides out the storm, sipping his vodka with a repressed smirk.

Excerpt from dorkshelf.com:

In the film, Eric is played by Robert Pattinson; a wise and prescient choice for DeLillo’s leading man seeing that he comes from a style of new money made up of pretty boys described at one point by one of Eric’s numerous, long suffering assistants as being so dreamy they’re practically on life support. Stymied in his efforts to reach his status symbol goal by global anti-finance protests and losing millions by the second due to the rise of the Yuan he heavily leveraged against, Pattinson’s Eric serves as the viewer’s eyes and ears throughout this world. We’re seeing the world exactly as he sees it and not how it actually is since there isn’t a single scene in the film that Pattinson isn’t in. It’s the true starmaking performance that the actor has probably long hoped for and he carries the film wonderfully.

Eric isn’t detached from his world despite how aloof he must seem. He’s a workaholic and cursed with the downfall of great intellect and wealth. He is the embodiment of DeLilo’s seemingly Marxist philosophy that at some point capitalism will begin to move so quickly that no one will be able to keep up. With his boyish good looks and ability to turn his character on a dime, Pattinson shows how Eric is tormented by his ability to see all sides to an issue and how his own knowledge makes him equal parts paranoid and reckless. Even his own wife that he barely has any relationship at all with (played by Sarah Gadon) remarks that Eric has a great deal of science and ego combined.
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The arguments will be made back and forth that the film still isn’t a “return to form” for the director or that it’s a masterpiece that will be heralded for its prescient nature given the current state of the global economy, but what makes Cosmopolis brilliant in its own way is that none of those arguments matter when the film itself is allowed to be scrutinized on its own merits. It’s a hard and challenging film for casual viewers to ever hope to have in “in” with, but for those willing to follow along and let the film wash over them in the same way a great book can take over the imagination, Cosmopolis is a heck of a ride. It’s an impossible film to sum up with a full critical analysis in less than 1,000 words, but it will lead to some great discussions amongst those who see it.

MORE review excerpts after the cut!

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"Robert Pattinson Has Become One Of My Favourite Actors” - David Cronenberg

Another NEW Interview with Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg From the Toronto "Cosmopolis" Press Junket.
This one is from The Vancouver Sun is a great read and as per usual David only has good things to say about Rob.



TORONTO — Celebrated Canadian director David Cronenberg and Twilight star Robert Pattinson are hardly anti-establishment radicals.

But you would never know it from their film collaboration, Cosmopolis, which opens in theatres across Canada June 8.

Cosmopolis has already had its splashy premiere at the recent Cannes Film Festival, but the Toronto-based Cronenberg and the London-raised Pattinson are happy to be back in the city where they shot the film just last year.

Looking casual in slacks and shirts at a downtown Toronto hotel, the dapper filmmaker and handsome baseball cap-wearing leading man are making themselves available to promote the film, which exposes modern-day obsessions with greed and power.

But Cronenberg said that Cosmopolis is less an excuse for socio-political diatribes and more about an opportunity to present a fresh story. And yes, the 69-year-old understands that the film hits screens as anti-capitalist protests abound worldwide.

The movie, based on the 2003 Don DeLillo novel, tracks the bizarre day in the life of young Manhattan billionaire investor Eric Packer (Pattinson)

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GREAT Quality FULL Vids Of Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg At The London Apple Store "Cosmopolis" Q&A

GREAT Quality FULL Vids Of Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg At The London Apple Store "Cosmopolis" Q&A

So now we have gorgeous vids to go with the gorgeous pics from earlier. In case you missed them click HERE

Thanks to Francies67 for sharing her great vids with us and thanks again to Cristina for the email.
A lady after my own heart, she kept her camera on Rob the whole time.
Her reaction at 5:26 of this first vid is just too adorable!

I love the part where David mentions the deep connection that he has with Rob, it has been so obvious to everyone throughout the promo that they have done for "Cosmopolis" and where he says that he feels that they are not finished working with each other.

Again I feel like you deserve to get a WARNING before watching these but really after seeing the pics earlier, do you need one?? ENJOY!

Robert Pattinson Tells Le Monde About Auditioning For "The Rover" & Acting In "Cosmopolis"

Robert Pattinson Tells Le Monde About Auditioning For "The Rover" & Acting In "Cosmopolis"



The limo in which the powerful trader (played by Robert Pattinson) travels, on an apocalyptic morning in New York, - where he sees from time to time the world he thought he possessed, slipping through his fingers - felt for a long time like a coffin for the actor, that he thought would never get out of.

"Cronenberg disguised me with sunglasses. You have no idea how unsettling it is for an actor to be deprived of their eyes. Then the limo became the center of the film, where all the actors would appear in, one by one. Like Juliette Binoche, for example, who I never thought I would meet one day. That is when, I finally felt liked I existed. It might have been the first time."

When he auditioned for The Rover, the next David Michod (the Australian director of Animal Kingdom, one of the most remarkable police movie of the decade): "I waited for seven hours, but I made it. They chose me and it's going to be a great movie." When he said that, he held his head high with the pride of someone who landed the role using his teeth, aware that nothing will be offered to him on a plate.

Source Le Monde via PattinsonLadies

First Look: Clip Of Robert Pattinson On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Tonight

First Look: Clip Of Robert Pattinson On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

If this clip is anything to go by it looks like it's going to be a great show ;-))



Robert talks about whether he chose to do Cosmopolis in order to avoid Twilight typecasting, how Ryan Gosling's career helped him understand his own situation, what it feels like to be somewhat isolated as a celebrity, arguing with Adele about ambition, his plans post-Twilight, his feelings about Heath Ledger's work in 'The Dark Knight', and where he'd like to see Hollywood go.

The show airs tomorrow (Thursday June 7) at 11:05 pm on CBC television. It's a Cosmopolis special, also featuring interviews with director David Cronenberg and fellow actors Paul Giamatti and Sarah Gadon.
Transcript of the clip After The Cut

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3 *NEW* "Cosmopolis" Stills With Robert Pattinson (& 1 Old One Now Bigger)

3 *NEW* "Cosmopolis" Stills With Robert Pattinson (& 1 Old One Now Bigger)

Kevin: Look I'm sorry I'm no Dean but I'm doing my best here ok?



Look at his eyes, look at his eyes



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These 3 are new



And this one we had before but smaller



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*NEW* Interview Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg & Paul Giamatti Talk About Eric Packer's Fateful Day With Cineplex

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*NEW* Interview from the Toronto Press Junket where Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg & Paul Giamatti Talk About Eric Packer's Fateful Day With Cineplex





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