Video: Full Cosmopolis Press Conference with Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg and more

Video: Full Cosmopolis Press Conference with Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg and more

This is fantastic! We got the whole presscon now. Be sure to give yourself some time or bookmark the post so you can watch. :) It's yummmmmmy ;)

3 more videos after the cut!

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NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson melting cameras and humans with his pensive face

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson melting cameras and humans with his pensive face

Or is it just me who's melting? Obviously the camera survived because we have these pics. Someone else is typing this for me because I'm a heap of melted Tink on the floor.



I want to go to a Rob press conference. Not to ask a question but to just stare at him while he listens and dissolve into the seat. I now have the urge to listen to Radiohead's Creep.



That brow...that deep, pensive brow...



WHAT EVEN, ROBERT PATTINSON???



WOMAN DOWN! WOMAN DOWN!



******BODY EVAPORATES******



Rob: So you see, Sarah? That's how I keep my fans controlled. I just liquify them.





I know the DR is a puddle with me.

Over 30 melty HQ press con pics after the cut!

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David Cronenberg stands up for Robert Pattinson + Cosmopolis press conference revisit

David Cronenberg stands up for Robert Pattinson + Cosmopolis press conference revisit

David Cronenberg sat down with the New York Times yesterday for a Q&A. Rob was mentioned and it made my heart swell:

Q: You seemed a bit exasperated at the press conference yesterday with some of the questions that were trying to connect Eric Packer to Robert Pattinson’s real life or his “Twilight” role. 
A. It’s the British press that tends to do that — it’s this Rupert Murdoch, News of the World thing that I hate. When that question came up for Rob [about the challenges of living a public existence] I felt like I had to counterattack a bit.

Overall good Q&A, click HERE to read in its entirety. I think David is Rob's biggest champion in the director department. Not like the others haven't praised Rob but David has gone more than the extra mile.  I'm really excited to see their promotion for Cosmopolis in the next week. We have so much! (calendar on the side bar).

The press conference was really good and you can tell when David goes to the mattress for Rob. In case you missed it, I'm reposting. There's so much PromoRob that came out of Cannes and certain things can't be missed. This is one of those things. The press con is lengthy but it's wonderful. IntellectualRob shines through his silly claims that he sounds like an idiot. No, Rob. You don't.



I also finally looked closely at the HQs (not the thumbnails) from the press conference. Good GOD.



LAWD now I'm pregnant.



Look at him listening! JE-sus...I could watch him listen for the rest of my life. *keening*



*cough* I had no control over my fingers cropping this...



I love this Rob smile...the one with those cute smile dimples that pop out when he's showing various smirks.



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NEW: Robert Pattinson press interviews at Cannes + fan footage from Le Grand Journal

NEW: Robert Pattinson press interviews at Cannes + fan footage from Le Grand Journal

UPDATE: Added a translation to the 3rd video down :)

From USA Today, Rob squashed the crazy THG rumors and shared more wonderful things about being in Cannes:

Some rumors are so good, that they even get the movie stars involved believing. Even if it's only for a few minutes.

Robert Pattinson woke up Saturday morning at the Cannes Film Festival, the morning after his triumphant premiere in Cosmopolis, and saw internet reports that he was being considered for Catching Fire, the sequel to the The Hunger Games.

"I woke up this morning and saw all these things about me being cast in The Hunger Games," Pattinson tells USA TODAY. "I was kind of curious for a second. So I called my agent."

The response?

"My agent was like, 'No,' " Pattinson reports.
"(My agent) was like no one's going to offer you that part," Pattinson says, breaking into a laugh. "I was like, thanks for the reassurance."

But Pattinson was riding a high after his new film Cosmopolis (due out in the U.S. in August) received a standing ovation in Cannes with girlfriend Kristen Stewart in attendance.
Even that was stressful. The ovation came after director David Cronenberg warned him that the Cannes audience can be harsh.

"David tells me the night before, 'I'm fully expecting some boos,' " says Pattinson. "I was literally like, 'Why are you telling me this?' "

"I literally didn't watch one second of the movie, I was waiting for people to walk out," says Pattinson. "I was expecting a fight."

It was only hours afterwards that Pattinson was able to wind down at the film's afterparty.
"It took a full three hours of continued panic," says Pattinson. "Full adrenaline. It was just too weird."

Love it. Love that they spoke to Rob the morning after. :)

We posted this before but it wasn't the full interview yet. The interviewer loved what Rob did in Cosmopolis. :) Intellectual Rob is on display and wonderful. Please make sure you don't miss him.

MORE Rob and David interview after the cut! Plus a sexy fanvid of Rob heading to LGJ!

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New Robert Pattinson interview with Premiere magazine: Talks Cosmopolis, french filmmakers, Twilight and more

New Robert Pattinson interview with Premiere magazine: Talks Cosmopolis, french filmmakers, Twilight and more



Premiere (France) has more of their interview with Rob! All new stuff. Click here for french speakers and for the rest of us...it's a google translation for now. We'll update if a better one is available.

UPDATE: Better translation:

 P: Is there some part of you that is thrilled to surprise your Twilight fans who would see Cosmopolis?
RP: When my casting in Cosmopolis was announced, I saw many of them buying Don DeLillo's book. And it doesn't shock them at all that I'm playing a role like this one. On the contrary, I feel like they want to see us succeed, for us to be successful after the saga. They want us to be loved and respected. They're aren't fans like any others, they might not all be movie fanatics, but I can feel in them a desire to become one. They're interested in what we do, even if it's an usual movie like Cosmopolis. Actors that are in popular hits or franchises, often feel like they have to do things that would please 'this' audience. But I think that they underestimate their spectators. I know that Twilight fans want to adapt themselves. If you've played in Transformers, it doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to that all your life.

P: Cosmopolis press promise to be ... interesting. In hope that all the interviews won't focus only on one particular scene.
RP: I don't see which scene they could focus on that would reduce/narrow down the movie ...

P: I do ...
RP: You mean the check-up scene, I guess? Having said that now, it's a pretty good promo for the movie: "So, you get your prostate checked in Cosmopolis?" *laughs* As soon as I have an erotic scene, the most common you could imagine, I know I'll hear about it.

P: In Cosmopolis, there's one where a taser is involved?
RP: The one in the hotel .. We shot that one in one take. Patricia (McKenzie), the actress, was really at ease with her body. When we had to rehearse the scene, she almost took all her clothes off. I just stood there in my underwear, so embarrassed! After the scene was done, I went to see the cameraman and asked him: "Is it me or what just happened was really intense? I almost felt like I really had sex!" The sex scene in History of Violence was already incredible. I don't know why but David Cronenberg is really talented for that. It's a surprising specialty for a director, but it's his.

P: David Lynch is pretty good too for that. It's funny because when you see Lynch and Cronenberg, the first thing that comes to mind isn't: "I'm sure those guys shoot amazing sex scenes."
RP: It might be due to the fascination that David has with the human body. Even in a movie like Videodrome, he sexualizes everything - the orifice that James Woods has on his belly looks a lot like a vagina. And I can really see David thinking about it and tell himself: "MMMh, I like that." We see less and less filmmakers having enough confidence that would let them flaunt and dig their obsessions. It's like Tarantino and women's feet. It's his thing, he likes that and thus going to put it iin all his movies. I'm not attracted to feet but when they film those of Bridget Fonda in Jacky Brow, it's sexy.

P: In Cosmopolis, you get a visit from Juliette Binoche in the limp. She uses the space in a very creative way ...
RP: Originally, the sex scene with Juliette was supposed to happen in a hotel room, but found it more interesting for it to happen in the limo. You have to ask yourself a question: how to you film, with success, a sex scene in a limo? Well, you end up bumping yourself everywhere in the car *laughs*. The worst is that I met Juliette Binoche, who is one of my favorite actresses, right before filming the scene. And 5 minutes later, we were writhing in the limo ... Very strange. But yes, it was more appropriate in that space.

P: What about Mathieu Amalric, the other French of the movie?
RP: He's amazing. I'm sad he's mostly filmed in wide shots because you can't really enjoy the crazy facial expressions he did. Does he work a lot in France?

P: Not enough. But he directs too.
RP: It doesn't surprise me. By the way, did you see the trailer for Rust and Bone? If only Audiard decided to film in English .. He's probably the biggest director active, able of making movies that touch the general public while still being, indisputably, art. The performances in his movies are the best, his action scenes are the best ... Not a lot of filmmakers can reach his level, except for maybe James Gray, with whom I dream of working.

Old outtakes in better quality after the cut

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Robert Pattinson's New Film Role Announced! 'Mission: Blacklist'

Robert Pattinson's New Film Role Announced! 'Mission: Blacklist'



WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!!



From Deadline:

LOS ANGELES, CA – May 2, 2012 – Robert Pattinson has come on board to star in the upcoming film “Mission: Blacklist” with Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire committed to direct. The screenplay was adapted by “Band of Brothers” writer and producer Erik Jendresen from the Harper Collins novel Mission: Black List #1 written by military interrogator Eric Maddox with Davin Seay. Ross M. Dinerstein, Managing Partner of Preferred Content, is producing alongside Jendresen and Kevin Waller.

Embankment Films, the international sales and distribution company recently launched by international sales veterans Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar will begin selling the film at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.

”Mission: Blacklist” is a psychological thriller that details the true, inside story of the search for Saddam Hussein and the interrogator, Eric Maddox, who spearheaded his capture.

“This movie is a gripping, edge of your seat thriller,” says Dinerstein. “I have been inspired by Robert and Jean-Stéphane’s dedication to tell this story in the most authentic way possible, and I’m thrilled to add Hugo and Tim to our team.”

Pattinson can next be seen in David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Sauvaire’s last film, “Johnny Mad Dog,” premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize of Hope.

WME represents Pattinson, Jendresen, and Sauvaire. Pattinson is managed by 3 Arts
Entertainment and represented by the Curtis Brown Group in the UK. Sauvaire is managed by Anonymous Content.

The deal was brokered by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and Deborah McIntosh and Preferred Content’s Kevin Iwashina and Christine D’Souza. WME Global and Preferred Content will be corepresenting the North American rights.

I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!!

Click HERE to visit an informative website about the story and HERE to learn more about Eric:

Upon graduating from the University of Oklahoma in May 1994, Eric Maddox joined the U.S. Army as an infantry paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne Division.  After three years as a Ranger qualified infantryman, Mr. Maddox reenlisted as a Chinese Mandarin linguist interrogator.  Since 9/11, Mr. Maddox has conducted over 2,000 interrogations while deploying six times in support of the global war on terrorism to include multiple tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe.  In 2003, while assigned to a special operations task force in Tikrit, Mr. Maddox conducted over 300 interrogations and collected the intelligence which directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein.  As a result, Mr. Maddox was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Director’s Award and the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement.  Now as a civilian with the Department of Defense, Mr. Maddox continues to fight the global war on terrorism. 

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Here's a video of Eric Maddox talking about his mission. You can get a sense of the man Rob will be playing.



Click HERE for a 2008 news report about the book and Eric Maddox

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks Bel Ami, censorship laws, the French promoting the arts and more

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks Bel Ami, censorship laws, the French promoting the arts and more

UPDATE: Youtube of Rob's part :)



IntellectualRob came by for this interview on the Bel Ami premiere red carpet at Berlinale. Tell me mooooore, you smart, sexy man. ;)
At 2:33

Carnets de voyage > Carnets de voyage N°37 - Carnets de voyage... à Berlin 2012 - une émission AlloCiné

Transcript if you can't view the video:

Rob: I like that freedom represents in France. I mean it's kind of... like how censorship laws have always kind of been really lacks and things like that. French people promoted the arts a lot a long time before anyone else did.

I like a lot of French literature, everything that was published like in the 40s and 50s. I like a lot of that. It was just nice there were people were allowed to do what they wanted to do.

Source: Allocine | Tip: RobstenDreams | Transcript: TwilightBelgium

Bill Condon compliments Robert Pattinson during Breaking Dawn Press Junket

While speaking to Bravo, Bill Condon answered speed questions. Check out his response to "Robert Pattinson is..."



From the Berlin press junket and the same people that inspired this awesomesauce post.

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Melissa Rosenberg talks about Robert Pattinson's screenwriting skills + Flashback to Rob's favorite films in 2008

Melissa Rosenberg talks about Robert Pattinson's screenwriting skills + Flashback to Rob's favorite films in 2008



From The Fab Life:

Earlier this year Rob Pattinson revealed to Vanity Fair that he was adapting a Lillian Hellman story for the big screen. “It’s a secret,” he later told reporters while promoting Water for Elephants, refusing to divulge details about his writing. The actor has long been modest about his other creative talents and intellectual interests, which he often mocks in interviews. “I sound like such a snobby little shit,” (Tink: Sounds like a sexy intellectual to me...) he said to VF, after discussing his passion for Japanese films.

We like Rob’s smart side, and have long wondered what was up with his secret screenwriting project. We asked Melissa Rosenberg, writer of all five Twilight movies, what she thought about Rob’s pursuits on the page. Turns out she had no idea she’d been working with an aspiring screenwriter for four years. “Is he really?” she said, after we filled her in. “I wish him luck, it’s tough work.” (Tink: He can do it! AmbitiousRob FTW!) When asked what advice she would offer Rob, Rosenberg passed along these sage words. “Just understand the craft, understand structure. You can have the talent, but do you have the craft? That’s always the challenge.”

But the former Dexter head writer clearly thinks he can handle it. “He’s certainly been around film and studied film enough,” she said, “that I’m sure he can figure it out.”

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Reading this made me think of something from 2008 I was just reading today. A flashback...

From Rotten Tomatoes (2008):

Pattinson's artful leanings came out in a conversation with Rotten Tomatoes about his favorite films of all time, which span such cinematic luminaries as Jack Nicholson, Jean-Luc Godard, and...Chris Kattan?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rob: The films that I like aren't necessarily because they're good films in themselves -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a good film -- but that one specifically meant a lot to me. Not because I was in a mental home or anything, but that character influenced me so much when I was 15 or 16, and bits of it stuck with me. A lot of that kind of "putting your middle finger up to the world" attitude -- not that I really have that, but...I used to be so timid, and that was one of those films that [helped me break out], by pretending to be [Jack Nicholson's character] Randle.

The Exorcist

Rob: The Exorcist, because I love Linda Blair. [Laughs] She's my ideal woman.

Prenom Carmen (First Name: Carmen)

Rob: What else do I like? A Godard film called Prenom Carmen, which sounds like I'm just saying that to be cool, but it's actually one of my favorite films. I think it's the best Godard film. It's like his version of Carmen the opera, one of his films from the eighties. In terms of just pure filmmaking and manipulating an audience, it kind of starts out as a farce, as a complete, stupid farce, with this bank robbery; but it's really, really...Godardian, with kind of a stupid humor that's so random. Only he could make it, mixed up with these kinds of philosophical elements.

It starts out with one of these bank robbers, these students, and she starts to sleep with one of the guards; she's having sex with him in the bank, and he pretends to arrest her and they run away together. And he wants to be part of her gang. It's all so completely ridiculous. And then suddenly, halfway through, it turns into the most heartbreaking, serious thing that you've ever seen -- out of nowhere! -- and you're suddenly so attached to these characters, which you weren't before, because it seemed like a stupid student film. They have this secondary story where they have a string quartet playing the soundtrack which runs in the other story, but they film them during rehearsal, just doing really close up things with them playing cello and stuff, and it's about the relationship with the conductor and this girl, the cellist -- and it's completely random to the film, but it's incredible.

Rotten Tomatoes: Continuing on the subject of Godard...

Rob: I love the last line of Breathless -- it's literally one of the best [representations] of the relationship between women and men. He was also very aware of how people viewed his films, and that film in particular. Everyone was thinking, oh, I'm cool, because I like this, and it's like, "What does 'bitch' mean?" [Laughs] That's kind of the conflict. I love that.

Breathless is definitely what got me into Godard. You can't really be influenced by Jean-Paul Belmondo though, because he's too cool -- so there's no point in me trying to be like him! Randle McMurphy, you can kind of wear his clothes. [Laughs] It's quite easy to find them. But if you wore Belmondo's clothes, you'd look like an idiot.

Rotten Tomatoes: But even he's trying to be someone else -- he's trying to be Bogart.

Rob: He's not really -- he's cooler than Bogart! [Pattinson imitates Belmondo's signature move, brushing his thumb over his lips.] That's like the coolest thing! Another film, Pierrot le Fou -- I did everything from those movies. These stupid, random things, like when he says, "Can I get two beers?" And she's like, "Why?" "I want to have one when I finish the other one." I was like, that's so cool! I have to do that all the time! There's this stupid thing from Arizona Dream, with Vincent Gallo and Johnny Depp, where Vincent Gallo does this thing, [in Gallo's American accent] "Two shots, two beers." So every time I buy drinks, I go "Two shots, two beers!" I love that film so much.

Corky Romano

Rob: Corky Romano. I love that film. Literally, that's one of the only films I've pissed my pants at. Like, I actually pissed my pants. The first time I was in L.A. I was watching it on TV. The scene where he's on coke...was literally the only thing that they advertised, it was like the only point of the whole movie! I love that character. I love how Chris Kattan just stripped his whole career in one movie. The only guy off Saturday Night Live who just messed it up! It's like, what happened? The only guy. That's why I think it's so great.

I also love the behind-the-scenes stuff on the DVD where none of the crew are laughing; the director's [hiding] and he's telling Chris Kattan, "Just do something funny, just make Chris Penn laugh," and none of the crew think it's funny at all. And you can tell Chris Kattan is just freaking out. Also, he had that vein, which I have [Pattinson points to his forehead] which pops out of his head. I can really relate to him.

ivan's xtc.

Rob: A film called ivan's xtc. It's a Danny Huston film. That's what I've been watching obsessively recently. It's amazing; Danny Huston should have gotten nominated for an Oscar for it. It's about an agent in Hollywood, and it's kind of a dumb movie before Huston comes in, and then literally is the best example of one performance elevating a movie. It was shot on digital video; it's all improvised. Just having him there, he's literally this -- I don't know, I can't even describe it. I've never seen a performance like it. He's flawless. And if you've ever met an agent, ever...

Rob is so intelligent. I can only imagine what goes on up in his head. I hope he continues to explore writing and maybe it'll be something he shares with us one day. :)

Juliette Binoche talks meeting Robert Pattinson for Cosmopolis

Juliette Binoche (Didi) plays Robert Pattinson's (Eric Packer) mistress in Cosmopolis. She recently spoke with La Provence (France) about meeting Rob.



Her translated mention:

For David Cronenberg’s new movie ?
J.B: Yes, it is called “Cosmopolis”. I play an art dealer who has an affair with Robert Pattinson. He, plays a billionaire who loses everything.

Robert Pattinson evolves in a sphere that seems far away from yours…
J.B: I don’t have a point of view about his career, I didn’t see the “Twilight” movies. We had dinner together on set. He is an incredible cinema buff who for several years saw two to three movies a day. He is a fan of “Les amants du Pont Neuf” (The Pont Neuf lovers). He was funny, you would have thought he was a little child.

I love love love when top-notch actors are impressed with Rob and how people always comment on his knowledge of film. I feel proud like, "Yep. He's awesome. Duh!"

Source: La Provence
Translation: Fatima
Via: Robstenation

Robert Pattinson + Glasses = Smart & Sexy (Translation Added)

Robert Pattinson & the glasses AGAIN.
This time with a translation of what was said thanks to RobPattzNews
Any excuse for me to post this video again ;-}




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