Robert Pattinson's 'The Rover' UK Release Date Changed To 15th August

Robert Pattinson's 'The Rover' UK Release Date Changed To 15th August

So it looks like the release date for The Rover in the UK has been changed from 22nd August to 15th August according to the official TheRoverUK Facebook Pag.
We will keep you updated if there are anymore changes.

Robert Pattinson's 'Life' & 'Queen Of The Desert' Are HOT, HOT, HOT In Cannes

Robert Pattinson's 'Life' & 'Queen Of The Desert' Are HOT, HOT, HOT In Cannes



Robert Pattinson's Life & Queen of the Desert are on a list of hot films that have created the most buzz among buyers in the Cannes film market according to Deadline. Are we surprised?



From Deadline:

QUEEN OF THE DESERT – Director, Writer: Werner Herzog, Cast: James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis. Kidman plays Gertrude Bell, the Lawrence of Arabia of female diplomats and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. Sales: Sierra Affinity, CAA, Cassian Elwes.

LIFE – Director: Anton Corbijn. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley, Joel Edgerton. A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean. Sales: CAA / WME / FilmNation. Based on 15 minutes of footage, this one’s in play and is gonna sell.

Now what I want to know is what I have to do to see that 15mins of Life footage!

The Central Performances From Guy & Rob Are Really Extraordinary" ~ David Michod

The Central Performances From Guy & Rob Are Really Extraordinary" ~ David Michod

David Michod talks about The Rover, Guy & Rob's extraordinary performances & More in an interview with SBS Film Australia

Every filmmaker dreams of getting a film into Cannes. Why do you think The Rover did?

Hopefully, it feels like a film they haven't seen before – it's tense and unusual – and because the central performances from Guy and Rob are really extraordinary.

You have said that the film is "not a post-apocalyptic film”, that “this is an Australia that has broken down into a kind of resource-rich Third World country." Can you expand on that?

I didn't want the world of the movie to feel like we'd been reduced to psychotic apes because of a single cataclysmic event. Rather, I wanted it to feel like the entirely plausible and frighteningly possible result of the world we live in today: economic and environmental collapse, as a product of rampant greed and exploitation, reduce Australia to a dangerous resource-rich third world country. Infrastructure, products, and an economy of sorts still exist – they're just broken, fragile and the world of the movie as a consequence is dangerous and unpredictable.

For the many people who know and love Animal Kingdom, what would you say to them about how the film is most different from or influenced by or still shows the David Michôd touch.

I think it will feel like it was made by the same guy who made Animal Kingdom. The Rover is much leaner in narrative and more epic in landscape but, like Animal Kingdom, it's still about the sadness and menace of people trying to make sense of a world that doesn't make any sense.

Read the full Interview over at sbs.com
via TheRoverFilm.com

NEW: David Cronenberg mentions Robert Pattinson, Maps To The Stars and being very proud and happy with Cosmopolis

NEW: David Cronenberg mentions Robert Pattinson, Maps To The Stars and being very proud and happy with Cosmopolis

We know Rob has hopped on a jet and is on his way to Cannes! The Hollywood Reporter listed Rob and the rest of the Maps To The Stars cast and crew in attendance at a festival party happening May 16th so we'll be keeping an eye out for the King of Cannes at that function and more.

David Cronenberg talked to The Hollywood Reporter and mentioned a conversation he had with Rob during Cosmopolis filming. The interview is a good read and I can't wait to see these two working the Cannes circuit together again.
 

Excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter:

You made Maps for a little more than $13 million. What is your approach to film financing?
Money can be neutral, and as long as the source of the money doesn’t involve giving up creative freedom, I don’t care where it comes from. In fact, I rather like that independent films are put together like Frankenstein: You get pieces from all over the world, and you stitch them together and hope it ends up being a living organism. That’s the financing. But creatively — obviously that’s one of the reasons you make independent films, for creative freedom. You don’t have studio interference. When I was making [2012’s] Cosmopolis, [Robert] Pattinson said to me, “I’ve never seen this before.” I said, “You’ve never seen what?” He said, “You just make all the decisions right here on the spot.” I said, “Yeah.” I mean, you don’t actually have to wait to get memos from the studio. He said he’d never been in a situation where the director did what he wanted, without consultation. I said: “You know, it’s just us making this movie. There’s no one else — there’s no Big Brother.”

David mentions Cosmopolis later in the interview and talks about how he's very proud of the film.

Older directors often lose their creative edge as their careers progress. At 71, you don’t seem to have that problem. Why?
It’s a matter of creative force and edge. Cosmopolis, which was not a successful film in terms of box office, for me was a really successful film in terms of pushing the envelope of filmmaking. So I’m really very proud and happy with that film. That’s the thing: I’ve never lost sight of why I’m making films. You can lose sight of it. When you get older, for me, you can even get choosier. If a film isn’t really exciting, if it’s just ordinary, there’s no way I’ll do it. I don’t need the money. Not that I’m rich, but I have enough to live on, and I don’t need to do a movie for money — and I don’t need to do a movie just to be doing a movie. It has to be something that really pushes my buttons, and Maps to the Stars did that. It took 10 years to get it made. The same was true of A Dangerous Method, and Crash as well. The more difficult, interesting films take 10 years to get made. Eventually I’m going to run out of time, but it takes a project like that to get me interested. So I’m not likely to make a boring film. 

David Cronenberg making a boring film — that would generate some scandal.That would be the bad kind of scandal, absolutely.

Click HERE to read the full interview

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson is heading to Cannes! We repeat. Robert Pattinson is heading to Cannes!!!

NEW PICS: Robert Pattinson is heading to Cannes! We repeat. Robert Pattinson is heading to Cannes!!!

UPDATE: Tweets from the source are awesome! "He was super sweet. :) Wished him luck at Cannes and got a big smile and a thank you. #Swoon it was amazing... not ONE pap!! I was so happy for him!" Thanks RClarke423!

The King of Cannes is coming! The King of Cannes is coming!



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NEW: Robert Pattinson in a GREAT BTS pic with David Michôd and Guy Pearce in The Rover

NEW: Robert Pattinson in a GREAT BTS pic with David Michôd and Guy Pearce in The Rover

GAH. I freakin love this. So much goodness to come from these guys.



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"The Rough Hardness Of Guy Pearce Goes Perfectly With The Lost Innocence Brought Out By Robert Pattinson"

REVIEW of The Rover ~ "The Rough Hardness Of Guy Pearce Goes Perfectly With The Lost Innocence Brought Out By Robert Pattinson" 

We already saw the review for Maps To The Stars from Studio CineLive.
Now here's their review of The Rover



Translation:

A road movie with ironic darkness.

David Michôd likes contrasts. Discovered with 'Animal Kingdom', a psychological thriller, almost behind closed doors, visually dark, we find him three years later with a post apocalyptic western located in the Australian outback, overwhelmed by the sun. But this light is misleading. 'The Rover' works in the same tantalizing way as his first feature film. (... Synopsis ...) 

Accompanied by an anxiogenic and intriguing soundtrack, this road movie is terribly ironic especially for his darkness. Subtly blowing hot and cold, Michôd manages to create empathetic conditions toward the selfish and monstrous central character in the literal sense. Until a disconcerting final scene, but finalizing the work of a this master of cynicism, so assured that it becomes fascinating. In the main roles, the rough hardness of Guy Pearce goes perfectly with lost innocence brought out by Robert Pattinson. Any resemblance to any existing characters and economic situations ... or about to be are obviously anything but accidental.

Thanks to PattinsonAW for the translation

*NEW* UHQ Still Of Robert Pattinson As Rey In 'The Rover'

*NEW* UHQ Still Of Robert Pattinson As Rey In 'The Rover'

That face, those eyes.



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FIRST 'Maps To The Stars' REVIEW: Robert Pattinson Shows He's More Than A Pretty Face

The first review for Maps To The Stars appeared in Studio Cinelive Magazine and makes me even more excited to see this movie!
Check out the translation below the scan.



Translation

Forget the gloomy or easy-peasy Cosmopolis and A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg is back to his domain of preference: rough, trashy with crazy characters and a hypnotizing atmosphere. Maps To The Stars is like a reborn for his filmography. Is it because for the first time he endorses the pamphlet's codes in this dark and incandscent representation of Hollywood where the false pretences are set as a moral code.

A family of nutcases, a star's comeback, a young roquet, a pyromaniac schizo-poet or a young limousine drive with a predatory smile who fucks in the backseat: Cronenberg feasts on these crazy characters and this culture of appearances in a very passionate movie. Maps To The Stars is raw and hypnotic, between reality and fantasy, dreams and nightmares. Until an icy and violent ending pursued with surprising events.

Mia reveals her "poisonous flower" side, Robert Pattinson shows he's more than a pretty face and Julianne's through the roof with what will become THE performance of a career which is already brilliant. Just like Cronenberg who renews with this twisted , distinguished and intelligent cinema.

Thanks to MTTSFrance for the scan
 Thanks to Sunny for doing the translation

"Robert Pattinson Is A Fantastic Actor With Phenomenal Range" ~ Tom Ue (World Film Locations Author)

Back in February we told you about a publication called 'World Film Locations Toronto' By Tom Ue which featured none other than Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer on the cover.



Now, Tom has been interviewed by tribute.ca and was asked how he chose Rob and Cosmopolis to feature on the cover. Here's what he had to say (*whispers* I think you're gonna like it)

How did you choose Robert Pattinson/Cosmopolis for the cover?

Early in the production process, we knew we wanted to showcase David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis both because it is a great Cronenberg film and because it emblemizes some of the key themes about identity and representation that the book explores. Robert Pattinson’s links to Canadian cinema and Toronto as a city are further realized through his starring in Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars (2014) and Anton Corbijn’s Life (2015). He is a fantastic actor with phenomenal range.

Yes we agree with you 100% Tom. He IS a fantastic actor with phenomenal range! 

You can read the rest of Tom's interview over HERE