A few weeks ago I saw an article by Yareah Magazine about Rob being a philanthropist.  And I giggled to myself about this:

“And in May 2014, he donated his bike for an Auction to Benefit the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), who provide primary healthcare services to the people living in the outback.”

Remember when we posted about Rob donating his Trek bike to the @RoyalFlyingDoc  to help raise money?  I never told anyone that I had an interesting email from a really good friend of mine when she read about it that said something along the lines of “I better get onto that”.  I, of course, stupidly thought she was kidding.  Anyway, I shouldn’t have been surprised that when we posted that Rob’s bike helped raise $7,600 I then got an email that said “you know that was me right”.  Bwah!  Of course she bought the bike.  I don’t know why I even doubted that she wouldn’t attempt to get it.  I’ve been waiting patiently for the bike to be reassembled and, let’s call her Rob’s Benefactor since she would like to retain her anonymity, to send me the pics which I finally have.  “Rob’s Benefactor” also put this little interview together for us, so I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did:

RPAU’s Interview with Rob’s Bike

RPAU: Hey, it’s great to see you again.

Rob’s Bike (RB) : The pleasure is all mine. Thanks for taking an interest in me.

RPAU: As you’re no doubt aware, Rob has a few fans out there.  We know they’d be interested in a quick update from His Bike. So, how have you been?

RB: I’ve been great. I miss Rob, of course. It’s been nearly two years since we parted company, but not a day goes by when I don’t think about him and all the fun we had together.

RPAU: We can imagine.

RB: Luckily for Rob, my lips are sealed. I think that’s what he loved most about me. I was a very quiet companion, so he could get lost in his thoughts when he was with me.

There’s been chatter that Tim Roth is no longer involved with The Childhood of A Leader. If you remember, we posted that Protagonist included Tim Roth in the cast back in August 2014.   But below is a screenshot of Protagonist’s current cast list.

I think it’s odd that there’s been no official mention that he’s no longer involved.  Screen Daily has included TCoaL in its Screenbase Hot Projects and I noted the absence of Tim Roth’s name:

“Brady Corbet’s The Childhood Of A Leader

This directorial feature debut is currently shooting in Hungary. Berenice Bejo, Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham, Yolande Moreau and Sophie Curtis star. The film charts the birth of a terrifying ego during the rise of fascism in the early 20^th century.

Producers are Chris Coen, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Helena Danielsson and Istvan Major. Ron Curtis, Brian Young, Aaron L. Gilbert, Michael Sherman, Matthew Perniciaro and Patrick Murray executive produce, with Genevieve Lemal co-producing.”

I’m still holding out hope that he’s in the film because he’s on my personal list of underrated and loved actors.  And before someone reminds me, I’m aware that Roth’s currently filming Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, but it’s not the first time an actor has filmed 2 movies concurrently.  DeNiro is reportedly working on 2 films at the moment and as Vertigo and Michelle reminded me, Giamatti was working on Cosmopolis and Rock of Ages.  I guess we should know soon enough though.

Updated 2 March 2015:

Guess there’s no room for any doubt now that Tim Roth’s name has been removed from the cast list and indeed replaced by Liam Cunningham on IMDbPro:

We are all familiar with Cannes, Berlin, TIFF, Sundance and even the Sydney Film Festival to name a few, but there are a tonne more smaller film festivals worldwide that don’t always get recognition.  We posted about the Santa Barbara Film Festival here but we didn’t know what days MttS was screening.  We can now confirm that it has 3 screenings during that festival.  I’ve added a list of festivals that Maps screened at during 2014 too just to give an idea of which countries have been given a limited release.  I’ll update this post if more festival come to light in 2015 since a lot of the festivals scheduled around late Feb/early March haven’t finalised their schedules yet.  But here’s 2 that are definitely a list of screening for Maps to the Stars in 2015 (information from IMDbPro unless otherwise stated):

Belgrade Film Festival:  27 February 2015 – Sava Centre at 10.00 pm | 28 February 2015 Youth at 10.30 pm | 1 March 2015 Fontana at 9.00 pm

Kingston Canadian Film Festival: 28 February 2015 at 7.00 pm and 1 March 2015 at 1.00 pm

Kamloops Film Festival (British Columbia, Canada) – 9 March 2015.  Ticket information here

You know I used to do this all the time with Rob’s films, but I realised with The Rover and I think maybe talking to David that box office isn’t really a reflection of anything.  Sure Hollywood loves movies that make money, but at the end of the day, I love movies that I love and as a cinema goer I don’t really care if a film makes $3,000 or $300 million.  And there are actors and directors out there who agree with me.  Point of fact is that in reality I actually steer away from the $300 million movies because they often never provide me with quality storytelling or acting.  And we know Rob chooses the movies he wants to make and I understand that some want Rob in more mainstream roles so they can see him at their local cinemas who often bypass his latest roles, but I just want to see him in whatever he chooses to make because imagine if Rob was the actor that did just do mainstream – we may never have seen his portrayal as Rey in The Rover, instead we’d be watching him in crap films like Neighbors|Bad Neighbours (and yes I saw it only because I was a captive audience on a flight to LA last September and I endured it during the 14 hour flight).  Food for thought.

Anyway I know there are loads of you that are interested in figures so here it goes:

Indiewire:

“Not doing quite so well (though it was released day-and-date on VOD) was “Maps To The Stars,” which Focus Features sent out to 66 theaters after an Oscar qualifying release in late 2014 (which did result in a Golden Globe nomination for Julianne Moore, but not much else). The result was an underwhelming $139,000 for a $2,106 per-theater-average.”

Deadline:

“It opened in 66 theaters grossing $139K for a tepid $2,106 per-theater average, decidedly lower than Cronenberg’s last film, Cosmopolis. Entertainment One bowed that film, which also featured Pattinson, in three theaters in 2012. It had a decent opening gross of $70,339 and $23,446 PTA before clumping to a $763,556 domestic cume.

Before that, Cronenberg’s films typically had solid debuts and decent to good grosses. Sony Classics opened A Dangerous Method in 2011, grossing nearly $168K ($41,988 average). It went on to cume more than $5.7M. Eastern Promises opened in 2007 to a $547K weekend gross and $36,472 PTA before accumulating $17.26M. The 2005 drama A History Of Violence grossed nearly $516K its opening weekend for a $36,856 PTA and cumed $31.5M.”

I think I love serious Rob as much as smiling Rob

HOLY FREAKIN’ MOLY.  Give a woman some warning will you.  I’m sure I’m not alone here when I say I’m still trying to compose myself after Mark Seliger/Vanity Fair unleashed their portrait of Rob.  WOW.  Saying that this week has been full of surprises is an understatement.  Being a Rob fan is pretty damn spectacular at the best of times, but when Rob just turns up to events under the radar I just want to hug him and everyone.  That smile of Rob’s at the Brit Awards – the wattage from it alone could be used as solar power.  I know a lot of us feel this way, seeing Rob smile like that never fails to bring a smile to our faces.  I’m sure Rob’s now ticked “attend Brit Awards” off his bucket list.  Unless of course the bucket list has a notation next to it saying “win award at the Brit Awards for original music”.  Dream big Rob I know it works for me.  As for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, I had a hunch that we would see him at an after party with Tom and Sienna.  Given that Sienna costarred in the Oscar nominated films Foxcatcher & American Sniper, there was no way she wasn’t going to be at the Oscars.  Sometimes I’m so in tune with Rob it’s not funny.  As Cindy said “My Rob senses were tingling”.  And how lethal did Rob look that night.  *sigh*  Lethal of course also being an understatement now that we’ve seen that portrait.   Yep.   How Jules remained focused doing ANY edits of Rob looking like that I have no idea.  I have to say though, I’m not sure why some tabloids were calling Rob the third wheel – if anyone was a third wheel it was Sienna *TomStu lives*.  And seeing as my Rob senses were tingling it should come as no surprise then that I obviously had Rob and Sienna on the brain because earlier that day I posted that Lost City of Z has a US distributor which some of you didn’t know, so I’m glad I decided to update you on that.  It shouldn’t surprise us that it’s Paramount Pictures since they are also producing the film alongside Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.  Thank you Mr Pitt.  And yes Aussies, Studio Canal most definitely will distribute this film in Australia.  I’ve already had confirmation of that from them last year.  And because we brought up Lost City of Z we got that pic of Rob and Benedict.  Ha!  It’s not as good as my pic with Benedict lol.  The Childhood of A Leader looks like it’s finishing filming this week because Mona posted a pic to her instagram saying “last week”.  Or did she mean that that pic was from last week – cryptic Mona very very cryptic.  And we still don’t know for sure about Tim Roth. [Update:  TCoaL filming is in fact done – instagram] Danielle Levitt posted a gorgeous pic of Rob that is now one of my all time favourite pics of him, of course, I’ve added that VF portrait to that list.  What?   I can’t help mentioning it every opportunity it’s FREAKIN GLORIOUS.  I wonder though how many other wonderful photos Danielle has up her sleeve waiting to slay us with.  I really love Rob’s playfulness, it’s one of his endearing qualities.  Maps to the Stars was unleashed in Brazil, Belgrade and the US.  Thanks to the ladies at Rob’s IMDb Board I could include cinema details for the US.  That’s a lot of work for those that have never undertaken putting a list like that together.   I also updated the reviews which unsurprisingly (or surprisingly given the minute role Rob has) give him loads more thumbs up than down (I now have an image of Joaquin Phoenix from Gladiator in my head, but clearly under utilised in my post much like Rob in Maps).  On the Brimstone front, Martin Koolhoven tweeted that he was in LA next week doing screen tests for the movie.   Well I guess we will have to wait and see if Rob pops up anywhere unexpectedly next week or whether Dior will slowly drip feed us some photos … either way we’re ready.  PS.  I’m posting this remotely since I’m currently watching Manson perform at Soundwave.  Not sure why I feel the need to run up to him and pour buckets of freezing ice filled water all over him *giggles*.

Robert Pattinson Lost City of Z International Release Dates | Distributors

Robert Pattinson is Mancrush Monday (aka Academy Awards Rob 2009)

Loads MQ Pics of Robert Pattinson at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (22 February 2015)

HQ Pics of Robert Pattinson at Vanity Fair Oscar Party (22nd February 2015)

We all know that nothing has been confirmed about the release date for LIFE and that it is still apparently in “post production”.  FilmNation has it listed under it’s “Coming Soon” tab and we posted here that the cinematographer alluded to a trailer “coming soon”.   I’ve speculated that it may well be released the week of the 60th anniversary of James Dean’s death which was 30 September 1955.  Time will tell if makes it to Cannes or any other film festival, We now know it’s going to have it’s World Premiere at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February, but as for the rest of us, according to IMDBPro (unless otherwise stated) here are the few release dates available.  Again, these are obviously subject to change and we will keep you updated.  For ease too, I will post a link for this post on our “LIFE” page under the “Films” tab.

• World Premiere – TBA February 2015 – Berlin International Film Festival
• United Kingdom 25 September 2015
• Germany (Distributor:  Square One Entertainment) 1 October 2015 (now also on IMDbPro) (according to spielfilm.de and according to zelluloid.de the premiere is 25 September 2014)
• Sweden 20 November 2015
• Ireland 25 September 2015 (according to Scannain upcoming Irish cinema release dates)
• France (Distributor:  ARP Selection) 30 September 2015 (according to Allocine via PAW)
• Spain (Distributor:  Vertigo Films) no date specified as yet
• Japan (Distributor:  Gaga Films) no date specified as yet
• Australia (Distributor:  Transmission Films (Note our contact at Transmission will notify us as soon as a release date has been locked in.  At this stage not expecting until later half of 2015.)
• Turkey (Distributor:  Pinema) no date specified as yet