Rob I LOVE that you want to do meaningful films - bye bye Twi hello Oscars! Thanks to our wonderful friend Suze at our elite affie PattinsonStateofMind for the tip.
Jul
06
2010
Jul
05
2010
Thought this afternoon I would share just a few of my beautiful faves in black & white - some old & some new. Enjoy everyone, I know how much you all love the B&W’s as do I. Thanks to our good friends & elite affie Robert Pattinson Source for the beautiful hoodie pic.
Jul
04
2010
Well I finally received my Remember Me DVD on Friday and couldn’t wait to listen to the commentary - it doesn’t disappoint and I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t received their DVD yet. But this post isn’t about me - it’s about Entertainment Focus voting Remember Me their no. 1 choice of films for the first 6 months of 2010. God I just can’t even begin to tell you how grateful and excited I am that someone has the guts to post that this film is by far the best thing to come out of Hollywood in a long time:
“Without further ado, here are the Top 10 films of 2010 so far…
blah blah blah (ok that’s my insert but you can read their full list by clicking on highlighted link above)
No 1
Remember Me”
Thanks Ephie for the tip - it’s made my day!
Jul
01
2010
We’ve had a few emails this week asking us when Remember Me is going to be available on DVD here in Australia, so I thought I would do a reminder post for those who missed our post first time around. The release date is 14 July 2010 & here is Sanity’s pre-order link for those who haven’t done so as yet. My copy from the US hasn’t arrived as yet, but am crossing my fingers it arrives tomorrow *please, please* I have of course pre-ordered my copy from here in Australia too, but am just too impatient to wait those extra days - totally understandable as you will all agree. Cannot wait to own my copy of this brilliant film. You all know how much I adore Rob as Tyler, as do you all. For those who aren’t aware, Rob’s commentary is on the DVD - woo hoo. I just absolutely cannot wait to listen - will be brilliant! 13 days to go everyone!
Jun
30
2010
You might remember last year I did a post looking back over the first 6 months of 2009 and then again the entire 12 months of 2009 and what Rob had accomplished. I thought it would be good for us to take a look at what Rob has achieved in the first 6 months of 2010 - he is always so so busy. Thanks to QuantummFizzx for that amazing pic from the LA Twi Conference, our friends and elite affies Robert Pattinson Source for the tagged pics, Aeren from our affie RobsessedSpain for the tip about rpattzdaily’s screenshot for Haiti (bearded Rob *sigh*) and of course Michelle for the amazing .gifs!
Here is a great little interview from Allen Coulter which brings insight into his first impressions and part of the process in agreeing to take Rob on for Remember Me. I’ve placed the main flesh of the article in this post so those who have not seen the movie can AVOID clicking on the link provided [MAJOR spoiler in main article that could ruin the potency of the entire film]. Love your work Allen.
“Coulter, a New Yorker, is on the phone explaining how Pattinson, already cast in the first Twilight, was eager to find an antidote — something radically different — even before its release. Executives at Summit Entertainment, producers of Twilight, were looking to help out.
“Honestly,” Coulter recalls of an early luncheon meeting with Pattinson, “he was not known, Twilight had not been released and there was no way to see it. We just knew he was interested. Sitting in front of us was a guy who was scruffy, intense, charming, unpretentious.”
Pattinson was freshly returned from Mexico and astonished because he had been besieged “by 50 girls at the airport,” future Twi-hards who knew him from pre-release publicity. “Little did he know that this was not even the tip of the tip of the iceberg,” Coulter says, laughing. “Nor did we.”
After lunch, Coulter told producer Nicholas Osborne: “I don’t know why but I have the instinct that this guy could do it.” It would also clinch the production deal because Summit would commit to the $16 million budget. “Clearly,” Coulter says now, “that’s not lost on a director. That certainly gets your attention. But, if we didn’t think he was right, we would have said no.”
The “yes” came, Coulter recalls, “because he seemed to understand the role. He had the kind of scruffy attractiveness we needed and a hidden intensity. He was kind of secretive in a way that I thought was kind of interesting, given who his character is and how he’s conflicted about his father. So we said: ‘Let’s just take a flier!’
“It was after that I saw Twilight and had to admit that, if I had seen it before, just because it is so radically different, I might have hesitated.”
The Twilight films, Coulter says, are like silent movies and Pattinson is like 1920s star Rudolf Valentino. Pattinson was also about to go viral. “It might have given me pause because someone that famous brings a certain amount of baggage.”
One problem now might be typecasting. “There will be people who cannot accept that this young man is doing something different from Twilight,” Coulter says. “Or they may have an attitude about Twilight and about his fame, about his face being on the cover of magazines, and that may influence how they see the movie.
“That is something that, in my opinion, the movie will outlive and, at that point, people will simply see it as a young man in a role. And, in my opinion, I think he is perfect for the role.”
Remember Me, which co-stars Robert Pattinson and Emile de Ravin along with a rogues gallery of great character actors, is a romantic tragedy — not a romantic comedy. That already makes it different from most Hollywood movies, especially with its melancholic mood.
“I didn’t think of it as daring,” says American director Allen Coulter. “But it’s not a mood that most Americans necessarily sign up for. I just thought it was true to the story.”
Indeed, Americans did not sign up. Remember Me earned $55 million worldwide, just $19 million of that in North America despite the star power of Twilight star Pattinson (he was cast before Twilight was released and became famous during the Remember Me shoot). Remember Me, like other challenging films that look at youth romance in an intelligent way, is now looking for its audience on DVD.
Click here to read the rest of the article. You’ve been warned re spoilers.
Jun
29
2010
Oh God he’s too cute at the GoF premiere - how time has flown, it feels like yesterday, and yet he is still as charming as ever. Thanks PopSugar for this wonderful vid - it’s just perfect!
Jun
25
2010
How gorgeous are these 35 (yep 35!) new Remember Me stills. Talk about the best thing to wake up to this morning & it’s only the beginning of the gorgeous pics that are to come today. I just absolutely adore Rob as Tyler & this brilliant movie & cannot wait to receive my copy. Please arrive soon - please. Thanks so much to our wonderful friend & fellow RPAU commenter Aeren at our affiliate RobsessedSpain for these brilliant pics. They are seriously just too too gorgeous for words.
Jun
23
2010
Well we all know that Remember Me was released on DVD in the US yesterday (oh how excited was I when I got the Amazon notification that it had been dispatched “SQUEEEEEE*), but I figured I needed to give Emma from Fanbolt some kudos because she actually did watch and understand this film. This review is exactly what should have been said when the move was released - okay it was said by a few, but most I’m pretty sure just never got it - especially when they compared it to that dribble of a movie starring Rob’s co-presenter at the Oscars last year. Plus any excuse to post another pic of Rob - right. Just click on the hyperlink to read the review. And Rob - you have every reason to smile!
Jun
11
2010
Hell yeah. Ok so I’ve regained my composure and am focussing on what is important. I was told today that the latest figures for Remember Me are USD57.5m worldwide - woot woot. Of that figure, USD38.4m can be attributed to us - well you know I mean the rest of the world outside of the US - which is bloody fantastic. I’d love to tell you who my source was, but then I might have to kill you all. Just know it’s current and correct and he would know.
