Now I know Cilla is going to be happy to hear this.  Apple (the company, not Chris & Gywnnie’s daughter) has the “swim” scene from Little Ashes available for download through iTunes.  It’s available for your iPod and also in HD480, HD720p and HD1080p and the best thing about it is it’s FREE!  Click here to download.  For some reason, our site wouldn’t let me upload my version (because I was quick to download to make sure it was available here), so thanks to YouTube user 1Loony8 – here’s a HD reminder.

On top of Rob winning the ’Best Actor Award’ at the First Glance Film Festival, held in Hollywood, California, How To Be was also named ‘The Best of The Fest’ taking home the ‘Audience Award‘ & Oliver Irving took out the award for ‘Best Director’

This is such fantastic news for the film. Congratulations once again to Rob, whose performance as Art was absolutely brilliant & also to Oliver for writing & directing such a wonderful film. All these awards are so well deserved as I am sure you all agree.

Only 9 days to go until the UK DVD release (as you can tell I am not counting down or anything lol)

Thanks to Tracy at the How To Be Promotional Blitz for this great news.

According to Lorena Blas of USA TODAY Rob has hit No. 1 on their Celebrity Heat Index.   This is the first time Rob’s hit the front of the pack (and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing given it relates to media exposure including gossip mags etc). 

I love her opening line “Robert Pattinson is hotter than Brad Pitt this week”.  Lorena  just a word of advice, in our world Rob outdoes Brad every week.  The article goes on to say:

“After a steady rise, the 22-year-old Twilight star has hit No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Celebrity Heat Index, which measures media exposure. Pattinson is only half of the centerpiece cover image on the current issue of OK! and made No. 1 only on PopSugar.com’s list of top stories, but he makes enough appearances in other outlets (TV, online and print) to put him ahead of the pack for the first time.

Pattinson was No. 3 on the index for April, and USA TODAY noted that his star was on the rise as photos from the set of the Twilight sequel, New Moon, began circulating.

And if paparazzi shots weren’t enough, Entertainment Tonight aired official behind-the-scenes video from the set on TV and online.

Tabloids have remained fixated on Pattinson’s relationships with co-stars and possible romantic interests.”

Hmmm interesting that she bundles Entertainment Tonight with the paparazz (Rob I hope this photo is you telling the media “thanks but um you can stop now – I don’t really need that kind of help”).  If you are curious to know who else is on the list click here

Here’s what Roger Ebert (from Chicago Sun Times) had to say about Little Ashes:

Little Ashes” is absorbing but not compelling. Most of its action is inward. The more we know about the three men the better. Although the eyeball-slicing is shown in the film, many audiences may have no idea what it is doing there. Perhaps Dali’s gradual slinking away from his ideals, his early embrace of celebrity, his preference for self-publicity over actual achievement, makes better sense when we begin with his shyness and naivete; is he indeed entirely aware that his hair and dress are those of a girl, or has he been coddled in this way by a strict, protective mother who is hostile to male sexuality?

Whatever the case, two things stand out: He has the courage to present himself in quasi-drag, and the other students at the Students’ Residence, inspired by the fever in the air, accept him as “making a statement” he might not have been fully aware of.

Click here to read the whole review.

And here’s another review, from E!Online:

Vampiric hottie Robert Pattinson trades bloodlust for boylust, playing bi-curious surrealist Salvador Dali, who has a romance with revolutionary author García Lorca. Sounds smokin’, right? It should’ve been. But soggy plotting and Pattinson’s tepid turn keep Ashes from catching fire.

A drably scripted indie with Merchant-Ivory aspirations (see its gay-themed Maurice instead), scattered Ashes can’t rise above the tortured-artist and tortured-closet-case clichés, and despite all its big themes and chatter about art and religion and revolution and death, ends up saying very little.

Click here to read the entire review.

As you all know, Little Ashes will be officially released in the US on the 8th of May and reviews of the movie are starting to emerge.

Here’s a snippet from the  Entertainment Weekly review:

Little Ashes tells the tale, largely speculative, of Dali’s student romance with the budding leftist poet Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran), and the movie has the dubious distinction of using their moony homoerotic love affair didactically, as a way to trash Dali the artist. The relationship, which climaxes with a midnight swim that looks like an outtake from an 
 Esther Williams water ballet, is supposed to express the “real” Dali. Whereas the raging, antibourgeois, satirically mad surrealist he becomes is treated as a fraud — a cover-up 
 for his tender self. Even if you buy that (and I didn’t — I love Dali’s visionary vulgarity too much), Pattinson and Beltran are stuck with a rudderless script, and they make a soft, dull pair. I wish the film had more of Matthew McNulty’s firebrand performance 
 as Luis Buñuel, whose collaboration with Dali on the revolutionary short film Un Chien Andalou comes off here as an arty caprice that interrupted the cause of true love. I can’t imagine what Dali or Buñuel would have made of such bourgeois sentimentality. C–

C-??? Well, the only thing I agree about this article is how the reviewer wishes that there’s more of Matthew McNulty on this film.

Please click here to read the full article.

David Slade, who’s been chosen as the director of Eclipse (click here for a link to Summit Entertainment’s website), has written an official email for the Twilight fans to address their concerns over some negative comments he made in regards to Twilight.

Here’s the email which he sent to Twilight Lexicon (in his own words and unedited):

Dear Laura and Lori

I would be grateful if you could distribute this statement to the fans of Twilight:I would like to address some statements that I made regarding Twilight.

When I made these comments, I had neither seen the film nor read the books. I was promoting a comedy short film that I had made for Xbox and every pop culture subject was seen as a possible comedy target. I was being silly and none of the statements were from the heart.

Of course, I have since seen the movie and read the books and was quickly consumed with the rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created.

I would like to reassure everyone involved that I am invested in making the best film that I am humanly capable of, and that I am acutely aware of the power of the original books we serve.

Please be rest assured this statement is absolutely from the heart.

yours sincerely

DAVID SLADE”

I hope he means what he said because Eclipse is such a good book. I love the love triangle between Edward, Bella & Jacob  and the fighting scene in the end is going to be really good (if it’s done well…). Anyway, we just have to wait and see.

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