Dior Dior it’s a helluva town – oh wait it’s New York – that works too (even if we do know those pics were shot in LA).  DIOR: I thought I would put together a roundup of initial reactions for Intense City and yeah we all agree that it’s one hot advertisement. The video is now “officially” on Dior’s YouTube so go and show them some love. Dior has also officially unleashed Rob’s Dior Homme Intense campaign and aren’t we spoilt for choice as to which new pic is our fave. That polo neck (or as the US like to call them ‘turtleneck”) sweater is edging it’s way to be mine from the BTS pics. I swear how is it that Rob says he wasn’t a very good model, sometimes I forget that he’s actually a film star and not a professional model. We were also spoilt with a couple of photoshoot pics from the 2013 campaign. So dreamy and hot.  And we now have the promo poster in HQ. Thanks Dior. Plus a slightly different version thanks to Peter Lindbergh’s site. Now, let’s get into what’s happening in the world of Rob films. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: Brady Corbet is in the running for yet another award at the Göteborg Film Festival and we also find out who the Swedish distributor is – TriArt Films. Sweden is also releasing the film on Rob’s birthday – 13 May 2016. Still keeping my fingers crossed Australia gets it at either Sydney or Melbourne Film Festival. LIFE: Kiwis can now preorder their DVD|Bluray for release next week. As part of the Télérama Film Festival, Mornant will have 2 screenings of the film. Actually, Life will have quite a few screenings across France and I’ve posted ones that I’ve found. I updated my list of US cinemas currently screening in January plus added links to buy tickets. I also listed an Italian cinema screening the film next week. The Netherlands looks like it’s brought forward the DVD release date but is no longer releasing the film on bluray. Boo. LOST CITY OF Z: Included in yet another anticipated list. I’m so excited for this film. Indiewire also did another list of films that need be released this year that I tweeted, that mentions “The Lost City of Z” should find its way to festivals this year. Given its adventure-driven plot, Gray could have some crossover potential here like never before.” Excites. I also tweeted an article from The Tracking Board that mentions Lost City of Z is slated for release this year. QUEEN OF THE DESERT:  @QueenDesert2016 responded to a query of when the film is being released in the US with a March date estimate, guess we will just have to continue to be patient. GOOD TIME: Looks like filming has been pushed back to February – March, thought the early Jan date was a little strange – well for us here in Oz since nobody does any work really until this week. THE TRAP: MadRiver Pictures has come on board to co-produce Harmony’s film *skipsoffindelight* HIGH LIFE: I really love seeing Rob’s films listed in anticipated lists and equally seeing praise given to the directors he chooses. He’s building a great resume isn’t he. IN OTHER NEWS: Well here we are in week 2 of 2016 and it’s a beauty.  We have our first choice for 12 Months of Rob selected and Michelle has certainly made February as difficult as possible.  Remember Me is screening on television in Hungary. I need to revisit that film as I haven’t watched for some time.  And coincidentally we have some MQ pics from the photoshoot back in 2009.  There’s more I know there’s more. We were also spoilt with some black and white pics from Cannes during the Cosmopolis promo. Thanks Posh. Now I wonder what we will be spoilt with next week.  Until then …

LIFE

Release Dates, Screenings & Film Festivals:  New Zealand DVD | Mornant (France) | US | Gaeta (Italy) | Montceau (France) | France (Various) | Netherlands (DVD)

LOST CITY OF Z

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THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER

Brady Corbet Receives The TAP Revelation Award for Best Director at LEFFest

International Movie Reviews Updated *20 Nov ’15*

*NEW* The Childhood Of A Leader Clip Featuring Rob

Where have all the years gone.  First let us start off by thanking Jules for her amazing artwork that she does for us here at RPAU.  Thank you isn’t enough Jules because I know how much time and effort must be involved, but I’m sure all will agree that the end result is always beyond words.  I’d also like to thank Michelle without whom RPAU wouldn’t still be here and also Vertigo, Suze and Jules for putting up with my constant barrage of emails and what not and doing what they do here over the years. Sometimes I’m sure they laugh when they see them and sometimes I’m sure they just hit “delete” or they should lol.  Anyway, this started out as a little bit of fun, helping to promote Rob in Australia.  Michelle has been here from day 1, Vertigo has been commenting since then too, I happened along thanks to the How To Be premiere when Cilla, the original site owner, asked me to help out in about February 2009 and well – for the past 7 years Rob has kept us busy busy busy.  I thought today would be a good time to thank you all for being here and supporting Rob and reflect on what has been achieved thus far.

A few of you may recall that Robert Pattinson Australia originally started as a livejournal on 4 November 2008, it didn’t morph into a website until 26 January 2009.  Michelle and I took over the site in about May 2009 and decided that it would focus solely on Rob’s career.  It’s been an amazing experience – a decision that we haven’t regretted, a lot of hard work and equally a lot of fun.  We’ve had our ups and downs, but at the end of the day, this is a labour of love.  We’re here to promote Rob any way we can and to ensure that Rob’s fans are kept up to date with all his career news.  So in the words of Rob on stage at the State Theatre in 2011 “let’s ava look atchya”:

2008/2009

Bringing “How To Be” to fans for the only cinema screening in Australia on 28 March 2009. This was a monumental effort from RPAU’s original owner Cilla and the reason I became involved with RPAU.  It’s also how I met Michelle and Vertigo.  We had a great amount of help from Justin Kelly (Producer of HTB) and without him, it probably would not have been possible. I kept in contact with him over the years and last I heard he was doing something completely different to producing. I remember the cast (without Rob who was filming New Moon) did a personal intro for the screening – it’s a shame that was never uploaded to the site.

Also during that year, Alisah Arnah reached out to us as she wanted to set the record straight about her opinion of Rob that was misinterpreted from an interview given by Oliver Irving.

Rob is getting some great reviews for his portrayal of Dennis Stock, even if the movie at times isn’t.  But the good so far outweigh the bad, so I wonder if Rob really does read the reviews because if he’s reading the bad reviews it won’t be taking him very long to get through them.  LIFE:  Spain plans to unleash the film in November 2015 and as predicted the premiere will be held at Sitges Film Festival in October.  Individual tickets have now gone on sale.  Lots of other film festivals are doing special screenings of the film and I kind of feel for Anton as he seems to be promoting this film very much on his own.  Shame they couldn’t unleash it earlier this year when Rob may have had more time to help promote it.  Never mind I’d rather we get Lost City of Z than a few red carpet pics.  The thought of adding more DVDs to my Rob collection makes me happy.   I tweeted a link to articles where Luke Davies talks about Life with The Australian and Spook Magazine.  As I have mentioned previously, articles I tweet are linked on our relevant film page.  Don’t forget to check them out for all of Rob’s films.  I also tweeted that Constantin Films (Austria) have updated their website to reflect the impending release of Life next week.  Japan has created an official website, since the film will have a special screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, before it’s theatrical release in December/January.  Gaga Movies have a special tote bag available (limited numbers) for those purchasing advance tickets which have been on sale since yesterday.  A list of the relevant cinemas is included in the post.  I would love that tote as much as I love Japan’s enthusiasm for Rob’s films.  Wonder if Rob is able to attend at Tokyo to make up for missing Deauville, especially since he loves Tokyo.  Again, I find myself saying – an 8 hour flight is not too long at all.  Indonesia looks like they’re getting “Life” some time in October thanks to Feat Pictures response to my query on twitter.  Lots of interviews coming out from magazines although some of them I’m not posting as they are just rehashing other articles.   When you can almost recite the interview before you get to the end, then you know there’s something not right about it lol.   THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER:  Protagonist tweeted another new still (minus Rob) and I love that they have used one of Rob’s stills on their website.  Still excited for Brady what an incredible achievement for his first film.   Those new stills from Lol Crawley are great aren’t they – even though a little dark.  I noticed that he’s removed them from his FB page *oops*.   I hope distributors get behind this film.  THE LOST CITY OF Z:  I tweeted a link to an article in BelfastLive that talked about current filming and posting some set photos of the entire cast.  I don’t know I sat on the fence about posting it on the site knowing full well what Rob thinks about people who hang around the sets and take photos.  It’s a double edged sword because we all want to see him in character, but then I feel bad about doing something I know Rob dislikes.  So when the photo at the train station unleashed I weakened and posted because seeing Henry Costin was just too good to pass up.  Rob looks so dashing, but I won’t be posting any grainy photos of Rob on set sorry if that annoys anyone.  Hopefully we won’t see too many more because I like surprises at the cinema.   THE TRAP:  Not much to report here other than an observation – I noticed Idris Elba’s name has vanished from the cast list on IMDbPro.  Although as we know that could mean nothing since so did Rob for some time, but I did tweet a screencap earlier this week.  Let’s see how long before Idris makes a reappearance.  IN OTHER NEWS:  Jules and Michelle have been spoiling us with edits and flashback posts.  You know how I feel about Jules’ edits.  They never disappoint.  And how great were those Mark Peterson UHQ pics that Michelle posted.  That should be a standard size for all Rob pics.  Looking forward to seeing what next week brings.  I can feel something new in the pipeline or some additional information about one of Rob’s films – I know that sounds obvious, but I can just feel it.  Maybe it’s Dior. Until then …

LIFE

Release Dates & Distributors:  Spain | Sitges Film Festival | Japan (Theatrical) | Tokyo Intl FF | Thailand | Athens Film Festival | Hamburg Anton Corbijn to attend | Indonesia | UK Gala Screening + Anton Corbijn

International Movie Reviews Updated 19 September 2015

Gulf Films Removes 12 November 2015 Release Date for Lebanon, Oman & Kuwait

Print Interview with Berliner Morgenpost

 

Wow what a whirlwind of emotions this week.  Lots to talk about or maybe not ha!  I’ll get the elephant in the room out of the way quicksmart.  Rob no longer involved with Brimstone was something we weren’t expecting, but at the end of the day it is what it is and realistically we have had so many examples over the past 8 months of how movie making can turn on a dime.  So instead of dwelling on the negative, we’re going to look forward to the positives:  Queen of the Desert, LIFE and The Childhood of a Leader.   There will undoubtedly be promo tours for these films and promo Rob is always something to look forward to.  So back to normal programming - we had new release dates for Queen of the Desert, and it’s great to see preview screenings being held in August in both Germany and Greece.  The release dates are starting to come through a little more regularly now.   Although, I have to feel for the Italians since according to Ciak there is no planned release of the film for 2015 in Italy *insertsadface*.  Doesn’t mean Italy won’t have a screening, look at Venezuela they’re only just seeing Maps to the Stars in their theatres.  Better late than never I say.  Tuesday kicked off with us finally getting some incredibly great BTS and UHQ stills of Rob in LIFE.  I love love love the one of Rob in the darkroom.  I also love how sweet the one is where he’s showing his “son” the camera.  Rob has such great rapport with child actors.  For those who don’t have twitter, I tweeted an article that stated “Life premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and will likely be at TIFF this September.”  Fingers and toes crossed.  I’m still grumbling that neither Life nor QotD  were included at the Sydney Film Festival (nor at NZIFF).  Hope they give us a premiere instead *praying*.    Good to see some new theatrical posters starting to come through too – love the French take on it.  How about waking up on Saturday morning to the sweet sound of Rob’s voice and the raw audio from Breaking Dawn.  Nice little insight into how incredibly dull and tedious ADR really is – unless of course you’re on the other end of Rob’s voice then it’s like listening to angels sing.  LOL okay that’s a little cliched and over the top but you get the gist.  We took time out this week to look back and share some fabulous photos of Rob over the years.  We were also treated to some fabulous fabulous portraits from the LA promo for The Rover, the BTS pic  of Rob on the QotD set, that old modelling shot of Rob and the Berlin pics of Rob and David C.  They really shouldn’t keep such beauties hidden.  On that note – see you next week.  Looking forward to see what that will bring …

Mondaylicious

UHQ & BTS Stills of Robert Pattinson as Dennis Stock in LIFE

Queen of the Desert Distributors & Release Dates:  Latvia | Open Air Cinema Germany  | Ukraine | Greece, Cine Garden (Chios)

Maps to the Stars Release Dates:  Venezuela

 

Before I get into the thick of things with my little editorial there’s one burning question I want to find the answer to.  Where the hell is the footage of Rob and Guy jamming on The Rover set because there is no way that moment wasn’t filmed by someone.  Okay now that I’ve got that off my chest.  Let me just say HAPPY NEW YEAR.  Firstly, let me congratulate Jan B Breesmom for winning The Rover Soundtrack from our giveaway.  Love it when we’re given things to share with Rob fans.  We had a few little insights into Rob’s upcoming film roles.  Dede Gardner made me a little nervous about Lost City of Z – it’s starting to remind me of Unbound Captives with dates being pushed back etc, but at least with this one Rob won’t be pushed out due to age.  We found out a little bit more about Rob’s character in The Childhood of A Leader – a friend of the family huh.   Rob told us that he likes to make “high brow” films but watches low brow ones like Deuce Bigalow and Beavis & Butthead lol.  We shared our favourite moments of Rob during 2014 – loved everyones input in that, and I spent a little time putting together a vid for us to the tune of Uptown Funk.  Jules created our first banner for 2015 and included all of Rob’s amazing moments for 2014.  Let’s pray that we can recreate some of that in 2015.  We had a few stills of Rob as Edward – why weren’t these unleashed then.  My recollection is that we hardly had any solo Rob from Breaking Dawn.  Maps and The Rover are still being listed on people’s “best of” lists and it looks like German and UK fans will be getting the MttS DVD just slightly ahead of us Aussies.  I came across some older “tagged” photos and vids of Rob we hadn’t posted before.  Somehow quiet times seem to be getting busier posting wise as they give us time to search for little treasures.  Let’s see what next week unleashes.  I have a feeling we might get some movie news … just putting it out there.  Note:  Rhonda let us know that Jules’ calendar was up on eBay for sale for $59.99.  Please know that we would never endorse anyone taking Jules’ creations and selling them to Rob’s fans.  The calendar is available to download for free.  Although my personal photo from inside the State Theatre has been has withdrawn, the calendar is still live.  Shameful.  Just know the reason we don’t advertise on or ask anyone for money to run this site is because it’s our choice to do it and we would NEVER use Rob to make any form of financial profit.

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Guy Pearce Mentions Jamming with Robert Pattinson on The Rover Set

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.@TheFilmStage talks to Dede Gardner Producer of Lost City of Z “Filming hopefully this summer” *Updated*