Birthday boy Robert Pattinson 26 on Saturday, May 13, 2012 and like all of us met some friends at a restaurant to mark the occasion. In this case the friends were Hugh Jackman and Sienna Miller and the restaurant Claridges in London. Sound like your birthday bash?

But wait! Where is Kristen Stewart? Relax Twihards. The two lovebirds spent the weekend together in the countryside before he ventured out to his star-studded dinner.

Enjoy the pics and Happy Birthday to Pattinson!

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We have another big batch of images from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis to share with you. They come courtesy of Russian film site Kinopoisk. (Which is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. They always seem to have a wealth of goodies.) All of the trailers, clips, posters and images that have been dropped recently, all of which have originated in Europe, are of course to build interest ahead of the film’s debut at Cannes in a matter of days.

Robert Pattinson stars as “28-year-old financial wizard and billionaire Eric Packer, who traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony’s, his father’s old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit, an attack by anarchists and a rapper’s funeral. Stuck in traffic, he anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo’s computer.”

Cosmopolis also stars Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand, Mathieu Almaric (all pictured), Sarah Gadon and Paul Giamatti. It opens in France on May 25 just after Cannes. Since it’s been picked up for North American and UK distribution, we should have those dates soon.

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thanks to Collider for the heads up

We just got the first clip two days ago from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and now we have a brand new trailer and two more clips. The reason? Word is that eOne has acquired the distribution rights (in another pre-Cannes transaction) and will release the film in North America and in the UK.

The new trailer comes from the film’s official website.

The clips come from our friends at the terrific French film site Allocine:

(I don’t think the Twihards or the Robsten shippers or the RPattz fans or whatever they call themselves are going to be happy about this.)

Ahhh…typical Cronenberg insanity. Fans of  Scanners, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ or Crash will probably love it. If all you know of Cronenberg are his more straight-forward films like A History of Violence or A Dangerous Method, you might be puzzled.

“28-year-old financial wizard and billionaire Eric Packer traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony’s, his father’s old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit, an attack by anarchists and a rapper’s funeral. Stuck in traffic, he anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo’s computer.”

Cosmopolis stars Pattinson (who replaced Colin Farrell when the Total Recall shoot went long), Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Jay Baruchel, Sarah Gadon, and Kevin Durand. No exact release dates known yet but at least they’re coming.

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We’ve been talking about Cosmopolis, from writer/director David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, for some time now. I’m very intrigued by what we’ve seen so far. The film will bow in competition at Cannes (historically very good to Cronenberg) later this month and we have a new clip (with French subtitles. Since the film opens there first they’ve had the most goodies to share so far.)

That's Sarah Gaddon, the Canadian actress who appeared as Jung’s (Michael Fassbender) long suffering wife in A Dangerous Method.  Adapted from Don DeLillo's novel, Cosmopolis, Cronenberg's first since last year's festival favorite. It has a great international cast including Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti and Kevin Durand.

“28-year-old financial wizard and billionaire Eric Packer traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony’s, his father’s old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit, an attack by anarchists and a rapper’s funeral. Stuck in traffic, he anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo’s computer.”

I’m thinking the guys with the rats in the clip were with the anarchists. You?

This looks like CLASSIC trippy Cronenberg to me. While there are still no US or UK release dates, I anticipate that will change right after Cannes. As always, we'll keep you posted. Here are a couple of images of RPattz to tide you over.

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It’s still more than six months until Twilight: Breaking Dawn – part 2 opens but Summit Entertainment has no intentions of letting you forget about it in the meantime while you’re lining up for all of the summer blockbusters coming down the pike.

Less than two weeks ago we had a new poster and today we have two official images. The first is a Cullen family portrait of Edward and Bella (with her newly vamped out eyes), and the second is Jacob’s yearbook picture…no not really. It’s just a pic of Taylor Lautner. I guess these pics are special because they’re the beginning of the end. Or something…

Academy Award® winner Bill Condon directed both the first and second part of the two-part finale, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The project, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, was written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing. 

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

The next and final chapter in The Twilight Saga, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will arrive in theatres on November 16, 2012. Can you hold on that long?

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To celebrate its inclusion in the Cannes Film Festival lineup, we have a new poster, a new image and not one but TWO new trailers for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a twenty-something billionaire, who fears he's going to be murdered, as he travels through Manhattan in a limo on the worst traffic day on record, ostensibly in search of a hair cut. Oh, but there’s more to it than that my friends.  

Eric Packer( Pattinson) risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day, a move that puts him in an assassin's crosshairs as he moves from place to place in a limo in a study of capitalism that takes place in a slightly futuristic metropolis.

Adapted by the director from the Don DeLillo novel, Cosmopolis appears to be classic Cronenberg in the vein of Videodrome, Crash (from 1996, not the ’04 Paul Haggis film) and Eastern Promises. Fans of old-school Cronenberg will be happy to know that it appears he hasn’t dialed down the sex, violence, horror and general bizarre nature of things.

The second trailer is for the French market, where it opens first, and has French subtitles but is otherwise in English. It’s vaguely NSFW. It also includes one of those “did he just do what I think he did?” moments that I had to watch three times.

Also starring Samantha  Morton, Jay Baruchel, Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Kevin Durand and Mathieu Almaric, Cosmopolis will open in France on May 23.  Still nothing on the US (other than “2012”) or the UK dates. We’ll keep you posted.

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The 2012 Coachella Music Festival wrapped up for another year yesterday after spreading the music over two weekends. Yesterday we had photos of Kristen Stewart and today we have them of her boyfriend Robert Pattinson but unfortunately not together.

There were a couple of other vampires enjoying the music yesterday: True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard and former Twilight vampire Rachelle Lefevre.

Zoe Kravitz and boyfriend Penn Badgley also made the scene as did the always lovely Dita Von Teese.

And that's it for another year! Enjoy the photos.

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The lineup for the 65^th Cannes Film Festival has been announced and since most of us won’t be going to the Croisette to attend, here’s why you should care.  Last year’s festival, with film’s like Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Terence Malick’s Tree of Life (which won Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or) and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia all making their debuts, changed the game when a little film called The Artist rode a wave that started in the south of France in May 2011 and didn’t crest until it hit the Oscars in February 2012.  (Midnight in Paris and Tree of Life also got Best Picture nods.) Chances are you'll be hearing a lot about a lot of these films.

There are some big movies in competition and out that will be screening and they have big names attached to them.  As expected, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson (new pics below),  Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (aka Cogan’s Trade) with Brad Pitt, Walter Salles’ On the Road with Kristen Stewart (Robsten on the red carpet!)and Sam Riley and Lee Daniels' Paperboy with Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman are among the films selected for the Festival, which opens on May 16.

This year the lineup is unusually English-language heavy. (Even the poster is of an American film icon, commemorating the 50^th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death.)  Jeff Nichols, director of Take Shelter is back with Mud starring Matthew McConaughey,  John Hillcoat’s Lawless with Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce (among others) made the cut as well. (To mark the occasion we've shared a new pic from the film. That's the Bondurant brothers at the top of the post: Jason Clarke, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf)

These films are good news for stargazers of course. In addition to the actors mentioned above, you can expect Eva Mendes in support of Holly Motors, Kirsten Dunst for On the Road, McConaughey actually has two films since he’s also in Paperboy.

What we won’t see are two films thought to be a lock but weren’t finished in time: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Terrence Malick's The Burial.

Festival organizers announced 54 of this year's selections this morning but more titles will be added next week. The selections were made from 1,779 submissions.

Out-of-competition films include DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Philip Kaufman's Hemingway and Gellhorn for HBO with Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman (another double-dipper).

As we’ve previously told you, another American film, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will open the festival.  The closing film will be the late Claude Miller's final film, Therese Desqueyroux. The festival will also screen a new version of Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in America,  with 40 minutes of previously unseen footage (bringing the total running time to 269 minutes).

Cannes will open on May 16, and run through May 27.

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