Walter Salles’ long-awaited screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road got its in-competition red carpet premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. The reception from critics has so far been mixed, with most having something to say about the amount of time star Kristen Stewart spends with her clothes off. (I guess that’s the way to shed your teen heart-throb image. Her Twilight costar and real-life paramour Robert Pattinson must agree since he apparently does the same in Bel Ami.)

Speaking of RPatz, I think this is an example of what Gerard Butler was alluding to when he said “you can’t really do down other people’s press-lines” and what I meant when I said that if someone not associated with a movie stole the spotlight it was the fault of the press and not the attendee. While it’s lovely that he’s there to support KStew (plus he has a movie, Cosmopolis,  also screening in competition later this week) there are at least as many pics of Pattinson at this premiere out there on the web as there are of Kristen Stewart. Not only might a casual observer think that Pattinson was in the movie, but that he and Stewart were in it alone. If I were Kirsten Dunst, Sam Riley, Garret Hedlund or Tom Sturridge, I’d be pissed. Viggo Mortensen probably doesn’t care one way or another. 

Enjoy the pics from the On the Road premiere as well as the photocall earlier in the day!

*observations: Kiki Dunst looked very pretty at the photocall, almost bridal-wonder if that was a message for Garrett Hedlund? Also, Tom Sturridge does not look old enough to be Sienna Miller's baby-daddy (He's actually 26 to her 30 so I guess he is).

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First we have a quick little clip from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, one of the new flicks we’ve been telling you about for awhile now that is also in contention for the Palm D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.  Fittingly, the clip comes from French site WatTV. In the clip, in which Rob’s Eric Packer is seen getting it on with Juliette Binoche, we learn two things about Eric: 1. He’s married.  2. His character is as close to completely numb as a person can get and still have a pulse.

Entertainment One has dropped a new little UK trailer to prepare for the release into cinemas on 15^th  June. It’s also quick but does give a good overview of what we’ve seen already. There’s also a new UK poster above which bears the Cannes logo.

New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close and Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy is chauffeured across the city in his extravagant limousine to get a haircut. A visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan and as the day goes by, an eruption of wild activity unfolds on the city’s streets. Eric watches helplessly as his empire collapses and as his paranoia intensifies during the 24-hour period, he starts to piece together clues that lead him to a most terrifying secret: his imminent assassination.

Again, the UK gets Cosmopolis on 15^th June. No exact date yet for the US although the rumor is now sometime in August. Cosmopolis also stars Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, Jay Baruchel and Sarah Gadon.

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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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