Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will open the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Un Certain Regard section presents 20 films that are ‘innovative and daring’. Films in this section are not in the competition for the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm), but can receive the ‘Prix Un Certain Regard’. The other films in the section will be announced tomorrow. The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 16 to May 26.
After attending a screening of The Bling Ring at Universal CityWalk, Emma Watson and co-stars Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga and Claire Julien sat down with MTV’s Josh Horowitz for a Q&A session about the movie.
Oops, the Q&A video embedding doesn’t seem to work right now. You can view the Q&A session here. They’ve broken it up into a number of clips.
New stills from Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring have been released. The film stars Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Gavin Rossdale. The Bling Ring opens in limited release on June 12.
Emma Watson has the cover feature in the May issue of British GQ magazine. In the interview Emma talks about The Bling Ring and includes new photos, in character as Nikki, by Mark Seliger. Thanks to Vogue.co.uk and Roberto for the images, and an excerpt of the interview below from www.gq-magazine.co.uk. Read the full article in the May issue on sale tomorrow, April 4. Also available on iPad, Google Play and Kindle Fire.
“When I read the script and I realised that essentially it was a meditation on fame and what it’s become to our society, I had to do it,” says Watson of The Bling Ring. “The character is everything that I felt strongly against – she’s superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She’s all of these things and I realised that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.”
There was another reason Watson chose the risqué role: it wasn’t a period drama. “Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again,” she says. “I knew it would be a really comfortable thing to do, but I felt… I had to dive into something really different. This has been a really big departure for me; it’s a really big character. That’s so exciting for me because it meant I was really acting.”
“Let’s go shopping” is the first teaser for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring with Emma Watson. The trailer is short, but we get our first looks at Emma,as Nikki, preparing for a night of ‘shopping’, pole dancing, and several other scenes in the movie. The movie opens in limited release June 14.
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The current issue of Entertainment Weekly looks behind the scenes of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, with a new photo of Sofia with Emma Watson and co-stars Taissa Farmiga and Claire Julien.
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Distributer A24 has announced a US release date for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring starring Emma Watson. According to Variety, the movie will open in limited release June 14. There is speculation that the trailer for The Bling Ring will debut in theaters with the March 15 opening of Spring Breakers, also distributed by A24.
Variety is also reporting that Emma is in “early talks” to play the title role in Disney’s Cinderella. Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) will direct the live action adaptation of the fairy tale. Cate Blanchett has signed on to play the wicked stepmother. The studio hopes to begin production this fall and release it next year.
Update: A tweet from Variety’s Marc Graser says Emma decided against Cinderella.
Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, has found a US distributor, new production-distribution company A24, with a planned release this summer. Variety is reporting Bling Ring will be released in June.
The film also stars include Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julie, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Gavin Rossdale.
“I’m really excited to work with A24 as they begin their company with so much energy and creativity. I can’t wait for audiences to see our young cast and for people to see Emma Watson in a whole new way.” – Sofia Coppola
Premiere magazine from France features a couple new images of Emma Watson as Nikki in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. The text gives a summary of the film plot, but does suggest a June release.
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Another French magazine, Studio Cine Live, has published another new photo from The Bling Ring.
While at TIFF, Emma spoke with Vanity Fair about her character Nikki in the movie The Bling Ring. At first she didn’t like the character, but after looking beneath the surface, she began to empathize with Nikki and her obsession with the celebrity culture.
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