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WWD brings us a first look at the newly re-designed W magazine September 2010 cover. In this particular image we see Kat Dennings and Jessica Chastain, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
To fit eight up-and-coming actresses on the cover, it will be a triple gatefold. The actresses are Kat Dennings, Jessica Chastain, Yaya DaCosta (of ANTM fame), Greta Gerwig, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts and Zoë Kravitz. (Source)
Oh, I really hope she gets the role! I think we’ve all been dying to see her in a romantic comedy and Mary’s always expressed her wanting to act in this genre. Fingers crossed! 
One of our favorite romantic comedy scripts of recent years is “The F-Word,” by Elan Mastai. Following Wallace and Chantry, two twentysomethings who meet at a party, and hit it off, but Chantry has a long-term boyfriend, and so the pair decide to remain friends, but struggle with their mutual attraction. It’s a familiar premise, but extremely well executed, with well-drawn, likable characters, and dotted with some ingenious animated sequences. Essentially, it’s like “500 Days Of Summer,” but without the female lead being a paper-thin cypher.
It made the Black List in 2008, and Fox Searchlight finally began moving forward on it in recent months; “In Search Of A Midnight Kiss” director Alex Holdridge was appointed a few months ago, and Casey Affleck landed the role of Wallace at the end of June. Now, according to the latest issue of Production Weekly (as usual, not online except for subscribers, but p. 7 if you do have access), four actresses are in the running to join him, and they’re some very high-caliber names.
The publication suggests that testing is underway for the role of Chantry, and that Rose Byrne, Rebecca Hall, Deborah Ann Woll and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are all likely to go before cameras to land the role; basically every young actress who’s too tall to play Lisbeth Salander… Production Weekly aren’t always 100% accurate, but this seems like solid info to us.
If nothing else, it suggests that Holdridge has a very keen eye for casting and Winstead is likely to be in demand after “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.”
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Comicus.it conducted a phone interview with Mary on her role in Scott Pilgrim. Read an excerpt below:
Hello Mary Elizabeth and welcome on ComicUs. Shall we start with the interview right now or do we have to defeat your seven evil ex-interviewer first…?
[Laughs] I think I’m going to give you the permission to start the interview, there won’t be any evil exes come calling.
Did you know the comic book by Bryan Lee O’Malley before taking the part? Did Edgar Wright recommend you all to read it as starting material or did he prefer you to concentrate on the script of the film version?
I read the books because Edgar Wright introduced me to them. I had a meeting with him and he told me he was going to be adapting these books to a film and thought I should take a look at them. So I went home and had the first three books, because that was how many were out at this time and I was blown away. I just thought, you know, EW combining that source materials would be such an amazing combination and I was so excited of being part of that project.
You have been involved in different action and fighting scenes too, were they hard scenes to perform?
Well, it was really challenging, and we trained for a few months together every day, eight hours a day, doing fight choreography and trainings. And we worked with an amazing stunt team who really wanted to bring out the best from us, and they kinda would watch out how it works and what work at it and what wont’ work at it. So in the end I was really able to do everything; it was really empowering to be in front of the camera and to be able to do all the stuffs. Too exciting.
To read the full interview, click HERE. (*Note: Scroll down until you reach the English version near the bottom).
Bruce Willis was at Comic-Con Thursday, promoting his role in Sly Stallone’s upcoming action flick The Expendables. When he was done with that, Mr. John McClane sauntered over to MTV where he dished on a few things — the most impressive of which was a proposed fifth installment in the Die Hard series. Yippie ki yay.
Willis told MTV that “It’s imminent. The coin is about to drop.” The actor didn’t offer much more than that, which is unusual since he’s been pretty vocal in his demand that director Len Wiseman return to helm the next film for awhile now.
Hopefully Mary returns! She’s expressed wanting to be in Die Hard 5 several times when asked about it so fingers crossed! Maybe she and Bruce talked about the next film at Thursday’s Comic Con? What do you guys think, would you like to see her as Lucy McClane again and kick some more butt?
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With Comic Con right around the corner and the hype for Scott Pilgrim building to an all time high the closer the date draws near for the movie’s release, Ugo.com has compiled a list of the hottest girls attending this year’s San Diego Comic Con and Mary was among the many girls including Natalie Portman, Olivia Wilde, and Milla Jovovich to name a few. Check out their list of their favorite movie moments from her and red carpet looks here.
Portrait Magazine is planning their first ever issue dedicated entirely to beauty! They’ll be assembling a list of the most beautiful people in entertainment (and sport) and they want you to nominate (and ultimately rank) the people you think are the most beautiful. We’re not just talking physical beauty, we want you to rank on a whole range of topics such as…
Attitude, style, career choices, charity and conservation involvement, role model status, and behavior.
The top fifty most nominated will compete in a poll over on Portrait. Top twenty will feature in their first annual ’20 most beautiful’ article and the winner will cover our first ever Beauty issue.
Please click this link, fill out the form and tell everyone you know to help get our girl nominated for most beautiful. She deserves it!
Also, if you haven’t already done so, VOTE for Mary to be Portrait’s newest cover girl. She’s still in third place and there’s plenty of time to vote until the poll closes on the 15th. Just go on Portait magazine’s homepage and on the right hand side, select Mary’s name for August Portrait cover.
In an interview with this months issue of Total Film, the actress has gone into further detail about her role as Ramona Flowers in the upcoming movie which is set to be released on 13th August later this year!
On What She Thinks About Michael Cera:
“He’s like the coolest guy ever. I feel so lucky to be able to work with him because he’s so sweet and such a hard working actor. He’s really one of a kind!”
On Ramona Flowers Ever Changing Hair Color:
“It’s been cool for me! I’m more used to this than I am my normal hair now, so I’m going to be extremely bored with myself when this is over!”
On Weilding A Giant Hammer:
“I get to use it like a really cool weapon, kung-fu style. It was really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It feels really rewarding. It was tough, but I definitely felt tough and crazy!”
On What She Thinks Of The Movie:
“The stuff I’ve seen so far is just ridiculous, it looks so awesome. There’s so much going on in this movie as it is. It’s going to be super fast-paced and crazy, and there’s going to be so much to take in. They’ve done a great job…”
In what it’s dubbing “Scott Pilgrim vs. Comic-Con,” Universal is making sure that “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” will have its presence felt at the convention in advance of the movie’s Aug. 13 release.
Starting Thursday afternoon and running though the weekend, “Pilgrim” will take over the area across from the convention center near and in the Hilton Gaslamp to create an “immersive experience.” One of the experiences will be a “Pilgrim” room with a DJ spinning tracks and more importantly … a make-your-own-T-shirt stand where cast members will help construct shirts for fans.
That’s right: Stars Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick and even director Edgar Wright will take shifts to dress you.
“Pilgrim” will also be the centerpiece of Universal’s Thursday afternoon panel in Hall H. “Paul,” the studio’s sci-fi comedy about two geeks traveling to a comic convention, will bring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, among other cast members, on stage.
So that basically means that Wright, Pegg and Frost will be on stage together. Fans of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” rejoice!
UPDATE: More info. on the cast appearance via Comic Con–
6:00-7:00 Universal: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World— Genre-bending filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz), graphic novel author Bryan Lee O’Malley, and the cast of Universal Pictures’ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World provide a sneak peek of summer 2010′s epic of epic epicness. Joining Wright will be our hero, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera of Superbad); Scott’s two current girlfriends, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead of The Thing) and Knives Chau (Ellen Wong of Unnatural History); his band, SEX BOB-OMB: Kim Pine (Alison Pill of Milk) and Stephen Stills (Mark Webber of Broken Flowers); SEX BOB-OMB super-fan Young Neil (Johnny Simmons of Jennifer’s Body); Scott’s awesome roommate, Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin of Igby Goes Down); and four of Ramona’s seven evil exes: Matthew Patel (Satya Bhabha of Fair Game), Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh of Superman Returns), Gideon Graves (Jason Schwartzman of Funny People) and Roxy Richter (Mae Whitman of Parenthood); plus Scott’s younger sister, Stacey Pilgrim (Anna Kendrick of Up in the Air), and the obnoxious Julie Powers (Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation). Q&A to follow. Hall H, July 22nd.
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