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I’ve added the just released international poster of Scott Pilgrim to the gallery. The movie hits theaters in the UK on August 25th. It features Scott, Ramona, and her evil exes.
Online magazine Portrait is currently conducting a poll asking who YOU would like to see featured on their August cover issue and Mary is among the poll nominees! She’s way behind in the polls with Ian Somerhalder taking the lead but with your help, Mary can land the cover! So please do your best to vote and help spread the word! Voting closes July 15 so get in as many votes before the deadline.
The poll is on the right hand side under the sub-title ‘August Portrait Cover’.
Although the interview mostly consists of questions with Michael Cera and director Edgar Wright, Wizard magazine snagged Mary to ask her a few questions about her role in the Scott Pilgrim film and upcoming film projects including ‘The Thing’ prequel, screen-testing for Wonder Woman and returning to the Die Hard franchise!
Check out the full interview in the gallery…
Mary looks gorgeous and red hot in this new photoshoot for Women’s Wear Daily. Read their profile on Mary & be sure to check out the photos in the gallery!
For a guy with a hook nose and body weight that can’t be more than a hundred pounds soaking wet, Michael Cera certainly has a way with the ladies. In “Youth in Revolt,” he romanced Rooney Mara, and he won over Martha MacIsaac in the 2007 hit “Superbad.” Enter Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the latest of Cera’s conquests, appearing in the much-hyped “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” in theaters August 13. Winstead plays Ramona, a self-reliant cynic with Manic-Panic pink hair whose seven evil ex-boyfriends unite to challenge her current beau, Scott Pilgrim (Cera), to a battle of superhero proportions. (Think light sabers, slo-mo backflips and “Batman and Robin”-esque “kapows!”) “Most guys wouldn’t stick around, but Scott does, and that’s really sweet,” says Winstead.
Surprisingly, the fanciful premise, based on an adult comic-book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley, wasn’t so far-fetched for the actress. “I can relate to that feeling of people making a big fuss over you for what seems like no reason at all,” Winstead says. “But I mean, I certainly haven’t had seven ex-boyfriends come after my boyfriend or anything like that.”
Here, WWD provides the vital stats on the girl over whom everyone’s fighting.
AGE: 25
PROVENANCE: Born in Rocky Mount, N.C. , and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. (No, she’s not Mormon, her family moved for her father’s job.)
CURRENT HOME: Los Angeles
PAST CREDITS: Winstead, who says she’s been “singing and dancing since I was a toddler,” broke into the biz in junior high by landing bit parts on local productions of TV shows like “Touched by an Angel” and “Everwood.” Since then, Winstead worked her way up to leading-lady status via a solid list of B-films, including a long string of campy horror flicks such as “Black Christmas,” “Final Destination 3” and “The Ring Two.” “I’m a bit of a veteran screamer at this point,” she says.
ON “PILGRIM”: With her doe eyes and delicate bone structure, Winstead says her “anime” appearance helped her land the role in “Pilgrim.” “Even though we’re bringing this cartoon to life, [director Edgar Wright] thought it would be kind of fun getting people who have somewhat cartoonish faces involved to kind of look like the characters as they’re drawn. I never really realized I look like a cartoon character, but I suppose I do,” says the actress. “I take it as an absolute compliment.”
UP NEXT: Winstead will return to the occult in next year’s “The Thing,” a prequel to the cult Eighties flick of the same name starring Kurt Russell about an extraterrestrial parasite that comes to terrorize the people of earth. In the mostly unknown cast, Winstead plays the female lead determined to save mankind. “My part is very Sigourney Weaver in ‘Alien,’” she says.
In the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, titular character Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is the bassist of a band called SEX BOB-OMB. So it follows that the comic-book adaptation would feature a whole ton of music. As previously reported, the filmmakers recruited Beck to write all the songs for SEX BOB-OMB. The movie’s soundtrack album, due August 10 from ABKCO, features four songs from SEX BOB-OMB, with Beck providing the instrumentation and actors from the movie doing the vocals. The film, which opens wide August 13, also boasts a score from Radiohead/Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich, which will eventually see digital release. Godrich also served as executive producer on the soundtrack album.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World soundtrack:
01 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): “We Are SEX BOB-OMB”
02 Plumtree: “Scott Pilgrim”
03 Frank Black: “I Heard Ramona Sing”
04 Beachwood Sparks: “By Your Side”
05 Black Lips: “O Katrina!”
06 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): “I’m So Sad, So Very, Very Sad”
07 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): “We Hate You Please Die”
08 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): “Garbage Truck”
09 T. Rex: “Teenage Dream”
10 The Bluetones: “Sleazy Bed Track”
11 Blood Red Shoes: “It’s Getting Boring by the Sea”
12 Metric: “Black Sheep”
13 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): “Threshold”
14 Broken Social Scene: “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl”
15 The Rolling Stones: “Under My Thumb”
16 Beck: “Ramona (Acoustic)”
17 Beck: “Ramona”
18 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): “Summertime”
19 Brian LeBarton: “Threshold 8 Bit”
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In the second filmmaker conversation event of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, director J.J. Abrams (Mission Impossible III, Star Trek, Super 8 ) interviewed Edgar Wright, director of the much anticipated August film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. The interview covered most of Wright’s rise in the film industry and used clips from his past works to demonstrate. Moving chronologically through Wright’s oeuvre, the event ended on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and a new nine-minute clip.
The scene comes from the second Scott Pilgrim book and opens with the comic text “And then…” onscreen, backed by a cover of Bob Dylan’s appropriately-titled To Ramona (I believe by the Flying Burrito Brothers). Scott has set up a date with Ramona at his house and she arrives just as Scott’s roommate Wallace is leaving. (His departure tinkers with the comic a bit in that he’s leaving to go check out a movie shoot).
Straight out of the comic, we see Scott fretting over every minor detail and worried that Ramona has changed her hair color. (It’s now bright blue). We get a couple cuts with comic intertitles (“15 minutes…”, “30 minutes…”, “45 minutes…”) until, as in the comic, Scott starts to freak out when Ramona mentions his haircut. The scene is played just as in the source material with chalk Bryan Lee O’Malley drawings appearing on-screen to fill in background (“Scott’s last haircut was 431 days ago, 3 hours before his last breakup,” etc).
There is currently no footage available, but you can read the whole report on how the rest of the scene played out here
Breaking news!
‘The Thing’ prequel will strike theaters on April 29, 2011, distributor Universal Pictures announced today. The science-fiction horror thriller is currently the only nationwide release scheduled for that weekend, and it slots into the same timeframe that the Nightmare on Elm Street remake haunted earlier this year.
Described by Universal as a “prelude” to John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), the new Thing involves the discovery of an extraterrestrial organism and ship buried in Antarctica. The main character is a paleontologist played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Final Destination 3), who along with a scientific crew, must fight for survival when the organism is unleashed. The creature will be a shape-shifter that can replicate the humans, stirring paranoia as the characters get infected one-by-one.
The official synopsis reads
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
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