David Cronenberg

Justin Bieber may not be the media’s darling, but Robert Pattinson thinks he’s “All right.” Pattinson made his comment in a Vanity Fair interview, which mostly focused on his new film the David Cronenberg-directed Maps To The Stars which debuted to critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival this week. When asked if he met […]

David Cronenberg thinks the classic horror flick The Shining isn’t a very good film. Countless fans of the genre seem to think director Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel is one of the best flicks to ever hit the silver screen. However, the Eastern Promises director isn’t one of them. In fact, […]

Want to see Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson kissing on the set of Maps to the Stars? Hit that button for a video album of the sexy scene. Nope, they’re not the newest cute couple in real life. But why wait for the David Cronenberg directed film to come out before you can see Wasikowska […]

David Cronenberg’s Maps To the Stars‘ imaginative casting call now adds Evan Bird, Mia Wasikowska and Olivia Williams. The trio join Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Julianne Moore and John Cusack, the latter three cast as recently as last month. The growing line-up is yet another healthy indicator of Maps To The Stars now on-target course […]

For those who may have been getting anxious about David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, today is a big day. Acclaimed actors John Cusack, Julianne Moore and Sarah Gadon have now joined the cast. Robert Pattinson, who worked with Cronenberg to great effect in Cosmopolis and verbally signed up to Maps early on, will be […]

Rachel Weisz has left the cast of David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars. In November last year, it was announced that the actress was joining the Canadian helmer’s six-year labor-of-love to co-star with Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen. But for reasons that may or may not be to do with scheduling, Weisz is no longer […]

Renowned director David Cronenberg is stepping out from behind the camera to co-star in a new film called Body Art. Following Cronenberg’s dense but dazzling big screen adaptation of author Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis, the Canadian is re-teaming with DeLillo and producer Paolo Branco to bring DeLillo’s 2001 novel The Body Artist to life. […]

Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s in-development indie currently starring Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz, may be going forward without his long term collaborator Viggo Mortensen. In an interview with Details, the Canadian auteur revealed that Mortensen might not sign on for the indie despite earlier indications that this could happen. He said: “I don’t […]

While The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 continues to dominate box offices around the world, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart spent a well-earned Thanksgiving break together with Pattinson’s family in the UK. After being spotted by an onlooker at London’s Heathrow airport on Friday, the pair boarded a flight bound for New York. […]

Brit actress Rachel Weisz is to join Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s six-year labor-of-love project Maps to The Stars. Today, French site Allocine (via The Film Stage) announced Weisz (The Mummy franchise, The Lovely Bones, The Whistleblower) as the film’s third key cast member. With a script penned by veteran producer-screenwriter Bruce […]

While The Twilight Saga publicity machine gears up for its — for now — finale installment, Robert Pattinson’s indie movie exit strategy continues apace. Deadlinereports Pattinson will join fellow Brit, Carey Mulligan, (Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby) in a new film Hold On To Me. Penned by Brad Ingelsby (Out Of The Furnace) and helmed […]

And so it begins. The avalanche of sources claiming to have the “inside scoop” on how Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “got back together.” While US Weekly and People arepresently trumpeting the “exclusive news” Elaine Lui at Lainey Gossipbroke over a week ago, some say it’s early days for reconciliation talk, while others maintain the […]

It was goodbye New York as Robert Pattinson hit the West Coast yesterday for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. And let’s just say he was in good spirits. There are a number of reasons for that. The actor is getting the best reviews of his career for his lead performance in his latest film […]

Long live the new flesh? Universal is apparently ready to move forward with its remake of director David Cronenberg’s 1983 horror/sci-fi classic Videodrome, according to Deadline. Commercial director Adam Berg will make his feature film debut with the project, which was penned by Transformers: Dark of the Moon scribe Ehren Kruger, who is also set […]

After a five day press blitz and trailing enough heat to power the Mars rover Curiosity, Robert Pattinson’s Cosmopolis racked up the weekend’s biggest per-screen average at the box office, beating out any other film in release “indie or studio.” Out on limited release in L.A and New York since Friday, the David Cronenberg directed […]

It’s been a helluva week for Robert Pattinson. What with gamely dodging ‘the elephant in the room,’ a surprise Opening Bell appearance at the New York Stock Exchange, a press junket, Times Talk and a MTV special — Pattinson and director David Cronenberg are going all out to spread the word that Cosmopolis is coming […]

David Cronenberg makes weird movies. Although his penchant for strange and uncomfortable body horror flicks has subsided over the past few years, he’s still making challenging motion pictures on a fairly consistent basis. Since Cronenberg isn’t a fan of the Hollywood system, a place where Shia LeBeouf believes creativity cannot exist, his opinion of the […]

David Cronenberg is one of my favorite directors, and Eastern Promises is perhaps one of his strongest efforts. Despite the fact that the film only made roughly $17 million during its theatrical run here in the United States, the Canadian filmmaker had hoped to craft a sequel in the coming months. However, according to Cinema […]

More anticipated than a State of the Union address, all eyes were on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show this Monday and his guest, Robert Pattinson. The actor’s first public appearance since news of Kristen Stewart’s dalliance with Rupert Sanders exploded front and center three weeks ago; in fact, it was a masterclass in why this […]

Tonight Cosmopolis and Robert Pattinson took New York. Fittingly, for an indie movie adapted from Don DeLillo’s book of the same name, this arthouse film noir that really deserves a wider release premiered at New York’s prestigious Museum of Modern Art. Trailing critical buzz, the legend that is David Cronenberg, a stunning supporting cast and […]

If the sign of a genuine, global star is the excitement they’re able to generate even before they show up, then Robert Pattinson is that – and then some. Hot on the heels of news of Pattinson’s upcoming appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday July 15, comes the announcement that the Brit actor […]

The incredibly private Robert Pattinson still hasn’t said anything publicly about former-flame Kristen Stewart’s cheating scandal, but he’s primed and ready to get back to work promoting his upcoming film Cosmopolis. The enigmatic Pattinson has scheduled his first public appearance since the Kristen Stewart scandal – a simple New York red carpet promotional event for […]

Entertainment Tonight’s shock Tuesday announcement that Robert Pattinson had canceled an upcoming U.S press appearance for his new film Cosmopolis – was, in fact, incorrect. Media confusion erupted when ET Online’s senior editor Jarret Wiselman tweeted that the studio had confirmed the pull-out to Entertainment Tonight. The ‘Pattinson-cancels’ story was then repeated by numerous media […]

Press mute on the white noise of everything else. Ahead of its Stateside release on August 17 in New York and LA – then August 24 in selected locations in the U.S – David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson and a stellar supporting cast will premiere in New York on August 13. Remember the off-the-chart […]

OK, so this is pretty wild. Woody Allen has gone on record saying there’s a possibility that he and Robert Pattinson could work together. Allen made the remarks last night at the NYC premiere of his latest film To Rome With Love which stars Penelope Cruz and Alec ‘Bruiser’ Baldwin. Asked for a comment about […]

The ridiculing of Twilight Saga fans has long been a favorite pastime of many critics and some quarters in the media. Now, Robert Pattinson and no-holds-barred director David Cronenberg have spoken out in defense of those fans, and some – including this writer – think they have a point. Repeatedly asked on a recent Cosmopolis […]

David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson just got a U.S release date – August 17. Already released in France, Cosmopolis will open in the U.S just over two months after its debut in Canada on June 8 and June 15 in the UK. The film will open in New York and LA first before being […]

It’s another hilarious but yet insightful Robert Pattinson interview. Well actually, it’s just a clip. The whole thing airs tomorrow but this is a sneak peek. Leaving legions of po-faced or simply plain boring actors/celebrities standing, Pattinson brought his very individual style of conversation to TV show ‘George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight!‘ – hosted aptly enough by […]

Two new behind-the-scenes Cosmopolis clips have been released along with interviews with the film’s leading man, Robert Pattinson, and director David Cronenberg. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name, Cosmopolis follows 24 eventful and disturbing hours in the life of billionaire, financier Eric Packer. Pursued by an anonymous assassin and a creamed pie-fixated […]

If politicians could bottle it they would. Heck, even some of today’s movie stars would. Blazing though Europe, one city at a time, Robert Pattinson brought some serious starpower and non-starry charm to Berlin today for the fourth premiere of Cosmopolis. Looking sharp in a charcoal Gucci suit, the Brit actor delighted fans at the […]

Palme d’Or not, the Cannes Film Festival was great for Robert Pattinson, director David Cronenberg – and Cosmopolis. A stackful of – predominantly – excellent reviews for Pattinson and strong readings for the film itself, are currently powering a wave of high interest in Cosmopolis ahead of its release in the UK, Canada and the […]

Last week it was Cannes, yesterday Portugal. But today it was Paris’ turn to experience the white ‘knuckle’ limo ride that is Cosmopolis, when Robert Pattinson and director David Cronenberg hit up the City of Lights for the third premiere of their latest film. But before all that red carpet malarkey, while he was in […]

The Cannes Film Festival may be over but the white limo is just getting started. Hitting Lisbon today for a second Cosmopolis premiere, Robert Pattinson joined David Cronenberg and producer Paulo Branco at an early morning press conference before the big event. Cronenberg joked with journalists that he hired the Brit actor because “he was […]

Michael Haneke’s Amour claimed the ultimate prize at the Cannes Film Festival, bagging his second “Best Picture” Palme d’Or in three years and setting a new record. His first Palme awarded for The White Ribbon back in 2009. Amour — a restrained but devastating pax de deux between an elderly couple (played by Emmanuelle Riva […]

It’s one of the most anticipated films at the Cannes Film Festival this year. And today, the metaphorical limo in town belongs to Robert Pattinson, leading man in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. Smiling broadly at a morning photo call, Pattinson and co-stars Emily Hampshire, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, author Don DeLillo, producers Paulo Branco and Martin […]

Working with Robert Pattinson clearly agrees with David Cronenberg as they are set to team up again on another film. In a recent interview with popular French magazine InRockuptibles [translation via @RPLife], Pattinson said: “I’m filming another movie with Cronenberg but I don’t know when he wants to start filming. It will be his first […]

Robert Pattinson received high praise today from former U.S Army interrogation specialist Eric Maddox. In an interview on WRKO Pundit Review radio, Maddox revealed that he personally endorsed Robert Pattinson to play him in the big screen adaption of his book Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein. Co-authored […]

That machine has its benefits though. Few would deny – and certainly not Pattinson – that the Twilight Saga put him on Hollywood’s map, and in so doing brought him to the attention of a legendary auteur like David Cronenberg. While Pattinson’s admiration for the veteran director’s body of work is obvious, it also sounds […]

Robert Pattinson is a changed man. Many have noticed it, some have commented on it, and just about everyone has speculated about it. Now, it seems, Pattinson is ready to talk about the reasons why – and it’s a helluva read. A new Cannes special interview with French magazine Premiere, reveals an actor not all […]

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of Pattinson’s starring role in espionage thriller Mission:Blacklist, comes even more casting news. The in-demand Brit actor has just landed a role in David Michod’s The Rover. Written by Michod and based on an idea originating with Michod (and Joel Edgerton), The Rover is about a man (Guy […]

The Cannes Film Festival may be over two weeks away, but big business waits for no-one. Ahead of the festival, Entertainment One (EOne) are closing in on a deal worth $ 2 million for North American and UK distribution rights to Cosmopolis – the David Cronenberg directed big screen version of Don DeLillo’s novel starring […]

In news now sweeping the internet, it’s just been announced that Brit actor Robert Pattinson is set to star in a new film – “Mission: Blacklist.” Based on the real life events that led to the capture and interrogation of Saddam Hussein from the perspective of the man at the center of those events – […]

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have returned to Vancouver. After a solo stopover in Washington where the Brit actor met up with friends for dinner at The Majestic on April 28, Kristen Stewart and Pattinson were both spotted at Vancouver International airport on Sunday afternoon (April 29). Actors Michael Sheen and Ashley Greene have also […]

Robert Pattinson is still “looking for more.” And after the first full Cosmopolis trailer dropped this morning, so were thousands of others. Rather obligingly, a second trailer landed around three hours later via Icon Films Australia. Perhaps in celebration of the film’s now official status as an in competition contender at this year’s 65th Cannes […]

With most of the world’s film and entertainment media waiting up for news of the Cannes Film Festival line-up, it’s likely many of them were also eagerly anticipating the first full Cosmopolis trailer. If so, it was time well spent. Proudly displaying the film’s official “in competition” selection for the Palme d’Or at 0:07 seconds […]