VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Shares His Sky Movies Playlist

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Shares His Sky Movies Playlist

This is cool. If you have Sky on Demand then you can check out Rob's playlist. Mel videoed it for those of us that don't have it, we can't be missing out on hearing that voice and those giggles right?



Remember when Rob signed their camera lens during 'The Rover' UK Promo? Now we know why!



Thanks BlondeMel for the vid!

365 Days of Robert Pattinson catches the french eye: "For the fans of the actor, we can only recommend that you follow the daily pics"

365 Days of Robert Pattinson catches the french eye: "For the fans of the actor, we can only recommend that you follow the daily pics"



This is so cool! We're all getting some attention with the french press. :)) Nerienlouper caught wind of 365DoR and had this to say:

365 days with Robert Pattinson, it could be the title of a book or a documentary about the British star revealed in the Twilight saga. But it is not. Indeed, 365 days with Robert Pattinson, is a challenge launched by a blog to fans, robsessedpattinson.com. With the end of the saga last November, there is less news of the actor despite the fact that he will have 5 shooting and it has already started since the beginning of this year, because he is shooting the Rover a film that allows him to be in south Australia but far from Kristen Stewart. A busy actor in 2013 despite the end of the Twilight saga but he should however be a little less in the spotlight & flashes of photographers. In any case, this blog dedicated to actor Rob Pattinson offers every day of the year 2013 pics of the actor, new & old. So you can't miss anything about the English star but also to find out the pics that we have perhaps not had the opportunity to see before. For the fans of the actor, we can only recommend that you follow the daily pics of the actor posted.

From our translator, Pattinson_AW:

(And a link to your site :)))) It's a french site about news about everything!

Thank you, Pattinson_AW, for the tip and the translation! xx

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis makes Criterion Collection's top 25 films of 2012

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis makes Criterion Corner's top 25 films of 2012

UPDATE: Adding this great write-up from Moviefone about Cosmopolis. The film made their 10 Best Films You Didn't See in 2012 list:

There seemed to be a little juice behind Canadian director David Cronenberg's latest effort, a wonderfully meandering adaptation of Dom DeLillo's novel of the same name that charts a single, seemingly endless limousine ride. For one, the film premiered at Cannes, to mostly ecstatic audiences (full disclosure: I was in one of them), and for another, Cronenberg loaded his bizarre contraption with a secret weapon: Robert Pattinson. As a disaffected billionaire, Pattinson showed unheard of gravitas and wit, both of which were sorely missing during his five-movie tenure as sparkly vampire Edward in the "Twilight" movies. But not even his handsome or borderline hieroglyphic face, could get people to come out to "Cosmopolis." Granted, the movie is pretty weird. But it's also tremendously rewarding -- it works its hooks into you and, months after seeing it, I still can't stop thinking about it. It's also part of 2012's great limousine ride double feature, along with Leos Carax's equally strange "Holy Motors." The mini-bar optional. 

I've always loved film montages. This is a great one from Criterion Corner with awesome music. Visit the Vimeo page for a list of the songs.

This is especially cool to have Rob's film honored here since he once said all he wanted for Christmas was the entire Criterion Collection. ;) Click HERE to read the interview from 2009.

He's got to feel pretty proud Cosmopolis made their cut. :)


The Best Films of 2012: A Video Countdown from david Ehrlich on Vimeo.
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New images of Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis + Visual effects details about the hand/gun shot scene

New images of Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis + Visual effects details about the hand/gun shot scene

The Art of VFX got a chance to sit down with James Cooper, lead compositor on Cosmopolis. He discussed the film's visual effects at length and mentioned Rob. New images from the film were included too.

The whole article is interesting for those that have seen the film and something to keep in mind for those who haven't seen it yet. I love that it gave me new things to consider when I get to see Cosmopolis again in August.





These are the specific Eric Packer and Rob mentions excerpted from the article but I bolded the Rob mention. It's kind of funny. ;)

Sometimes Eric Packer occults the windows limo. Was there an on-set effect or is it your work?

It was a combination of both, actually. Initially that was to be a practical effect but David wanted to have options as to when the windows became fully opaque and when they returned to tinted transparency. To this end he shot the parts of the sequences where he was certain they would be opaque practically but left numerous shots on the front and back end of those shots as greenscreen. This allowed him much more control as to the timing of when the windows fell into darkness and for how long and gave us references as to what they would look like fully darkened.

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Can you tell us about the design of the various screens inside the limo?

The character of Eric sees much more than just price and volume variations. He has a unique ability to look at the many different patterns that the volatility of the stock, commodity futures and money markets generate, analyze them and predict where they will end up in the near future. Keeping that in mind we started with the production design references and adapted them, adding our own design elements and animations to create more visually interesting screens than might normally be seen on a trader’s monitor.

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Can you explain to us the shot in which Eric shots in his hand?

Well, in terms of visual effects I can. For motivation you’ll have to talk to Mr. Cronenberg. Apparently Robert Pattinson and his handlers balked at the thought of doing this as a practical effect so he just pointed the (unloaded) gun at his hand and pulled the trigger. We added the muzzle flash, smoke, wound and blood splatter in compositing.

LOL...that had to be Dean shutting down the "practical effect". Don't forget when you see that scene, it was done in one take. Forever impressed with Rob. :)

Is there an invisible effect you want to reveal to us?

A particularly challenging shot has Eric entering an alleyway on a mission to confront his stalker. We needed to replace the building at the end of the lane way for continuity purposes but Eric passes through a chain link gate which is left swinging behind him. And, of course, the camera is moving as well. Production did not have a green screen big enough to cover the entire entrance to the lane way so we rotoscoped the gates, put them on cards in 3D space, tracked the camera and animated the roto to match the actual gate. All in all a very tricky shot.

This is for Kate who commented on the surreal background:

What was the biggest challenge on this project and how did you achieve it? 

Well, of course, making the driving shots believable was a challenge, particularly since David has a slightly surreal aesthetic even in his more, shall we say, realistic films. I’m not sure that he wanted the cityscape outside to feel too real. I would say the biggest technical challenge was in the keying. He wanted to shoot the interior of the limo with tinted windows in place in very low light. This presented some challenges in that the green screen luminance was considerably less than optimal and, because of the high ISO needed to shoot in such low light, was much grainier than ideal as well. Of course we wanted to keep every hair on everyone’s head in the keys so we spent a lot of time finessing them.

Click the thumbnails to view the visual effects comparisons closer. Non-Rob images at the source.

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Robert Pattinson Wallpaper/Calendar In One

Robert Pattinson Wallpaper/Calendar In One

Ok seriously how cool is this? A wallpaper and calendar. Thanks to Dreams of Robert for making it!

It's resized to fit the screen, so just right click and save and it will save to full size!