Last night Amanda attended the opening night of “Next to Normal” at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. It’s good to see Amanda out at events again! Other guests included: Billie Joe Armstrong, Adam Brody, Kate Burton, Darren Criss, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Hyland, Chad Lowe, Kim Painter, Alec Mapa, Jena Malone, Adam Pascal, Jai Rodriguez, Sarah Silverman, Jenny Lee Stern, Tracie Thoms, and Jenna Ushkowitz. There’s only one photo in the gallery so far, but hopefully more will surface. Check it out by clicking the thumb on your left! Thanks to Brian for the heads up!
First, I hope all our US visitors had a great Thanksgiving yesterday and a successful Black Friday today! Here are photos from the set of “Now” on the 24th. Enjoy!
Gallery Link: On Set: November 24, 2010
As the year comes to closer to an end, more lists should pop up and today she’s one of Teen Vogue’s Best-Dressed Celebrities of 2010, coming in at #17. Check Amanda, and the rest of the list, here. Can’t wait to see Amanda on the red carpet in 2011!
Amanda was back on the set of “Now” (“I’m.mortal”) with Justin Timberlake yesterday and you can find the one photo in the gallery. Hopefully more will surface soon, but in the meantime, while things continue to be on the slow side, enjoy! Both of them, along with their car, seem pretty battered so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this play out on screen!
In “Red Riding Hood” updates, both stills and the poster have been replaced with HQ versions. Fingers crossed for more images soon!
Here’s a fantastic interview Hero Complex did with director Catherine Hardwicke in which she gives us great detail into the process of “Red Riding Hood”, including info on the song featured in the trailer which I know I was very curious about. You can check it out here or below. Enjoy!
Catherine Hardwicke understands impetuous teen heroines the way George Lucas reverse-engineers robot sidekicks. In March, the director of “Twilight” and “Thirteen” will unleash her newest troublemaker upon the world with a dark, sensuous spin on “Red Riding Hood.” Hardwicke’s trailer for “Red Riding Hood,” which stars Amanda Seyfried in the title role, has just premiered on Apple.com. Hero Complex writer Rebecca Keegan spoke to Hardwicke about modernizing the fairy tale, building her own medieval world and casting (as Little Red’s heartthrob) the actor who almost played Edward in “Twilight.”
RK: This red riding hood isn’t so little. She’s a young woman, apparently caught in a love triangle. Where did the idea of sexing up this folk tale originate?
CH: It came from Leonardo DiCaprio. He came up with the idea, “Wouldn’t it be cool to do a Gothic twist on Red Riding Hood, with the wolf being a werewolf, and just have a cool, sexy romantic thriller?” His company, Appian Way, commissioned David Leslie Johnson who wrote “Orphan” with them to write the screenplay.
RK: Where did you shoot this?
CH: Vancouver. It’s mostly a stage build. We had to build the village from scratch. It’s our own created world. Our village has very muscular, heavy timber construction. All the buildings are raised up on stilts and they have spikes because they’ve lived in fear, and paranoia for decades as they’ve been menaced by this wolf.
RK: After making “Twilight,” where fans felt such ownership over the story, is this a film in which you can create your own visual world?
CH: I think so. There’s so many versions of Red Riding Hood. It goes back 700 years. It’s much more open to interpretation. At the end of the fairy tale she’s saved by a woodcutter. That’s one of the reasons why we have the houses all out of heavy construction. We stayed true to the oldest telling of the stories in a lot of ways. There’s a great book called [Bruno Bettelheim's] “The Uses of Enchantment,” delving into the meaning and philosophy of fairy tales and why these stories have endured and gotten under our skin. That was very inspiring to me.
Check out the accompanying article HERE at MTV!
Yay, it’s finally here!! In addition to over 100 HD caps, you can also see the poster in the gallery — I really, really love it! Watch the trailer below or here at Apple. What did you all think?! Thanks to Brian, Kyleigh, and everyone else! :)
Gallery Links:
“Red Riding Hood” Posters
“Red Riding Hood” Trailer Captures
In Time
Gone
