Brian and Ferres passed on the very sad news that Letters to Juliet director Gary Winick passed away yesterday. From Deadline:

We are saddened to report that filmmaker Gary Winick died Sunday at age 49. Winick died after a long battle with brain cancer. While he has transitioned to such studio films as Letters to Juliet, 13 Going On 30, Bride Wars and Charlotte’s Web, Winick has long led the charge for independent films. He directed Tadpole and was also the founder of indie company InDigEnt.

More details on his career can be read in full here.

Please keep his family and loved ones in your thoughts. He will be missed.

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Whichever way you decide, the movie release is less than a month away – can’t wait!!

On a site note, I hadn’t realized a few of our content pages were down. All has been fixed. Thanks for all the heads up!

Gallery Link: Letters to Juliet: DVD Covers
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Deleted and extended scenes
Audio commentary with Director Gary Winick and Amanda Seyfried
The Making Of Letters To Juliet: In Italia
A Courtyard in Verona

Check back here for all the captures and media from the DVD when it’s released!

Thanks to Brian for the heads up!

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05.02.10: “Letters to Juliet” Press Conference

Romantic drama “Letters to Juliet” starring Amanda Seyfried had a modest but not terrible opening with $13.8 million. Distributor Summit Entertainment had been looking for an opening closer to $20 million based on pre-release polling. However, the mostly young and overwhelmingly female crowd gave the picture an average grade of A-, boosting hopes that the movie will continue to play well underneath summer event films for the next few weeks.

Summit spent $30 million to produce “Letters to Juliet” but has already recouped half that amount through tax credits and foreign pre-sales.

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“Letters to Juliet” finally opens today so make sure to go out and see it! Come back and let us know what you thought too – we’d love to know! Check out these reviews the movie is receiving:

“Redgrave brings a lovely gravity to the lightweight proceedings, while Seyfried again proves an ­unusually ­levelheaded presence.” – New York Daily News

“There are worse ways to spend a couple of hours. Set in some stunning locales in Italy, Letters is a guilty pleasure that’s lighter on the guilt and heavier on the pleasure. ” – USA Today

“I’d take any woman in my life, ages 10 to 100, to Letters to Juliet and my guess is we’d both leave with a little Italian glow. ” – Time

“Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy — and I mean that in a good way.” – Salon

Check out more at Rotten Tomatoes!

It seems that Amanda Seyfried has a soft spot for girls named Sophie. She played a Sophie in the hit musical flick “Mamma Mia,” and now she’s headed back to the big screen using the name in her new romantic movie, “Letters To Juliet.” It seems Amanda has some of both their characteristics somewhere inside of her, as well. We’re sure that makes playing the two Sophie’s that much easier!

“Well the Sophie in ‘Mamma Mia’ is more similar to me. I mean they’re both versions of me,” she told MTV News at the “Letters” junket in Verona earlier this month. “[The 'Mamma Mia' one] is a more similar version — she’s impulsive and scatterbrained and doesn’t really know who she is yet, but is willing to try and find out.”

On the other hand, Amanda explained that she doesn’t relate as much to the Sophie in her new movie (opening tomorrow). “She kind of knows who she is, maybe not what she wants, but sort of what she wants,” she said. “And she’s doing what she loves to do and she’s fearless.”

Source: MTV