Category: The Spectacular Now

Shailene on HuffPost Live

July 25, 2013

Shailene appeared on HuffPost Live to talk about The Spectacular Now with co-star Miles Teller. Unfortunately the video won’t embed but you can watch the interview right here.

HUFFPOST — John Green is a genius. Don’t take our word for it (though we’re huge fans here), as that’s what Shailene Woodley, who plays Hazel Grace Lancaster in the forthcoming “The Fault in Our Stars” movie, says when asked about the book’s author.

However, when she came in to talk to HuffPost Live, along with co-star from “The Spectacular Now” Miles Teller, she hadn’t yet learned how to do the Nerdfighter salute, so we taught her, with a little help from the Vlogbrothers.

Shailene appearing on ‘New York Live’

July 24, 2013

Shailene and co-star Miles Teller were on New York Live this morning to talk about and promote their new film The Spectacular Now. Check out the photo below! I’ve been searching around for videos from the appearance, with no luck at the moment. I’ll be sure to make a post if I find anything.

Watch the First Clip (and First Kiss) From the Summer Romance ‘The Spectacular Now’

July 24, 2013

VULTURE – There’s a truly remarkable scene in The Spectacular Now, out August 2, that knocked me flat when I saw it at the Sundance Film Festival. It stars Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley as two high schoolers embarking on a tentative romance, and it’s the beginning of that relationship that the movie nails so well: Over the course of one long scene, these two kids who don’t have much in common — Teller’s character Sutter isn’t used to girls who are as down to earth as Woodley’s Aimee, while Aimee can’t conceive that the popular Sutter would have any interest in her — have a conversation on the way back from a lakeside party, and at the end, they share their first awkward kiss. At the end of this long, single take, which must span about five minutes, I was convinced that I had just watched two people fall in love.

We’ve got the tail end of that scene as a Vulture exclusive — hey, if you want to see the whole thing, you’ll have to buy a ticket — but here’s what director James Ponsoldt had to say about it.

“This is one of my favorite scenes in the entire movie. I always knew I wanted to film in it one long, continuous, unedited take, walking and talking with Aimee and Sutter, feeling like we — the audience — are part of a natural conversation that ebbs and flows from goofy and awkward to serious to emotional to flirtatious and nervous to … a first kiss. I wanted the scene to feel as natural as life. Of course, it meant that the burden was on Shailene and Miles to nail the scene (in a long take, everything has to come together perfectly, or else the shot is useless), and our camera operator had to back-pedal for 5 minutes on a muddy, slippery path.

What Shailene and Miles ultimately did in this scene is so casual and unguarded and spontaneous that some people think the scene was improvised. It wasn’t. Shailene and Miles are just that great as actors — so present, so connected to their roles, and so willing to embrace whatever happens in the moment (bumping into a tree branch or swatting a pesky mosquito, hearing rumbling storm clouds, etc.).

To put it simply, here’s why this scene is one of my favorites: It actually feels like two people falling for each other.

I’ve seen this scene over a thousand times and I still get chills when Miles and Shailene kiss. I’m so, so inspired by their beautiful work.”

‘The Spectacular Now’ Trailer

June 20, 2013

The HD version of the trailer for The Spectacular Now is now available, be sure to take a look! I am so beyond excited to see this film – August just can’t come soon enough.

‘The Spectacular Now’ Gets Release Date

February 28, 2013

DEADLINE.COM – Upstart distributor A24 has set a June 14 limited theatrical release launch of the Sofia Coppola-directed The Bling Ring, and it has set an August 2 limited release for the James Ponsoldt-directed The Spectacular Now. This spring, A24 launches Ginger & Rosa and Spring Breakers, films also aiming at a young demographic.

The Bling Ring stars Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Gavin Rossdale and Paris Hilton, latter of whom was actually ripped off by the title characters, young bandits who broke into the homes of well to do celebutantes. The film’s based on the Vanity Fair article The Suspects Wore Louboutins by Nancy Jo Sales.

The Spectacular Now was scripted by (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber and stars Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Elizabeth Winstead in a drama about a mismatched young high school students. It was bought at Sundance in January.

‘The Spectacular Now’ Added to SXSW Lineup

February 13, 2013

INDIEWIRE – It looks like SXSW is going to be a bit of Sundance South in 2013. With Park City premieres like “Don Jon’s Addiction,” “Computer Chess,” “Prince Avalanche,” “Before Midnight” and “Upstream Color” all headed to Austin, one more movie that unspooled at the festival is making its way to the city of BBQ.

Zal Batmanglij’s “The East” will be the Closing Night film of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. It’s familiar territory for the director, who followed a similar trajectory in 2011 with “Sound Of My Voice,” with that film too taking a bow at Sundance and playing SXSW a couple months later. But capping off an exciting week or so of moviegoing is a nice way to return. The film stars Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgard, Brit Marling and Patricia Clarkson, and tells the story of a young woman who infiltrates a radical environmentalist activist group but finds her moral boundaries becoming blurred.

As we noted in our review, the film is one that should get many people talking, and it seems like a good note to end SXSW on. Meanwhile, even more Sundance titles have also been added to the lineup including James Ponsoldt’s “The Spectacular Now,” docs “Muscle Shoals,” “Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer” and “Linsanity” as well as Ramin Bahrani’s “At Any Price” and many more. Check out the official website for more details. The festival runs from March 8-16.