HeyUGuys.UK spoke with Jake Scott about his film, Welcome To The Rileys, which is released on DVD on Monday the 27th of February (Preorder here via Amazon ). And he talks about Kristen and so much more.
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Feb 24, 2012
Dec 6, 2011
Nov 24, 2011
Jake Scott Talks About WTTR & Kristen In An Interview With The Scotsman
Restrained where Plunkett was flashy and kinetic, heartfelt where Plunkett was hollow, and character-driven where Plunkett was all about the plot, the film stars James Gandolfini as a grief-stricken husband whose listless marriage to Melissa Leo’s melancholy agoraphobe is saved by a young stripper (Kristen Stewart) he meets in New Orleans. Stewart – who had yet to achieve global stardom in Twilight when Scott was advised during a drunken night out in San Francisco to check her out by Sean Penn, who had just directed her in Into the Wild – is the film’s biggest revelation. “I met her the next day and she’s very twitchy,” laughs Scott. “But I knew immediately that she was the girl.” Her performance will shock and delight Twihards: slutty, fragile, bruised, foul-mouthed and real, her character, Mallory, could hardly be less Bella-like. On set, Scott had three different acting styles to contend with. While the Method actor Gandolfini – “I adore him,” says the filmmaker. “He’s f***ed up. He hates himself, I think, as an actor. But he is amazing” – was very script-oriented, the more instinctive Stewart “wouldn’t follow her lines, ever. You’d have to say, ‘Kristen, the scene’s about this. Not about that.’” Meanwhile, Leo was “like a fine character actress who brings so much experience and so much knowledge and grace and kindness.” Scott laughs. “So Jim would be punching walls. Melissa would be, ‘Oh, don’t worry about Jim.’ And Kristen would be, like, twitching in the corner. It was a madhouse.”
Source: Scotman | Via: RobstenDreams
Oct 8, 2011
UK Movie And DVD Release Date For 'Welcome To The Rileys'
Duncan Stripp, Aquisations Manager at High Filers Films Pic who have acquired the rights to Welcome to the Rileys in the UK, has confirmed to @KrisensLegs via email their intentions for the release.
"The film will be shown at the Empire Leicester Square w/c 18th November and is due for release on DVD on 20th of February 2012."
Via: Robstenation
Source: @KristensLegs
Sep 8, 2011
Welcome to the Rileys DVD out in Germany on Oct. 7
'Welcome to the Rileys' will be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on October 7th.
Water for Elephants will be released on September 30th. Pre-order it here.
May 10, 2011
Kristen Won "Best Acting Performance Female" At Milan Film Festival For WTTR
Kristen won a Leonardo Horse Award in the category "Best Acting Performance Female" at the Milan Film Festival 2011 for her performance in "Welcome To The Rileys". She couldn't accept the award personally, but she'll retain it as soon as possible in Los Angeles.
Congrats to Kristen!
Apr 8, 2011
WTTR Obtains 3 Milan Film Festival Nominations
Visit the official Milan Film Festival page to view the nominations!
Winner will be announced and awarded on May 10, 2011 in Milan.
(Translated)
Winner will be announced and awarded on May 10, 2011 in Milan.
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Kristen Stewart returns to the big screen with "Welcome to the Rileys, "the story of Lois and Doug Riley (James Gandolfini and Oscar winner Melissa Leo), which was shaken by the loss of her daughter, which occurred eight years earlier, find the strength to start again to live and to love after meeting a young stripper named Mallory (Kristen Stewart).
Jake Scott's film is among the candidates for the 2011 Milan International Film Festival, an event to be held in Milan May 4 to 14, where it competes with three nominations: best film (directed by Jake Scott), Best Actor (James Gandolfini) and best actress (Kristen Stewart).
World Team, in collaboration with the MIFF gives you the unique opportunity to participate in the screening of "Welcome To The Rileys, " normally reserved for members of the Academy in Milan, scheduled for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 19:30 at the Spazio Oberdan Milan Viale Vittorio Veneto 2/ang Porta Venezia.
Jake Scott's film is among the candidates for the 2011 Milan International Film Festival, an event to be held in Milan May 4 to 14, where it competes with three nominations: best film (directed by Jake Scott), Best Actor (James Gandolfini) and best actress (Kristen Stewart).
World Team, in collaboration with the MIFF gives you the unique opportunity to participate in the screening of "Welcome To The Rileys, " normally reserved for members of the Academy in Milan, scheduled for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 19:30 at the Spazio Oberdan Milan Viale Vittorio Veneto 2/ang Porta Venezia.
The new and hard work of Kristen Stewart, known to many for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight Saga, being screened in a film festival, it is forbidden to an audience of less than 18 years, so those who like to participate preview will be compulsory to age. The screening will be in their original language with Italian subtitles. Waiting for your email to pubblico@teamworld.it (Rileys object) with name and surname of those who want to participate in the preview, not later than 11.00 am on Monday, April 11. (OLDER ONLY)
source | via @vonch | via pattinsonstew
source | via @vonch | via pattinsonstew
Mar 26, 2011
Mar 12, 2011
Mar 3, 2011
Our Readers' Reviews of "Welcome To The Rileys"
We are very happy to share two amazing WTTR reviews with you, written by two of our (Swiss) readers. We'd like to thank them both for writing their impressions down and sharing them with us :)
Written by @Stupid69Lamb:
Ok, since the lovely @AdorableKStew stood me up when we were supposed to go watch „Welcome To The Rileys“ together, she asked me to write a review for her blog. :)
Directed by Jake Scott (son of Ridley Scott), 'Welcome to the Riley's' tells the story of Doug (played by James Gandolfini) who lives at home with his depressed wife Lois (Melissa Leo) who hasn't left the house in several years. Both struggle with the loss of their teenage daughter who was killed in a car accident. One day on a business trip, Doug runs into Mallory (Kristen Stewart), an underage stripper and prostitute who is troubled and lost. He starts taking care of her and slowly starts to find his way back into life.
The movie is slow at the beginning to show the audience how dull the life of Lois and Doug has become after the death of their daughter. They both seem to have died with her. As soon as he runs into Mallory, the movie picks up speed and grabs you. This is also due to Kristens stellar performance. She is soo realistic, switches without effort from a tough, swearing stripper/prostitute to the scared and vulnerable little girl who craves affection and a safe haven. Those are the parts that I loved best. To see Mallory ask Doug to please not be mad at her and trying to get some comforting and fatherly human contact from him is both thrilling and heart-breaking. You just want to hug her and tell her that everything will be alright. The chemistry between her and Gandolfini is amazing! They play off another perfectly. It’s truely a joy to watch them interact. Leo’s performance was also Oscar-worthy and, although she was a somber, depressed and troubled woman, she was responsible for some comic relief in the movie. The scene when she tries to drive a car after many years is simply hilarious. :)
I also loved the fact that the director and the screenwriter chose an ending that was subtle and realistic.
To sum it up „Welcome To The Rileys“ is a strongly character-driven movie with amazing performances, a good direction and a decent storyline. A must see for all who appreciate great acting and a realistic dramatic film.
Written by @VanessaRosaly:
James Gandolfini: I liked his acting, I really did. His character found in this parentless young girl his fatherfeelings back. He’s been cheating his wife for years and after the death of Viviane (his affair) and his trip to New Orleans he can be himself again, since the death of his daughter. In the scene where he’s searching his wife in New Orleans, Doug Riley looked so lovely and happy about the step his wife Lois did. James gives Doug this important passion about caring and loving his family.
Kristen Stewart: Wow, just wow! She grew up in this or with this movie! Her role Mallory had a hard character, but Kristen got the talent to give Mallory a soul and some good emotions. In the beginning of Doug’s New Orleans trip, when he met her, I was shocked, really. The beautiful Bella actress spoke with lots of f*** words and her vocabulary was really bad, but Kristen’s acting was great! She deserved a Oscar nomination. I loved her!
Melissa Leo: She’s got the talent to act with herself in the first part of the movie. I liked the scene Lois drove to New Orleans and got panic attacs etc. Her acting in the garage was also great! I liked her mimic, she’s like frozen and looks stonily. The whole attitude with her hair and the clothes in the beginning, then in New Orleans her hair was changed and she was alive again. With Mallory she started to be a mom again, like in the scene in the bathroom or in the clothes store, I liked it. Lois was over 9 years in a deep depression and with Doug’s trip to New Orleans she could escape from the dark and save her marriage.
The movie: I liked the long filmed scene, the motion picture could release its emotions and feelings. And the soundtrack was the final touch.
Conclusion: It was a great independent movie and I already ordered it on DVD.
Thank you both, again, for writing those two reviews and sharing them with us!
Feb 17, 2011
This Week's Swiss Box Office for "Welcome To The Rileys"
Compared to last week's Box Office Numbers, 1056 people more have seen WTTR in the time from Feb. 10th to Feb. 16th.
By today, 3205 people have seen "Welcome To The Rileys" in the Swiss cinemas, which has been shown on 7 screens so far, more screens to be added in the following weeks.
So if you still have the chance to watch this outstanding movie, grab your friends and go watch it!
We'll also post some reviews of our Swiss readers by next week, looking forward to their opinion :)
Feb 11, 2011
"Welcome To The Rileys" - Swiss Box Office Numbers
After one week in the Swiss-German cinemas, 2136 people have seen "Welcome To The Rileys" which has been shown on 5 screens by now.
WTTR will be released in more cinemas in the following weeks.
You can find some reviews, the trailer and showtimes here.
Feb 9, 2011
'Welcome to the Rileys' review from 'Film Demnächst' magazine - Switzerland
Translation:
Welcome to the Rileys
The focus in this harmonious as well as touching film lies on lost souls and incredible actors. The fact that the “Twilight” – star Kristen Stewart strips is at most secondary.
On a business trip Doug (James Gandolfini) meets the young dancer Mallory (Kristen Stewart) in a strip club in New Orleans. The sullen runaway thinks he’s a typical john, however Mallory reminds Doug painfully of his daughter, who died eight years ago in a car accident. A loss with which neither his wife Lois (Melissa Leo) nor he himself were ever able to deal with. Doug decides to stay in New Orleans and take care of Mallory…
Director Jake Scott achieved, (after “Plunkett &MacLeane”) to create a subtle-sentimental Indie-drama, intelligent – narrated in a flowing rhythm and perfectly made. All this with a mind-boggling cast. The chemistry between James Gandolfini (“The Sopranos” “I wanted to play someone who doesn’t kill for once”) and Melissa Leo (“Frozen River”) is unique, harmonious and touching. The both of them together give a very natural, wonderful, authentic couple. That Kristen Stewart not only curses and shows more skin than in the “teen-vampire-saga”, but also succeeds to hold her own next two those two incredible performances, shows the incredible talent this girl posesses and provides an insight into the human soul – in a movie that enthuses till the very end with its intensity.
Translation:
Kristen Stewart: Life after Twilight
Out of the twilight of the teen-vampire-saga, into the twilight of a strip-club: Kristen Stewart fights her image successfully in “Welcome to the Rileys” and proves that she’s a versatile actress with a striking on-screen-presence.
Even if it came to be nearly secondary to her as well as the rest of the world during the last three years of hype about the “Twilight-Saga”: there’s a life after Twilight for the 20 year-old actress. And achieving that is not going to be easy. She is still associated too strongly to the role of Bella Swan – and not only the fans think that way. Even if her role as Mallory in “Welcome to the Rileys” is very clichéd, Kristen Stewart grabs the chance to show off her talent as a versatile young actress and understands the importance of that, “This is for me, personally, the most important role I’ve ever played. No character has ever touched me as much as this one.” Director Jake Scott didn’t hire her because of her role in the “Twilight Saga” either, “I was enraptured by her performance in Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild”. And as soon as she stepped over my threshold, the deal was made for me.” And Stewart didn’t hesitate to accept, “I’ve come to be an actress because of roles like this”, she says. “roles like this one, that are about feelings and with which I can come close to really big actors.” She succeeds to hold her own next to James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo with performance of the cursing, self-destructive Mallory.
Here at the source you can read the whole article in German
Feb 7, 2011
WTTR DVD Featurette "Creating The Rileys"
youtube: source & source | via brandheroin | via pattinsonstew
Reminder: WTTR is still in the Swiss cinemas, go and watch it if you can!
Feb 6, 2011
Swiss National TV Reviews "Welcome To The Rileys"
Here are some snippets from the video (they mainly speak about the plot):
"From a totally new perspective we get to know the wispy Bella from the vampire series 'Twilight' in the film 'Welcome To The Rileys'. Half-naked and debauched she appears in the second film by Jake Scott, son of director Ridley Scott. Is he as talented as his father? We say: Yes he is."
"'Welcome To The Rileys' is a wonderfully unsentimental drama."
Feb 5, 2011
Swiss Newspapers Review "Welcome To The Rileys"
A damaged middle-aged man and a young prostitute set up house together.
Since their daughter died 8 years ago, Doug and Lois' marriage has been on the rocks. In New Orleans for a convention, Doug meets a young stripper that reminds him of his dead child and decides to stay to take of her, hoping he can help her find a way out of prostitution. Slowly these two broken souls form a relationship...
Although saddled with a predictable plot, the second film by Jake Scott, son of Ridley Scott, is nevertheless sensitive and moving, with some fine acting by stars James Gandolfini , Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo.
An outsider is rehearsing the moving standstill
Despair, sorrow, death: Rarely someone has produced this as calm as Jake Scott with "Welcome To The Rileys".
It begins with a burning car. And a man lighting a cigarette in the dark, while others celebrate in the background. Whoever has expected a feel good movie, is realizing by now that "Welcome To The Rileys" is not an invitation, but rather a warning.
Director Jake Scott, son of master director Ridley Scott ("Alien," "Gladiator"), proves in his second film a feeling for outsider topics, which were a few years ago common in the American art-house cinemas but in recent times rare.
Tears, Pills, Affairs
Doug Riley (James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos") is a heavyweight mid-fifty and co-owner of a hardware store, has an affair with a dark-skinned waitress and goes in the garage to cry.
His wife Lois (Melissa Leo) has isolated herself from the outer world, and seeks her salvation in pills. The reason for this comes out only when Doug sets out for a business trip.
From the tombstone to the strip bar
What follows, could amount to nothing more than a classical tears-weeper-dramaturgy. But Ken Dixon's screenplay affords surprises which lift "Welcome To The Rileys" way above the average.
When Doug, whose wife has already bought a grave stone for him, arrives in New Orleans, he discovers the very young Mallory (Kristen Stewart, "Twilight") at a strip shed.
She reminds him so much of his deceased daughter, so he stays to look after her. It's this courage to standstill, which distinguishes "Welcome To The Rileys".
The characters will be granted the opportunity to try something - no guarantee that it will work. That makes Doug, Mallory and Lois in their loneliness so complex. And this film, despite some clichéd moments, so lovable.
"Welcome To The Rileys" has hit the Swiss-German Theatres last Thursday. Check the trailer, more reviews and your screenings here.
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