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The coverage from the Premiere starts at 44:29 - New Red Carpet interview with Rob. At 32 there's more coverage from the press conference.
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May 29, 2012
'Cosmopolis' Portugal Press Conference
Director David Cronenberg and actor Robert Pattinson were at the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon, this Tuesday, at the press conference for the film 'Cosmopolis', produced by Paulo Branco, while dozens of fans were waiting outside the premiere, scheduled for this night.
The film, - which premiered in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival in France last week, but didn't win any prize - will have it's second public screening in Lisbon, for a premiere at the CCB at 8:30PM, with the appearance of Cronenberg and the movie's lead actor, Robert Pattinson. There is another premiere scheduled, at 10PM at Monumental Cinema, also with the presence of both.
During a meeting today with the press, the Canadian director and British actor, accompanied by producer Paulo Branco told us some details about the shooting of the film, an adaptation of the novel by Don DeLillo.
At the entrance of the CCB, where a red carpet is already set, about twenty Pattinson fans at 12PM, were already waiting for tonight's premiere. Among them were four Spanish girls from Valladolid, that are there since Monday night.
'Cosmopolis' is the first film where Robert Pattinson worked with David Cronenberg, after being the lead actor of the vampire saga "Twilight," a worldwide box office success.
Robert Pattinson plays the role of a millionaire, Eric Parker, who want to go across New York in a limousine to get a haircut.
The trip, that lasts a whole day, is a metaphor about his life and his selfdestruction until a final confrontation - a crucial dialogue in the movie - with a former employee (played by actor Paul Giamatti).
"The dialogues from the book were what gave me the certainty that this could be a movie. They were dramatic, interesting. Don DeLillo wrote very specific dialogues and I transcribed all of them for [the script], "Cronenberg said.
Robert Pattinson, who has in "Cosmopolis" the first major dramatic role of his career, admitted that he was "scared" at the beginning because he didn't know if the movie would work, since it had too much text, the story is set inside a limousine and he's in almost every scene.
Now that the movie is done, the actor admits that he thinks about acting and cinema differently. Pointed as one of the actors that will be on the sequel of "The Hunger Games" [Note: he already denied those rumors] we don't know much about his future projects. Pattinson says that he doesn't know what kind of characters he would like to play in the future, but that he has a wish: "I just hope to play good characters."
Cronenberg caused a hearty laugh at the press conference when he said that he chose Pattinson because "he was very inexpensive, he was available and would follow the director's orders."
"I saw some of his interviews on Youtube and I noticed his sense of humor. We had fun filming, even though it's a dark movie (...). I had to kind of convince him, but not to convince him it would be an interesting movie, but to convince him that he was the right one to do the role," he said.
David Cronenberg, 69, director of movies like "Videodrome" (1983), 'The Fly' (1986), "Crash" (1996) and "A History of Violence" (2005), said he is still digesting everything that the film represents.
"We showed the film at Cannes and it was the first time I watched it with an audience. I Still don't know what the movie brought to my life, but it already made a difference. We have been quoting parts of the movie. The movie means many things," he said.
This was the first time that Paulo Branco worked with David Cronenberg, to whom he suggested the adaptation of the novel by Don DeLillo.
'Cosmopolis', that will be released in Portugal on Thursday, is considered an independent film, with a budget of 15 million euros.
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Apr 20, 2012
Paulo Branco talks about the Portuguese Cosmopolis Premiere
Paulo Branco talked to Portugal's newspaper Correio da Manha about the 'Cosmopolis' Portuguese Premiere and said that the event will be on May 28 and there will also be a screening on May 29. Rob, Giamatti, Cronenberg and DeLillo will attend.
Guimarães – Capital Europeia da Cultura will have an unprecedented turnout on May 28, when the English actor Robert Pattinson, idol of millions of movie fans, will attend the premiere of 'Cosmopolis', directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Paulo Branco, days after learning if they won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.Major flooding will certainly happen on May 29, in the two 'Cosmopolis' screenings in Lisbon. One will take place at Centro Cultural de Belém, while the other will be open to the public, and Pattinson (and other actors, including Paul Giamatti) will be with the fans. The 'team' also includes the filmmaker David Cronenberg and writer Don DeLillo, whose novel is the basis of the film."I hope the fans are more civilized here," said Paulo Baulo to the CM, acknowledging that Pattinson's stay in "Cannes is a concern," since his last time in the French city the reactions were described as Beatles-like.In the film which opens in 30 theaters on May 31st, Pattinson plays a character very different from the vampire 'Edward Cullen', star of Twilight. This is the odyssey of a Manhattan mogul that runs through the city (although shooting has taken place in Toronto and not in New York) in his limousine.'Cosmopolis' wants the Palme d'Or'Cosmopolis' is in a list of candidates for the Palme d'Or in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival, revealed yesterday. According to Paulo Branco, producer of the film where David Cronenberg has made a metaphor about the capitalism crisis, to find yourself in this list "will only provide visibility throughout the world" to the project. Besides the 11th film produced by Branco candidate for the top prize at Cannes, the festival which runs from May 16-27 features works by Walter Salles ("On the Road"), Leos Carax ("Holy Motors"), Michael Haneke ("Amour") and Wes Anderson, whose 'Moonrise Kingdom' opens an exhibition.
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