12th Annual Golden Trailer Award Nominees

UPDATE: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger won in the "Best Foreign/International Poster" category. You can find a list of all the winners here.

Red Riding Hood has been nominated for "Best Foreign/International Poster" at the Golden Trailer Awards. The other nominees include: I Am Love, The Tourist, and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. 

 

Winners will be announced at the Award Show on Wednesday June 29th, 2011 at the Music Box Theater in LA.

Screencaps from the Movie

The wonderful people at Amanda Seyfried Fan and Shiloh Fernandez Source have uploaded screencaps from the recent Blu-ray release of Red Riding Hood.

Screencaps featuring Amanda Seyfried (including the alternate ending)

Screencaps featuring Shiloh Fernandez

Secrets Behind the Red Cloak

One of the special features on the Blu-ray disc is a picture in picture commentary with Catherine, Max, Amanda, and Shiloh. Along with their commentary are interviews and behind the scenes footage. Below are some of the more interesting things revealed throughout the commentary.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

-The actress who played Young Valerie played the younger counterpart of Amanda Seyfried in Jennifer's Body.

 

-This shot of Valerie is a favorite of everyone's.

 
-Shiloh Fernandez cut down trees as part of his woodcutter training. His axe trainer appears in the scene.

-Shiloh and Amanda fought the day this scene was shot. It was the only day Catherine Hardwicke was really mad at them because of their fighting.

-This set was inspired by Monet's paintings of haystacks.

-Amanda knitted throughout the shoot, but sadly, Max Irons did not recieve a knitted gift.

-The exterior of the mountain side was quickly errected on the soundstage. The mountain location they were meant to film at experience an avalenche the week before.

-The interiors of the cave were filmed in a copper mine.

-The real wolf was not happy to be part of the film.

-Max did 300 "press ups" immediately before this scene. Despite that and working out 6 months at the gym, he was still too skinny for a blacksmith.

-During his blacksmith training, Max learned to make coat hooks and fire pokers.

-Many of the extras devised their own character senarios (including marriages). One extra decided she was pregnant and decided to go into labor during the wolf attack. This scenario did not work for Catherine.

-Gary Oldman, despite initally saying differently, was terrified of horses.

-Everyone had a crush on Gary. According to Sholoh, "Gary Oldman is the shit."

-The fire Amanda passes during the celebration scene was 170 degrees. She claimed that she would not be doing that pass again.

-Amanda and Shiloh had another fight the day of their kissing scene. Shloh ate a veggie dog with onions, which Amanda dislikes. Amanda chose to eat pickles, which Shiolh was not too fond of.

-Billy would sometimes read the wolf's lines on the set. He wore a wire rig to show the dimension of the wolf's nose, so he would not get too close to Amanda.

-It is not Amada and Shiloh on the mountain, but a pair of stunt doubles.

-The crow (which was really a raven) was overweight and could not fly.

-They once forgot Cole Heppell (Claude) in the elephant. Oops.

-The plate of meat Father Solomon eats was Gary Oldman's idea. Everyone agrees that it's nasty.

-Julie Christie came up with the idea for the Grandmother to hit the apple out of the soldier's hand.

-Julie Christie kissed Shiloh every morning in the makeup chair (on the lips). Max only got a cheek kiss.

-Billy Burke did his own stunts.

-Amanda was sad Billy did not have his stache.

-Lukas Haas and Gary Oldman know every Beatles song and would sing on set.

-Poor Max hit his head several times. (Can be seen on the gag reel)

-Catherine would sometimes read the wolf's lines. She even went as far as threatening Amanda's dog Finn to get a reaction.

-The final hour of the day is known as the "Final Frenzy." Catherine wears a special baseball cap and chocolate is handed out to the cast/crew.

-Shiloh wanted to see Billy in drag.

-Max admits he enjoyed being in drag when he was in drama school. He felt sexually powerful as a woman.

-Shiloh had to learn to row the boat. They once left him out in the water as they began to pack up to leave the location.

-Rhythm and Hues, who created the wolves, watched footage of Shiloh while creating his wolf counterpart.

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You can see the entire gag reel on the Blu-ray disc.

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Red Riding Hood- Cosmic Love

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Collider Interview with Catherine Hardwicke--Including New Details on Her Upcoming Projects

What do you enjoy about doing commentary for your films? Do you think it’s important for audiences to understand the work that goes into making a film, especially with something like this?

HARDWICKE: Yeah. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it’s really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself, with the D.P. and stuff. We weren’t able to do a technical one, but you can hear myself and the actors speaking about the whole process of making the film, which can be very fun and interesting. When I talk to film students, I always say, “Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,” because that’s such a great learning tool.

You seem to enjoy the casting process, as much as you do making the actual film. Does it feel like a magical experience to have that moment where you realize that you’ve found the person that’s perfect for the role that you’re casting?

HARDWICKE: Oh, yes! I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, “I know I can make a good movie now.” And, it was the same thing here. When I saw Amanda [Seyfried] and Shiloh [Fernandez] interacting and their chemistry, I thought, “Okay, that’s pretty sexy. That can be steamy. I feel something between these two characters.” You love those moments, as a filmmaker, or when an actress comes in and reads a small part, like the girl that played the mean girl in the movie. She was just so diabolical that I loved it. You’re like, “Yes!” I never expected it to be that way, but the actress might bring this whole other layer and just give you the chills. Those are exciting moments.

Is The Bitch Posse the next project that you’re going to focus on?

HARDWICKE: That is a really fun one. As a director, you’ve got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light. But, the writer and myself and Virginia Madsen have been working on that for the last few days. The writer came out from New York. It’s very interesting. The writer has to sit down now and really roll up her sleeves and do the hard work of putting pen to paper, so I’m not sure how long that will take. I have another project that looks like it’s going to go first. It’s in Sweden and Germany, and it’s really wild. I can’t quite talk about it, but we’ll probably do the announcement in a couple of weeks. It’s a very fun, very crazy story that goes back to more of my Thirteen days. It’s more indie, raw and gritty, and it’s a true story.

Check out the entire interview here. 

Red Riding Hood DVD Release Twitter Party

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Theatrical Cut vs. Alternate Cut of Red Riding Hood

There are only three more days till Red Riding Hood is out on Blu-ray & DVD!

The Blu-ray disc boats, not only a slew of special features, but an "alternate cut" of the movie. Can't wait till Tuesday to find out what's in the alternate cut? Check out a breakdown of the additional material here.

Enter to Win Red Riding Hood on Blu-ray

 

Next Movie is giving away three copies of Red Riding Hood on Blu-ray. You can find all the entry details here. The contest ends on June 15th.

The Bromance Continues- Adrian Holmes Talks Red Riding Hood

PH: What I really liked about this film was the medieval setting, and I understand that filming took place in Vancouver, can you comment a bit on the setting? Did wearing that medieval armor help you really get into the character?
AH: Yeah, well Cindy Evans was the Costume Designer and she did an amazing job with all the costumes. Like any role the costumes are so important, as soon as you put them on it really helps you become the character. With the armor the Captain really came to life. We shot in the summertime so it was hot but the material they used was quite breathable so it definitely wasn’t as hot as it looked. We shot it in a sound stage in Burnaby which was great and they did a nice job with this village and made it look like it was outside. We had three sound stages and I was just in awe every day I walked on set.

PH: What was it like working with Catherine Hardwicke?
AH: It was a delight. She was very professional, prepared, passionate and excited to make a movie. She was like a kid in a candy store and at the end of the day when your energy got low she would bring chocolate to pick up our energy, and it worked. She was really sweet, very generous and we got along very well. We had a great time in London for the UK premiere and I’m really grateful to have met her.

PH: What about your thoughts working with Gary Oldman? I hear he’s a pretty funny guy off set.
AH: Gary Oldman’s great, I really loved working with him. He’s got a great sense of humour and I can’t say enough about that guy, he’s top-notch. I’ve always been a big fan of his ever since I saw Dracula so to work with him was surreal for me.

Check out the entire interview here.  
And here for more of Adrian & Gary's bromance. 

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The contest  will end on June 16th.

Catherine Hardwicke on Her New 'Red Riding Hood' Cut and 'fighting the fight' as a Director

Looking back at the whole experience what did you enjoy about making the movie? What do you look back at after the past year and a half with fondness?
I always love the casting process and I love working with actors and I love finding chemistry between two actors and making discoveries.  I was very honored to work with Gary Oldman who I have admired forever, so I loved talking through scenes [with him]. love rehearsals and shooting too.  We had a fast schedule. It's still an adrenalin rush to be right there in that moment where we've got this much time to capture this moment on screen - that's super fun. The design phase.  I had always wanted to design a film that was from the imagination, a fairy tale setting that we got to design all the sets and the costumes and they were definitely creating a whole world. I did a lot of drawings myself and just getting into that.  The music.  Every step of the way you wish you had more time or money to make it better, but then you try to do the best you can in each moment.  But you love it, so it's a love/hate affair I think.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but have to tell you, I really thought the movie would do better at the box office than it did.  Whether it's the film or marketing or the release date, do you look back and go, "This maybe wasn't the right way to go"?  We made a strategic error here?
So far it's made $90 million worldwide, so that's not too bad.  But, I'm sure every studio looks back at every release and goes, 'Why didn't that one work?  Why didn't that do as well as we thought?  Did we put it out on the right weekend? Did we give the filmmaker enough time or money to finish it?'  I'm sure they second guess themselves. They have to.  Monday morning quarterback meetings.  I'm sure that happens.  As a filmmaker I think you always think you always wish you had more time.  We shot it in 42 days. I had many cool ideas and things you don't get to do if you only have 42 days. Horses and animals and CG wolves and everything.  And the release date was moved up and I would have loved to have had more time to try different ideas and things and have a little more time to work on stuff. I think that's most films.  Some people get a year in post and I envy those directors.  They get to try different ideas.  My friend [Gavin O'Connor] who did 'Warrior' has had two years. He shot it two years before mine came out.  He gets to go play with it more.   Of course I am envious of that luxury to have time to think about things and time to shoot. That's what we all wish for.

When you make your next project does that make additional time a priority?
Well you hope to find some way to protect that time that you need.  And that's a challenge.  Directors that get 135 days or a year to shoot or a year to edit, those are jobs that are few and far between.  And only certain kind of movies get that.  [Or that the studio can justify] spending that amount of money.  It's a challenge as a filmmaker. Every time you do the best you can with the resources you are given and to protect your integrity and your vision and you try your hardest to do the job.  We fight the fight every day. (Laughs).  I was talking to some filmmakers last night about this exact subject.  'How do you know?  How do you fight the fight? How do you get enough money to do it?'  If you get too much money then you have too many studios notes and too much expectation. So, it's a struggle every day.  My next project I want to do an indie film and it looks like I'm going to do a really cool, raw, kind of indie film in Europe and that seems like it's going to happen. It's almost come together. More back to my roots like 'Thirteen' days.  That doesn't really mean I'll have a bigger budget, but a different kind of beast.  Different challenges to fight.

Check out the entire interview here. (If you don't want the alternate ending spoiled, do not read the beginning of the interview)

Catherine Hardwicke Talks Red Riding Hood with Movie Web

How is this Alternate Cut different from what we saw in the theatrical release?
Catherine Hardwicke: Its only twenty seconds longer. We have an alternate ending. When we were cutting the film...Actually, while we were shooting it, I said, "Hey, why don't you let me try this?" I tried this new ending. I liked it. Its fun. It's a bit more provocative. It's got a little bit more of a twist. It's a little bit sexier. It's a different choice. I think both endings are fun, but this one gives you a little something extra to talk about. But its only twenty seconds longer.

I love the way this movie looks, in terms of art direction and set design. How did you draw towards some of the visual ques we see in Red Riding Hood?
Catherine Hardwicke: From the start, I was intrigued by what David Johnson did as a screenwriter, and what Leonardo DiCaprio's company did. They went back to the original version of this story. Where the wolf was a werewolf. Back in the 1200s, people believed that idea. I liked that idea. It gave you this chance to reveal that the wolf is someone that lives in the village. There is a homegrown sense of paranoia. And the fact that the village had been tormented by this wolf, in this story, for over twenty years. That would mean that over twenty or thirty years, there would be a built-in paranoia when it came to the architecture of the village. That is what we tried to do. I started looking at Northern Russian architecture, where I found these big rustic log buildings that were built up on stilts, with ladders that were removable at night. They had these huge wooden shudders. Ad they had these scary totems that were carved into them, that would scare away the bad spirits. I thought it would be great if the whole town had embraced this spirit of paranoia. The psyche. It was in these pointed logs, and things. That was our inspiration for the town, for the design, and the woods. The primal fear of going into the dark woods alone. Our production designer enhanced that by having the twisted trees with the huge thorns on them. I thought it all added to the mythic quality, and the fear that you feel, in this fairy tale. Our cinematographer, Mandy Walker...A female cinematographer, yes! She did such a great job lighting it. She captured that mood, which you could see in the movie, of that fear and that paranoia.

Check out the entire interview here.

Red Riding Hood Love Triangle

It's Henry vs Peter. Help Valerie decide between the two here.

Really, its just an excuse to look at pictures of them for a while.

 Too cute.

Catherine Hardwicke Movie Marathon

In anticipation for the upcoming release of Red Riding Hood on DVD/Blu-ray, why not have your own Catherine Hardwicke Movie Marathon? Starting June 10th through the 14th, watch all of Hardwicke's directorial features. 

 

June 10th- Thirteen

June 11th- Lords of Dogtown

June 12th- The Nativity Story

June 13th- Twilight

June 14th- Red Riding Hood

How about a Billy Burke Marathon? Check out the actor's IMDb pages to mix & match for your own RRH marathon.

Billy Burke

Amanda Seyfried

Gary Oldman

Julie Christie

Shiloh Fernandez

Max Irons

Virginia Madsen

Lukas Haas

Catherine Hardwicke Talks RRH's Alternate Ending and Her Upcoming Project (Fingers Crossed)

CG: There's a much darker, alternate ending to Red Riding Hood. As a director, did you get attached to one particular ending?

CH: I like both endings! They're very different. If I had it my way, I would have had one ending in one theater and one in another.

CG: Where do you draw from, as far as emotional moments, especially with movies based in fantasy?

CH: You try to find the closest human experience. Try to get the closest to the heart of that emotion. Directing Red Riding Hood, I would try to find a time when I thought someone was my friend, but they just wanted to borrow something from me. Maybe they didn't want to kill me, but they did have an ulterior motive. It's a nugget of something real that you hold with you the whole time.

CG: What's your dream project?

CH: My first movie, Thirteen, and it was very real-almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again. I have a project in the works that would be something like that. I can't say the name yet, but my fingers are crossed. It would shoot in Europe and would be a character piece.

Read the entire interview here. 

In The Director's Chair: Catherine Hardwicke

PW: Ok, with that out of the way, I know this was a rather hectic production, so how do you feel about "Red Riding Hood" with a little bit of distance?
Catherine: It was a very wild ride. You spend months trying to get a movie made and from the moment they said yes we had a very compacted, tight schedule. They cut a third of our schedule in post-production -- after we wrapped, they said, “it has to be out on this date!” We couldn’t even take a breath. It was one of the most exhausting things I’ve ever done – 110 hour work weeks just to get the movie finished. In a way, I never had time to take stock of what just happened. So I’m looking forward to watching the movie again and seeing it now that I have a little more time. Like every filmmaker I would have loved to have had more time to finesse it, live with it a bit more. I wish I could have, but there was a schedule I had to keep.

PW: I was also pleasantly surprised to see a Gag Reel on there -- something I feel like dramatic directors don't embrace as often as they should. I mean, who wouldn't want to see a "Schindler's List" Gag Reel?
Catherine: I wanna see that! [laughs] It’s funny because I had that dilemma on “Twilight” and I didn't end up putting the Gag Reel on the DVD, but this one has some fun stuff – mostly in regards to working on a period movie. Clanking around in the armor. Getting stuck on walls. It’s goofy fun stuff that I thought people would like.

PW: So what will be next for you?
Catherine: I think it’s a movie that will be shot in Europe – it’s back to my raw indie roots. I can’t say what it is, but it’s wild. We’ll probably announce it in a few weeks so keep your eyes out. 

PW: Now that you've sort of dabbled in both indie & studio fare, do you have a preference?
Catherine: It’s so interesting because there is something wonderful about both sides. Working for a studio, you’ve got all the support of these executives, marketing people, beautiful sound facilities and all the equipment. But you also have a lot of input from those executives who are busy on all their other projects. Juggling release dates is difficult. They want a movie to come out this day!So you have a beautiful machine to work within. With indie film, you have nobody telling you anything. No one says “don’t make it R rated” or “make that character nicer!” I'm free to do what I want to do, but in that freedom comes no money – which is why my car, furniture and clothes are in “Thirteen!” [laughs] After doing a few studio films in a row, I want to do another indie – I think it’s good for the soul to struggle a bit. To make something out of nothing.

Check out the entire interview here.

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Catherine Hardwicke Includes New Ending on Red Riding Hood DVD

When filming Red Riding Hood Hardwicke admitted that although she puts her heart and soul into the moment of every scene, she does keep in mind what may show up on the DVD later. “As a director I try to stay in the moment,” she said. “But sometimes you do think about it like when something really crazy happens and you laugh at something or you’re just amused by something and you want to show people how something actually came to be. In the extras we included the scene where we had the dance numbers and as I was watching the DVD, I thought it was one of the more interesting things because it’s very raw looking and it shows how somebody was there with a stunt pad and another person there in a wolf costume that was bought online for $69 for a stand in.

“You see ways a director and a stunt coordinator start to line up shots and how to shoot the movie. So this DVD has interesting things I don’t think a lot people have seen before. As a director, it’s a great learning experience to watch how other directors work, too, so for film students I always say, ‘rent the DVD and watch the ‘Making Of.’”

Check out the entire article here.