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[JaseC]

So, out of her three films for 2015 I can see on wikipedia, which is coming first?

Lost River. It's out April 10th in the US (VOD services plus a very limited theatrical run).

 

[JaseC]

Yeah, Fox might postpone its release so the film is still fresh in minds when voting starts.

...which is exactly what has happened:

Fox Searchlight has set an awards season release for “Brooklyn,” slotting the Saoirse Ronan drama for a Nov. 6 launch.

Stockholm, PA didn't find a buyer at Sundance, and if an interested party isn't found in the near future I very much doubt it'll be released publicly this year, so at this stage a November release for Brooklyn means there'll be seven months between Saoirse's two 2015 releases.

Other recent tidbits: She'll be attending the Jameson Dublin Film Festival at some point later this month and hosting a Q&A to help celebrate the launch of the NPAS and Cinemagic Industry Film Academy at the end of the month.

 

[Coreda]

So cute ˘◡˘

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Saoirse is from the same family of Keanu Reeves confirmed.

 

[strafer]

most excellent

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

That dog has seen some shit.

 

[JaseC]

Lost River had its US premiere at the SXSW film festival yesterday:

(More here.)

Two interviews have surfaced, as well as an audience Q&A (something unexpected unfolds at 11m45s).

Edit: Another SXSW interview, this time with FOX 7.

 

[strafer]

is that space on her dress?

 

[JaseC]

is that space on her dress?

Yeah, in the first pic you can see that the planet towards the bottom of the dress is Jupiter.

Edit: Saoirse interviewed Rose McIver, who played the older Salmon sister in The Lovely Bones, for Interview Magazine. The two are friends so it's more like a casual conversation, which makes for a good read.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

is that space on her dress?

SPACEBALLS - The Dress!

 

[JaseC]

Apparently Lifetime picked up Stockholm, PA and will premiere the film in May:

Lifetime has picked up the 2015 Sundance fest title “Stockholm, Pennsylvania,” a dark drama that stars Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon.

The movie from first-time director Nikole Beckwith had mixed reviews out of Sundance. It’s set to premiere May 2 on Lifetime.

So that's Lost River in a few weeks, Stockholm, PA a few weeks after that and then Brooklyn roughly six months later.

Edit: Interview from JDIFF, which yesterday played host to the Irish premiere of Lost River.

Edit edit: Another one, this time with The Independent. She wasn't invited to the Oscars.

Edit edit edit: Some pics from the event.

Edit^4: The Lost River OST track featuring Saoirse has been released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx83owWT5Ck. The OST in its entirety should hit iTunes and the like at some point today.

Edit^5: The Independent has posted another interview snippet.

Edit^6: A few pics from the Cinemagic Film/TV Festival (gallery one/gallery two):

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Was just going to post that Saoirse had sung in one of Lost River's tracks. She has a good voice for it.

 

[TheKaeptain]

She looks like she's getting a little thicker.

 

[JaseC]

Was just going to post that Saoirse had sung in one of Lost River's tracks. She has a good voice for it.

I think she's featured on another track as well, but I can't seem to find the full OST anywhere just yet. The film is only a week-and-a-half away now, though, so I might hold out regardless as I find that listening to an OST prior to seeing the film diminishes the music's impact somewhat (I encountered this most recently with Interstellar).

Edit: Oh, IDIB uploaded the entire OST to YouTube, haha. Here's Saoirse's second track, for those curious.

Edit edit: Here's an interview from the recent Cinemagic Film/TV Festival.

 

[maquiladora]

Lifetime? That good huh? -_- Please Saoirse, hire a new agent...

 

[JaseC]

Lost River has hit VOD services early (well, Amazon at least) and is now available. Speaking of which, another Lost River-related interview with Saoirse and co. was earlier published by We Got This Covered.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Will watch tonight.

 

[pauljeremiah]

Interview with her from Irish TV (please be prepared for her strong Dublin accent )

 

[Volimar]

Her face is sometimes way puffier than others. I wonder if she takes steroid injections for something.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Her face is sometimes way puffier than others. I wonder if she takes steroid injections for something.

Don't think so. Believe me, when you see a person using steroids for controlling a disease you're going to see a very fat face (a full moon face is what is sometimes called).

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Her face is sometimes way puffier than others. I wonder if she takes steroid injections for something.

Birth control maybe but just growing up mostly.

People change a lot.

Edit: Lost River says available April 10th.

 

[JaseC]

Birth control maybe but just growing up mostly.

People change a lot.

Edit: Lost River says available April 10th.

Ah, must have been a mistake. It was definitely available when I made the post as I checked Google's cache and noticed the current page no longer had the pre-order buttons... plus the film has leaked to the usual places.

Edit: Here's a short a interview with Her.ie.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Happy birthday Saoirse!

 

[Protag]

If she's the one singing on Jewel's track "tell me" for Lost River, then, damn

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Oh right, she has her birthday today! Dammit, JaseC, you forgot!

 

[JaseC]

Oh right, she has her birthday today! Dammit, JaseC, you forgot!

Edit: Speaking of her birthday, it seems the NPAS folks organised a little something.

If she's the one singing on Jewel's track "tell me" for Lost River, then, damn

I was disappointed to learn that the second track she's featured on just has dialogue from the film.

Edit edit: AICN conducted a Lost River-related interview about a week ago.

 

[JaseC]

Apparently Lifetime picked up Stockholm, PA and will premiere the film in May:

Lifetime has picked up the 2015 Sundance fest title “Stockholm, Pennsylvania,” a dark drama that stars Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon.

The movie from first-time director Nikole Beckwith had mixed reviews out of Sundance. It’s set to premiere May 2 on Lifetime.

The premiere date has been pushed back a week, it seems. Boo. But, hey, new still:

The next several months are probably going to be quiet outside of the occasional new interview and possibly the announcement of the as-yet-unknown project she mentioned at Sundance.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Have you watched Lost River yet?

 

[JaseC]

Have you watched Lost River yet?

Yeah. As someone who signed up to Something Awful and wasted hours combing through the old UrbEx threads, dilapidated Detroit offered some nice visual flair and I enjoyed the soundtrack, however that's about it as far as positives go -- even Saoirse was disappointing as her character was given precious little to do. I can't help but wonder if the "curse" played a much larger role in the original script as the mystical element of the film rears its head when Bones meets Rat but then falls completely to the wayside until the very end, plus when the film was announced it was said to be partially set in an underwater town, which obviously didn't happen unless you count the scene where Bones is looking through the water and the later one where he "breaks the curse", both of which are on the short side. I get the feeling Gosling didn't quite achieve what he had originally planned and the end result is a haphazardly stitched homage to the likes of Lynch, Noe and Refn.

Edit: I should probably add that The Host is still the biggest blemish on Saoirse's resume as far as I'm concerned. As indifferent as I am towards Lost River, at least I didn't come out the other side of it wondering if I'd wasted my money.

 

[JaseC]

Principal photography has begun on animated feature Loving Vincent at London’s Three Mills Studio. The film tells the story of the final months and mysterious death of artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Billed as “the world’s first painted animation feature”, the film aims to bring Van Gogh’s masterpieces to life in a unique way. Live action footage will be filmed and then projected, frame by frame, onto canvas and painted over in oils in the style of Van Gogh.

A total of 60 painters will work for a year to complete the 57,800 oil paintings making up the film.

Loving Vincent stars Douglas Booth (The Riot Club), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), Chris O’Dowd (Calvary), Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel), John Sessions (The Iron Lady), Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark), and Aidan Turner (The Hobbit).

It is directed by Dorota Kobiela (The Little Postman) and Oscar-winner Hugh Welchman (Peter & The Wolf), produced by Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart (My Week with Marilyn) and written by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.

Conceptually intriguing, at least. There's an example of what they're going for in the article.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Wow, that's an incredible way of shooting a film. Can't wait to see the end results! Great to see Saoirse getting an apparently good role!

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Rotorscoping?

I like A Scanner Darkly. If it's oil based painting instead, it could interesting.

 

[JaseC]

Stockholm, PA trailer. Requires a US IP to watch, annoyingly (Spotflux should still be US-based, free and easy to use if you require a VPN). Also, Saoirse tweeted her support for the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum in Ireland and it was made into an ad:

Edit: Yahoo has published a new interview regarding Stockholm, PA.

Edit edit: And ditto for US Weekly.

 

[JaseC]

Saoirse Ronan and Annette Bening are set to star in a movie adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” which has been added to the Cannes sales slate of Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl.

The film will be directed by Michael Mayer, who won a Tony in 2007 for “Spring Awakening” and was nominated for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” last year. It has been adapted by playwright Stephen Karam, who wrote Pulitzer Prize finalist “Sons of the Prophet.” The producers are Leslie Urdang (“Rabbit Hole&#8221, actor-producer Tom Hulce (“Amadeus&#8221 and Bob Salerno (“21 Grams,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin&#8221.

As for the gist of what the film will be about, Wikipedia has this to say of the play:

It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.

Edit: In other news, she's continued doing her part to drum up support for Ireland's marriage equality referendum that's due to take place on Friday. In addition to the article/video, the Twitter account of the Yes Equality campaign (re)tweeted these:

Plus Saoirse herself tweeted these last week:

Edit edit: Another campaign video: Your YES Matters.

 

[Volimar]

I kind of wish she would do a silly project to make her more relatable.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I kind of wish she would do a silly project to make her more relatable.

Kristen Wiig needs to get on writing a character for her

“I would love to do SNL so much,” she gushes. “I feel like once you’ve done SNL you’ve kind of made it. My absolute dream would be to go on SNL and do The Californians. I do [that accent] all the time. As long as Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen are in it, I’m happy. That’s the dream. If I can make it there, I can retire after that.”

My sister talks like a character on The Californians. It shows how spot on that skit is.

 

[JaseC]

Rumour time:

Warner Bros. and director David Yates have narrowed down their choices for the two female leads opposite Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowling‘s “Harry Potter” spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” TheWrap has learned.

Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Fanning, Lili Simmons and Alison Sudol are up for the role of Tina, while Kate Upton, Katherine Waterston and Elizabeth Debicki are being eyed to play Tina’s older sister, Queenie, multiple individuals familiar with the situation have told TheWrap

She actually auditioned for Luna Lovegood back in the day, but producers wanted someone a little older and ultimately went with her compatriot Evanna Lynch.

In other news, filming on Loving Vincent wrapped about a week ago.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Oh man, I hope they choose her. She'd be awesome. Kate Upton would be awesome too.

 

[JaseC]

Another week, another project:

Aly and AJ Michalka first hit stardom with their band Aly & AJ, which aired a concert on Disney Channel, leading the sisters to TV movies (MTV's Super Sweet 16) and series (The CW's Hellcats). They more recently scored roles in a couple hit TV comedies, with AJ newly promoted to series regular on ABC's The Goldbergs and Aly playing the lead's best friend on The CW's iZombie.

Their careers take another turn with Weepah Way for Now, an independent film from writer-director (and Aly's husband) Stephen Ringer in which they star and also produced with Ringer and Kerry Barden. The film will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 16 and centers on two sisters dealing with adulthood and family tragedy in the week before they leave on a music tour. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively debuts a new clip from the drama.

In the scene, the sisters share their doubts with their divorced mother (Mimi Rogers) about her new fiancé ("His name is Lou. Say it out loud: Lou") while arguing over their own boyfriend issues.

The film features narration from Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Grand Budapest Hotel) voicing a third sister who died at birth. Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Dan Byrd (Cougar Town), Tyler Labine (Deadbeat), Madeline Zima (Californication) and Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) round out the cast.

Granted, she has no physical presence in the film (I assume), but it's something nonetheless.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

What's the family's nationality? I'm curious what accent she'll use.

 

[JaseC]

What's the family's nationality? I'm curious what accent she'll use.

American. There's a clip in the article.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

American. There's a clip in the article.

Dammit, should've watched it! I feel dumb now heh.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

I want to see her in a new movie, I haven't seen her in anything new since the grand budapest.

 

[JaseC]

I want to see her in a new movie, I haven't seen her in anything new since the grand budapest.

Lost River is out on BD and Stockholm, PA is... floating around, but, yeah, Brooklyn -- which is her next big thing -- is still another five months away.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Lost River is out on BD and Stockholm, PA is... floating around, but, yeah, Brooklyn -- which is her next big thing -- is still another five months away.

She needs a better agent.

 

[danthefan]

Totally off topic, but in this photo (posted above) she's standing in front of Clerys department store which sadly closed the other day after over 150 years of trading. Probably won't mean too much to people not from Dublin but it was an institution in the city.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Wow she got fat.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Wow she got fat.

Wtf

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

She's still pretty as a picture. And I know that shop on O'conell street

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

She grew up. To comment on her weight is low. She's a talented young actress, worth more than a random poster on a message board.