by Nigel M Smith (Updated 13 hours, 41 minutes ago)
This week on iPOP.
Johnny Depp was all over iPOP this week, touting his anticipated turn in “The Rum Diary,” Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of the early Hunter S. Thompson novel that hits theaters this Friday.
First we caught up with him in Texas at the Austin Film Festival where he was on hand to screen the film and receive the festival’s inaugural Extraordinary Contribution to Film Acting Award. A few days later, he landed in Manhattan to attend the NYC premiere and jam alongside close friend Keith Richards at the raucous afterparty hosted by none other than Playboy.
Other stars popped up on iPOP this week as well, including young Oscar-nominee Abigail Breslin at the “Janie Jones” NYC premiere, James Franco in Austin to debut his film “Sal” and Madonna in London screening “W.E.” at the city’s film festival.
Check out these pictures and more below:
Hanging out post-jam session at the New York premiere of “Janie Jones” in New York Thursday night. Director David M. Rosenthal (middle) with Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin and actor Alessandro Nivola at the Gramercy Terrace at the Gramercy Hotel in New York’s Gramercy (GGG). Both Breslin and Nivola separately took to the stage and did performances for the crowd playing guitar and singing (check out a video we took of Abagail Breslin performing at the event - good job Abigail! In the film, she plays the daughter of a rocker (Nivola) who unexpectedly is left with her as he embarks on a comeback tour. Tribeca Film opens the film beginning October 28th. Tribeca’s main sponsor, American Express, hosted the party - Natch!
Johnny Depp and Keith Richards took to the stage at the afterparty for “The Rum Diary” NYC premiere, joining The JD Band for a six-minute set. Among the lucky guests who caught this moment: Maxwell, Neil Burger, Kiera Chaplin, Sky Ferreira, Gina Gershon, Cuba Gooding Jr, Albert Hammond Jr, Jessica Hart, Dree Hemingway, Lindsay Ellingson, Ally Hilfiger, Jim Jarmusch, Betsey Johnson, Zoe Kravitz, Leigh Lezark, Behati Prinsloo, Alexandra Richards, Keith Richards, Theodora Richards, Cynthia Rowley, Matthew Settle, Amanda Setton, John Patrick Shanley, Patti Smith, Lili Taylor, Olivier Theyskens and Katia Winter. The FilmDistrict release comes out this Friday. [Photo: Marion Curits/Starpix]
Kino Lorber and Redemption Films celebrated their new partnership at the Gershwin Hotel in New York last night with a screening of Jean Rollin’s 1970 “The Shiver of the Vampires,” one of several vintage horror titles from Redemption’s library. The deal between the companies positions Kino Lorber as the exclusive distributor for Redemption Films in U.S. and Canada. Kino Lorber plans on releasing 35 films from the library on DVD, Blu-ray, and all digital and VOD platforms in 2012. The plan includes “Shiver” as well as the rest of Rollin’s darkly surreal vampire films in new restorations.
Nigel Wingrove, curator and founder of Redemption Films, told the audience before the screening, “We’ve had good distributors and bad distributors over the years, but with Kino, we really feel like we’ve
found a home.” Speaking of Rollin, who died in December, Wingrove added: “He was a very driven man, but this is the first time we’ve had the money and resources to bring out these films and make them look even better than when Rollin made them.”
Kino Lorber president and CEO Richard Lorber described “Shiver,” which the company plans to release in January, as “the true “True Blood”—Roger Corman meets Jean Cocteau.” He also hinted at another
upcoming deal with Jezebel Films, as well as plans to distribute the films of Mario Bava. Bret Wood, Kino Lorber VP and curator of the Rollin films, explained the marketing plan for the new releases. “The longtime strategy is that if you treat every film like a treasure, people will respond to them,” he said. “That’s what we want to do with Rollin’s work.”
From left, Richard Lorber, Nigel Wingrove and Bret Wood. Photo by Eric Kohn.
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