Vanessa Hudgens - Candy (Spring Breakers S&S) #8 ~ Because Spring Breakers is "One of the highlights of 2012."

Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 03:16 PM

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Spring Breakers
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Cast
Vanessa Hudgens - Candy
Selena Gomez - Faith
Ashley Benson - Brit
Rachel Korine - Cotty
Heather Morris
James Franco

Harmony Korine - Director

Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure.
All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien"
promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear
how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.

Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hung over and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest spring break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young spring breakers, and leads them on a spring break they never could have imagined.

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Spring Breakers - In Competition @ Venice International Film Festival

Venice Schedule

September 5, 2012
20:15 PALABIENNALE a seguire (8:15 PM - PalaBiennale to follow)
22:15 SALA GRANDE (10:15 PM - Big Room)

Spring Breakers - Special Presentation @ Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF Schedule

Friday September 7, Ryerson Theatre, 6:00 PM
Sunday September 9, The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 3:00 PM
Friday September 14, The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 9:00 PM

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PROGRAMMER'S NOTE

The overly bright sunshine begins to hurt your eyes. The semi-nude bodies grind in a tequila-fuelled haze. A waft of violence floats through the atmosphere until it dominates the scene, aware of its hold on everything and everyone. You feel all-powerful and totally alone. This is spring break in Florida, captured through the transformative lens of Harmony Korine’s imagination.

Korine’s impressive canon of films poetically chronicles the minor heroics and self-aggran-dizing intensity of marginalians, unseen, ignored and dismissed by a willfully ignorant world. In Spring Breakers, his attention turns to four female co-eds (Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine) in an unnamed college town. Desperate to hit the beach, but flat broke, they rob a coffee shop with fake weapons, steal a car, head south and start to party hard. Their fun gets rudely interrupted when the cops bust into their apartment and find things young girls should not be enjoying. Locked up with no bail money, they despair until a local petty gangster (James Franco) springs them. Two of the girls stay with him as his entourage and, ultimately, his hitmen; while the other two drop out, exhausted, disoriented and longing to experience that rush of freedom one more time.

Spring Breakers is Korine’s first film since Mister Lonely to feature professional actors. He challenges his impressive young cast in unexpected ways, with long, seemingly improvised takes and a demand for shifting tones of sweetness and menace.

The film lands on the more narratively linear end of Korine’s career and has moments that recall each of his previous films, especially the virtuosic tableaux of Gummo and the agonizing desperation of Mister Lonely. But Spring Breakers also brings a few new tricks to the table, including remarkable shifts in mood and a breathtaking cinematographic confidence; there are signature moments of montage in this film that will influence generations to come.

Harmony Korine thinks in pictures that no one else could even dream up.

Noah Cowan

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Spring Breakers: interview with Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa, were you familiar with Harmony Korine’s work before you were cast in Spring Breakers?

I feel like I knew a little bit. Harmony worked with one of my manager’s other clients on Kids, and that was one of my dad’s favorite movies. When this came along, he was really excited. I think James Franco was already attached, and then I read the script and I’m such a big fan of his. I’m a real believer in putting things out in the universe, and eventually if you want it bad enough it all happens. For months I was saying, I want to work with James Franco over and over again, and when this came up, I thought “We need to make this happen!”

Were the other actresses attached to the project at that point?

No. There was no one else attached. We were just figuring out the characters. I was like, I’m really just excited about the project and don’t care which character I play. Then he made me read for Candy and the next time he had me come in again and do a few reads with a few girls.

You needed to find the perfect partners in crime for your part. The relationships in the movie are such strong bonds girlfriends who have been best friends since childhood. It is such an amazing connection that females have, it’s unlike anything else. In order to show it on film, we needed to establish a connection. At that point I heard about Ashley Benson, who came on board as well. I actually used to go to acting class with Ashley, when I was 15 or 16. We were in the same class but our paths in life had been completely different. We never really got to know each other at all. And it’s so funny now, coming back to that and being able to dig into each other’s past. It’s a small world.

Do you remember what you thought the first time you read the script, the feelings it triggered? It’s not the kind of movie that we would expect you to be part of…

Recently, I’ve been doing a few projects that are way darker and deeper and heavier. Reading these situations in the movie where our characters go wild that harsh, hard element was something that I really liked. I felt like I would be a little bit in my element, like I’ve had a taste of it. It’s so much fun and I wanted more of it. And Candy seems like the one who even though she’s bad-ass and tough and hard, she still has that sweet fun side underneath it all, this bubbling little girl, just so excited about everything, and I feel like that’s partly who I am. Under this deep, dark and heavy character, inside of myself, I’m just jumping for joy at the fun that I’m having.

How did you prepare for this role?

It starts, honestly, just reading the script. One of the first things we did was to get close to the girls right away, because we wanted to build an amazing bond and relationship, and create a sense that we had known each other for years. And then go further past that, of course, and study girls who are just hard and rough and tough and who are in this other drug-like world. It really is a completely different world, their headspaces are so different. They’re just living in the moment.

How do you think the character got to the point where she gets arrested? What kind of background do you think she is from?

I think our characters just do whatever they need to do to get what they want. As women, they know that they’re hot and empowered, and they know that if they’re tough enough and they act like they know what they’re doing then people will believe them. Together as a crew, they know they can conquer the world and get whatever they want. And the only way they know how to get to spring break is to rob a bank.

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The wardrobe and costumes seem to be such an important aspect of the movie. Were you involved in the creation of them?
Heidi Bivens had an amazing idea about how she wanted it to look. It’s really like pop art. All our costumes are so bright and really in-your-face, a lot of fun graphics that contradict the way that we act, which is such a funny spin on things because we are getting ****ed up and are wearing Hello Kitty. It’s a funny spin on how youth nowadays can be doing things that are really crazy, and at the same time having interests that are so pure. It’s such a present mindframe, I feel, just not thinking about the future. This is how our characters are. They just don’t think about the future, they are just doing what they feel is right. Their interests are all over the place.

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In the movie you have a love scene with him. Do you think your character fell in love with him?

For sure! It’s probably not the purest of places, but it’s this tainted idea of what love and fame and fortune is. The characters are so wrapped up with the idea of being the biggest and the baddest and the hardest. He really supports it and motivates us to be the hardest and baddest we can be. Probably like a first love.

Drug induced, and it’s all about sex, and money, and bitches, and hoes, it’s love and it’s tough and it’s hard. That’s what our characters are about.

So what’s your favorite scene so far?

I don’t know. It’s all been such a crazy whirlwind blur that everything is kind of falling together in this mad, wild, dream-like state. I think that the part I enjoyed most is the robberies, where we get to be tough, fun girls living in the moment. Robbing that restaurant was pretty amazing, because it felt so real, because we did it from the beginning to the end. Ashley and I felt so hyped up, we were on such an adrenaline high. I literally rolled into the car and was just staring at the stars in the sky after all this madness. I was suddenly seeing such a serenity and connection to the universe, I was so in awe, my mind was blown. It was a moment I will never forget. This movie is so fun, it’s so crazy, it’s so vivid and alive, so in your face and juicy. I can’t wait to see it.

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"There are signature moments of montage in this film that will influence generations to come."
"Spring Breakers also brings a few new tricks to the table, including remarkable shifts in mood and a breathtaking cinematographic confidence."
"Spring Breakers screening has the longest line in Venice this year."
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"Spring Breakers is visually ravishing."
"The cinematography is superb and the performances from the actors outstanding."
"The performances by the four BFFs are outstanding and very courageous."
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Harmony Korrine & the amazing cast of #SpringBreakers. I LOVED IT. A new classic. - Eli Roth
"In #springbreakers, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson don't just shed their Disney personas, they shatter them."
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"She has VASTLY improved! Everyone is talking about her performance."
"Solid performances from everyone, but it's V, Ashley, and James movie. Absolute ****ing scene stealers."

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JustღBreathe · 09-04-2012, 03:30 PM

Thanks for opening

Bringing from the other thread

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One of the highlights of 2012! And one of the higlights for me in Venice so far. Spring Breakers: 8/10 #venicefilmfestival

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Spring Breakers is brilliant! Edgy, refreshing, a thriller fantasy with a twist! Selena #Gomez BFFs are dynamite! DTF

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#venezia69 #venice69 #venicefilmfestival #springbreakers guilty pleasure, #JamesFranco quintessence of amusement; sassy #Hudgens & #Gomez

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Harmony korine is the new malick #springbreakers #venezia69

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Spring Breakers with James Franco: grainy, hand-held filming of wild beach parties, shootouts in neon tones. Harmony Korine:one to watch.

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Harmony Korine arrives at #venezia69 like a 21st-century Russ Meyer. Spring Breakers gaudy, woozy, compelling; wildest film in competition

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@MaPazPeirano now I can say that my favourite movie of #Venezia69 is #springbreakers (and unluckily you missed it!)

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@loveyousellyg great overall casting... Superb interpretations by all actresses and actors...

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Harmony Korine's appropriately dirty Spring Breakers = 2nd best film in Venice so far. Media/social satire, doesn't tell you what to think.

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New footage of SP on ET Canada

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New interviews tonight with Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan & Blake Lively from Venice - plus new footage from Spring Breakers.

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Review (tons of spoiler) - Only posting a few things

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Venice Review: Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers' Is A Semi-Conventional Genre Flick & Future Cult Favorite | The Playlist

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It’s probably the single aspect that’ll stop the film from becoming a crossover hit, although you never know. Certainly the star appeal of the young cast should be potent, and they actually acquit themselves as well as they could with such thin characters, with the exception of Rachel Korine, who never feels comfortable on screen. Gomez has the best-defined role, but probably the least screen time, while Hudgens and Benson are charismatic, but essentially joined at the hip in the film.

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But really, it’s Franco’s film. He doesn’t appear in any substance until nearly halfway through, but his Florida Fagin is enormously entertaining.

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We mentioned “Drive” earlier, and in many ways this feels like the 2012 equivalent of last year’s crime cult picture (though certainly not as good), and not just because of the neon-lit cityscapes and Cliff Martinez score – it’s ultimately a fairly thin, pulpy crime tale, given more substance than it should have on paper thanks to some excellent filmmaking. It’s unlikely to make Korine’s hardcore fans happy (it almost feels like a statement from the director, for better or worse, that he’s ready to stop dicking around and make "proper" films), but midnight movie programmers of the future will undoubtedly give it a long life years after it’s gone from first-run theaters.

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Megan Ellison's Annapurna has picked up U.S. Distribution rights to Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, starring James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The film revolves around a group of female college students who rob a restaurant in order to fund their Spring Break vacation, eventually landing in jail and becoming involved with a drug dealer (Franco).

Annapurna will partner with a domestic distributor at a later date. The company helped finance and produce Lawless, the Prohibition crime drama that is currently in theatres

Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will now come on board as exec producer.

After premiering in Venice, Breakers is moving on to Toronto, where it was have its North American premiere Friday as part of TIFF.

The deal was brokered by CAA and Ted Field of Radar Pictures.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-franco-367779

Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 03:33 PM

thank you so much for bringing those over

Spoiler:

misskristen · 09-04-2012, 03:52 PM

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Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 03:57 PM

That's so cute

JustღBreathe · 09-04-2012, 04:55 PM

Franco is in this set too
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Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 05:11 PM

Thanks!

I saw some tweets from V fans saying 'reviews are saying Vanessa's performance was one of the performances' or sth like that
Idk where's those reviews

JustღBreathe · 09-04-2012, 05:59 PM

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AS PROMISED: EXCLUSIVE PHOTO of the #springbreakers cast at dinner in #venice! d411974f.jpg picture by TheBrandingBee - Photobucket @AshBenzo @selenagomez @VanessaHudgens

Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 06:01 PM

posted at the same time

well he's kinda late

Evan

JustღBreathe · 09-04-2012, 06:17 PM

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James Franco rocks in Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine , definately one of the best actors

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Elif_ZV · 09-04-2012, 06:24 PM

I'm so happy for him

Cant wait for more reviews.

Zac Efron's # 1 fan · 09-04-2012, 07:17 PM

Totally loving all the Reviews for the Venice Film Festival, Can't wait to see more awesome reviews.

cookie~monster · 09-04-2012, 09:20 PM

at this films reviews so far

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Harmony korine is the new malick #springbreakers #venezia69

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OMG! That is a huge compliment. Every major A-list star in Hollywood would die to be in one of his films. One of his last movies, The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt, was nominated for Best Picture last year. Plus Malick's new movie was one of the most anticipated films for Venice this year along with The Master.

Speaking of "The Master", holy

at the same production company picking up this film.

Look at all the films Annapurna is behind...

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we're talking about the production house responsible for helping finance Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, John Hillcoat's Lawless, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters.

Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers' Finds Distribution with Growing Annapurna Pictures | Rope of Silicon

If I had to quess, I honestly wouldn't be suprised if The Weinstein Company helps distribute this movie. This type of movie wouldn't be marketed the correct way with a big studio behind it. Plus most of the movies Annapurna has gotten lately have been released by The Weinstein Company.

Full Hearts · 09-04-2012, 11:35 PM

Thanks for the new thread Elif!

Thanks for bringing everything over Carol!

I'm loving all the news so far. They all looked great at the dinner!

mandee · 09-04-2012, 11:49 PM

I am just an emotional wreck right now! There is no one else in the industry I want to prove people wrong, than her! she is so unestimated and devalued! I want critics and people to eat their words so bad!!! I would love for this to get picked up, by a more than reputable distribution company and want it to take root and wings!!!
I really do hope this is her finally getting the upper hand for ONCE in her career and OMG if with all the other films in competition if it wins something at VENICE I will be overjoyed for her.
FYI...may she never ever lose contact with Harmony and keep up with him and continue to make good impressions. I feel like her smoozing efforts could use some honing,

so I'm hoping that Evan and the like are there to keep him on her mind, and he gives her a chance again. and MALICK?>!! OMG....

that is some high HIGH praise!!!!


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