‘Welcome to the Rileys’ Gets a Distributor

No straight to DVD for Kristen Stewart.

All the pole dancing bruises and the promotion for her film Welcome to the Rileys has paid off as the film lands a distributor for the US. Director Jake Scott admits they were very lucky to have Stewart  in the film.

“We shot this in 2008, so Twilight came out when we’d wrapped,” he told reporters in Berlin where the film is currently showing at the Berlin Film Festival. I would have to agree with that one, I imagine half the people going to see this flick are interested in what Bella looks like when she strips. Lucky for them they also happen to know Sean Penn who recommended Stewart based on her Into the Wild performance, a film he directed.

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Kristen Stewart Out in Hollywood for Haiti Relief

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Yesterday, Kristen Stewart, once again, used her much-deserved popularity for a good cause.

She appeared at the opening of La Vida in Hollywood, according to one source (who has pictures of Stewart’s appearance, by the way), to benefit the Haiti Relief and Development fund.

Earlier this month, E! Online announced the planned appearance, saying that Stewart was among many celebrities scheduled to appear at the opening and that the particular cause being aided by said appearance was to be the American Red Cross.

This is the latest of many actions Kristen Stewart (star of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Runaways, The Yellow Handkerchief, and Welcome To The Rileys) has taken to benefit the victims of the earthquake disaster in Haiti.

Previously, Stewart participated in such efforts by autographing a snowboard for a charity auction and raffling Sundance tickets. Additionally, prior to the disaster in Haiti, Stewart participated in other charitable causes like speaking at a walk for the cure to diabetes.

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Kristen Stewart Talks Renesmee with MTV

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Kristen’s hilarious . .. I love it.

The LA Times Talk Kristen In ‘Welcome to the Rileys’

By some strange cosmic fluke, Kristen Stewart portrays a 16-year-old runaway in both of the movies in which she appears at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

In the drama “Welcome to the Rileys,” which premiered Saturday afternoon at an industry-heavy screening at the Racquet Club Theater, the “New Moon Saga” superstar portrays someone quite unlike “Twilight’s” long-suffering vampire-lover Bella Swan. That would be Mallory, a stripper-hooker with a penchant for wearing X-shaped pasties and G-strings (and sometimes no undies at all) with fishnet stockings who makes repeated references to the state of her “private parts” and sexual acts in language not suitable for publication in a family (or even PG-13-rated) blog.

Although her “Rileys” character initially claims to be 22, it is eventually revealed that Mallory ran away at an age when most teens are first getting a drivers license to live in semi-squalor in New Orleans, where she works in a French Quarter strip club in which she charges a little extra for more personal contact.

To get ready for the flesh- and soul-bearing part, the low-key Stewart — dressed Saturday in the de facto Sundance regalia of military parka, distressed denim and sneakers  — said she didn’t “prep” per se, even  though she studied some stripper dancing for the sake of greater realism.

“I’m not ‘playing a stripper’” she said with dripping emphasis before the film’s first screening. “It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know I’m speaking really vaguely about it.”

In the rock-surged comin- of-age drama “The Runaways,” Stewart portrays real-life rock icon Joan Jett, who co-founded the all-girl teenage band – yes, you guessed it – called the Runaways at age 16. The group burned brightly with righteous proto-punk fury then fizzled out between 1975 and ’79. In that film, Stewart snorts cocaine, makes out with co-star Dakota Fanning and drunkenly urinates on an electric guitar.

Did we mention that she embodies Jett almost perfectly?

“It’s, like, crazy,” Stewart said when a reporter asked her about her resemblance to one of rock’s foremost female titans. She bit her lip and ran her hand through her hair. “I can’t even accept it!”

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Access Hollywood Interview with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart

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TwiExaminer: Kristen Stewart Talks ‘Eclipse’ and David Slade

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While at the Sundance Film Festival promoting The Runaways (in which she portrays rock legend Joan Jett alongside Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie from the band of the same name), Kristen Stewart was kind enough to share her views on the forthcoming third leg to the Twilight saga films, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Particularly, Stewart shared her opinions on Eclipse‘s director, David Slade, who fans of the series have come to know only through his use of the social networking site, Twitter. 

Said she about Slade, according to HitFix, “He’s a very technical director. Very.” Stewart continued on to describe Slade as “thoughtful,” “conceptual,” and “deliberate.”

Her words run parallel to those issued by one of the Twilight series’ newest cast members, Xavier Samuel. Just a couple of weeks ago, Samuel was quoted to say that David Slade was “very technically astute” and “uber intelligent.”

Stewart’s opinions on Slade – like Samuel’s – are important to Twilight fans for quite a few reasons, not the least of which is the fact that there has been little to no press associated with Slade (or the film, for that matter) and that the cast hit the nail on the head when it came to their perceptions of the two former directors (that is, Catherine Hardwicke of Twilight and Chris Weitz of The Twilight Saga: New Moon).

Stewart issued her opinions on what his technical abilities would hold for the Twilight saga, though she hasn’t seen the film. “I think it’s going to be cool for ‘Twilight,'” she said. “you’re not going to see, like, a bunch of Steadicam.”

Some might remember Slade’s offering of  photos from the set of Eclipse – one of which happened to be his type of camera. Also, when issuing other photographs, Slade offered descriptive associations of the at-hand shot and the technique utilized in capturing it.

Any thoughts on this?

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E! Online: Kristen Stewart Talks WTTR

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We had the pleasure of interviewing one of our fave girls on the planet, Kristen Stewart, earlier today at the Sundance premiere of her film Welcome to the Rileys.

K.Stew looked Park City chic, bundled in a green jacket with her dark Joan Jett hair loosely pulled back, and was eager to talk about one of the roles she claimed to be most proud of. In WTTR, Kristen plays a “working girl,” as she prefers to say, making it clear to her fans out there she’s not just Bella Swan from Twilight.

Read on to hear Kristen talk about befriending strippers, what bores her, and how she freaked out before taking it all off onscreen…

Everyone is raving about your performance—how did you prepare for this particular, shall we say, slightly more risqué role?

“Umm, Jake [Scott, the director] had a lot to do with my preparation and understanding of the type of person I was playing, and his serious regard of sensitivity towards those people. I play a girl who has sort of been stripped of any choice and really stripped of any normal upbringing. Like she couldn’t establish who she was because of things that have happened to her and she became a ‘working girl,’ if you want to call it that.

“So in preparing for the role I talked to a lot of people, actually like three people in New Orleans, that were strippers that were working in this bar that we ended up using in the movie…I don’t really prepare for anything, it’s just about like, keeping it in your mind the whole time. If it affects you…it’s just about understanding it more, it’s not about having to like physically—oh, but I did have to do pole dancing lessons! But you don’t really see that in the movies.”

Oh, so you’ve got some sexy skills now!

“Yeah yeah.”

Do you get nervous when you have to shoot the more provocative scenes?

“I was freaking out! The thing is my character is so, like, she just doesn’t care. Basically nothing belongs to her. She’ll give it to you like it doesn’t bother [her]. So I had to drop that. She literally walks around with an open sore. Literally! She’s just constantly like, ‘Ugh, I’m fine, whatever.'”

Now that you’re getting back to work, please tell us you were able to enjoy your time off after all the New Moon press.

“Yeah, I’m actually bored for the first time in, like, ever. So, yeah, I really want to get back to work.”

We doubt Robert Pattinson is boring, but glad to hear our gal really is a working girl…well, you know what we mean.

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KStew Interview At Sundance

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Which is not to say the film doesn’t follow a stripper and prostitute—a 16-year-old runaway, played by Stewart, who will do just about any sexual act for money—but rather that these salacious elements are building blocks to tell a story about family and loss, hope and hopelessness. It’s an account the actress found all too common in the real world as she prepared for the role.

“I talked to a few girls who were working in a little, really dingy bar off Bourbon Street [in New Orleans] that we ended up shooting in,” she told MTV News. “In an odd way, they all have sort of the same story…. I did a little bit of dancing stuff, but that wasn’t really the bulk of the prep.”

Instead, the majority of Stewart’s time was spent learning to empathize with these women and the stories she kept hearing from them. And long after having wrapped production, the character has stayed with her.

“It’s about understanding who you’re playing and you have a responsibility because you feel like you can’t let them down,” she explained. “[My character] really became a part of me. I haven’t felt so personally involved in something. If I sort of flippantly played some stripper—there are some lines I thought were really funny in the movie—I think that’s good, but at the same time, I didn’t want to make something superficial.”

What she strove for was both authenticity and homage. The prospect of not achieving either was a frightening one, but as we can attest after taking in the premiere, Stewart was nothing if not believable in the role of this damaged runaway.

“I didn’t want a bunch of people who had run away from their homes, or wherever they ran away from, look at this and go, ‘This girl doesn’t know what she’s talking about,’ ” Stewart said. “That was scary.”

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Kristen Stewart at Sundance

Kristen Stewart was seen sporting some bouncy hair at Sundance today.

At yesterday’s Sundance premiere of Welcome to the Rileys, Stewart revealed to E! Online that pole dancing can be dangerous. “I did some pole dancing,” Stewart told me Saturday at the movie’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked.”

Oddly enough, she kinda enjoyed it. “The more I saw it, the more I wanted it,” Stewart said. “It was like a weird self-hating kind of thing.” Stewart said, “The cool thing about my character is she is not sultry and she is not sexy.”

Director Jake Scott said it was pretty much a closed set when Stewart had to do her dancing scenes.

“She was terrified,” Scott said. “The strip club we shot in was really a club, and it really was that dirty and really that tough. But she killed it.” Scott also hooked Stewart up with a professional stripper. “She’s like one of the best in the business,” he said. “So she was really reliable and didn’t do drugs or anything like that, but she was able to introduce Kristen to girls that were. She was able to put her in that world.”

But if you’re expecting Showgirls moves from Stewart, you can forget about it. “This is not about a stripper,” Scott said. “It’s about a damaged child.”

I love that she pole dances in this movie. So unexpected. Exactly what we’d think of a role that Kristen would sign up for.

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KStew and DFanning’s ‘Runaways’ Details

“The Runaways” makes its big Sundance debut this Sunday in Park City, and we have something that will keep your rocker hearts beating until then: an exclusive first look at the movie’s teaser poster.

We know, we know: now that you’ve gotten to see plenty more stills and a clip from the Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning-headlined flick, a “teaser” isn’t exactly the sort of juice you’re looking for. But once you click the handy “read more” link below, we have a feeling, you’re going to think this art work is quite literally the bomb.

So, go on, click it:

Behold the full teaser poster below. In case you’re scratching your head in wonderment: the fruity explosive device is a nod to The Runaways’ famous hit song, “Cherry Bomb,” which we saw Kristen rock out to in the teaser trailer.

Want more “Runaways”? Be sure to check out the movie’s official Facebook page, which just launched!

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A select few MTV News staffers are about to embark on an adventure in Park City, Utah better known to most as the annual Sundance Film Festival. As we’re sure most of you are aware of by now (and if you’re not, what kind of rock have you been hiding under?) “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart has two major flicks being showcased over this next week in the mountains: “Welcome to the Rileys” and the movie for which she shopped off her long brunette locks, “The Runaways.”

While we’ve already brought you plenty of “Rileys” stills, ones from the rocker movie have been about as rare as seeing a vampire in the sunlight — until now! Feast your eyes on seven — count ’em seven! — new snapshots from “Runaways” by clicking on the two stills below.

The good news doesn’t end there: after the jump we have a brand new clip from the movie, too!

But, uh, before we get to that footage, we feel like we should dedicate at least one paragraph to the still above on the left. Is anyone else getting the vibe that the scene in which that takes place is also the scene in which Joan Jett (Kristen) and Cherie Currie (Dakota) share a kiss? In a recent interview with the LA Times, “Runaways” writer and director Floria Sigismondi addressed the reported girl-on-girl action saying that because she had read about Cherie and Joan’s supposed bed exploits in Cherie’s memoir, she wanted to include that in her film. “It will cause an explosion,” Floria insisted. Yeah, we’re not going to argue that one now are we?

Anyway, back to the clip from the movie — press play on the video below to witness Cherie’s first time meeting Joan and record producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon). “We are choosing you to be a part of rock-n-roll history,” Kim says in an attempt to persuade the blonde to join his new all-girl band. My, those words definitely still ring true!

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