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Upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox events

From Inside Searchlight:

Borders Northridge (For Kids)
Saturday November 7, 2009 @ 11AM
From the movie: Jason Schwartzman

9301 Tampa Ave.
Northridge, CA 91324

o    Clips from film will be shown.
o    Jason will talk about his character, Ash. (See Ash in the production still above; he is the character on the right.)
o    Reading from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (movie) original book – Chapter 11: “A Surprise for Mrs. Fox”
o    Audience Q&A
o    Signing

Apple Santa Monica (For Kids)
Saturday November 7, 2009 @ 4PM
From the movie: Jason Schwartzman

1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

o    The trailer and clips from the film will be shown.
o    Jason will talk about voicing the role of Ash in the film.
o    Reading from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (movie) original book – Chapter 11: “A Surprise for Mrs. Fox”
o    Audience Q&A

92Y Tribeca (Sold Out!)
Tuesday November 10, 2009 @ 8PM
From the movie: Director Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman

200 Hudson St
New York, NY 10013

o    The trailer and clips from the film will be shown.
o    Moderated discussion
o    Audience Q&A

Apple Soho Store (NYC)
November 11, 2009 @ 7PM
From the movie: Director Wes Anderson, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman

o    The trailer will be shown.
o    Moderated discussion
o    Audience Q&A

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Fantastic Mr. Fox premiere slideshow

Watch our slideshow of the Fantastic Mr. Fox premiere in London

Includes photos from The Gap on Regent Street courtesy of jazzt. All photos copyright their respective owners.

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Wes and Jason at 92Y in NYC

Wes and Jason will discuss Fantastic Mr. Fox at 92Y (200 Hudson Street, NYC) on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:30 pm (link). Tickets are $18.

92YTribeca and Borders is proud to join forces with Twentieth Century Fox to present an evening of conversation with Wes Anderson (Director) and Jason Schwartzman (voice of “Ash”). In advance of the release of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes and Jason will discuss working together on the film, a stop motion animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel. In addition to the moderated discussion, you’ll get a sneak peek of clips from the film and the opportunity to participate in audience Q&A. The bar will be open, and books will be for sale, including The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson and the original Dahl novel.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox press conference transcript

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Transcribed by iFlicks:

George and Wes – what was the appeal of Fantastic Mr Fox? Why did you want to work on a film, particularly a stop-motion animation, based on that book?

WA: Well, we all grew up with Roald Dahl’s writing. Fantastic Mr Fox was the first book I owned, so it made an impression upon me. I always wanted to adapt the book as stop-motion, using puppets with fur, because there’s something sort of magical about that.

GC: I just did it for the paycheck. The money. [Laughs] But it was also the chance to work with Wes, which really appealed to me.

George, in what ways do you identify with the character of Mr Fox? What did you think of him as a fox?

GC: What I thought of him…as a fox? [Laughs] Well, he’s an optimist, which was really fun to play. I had a lot of fun on the film, working with such a great cast. I didn’t enjoy working with Bill, though. There was a lot of hatred there at first. We’re okay now, though.

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London Film Festival photos (on-going)

The Press Conference and Premiere, 14 October 2009 (more as they come in)

Sources: HuffPost , Getty, @eldiabolik, @BFI, Mark Romanek (via Edgar Wright), @debbsperks

Some video. A bit more.

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Wes talks Fantastic Mr. Fox at LFF

The BFI London Film Festival is under way tomorrow, with the world debut of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox! This is an ongoing post. Watch for updates.

Here is Wes talking about the film and addressing the “directing controversy” (Hollywood Elsewhere):

More with Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray…

More:

Please note that Tristan Oliver’s earlier comments were removed at his request.

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Jason on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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AP: “A decade past ‘Rushmore,’ Schwartzman hits stride”

Schwartzman in "Bored to Death"

From the Associated Press:

NEW YORK — “Can I do a flashback?” asks Jason Schwartzman.

The 29-year-old actor and musician is chatting over coffee, sitting in a Manhattan hotel lobby almost Zen-like, but full of questions and curiosity. He clearly relishes conversation, pursuing any tangents with a lively interest:

Words he hates: “vibe, journey and voice.”

The “amazingness” of math: “Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?”

The previous night’s Steelers game: “The … has pretty much hit the fan.”

Schwartzman’s storytelling is vibrant, abstract and often not chronological. And at this particular moment, everything seems to relate back to the past.

Schwartzman made his film debut eleven years ago in Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” as Max Fisher, the spectacled, love-crazed, eminently intrepid teenage misfit — easily one of the most remarkable first stabs at movie acting.

“I can’t express enough to you how bizarre that experience was,” Schwartzman recalls. “It was like a drive-by shooting, but a positive one.”

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Ain’t It Cool interviews Jason Schwartzman

From Ain’t It Cool:

Beaks: It was just announced that THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX is going to have its worldwide premiere at the London Film Festival. Have you seen the movie? And if so, can you give us an idea of what to expect from it? The pictures really have people freaking out. In a good way, I think.

Schwartzman: I’ve seen the film, and I’m proud to be a part of it. I think it looks really beautiful. Wes didn’t change his style of filmmaking and writing to suit the genre or the concept of the film. He brought it to him. It’s just the new Wes Anderson film, but with puppets instead of live actors. It’s stop-motion. It was really fun to be a part of it because Wes tried as hard as he could to not have all of the actors recording their voices separately in studios at various times. He really made an effort to get the actors together in groups, and literally act out the scenes with each other. To have overlapping [dialogue], and just weird exchanges. He’d have a gentleman with a boom mic running after us, following us doing it all. So, for example, the scenes in the movie where we dig? That’s actually all of us on the ground digging – like digging in the real dirt. And if we were eating, we’d go “Rawr!” and have real stuff in our mouths. I play George Clooney’s son, and there’s a scene where we’re talking to each other or having an emotional scene, and those scenes really are the two of us in a room acting and looking at each other – as opposed to being done separately and pieced together later. Of course, there are exceptions. Meryl Streep is in it, and I never got to act with her. But for the most part, most of my scenes were done with the actors I’m working with.

It’s really beautiful. I was thinking about this yesterday, and I think it will appeal to the kid in adults and the adults in children. It crosses at a certain point because the dialogue is really funny, so adults will love it. But they’ll also love it because maybe they loved the book. And, also, animation just does something to the brain where it makes you feel young. And I feel that kids will love it because it is animation, and they are young. But they’ll also just love the dialogue and the physical action. There’s a lot of physical humor in it that I feel Wes wouldn’t have been able to do with live actors due to the constraints of the universe and physics and gravity. (Laughs)

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Upcoming films from Wes collaborators

The beautiful Amara Karan in St. Trinian’s, out August 28 in the U.S. (Yankee Racers post)

Jason Schwartzman in Funny People, out July 31 (promotional video: Yo Teach!)

Since I am madly in love with Amara Karan, I have included a couple of bonus interviews after the break.

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