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Where did Vampire Academy go wrong? Director Daniel Waters opens up in a candid interview!

Fred Topel's interview!!

I’m so excited I get to do a two part interview with Daniel Waters. I always like to talk about filmmakers’ classic work when I interview them about something new, but Waters has had his hand in so many films with which I grew up, I could fill the whole interview with them. And Moviepilot is letting me! But first, the DVD and Blu-ray of Vampire Academy is out.

The film bombed in its February theatrical release, and Waters was self-deprecating about that and some of his own dissatisfactions with the movie. Based on Richelle Mead’s novel, Vampire Academy is about the battle between Strigoi and Moroi, and their protectors the Dhampir. Mark Waters, Daniel’s brother, directed the film which still hits those notes from Mead’s book, and perhaps the DVD has even more lost tidbits from the world of Vampire Academy.

Here is part one of my epic 30 minute interview with Daniel Waters, focusing on his adaptation of Vampire Academy. He even began with a personal note that blew my mind both as a writer and as a person named Fred.

I like the name Fred. It’s a fun name to type. You make a circle with your index finger. F-R-E-D is a circle.

That is amazing. I’ve never thought of that and I have typed my own name many, many times. There aren’t a lot of characters named Fred in movies. I always get Drop Dead Fred is the biggest one now. Before that it was Freddy Kreuger.

That’s pretty good. I always have a character named Fred, even if it’s just a small role.

Is there really? If I look at all of your movies, there’s a Fred somewhere?

I know there’s one in Batman Returns. Don’t quote me.

When you got the job for Vampire Academy, where did it fall in the vampire and teen lit phenomenon? Were there already some teen lit movies, or was this even before that started?

Oh, no, it was definitely late in the game. Perhaps naively, my brother and I thought, much like the way at the end of the ‘80s, people were sick of teen films and nobody wanted to see another teen film, but I did the movie Heathers and it was a new way of looking at the teen film so it was responded to quite well. Even if it didn’t make a lot of money, people liked it. Mark and I thought, “Okay, people are sick of vampire movies, but this book has its own kind of personality and its own kind of style. If we bring that to life, people will of course see what an original take on the vampire lore this is.” I think we just came at the wrong time where no matter what we did, people just had fatigue about the whole vampire genre and there was nothing we could do to change that.

For fans of the book, if they get the DVD, are some of the additional scenes you wrote included?

Yeah, there are some additional scenes. Definitely there’s a big flashback scene that was in the book that was mystifyingly cut out of the movie. I know that’s on the DVD. I haven’t actually seen the final list of deleted scenes. To me there’s a lot of things just personally, stuff within scenes that exist in the movie now that I thought were cut down a bit too much. To me the famous scene from the book, the charm necklace scene, to me it went through an ABC Family Channelization process. It was much sexier before. Maybe I’m an old perv, but I miss the old version where it was much more sexy.

ABC Family is still pretty edgy.

Well, I won’t get into the details but we had thong. [Laughs] A basic disappointment I had with the movie is that the studio that released the movie, The Weinstein Company, didn’t quite get what was appealing to the readers of the books. They kind of thought they were going to get a The Hunger Games -type action movie, and we knew that the key to Vampire Academy is the dynamic between Rose and Lissa and just the personality of it, not just action scenes. They were cut so I think a lot of good just them standing around talking stuff was lost to keep the story moving. Those of you who’ve read all the books, the firstVampire Academy is not the most fascinatingly plot driven of the books. It is more just the characters hanging out. That’s what was unique about it, but I feel the movie, a lot of it plays, even fans who love the movie all seem to agree that the movie’s a little rushed, that things happen too fast. You just wish you could breathe a bit more.

It sounds like you disagree with some of the cuts. Did you get into it with your brother over that?

Yes, yes, we had a very awkward Thanksgiving, let’s just say that. Stuffing went flying across the table. This is the problem. I think my brother loves cutting movies tight. He likes to cut movies tight and then Harvey Weinstein likes to come in and whatever the director thinks is tight, he needs to cut that much more out of it. So I was working with two guys who don’t like to let people stand around and talk and I love movies that were just okay, it’s not about keeping the story moving. This isn’t like a bomb on a bus and if the speed goes under 50 miles an hour, the bus blows up. It’s not that kind of movie. I wish it was a little more leisurely.

How was the first time you ended up working with Mark [Waters]?

Like I said, before we squabbled in the editing room, I think it was very good. It’s been sad that the movie didn’t do very well, that we feel like the two streams in Ghostbusters that you’re not supposed to cross them or something. So we hope it’s not bad luck working together because we have very similar sensibilities. Even just as movie viewers, we seem to agree on everything. I think it was a good team in that my brother was good at math, I was great at English. He is more the left brain Type A guy and I’m more the dreamy right brain guy. We always wanted to work together. Certainly our working relationship is very good as far as I can come up with this crazy, crazy stuff and he’s the guy who’s got to make it real. His wife has a funny thing she says. She says, “I make him cool and he makes me sane.” So it was supposed to be a good combination.

Speaking of feeling rushed, there is a lot of background to the Strigoi and St. Vladimir's. Were there points in reading Richelle’s book that felt like, “Come on, Richelle, you’re killing me. Don’t give me all this stuff to explain!”

Definitely the first movie. We thought, “Oh, just get us to the second movie and we can relax a bit more.” It’s a 300 page book that I thought was going to be a two hour movie, ended up being a 90 minute movie. Of course there are some fans of the book that wouldn’t even like the longer version of the movie because they want a five hour movie that has every single thing in the book. It’s just not going to happen. Yeah, definitely for my adult friends who hadn’t read the book, I would show them early drafts of the script and their eyes would glaze over. “Moroi? Strigoi? What’s going on? Help me.” I think we need to give people a menu before they walked in that had everything on a big placard. We could wait to start the movie for 10 minutes and have them read everything.

Speaking of scenes of people standing around talking, was there a part of you that would have wanted to throw out a lot of background and just do a wacky high school movie with vampires?

The thing is, some people criticized us like, “Oh, the guys who did Mean Girls and Heathers are not the right person to do the movie.” But we never wanted to do just Mean Girls with fangs. We really wanted to capture everything about Vampire Academy. I’m someone, if you look at the movies I’ve done, I’ve never met a tone I didn’t like. I like darkness and fantasy mixed with humor and I thought the book had all of that. We tried to get it all. My first approach was even less explanatory. It was more like okay, I’m just going to pretend that you’re backstage at a concert and this is just the way this school is and you’ve got to play catch up yourself. Richelle liked that version the best, but then we ended up doing [a draft] explaining every little thing. Then that was too long, so I think we ended up with this middle version that is simultaneously too much exposition, too many facts and figures and also for some people not enough explanation. I think just the pure information of it was a tough nut that we never quite cracked. But please, buy the DVD.

Well, people can see different stages of the development, but I feel audiences seem to universally prefer that first version you described where they’re trusted to follow along. Yet Hollywood always seems to want to explain everything to them. Where does that disconnect come from?

It is a weird thing that it is true. If you look at just anime, more Japanese stuff, they throw you in the middle of this 10 times even crazier world and you’re just supposed to play catch up. It seems like everybody under the age of 25 doesn’t have a problem with it. But then unfortunately the movies are produced and made by people who don’t have that quick mindset yet. So it’s just like, “Well, wait a minute. Nobody’s going to understand this if you don’t stop the movie dead and explain it.” So you have these kind of adults still running the system. I think as the people who are 25 and under get older and into more positions of power, I think it may change a bit.

I suppose Game of Thrones does it that way too, and I actually am lost in Game of Thrones.

No, but it is a sense with Game of Thrones, I just go with the flow. It’s funny when I read about Game of Thrones and they give me all the characters names, that’s when I get confused.

Yeah, just tell me Peter Dinklage, Lena Heady, I know who they are.

Yeah, but when I watch it, I can follow along.

Come back for part two of my Daniel Waters interview where we look back at Heathers, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Hudson Hawk, Batman Returns and Demolition Man!

Source: moviepilot.com

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NEWS! What A Pair! 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert

@ZoeyDeutch, @maddiedeutch and @LeaKThompson will be singing at The What A Pair! 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert on May 31! Don't miss it!

The concert will be held at Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills! Here's a video from February:

More HERE!

Lucky Magazine: Style Star In The Making: Meet Vampire Academy's Zoey Deutch

As soon as Zoey Deutch walked into Lucky's offices we knew she was well on her way to becoming a breakout style star—after all, her recent red carpet looks have included a color-blocked Tommy Hilfiger look from the "To Tommy From Zooey" collection and a ladylike Dior dress from the brand's spring 2014 line (see slideshow above). She's totally cute—it's hard for anyone who's seen Back to the Future or Some Kind of Wonderful not to note her resemblance to her '80s icon of a mom, actress Lea Thompson—and super funny (she cracked us up by calling the cleavage-enhancing inserts that she wore for Vampire Academy "jelly boobs.") “They were very helpful when it came to my stunt work, but don't tell anyone about them or they'll think I had a boob reduction after this movie!” she jokes.

The movie finds Deutch (as Rose Hathaway) and fellow rising star Lucy Fry (as Lissa Dragomir) playing half human/half vampire best friends at a boarding school for vampires. "I was struck by how accurately this movie portrays the hilarity of being a teenager—the things that happen, the first experiences, and the awkward encounters you go through," says Deutch, who at 19, is still a teen herself. The movie, based on The New York Times bestselling book series by Richelle Mead and written/directed by brothers Daniel and Mark Waters (the same writer/director of Mean Girls and Heathers,respectively) keeps Deutch in a very specific uniform: "My main outfit in the movie is a leather jacket, black pants and combat boots. I wore some AllSaints stuff, but I also wore things that weren't as nice to stick with the character's lifestyle," she says. Off-screen it's a different story—every time she hits the red carpet, she shows off her chic side.

By Lucky Staffers, Associate Fashion Credits Editor

Photos HERE!

Red Carpet Crash Interview With ‘Vampire Academy’ Director Mark Waters And He Tells Us About A Possible Second Movie

For the past few years running, it seems as if vampires have been the Supernatural Creature de jour, thanks to the bestselling series “True Blood”, and the not-even-worth-the-paper-it-is-printed-on-Twilight series. Another young adult book series getting the film treatment is Richelle Mead’s “Vampire Academy”, and it was not as terrible as I was prepared for it to be, which is refreshing.

Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry) are two girls who attend a very posh, very private boarding school for vampires. Think Hogwarts, but with more bitey and less garlic. In this school there are two types of vampires: the regal Moroi, who are peaceful vampires, and Dhampirs, who are the half-human, half-vampire guardians of the Moroi. Rose and Lissa have been on the run for two years and have been returned to St Vladimir’s Academy. With Lissa being a Moroi princess and Rose a Dhampir guardian-in-training, veteran Guardian Dimitri Belikov (Danila Kozlovsky) agrees to take Rose under his wing and mentor her as she trains to protect her best friend. Too bad there is someone or something at the school who is set on making Lissa dead, making Rose’s training even harder.

With films like “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls”, director Mark Waters already has an impressive resume, but add in screenwriting by his brother Daniel Waters, who wrote the screenplay for one of my all-time favourite dark teen movies “Heathers”? It’s a perfect combination needed for the vampy angst needed to make “Vampire Academy” pretty damn good. It is by no means “Interview with the Vampire”, but it sure beats the hell out of the terrible Twilight franchise.

“Vampire Academy” will be available on blu-ray on Tuesday, May 20th.

Had the chance to talk to director Mark Waters about the movie, his other movies including ‘Freaky Friday’ and ‘Mean Girls.’ Also he told us about a potential second movie. Listen to the interview below.

http://redcarpetcrash.com/podcast/Mark Waters.mp3

5 Reasons Why Zoey Deutch Is Your New Kick-Ass Role Model

Zoey Deutch is Hollywood’s new cool girl. The 19-year-old actress — and self-described “emotional wreck” — most recently starred as kick-ass half-vampire heroine Rose Hathaway in Vampire Academy, and we’ve been crushing on her ever since. Zoey, who's every bit as outspoken and generally awesome as Rose IRL, is our new kick-ass role model, and she’s about to be yours, too. From her adorkable quirks to her snarky quips, Zoey is our new favorite celeb BFF.

1. She’s just as unfiltered as our other celeb besties Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis. Let’s face it: interviews can be boring — like, really boring — which is why we appreciate when a star can go off-the-cuff. Zoey’s sarcasm and playfulness are just a few of the many reasons we love her. Zoey’s swagger — like J.Law’s and Mila Kunis’ before her — is far too confident and natural to be fake. She’s got bite (no pun intended).

2. She’s not into being famous. When asked to describe fame, Zoey had one word: “bulls—.” She added: “I don’t really get it. I’m not one of those people… I don’t understand it. It’s kind of fake, it’s all subjective to the situation in that specific time. I don’t really know where the line between fame and celebrity comes into play. I mean, some people have an easier time getting into a room if they’re famous. Some people have better opportunities if they’re famous I always get the question, ‘What’s going to happen if your movie is going to be a big hit and you’re going to be famous?’ I’m like, well, I guess there are things that suck about that, and it’s kind of bullsh-t. But it’s awesome because that means the movie did well and people enjoyed it. In that way, I can understand it. Other than that, I think it’s quite silly.”

3. She has an alter ego, and she’s even cooler than Zoey. “I have a Ukrainian alter ego; she doesn’t have a name, and most of my family and friends like her more than me,” she told Buzzfeed. “If I ever do anything wrong or bratty I usually just bring her out because she pretty much gets me back on track. You’re not going to get me to do it though — that’s a big reveal.”

4. She can quote Mean Girls. That’s so grool. She’s also been to a Mean Girls quote-along. Talk about fetch! See? Stars really are just like us.

5. She can totally kick your butt. In order to get ready to play the part of a dhampir, Zoeytrained for three months, practicing different forms of martial arts, jiu-jitsu, krav maga, and kickboxing. So, yes, if you try and steal her slice of pizza, she will start throwing punches.

See? We told you Zoey was young Hollywood’s next It girl! For more of Zoey’s hilariousness, don’t forget to download your copy of Vampire Academy, available on iTunes and Amazon now. Trust us: there’s so much vampire hottie action at St. Vladimir’s Academy — Moroi and Dhampir, alike — you’ll definitely want to own it today!

Source: wetpaint.com

Monday, May 19, 2014

How Vampire Academy's Zoey Deutch feels about vampire-obsessed people (SheKnows interview)

We chatted with the actress who plays Rose Hathaway, a Dhampir, or creature that is half-human and half-vampire, just in time for the film's DVD release.

We asked Zoey Deutch what makes her character, Rose, so special.

"She's not your average vampire. She doesn't need blood to survive. She can go out in the sunlight. The thing that makes her supernatural would be her unique ability to fight and her heightened senses and abilities in combat. So she's a glorified bodyguard to her best friend, who is full vampire and is set to be the queen of this society."

We've all seen lots of vampire movies over the past few years. We asked Deutch why she thinks vampires are still so interesting.

"I think there's a lot of psychological and deeper reasons why humans are so fascinated by vampires. I know Freud did a lot of work as to why that was, exploring the sexual undertones or the idea that [a] person isn't who they seem to be. I think it's individual to each person who's obsessed with vampires. I've found that people don't just like vampires, they are obsessed with them."

We asked the lovely raven-haired actress if she was obsessed with vampires. "I think I'm more obsessed with people who are obsessed. I think it's really interesting and I always ask people why they love vampires and it's always a different answer," she said.

Given that she's the daughter of actress Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), we also had to know if she and her mother ever perform together.

"We act together a lot, because I torture her and ask her advice on a lot of auditions. She's an amazing director — I'm so fortunate to have her help me and impart all her wisdom [to] me. She's extremely intelligent and an amazing artist."

Zoey also told us that her sister, Madelyn Deutch, wrote a movie script called The Year of Spectacular Men.

"We're trying to shoot it later this year. My mother will direct it. It's based on true events in my sister's life, after she graduated college. She was trying to find herself and figure out what she wanted to do and it included a bunch of spectacular men in the most sarcastic sense. It's definitely a dark comedy and it's hands-down one of the funniest scripts I've ever read."

We can't wait! In the meantime, we'll check out this exclusive clip featuring Vampire Academy author Richelle Mead talking about the movie that releases tomorrow on DVD.

INTERVIEW: Zoey Deutch gets schooled in Vampire Academy

Source: sheknows.com

A Rose Hathaway aka Zoey Deutch doll!

The Rose Hathaway aka Zoey Deutch doll is custom by oswinsadventures.tumblr.com and repaint by NoNapTime!

Deleted scenes of Vampire Academy

"Out of my pay grade"
Mason gets attack by a vampire.

"Dress Shopping"

Natalie tries on dresses for the dance.

"Party Flashback"

Rose and Lissa at a party.

"Why did we leave the academy"
Lissa and Rose talking about why they left.

Source: instagram.com/geneticallydamage

Thursday, May 15, 2014

‘Vampire Academy’s Zoey Deutch To Lead Rom-Com ‘Cover Girl’

EXCLUSIVE: Vampire Academy and Beautiful Creatures star Zoey Deutch is set to lead Cover Girl, an original romantic comedy helmed by Gray Matters director Sue Kramer. Kramer rewrote the script by Gren Wells (The Road Within) about Meg, a Queens, NY girl who finds herself a fish out of water attending Cambridge Business School while financing her studies in an unusual way. Vampire Diaries showrunner Julie Plec is producing with Dignity Film Finance’s Maggie Monteith (Searching For Sugarman), Jill Footlick (Greetings From Tim Buckley), and Brent Emery (The Road Within). Wells is exec producer.

Dignity Film Finance is backing the pic and is also financing Kramer’s adaptation of God of Driving, based on Vanity Fair contributor and Manhattan socialite Amy Fine Collins’ 2011 book. Filming on that pic is slated for next Spring. First up lensing will be Cover Girl which shoots this summer in London, Cambridge and New York, with sales underway this week in Cannes. Kramer is repped by WME. Deutch, whose screen credits also include TV’s Ringer and The Suite Life on Deck, is repped by Innovative Artists and Gilbertson Entertainment. Wells is repped by Paradigm and Media Talent Group.

Source: deadline.com

Exclusive NEW clip from the Vampire Academy DVD

Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry sneak into Jackson Bews' room and hypnotize him in this brand new DVD extras clip from their movie Vampire Academy, provided exclusively to JustJared.com.

The clip is being premiered just in time for the film’s DVD release, which falls on Tuesday (May 20). Be sure to grab your copy when it hits store shelves!

Source: justjared.com

05.15 | Zoey Deutch's Photoshoot for The Untitled Magazine

Zoey is wearing a Osman Resort 2014 Box Crop Top and a Vivienne Westwood Anglomania Skirt.

Zoey is wearing a Lie Sang Bong Spring/Summer 2014 Laser Cut Skirt and a Mathieu Mirano Spring/Summer 2014 Bustier Top.

Zoey is wearing a Mathieu Mirano Spring/Summer 2014 Bustier Top and a Topshop Layered Jewel Necklace.

BTS photos HERE

Monday, May 12, 2014

Cannes: 'Good Kids' Cast to Include Zoey Deutch!

Good Kids, the teen coming-of-age comedy on which writer Chris McCoy will make his directorial debut, has rounded up a cast that includes Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures), Craig Roberts (Neighbors) and Israel Broussard (The Bling Ring).

Jane Levy is out of coming-of-age comedy “Good Kids,” and according to Deadline, “Vampire Academy” star Zoey Deutch is in in her place. Nicholas Braun, who signed on to star alongside Levy last summer, is still in, and the film has also added Craig Roberts and Israel Broussad to round out the lead quartet of characters.

As the title suggests, the film will follow four overachieving Cape Cod high school graduates who realize that they’ve missed out on a lot of crucial teenage benchmarks by being the “good kids” for so long, so the summer before college, they decide to completely reinvent themselves and have a hell of a good time. With these four comedically gifted rising stars leading the way, we can just imagine the sorts of hijinks “Good Kids” has in mind. Chris McCoy wrote the script and will be making his directorial debut on the project.

Deutch played the lead role of Rose Hathaway in “Vampire Academy,” which seemed to lose its potential for launching a franchise when box office numbers didn’t exactly add up. She since landed a female lead in Gregg Allman biopic “Midnight Rider,” but that’s been mired in controversy following the death of a camera assistant on set. Roberts broke out on Richard Ayoade’s “Subarmine,” while Broussard did it via Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring.”

Source: http://upandcomers.net