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No Stopping the Pattinson Machine

27 Aug, 2009 By: Billy Gil

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Independent film distributors are like 14-year-old girls when it comes to Robert Pattinson. MPI Media Group is the latest to announce a small film release from a Twilight star; it’s releasing the comedy How to Be on Nov. 17 (reserve the movie on Netflix or Amazon). The IFC film stars Pattinson as a musician in a rut who makes a self-help book author become his life coach. Haven’t we all been there!

OK, so the movie sounds a bit hokey, but it actually looks really funny (watch the trailer at the film’s official site, www.howtobemovie.com). And hitching your wagon to either Pattinson’s or Kristen Stewart’s stars seems like a pretty good idea. I didn’t love Twilight, but they’re both good in it; Stewart has been around a while now, a strong child actor in films like David Fincher’s Panic Room, and I see her eventually going the Winslet rather than Lohan route. At least I hope so.

As for the Robert Smith-coiffed Pattinson, I think there’s more to him than the brooding stares and unbuttoned shirts of supermarket checkout counter magazines. He seemed lighthearted in a MySpace interview with Paramore’s Hayley Williams that I’ll admit to watching. Maybe indie comedy will suit him.

If you’re a fan, you’ll be happy to learn the DVD has an exclusive interview with Pattinson and behind-the-scenes footage for even more Pattinson. And if you’re sick of him, Kristen Stewart and vampires altogether, you’re basically S.O.L.

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