And then you decide to go out for a beer, and meet Robert Pattinson #RobertPattinson #twilight #luckynight #luckygirl #Londonlife

CODE Entertainment is fully financing the movie, which will start production in 2014 and is currently casting. The company is in post-production on The Forger, starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan, and is in prep for Mission: Blacklist, starring Twilight’s Robert Pattinson.

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Excerpt (a review of The Wall by Sarte. It’s a collection of short stories, which includes “The Childhood of a Leader’):

Written by Kara Kellar Bell

Please note we do not know what character Rob is playing at this time.

The strongest story in the book is the last, which is more of a novelette or novella. ‘The Childhood of a Leader’ follows the story of Lucien, the son of a factory owner from his early years where he is pretty and admired by adults, through his boyhood and into young adulthood. From early on, Lucien doesn’t seem to know who he is. But he learns early that his father is a leader, someone the workers look up to. As time goes on, Lucien becomes alienated from his mother. He obsesses over himself, and his complexes. Now well into his teens, he reads Freud, falls in with a boy at school who introduces him to an older man, a surrealist. This man clearly has a sexual interest in Lucien and they go away for a weekend. The whole sexual encounter is a failure for Lucien, but that doesn’t stop him worrying about whether he is now a homosexual. He decides to avoid the surrealist in future and turns his attentions instead to the young maid who now works in his home. But when he has the opportunity to take things further, he backs off.

A friend introduces him to a young woman. Lucien doesn’t actually like her much, but he goes out with her all the same. It takes some time before she gives in to him, but once he’s had his way, he’s already thinking of moving on to someone else, and contemplating meeting a nice girl, ie, someone who doesn’t give herself to men. He’s also fallen in with a new group of friends, right wing, nationalist, anti-Semitic students who call out slogans like “France for the French” and beat up Jews. Lucien discovers a gift for sniffing out Jews, which attracts admiration from those around him. His father approves of his new interests. Lucien joins the movement, beats up a young Jew, and snubs another at a party. By the end, he’s progressed from boy to man. He sees the future ahead of himself: he will be a leader like his father, he’ll become the local mayor, he’ll find a nice virgin who’ll submit to him. He’ll be a leader of France.

What makes this story particularly interesting is that it was written before the war and the occupation. But Lucien already embodies the features of the Vichy fascist and collaborator. And the persecution of Jews takes on a whole new meaning for modern readers. The Holocaust, and the handing over of Jews by the Vichy government loom over this story in a way they wouldn’t have done at the time it was written. Sartre’s story seems to predict what lies ahead.

The story obviously covers a number of years, starting before the First World War. This is the time when young boys were dressed up like girls, which presumably explains Lucien’s brief gender confusion at the outset. Soon enough he’s no longer as pretty and the adults pay less attention to him. As for the workers at his father’s factory, it’s clear that the relationship between employee and employer has changed. The workers are obviously no longer willing to be treated in a paternalistic way. They’ve been politicised. Lucien’s belief at the end of the story that he will be a leader for his workers exhibits a certain naivety, but could also, given his fascist tendencies, mean he intends to come down hard on them. One thing his fascism does give him is a sense of self importance, and this is probably true of others like him.

‘The Childhood of a Leader’ plays out against the last years of the Third Republic. It’s been pointed out that Lucien shares a great deal of his psychology with Sartre himself. Their backgrounds are similar. But Sartre made a different choice, associating himself with the Left. Because Lucien has picked up and discarded different belief systems through the story, there’s reason to think he too could still change. It might not be too late. But the fear is that in the short term, and the short term being Vichy, his fascist tendencies might lead to collaboration with the Holocaust. This is a reading that goes beyond what Sartre probably intended when the story was published in 1939. But the Nazis were already in power in Germany, and the persecution of Jews had been state-sanctioned there for years. This could not have escaped Sartre, nor could the build up of the German war machine. There had already been a near outbreak of War in 1938. Perhaps Sartre knew exactly where the world, and this story, were going after all.

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Thank you to whence from Rob’s IMDB message board!

Warner Home Video’s ‘Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,’ and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s James Bond actioner, ‘Skyfall,’ round out the year’s top-three packaged-media releases.

Lionsgate’s final Twilight movie, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 was the top-selling retail release on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in 2013, according to new data from Nielsen.

The media measurement company said Warner Home Video’s Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s latest James Bond actioner, Skyfall, rounded out the top-three packaged-media releases of the year, which is based on aggregate disc unit sales (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray/DVD Combo packs, etc.) from Dec. 31, 2012, to Dec. 1, 2013.

Rounding out the top 10 disc sellers of the year in order were Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Wreck-It Ralph and Monsters University, followed by Hotel Transylvania from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Rise of the Guardians from Paramount Home Media Distribution; Disney’s Iron-Man 3; Fox’s The Croods and Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness.

Nielsen said that in 2012 consumers purchased 26% more DVD and Blu-ray titles during the week of Thanksgiving compared to the same period in 2011. Notably, disc sales during the week after Christmas — when sales are at their holiday season peak due to gift cards and discounts — fell 15% from 2011.

Indeed, discs sold the week after Christmas approached 7 million units in 2012, compared with almost 9 million units in 2011 and more than 10 million units sold in 2010.

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What’s next for you?
I’m about to go work with Werner Herzog, [the film] Queen of the Desert, with Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson and myself. We’re going to shoot that in Morocco in January. After that, we’ll see.

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Fan @[SOURCE REQUESTED TO BE REMOVED] received a pleasant comment on her Instagram from, A24Films, the distributor behind “The Rover”.

“We’re talking about Rob here?” she says as I blunder out something about how much “attention” she’s received lately. “That’s been very foreign to me. But actually kind of funny, because it’s all bullshit.”

The scans belong to @Sunnyy_H!

Thank you to ROBsessed for the scans!

@Betheredcarpet

Exciting #TheRover goodies coming in Jan 2014. We can hardly contain ourselves!

@A24Films

A24 fans, please follow us on Instagram! We’ll be sending out some holiday surprises through IG Direct http://instagram.com/a24films

We are so #roverexcited for January, it’s #roverwhelming!

1/6 was just a reminder that January is when it all begins. Exact date still tbd! It must be perfect cause we are #roverachievers.

@flying099

Just opened La Nación Revista and found #DiorRob  Funny the adjacent article is titled: “The power of hugs”

Gotta love support from his friends!

@RKfan2012:

can you say if Rob is in QOTD? You have made it seem like he dropped it

@cassianelwes

 we are close to a deal

@NickRaslan tweeted,

@QueenDesertFilm at LAX with Herzog heading for Morocco.

We are looking forward to Rob’s filming to begin!

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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Lionsgate

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Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Warner Home Video

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Skyfall

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Wreck-It Ralph

Disney/Buena Vista Home Video

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Monsters University

Disney/Buena Vista Home Video

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Hotel Transylvania

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Rise of the Guardians

Paramount Home Entertainment

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Iron Man 3

Disney/Buena Vista Home Video

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Croods

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Paramount Home Entertainment

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Thank you @melcitron for the tip!

Heads up! Not all the sightings are kind.

@milliemoof

Robert Pattinson is in the bussey

I’m so so so so high and I’ve just met robert pattinson and I am so high

How did this night even happen

Being out with r patz is fun. He’s so much smaller in real life etc etc etc

@xyzlz she wasn’t very blonde & she had glasses on.

@xyzlz I don’t think it was her. Is she very tall? She just seemed a little plain looking

@xyzlz yeah the girl seemed like she was with the group rather than just with him. She was about 5’11.

@lucyycar

Robert Pattinson ,bussey building . that happened

@LukeBadBoiBell

@JenniHodgson@FifiBowden Robert Pattinson spotted at Bussey Building last night #comedownsouth

@LilyyCampbell

Lol seeing Robert Pattinson at bussey was probably the weirdest experience of my life….

@DelCarpioRP uhh yeah, this evening at a bar near where I live

@Lil4Prez

Lol so I went bussey tonight and #RobertPattinson was there…..so surreal

@livfranchini

Um so just waiting for the 12 bus in Peckham with Robert Pattinson.

@ramshackleriot Yea. He came out of Bussey!

@Alexa_IGA@SkyLilo He didn’t get on the bus, he was hanging out next to the bus stop then walked off to better pursuits I guess.

@sovsem_inaya Friends, and at one point holding hands with a blonde with glasses!!!

A single Robert Pattinson sighting achieved the Twitter popularity all my wit never could

@loona_lee Who knows? They did hold hands for a little while as they walked off but I didn’t see them kissing or anything.

@loona_lee I can’t see her face in this picture, but I’ve looked at pics of Dylan Penn and yeah, it was possibly her.

@rhonda_ Ha, thanks. No I don’t mind, I think it’s amusing, I’ve never even seen a Twilight movie and now apparently I’ve caused a feud.

@Alexa_IGA@loona_lee It was 3 in the morning & I didn’t even know who Dylan Penn was until someone posted a pic here today.

@Alexa_IGA@loona_lee Damn, you got me! I am indeed desperate for personal validation through the medium of Twitter fans of Twilight!!!!!!!!

@Robx999 Dw, this is making for a very enjoyable Saturday off. Who knew people took this stuff so seriously!

@Alexa_IGA@loona_lee I will do buddy, I promise you. Til next time, Robert.

@HatersNoNothing Had no idea ‘sightings’ were, like, a thing? Just thought it was hilarious to bump into a teen idol in random place at 3am.

@HatersNoNothing But glad to discover there are people in the world so passionate about others’ private lives. It’s been a good ride.

@HatersNoNothing@apsarapari@reelblondes Also wasn’t so ‘concerned about privacy’ more like ‘didn’t care to make the effort to document’.

I spoke words that were true to my heart but the internet is turning me into a troll.

@NathanielLeslie

Odd seeing Robert pattinson at bussey tonight

Bit of a cock though

@daishudson yeah he was at the club I was at last night

@daishudson he looked a bit of dick I I’m honest

@luismurphy96@daishudson haha and daisy he was wearing a wooly hat and he was buying drinks cos he has money and generally seemed a dick

Keep getting favourites and retweets and follows from people I don’t know who are obsessed with Robert pattinson fuck off

@hannahbrewin

Robert Pattinson is in the club I’m in lol

Lol I talked to him

SUCH A GOOD NIGHT

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