Hailee Steinfeld (Petra) has officially joined the cast of Pitch Perfect 2! The actress, who turned 17 last December, is joining Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and the rest of the Bellas in the film to be directed by Elizabeth Banks. Steinfeld made the announcement herself via Twitter on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/HaileeSteinfeld/status/461620338871517184
We think this totally aca-awesome! Congrats Hailee!
PopSugar sat down to interview Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld, talking to Asa about why he chose Ender’s Game, what part of Ender he wishes he could be like, and what he thought when he first saw the film.
With Hailee, they asked what Hailee’s relationship was like with Asa offscreen, whether it was hard for her to be the only female main character, and why she loves young adult adaptations.
Source: BuzzSugar
It’s the eve of NovEnder 1st, Launchies! To help celebrate the launch of a movie 28 years in the making, I’ve been offered an Ender’s Game poster to give away signed by Asa Butterfield (Ender), Hailee Steinfeld (Petra), producer Bob Orci, and producer/founder of OddLot Entertainment Gigi Pritzker!
The poster is the Dragon Army soldier poster:
To enter to win, all you have to do is go see the movie and then return and post your reaction to the film on our Fan Reactions Page. After that, return to this page to log your entry into the widget below.
I’ll say again, entering is a TWO step process. Posting your movie reaction and logging your entry in below.
This giveaway will end on November 15, 2013 and is open to the US only.
During their promotion of Ender’s Game in London in the beginning of October, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley, Gavin Hood and Bob Orci visited Film Club kids at Westminster Academy to talk about making movies. FilmClubUK just released a vid from the event.
Source: FilmClubUK’s Youtube (thanks to Tumblr user toothle55 for pointing it out)
Last night, Hailee Steinfeld (Petra) was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and after talking to Jimmy about learning how to drive in LA and her Halloween costume, presented a new clip of Petra offering to teach Ender some moves in the Battle Room.
Thanks to Hannah for the tip. Watch it on Hulu HERE.
Source: NBC
As you remember, some of the cast and crew of Ender’s Game did a press tour through Europe earlier this month. While in London, they gave a number of interviews, some of which have now surfaced online. Since they all have the same sort of setup, it can be quite confusing and hard to tell which interview is which just by looking at it, so here is a comprehensive list of all London press junket interview vids I could find. Enjoy!
1. Joe Michalczuk for Sky News Entertainment
Joe basically asks all interviewees very similar questions, so the real treat here is how much they sometimes differ in their answers. Asa, Hailee, Harrison and Bob, Sir Ben and Gavin talk about
Watch the other interviewees here:
Hailee Steinfeld…………Harrison Ford and Bob Orci…………Sir Ben Kingsley
2. Rory Cashin for Entertainment.ie
Now, these are probably the best ones of the lot. The Interviewer asks interesting and insightful questions and you can actually tell that the interviewees enjoy not having to talk about the same things over and over again for once. Unfortunately, these are not on Youtube, and there is no embed code available on the site. So you’ll just have to do with links!
3. James Kleinmann for HeyUGuysUK and NerdyUK
These are run-of-the-mill interviews with some interesting tidbits. Gavin Hood, for instance, talks about why he decided to play the Giant in the Ender’s Game video game sequences.
Here is the rest:
4. The Showbiz 411
So far, they have only published their interview with Hailee and Asa. It’s refreshingly light-hearted and probably geared towards younger viewers. The two young stars talk about hitting it off right away, space camp, boot camp, fun on set, tight flash suits and their ideal planet.
5. Cel Spellman, CBBC Friday Download
And last but not least, the most fun video of them all. Kiddy program “Friday Download” (CBBC) presenter Cel not only interviewed Asa, Hailee, Sir Ben, Bob and Harrison, he also challenged them to a match of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The whole thing is hilarious!
Note: It’s out of sync, so if that bothers you, just download it and play it with an audio delay of 2,1 seconds in VLC or Windows Media Player. Thanks to Tumblr users ceolwaerc and toothle55 for making it available.
Sources: Youtube, Youku, Entertainment.ie
Entertainment Tonight spoke with Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Viola Davis, and Hailee Steinfeld at the Ender’s Game press junket on Saturday. Although they talk a lot about the underlying themes of the film, the gem is definitely when Viola Davis continues her Harrison Ford fangirling and reveals that he’s got a really dirty mind and tells a lot of dirty jokes.
Wireless Magazine recently spoke to the cast and crew of Ender’s Game while they were in the UK and there are some interesting tidbits in the various conversations they had.
Gavin Hood: [T]his is really about a young boy trying to find his own moral centre in a world that is encouraging his more aggressive nature. From a technical point of view there’s all the great fun stuff we have with the battle room and with the simulations. In the book they are slightly different, I’d like to hope fans will feel we’ve made them more visual for the purpose of cinema.
Asa Butterfield: I think that relationship is quite important in the film. When Ender’s first taken away from his home, from everyone he loves, everyone he trusts and put into this completely alien world where almost immediately he’s alienated from his peers there’s no one that he can talk to about what’s going on so he doesn’t really know what he’s supposed to be doing. When he meets Petra as their relationship develops they start to realise they can trust each other. She almost fills the gap that his sister has left so it’s definitely not a love relationship in any sense I don’t think, I just think they’re really close friends. They don’t know anything about boyfriends or girlfriends, they’re just someone they can lean on, to help.
Ben Kingsley: Well, the ending is that one wonders whether or not, without giving too much away, the audience will be curious, intrigued and troubled to know, is this child’s soul going to be distorted forever? Or will he get back to his original self? That in spite of or because of that very taxing journey, adolescence to young adulthood, have they distorted him? I think the answer is in the film and I find it very uplifting.
Hailee Steinfeld: I think there are many, there’s everything from leadership, compassion, all these different things that are so relevant to today. I don’t know that there is a main message I think there are plenty and it will be interesting to see what the audience takes away from it because there is so much in there.
Check out full interviews here.
Watch the video below to see Hailee Steinfeld talking about life in Battle School and what it was like working with Asa Butterfield, Gavin Hood, and stunt coordinator Garrett Warren. She talks about walking into “Flash Suit City” for the first time, someplace I’m sure we all wish we could go!
Last Sunday, October 6th, Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood, producers Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci, and cast members Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley attended a photo call at Hotel Adlon, Berlin. The official German facebook page Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel released pictures from the event. Check some of them out below! See the rest HERE!
In addition, RedCarpetReports.de posted some higher resolution pictures from the photo call. See the best ones below! They have a little watermark in the lower right-hand corner, but since it’s pretty small and unobtrusive I’m sure you guys won’t mind.
Sources: Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel (Facebook page), RedCarpetReports.de
On Monday, October 7th, most of the Ender’s Game cast and crew finished their European photo call tour in London (Ford, Hood and Orci went on to Moscow), where they presented the movie at Odeon Theatre during MCM London ComicCon. Check out some red carpet photos of Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Gavin Hood, Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci below!
Source: Zimbio
Before their presentation of Ender’s Game at the Odeon Leicester Square during MCM London Comic Con, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, and Gavin Hood talked to Entertainmentwise about Ender’s Game.
Not much new here, but I get some perverse enjoyment out of the reactions of Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and, yes, Harrison Ford to being asked whether or not they would like to star/are starring in the next Star Wars movie. The Ben Kingsley one is cut off a bit in the beginning. If you’re interested in the whole Star Wars conversation, check it out HERE! Would someone please phone someone to get Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield into that movie. Look how excited they are at the prospect!
The fabulous five also talked to a couple of other news outlets prior to their London presentation. We already posted HeyUGuysUK’s interviews with Gavin Hood and Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week. Their interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Harrison Ford don’t reveal anything new, but we didn’t want to keep them from you either way, so here they are:
Finally, The MCM Buzz interviewed the cast and crew on the Comic Con red carpet. Here is a video that collects some tidbits of what Gavin Hood and the four cast members had to say:
You can check out the full interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Gavin Hood on the TheMCMBuzz Youtube channel. I love the Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley ones especially.
They even posted a somewhat rarer interview with Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci. Check it out below.
Sources: Entertainmentwise, HeyUGuysUK, TheMCMBuzz
Several members of the Ender’s Game cast along with director Gavin Hood and producer Bob Orci were in Madrid on October 4th to promote El Juego de Ender. Watch video below from the photocall:
Here is another of better quality:
Thanks for Fernanda for the finds!