A fan site dedicated to As the World Turns’ Luke Snyder and Dr Reid Oliver and their quirky, endearing, and captivating romance. An ongoing work in process.
Reid: You want to know what my problem is? Ask your buddy Luke.
Noah: When did you see him?
Reid: Oh, he was having a bad hair day. He wanted to see you.
A few quickies….
I just noticed ESS (or his agent) updated the images on his IMDb. The good news is this new photo with Don Hastings by Steven Bergman:
This has been a busy week in this fandom. In addition to Van Hansis’s visit to the Netherlands with the ATWT cast, we have had the Sundance premiere of Eric Sheffer Stevens’s new film, Silent House, as well as a Reidiversary (one year since Reid Oliver’s first appearance on ATWT).
But if that’s not enough to keep you going here’s a lot more:
And if that isn’t enough going on, here’s my personal ego stroke of the day:
Enjoy all the happenings in LuReland!
-LL
ETA 11 May 1.13pm GMT:
In the interest of full disclosure: I am removing one of the tweets from this post – something I generally don’t like to do because it strikes me as censorship. The tweet is one of the most negative (if not THE most negative) from the original midnight screening of Silent House (2011) at Sundance earlier this year.
I am removing it because it shows up as the description for this post in Google and it a) on Google, it looks like it could be my review (!), and I haven’t even seen it; and b) that it might be representative (which it’s not – the reviews for this film are very much mixed).
Yes, this is a fan site, and I want nothing more than to see Eric and Van succeed, and to promote their work. But if reviews are clearly mixed (as they were for Silent House) I don’t want to whitewash it either, because I think that’s also misleading.
There have been a lot of people finding this page recently (the original Uruguayan version was just released in the UK). In general, the internet has been a TERRIBLE source of information on either of these movies because people are either too sloppy or two lazy to distinguish between the two films! I’ve seen promo shots and clips of one film attached to reviews of the other; the Guardian actually has credits for BOTH films mixed up together as if they were one film, so I do not want to exacerbate any unfair bias people want to develop against EITHER film.
So, when and if Google re-indexes this page (I’ve just installed a new Windows Live Writer plug in to generate proper Meta tags – will see if they pick up properly) I will put back the missing tweet and hope that it is not once again the one sentence that Google picks up to represent this page.
ETA 25 Jan 12.35pm GMT:
Okay, now it’s official. Sources including Variety are widely reporting that Silent House was sold to Liddell Entertainment. This has also been confirmed by Eric via ESS.com. According to Mike Fleming at Deadline.com, who claims an exclusive:
Mickey Liddell’s Liddell Entertainment has acquired domestic and most world rights to the horror film Silent House in a deal just brokered by CAA. I’m told the deal is a $3 million minimum guarantee, and a P&A commitment upwards of $3 million. Liddell gets all territories but UK, Scandanavia and the Middle East. Liddell, who made a splash last year backing the acquisition of the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed Biutiful, is working with CAA to set a distributor. Several are circling, including Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company.
Of course, as someone based in the UK, I’m wondering about why UK, Scandinavia and the Middle East were singled out….
Hollywood Reporter adds:
Last year’s sudden savior Mickey Liddell has swooped into Sundance 2011 to pick up domestic and most worldwide rights to the horror film Silent House. The Liddell Entertainment topper plans to flip domestic rights to a U.S. distributor. Thus far, Lionsgate is the main interested partner.
Plus some new Sundance photos of Eric Sheffer Stevens, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Kentis, Laura Lau, and a fifth person I’d assume is the actor who plays Sarah’s dad, including:
ETA 22 Jan 2011, 5.00pm GMT: There is simply no way to describe the reviews coming in for this film other than “mixed.” Well, perhaps “bimodal”. The reviewers seem to disagree about just about all aspects of the film, but they agree on a few points:
But on most other points there is disagreement, including:
Eric Sheffer Stevens (who plays Uncle Peter) hasn’t been mentioned much, presumably because his part isn’t that big. In the MovieFone review, they say:
And then there’s her uncle Peter, who has the whole "you’ve grown up so much thing" happening, even though he looks like he’s only a few years older than she (Elizabeth Olsen’s character, Sarah) is. After Daddy dearest and Peter get into a tiff, Peter drives off in a huff, leaving the father and daughter alone in the old house.
Links to premiere photos, the MTV teaser clip, reviews, tweets from the initial midnight press screening, a transcript of Cinematical’s 5Minutes with Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, plus a YouTube clip of an unsuccessful audition tape all follow below the transcript and the jump…
The one (and only) huge bummer of the weekend for me is that my audio recorder cut out midway through Liz Hubbard’s interview, and I didn’t notice it until midway through Paolo’s. So I missed all of Van’s and Martha’s. I have some notes which I’ll write up, and most of what I recall is covered in the YouTube videos linked below.
What you’ll find after the jump:
Happy reading….
It seems I have links all over this site, and they’re also all over the web, so I’m going to try to consolidate some of the best sources here. I’ll continue to update this page over the next few days, but I thought I’d go ahead and post this listing to get started.
To be added.
Judging by the exterior stills (it’s daylight) and the outfits, this is from the afternoon show, and it’s the most comprehensive video I’ve seen of any of the three shows:
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