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I’ve added to the gallery pics of Kirsten & Garrett in Los Angeles yesterday (monday).

I’ve added pics of Kirsten in New York on May 7th to the gallery.

“On The Road” will have its UK premiere opening the Film4 Summer Screen 2012 at Somerset House in London.

The highly-anticipated big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel from Brazilian director Walter Salles will launch the new season of the open air cinema on Thursday August 16th.

Tickets for the premiere will go on sale on Friday May 18th & more details can be found here.

The Provincetown International Film Festival has set a 2012 lineup that opens with Sundance alum “Bachelorette,” while the festivals roster of award recipients includes Roger Corman, Parker Posey & Kirby Dick.

Provincetown will see the East Coast premiere for “Bachelorette,” Leslye Headland’s comedy starring Kirsten Dunst. Slate also includes two spotlight films, Jonathan Lisecki’s comedy “Gayby” & Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary “Vito,” as well as closer “Fairhaven,” Tom O’Brien’s drama that recently world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“Gimme the Loot,” “Robot & Frank,” “Sleepwalk With Me,” “Chicken & Plums,” “Take This Waltz,” “Struck by Lightning,” “Your Sister’s Sister”, & “How to Survive a Plague” are also among the festival-circuit vets set to screen during PIFF.

Corman will receive the annual Filmmaker on the Edge kudo, while Posey takes the Excellence in Acting prize. Helmer Dick – whose film “The Invisible War,” a documentary about rape in the military, will screen during the festival – scores the career achievement award.

The 2012 edition of the Provincetown fest runs June 13-17.

By Gordon Cox, variety.com

Well as expected that confirms that Bachelorette will not be released in the U.S on June 1st. As far as I know the film currently has no revised release date although there is speculation that it’ll be sometime in September.

I’ve added to the gallery pics of Kirsten & Garrett at Los Angeles airport on wednesday.

I’ve added pics of Kirsten & Garrett at JFK Airport in New York yesterday to the gallery.

I’ve added to the gallery pics of Kirsten & Garrett at the Costume Institute Benefit Gala After Party.

I’ve added more pics of Kirsten at the Costume Institute Benefit Gala to the gallery.

It was a long road indeed to U.S. distribution for “On the Road,” but on the eve of Cannes, the trip is finally over: AMC Networks has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Walter Salles’ adaptation of the Beat Generation tome by Jack Kerouac, to be released jointly by the company’s film distribution labels IFC Films & Sundance Selects sometime this fall.

Sundance Selects/IFC Films plans a traditional theatrical roll-out, & will handle all downstream platforms. Starring Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley & Kirsten Dunst, “On the Road” will world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which starts next week.

“We are over the moon ecstatic to be involved with this incredible film,” Sundance Selects/IFC Films prexy Jonathan Sehring told Variety. The pickup is “a statement not only to our entire organization’s love of the project, but to the number of different innovative ways we are going to make sure the film reaches as wide an audience as possible.”

Said to be in the low seven figures, the deal represents the largest acquisition yet for Sundance/IFC. Parent company AMC Networks plans to use all its platforms — including cablers AMC, We TV & Sundance Channel — to promote the pic.

Based on a screenplay by Jose Rivera, the MK2 Production was produced by Nathanael Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Rebecca Yeldham and Roman Coppola for American Zoetrope. Executive producer is Francis Ford Coppola, who bought rights to “On the Road” in 1980.

Cinetic repped the U.S. distrib deal that took months to come together, with several bidders in the mix. A buyers’ screening in late February failed to attract a high-profile distributor, which may have had as much to do with the asking price (rumored to be high seven figures) as Salles’ artsy approach to the difficult-to-adapt book.

Multiple people who have seen the film agreed that it contains noteworthy performances & cinematography, but add that its two-hours-plus length & nebulous narrative make it a challenge to market to mainstream audiences. But “On the Road” has more than one built-in fanbase; Kerouac fans will be eager to check out the “On the Road’s” first-ever bigscreen adaptation, & “Twilight” devotees have been constantly buzzing about Stewart’s role as Mary Lou since the $25 million project was announced two years ago almost to the day.

The $25 million pic was shot in late 2010 in New Orleans, Montreal, Mexico & Argentina. MK2, which is repping foreign sales, has already peddled “On the Road” in several offshore territories, with more deals expected on the Croisette.

By Josh Dickey, variety.com

One minor omission from the article is that some filming (including Kirstens scenes in the film) took place in San Francisco.

Last night (monday) Kirsten attended the 2012 Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We’ve added 20 pics to the gallery & I’ll be adding more pics tomorrow.

I’ve added pics of Kirsten & Garrett at JFK Airport in New York yesterday to the gallery.

Kirsten (& Garrett?) will be attending tonights Met Gala & you can watch live red carpet of the event at metmuseum.org between 6.30pm & 8.30pm Eastern Daylight Time.

I will be adding pics from the Met Gala (sometime) tomorrow. Unfortunately due to work I’m likely to be (very) busy/offline until late tomorrow evening (UK time) but I will get pics added as soon as I can.