The most oddly high-profile release of the weekend was the romantic drama Remember Me. The film was seen by many as a test of Twilight star Robert Pattinson’s draw as a movie star. Of course, if Summit was trying to prop up the numbers by attaching the Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer to prints of Remember Me, it might have helped if they had NOT released the trailer online the day before the opening. So while some may decry the ‘mere’ $8.3 million, we must recall that a movie like this wouldn’t have made $1.75 if not for what drawing power Pattinson has. Sure Shia Labeouf can open slickly-marketed thrillers like Eagle Eye and Disturbia, but let’s see what happens when he has to open a movie all-by himself that doesn’t already look particularly appealing.

British actor Robert Pattinson admits fans of his “Twilight” films caused mayhem on the New York set of his new romantic drama, “Remember Me.”

“It is really just like blanking out. I mean, at the beginning I was having loads of problems with it because it was really crazy when we were filming around Washington Square Park. It was just complete mayhem,” the 23-year-old actor told reporters in New York recently.

Robert Pattinson is understandably a little fidgety and distracted these days. Everywhere he goes, it seems, he’s followed by lightninglike flashes and shutter-clicking hordes of paparazzi. When word gets out that he’s in town — and, somehow, it always does — screeching gaggles of young female fans gather nearby and swoon over his every move.

So it is that the hunky, 23-year-old British star of the hot teen vampire films “Twilight” and “New Moon” seems a bit preoccupied as he is ushered into a midtown hotel suite to discuss his new movie, “Remember Me,” during a recent press event hosted by Summit Entertainment.
Flanked by a team of stern, clock-watching publicists who admonish everyone around,

“No pictures; no autographs,” Pattinson looks slightly sheepish as he’s handed a bottle of Fiji water and settles into a chair.

In “Remember Me,” Robert Pattinson, the producer and leading man, displays genuine acting chops as a “Rent”-related cousin of the “Rebel Without a Cause.” He’s Tyler Hawkins, a Strand bookstore worker, sometime New York University student and poetic misfit in the Jack Kerouac-J.D. Salinger mold.

Tyler, who writes and is told he reeks of “Listerine and beer,” lives a la boheme in New York City in 2001 in a hovel with a broken lock with the fast-talking, hard-drinking, fellow Strand employee and NYU student Aidan Hall (Tate Ellington).

Aidan talks about sex incessantly, while Tyler, who smokes with notably Byronic languor, has the one-night stands.

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson seems to have found a better vehicle for his angst-ridden style of acting. Those who relish him as a lovesick bloodsucker will surely take issue, but until Remember Me, his best acting job was as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Pattinson was woefully miscast as Salvador Dali in last year’s Little Ashes, but playing a contemporary, brooding and lost young man in Remember Me shows that he has more range than is visible in his one-dimensional role as a sexy vampire.

It may strike some Twilight fans as heresy, but he strikes up more chemistry with Emilie de Ravin than he does with Twilight love interest, and purported real-life girlfriend, Kristen Stewart.

As I look through the six pages of hurriedly scribbled notes I took while watching Remember Me, I’m struck by the overall ambition and courage of the film. Massive themes are considered here: love and loss, the role parents should play, sibling support, fledgling relationships in college, the role of blunt trauma in the building of character. True, that’s a lot of emotional weight, and the key for enjoyment here is to buy into the overarching sincerity of the film. By taking a risk, and actually being about something, Remember Me becomes vulnerable to those who would lash out against perceived melodrama in movies. But we’ve got to take back the streets on this one; we need writers and directors out there taking chances, we’ve got to get away from the paint-by-numbers industry that has become modern cinema.

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Twilight is part of this movie even if you didn’t intend it, in the way it brings attention to the movie and just the fact that Summit is releasing it. How has that worked for you?
When we cast him Twilight wasn’t out, and I didn’t know who he was. That was an advantage, because I cast him just because I liked him. We hope people will go to this movie who might not have pursued it otherwise. If he wasn’t this phenom, you wouldn’t automatically assume that tens of thousands of teenage girls would show up the first day. We hope that is the case. But this is a movie I made for adults.

When did you realize you had the biggest star in the world in your movie?
Certainly the first day, when we had the thousands of girls standing outside from dawn until dusk. We realized what we were in for. It was not easy, believe me.

We understand there was one day where you snapped at the paparazzi?
We found ourselves in a situation with the movie that we never expected to be in. No one had an idea that basically we had unleashed Elvis. It was tough from the very beginning. All of us were a little gobsmacked by this. We just struggled the best we could. That was just a day that I felt the sense of entitlement the paparazzi had, that they had the right to demand certain kinds of shots. We were just trying to make the day, the sun was falling, the last shot that we did, that was it. They were angry they couldn’t get a shot of him. They felt it was their right, that we should accommodate them. I lost it, and they deserved it. They deserve worse. That was the one time I couldn’t hold back.

While she may not have been familiar with all of her co-stars’ work before signing on for the film (she watched New Moon with her dad after filming wrapped on Remember Me), she quickly got to know her hunky onscreen brother and gave him two thumbs up.

“Rob’s great! He’s really just a normal guy…it was really fun for him to be my older brother. I’ve always wanted to have an older brother. He’s very goofy! He’s fun to hang out with,” Jerins said adding with a laugh, “He’s unpretentious.”

RPattz also dishes on James Dean, being typecast as Edward and the scene that nearly landed him in jail.

By now, you’ve probably watched the “Eclipse” trailer a half-million times, eager to catch every last glimpse of Robert Pattinson. But don’t forget that this weekend brings the chance to see the trailer on the big screen when it plays before showings of RPattz’s new drama “Remember Me.”

Still not enough Rob for you? Well, before you go see the movie this weekend, read on for an interview RPattz did with our friends at MTV Radio. In it, he spills the beans on playing a “Remember Me” rebel without a cause, his reasons for being brooding and wounded in real life, and why people like hitting him.

MTV: How do you like not biting someone?

Robert Pattinson: I bit people in this! [Laughs.] No, I didn’t. It’s different. I feel like I’m missing out on something, but it’s a relief not having all that makeup on.