A new tv spot has been airing this week:

The world premiere of Kristen’s new film Snow White and the Huntsman is to be held Monday, May 14th in London, England.

Is anyone else super excited that Kristen’s film On the Road is going to be hitting the Cannes Film Festival this year? Well MTV gave us a run down.

With a lineup including the likes of Matthew McConaughey, this year’s festival is bound to be different.

The lineup for the Cannes Film Festival hit Thursday morning (April 19), and we’re already probably too excited about it. With some of today’s best directors and unexpected stars, this year’s festival may prove to be one worth paying very close attention to.

The Maturation of Rob and Kristen
One story from this year’s Cannes lineup that people can’t help but comment on is that both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have films in competition. While both have acted in some independent films and more serious drama, Cannes will be their sort of coming-out party as serious actors, with “Cosmopolis” and “On the Road” representing their first baby steps into adult filmmaking post-”Twilight”. The buzz around both films is much bigger than the names of the two stars, with two big-name directors, David Cronenberg and Walter Salles, attached as well, so it may be the serious breakout the two are looking for.

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MTV spoke with Snow White and the Huntsman’s Special-effects supervisor Michael Dawson and he shared how amazing Kristen is in the upcoming film.

When creating the world of “Snow White and the Huntsman,” not everything Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth encounter can be left up to computer-generated imagery. You have to add a bit of reality — practical effects like fire, explosions and rain — to bring the world to life.

To get the answers to how the filmmakers created so many of the fantastical effects for “Snow White and the Huntsman,” we spoke with special-effects supervisor Michael Dawson about the challenges of setting a village on fire, submerging Charlize Theron in milk and letting Stewart sink into a bog.

According to Dawson, the biggest challenge of the entire shoot was a scene that was featured prominently in the most recent trailer. Dawson and his team set fire to an entire village during Hemsworth’s biggest fight scene.

“They built the village out on stilts like a fishing village. If you can imagine, they built it out into the lake itself. We had about 10 huts we had to gas up,” said Dawson, who is currently working on “Maleficent,” starring Angelina Jolie. “It was all a thatched village, so we made all the thatched roofs out of plaster. Then we pumped through liquid propane, so it was really roaring away, and Chris was running through there, smashing people up.”

One of the most talked-about scenes from the first trailers also posed one of the biggest tests for Dawson and his team. The queen’s milk bath was initially conceived as one where Theron’s character would enter and exit from a pool of acid, but as Dawson explained, the scene evolved into the version we know today.

“As the scene progressed, it gradually became apparent that they wanted a more viscous liquid so it would cling to her because she was kind of naked. They wanted it to cover her like a cloak. So we had to devise a product that could do that safely,” Dawson said. “We eventually found a thickening agent that they use for cosmetics and toothpaste and a whitening agent that is used in makeup. We got it down to the right consistency, and then we had a company make 30,000 liters of it in a sealed environment so it was sterile.”

Keeping the bath free of any bacteria was incredibly important for the crew and something that caused Dawson a bit of distress. “We didn’t want any germs in it. It’s always a worry when you put a lead actress of her caliber into something like that. You just think, ‘God, I hope it’s all right.’ ”

One scene called for Stewart to wade into a bog, and Dawson said that the actress handled it like a true professional. “She was amazing. This was a cold bog that we dug and filled it with this goopy brown stuff that was really nasty,” Dawson said. “She was in it, and she was acting in it. She never moaned. She never complained.”

Dawson said that being a good sport in situations like the scene with Stewart in the bog make his job easier. “When that happens, it sells the shot. If you can tell that somebody’s not comfortable doing something, then it doesn’t work.”

Snow White seems to have become very popular lately and I came across this article that was done by the New York Post talking about the recent popularity and talks about Snow White and the Huntsman, Mirror Mirror and Once Upon A Time.

For going on 400 years, Snow White has been the most boring princess in fairy tale history. Without magic or wit or nerve, she does pretty much nothing until the day she eats an apple and dies. She does, however, make a fetching corpse, displayed in a gleaming see-through coffin until her prince shows up and kisses her back into bliss.

Snow White’s main achievement, besides being pretty enough to inspire a wicked queen to try to kill her, is teaching the seven dwarves how to clean their own house.

Which wouldn’t seem to bode well for the hottest new heroine in Hollywood, the role actresses are clamoring to play.

Yet Snow White is this spring’s character of the moment.

“We’re modernizing [her],” explains Lily Collins, who plays the dwarf-befriending princess in “Mirror, Mirror,” out Friday. Helmed by Tarsem Singh (“Immortals”), it’s a lavish, comic update of the fairy tale about the clash between a young innocent (Collins) and an evil, narcissistic queen (Julia Roberts).

“She starts out as the familiar fairy-tale princess that everyone grew up knowing, wide-eyed and naive,” says Collins, “but she goes on to be a girl who fights for what she believes in.”

And fights would be the key word, both for “Mirror” and the other film following hot on its heels,“Snow White and the Huntsman,” out in June and starring Kristen Stewart of “Twilight.” Stewart’s Snow is clad in chain mail and wields a sword and shield. Meanwhile, Ginnifer Goodwin plays a significantly more self-possessed, if unarmed, version of the character on ABC’s fairy-tale drama “Once Upon a Time.”

Collectively, they’re rebranding the age-old fairy tale, making Snow White into much more than a credulous babe who whistles while she works and takes fruit from strangers.

Stewart’s Snow “is a hardened warrior and will no longer bow down to the pressure of the Evil Queen,” Chris Hemsworth, who plays the Huntsman in “Snow White,” told Web site SciFi Now.

“I, for one, am happy to see Snow White break out of the iconic virginal girl who needs to be saved, and to see her in action fighting for herself,” says Melissa Silverstein of the site Women and Hollywood. “We want to see strong women taking control of their lives, even if it is in a fairy tale. Maybe this Snow White will even be a feminist.”

It’s safe to say Snow White did not start out as a feminist; from her earliest incarnation, in 1634, she was “passive and dumb,” says SUNY Stony Brook research professor Ruth Sue Bottigheimer, author of “Fairy Tales and New History.”

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Thanks to Ed we have some of the transcript from the Today Show interview that Kristen did recently with co-star Charlize Theron.

MATT LAUER: It’s a dark twist on this classic, isn’t it?

CHARLIZE THERON: Dark is a dangerous word, maybe. I mean, I think it’s just a–it’s a retelling that feels a little bit more grounded in reality. And, yes, it has darker tones to it. But I think more than that, just like a great adventure, big, epic scale film.

MATT LAUER: Kristen, when you first heard about the project, did you ever envision Snow White as an action movie?

KRISTEN STEWART: It is, yeah. I, I mean, it’s how the script is written, so yes. But it had a reason. It never felt like it was a movie where you were just trying to have a strong girl character be sort of bad ass. It was like any good script that you read that provokes you. I believed in it so much. And considering it’s a fairy tale and based in a very unreal world that says something about the characters.

CHARLIZE THERON: I think in broad strokes we were all interested in wanting to be a part of this film because it was taking something that’s iconic that everybody has an opinion of and how do you turn that upside down? And that’s how I felt about the character. I felt like everybody has such a clear opinion or idea of what they think this fairy tale character is, and so how–for me as an actor I was really interested in kind of taking that and messing a little bit with that.

MATT LAUER: There is another “Snow White” movie coming out, not to bring up other subjects, but why is “Snow White” hot again right now?

CHARLIZE THERON: It’s kind of like Coca-Cola, Pepsi. I think these stories thematically bleed into a lot of stuff that’s very relevant. And so I’m not shocked that we’re kind of having an outbreak of a lot of these kind of classic fairy tales being retold. I also think that you can really throw–that there’s a way to do them in different worlds and I think that’s what the case is with this. I don’t think Universal would have backed this film the way they have if they thought that we were playing to the same audience as the other one. They were definitely made for very, very specific audiences and very different audiences.

We finally have the full version of the Teaser Trailer for Breaking Dawn Part 2 … LOVE the red eyes!

A sneak peek at the Breaking Dawn Part Two Teaser Trailer. The full trailer will be released on March 26th.

Did you guys see Kristen with co-star Charlize Theron on the Today Show yesterday? If you didn’t you can watch the clip here and see stills that have been added to the gallery!

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It is finally here … the new trailer we have heard about plus an extended feature.

And don’t forget to watch Kristen & Charlize on The Today Show today.