From the Red Carpet
Published: February 21, 2012

Film junkets are a funny thing. You wait for hours to get your five minutes with the stars in a hot, claustrophobic room full of publicists, two cameramen, a make up artists and others.

From the second you walk in, the time keepers have the stop watch on, so five minutes actually turns into three minutes on camera time. It’s high pressure. It makes us perspire.

Chatting to some of the other film reporters in the holding room at the Soho Hotel (refreshments and pastry always on hand – thank goodness) we count our lucky stars that we live in London, just in terms of convenience.

One reporter from Ireland remarked: “Sometimes it does make you question your job when you get on a plane and travel all day for just five minutes of someone’s time.”

But time is money and the … Read full story

Buzine Film
Published: February 2, 2012

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum — stars of upcoming romantic drama The Vow — are no strangers to the genre. Both actors have worked on adaptations of heart-string tugging novelist Nicholas Sparks’ works before. McAdams went from Mean Girls to leading lady in The Notebook — the film that spawned endless imitations of that fervent kiss in the rain with her then-boyfriend Ryan Gosling. Since then, she has charmed audiences in a number of other romantic films, like The Time Traveler’s Wife, Morning Glory, and Wedding Crashers. Tatum also broke his usual mold of hip-hop dancing hunk to sweet love interest in Sparks’ Dear John. The two recently sat down with Buzzine’s Emmanuel Itier to discuss realistic romance, their favorite movie scenes, and the sheer delight of red velvet cake.

Emmanuel Itier: Do you both consider yourselves hopeless romantics?
Channing Tatum: Do you?

Rachel … Read full story

NZ Herald
Published: February 11, 2012

Rachel McAdams is set to have us reaching for our hankies again in The Vow, writes Michele Manelis.

When it comes to tear-jerking movies, Rachel McAdams seems to be in cahoots with the tissue industry.

She might have started out as one of the Mean Girls and recently ranged from Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris to Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes.

But her speciality seems to be weepies. To the glassy-eyed likes of The Notebook and The Time Traveler’s Wife, McAdams has now added The Vow which also stars Hollywood’s latest go-to lead hunk Channing Tatum.

The two are a newlywed couple who try to reconnect after a car crash leaves McAdams’ character Paige with severe memory loss – head trauma has erased the memory of the most recent four years of her life. She thinks she’s still engaged to someone else which means Tatum’s … Read full story

On The Red Carpet
Published: February 8, 2012

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum play lovebirds in the 2012 film “The Vow” and recently sat down with OnTheRedCarpet.com to talk about the movie, romance and … chocolate.

McAdams, 33, stars as Paige, a young woman who suffers a coma and severe memory loss after a traumatic car accident. When she wakes up and can’t recall her husband Leo, played by Tatum, he must work to win her heart again.

“How do you bridge the gap when you start to grow apart? There’s something so nice about being comfortable but not too comfortable,” McAdams told OnTheRedCarpet.com. “I appreciate that about this, even though it’s an extraordinary circumstance and there’s a real tragedy that tears them apart … everyone knows that feeling of disconnect and ‘How do you get back on track?’”

Both she and Tatum, 31, have previously … Read full story

Phil Star
Published: February 10, 2012

“Are you in love with the idea of someone? Or are you in love with the fight more than the outcome?” Rachel McAdams posed this rhetorical question during our recent interview with her at the junket for the new romantic drama The Vow, which opens in theaters today.

The Vow tells the moving love story of a couple whose relationship had to endure a very difficult test when the wife lost all her memory of the husband after a tragic accident. Rachel portrays Paige, the wife, while hunky Channing Tatum, who is transitioning into an A-List actor, plays her devoted husband Leo.

he heart of the story is the struggle that Channing’s character had to go through in trying to win back the affection and love of his wife who sees him as nothing but a stranger. “I think the hardest … Read full story

Yahoo Australia
Published: February 9, 2012

Almost 20 years ago, US newlyweds Kim and Krickitt Carpenter were involved in a car accident that would make headlines around the world when Krickitt emerged from a month-long coma with her memory of the previous 18 months erased – including her husband and their wedding day.

Shown evidence of her marriage, in the form of photos and video, devout Christian Krickitt had to fall in love with this stranger, her husband, all over again.

Their real-life love story bounced around Hollywood studios until Grey Gardens director Michael Sucsy recruited Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum to translate the Carpenters’ story to the big screen in The Vow.

If others might have felt stymied by the Carpenters’ insistence that their story not depict any pre-marital sex, then not so McAdams, her roles in The Notebook and The Time Traveller’s Wife proving her as Hollywood’s go-to … Read full story

Movie Fanatic
Published: February 7, 2012

Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are sitting together, reuniting to talk about their new romance, The Vow. The film follows a young couple who has their world cave in when McAdams’ Paige loses her memory after a head injury caused by a rear-end collision. The story is loosely based on a real-life couple and how they coped with such trauma, particularly when the only memory that is lost concerns their relationship. The real-life woman remembered everything up to getting together with the man she married.

Director Michael Sucsy actually encouraged his actors to not meet the real-life couple. “[It] was because we took some different liberties with their story,” Tatum said. “I think they were stronger than our characters. They stayed together and I don’t know how you do that in reality. I don’t know if I’d be able to do … Read full story

Gulf News
Published: February 8, 2012

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star in this week’s big romance, The Vow. Here’s what they have to say about the film, an adaptation of a very tragic love story.

Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum) are a happy newlywed couple whose lives are changed by a car accident that puts Paige in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, Paige has no memory of Leo, a confusing relationship with her parents, and an ex-fiance she may still have feelings for. Despite these complications, Leo endeavours to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

Based on the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, whose story is documented in the bestseller The Vow, tabloid! speaks with the two stars of the movie with the same title, out this weekend in the UAE, to talk about love, loss and how to fall … Read full story

The Fish
Published: February 8, 2012

So many movies that release around Valentine’s Day revolve around the story of how boy and girl meet cute, break up because of the inevitable second act misunderstanding and eventually find their way back to each other (cue: peppy pop song and the lingering panoramic kiss that seals the deal).

But what happens after the fairytale ending and our too-cute-for-words couple faces the real-world challenges that eventually come with wedded bliss?

Well, that’s exactly what audiences will discover in The Vow. Starring Channing Tatum (Haywire) and Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), The Vow is a story of a happily married couple whose ‘til-death-do-us-part declarations are challenged in a major way after a car accident leaves Paige (McAdams) with no memory of her new husband, Leo (Tatum).

Inspired by the true story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter, a happily married couple forced … Read full story

Reuters
Published: February 8, 2012

Eight years ago, Rachel McAdams hit Hollywood’s map in teary, romantic drama “The Notebook.” Since then, she has broadened her range of work to include laugh-out-loud comedies such as “Wedding Crashers,” adventure films like “Sherlock Holmes” and recently, the Woody Allen movie “Midnight in Paris.”

But the Canadian actress has returned to her romantic roots with new drama “The Vow,” due in theaters on Friday. The actress portrays Paige, a young bohemian artist happily married to Leo (Channing Tatum) until a devastating car crash leaves her with a head trauma that erases her entire memory of their relationship.

While Leo tries in vain to get her to remember him, Paige reverts back to the person she was five years earlier — a law student with a conservative wardrobe who doesn’t understand why she’s estranged from her parents or why she broke off her engagement to … Read full story