On 20 June, UK fans can see How To Be as part of City Screen’s Robert Pattinson special screenings of Twilight, How To Be and Little Ashes.  All three films will be playing together at five cinema locations in the UK. Contact the cinemas for ticketing information.

• City Screen Picturehouse in York
• Picturehouse at Fact in Liverpool
• Harbour Lights Picturehouse in Southampton
• Clapham Picturehouse in South London
• Belmont Picturehouse in Aberdeen

In soundtrack news, Dreamboat Records has a limited supply of How To Be soundtrack posters. The design is identical to one of the two designs featured on CD booklets, but these posters will ship unfolded in a poster tube and are blank on the reverse. Size: 24 x 36 cm. Full gloss, 150gms. Three of the first 300 orders will be selected at random to recieve a poster signed by Robert Pattinson! Get yours here now!

And finally, we are happy to announce that How To Be will be released on DVD in France by D’VISION and its distribution partners SND & WARNER in November 2009. More details and news about releases elsewhere will follow soon!

Thank you to everyone who came out to see How To Be in U.K. cinemas and helped make those screenings a success! How To Be is now officially available in the U.K. on DVD through Network Releasing and Amazon U.K., and as a download from iTunes. If you’re in the U.S., you can still catch the film on demand on IFC Festival Direct. Releases are coming to other parts of the world soon.

The team at IFC Films in the U.S. have created a How To Be widget that helps you spread the word about How To Be quickly and easily, and it’s available now for Facebook, iGoogle, MySpace, Twitter and more! Grab it here to share it with your friends and to watch an exclusive interview with Robert Pattinson talking about the film.

The U.S. and U.K. releases and screenings have generated a lot of great media coverage of How To Be. Check out this recent article on the film from director Oliver Irving’s hometown paper, The Sheffield Telegraph!

Also, take a peek at the Director’s Diary section of our website, which has been updated with video clips from U.S. Tour screenings and Q&A sessions, to catch a glimpse of life on the road with Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny!

Visit our store at Café Press for new How To Be merchandise, and don’t forget to get your copy of the How To Be soundtrack. Scoop up the CD from Dreamboat Records or download it from iTunes to get the exclusive music video for “Chokin’ on the Dust,” including behind the scenes footage from the film. The soundtrack is also available in stores and on Amazon U.S., Amazon U.K.

We’ve added footage from several of the recent U.S. screenings to the Director’s Diary section of the website:

• California Independent Film Festival
• Orlando
• Chicago
• Boston
• New York

We’re excited to announce the release of How To Be in the UK!  The film will be available from Network Releasing on DVD and iTunes download beginning 18 May 2009. The DVD is available for pre-order now from Amazon, Play and other DVD retailers. If you aren’t in the UK then don’t worry, the DVD will hopefully be available all over the world soon. You are welcome to order the UK version right away if you can’t wait, but please check your DVD player is compatible.

Leading up to the UK DVD release, there will be several UK screenings of How To Be in May. We’re in the process of sorting a few final details, but see the See the film page for the latest list of dates and cinema locations, and stay tuned for updates, and hope to see you there!

How To Be can now be viewed on demand in the U.S. on IFC Festival Direct, where the film will be available for the next 3 months! Don’t miss your chance to see the much anticipated film.  See the IFC website for details of cable providers.

Don’t forget to get your copy of the How To Be soundtrack, which officially went on sale this week! Get the CD including a How To Be poster from Dreamboat Records or download the collection from iTunes, where you’ll also get the exclusive music video for the song “Chokin’ On The Dust,” which is performed by Robert Pattinson.

Plus, check out this new People.com interview with How To Be director Oliver Irving.

We’re back! Some of you may have noticed our website has been down since Monday. Great timing, we know. But all that is behind us now, and we’ve been saving up the details of screenings and DVD release in our home country, the U.K. Give us an hour to wake our web monkey, and we’ll hit you up with a mailing list asap!

In anticipation of the April 29 IFC Festival Direct On Demand release of How To Be, we are happy to announce that IFC Center has added two more screenings of How To Be to their NYC lineup this weekend! Make that three more!

The New York schedule is:

• Friday April 24, 11:55pm SOLD OUT
• EXTRA SCREENING! Saturday April 25 at 12:15am, (film will start 20 minutes after the sold out Friday night screening! Buy tickets)
• Saturday April 25, 11:55pm SOLD OUT
• EXTRA SCREENING! Sunday April 26 at 12:15am, (Film will start 20 minutes after the sold out Saturday night screening! Buy tickets)
• EXTRA SCREENING! Sunday April 26 at 9:40pm (buy tickets)

Writer-director Oliver Irving, composer Joe Hastings, and actors Mike Pearce and Johnny White will be there for Q&As after all five screenings.

pattinson_music over at LiveJournal have posted a long exclusive interview with How To Be writer-director Oliver Irving and composer Joe Hastings.

This Friday night, April 10, Access Hollywood will world-premiere the new How To Be trailer! If you’re in the United States, check your local listings and tune in. If you’re elsewhere, Yahoo! will also be showing the new trailer beginning tomorrow night, so you can check it out online.

Due to popular demand, Official How To Be merchandise is now available for purchase!  How To Be posters, t-shirts, mugs and more are now available at two online stores serving fans worldwide.

Check out Café Press for merchandise that ships all over the world and Spreadshirt which has even more gear for fans in Europe and Japan.

U.S. Tour Tickets

Don’t miss your chance to see How To Be on the big screen in the U.S., meet Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny in person, and get your official merchandise autographed! — buy your tickets now!

The Livermore screening has completely sold out and two extra screenings have been added in Las Vegas. The screening in Nashville has sold out, but another screening may be added to their lineup, so keep an eye on the news section of our website. The next screening with tickets remaining is in Los Angeles on April 14. For all remaining cities, dates and ticket information check out the “see the film” page on our website.

And don’t forget to pre-order the How To Be soundtrack for your chance to receive a copy including a poster signed by Rob Pattinson.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the screenings in Sydney and Burbank, CA! To all of our U.S. fans, don’t forget to get your tickets for the special tour screenings coming up this April in LA, Orlando, Chicago, Boston and New York, where you will get the chance to meet writer-director Oliver Irving and other cast and crew!