Last month, MKAshley held a contest to win a copy of the DVD The Wackness, starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Fame Janssen and Mary-Kate Olsen!

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The winner was drawn randomly from all the entrants using a random number generator. Anna’s name was drawn from all the entrants! Congrats Anna!
The Wackness is a coming-of-age tale sent in 1994 in New York City. Recent high school graduate, Luke (played by Josh Peck) navigates his way through an unforgettable summer that wooing the girl of his dreams, dealing drugs to people like Union, a flower child played by MK, …read more

The DVD for The Wackness came out today! In honor of that, MKAshley is giving away a free copy.

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The Wackness is a coming-of-age tale set in New York City in the early nineties. Josh Peck plays Luke Shapiro, a lonely teenager who, in the first summer after high school, takes on an interesting part-time job to make some cash. Along the way to self-discovery, he starts hanging out with his high school crush, Stephanie, played by Olivia Thirlby, as well as his shrink, played by Ben Kingsley.
Mary-Kate Olsen plays one of Luke’s loyal customers, a hippie …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen had a breakout year in 2008, elevating her status as both an actress and a fashion designer. Here’s a look back at her top five moments of the past year.
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Do you agree? Disagree? What Mary-Kate moments should-and shouldn’t?-be on the list? Let me know in the comments!
5) Gracing the cover of Elle
Mary-Kate looked confident and beautiful on the cover of Elle. She was on the cover of the US version in July and the UK version in September. While Elle consistently places hot celebrities on their covers, choosing Mary-Kate showed the world the …read more

The Wackness, the 1990s coming-of-age tale starring Josh Peck, Olivia Thrilby, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen and Mary-Kate Olsen will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 6th!

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The Wackness is about Luke Shapiro, a teenager who takes on a different kind of summer job and his adventures with his shrink and his quest to woo the girl of his dreams, Stephanie. Mary-Kate plays a hippie named Union, who is one of Luke’s customers.
The DVD will feature deleted scenes, two mini-documentaries- “Keeping it Real” which looks at a day in the life of writer/director Jonathan Levine, and …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen has been doing a lot of press lately. This week, Pop Sugar UK caught up with her as she chatted about The Wackness.

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As we know, Mary-Kate is seriously pursuing acting now. However, her years as a child star didn’t exactly spawn this new-found passion.
“I was never challenged when it came to acting when I was younger and I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions,” she said to Pop Sugar. “I didn’t really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it and I guess …read more

In honor of the Irish premiere of The Wackness, starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby and Mary-Kate Olsen, Movies.ie interviewed Mary-Kate about her experience filming the movie. They chat about working with Ben Kingsley, MK’s infamous kissing scene, being constantly followed by the paparazzi, and where she sees her career going.

I love this quote about her professional limits. When asked what MK would and would not do for her career:
“I’m never going on the cover of Maxim – at all!” she said. “I only go along with what I am comfortable with.”
There isn’t anything new in the interview, but …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen is only in The Wackness for nine minutes. She’s featured in two scenes and in both scenes, her character, Union, is stoned out of her mind. I think MK did a great job in her role, but I think it’s weird that the media and the studio hyped her perfomance in the film so much and she’s in it so little.
The video below is her first scene in the film. It’s early in the movie and Stephanie, Luke’s love interest, just found out that Luke is a dealer. MK is one of his regular clients.

The video below is …read more

In its limited NYC- and LA-only release, The Wackness did quite well over the holiday weekend, averaging $24,177 in six theatres. It made $145,064 overall, according to Variety, and had the highest per-location average of the weekend!

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These stats are promising for a wider release later this summer. The biggest winner at the box office this weekend was Hancock starring Will Smith.
Jonathan Levine and his cast and crew should be proud of their success this weekend! Congrats to them and I loom forward to when the movie finally comes to Toronto!

The Wackness was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival last week (Hilary Duff went and saw it!). At the awards ceremony last night, it was revealed that director and writer Jonathan Levine won won the audience award for narrative feature directing!

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Critics and film festivals have been loving this film! It’s a strange subject and even period to be set in, so it will be interesting to see how it does in theatres when it’s released nationwide on July 3. I’m really excited to see it and I hope it …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen’s press junket for The Wackness continues as The Wall Street Journal published an interview with her today. She talks about The Wackness, her character Union, and her upcoming book she co-authored with Ashley.

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It’s a very brief interview, but MK does offer some sage business advice in it:
“Listen, and don’t act on impulse.”
To read the full interview for yourself, click here.