“Paper Man” was released on DVD and Blu-ray today and I have just finished adding screen captures of Emma Stone as Abby in the film into our photo gallery! There is 1,490 blu-ray quality captures – Emma Stone Connection is the first and only fan site where you’ll find these – enjoy!

We have a brand new exclusive clip from the upcoming indie comedy Paper Man, which will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on January 18. Click below to watch our exclusive clip, which features Jeff Daniels showing off his new “book couch” to Emma Stone.

Paper Man is an inspirational comedic drama about an unlikely friendship between Richard (Jeff Daniels), a failed middle-aged novelist who has never quite grown up and Abby (Emma Stone), a 17-year-old girl whose role in a family tragedy years earlier has stolen away her youth. Both are unsure, both are afraid to take firm steps forward, and both are looking for that special friend-that connection-to help guide them into the future. Since his childhood, Richard has mostly relied on the imaginary one that resides in his head-a costumed superhero known as Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds).

At the urging of his wife Claire (Lisa Kudrow), Richard has moved to a Long Island beach community for the winter season in order to overcome his writer’s block. There, Richard meets Abby and hires her as a weekly babysitter, even though he has no children. Their tenuous, new friendship is sparked by Richard’s awe over Abby’s homemade soup and Abby’s enjoyment of Richard’s writing and his attempts at Origami. As the season progresses and the warm, quirky friendship between Richard and Abby grows, the two begin to share with each other their dreams and life hardships. With the coming of spring, Richard and Abby discover there comes a time to let go of the imaginary friends of the past and to embrace the future as a new beginning-just as one would embrace a new and unique friendship.

MPI will be bringing the indie film Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds to Blu-ray and DVD on January 18, 2011 at a suggested retail price of $34.98 (Blu-ray), $27.98 (DVD) respectively.

Bonus Features will include: Making Of, Deleted scenes, Alternate scenes, Extended scenes, Trailer. No further technical details are known at this time.

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The quirky drama in the tradition of ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘The Squid and the Whale’ is bound for Blu-ray this September.

MPI has announced ‘Paper Man’ is coming to high-definition on September 14.

The independent film stars Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow, and Kieran Culkin, and is directed by Michele and Kieran Mulroney.

Specs and supplements haven’t been revealed yet, but suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $34.98.

From High Def Digest

Bonding with an imaginary friend (or two) may not be unusual for a kid, but in “Paper Man,” which opened Friday (April 23), the adults have them too.

The movie stars Emma Stone as a 17-year-old who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a middle-age novelist, played by Jeff Daniels. Both characters rely on made-up friends, including Daniels’ fictional Captain Excellent, played by Ryan Reynolds (who seems to be making a career of superhero roles lately).

When we caught up with Stone, the actress said she was too busy as a kid dealing with her own complex personality to make any friends — real or imaginary.

“I was my own imaginary friend,” Stone told MTV News. “I was a ham. I was so obnoxious. I was very bossy. I was just awful. [My turning point was] at about 8. I had my first massive panic attack. That changed things a little bit.”

Although she didn’t grow up with an invented pal, 21-year-old Stone said she could see the value in having one. “I think an imaginary friend needs to pump you up,” she explained. “Captain Excellent is a superhero, so what’s better to pump you up than a superhero?

“We all have that voice in [our] head,” she added. “But it’s really bad when your imaginary friend is bringing you down.”

From MTV

Emma Stone stars in the quirky comedy ‘Paper Man’ (which opens this weekend) as a high schooler who loves to set trash cans on fire and who befriends a failed novelist (Jeff Daniels) with an imaginary friend.

The good and sane news is that Stone shares none of those eccentric qualities. The 21-year-old actually preferred to be homeschooled, never played with fire, and acts out fantasy friends rather than imagining them.

Despite having a personality she describes as cautious, she was fearless enough to jump into the frigid waters of Montauk in the middle of November for a scene in the film. But Stone’s ultimate risk was seven years ago, when she presented her parents with a Power Point pitch to move to Hollywood.

Is it true you created a Power Point presentation for your parents to let you move to Los Angeles?
I put it together when I was 14 to convince my parents to let me move to L.A. It had worked out well because a couple of years before I had tried to convince my parents to homeschool me and I did a presentation with really old school boards. And so a couple of years later when Power Point came around I did it with that. It’s easy to do; you just drag clip art. The gist of it was, “just please let me move to L.A. to be an actress.” I had ‘Hollywood,’ a classic at the time by Madonna, as the soundtrack. There was no metaphor there; it was very literal. I really was a forward thinker.

In ‘Paper Man’ your character is a pyromaniac setting fire to crash cans. Have you ever done that in real life?
No, I did not. I was a pretty cautious kid. I still am cautious about stuff so no pyromania for me. Those scenes setting fire to the trash can are always so set up because they need to keep everything safe so it wasn’t too scary.

Your co-star Jeff Daniels’ character has an imaginary superhero friend, Captain Excellent. Did you have imaginary friends growing up?
I didn’t have any imaginary friends but I was very hammy and theatrical. I was always kind of outgoing and playing characters but I never really created one outside myself. Maybe I always wanted one so I became an actor. I was my own imaginary friend! I was cloning myself.

Hunter Parrish plays your boyfriend in ‘Paper Man.’ Were you a ‘Weeds’ fan?
I’ve seen a couple of episodes but not enough to call myself a ‘Weeds’ head, or a pothead for that matter! He’s so great. He’s like the sweetest guy in the world.

What was it like shooting the film in Montauk?
We were in Montauk in the middle of November and I had to jump into the ocean about six times when it was 30 degrees outside. It was pretty cold, freezing, but it was such a beautiful place. I’d never been to Montauk before and still haven’t been there in the summer but it was very lonely and isolating which was the tone of the movie so it was kind of perfect. I would love to come back in the summer and learn to surf but again caution and coordination are just an issue. I mean surfing, I would knock myself out in two seconds, guaranteed!

Are you a fearless person would you say?
I was terrified to clock Jeff Daniels with a book (in the scene where he makes a drunken pass at my character) because I’m cautious and not very coordinated; two great things that go hand in hand. They put some foam inside the book and I had to bang him with it but I’m sure I kept hurting him.

You’ve got two projects in the works; what are they?
The next one is currently called ‘Untitled Marital Crisis Comedy’ and I’m hoping we keep that name because I love it. That’s with Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. I play Ryan’s love interest so not a bad day at the office. Then I’m doing ‘Help.’ I play a writer in Jackson, Miss., in 1962, who just graduated from Old Miss and she writes a book, kind of an expose, about the maids in town that are working for her friend. It’s a wonderful script. (The character) Skeeter does not have to clean so I won’t be cleaning any houses! She doesn’t really know what she’s doing when it comes to that. She’s like me in that sense.

From Moviefone

It isn’t easy to find somebody who can truly understand you. Everyone needs that one person with the ability to dispense appropriate advice, someone to spill secrets to, or perhaps, just someone to make you soup. So what happens when that individual is nowhere to be found and you’re desperate for comfort? In Richard Dunn’s (Jeff Daniels) case, you create an imaginary friend and, in Paper Man, that pretend pal is Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds).

How excellent is Captain Excellent? Excellent enough to make Daniel wish that if he had a make-believe buddy, he’d be just like him. “I wish he could be and look like Ryan Reynolds. That would be nice,” Daniels told ComingSoon.net. But there’s much more to Captain Excellent than his bold blond hair and colorful costume. Richard relies on the Captain for support, maybe even more so than on his wife Claire (Lisa Kudrow).

In an attempt to overcome a bad case of writer’s block, Claire drives Richard to a quaint location in Montauk. She spends the weekends with him, but come Monday, must return to her surgical duties at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital, leaving Richard alone with his typewriter, Captain Excellent and a Heath Hen, none of which makes much sense. Richard timidly rejects his wife’s laptop offering, an older man with an imaginary friend is simply taboo and, what’s up with the Heath Hen?

The American Heath Hen is the core of Richard’s second book and, at first, Daniels wasn’t quite sure why the animal was given so much attention. “I asked [writer/directors] Kieran [Mulroney] and Michele [Mulroney], ‘Why the Heath Hen?’ ‘We don’t know, we just liked the name.’” The inclusion of the bird is partially instinctive, but Daniels pointed out truly a significant similarity, “that it was about to be extinct and the last one died at Montauk.” He continued, “Which is what Richard thinks he’s doing, he’s dying, he’s stuck, he’s never going to do anything else for the rest of his life, just like the Heath Hen he is over, he is finished.”

Writers aren’t the only professionals who feel finished upon hitting a wall of creativity. Both Daniels and his co-star, Emma Stone, know about detaching from their craft. Stone recalled, “Actually after this last movie I did, last summer I did three in a row and I’d never experienced doing three in a row, which how lucky am I? I got to do three in a row!” She continued, “But there comes an exhaustion after that that I was dead and I didn’t know if I was going to snap back. And then I came back, thank god, but if there’s ever a day when I’m dead and it’s over because you have to be pulling so much constantly as an actress. Emotions have to be free-flowing and if that stops, I’m not going to push it.”

Perhaps Stone and anyone else struggling to be artistic can benefit from Daniels’ advice. “In my theater company in Michigan, Purple Rose, we call it Fire the Judge and don’t judge yourself, especially early on in a rehearsal for an actor. Make mistakes. That’s what rehearsal is about. If you’re writing something or you’re crafting something or whatever it is you’re doing, make big mistakes early.” In addition to acting, Daniels enjoys writing plays and music as well. When working in those mediums, he keeps this in mind, “You write without even knowing what you’re writing sometimes and then you can rewrite that. You can’t rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite, even if it’s garbage, you can rewrite 98% of it and then you’re off and running.”

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I have been a fan of Emma Stone’s since she starred as Violet Trimble on Fox’s short-lived series “Drive.” Thankfully most of her films since then — “Superbad,” “House Bunny,” “Zombieland” — have gained a lot more traction with the public, setting her up to be one of comedy’s great white hopes.

But with her new film “Paper Man” Emma takes a turn towards the dramatic as Abby, an emotionally haunted girl who unknowingly befriends a grown-man that still sees his imaginary friend Captain Excellent (played by a spandex clad Ryan Reynolds).

During our time together, I not only learned that Emma was a very disgruntled baby, but that the sheer idea of reproduction shakes her to the core.

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