Pussy Riot Members are apparently getting Hollywood film offers but won't reveal any details yet

Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolonnikova and Maria Alyoshina have since headed to Berlin after spending time in New York promoting their new prison rights foundation both on The Colbert Report and at the Amnesty International's ''Bringing Human Rights Home'' concert in the Brooklyn.

At the Cinema For Peace press conference at Berlin's Regent Hotel, the two said they have now received film offers. "We have some offers but we cannot say from whom, nothing is agreed," Tolonnikova said to The Hollywood Reporter. She then joked by saying, "It's like Star Wars!"

At the press conference, the women were alongside Kweku Mandela, the grandson of the former South African president Nelson Mandela and Bianca Jagger, a European Council and Cinema for Peace Goodwill Ambassador.

Tolonnikova and Alyoshina will attend a gala screening in Berlin tonight of Mike Lerner's documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. The two have been very open about their feelings toward Russian authorities and Vladimir Putin, who they believe only released them from prison as a PR move to boost Russia's image before the Olympics.

The women said that those who are helping them with their prisoners rights organization, Zona Prava (Rights Zone) are being intimidated by Russian authority.

"Anyone related to this organization are put under pressure; everyone involved is kept under watch and constantly invited to police stations to be interviewed -- where they are threatened with further trouble if they continue this work," Tolonnikova said, according to THR.

"Every time there is crisis in society the government tries to find a guilty party to blame for it," Alyokhina said. "That is weak power, a power that is not able to admit fault. This kind of power is what we see in President Putin."

We'll have to wait to find out what kind of film projects could be in the works. It seems reasonable that they would be on board for some kind of venture if it would help to further spread their message.

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