A Double Helping of Twilight Guy

Kaleb Nation is now up to Chapters 17 and 18 of Eclipse. He ends up asking the question of, "Who would you rather have on your side in a fight, Carlisle or Alice?" As usual, put down all liquids before looking at Kaleb’s graphics, or you will be cleaning your computer monitors. After looking at his graphics this week, we have this sudden and unexplainable urge to go watch reruns of That 70′s Show :)

Kaleb also has a story from a fellow Twilight guy.

Sundance Report

Kristen Stewart signed autographs at the airport and later in town at Sundance.

Just Jared Jr. Just Jared has photos of Kristen at the official photocall for Adventureland.

Rueters mentions how companies like Summit have found a niche of loyal supporters at Sundance

 

MTV asked Kristen to stop by the MTV Sundance Photobooth. She posed for a few shots with her Adventureland co-star Margarita Levieva . They also have a brief clip where they asked her to compare this year’s  Sundance experience vs.last year’s.

 

 

The Lexicon’s own Nena Cullen is in the area and hopes to tell us a bit about teh Sundance experience later this week..

 

 

Sundance News

Kristen Stewart is scheduled for several media appearances today in connection with her film Adventureland at Sundance.

Yesterday, Summit Entertainment co-chairmen Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger received the second annual Nielsen Impact Award at Sundance.

Edi Gathegi Talks New Moon With MTV

Edi talks with MTV about New Moon, fanvideos,  the possibilities of Irina down the road (She is not in the New Moon movie. So, before we start the latest casting rumor, let’s nip this one right in the bud shall we!) TY to Sarah.

 

Hot Topic Announces DVD Pre-Order Parties!

 

Here is the news direct from Hot Topic:

"Okay here is some news that I’m sure you guys will be extremely happy about! The Twilight DVD will be released soon.  We’re all anxiously waiting for it : ) Hot Topic’s In Store Pre-Order date is February 9th…The Twilight DVD will have exclusive, awesome, HT only surprises if you buy the DVD at Hot Topic.
 
We will be having launch parties at our Hot Topic stores!   There will be A LOT of awesome things and surprises happening at the parties…we will be having a cool contest for a pair of Bella and Edward dolls – I know crazy cool huh? : ) We will be giving away a small percentage of the dolls during the launch parties.  After that, if anyone else wants the dolls they can get them from the Tonner Company."
 

Hot Topic Thriving Due to Twilight

This article shows how for the first time in several years Hot Topic had a sussessful last quarter, and they attribute it all to Twilight.

And of course, Hot Topic has new Twilight items including a Lion and Lamb Sweatshirt, a locket, and trading card collection.

 

Twilighters Around the World

We’ve been noticing a lot of increased traffic to our site from places around the globe. Pel was once quoted in an article saying, "People visit us from every continent except Antarctica." For all we know, maybe they are logging in from there at one of the research stations.

In any case articles like this and this from the United Arab Emirates show how Twilight is truly universal.

The Lexicon’s biggest countries on each continent based on our most recent stats are:
South America: Uruguay
Africa: South Africa
Asia: Philippines
Oceania: Australia
North America(not counting USA): Mexico
Europe: Great Britain

Update From Kaleb Nation

As many of you know, Kaleb has been having what could probably best be described as technical difficulties or a huge misunderstanding with YouTube (We understand, we had to explain to a former webhost that we weren’t a porn site because he had only seen porn sites pull in the kind of traffic volume that we do.). Kaleb explains the status of the Robert Pattinson Contest of Awesome in the video. After you watch the video, stop by and give Kaleb a cyber hug, he sounds like he needs one.

Here is the link to the video which is not letting us embed it.

 

Sales Totals

The Books

2.  The Host (hardback fiction category)
1.     The Twilight Saga (children’s series category)
2.     The Twilight Illustrated Movie Companion (paperback advice)

1.   New Moon
2.   Eclipse
3.   Breaking Dawn
4.   Twilight
23. The Host

1.  Breaking Dawn
2.  Eclipse
4.  New Moon
8.  Twilight
6. The Host

2. The Host ( does not rank YA books)

 

Twilight Movie Music

 

Billboard Ranking (TY to Shannon for the suggestion)
4. 200 album chart: 
1. Soundtrack chart: 
1.  Rock album chart: 
1.  Top digital album chart

 

The Twilight Movie

BoxOffice Mojo

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic: $182,966,000   60.2%
+ Foreign: $120,811,506   39.8%

= Worldwide: $303,777,506

Morning News

The Peninsula Daily News has a story on the mystery of the disappearing gas cap.  It seems someone took the chrome gas cap from Bella’s truck.

Twilight has a large fan following in Ireland.  So much so that it has the top five sales spots in the Nielsen Bookscan. 

The start of 2009 may be remembered for sucking the life out of retailers, but in the bookshops a series of teenage vampire books has bucked the trend and set a new record for sales.

Dear Book Lover answers a question about Twilight and offers some other suggested reading. 

Publisher’s Weekly has an article on Another Series with Bite.  Vampire Academy has filled the void left by the Twilight Saga and even used its popularity to gain a larger following by running ads on Twilight’s IMDb pages.

 

 

The casting agent for Native Americans casting is now in place.  If you fill the description of what they are looking for this might be worth your while. Please note, this agent is not casting ANY OTHER ROLES. She has no influence on those parts, the script, anything other than what she has specifically been hired to do. Please note how it asks interested parties to follow instructions TO THE LETTER, attention to detail counts.

A reporter covering Sundance will be interviewing Kristen Stewart  and other stars. She wants some question ideas from fans. TY to Ali.