Archives for January 2009

USA Today featured the success of the Twilight Saga and Stephenie Meyer in two articles. TY to TwiCrackAddict

According to USA Today,"Stephenie Meyer sold more books in 2008 than any other author (22 million, according to her publisher) and did what no else — not even J.K. Rowling — has done in the 15 years of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list."

Who: Lyndzie Taylor, Mallory Trunnell, Lauren Harding and Kris Angelis
When: January 26th, 2009 at 10pm
Where: The Cat Club 8911 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA
 How much: $7

Why: People have expressed interest in hearing some of our other music outside of the Twilight Music Girls so here is a chance! We will also join each other for some Twilight-inspired songs. This is how it all started and still continues. We’d love to share it with you! We will have copies of our solo EP’s available at the show as well as TMG stickers! And don’t forget you can get the TMG album on itunes!

Also be sure to check out the girls myspace pages

www.myspace.com/lyndzietaylormusic      www.myspace.com/mallorytrunnell    www.myspace.com/laharding 

www.myspace.com/krisangelis

Making the rounds today on the Internet is a story about a pending lawsuit by Nina Ricci over the Twilight perfume that is currently being by sold by several vendors.  The story is hitting wider today because it just made a celebrity blogger’s radar.

We’d like to preface this by saying that we have no knowledge of who signed what contract, and what exactly the contract stated. We also have no knowledge as to the exact status of the lawsuit: Are papers actually filed with the courts? Are the affected parties trying to reach an out-of-court settlement? We just don’t know. Here’s our sidelines, non-lawyer analysis.

1. As far as we understand it, the two scents are entirely different, so this isn’t a suit over the scents.
2. The bottle itself is highly similar to the Nina Ricci bottle. It varies slightly in color and in the engraving on the leaves.
3.  The outer packaging container is entirely different, so this isn’t about the outer packaging.

Question:  OK, so what does that mean?

Answer:  It depends what was in the original Nina Ricci contract. Did they contract for an original exclusive design and then patent that design (note we are not lawyers and the correct term here may be trademark/copyright/etc.)? It seems like a firm such as Nina Ricci would do this, but we just don’t know as they sure as heck aren’t putting the fine print of their contract out there.

It is not uncommon for a generic container to be used by any number of products. That container is then modified based on the company and product (Think of it as how some bottled waters are in very similar containers and only the label is different.) The same is true, to use a book related example, with the cover art of novels. Oftentimes you will see recycled cover art photshopped into a new design because the images were not a contracted exclusive.

Question: Who exactly is being sued?

Answer: We don’t know. We would assume it is whatever vendor supplied the bottle, as most likely they would be the party responsible for guaranteeing that they had the rights to supply the merchants that particular bottle. Nonetheless, we just don’t know.

Question: Could other companies/people be sued?

Answer: Anything is possible. For all we know this might go down several chains of subcontractors. In our opinion, what it is going to come down to in its most basic terms is this:  Did the supplier have the rights to supply a similar item to multiple companies, or did Nina Ricci have an iron-clad exclusive?

Just a reminder MuteMath will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight!!  In honor of their performance we are having a MuteMath give away.  All you have to do to enter is send an email to [email protected]  A winner will be chosen from the email entries.  The winner will receive the limited edition vinyl that includes Spotlight.  All entries must be received by 12AM EST 1/16/09.

Rob has won a Z100’s Hottie of The Year!

Make sure to vote for Rob in Hello Magazine’s Most Attractive Man poll. 

The Hollywood Reporter has an interview with Summit Executives Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger.  The first question:  How has "Twilight" changed the company?

Check out the Glam Slam: The Suite Life!  See what your fav werewolf was checking out.

The LA Times has an update about the SAG Strike.

The Stars of Ring*Con will be held in Germany has guest Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Edi Gathegi. 

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSICAL CONCERT AT THE SALUTE TO TWILIGHT CONVENTION!
JACKSON RATHBONE and his band 100MONKEYS

Look out! This very special musical evening will take place at the convention hotel and you are invited! The concert is FREE to all Gold Weekend Patrons (you will get to keep your same great seats for the concert as it takes place in our theatre!). For others, concert tickets are now on sale for $15 general admission, $25 reserved seating. At the convention concert tickets will be $5 higher. This event will not conflict time-wise with our Vampire Ball.

PURCHASE YOUR CONCERT TICKETS NOW: BEST SEATING IS ASSIGNED IN ORDER OF PURCHASE!  www.creationent.com/cal/twilight.htm

Also announced, PRIVATE MEALS WITH THE TWILIGHT STARS on EBAY!  http://stores.ebay.com/CREATION-ENTERTAINMENT

PETER FACINELLI PRIVATE DINNER
Private Dinner on Friday February 20, 2009

KELLAN LUTZ PRIVATE DINNER
Private Dinner on Saturday February 21, 2009

MICHAEL WELCH PRIVATE LUNCH
Private Lunch on Saturday February 21, 2009

ASHLEY GREENE PRIVATE LUNCH
Private Lunch on Sunday February 22, 2009

JACKSON RATHBONE PRIVATE LUNCH
Private Lunch on Sunday February 22, 2009

Paste Magazine has an article about Taylor and details about the upcoming release of the Twilight DVD.   

 We have confirmed with Summit that the DVD will also be available in Blu-Ray on March 21st. 

Check out The Top 10 Movies MTV is most eager to see at Sundance.  Pay special attention to #6.

   NYT Freakeconomics has an article about Stephenie and how the Twilight Saga held the top 4 spots on the best selling list.   TY to Twicrack Addict

Shock Til You Drop has an article about director James Mangold possible helming Eclipse.  (edited:  Summit has since denied this report that appeared in what is usually a reliable industry trade paper.) There is also a review of Edi Gathegi’s new movie My Bloody Valentine.

A very happy birthday to one of our mods, Be My Escape. She is the genius behind the camera who brought you all those red carpet goodies. She does lots behind the scenes to make the Lexicon run smoothly. So wish her a happy birthday, especially all you fellow Jacob lovers!

Hot Topic has some new items up.  They now have the Edward action figure that has previously appeared on several other sites. As for new things, how about a pair of pencil cases? keep in mind that Hot Topic seems to rotate merchdise frequently, and we haven’t yet seen a single Twilight item hit their clearance section. So if you want it, it seems like a good idea to get it sooner rather than later.

Starting February 4th, Film Independent kicks off Directors Close-Up: Conversations on the Art of Filmmaking (formerly the Directors Series), and one of the panelists this year is Catherine Hardwicke!  She will also have her cinematographer and editor on some of the panels with her. 

The panels are every Wednesday at 7:30 pm at The Landmark Theater (10850 W. Pico Blvd.) in West Los Angeles. 

Since 2002, this popular panel series, which continues until March 11th, will provide filmmakers and film lovers the chance to hear from the best indie directors and their collaborators.  For full details on tickets and exact times see their website

Edi gathegi was interviewed by phone on a local radio station San Diego channel 933  and fortunately they have a podcast. TY to Carmen.

Twilight made Box Office Prophets Top Twelve list of movie industry stories this year. It came in at the number 6 position.