Archives for February 2010
Volvo Sales Increase, and Twilight’s To Blame
According to Crains’s Chicago Business:
“James Bond has inspired sales of Aston Martins and BMWs with his super-cool onscreen wheels. Now a vampire who drives a Volvo is getting the attention of young drivers.
Since the release of “Twilight” in 2008, teens and young adults have been drawn to the Volvo C30, driven by the character Edward Cullen.
“All these teenagers were going crazy about the C30,” says Carmelo Scalzo, general manager of Volvo of Oak Park. “After the movie launched, we saw this spike in C30 sales. We didn’t know what had happened until we put two and two together.”
Now they are talking about the slick, bright silver car used in Twilight (Pel affectionately calls this this vehicle Herbie the Lovebug on speed). No one has any real data on the dark colored SUV-like vehicle used in New Moon. It will be interesting to see if this time next year the sales will have increased for that vehicle as well.
Kellan Lutz and Taylor Lautner: Celebrity Beach Bowl
ESPN Caught up with Kellan Lutz at the celebrity Beach Bowl game to talk about Kellan’s football past.
“I love football,” he told Page 2. “I miss my high school days where I played. I was going to college for (football) and then acting came up so I had to put school on hold and now I’m on this acting adventure.”
Despite his love for the game, he’ll be the first to admit he made the right choice when it comes to career success.
“I don’t think I’m tall enough, big enough or strong enough to be in the Super Bowl,” he said. “I just miss playing football and getting hit and hitting people.”
Just looking at all the photos, it looks like the guys had a great time. You can find more photos in the gallery here.
Taylor Lautner’s Superbowl Weekend
Taylor Lautner is having one action packed weekend. First he was in Direct TV’s Celebrity Beach Bowl with Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz and countless other celebrities. Then he’s hanging around to see the Superbowl because the Colts are in the game. Being a Michigan native, Taylor is rooting for the Colts, and of all people he seems to have bonded with Rob Lowe over the Colts love!
According to E! Rob Lowe stated:
“Taylor’s another Colts fan and he’s such a great guy,” Rob said when I caught up with him at the Audi penthouse party at the W. “He and I are here for the Super Bowl as well, and I brought my boys with me, so we just have a boys club, who’s been traveling around on this amazing Colts run.”
But Rob says he left his wife home, who’s a huge Twi-hard…
“My wife is the Twilight freak in the house and she loves it,” he said. “She’s really funny. I keep giving her reports on where we’re going, what we’re doing.”
See the full story on E! where Rob Lowe is the latest celebrity to state what a down-to-earth guy Taylor is.
Kellan Lutz Helping Others
E! discovered that Kellan Lutz has a much more personal connection with homeless and struggling youth than people might have thought.
Kristen Stewart to Host Haiti Help Dinner
Kristen is not the only twilight star with Haiti outreach in the works. As we said when the tragedy first struck “Haiti needs help now, but more importantly they are going to need it months from now when people don’t remember it as well.”
The Lexicon has several items that we intended for a Haiti relief auction that we wanted to put up in time for Valentine’s Day. We still fully intend to auction the items, but we just had an unexpected offer to make our items part of a bigger and more organized outreach being run by a major name in Twilight, and we jumped at it. Hopefully we’ll have complete details next week, and Twilighters will have a chance to help Haiti and get some really cool merch. That’s a win-win as far as we are concerned.
Taylor Lautner Cast As Stretch Armstrong
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood broke the news that Taylor Lautner has booked another project. So not only does Taylor have Breaking Dawn, Max Steele, and an unnamed project to be shot in Cancun; he now can add Stretch Armstrong to the list.
According to Nikkie Finke, Donna Langley (co-chair at Universal) stated “In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power,” said Langley. “We couldn’t be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch.”
Taylor will be 20-years-old by the time the movie shoots in March 2012.
Ask Rob: Remember Me Video Number 4
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Mike Welch Congratulates Fellow Team Human Member
Mike Welch spoke to MTV about how excited he is for fellow Forks human Anna Kendrick.
“Human pride! There are a lot of people in this that are capable of the kind of work that could lead to an Oscar nomination. It doesn’t happen to many actors. Anna deserves it. She has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of her characters…”
Check out the rest of the story on MTV’s Hollywood Crush.
Ashley Greene’s Marie Clare Spread
Ashley Greene is in the Marie Claire in a fashion shoot (photo gallery here).
Waving hi to Jessica who is an intern at Marie Clare and a Lexiconer!
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