A Twilight Saga Fansite
This weekend Michael Sheen’s play The Passion ( a modernized Passion Play) takes place in and around his home town of Port Talbot Wales. There are 1,000′s of people involved from amateurs to professionals. Toni Trucks who plays Mary in Breaking Dawn flew to Wales to help out as well.
The BBC Wales has a great article on what it’s doing for the town and a super video (we can’t embed the video, so scroll down it’s worth the watch)
Watch for Liz playing Emma Roberts’ mother at around the 1:40 mark. Liz was in Sundance to promote the film this year where is had a huge buzz surrounding it, particularly for co-star Freddie Highmore. Interestingly enough, the surprise sleeper film that blew everyone away at Sundance also starred a Twilight actor: Like Crazy with Charlie Bewley.
Troix is celebrating their six-month anniversary and they have launched a retrospective that features their cover models, a bunch of which are Twilight actors.
We’ve been getting hit with lots of emails of people asking two things:
1. When is the Official Illustrated Guide coming out in my country?
2. When is the Twilight Graphic Novel part 2 coming out?
Here’s what we found out via Little Brown:
They don’t currently have a release date for the Graphic Novel part 2. We are guessing that the reason the image for the graphic novel 2 appears on the inside back flap of the book jacket of the Official Illustrated Guide is that publishers tend not to change up what is on book jackets to save printing costs. Though the part 2 isn’t currently out, one day it will be, and fans will be reminded of these items.
Here is what they told us about dates for editions outside the USA.
April 12
UK (note the UK has Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, and South Africa in its distribution)
France
Italy
Netherlands
April 13
Germany
April 18
Brazil
April 26
Denmark
May 15
Mainland China
Fall 2011
Spain
That’s all they had for now and they said they’d give us other dates when they have them. If you don’t mind an edition written in the English language, both Amazon.com and Amazon.UK do ship to other countries depending where you live.
USA Today is out with their edition of the top 150 books in the USA this week and here is what they had to say about the Official Illustrated Guide:
“Twilight fever: Proving that Twilight fans never say die, Stephenie Meyer returns to the top 10 this week with a new book. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a companion to the series and blockbuster movies, enters USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list at No. 4. In March, Meyer told USA TODAY: “My favorite part of the guide is the vampire histories,” and she writes in the guide about Edward (played by Robert Pattinson): “Unfortunately Edward isn’t based on anybody — he is all imagination and wishing. I think his allure is partially due to his old-fashioned manners. He’s a gentleman, and those are hard to come by these days.”
The USA Today list is a really unique one on several levels. Their list is very inclusive, for example they allow YA and children’s books on their list where others like The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly don’t. Unlike the New York Times, they don’t divide their list into sub-categories. Everything from cookbooks, to self-help guides, to novels land on the very same list. So, you get a really interesting perspective on what America is reading overall, not just category by category. As a side note, IT’S HUGE that a novel like Water For Elephants that has been out for awhile and is now in paperback is on the list in the number 1 position BEFORE the movie comes out. This should be a good sign for opening weekend box office.
You can check out the whole list here.
MTV had the chance to talk to Peter Facinelli about Paul McDonald doing the soundtrack for his movie Loosies. They slipped in a couple of Breaking Dawn questions while they had him on the phone. This was our favorite:
“Although he couldn’t go into too much detail, we asked Facinelli to describe the heavily hyped wedding scene for us.
“Beautiful and spectacular,” he said. “It’s funny, because whenever we have a big important scene on ‘Twilight’ [movies], it rains. I was doing the baseball sequence [from 'Twilight'], and it was raining. But you never see it on film,” he said of the filmmaking crew’s movie magic. “With this wedding, it rained the whole time we shot the two scenes. But you’ll never see it on film, they block out the rain. They put tarps up and you’ll never see it. But for us, it was very wet and muddy and cold.”
On a personal note the Hoh Rainforest that is just south of Forks is National Parks land and teh unspoiled terrain is just amazing. Please support this if you are able.
The MTV Movie Awards is having a contest to send fans to the show and a Twilight fan made the final cut of entrants! Audrey wrote to tell us:
“I am so obsessed with the twilight world that with my friend we chose Stephanie Meyer’s characters to make a spoof for the MTV MOVIE AWARDS 2011 contest. Taylor and Rob are perfect as Jacob and Edward but they can’t compete with these 2babies 
(check out her video and you’ll see what she means) And for sure, ECLIPSE is going to win the best line so we put in the video hehe if you like our video, can you vote for us?”
Audrey did a really cute stylized spoof instead of the traditional “here are the 3 reason to vote for me” routine. If you like her video, please give her your vote!
http://apps.facebook.com/mtvvidawardscontest/contests/100559/voteable_entries/19606267
