What Twilight Items Do You Covet?

MTVs Hollywood Crush is having a little fun this morning by asking fans what they covet most from the Twilight Saga franchise.  With the announcement that a replica of Bella’s wedding dress will go on sale soon, MTV names four more things they would like to have.  The items they name might be on your list as well.  They would like to have the dirt bike from New Moon, Bella’s engagement ring from Eclipse, and the chess set from Breaking Dawn.  Consider that the bikes in New Moon could be bought or replicated, Infinite Jewelry  has been selling a diamond version of Bella’s ring for years while NECA sells a costume version of the film ring, and red and white chess sets have been available since possibly the dark ages, it isn’t unimaginable to find the first three things on their list.  It’s the 4th item on MTVs list that is the real unattainable item.  Edward Cullen.

Not a poster of Edward Cullen. Not an action figure of Edward Cullen. Not a screen-printed, person-sized, strategically-stuffed-to-look-like-a-human-dude body pillow with Edward Cullen’s face on it. We want the real, actual Edward Cullen, and we want him now. NAME YOUR PRICE, “TWILIGHT.”

I think most fans can agree with that statement!  Unless you’re Team Jacob and then you want a real Jacob Black!  So let’s hear it from you – what do you covet?  If you could have anything mentioned in the books or seen in the films OTHER than what MTV has named, what would it be?

Live Blog Patrick Brennan, Bill Tangradi, and Guri Weinburg Boston Q& A

Initial reactions to auditioning/getting cast:

Bill was bar tending in Brooklyn Heights in a gay bar in and any audition was welcome. He was super excited a week later to land the role.

Guri didn’t know what it was and then his manager’s assistant gave him Twilight 101 and she was a rabid fan and he got it was big

Patrick was literally down to being a Romano’s pizza delivery guy and was grateful to get the gig. He hadn’t gotten a gig in a year.

Jobs they would never want
Guri working in a morgue
Pat deliver pizza
Bill can’t think of one

Fav Food
Bill—sushi
Pat—–chocolate
Guri—-anything break fast

If they can be immortal a day what would they do

Guri jokes I’d deliver pizza
Bill..that sucks that I’d be back to being mortal again the next day

Special talents
Pat—great dancer
Bill–roll tongue and juggle and can do puppets play drums

Fears
Pats’ ironically is heights
Guri is snakes
Bill people with blank stares…what do they really want

If they could be any age:

Pat—6
Guri—30, you’re young enough to do things but old enough for people to take you seriously
Bill—not sure

YouTube video favs
Pat—”Charlie You Bit My finger” and the fainting dog

The guys seriously are totally bouncing off each other and way off topic, they are on this whole Lady Gaga googoo thing

Pet peeve
Bill–condescending people
Guri—loud talkers in restaurant
Pat-people who lie

Weirdest Fan Experiences:
Guri—having a girl on hotel balcony opposite his in Eclipse gear staring at him
Bill-during a private Q&A some guy starts telling him about his time in as a storm trooper and he wasn’t all there and the guy had to be removed
Pat—-wow I am so happy I don’t have these problems!

If they could be a Cullen which one
Pat—-Emmett, Kellan is the baddest dude around
Guri —jokes Bella
Bill—laughs and starts singing little mermaid song with different lyrics about who would I be….now he says I wouldn’t be one

Weirdest place fan has asked for photo or autograph
Bill went to his Moms daycamp and they were very excited he was in ICarley. Bill’s mom is here and just got huge applause.

Guri just gave Children of the Night ( a charity he works with) a plus

What do they think or what was first impression of Twilight Fans:

Guri—they were really intense and he was intimidated
Pat—just thrilled that they had such love of a project because actors get so much rejection
Bill–scared before his first convention, but now thinks they are great

Booboo Stewart Live Blog Boston Convention Q & A

The part of Seth that is most like Booboo is that he is laid back, he’s generally happy.

Booboo says he can’t imagine a world without music. Movies without music is really boring you miss a lot if you see early cuts.

He started acting when he was 10.

Odd thing a fan has done was in Orlando at his table he noticed a girl hiding behind a palm tree (but the tree was too small and he could totally see her) and she was taking secret pictures. Eventually she came over to talk to him.

Booboo definitely prefers acting to stunt work but he really loves stunt work too.

Robert Pattinson is very cool. He worked with him a bunch in Breaking Dawn. He is a really funny and really cool guy. He loved working with him.

Booboo hasn’t had to deal with too many crying fans. But his sister burst into tears when she met Channing Tatum.

Booboo really enjoyed the live concerts he did to support a group fighting child abuse.

Music is way harder than acting. Lots more work comes down to you alone you don’t have a staff to do other things.

Booboo loves amusement parks but does not like roller coasters. He does like the Mattehorn and the Tea Cup Rides at Disney

He’s enjoying White frog

He really likes working with Tyler Posey. he’s a cool guy.

His favorite part of being on Eclipse was finally meeting everyone.

The hard part was keeping it a secret for so long. It was also hard to cut his hair because it used to be really long. He never had short hair before Twilight.

If he could change places with any person dead or alive it would be…not a Medievel person, too many wars and arrows hurt…hmmm…couldn’t it be an animal…he’d want to be his mom’s dog elvis who is pampered. If it could be a fictional character it would be Ace Ventura.

More Breaking Dawn Images

We’ve been seeing a few new images around the web today in various places like RobStenation and PattinsonWorld and even from the German article that we posted about earlier today.  We’re not sure if the foreign press were given different images than we were, but the photos are simply great! Let us know which of these new photos is your favorite in the comments. UPDATE: With Laura at the convention in Boston, Lori is doing the news!  I don’t speak Spanish so I couldn’t figure out what was going on.  But the photos were originally posted on Aurum Producciones Facebook page.  They are a distributor for the Twilight Saga in the Spanish market.  Mystery solved!

 

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Gil Birmingham Q & A Live Blog Boston Convention 2011

Gill will be out in a second

The crowd is uber excited to see Gil

He is doing a film in the Danvers area locally

It’s called Crooked Arrows with Brandon Routh of superman and Chuck fame

Gil just gave major props to Hillywood

Gil jokes he’s doing Billy Black Twilight Saga Part 6 My Unknown powers revealed

He will have a 300 type film in the works

Rango is the closest gig he’s ever had to Twilight as far as a similar genre because it’s fantasy

He thought Rango was amazing fun. They would act out the sequences as they are recording.

His creepiest fan experience, he doesn’t have one knock wood fans have been great with him

Acting in a wheel chair is a challenge he has a lot of respect for people who have no choice but to use one daily. He enjoyed the parody Vampires Suck where his character flew over people.

It was fun back in the day when he was a Conan lookalike at Universal. Best part was taking photos with young kids who were totally into it

A favorite actress is he doesn’t really have just one. Is impressed with a lot of up in coming young talent.

He loved the lizard in Rango and just did a dead-on impression. real animals he loves white tigers

Gil jokes “Taylor who”

Gil says there’s been such a transformation with Taylor from the young kid on Twilight to where he is now. But thinks he’s still a down to earth and realistic person.

Gil misses the days of Twilight when they were all more anonymous and could all go out to dinner without lots following

Wedding scene was very cold and wet weather.

He fell asleep waiting for his scene and Peter Facinelli pranked him by tickling his nose with a feather.

Pet peeve is rude people. He tries not to be rude when he has a short temper

When asked if he was president for a day what he’d do he say quit and then get rid of taxes give Indians back their land and then we’ll play monopoly

Gil has read teh Twilight Guide and wished it was out before the filming was over. He would have wanted to know more details

Tinsel Korey Q & A Live Blog Boston Convention 2011

Tinsel Korey just hit the stage

Tinsel is doing theatre games exercises with the audience again. Crazy 8 Game. Going to get video!

Tinsel would be a florist if not in performing art

Tinsel would be a lazy sloth if she was an animal

Tinsel loved going back to La Push. She was so glad to see the kids there again and did an acting class for them

Tinsel urges the audience to sign the Tsunami petition for the Quiluetes to be able to move out of the danger zone http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/222/865/022/

Favorite BD experience was a beach scene that the entire wolfpack was there for it was a way to wrap up and say goodbye

Bill condon is officially awesome as far as Tinsel is concerned!

Tinsel would work with Gwenneth Paltrow given the chance.

She’d also loves that she is working w/ Bronson Pelletier in the upcoming Fishng Naked. She thinks of him like a little brother.

Tinsel says that she is looking forward to the new Ryan Gossling movie because he looks so hot in it.

She is also looking forward to Taylor Lautner in Abduction

Tinsel is half-way done on her new single called Into the West

When asked who would she imprint on other than Sam Tinsel says “Seth once he turned 18!”

Tinsel says Gil and Booboo are both handsome. They would be great if she were older or younger

Tinsel is a crier for TV and movies. She always cries at sappy stuff like Undercover Boss

Tinsel Loves teh BOSTON accent. There’s a whole group of people doing it for her.

Tinsel is a gamer girl loves Zelda and Mario Bro for starters

Tinsel just Medusaed Hannah and Hilly…LOL

Her favorite Potter Character is Luna Lovegood

German Interview with Rob and Kristen


Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Breaking DawnThe folks at Robsteners and Robstenation have been able to translate an interview that was done with Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart at SDCC for a German magazine TVMovie.De.

TV Movie: Be honest: Was the film sex difficult for you?
Rob: Oh yes! I felt really uncomfortable.
TV Movie: Too many people on set?
Rob: No, a fear had rather something to do with Taylor and his fantastic body. Jacob, as a werewolf, has bared all already in the last two films. And to be honest, I can’t keep up with him.
TV Movie: The fans will be pleased with the new passion nevertheless…
Kristen: After for year it’s about time! (laughs)
Rob: They’re very emotional scenes. For the first time I felt like a human, not like a vampire.
Read the whole translation and see scans at Robstenation.  Thanks to TwilightPoison for the heads up!

Fandom Flashback: The Casting of the Twilight Saga

Now that filming has wrapped for the five films that will make up the complete Twilight Saga, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at what happened in late 2007 when the saga was first cast. Speculation ran rampant with who should be cast as which character. The fandom was smaller then and totally book based, but everyone had their own opinion as to who should play their favorite characters.

For Bella Swan, fans debated over Emily Browning, Alexis Bledel, and Danielle Panabaker as front runners. Fan wanted a true brunette with a small frame and a kind of innocence to her. (Keep in mind that the casting for the film happened before Breaking Dawn was published!) When Kristen Stewart landed the role, the feeling we got at the time from the fandom was that fans weren’t completely thrilled, but they were at least happy that Bella wasn’t being played by a Disney-esque actress and that the film was at least being made.
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Breaking Dawn: What We Know and Don’t Know

Giving a run down of the facts, MSNBC’s Today Movies section breaks apart recent interviews from Entertainment Weekly and USA Today as well as various comments from Comic Con to hone in on just what we know will and won’t happen in Breaking Dawn Pt 1.  From the simple but elegant wedding dress to the pillow biting honeymoon, through the blood drinking pregnancy and the C-section birth, they catch all the details the stars and filmmakers have managed to let slip out over the past few weeks.

So we want to know what isn’t confirmed?  What is something in the books that we haven’t heard about that you are really hoping makes it into the final cut?  Leave us a comment telling us which unconfirmed moments you are still crossing your fingers for.

Read the whole story on MSNBC Today Movies.

Reuters: The Impact of Vampires on Pop Culture

Starting the day off with what should be a good discussion, Reuters takes a look at how vampire books and movies have impacted our culture, especially for teens today.  The discussion started after a man broke into a woman’s house this weekend and claimed to be a 500 year old vampire.  Reuters talks to Anne Rice, who gave us my first vampire crush, Lestat, and even mentions the RPG Vampire, the Masquerade.

But no look at vampires in pop culture would be complete without a mention of Twilight.  Dr. Thomas Garza, who teaches what sounds like a fascinating class on vampire lore at the University of Texas, had this to say about our favorite vampires:

“I would say that it is the Twilight saga in particular that has brought out the younger teen fans. In that connection, Edward is a very ‘safe’ vampire, a kind of ‘starter vamp’ for beginners, if you will,” Garza said.

“He’s pretty, yes, so the seduction’s there, but he’s more than reluctant to act on his and Bella’s sexual desires. He can go out in daylight – and even ‘sparkles’ in the sun, giving him a completely non-threatening character. He drives a Volvo, for goodness sake.”

So what do you think?  How do you think vampires have effected pop culture and the lives of teens today?  Tell us your thoughts in the comments!

Read the whole story at Reuters.