Archives for November 2008

Drew who was on the red carpet for Borders interviews fans and the minor characters that the fans love, that the bigger mainstream outlets missed!  Don’t miss their premiere coverage, and if you haven’t seen the replica Cullen Crest jewelry at Borders, it’s well worth the trip…not that I haven’t taken my Alice choker off in three days or anything like that.

MTV covers what will be going into New Moon from effects to story
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The LA Times weighs in with their "big books, big movies" theory.

If Magazine has their interview with Rachelle continue, and has more premiere pics.

EXTRA Edi Gathegi and Billy Burke talk to Extra. Here’s to actors with minor parts that captured our hearts in a big way.

It looks like Rob, Kristen, and Taylor are in the running for a page on People. Go over and give them your vote.

Access Hollywood has an interview with Rob before he reached Beatles level recognizibility.

There have been so many facts and figures lately, we thought we’d put a bunch here in one place:

70.6 million is what Twilight brought in it’s opening weekend.

1  is the place where Catherine Hardwicke is ranked as a female director’s opening weekend box office success. Twilight blew away by a landslide the previous record held by the director of Deep Impact.

"53 percent over the next 52 weeks" is how much experts are predicting Hot Topic stock is about to rise largely due to their Twilight merchandise.

250,000 unique visitors to the Lexicon with almost 2 million hits total from Thursday just before midnight through early Sunday

44 gig gone through over that period. This is more than double from stats taken just prior to Breaking Dawn’s release.

2 weeks early. Carter Burwell’s movie score is now available in ITunes. Ty to Nicole.

25 million is the number of copies the Twilight Saga has sold worldwide.

Rob and some fellow cast members are on the Tyra Banks show this Friday, November 28th.  Rumor has it that fans who were disappointed in the San Fransisco Hot Topic event have big surprises coming their way. We won’t give away exactly what happens, but the formerly disappointed fans aren’t disappointed anymore.  Now if you’re dying of curiosity you can click here to find out what happens.

So we’re curious, how many times have you watched Twilight?

MTV has several articles up regarding the movie release.  First up they discuss the success of Twilight and the sequel, New Moon, being made.  MTV also has fan reaction to the film.

Media BLVD has a photo gallery up from the Premiere as well as an interview with Stephenie.

Rob as been voted the "Hottest Vampire of All Time"  Check out teh list as some other Twilight vamps make the list.

Is Twilight going to get an Oscar?  The LA Times weighs in with their opinion.

EW talks about Twilight’s Box Office success. The fact that New Moon is now rising. And then they ask if you liked it.

Media Blvd covers Paramore and Twilight.

Buddy TV asked us to give them some questions for an interview with Taylor, Edi, and Rachelle. We’re happy to claim credit for thinking of the bare feet question, but we didn’t submit a question about Taylor kissing Kristen! Our Taylor question was, "Since Jacob is a major part of New Moon, do you feel any pressure seeing how the fans reacted to Rob?"

IF Magazine has more premiere photos.

TWILIGHT NEWS UK So do you want to win tickets to the UK premiere of Twilight. Now is your chance to win tickets to the London Red Carpet event.  in December.

Twilight Singapore is working hard to make the film a smash hit there. Check out their site.

Well given the announcement that New Moon has been officially greenlit anything else today seems pretty…well…superfluous. Anyway, Alphie and I have just gotten back from our movie event and dinner. We hope that everyone who came to Nashville to see the movie with us had as much of a blast as we did. We’ll post pictures and video later in the week. 

So in seeing the movie ourselves we loved it! Are there some things we didn’t like, sure, but that’s true with any movie. We pretty much feel that Summit got it right. Kudos to Catherine, Melissa, The cast, The producers, and way too many people to list.  Thanks for respecting the heart of the story and transcending it to screen.

As for various media naysayers who said things along the lines of, ‘It will never be that big."  "It’s only for tweens."  "Well the (insert random, predictable comment on fangs, goth attire, and blood here) crowd is the only ones who are going to like it." and my personal favorite "well it’s just women, that’s not going to make money."  The only thing we can say is this, "37 million so far. How do you like them apples, baby!?"

Bloomberg News sales coverage.

Anyway here’s the best news over the last 24 hours or so.