Archives for November 2008

We will be editing this page throughout the day as various premiere event coverage comes in.

Want to watch the red carpet action but you’re not in LA?  Follow this link for a live feed (boy do we hope they have a great server). Their coverage is slated to launch at 6:30pm Pacific Time.

I’m making this its own post so people can find it easily. It contains all the info we have from Summit quoted word-for-word from their email about fans being near the red carpet. We have no further info, and as you can imagine Summit staff is pretty busy right now, so if you have a question it’s probably not going to get answered.

This is what Summit emailed to us about fans watching the arrivals:

Just a few updates for your readers! There is a lot of TWILIGHT coverage this week, but lets start off with the biggest of them all…the TWILIGHT Premiere! We will be handing out wristbands that get fans into the fanwatch area for the premiere on Monday, 11.17.  It will begin at 12pm PT near the Village and Bruin theater at 961 Broxton Ave.

Also, look for the following coverage of TWILIGHT this weekend!

The New York Times has what’s probably the best summary of the Rob Hot Topic Tour.

The LA Times continues their ongoing Twilight series.

Twilight News The UK based Twilight News site is giving away tickets to the London premiere of Twilight. Check out their site for details.

Norwegian Twilighters have been working on getting their movie premiere moved up. according Ragnhild, who has been helping to coordinate the efforts,

"The Twilight movie is coming out in February. I’m sure you can all understand how disappointed we were when we realized that we had to wait for 4 (!) whole months to see the movie. Our neighbour-country, Sweden, gets the movie the same date as you guys in USA, so we wondered why there were so big differences. Anyway, we sent tons of e-mails to our distributor, and they responded with saying that if we got enough people signing a petition, they would consider moving the date from February the 6th to January the 19th."

So help them out folks, the petition info is here (yes we realize that it is in Norwegian).

They are still doing the edit and upload of the Twilight Live podcast which had a bunch of addtional actors drop by. Aside from the previously announced Peter Facinelli, Mike Welch, and Jackson Rathbone, Christian Serratos, and Solomon Trimble were there.

500 fans attended the event that was chiefly moderated by Kallie and Andrew of the Twilight Series Theories and Imprint podcasts.

PREMIERE NEWS  Tomorrow is the premiere with a red carpet that is practically two blocks long. Be My Escape (Jen) will be there with Kaleb Nation, the Twilight Guy. Kaleb’s site is down at the moment (Kaleb knows) but he will be posting to his MySpace until he can get the situation fixed. He’s a little busy right now as you can imagine.

According to Be My Escape there are already fans lining up and camping out by the Mann Theaters in Westwood located at 961 and 948 Broxton Ave. in the hopes that they will get a good view of arrivals and maybe score some autographs.

This is what Summit emailed to us about fans watching the arrivals:

Just a few updates for your readers! There is a lot of TWILIGHT coverage this week, but lets start off with the biggest of them all…the TWILIGHT Premiere! We will be handing out wristbands that get fans into the fanwatch area for the premiere on Monday, 11.17.  It will begin at 12pm PT near the Village and Bruin theater at 961 Broxton Ave.

Also, look for the following coverage of TWILIGHT this weekend!

Remember that midnight  Pacific Time tonight is the deadline to entire the Twilight Ultimate Fan Contest. Click the banner for details.

Early reports are in from Jen (Be My Escape). She’ll post details as the extended Twilight premiere weekend goes on. Just a few tidbits:

• People were lined up outside the Borders where Twilight Live was happening the night before. 
• Early reports have people filing in without a hitch, no mad rush for the doors or anything like that.
• Other Twilight site ops who she’s now met face-to-face are super nice.
• Mike Welch was awesome in his play, Speech and Debate, Jen had tickets. Mike is also every bit as cool in person as he seems in his blogs and interviews.
• LA is hot (can you tell Jen is from New England), the fires don’t seem to be affecting the area they are in, but as you travel around LA you can smell the smoke.
• She’ll post the link to the podcast after it’s uploaded as well as some behind the scenes video footage.

The USA Weekend story is online in case you didn’t get it  with your regular Sunday paper. USA Weekend is also asking readers to check back on Monday the 17th for info on how to get a copy of their Twilight poster that came with the issue.

Find out how Forks and Port Angeles will be celebrating the release of Twilight.

Edi Gathegi and Kellan Lutz will be in Massachusetts at a New England Fan Experience sponsored event for the Twilight release.

Last week Steve over on Collider was the first to give you audio and transcripts of the press conference with Stephenie, Catherine, Rob, and Kristen.

Well, Steve (AKA Frosty) is back. This time he has the transcript and audio of a chat with the Cullen family including the notorious hard to get an interview (not their fault shooting schedules) with Liz Reaser and Jackson Rathbone.

In our never ending quest of trying to provide you with the most unique Twilight movie news ( because really who wants to hear one more time Rob being asked if he knew what he was getting himself into, or Stephenie one  more time with feeling talking about the chapter 13 dream…you get the idea) here is our latest.

The Twilight cast visited Canada’s Much Music and was treated to this baseball clip. TY Summer  And in case anyone thinks only Americans line up, Canadians do too, and it’s a lot colder in Canada.

Rob and Kristen interview Stephenie over on moviefone about movie music, upcoming projects, and more ( the black and white outtake at the end is hilarious).

The LA Times covers how much Twilight has meant to the economic recovery of Forks in tough times.  They also talked to Melissa Rosenberg about all four books and if she’d be interested in adapting all four.

Spout has a Vampire cagematch. GO VOTE FOR EDWARD!

First, if you haven’t yet entered to be the Ultimate Twilight Fan, remember that the deadline is Sunday. Don’t miss out on your chance to win a chance at a webchat with Catherine. we’ve seen a bunch of creative submissions today (nothing like waiting til the last second, guys!  jeez, you had us worries there when we only have 5 submissions earlier this week)

Now we will also be covering the Twilight Live podcast that happens tomorrow starting at 1:30. At the moment they are looking to tape and upload the broadcast shortly after it concludes. They need time to clean up the audio and pictures, you get the idea.  We will provide the link as soon as it is available.

The multi-fansite panel hosted by Andrew Sims and Kallie Matthews, of Imprint and Twilight series Theories fame,  will feature the Lexicon’s Be My Escape, The Twilight Guy, Bailey (AKA No More Marbles), and many more. The show will be opened by the Twilight Music Girls.  Also appearing from the cast will be Mike Welch ( Mr. Twi-hard ), Peter Facinelli, and Jackson Rathbone.

If you happen to be there and if they open up to audience Q & A it might be a good time to ask Jackson about his music choices. The Twilight stars just added their personal playlists to the Itunes Twilight section.

Here is Twilight Live’s most recent press release on the event:

1 — The podcast will be held at Borders Westwood, located on 1360 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.  The store opens at 10 am, and the show begins around 1:30 pm with a concert by the Twilight Music Girls.  The show should be over by around 4 pm.

2 — An RSVP email does not guarantee you admittance.  Wristbands will be distributed to approximately the first 500 people at the store that morning.  You must have a wristband to get into the event.

3 — Our guests will be signing a limited number of autographs.  You must purchase an item and Borders and receiving a separate signing wristband to be guaranteed an autograph.

4 — Please be mindful of the fact that this is a podcast — a radio show, more or less.  You cannot be overly loud or unruly because it interferes with the recording.  Please be fair to the thousands of people all over the world who want to listen to the show later on.

5 — Please observe respectful event conduct — no screaming once the discussion begins, no climbing on shelves or standing on your friend’s back, no yelling obscenities, and no saving seats for your friends.

6 — As of now, there are no plans to stream the podcast live.  We will be testing at the store on Saturday afternoon, and if this changes, we will let you know on TwilightLive.com and through various Twilight news sources.

The red carpet for Twilight will have no shortage of coverage.  First of all the Lexicon’s Be My Escape (Jen) is paired up with Kaleb Nation, The Twilight Guy to bring you news right from the actor’s own lips.  So if you are going to be at the Mann Theaters in Westwood (they moved the location from the original spot) look for Jen and Kaleb.  The Mann theaters are located at 961 and 948 Broxton Ave.

Now, if you want some mainstream media coverage, notice the below widget. When the stars star to arrive the widget goes live and you can see it all. We may have to switch over to a link for it because, call me crazy, but I think our bandwith might hit another all time high. It might be easier to you all right to their server.

EDITED:  Ok the widget was sucking our bandwith faster than Edward inhales a mountain lion. Here is the link to the widget.