Archives for 2009

Hillywood Show on Blogtalk Radio

This just in from the Hillywood Show:

Hillywood

As fans wait for the premiere of The Hillywood Show’s ™ New Moon Parody, Hilly and Hannah will answer some of your questions during a live interview with Blog Talk Radio , Dec. 30th! Fans can call in to ask questions or chat live in the chat window!

SPOILER PICTURE:  Today is also a special date for Hillywood™ fans to visit the site!  Come back to the site tomorrow during the live interview to see the FIRST inside look of New Moon Parody with an exclusive leaked photo from the set!

WHEN: Wednesday, December 30th , 2009
TIME:  8:00 – 9:00 pm EST
CALL IN NUMBER:
347-884-9941
WHERE: Blog Talk Radio

Comparisons, Comparisons

We recently were hit with the latest media outlets wanting to compare Harry Potter and Twilight, and bless their naive little hearts, they actually thought they were the first to come up with this concept. We told them that we were not interested!

As we’ve said for years, the only way you can really compare them is that they are phenomenally, bestselling books done by previously unpublished female authors. Granted both have adult followings, but there are some major differences. Harry Potter is marketed to elementary students for the first part of their series which is a fantasy/quest/coming of age tale aimed at both sexes and Twilight is a YA/romance/supernatural tale predominantly marketed to females. It makes about as much sense as comparing the The Traveling Pants series to the Great and Terrible Beauty series or comparing Judy Blume to Shannon Hale.

Both Alphie and Pel WERE and ARE Harry Potter fans before Twilight ever came about.  (The graphic above has been in Pel’s forum signature for years.) In fact they used to run a site called The Werewolf Registry devoted to their favorite character from the series,  Remus Lupin.  They also fed their obsession  by reading and writing fanfic at The Sugar Quill and following the news on The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet.  (Side note here is the Pel had to contain herself not to go all fangirl on Matt and Andrew from Mugglenet/Twilight Source the first time she met them, and Alphie got all sorts of excited when Pel ended up on a discussion panel with Melissa Anelli from The Leaky Cauldron.)

So where is all this going? WHO SAID WE HAD TO CHOSE????? It’s not a contest to see which is better and to declare a winner and a loser. ENOUGH ALREADY. They are great books and movies and we love them both for different reasons. If they were both vampire romances we could see a comparison, but they’re not.

So the other day on Twitter, Pel who had absolutely had it at that point, Tweeted about her frustration because as far as we are concerned Remus Lupin and Jacob Black, two of the coolest werewolves ever are kicking back on La Push beach enjoying a butterbeer together and laughing at all of this. So Pel wrote, “SNORE…YAWN…both great books…who said we had to choose? Remus and Jake need to have a butterbeer at LaPush.”  Well, it spurred and onslaught of comments, retweets, emails, etc. from others who love both series and who are just as frustrated, and came up with other ridiculous comparisons and insight.  We thought we’d share a bunch of them them:

NickyGallardo: “Who rocked the blond-do better? Draco or James?”

only1apathy: “I IMAGINE ARO AND VOLDEMORT WOULD HIT IT OFF FANTASTICALLY”

torasamuels: “Maybe Jake and the pack could teach Lupin some werewolf manners and I think Hagrid and Charlie would get along nicely. Or maybe Emmet could pick a fight with Grawp. A friendly fight of course.”

erinsalas: “Remember to add in Emmett exchanging practical joke ideas with the Weasley twins.”

PiojisPink_YC: “We can have Emmett on a Quiddich match!”

ToriK13: “Jacob drools over Mr. Weasley’s flying car. He takes it for a ride, and is the 1st flying werewolf.”

tessa_gee: “Edward and Cedric will wonder why they are sooo look-alike!”

K_Kowalczyk: “i think Emmett and Oliver Wood would sit down and discuss how to mix quidditch and baseball for the ultimate sport!”

Natalia_Vic: “Carlisle and Dumbledore will talk about Philosophic terms Nick Flamel will discard Sorcerer’s stone and become a vampire…”

FashionLuva: “Fleur & Rosalie can try to decide who’s the most beautiful, who has the best blonde hair & who has the better husband! :)”

_German_Girl_: “Bella/Edward should meet up with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny to discuss stupid children names.”

VictoriaBsB: “imagine Aro inviting Voldemort to join the Vulturis xD”

ClaraCullen: “Ooh or Molly and Esme could talk about being such great mothers..”

rosie4posie: “Also James and Voldemort can come up with the ultimate plot to get rid of the Cullens and Harry. Which will ultimatly fail.”

TwiExaminer: “Yeahhhh… better yet, have Ron and Alice play wizard’s chess, Carlisle and Hermoine inventing something …Finish it off with a self-deprecation-off between Harry and Edward. 🙂

The Twilight Guy Giving Away Autographs

Kaleb Nation, the Twilight Guy, is giving away autographs.

Peter Facinelli on Boston TV

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEL!!!!!!!

Pel Birthday 2009
First off, I’m sure she’s going to see this as soon as I save it to post, but oh well. Surprising Laura is a very difficult task… especially if it involves posting something by surprise on the blog. I figured I would at least try!

For those of you who aren’t aware of how this whole web site works, let me give you a brief run down. We have loads of Google alerts that come into our admin e-mail as well as dozens of direct e-mails from websites and companies that want us to post information. First thing every morning, because she lives on the east coast and wakes up before me… and because she doesn’t have a kindergärtner who can’t get herself ready for school, Laura goes through these hundreds – yes HUNDREDS – of e-mails to find the ones that are interesting and that aren’t just a rehash of the stuff we already know. Jen and I do it occasionally… and I do mean occasionally… but it’s only when Laura is sick or traveling or in a meeting or something of the like. She pretty much writes up every post that you read here. I’ll tell her if I found something that didn’t hit the google alerts, but that’s rare. And let’s not forget that she debunks the majority of fake posters, interviews, lawsuits… you name it! She’s a little scary that way, truth be told! So basically, Laura does all the grunt work on the blog. She also works a full time job, is a wife and mother cleaning laundry and fixing dinner, and some how in there manages to direct a few plays! She’s an amazing woman and everyone who enjoys this website – myself included – is indebted to her.

If you’d like to wish Laura a happy birthday – and hey, why wouldn’t you? Leave a post below with a favorite memory or quote or something relating to Pel. Happy Birthday to the best chick I know!

IESB: Bryce Dallas Howard Interview

Bryce Howard

IESB sat down with Bryce and asked her about her upcoming projects and her influences.

“Q: What is the best advice that your father ever gave you, as an actor, and the best advice he ever gave you, from a directorial standpoint?

Bryce: The best advice he gave me was that, if there was anything else I could do, to do that. You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those unemployed moments, those other options will take precedent. From a directorial standpoint, I think it’s really Freudian, the amount of trust I have in filmmakers because I have such a trusting relationship with my dad. He’s such a mentor to me. He has never let me down, as a person. He just hasn’t. And, that’s translated for me with filmmakers.

I have an association that director means total authority. Director means they will never let you down. Director means just trust them and fulfill their vision, and know that the story will be told in its best incarnation. I’ve always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want. In his persona, that’s been the advice that he hasn’t directly said, but I’ve understood. ”

Read the rest on IESB.

Daniel Cudmore on Blogtalk Radio

In case the player gives you trouble, you can listen in right on the site. The same group will be interviewing the Hillywood Show on December 30th.

EXTRA: 2009 Top Twilight News Highlights




Check it out on EXTRA

Bryce Dallas Howard on ABC Talk Radio

Bryce talks about castmates Taylor Lautner and her take on Victoria. Give or take the 4 minute mark is where it starts.

Kellan Lutz and His Dog Kola

Kellan Lutz appeared on the Nick News program along with various other celebrity dog owners. The program was trying to bring about awareness of responsible pet ownership, and how many loving pets can be found at shelters.

Catch the video here. A HUGE TY to Howlingsnow on twitter for help tracking this video down.