Archives for 2009

Blogger Maggie checks out Montepulciano

Blogger Maggie is currently visiting Italy and happened to visit Montepulciano.  She also got the inside scoop from the locals about the filming and the towns excitement. Be sure to check out her blog as she will have picture updates soon!

So I’m sitting in the Grand Piazza in Montepulciano having a glass of Noblie (a wicked nice red wine here), and I notice a sign next to the information center with ‘New Moon‘ in bold. Of course I have to look at it. It’s a notice about casting for extras for the film (I’ll upload the photos as soon as I’m back in the UK, Monday, but will post the info here). So I notice the New Moon casting, and go into the info center to chat to the staff about it.

Jackson Rathbone To Be Interviewed By TST

The Twilight series Theories Podcast, run by sisters Kallie and Kassie, is going to be interviewing Jackson Rathbone.

If you have a question that you are dying to ask Jackson, head on over to TST and let them know what you want to find out about Jackson!

Don’t wait, they need your questions by April 26th!

Jamie Campbell Bower Rocks the House

Jamie Campbell Bower has his own band, and last night it played in Camden in the UK. In fact Jamie was Tweeting about it all week up through his sound check!

Here’s a report from a fan who was at the show.

TY to Team Solomon for the heads up

Kellan Lutz’s Nightmare

According to Entertainment Weekly, Kellan Lutz is up for a role in the remake of Nightmare of Elm Street.

“With Watchmen‘s Jackie Earle Haley ready to slip on Freddy Krueger’s gruesome glove in the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street, the rest of the cast — i.e., the victims of Freddy’s dream-seizing killing spree — is beginning to fall into place.”

According to EW, Kellan’s character would be Dean, a loveable high school jock.

Edi Gathegi and Kellan Lutz Hit Australia

Edi and Kellan are in Australia to meet fans for teh DVD release there.

According to Entertainmentwise:

“The pair went down under at Sydney’s JB hi-fi store where they were greeted by a fan frenzy.”

ET Exclusive Sneak Peek Videos

ET is promising more tomorrow!

New Video of Taylor from Access Hollywood!

Get a load of Taylor Lautner working out on the set of New Moon.  Compliments of Access Hollywood.

Have You Switched Teams?

Given the release of the hunky abs photo…er…we mean the very formal PR shot of the wolf pack…oh heck who are we kidding…we mean the abs! All 24 packs of them (not that we counted or anything), is it anyone else’s IPhone photo? Sorry, regaining focus.

Anyway, EW wants to know, have any of you switched teams over the photo? Take their poll.

Have we mentioned the abs?

Jennie Garth Wants Peter Facinelli in the Kitchen

Peter Facinelli is a great cook! Who knew? Apparently not his wife!  Jennie discovered that Peter had been cooking for his Twilight cast mates. According to E! Jennie jokingly said:

“I am pissed off, because he doesn’t make me pasta dinners. I don’t know when was the last time the man cooked for me!”

Maybe he just ordered in and faked it?

Novel Novice Celebrates 1,000,000 Visitors

It was not even a year ago that middle school teacher Tiffany Truitt got kids who had been labeled “difficult to teach” and who were falling below educational standards to get passionate about reading. How did she do it? Twilight!

What started out as a simple middle school project and a basic blogger site bloomed into a greater revolution encouraging kids to read. They also branched out from there to encourage kids to think about civic service, voting, conflict resolution, and more. read there first couple entries it’s pretty amazing.

So stop by Novel Novice, hands down one of our favorite sites on the web, and wish them well for their next million visitors!