Archives for 2009

Catherine Hardwicke Launches Website

Catherine Hardwicke has launched her own website! Look for lots of cool content on there in the future.

Counting Down to the Twilight DVD Release

WHAT TO CHOOSE WHAT TO CHOOSE!

  • Borders set with postcards, exclusive bonus features, and movie party giveaways
  • Hot Topic with Taylor Lautner signed poster raffles and film cels
  • Barnes and Noble with phone skins
  • Target that just dropped their price
  • Wallmart with a section of the store
  • Blu-ray over at Target and Best Buy
  • plenty of other retailers not listed here
  • …and now Comcast is in on the act. You can get the movie via OnDemand at the stroke of midnight.

Now if you feel the need to see all the TV ads to hold you over until then, Summit has generously allowed us to put all four of them online. Our favorite is below.

So the question is, what are you doing Friday night and where?

Twilight Boosting Other Sales

Just yesterday we told you how curious readers of Eclipse in France have started this sales trend. The country is now reading Wuthering Heights at a rate never seen before. Well it looks like there’s another trend going on in the USA.

According to The Arizona Republic, Twilight is breathing new life into supernatural fiction. Several well known authors in that genre are mentioned. Fellow vampire writer, PC Cast, said about Stephenie “She has done a great job of reminding teenagers how much fun it is to read. Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading ‘Twilight’ and want something else like it.”

Read the whole article here.

Twilight Release Party Podcast

If you are in the New York area, Twilight Live is doing a podcast in Borders Penn Plaza just before the official release party begins. Pel and Be My Escape will be there along with a fabulous, fandom panel and Kimbra the Twilight hands model. We will be having some great giveaways including Muse CDs and a Twilight baseball posters, just to name a few. Stop by and say hi!

Kristen Talks Cliff Diving and Strikingly Beautiful Vampires

Kristen talks about the cliff diving scene and how it will be a CGI Bella taking the leap. Read the whole articel here.

Kristen talks about the new look of New Moon.

Ashley Greene on Good Day New York

Ashley Greene dropped by Good Day New York today to talk about donatemydress.org and New Moon. (FYI, their player is slow. It took me three times to see it direct on the Fox site)

Kellan Lutz: Action Hero?

Kellan Lutz sat down with MTV and taked about the kind of movies he sees himself doing in the future:

“I want to be James Bond one day, I want to be Jason Borne,” Lutz explained of where he’d like his career to go in the years ahead. “I want my own franchise in the action world.”

Get the full article here at MTV.

Ashley Greene In Twist Magazine

Ashley Greene played Celebrity fastball backstage with Twist magazine before her appearance at Saks this past Saturday.

Mike Welch To Appear in CSI

We just heard some good news about Mike Welch, who by all accounts was the life of the party (we mean that in only the best way) at the recent Creation Entertainment convention. This weekend we heard from several fans first hand about how entertaining an genuine Mike is in person.

Well, now you can catch more of MIke! Mike just completed filming CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9, Episode 20. His character’s name is Steuben Lorenz and it has a tentative air date mid April.

Kristen Stewart Praises New Moon Cast

Access Hollywood caught up with Kristen Stewart on Sunday. Kristen had lots of good things to say about her fellow cast members:

On Taylor Lautner:

“We’re so proud of [Taylor Lautner]…It’s been a year since we shot the last one and he’s been working on it the entire time. Not just physically — he’s gotten buff and everything but he’s [also] so [into] it.”

On Dakota Fanning:

“It’s cool to have small characters be really vivid and have them stick out,” she said. “I feel like she’ll do something really interesting with it. It’s a crazy character she plays.”