Archives for 2009

It was leaked yesterday that Juan Antonio Bayona protege of master director Guillermo Del Toro was in the running for the Eclipse job.

Today, Variety has added to these rumors stating that not only has Bayona been offered the job, but he’s actually landed it. They state:

“Summit, which had no comment Wednesday, is expected to make the official announcement soon.”

Generally speaking Variety, like EW and Nikki Finke, is one of those sources you can rely on.

Here’s what Larry Carrol of MTV had to say about Kristen Stewart’s performance in The Cake Eaters:

“1. Nobody eats cake in it.

2. The word “cake” is never actually uttered.

3. It might just be the best performance of “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart’s young career.”

Now here’s what Collider says. They routinely provide some of the best interviews and don’t get enough recognition. They ask decent questions that get indepth answers like this from Kristen Stewart:

“Like Aaron said. The one thing that the movie has is an unabashedly outward sense of hope. It’s a very positive movie which is commendable considering it’s about a girl who is gonna die before she reaches the age of normal consensual sex. So, that’s a feat in itself. Hopefully [audiences] can take from it real characters that actually affected them and put their faith in characters for a good hour and a half. That says something.”

Media Blvd also weighs in with their interview here.

“I was so intimated by the character that I didn’t start any physicality before, literally, the first day of shooting. I just couldn’t stop thinking about it…I couldn’t physically do it until the day we started shooting because it felt like I was faking something. Until it was actually real, in the moment, and we were actually doing it and I was actually playing this person, then it felt right to do it. But, before that, it just didn’t feel right.”

Thanks to the 3 million people who emailed in, the sound you hear is cash registers ringing up purchases of the most recent issue of GQ.  Get the full article here and the FANTASTIC slide show (I think I need a glass of water) right here.

Here’s what Kristen Stewart had to say about Rob:

“He can’t lie,” she says. “It makes things a little scary for him sometimes. But it’s my favorite thing about him.”

Many of you know that Lauren, of the Lauren’s Bite blog, posts from time to time about her adventures with her Edward action figure, AKA Pocket Edward.

Recently she took Pocket Edward to Disney where clearly he ate too much food. This time out, Lauren has Pocket Edward maintaining those rock hard abs. Of course this involves specially devised, sparkly equipment. If you value your computer monitor, put down all liquids before clicking!

The city of Volterra and Italian Twilighters are mobilizing to try to encourage Summit to actually film in Volterra and not just some generic town in Italy.

Usually when they make choices not to film in an actual town, it has nothing personal to do with the people there. It has to do with cost, accessibility, and support services.

Here’s what the organizers have in mind:

We’d like to humbly ask for your support for an important initiative to Help the City of Volterra host the filming of New Moon and to show you some great material we created.

Summit Entertainment confirmed that part of the movie filming will be done in Italy.
However, the town of Volterra is seriously risking of not being considered as the location for the filming.

This is why we wanted to show you the real Volterra.
We went there. We tracked the “real” steps of Alice, Bella and Edward in Volterra with beautiful photos and videos.

Watch our footage, completely translated in english for your users: you’ll realize why having a fake Volterra in New Moon would mean stripping the film of a part of its magic. You’ll see a little screenshot of some content we created in a picture attached to this email.

And after that, if you’ll still have any doubt about Volterra being up to the expectations for the film, read the official interview we had with the city representatives, coming tonight.

At this link you’ll get a view of the story where it was supposed to unfold.

We beg you, please spread the word to your users. We need to get as many signature as possible to the online petition “I LOVE VOLTERRA”, to ask Summit Entertainment to choose Volterra as the only Italian location for the movie.

Here’s what all the clues from Hot Topic were leading to:

Hey Twilighters,

Did you figure it out? Have an idea? Should we tell you? I think so… but first let’s run through the hints:

“I Heart Bella!”
“Prom”
“I’m Warning You”
“Black”

And the answer is…An autographed poster by your one and only loveable pup – Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black)!  Isn’t that awesome?

Make sure you Pre – order your copy of Twilight from Hot Topic so you can attend one of our DVD release parties one lucky customer from each Hot Topic store that attends the party will get to take home their very own Taylor Lautner autographed poster, but you have to attend the party in order to enter to win!

Don’t forget, to stay tuned for next week’s post because we have some exciting news that we’re sure you will all love!

Hot Topic is also sending us some merchandise (no, we have no clue what it is yet) that we can give out to some random Lexiconers who played along on the 4 weeks of the guessing.

Sorry folks, between a site upgrade and real life (amazingly enough this isn’t our full-time job) news is a little late today. Hang in there. It’s on it’s way.

Twilight Scramble manged to sort out their technical difficulties and has reposted their video game. Best of luck to the Twilight scramble crew as they did this video as part of a class project.

The signing with Catherine Hardwicke on March 17th just got a whole lot more interesting! This just in from Summit:

SPECIAL GUEST AND COSTUME CONTEST ANNOUNCED FOR CATHERINE HARDWICKE MARCH 17th EVENT

We are excited to confirm that actor Edi Gathegi (Laurent) will serve as our special guest Master of Ceremonies at Catherine’s launch event for Twilight: Director’s Notebook.

Want to show off your best Laurent impression?  What about Victoria or James?  We will be holding a special costume contest for the Twilight nomads (Laurent, Victoria and James) at the event – the winners of the contest will get to go up on stage and be directed in a scene by Catherine herself!  Ticketed attendees who wish to participate in the costume contest will need to arrive at Barnum Hall no later than 6pm the day of the event.

Ticketing and additional event details below:

CATHERINE HARDWICKE
With Master of Ceremony Edi Gathegi
and special musical performance by Lal Meri

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Barnum Hall
On the campus of Santa Monica High School
601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT.  Tickets will be available starting Saturday, March 14th at 9:00 a.m. at Barnes and Noble, 3rd Street Promenade, 1201 3rd Street, Santa Monica, CA.  Please note, limit to two tickets per person.  Twilight: Director’s Notebook will be available for sale during the event.  Ticket distribution while supplies last.  For information call 310/260-9110.

Please note, Catherine will only be able to sign one copy of Twilight: Director’s Notebook per person at the event.  No pictures will be allowed during the autographing.

OK time for the 4th clue from Hot Topic. Remember you have to have participated in each of the 4 guessing posts to qualify for a random prize drawing. So…drum roll please…on to this week’s clue:

“Hey Twilighters, have you figured out the hints? Don’t fret; the last hint will put the puzzle together for most of you! Are you ready for it? Here it goes: “Black.” Figured it out now? If you think you got it, make sure and let us know!

Keep an eye out for next week’s post, we have some exciting news to share – so stay tuned!”

To tide you over until Hot Topic gives us the answers to their guessing game (seriously, we have absolutely no idea what the clues lead to), they have given us a sneak peek at the film cel that comes with a Hot Topic DVD purchase.

Let the guessing begin!