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EXTRA: Kristen Stewart, Crazy Cat Lady?

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The Tonight Show: Jay Leno Interviews Robert Pattinson About Eclipse

Now for those of you who remember Twilight history, you might recall that Emma Roberts (who was also on Leno last night) was once suggested by Stephenie Meyer as a possible Bella back in the days before there was a movie. The fan reaction was visceral to say the least prompting Stephenie to write on her then active MySpace; “I didn’t realize that Emma Roberts had personally run over so many people’s dogs.” Now for those of you who are really good at trivia, do you remember what movie Stephenie had just seen Emma in that sparked the fan outcry?

Also, Emma is a huge Twilight fan. She obsessively went through all the books while taping the movie Valentines Day. There are multiple pictures of her devouring the books on her filming breaks. It was even mentioned on the George Lopez show a few months back, but sadly no one recorded the footage.

Hit Fix: The Cullen Circus?

Peter Facinelli, Liz Reaser, and Nikki reed explain it all.

On The Red Carpet: Press Day Interviews The Eclipse Cast

On The Red Carpet has interviews with various members of the cast of Eclipse. We have the first three with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner visible. The rest with Peter Facinelli, and Bryce Dallas Howard are below the cut.

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MTV: Robert Pattinson Talks Tent Scene Reshoots

Robert talks about the tent scene reshoot. At the time various gossip sites tried to insinuate that the film was in massive trouble due to these reshoots. One went so far as to state that David Slade was being replaced, and Summit was in negotiations with Catherine Hardwicke and Chris Weitz to rescue the film. Obviously, this later proved to be complete fabrication. Ironically enough Rob saw the rough cut of the film the day after his scene was reshot (probably why he remembers it so clearly as you will see in the video) it was also the same version shown to the Oprah audience roughly 5 days later. So the film was essentially done at the time of the reshoots minus minor tweaking. Once the film opens in wide release, Alphie will give her thoughts on what the differences between the two versions were and which she liked better and why.

The LA Twilight Convention Photo Tour

Kaleb Nation, the Twilight Guy, has put together a photo montage of the Eclipse cast as seen at the Official Twilight Convention in Los Angeles. There are fantastic shots of Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson…everyone.

Jen and Laura (Be My Escape and Pel) will be at the Official Twilight Convention this weekend in Phoenix.

FearNet: Exclusive: Melissa Rosenberg on ‘Eclipse,’ ‘Breaking Dawn,’ and Feathers

melissa-rosenbergheadshotFearNet and Jen Yamato are back with another great Q & A, this time with Melissa Rosenberg.

You’ve now written three full films in the franchise; how much has each script responded to critiques, from fans and/or critics, of the previous films?

I’m not sure; everybody who’s involved in them, we really try to do our best to stay true to the book. There are going to be some people who don’t like that and some people who do, and if you start responding to the people who don’t like it you start pissing off the people who did. So you have to be true to your own creative instincts for what works and what doesn’t. If people ignored the movie and boycotted it coming in and it didn’t do well, then I think we would be listening. But the movies have done tremendously, so obviously somebody likes them! So we keep going with our gut.

How early on did Stephenie share with you the events and character details that made it into her new Twilight novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner?

It would have been in the outline stage. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to introduce Riley; that was one of my first ideas: let’s open on Riley and how he was created. Coming up with a back story for him and all of that. I think I had probably finished a draft of the outline, it was somewhere around then, and I was asking [Stephenie] about what the newborns were up to — what was going on for them while Bella’s living her life, because they’re living it simultaneously? And that’s when she shared it with me and I was really able to fill out some of their activities and how Riley was directing them. So it was right there in the beginning.”

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Happy Birthday Liz Reaser!

A very happy birthday to Liz Reaser!

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Thirty-five never looked so good!
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MTV: Peter Facinelli, Liz Reaser, Nikki Reed on Action Movies

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IESB: The Bad Vampire’s Interview, Eclipse Press Conference

BryceeclipseXavier Samuel, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Dakota Fanning participated in the press roundtable.

Q: Dakota, you are so very evil in this. What was that like?

Dakota: This is the first time I’ve gotten to play the same character in a different film. It was really great.  I love playing this character. It’s a fun character to get to play. And, being a part of all that is Twilight is such an honor and still kind of surreal for me. I feel so lucky to be a part of it.

Q: What do you like about this character?

Dakota: She’s obviously not the nicest person, but it’s kind of fascinating to be able to play someone that takes pleasure in hurting people. That’s a weird thing to get to do and, obviously, something I’ve never done before.

Q: Bryce, how is it coming into this world for the first time?

Bryce: I had not only read the books, but one of my friends actually made this little pack of Post-It notes for me with Rob’s face, that said, “Live dangerously.” All of my friends were like, “Why are you so  obsessed?” I was just like, “It’s so dangerous. Their love is so dangerous.” It was very fast and it was very sudden. To be honest, I was intimidated going into it, for a variety of reasons, but I felt so lucky to get to meet this group of people. It’s a group of people that have genuine friendships and are so deeply committed to doing justice to these stories, and who always put the character and the story first. Obviously, that’s translated, and I think that’s why the movies are as beloved as they are.”

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