We have confirmed with Summit that they will have a "major booth" at Comic-Con in this summer.  http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

For those of you not familiar with Comic-Con, it started out almost 40 years ago as a comic book collectors convention. Today comic books is still a major part of the convention with the opportunity to meet industry giants like Eddie Campbell and Al Jaffee. On the other hand, it has branched out over the years to include sci-fi/fantasy writers and movies. People frequently attend in costumes that rival the dedication to characters at other conventions. In short, there may be other imitators, but there is no Comic-Con like THE Comic-Con.  Movies like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and PotC have all given special attention and footage to Comic-Con in the past. 

In any event, it is too soon to confirm who exactly will be appearing at the Twilight Movie Comic-Con booth. As soon as we know, we’ll link. However, keep in mind that Comic-Con Special Guests frequently change due to filming schedule switches, signing tours, unexpected PR junkets and things like that, it’s just the nature of the business.

EDIT: We just reposted this because something strange happened in the coding. Apologies to anyone whose comment was lost.

MTV Canada has some Twilight Movie footage here.

Cam Gigante, James in the twilight movie, is to receive the Rising Male Star of the Year Award.

British fans who buy The Host in a Borders store are getting a very special perk. The are getting Midnight Sun in a booklet format. We are still awaiting confirmation, but we believe this is the portion of Midnight Sun that is available to anyone on Stephenie’s website in PDF format, not the entire story. To the best of our knowledge, Stephenie has not as of yet finished Midnight Sun, and intends to work on it after her upcoming signing tours.

The results from the Time Magazine Poll on the 100 most influential Americans are in. Stephenie finished 48th in a field that included everyone from presidential candidates, to video game designers, to songwriters.  All-in-all not a shabby result for a first timer on the list. Stephenie finished just behind notable women such as Caroline Kennedy and ahead of Tina Fey.  Orson Scott Card does the Stephenie write-up.

Summit Entertainment would like to hear what Movie Merchandise you want!  What do you want to see on the store shelves? Calendars, posters, playing cards as seen in the YouTube videos, chime in with your ideas.  Let them know on this thread.

The Host is getting some major mainstream media coverage, both domestic and international, over a week before it releases. This is bigtime hype (of course we thinks it’s deserved hype) for a YA author crossing over into the adult sci-fi market on her 4th book.

As of now The Host is:

Number 18 on Barnes and Noble’s best seller list

Number 35 on Borders/Amazon best seller list

Number 27 on Chapters/Indigo best seller list

On USA Today’s list all three Twilight novels are in the top twenty and The Host is likely to join that list when it debuts, making Stephenie the only author to have 4…count them…4…novels in the top 20.

There is  also an excellent review by Cosmogirl here.

Of course on the Lexicon we’re betting on it debuting on the NY Times list. If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you can get one here.

Penelope, besides being a great movie with Christina Ricci, Reese Witherspoon, and James McAvoy (and who doesn’t love James McAvoy), will have some Twilight extras on the DVD.

Thanks to Twilight Obsessed for the heads up.

The folks over at bellaandedward.com Have gone through their bandwith. Don’t worry, they are not gone forever.  I just had a couple of emails from people asking about them. I talked to Michelle, one of their site ops, last night.  They are upgrading and will be back shortly.

Pel~

Yes we’ve seen the rumors of a trailer release date. We can’t confirm that with Summit until they open for business Monday morning.

Secondly, apparently someone who self-admittedly works in a movie theater, went through a stack of upcoming trailers she freely admits she had no right to look through. She then wrote up a description on her MySpace(now friends locked because she states she doesn’t want to get fired) of the trailer and posted screen caps. Just in case she didn’t know that any of the above was breaking the trust of her employer and illegal there was this really big clue on the screen caps that said "property of Summit not for distribution".

So, why are we not linking to this? Because we don’t link to stolen merchandise. Because we don’t reward people on this site for illegal activity like breaking into sets, employers offices,  and posting the pictures they take.

The comments are off because there really isn’t anything more to add.

Jackson Rathbone, Jasper in the Twilight movie, granted the Twilight Lexicon an interview. As you’ll be able to see, Jackson shares the same quiet charisma and old soul intellect of his on screen alter ego…in other words, start swooning now 🙂

Some highlights include:

"I walked to and from the audition playing my guitar to calm me, so to achieve a stoic over-one-hundred-years-old demeanor. And maybe a handout or two. Okay, one. One person gave me money. To stop playing… Ha."

"To prepare, I’ve been getting in touch with my anger. I see Jasper fighting with himself a lot to live a life of newfound morality. His love for Alice is all that keeps him from being a vampire like James."

Thank you again to Jackson for taking the time out to grant us this interview, and thank you to Cocoa for acting as our interviewer.

Also, the owners of the Jackson site mentioned in the interview are soliciting fan questions for their upcoming interview with Jackson, so stop by their site and check them out.

Last but not least, is another interview with Jackson here.