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Eclipse Is the Second Most Profitable Movie of 2010

January 15, 2011

There are other movies who brought in big box office dollars, but because they cost so much more to make. In other words they flopped or barely broke even. A lot of small budget movies raked in megaprofit when they landed in the top 100 films of the year. Two examples were from Summit Entertainment: Letters to Juliet and Remember Me

What’s interesting is to look at the box office totals for the above movies. Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3 are the only two that came in ahead of Eclipse. Harry Potter’s box office run has not yet closed out; however given it’s rate of intake it’s not likely to overtake Eclipse.

Check out more data on The Numbers
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USA Today: Twilight Saga Sales Still High All Novels in the Top 100

January 14, 2011

Sales totals for the Twilight Saga have dropped off, as you would expect for any series whose last book was published over two years ago. However, the books are still incredibly strong sellers.

“Call it escapism or merely a fondness for good stories, but in the midst of a recession at home and wars abroad, fiction seized a record-high share of the best sellers of 2010.

The year’s most popular author: Stieg Larsson, the late Swedish novelist, whose Millennium trilogy of crime thrillers captured the top three spots on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list for 2010, based on data collected all year.

Overall, novelists — from Jonathan Frazen to Nicholas Sparks— accounted for 77% of the weekly best sellers, up from 76% in 2009 and the highest percentage since the list began in 1993.

Data collected for the list — which includes e-book sales — also show:

• Romance, which tends to sell best in hard times, accounted for 12% of best sellers, up from 10% in 2009. One factor: Readers who wouldn’t be caught dead with risqué covers in public enjoyed the privacy of reading romantic e-books.

• After a remarkable two-year run at the top of the annual list, Stephenie Meyer‘s popularity began to cool off. She accounted for 4% of best sellers the list tracked, down from 11% in 2009. The vampire and paranormal craze among readers isn’t dead, but it’s fading, accounting for just 9% of best sellers, down from 17% in 2009.”

See the whole story on USA Today.

USA Today also has the top selling 100 books of the year listed. Unlike other lists (NY Times, Publishers Weekly, etc) they don’t do sub-categories or eliminate categories all together. So, you get a really clear picture as to exactly what America is reading! Here’s where the Stephenie Meyer novels/novellas ranked in the top 100 books sold in 2010:

10 Breaking Dawn
11 Bree Tanner
13 Eclipse
24 Twilight
27 New Moon
81 The Host

Other notable YA/children’s novels making a strong presence on the list were all three books in the Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins, the Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan, and the Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney.

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Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Dakota Fanning On Elle’s Most Wanted List

January 14, 2011

Elle has a feature of pop art by Richard Phillips. He covers what he defines as the Most Wanted celebrities.

“Now he’s [Richard Phillips] upping the ante with Most Wanted, a series of 10 portraits of the hottest young celebrities—from Leo DiCaprio and Robert Pattinson to the Taylors (Swift and Momsen), all rendered from those aforementioned red carpet images—opening at White Cube on January 28. The series began as an assignment for pastels of five leading men for V Man in the summer of 2009. “It’s hard to imagine a pastel having any consequence into today’s age, but when my pastel of Robert Pattinson went out into the media during Miami Art Basel, it was at the same time of the New Moon premiere and it went out onto the Internet like crazy. All the New Moon websites and blogs were going nuts; a drawing, an artwork of their star was an amazing thing. It gave me a sense that there was a real desire to see this work,” Phillips said during a recent studio visit, comparing the settings behind these “completely and deliberately synthesized experiences” to “the grain alcohol of media—you take all these rotten potatoes and put it through copper tubing and it’s going to come out a clear liquid.”

In speaking about Kristen Stewart and his inspiration, Phillips said,“I think the easiest one right off the bat was Kristen because of her relationship with Pattinson; plus, New Moon and Twilight were such a success. And just at that time she was hitting it big with The Runaways with Dakota Fanning. The Runaways was kind of a great but wasted opportunity, because the film was horribly directed and terribly shot, but their performances isolated from that were great.”

See the entire gallery here including Robert Pattinson and Dakota Fanning.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Dakota Fanning, Elle, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson

Jodelle Ferland in “Oh My, What A Fine Day” Music Video

January 14, 2011

Check out the band’s site here
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W Magazine Features Dakota Fanning On Best Performances List

January 14, 2011

W Magazine in an intro to their best performances article states, “The most remarkable moments in film this past year weren’t 3-D action sequences but characters so real they hurt…In the end, the largest measure of these performances is not their adherence to fact but the vivacity and depth of the characterizations. This portfolio is a salute to their greatness. In choosing these actors, we were not trying to guess at nominations or awards. Rather, we were trying to acknowledge and salute the work, to acknowledge and thank the actors for telling the truth—even when the truth was fiction.”

They then single out 20 of the top character portrayals of the year.

Here’s what Dakota had to say about real life and screen life.

“It was important for me to go to a normal high school. I have a locker, which was a big deal. My mom had to buy me a lock and teach me how to use it. It’s the little things: Where do you go at lunch? How do you open the locker? I wanted a yearbook! Now I have a lot of signatures in my yearbook—‘Have a good summer’ and all that.”

See the entire list on W!

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Happy Birthday Jen (Be My Escape)!

January 14, 2011

Some folks who help us out here at the Lexicon are new comers, and some like Jen have been here since we practically started back in 2006. Over the years Jen has helped us with everything from being our crack music reporter, to bringing coverage from live events, to frankly just a lot of really unglamorous admin duties.

Jen doesn’t really like being in front of cameras, or making public presentations. The first time she spoke at a convention we hid the program from her and didn’t tell her she was a speaker until about 2 minutes before she went one…she survived. Jen is the one running around behind the scenes like a crazy person to make sure that everything on camera or on stage goes well. Her behind the scenes efficiency has earned her a nickname that Bronson Pelletier came up with, “The Ninja”

We absolutely couldn’t do what we do without her. Please chime in and wish Jen a happy birthday!

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100 Monkey’s Autographed CD Giveaway

January 13, 2011

We had some 100 Monkeys news today and in going through my stash of stuff I found an autographed copy of Creative Control that I had the members of the band sign when they were in Nashville for NewCon two years ago. If you’d like to take this CD off of my hands, post a comment below saying “PICK ME!” We will chose one winner at random at 7:oo pm on Jan. 14. Anyone is welcome to participate from any where in the world. If Fed Ex can reach you, then we are happy to give you a prize!

For a look at what songs are included on this album, visit the 100 Monkeys official site.

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Parks and Recreation To Do Twilight Themed Episode

January 13, 2011

Buzz Sugar talked with Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari about an upcoming Twilight episode when the show returns from hiatus.

“BuzzSugar: The third episode of the season revolves around the Twilight books, and a few months ago, you live-tweeted the Twilight movies rather passionately. Did you have anything to do with making the storyline happen on the show?
Aziz Ansari: No, but it did help that it was still pretty fresh in my mind, that I knew the movies, I knew all these details. I haven’t seen [the episode] yet so I don’t know what made it in, but there’s a lot of scenes where we improvise stuff, and I remembered real things from Twilight, and I had real questions. That was the funny thing, because Donna is in the Twilight group and she’s read all the books and knows everything, and I’d read a little bit and had a discussion with her for real, so it actually worked out really well for the arc of the story.

Buzz: Have you actually read any of the books?
AA: I haven’t read any of them, I just saw the first two movies. When I did the [MTV] Movie Awards, those were obviously the big movies, so I watched those two movies for research for that, so I knew a little bit about the Twilight world.”

See more on BuzzSugar

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Twilight Saga Actors, Directors, Bands List January 2011

January 13, 2011

There have been some recent changes, so it’s time to update! We also put in official websites of the actors that either they or their management teams run. If they have any other type of social media, you can get it from their websites.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Stephenie Meyer DO NOT HAVE TWITTERS, FACEBOOKS, or any other type of social media!

Here are a listing of the real Twitters
relating to the Twilight Saga

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Where Can You See The Twilight Stars in 2011

January 13, 2011

We have been getting a ton of questions from people asking where they can see the stars from Twilight. A sure fire bet in the USA is the Creation Entertainment Official Twilight Tour. They just updated their 2011 schedule, so check it out and see if it arrives at a city near you!

If we had to bet money, we’d guess that there will be some Breaking Dawn actor presence at Comic Con, but that is not official yet. It’s just a guess based on past experience.

If you are from outside the USA check out the following events:

We’ve published this before (last time about a year ago) It gives you advice on the whole convention scene: what to look for, what your expectations should be, etc. [Read more…]

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