You can see that the Vancouver weather is just as bad as Portland’s was.  They will obviously be filming exteriors to some degree here, or they wouldn’t have bothered to paint the barn to look old, or to put up the ramps and moss.

The area is set back from the public road the camera person is standing on by what looks to be at least 30 yards. That type of distance is often doable for crowd observation assuming the crowd is respectful of the filming process (not noisy, not blocking traffic, staying off private property). It remains to be seen if the road is blocked to local traffic only once filming begins. TY to Maria for the heads up.

The new Dazzled by Twilight Store that is, among other things, now running the Twilight themed tours in the Forks area is planning to go all out for the DVD release. They have over 300 people coming to their store to celebrate.

There are people coming from as far away as Florida to celebrate there. Now having been to Forks ourselves, we’re not sure we saw 300 people the entire time we were there. the event has gotten so big that they have had to move it to the Rainforest Arts Center down the street that will be done up to look like the ballet studio.

See the whole story here.

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

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?

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.

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