The Mitch Hansen Band, who along with the Bella Cullen Project, was one of the first bands to be inspired by Twilight, recently re-recorded their debut album in a real studio with one of David Archuleta’s producers! 

The new album is called Endless Day and it is 9 of the songs from their previous, independent release that have been totally remastered and re-recorded.  Plus one, new song, too.

You can check out the band on their official site, their MySpace, and on Facebook.

 

In fact, they aren’t half bad on YouTube either.

 

No, we don’t mean the weather. Steve (AKA Frosty) from Collider managed to interview Edi Gathegi, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, and Rachelle LeFevere on the red carpet last night at the premiere of Push starring Dakota Fanning. Check out Frosty’s footage!  (We had to taking the video embedding out since it was killing our load time, but you can find the videos at Collider linked above.)

ET was also at the premiere, where they talked to Dakota (it is her night afer all) Ashley and Kellan.

 

Twilighters Anonymous is reporting that the stars will be on NBC this weekend.

 

 

The LA Times has picked up on the fact that Rob Pattison’s Little Ashes and Kristen Stewart’s Adventureland open in wide release on the same day.

 Buddy TV compares the teen careers of Kristen Stewart and Vanessa Hudgens.

 

RopeofSilicon Twilight beaten by G.I. Joe?  Rope of Silicon explains.

"We’ve recently had a bunch of emails from people claiming they saw a news story in various places claiming that Stephenie said she is never finishing Dark High Noon. Highlight to see the explanation of Dark High Noon —–>(Inside joke the Lex refuses to call the novel Midnight Sun. It’s like saying Voldemort in the Harry Potter world. It’s bad luck, if you say the novel title you may never see a completed version.)

From what we understand, the status of Dark High Noon has not changed since August. It’s a slow news week, folks, and we’ve been seeing a lot of rehash on tons of Twilight articles both movie and book related. You can see Stephenie’s statement on her website and a follow-up interview where she directly mentions her plans to EW. Things are no different than what is reflected on those two links!

There are some fabulous new photos of Jackson Rathbone that are on various sites today.

 

To be honest, we’re kind of boggling at the irony of this one. PETA has given the Twilight movie an award as being most friendly to animals. Do the PETA people realize that "vegetarian vampire" isn’t literal and that the Cullens drink animal blood?  In the first forty or so seconds of the movie a deer is clearly killed. Did they watch the same movie we did?

 

 

 E! has some info on the New Moon soundtrack.

 

We’re starting to feel like the battle for your DVD dollars among retailers is going to lead to 20 paces and pistols at dawn. In any case, here is a run down on what is out there as far as we know. Decide for yourself:

Retailers in the US and Canada will have the DVD containing the movie and a second disc of extras that includes the following features available on March 21, 2009

• Audio commentary by Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen  Stewart, and Robert Pattinson  
• Muse music video: "Super Massive Black Hole"   
• Paramore music video: "Decode"   
• Linkin Park music video: "Leave Out All the Rest"   
• Five extended scenes with director introductions   
• Five deleted scenes with director introductions   
• Seven-part documentary: "The Adventure Begins: The  Journey from Page to Screen"  
• Comic-Con "fandom" piece  
• Comic-Con NY sizzle reel  
• Three trailers
• Penelope  trailer

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In addition what standard retailers are offering, Hot Topic’s version of the DVD will feature (according to Hot Topic):

"Hot Topic has an exclusive and amazing gift inside our DVD’s – a real film cell of Edward created directly from the movie!!!

There are 250 unique film cells all featuring Edward in our 2-disc special edition Twilight DVD.  These are a limited edition and numbered series which means when they’re gone, they’re gone!  What are you waiting for?  Pre-order your DVD at Hot Topic now!"

 
Hot Topic also has in store launch parties (according to Hot Topic):

"Okay here is some news that I’m sure you guys will be extremely happy about! The Twilight DVD will be released soon.  We’re all anxiously waiting for it : ) Hot Topic’s In Store Pre-Order date is February 9th…The Twilight DVD will have exclusive, awesome, HT only surprises if you buy the DVD at Hot Topic.
 
We will be having launch parties at our Hot Topic stores!   There will be A LOT of awesome things and surprises happening at the parties…we will be having a cool contest for a pair of Bella and Edward dolls – I know crazy cool huh? : ) We will be giving away a small percentage of the dolls during the launch parties.  After that, if anyone else wants the dolls they can get them from the Tonner Company."

Below is a graphic of the Hot Topic product:

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In addition to what standard retailers are offering, Borders is offering(according to Borders):

Special Bonus Disc, Which Includes The Borders-Exclusive items below:

1. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Robert Pattinson (Edward)
2. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Cam Gigandet (James)
3. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Edi Gathegi (Laurent) and Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria)
4. Exclusive Red-Carpet Interviews from the Twilight Movie Premiere
5. Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Red-Carpet Footage! Includes extra interview footage with Kellan Lutz (Emmett), Ashley Greene (Alice), rock band Paramore, and Nikki Reed (Rosalie)
6. Exclusive Borders Book Club: Stephenie Meyer talks about the Twilight Saga
   

Borders stores will also all be having midnight release parties for the disc with details on events at those parties to be announced. Below is a picture of the Borders’ product:

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Amazon.com announced a special edition Bluray, however the page with the details on that product has now been deleted(we don’t know why). When the page was functioning, it cited a May 5th release date with a $69.00 cost.  Below is a picture of the product that we took last night not realizing the link would be gone today.

According to Paul Grein of Yahoo’s Chart Watch:

 

"Twilight soundtrack, 33,000. The former #1 album inches up from #6 to #5. This is the album’s 12th straight week in the top 10. That’s the longest run in the top 10 for a theatrical movie soundtrack since 8 Mile had 14 weeks in the top 10 in 2002…"

Read the whole story here. TY to Silkoverglass

Looks like Dakota Fanning wasn’t the only person to audition for the part of Jane.

Shock Till You Drop is basically repeating what has been the previously announced call for Native American actors. If you fit the asked for descriptions it’s probably worth your while to go down. if you are not what they are asking for, don’t go down as it only wastes your time and annoys the heck out of the production crew that will only ask you to leave.

 The Mexican distributers of Twilight have signed on to disitribute New moon in Mexico.

 

Kristen Stewart is looking forward to her portrayal of rocker Joan Jett.

 

Just Jared Robert Pattinson is wishing a very special someone in his life a Happy Valentine’s Day.

What’s it like to see Jackson Rathbone’s band, 100 Monkeys, perform live? This fan lets you know.

 

 

 

 

What exactly makes Twilight so popular? Unlike a lot of bigger media outlets, this small town paper has figured it out.

The American Bibliophile is adding The Host to its book discussion list.

 

 

 

 

 

This just in from Twilgiht Indonesia:

 

Immortalizing Breaking Dawn ,
a joint event by Twilight Indonesia, Kinokuniya Indonesia and Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Friday, 30th of January 2009

BREAKING DAWN INDONESIA CAMPAIGN with Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Venue: Bunderan Senayan (in front of Ratu Plaza)
Time: 15.00 – 18.00

Join Gramedia for a campaign to celebrate the release of Breaking Dawn Indonesia. as you and other devoted Twilighters will give out bookmarks and other special Breaking Dawn Indonesia promotional stuff to the people on the street!

OFFICIAL LAUNCHING of “Breaking Dawn – Awal Yang Baru”
Venue: Kinokuniya Jakarta Store (Plaza Senayan)
Time: 19.00 – 19.30

The fourth and final book in the Twilight saga in Indonesian will finally be launched. You can attend the press conference held by Gramedia Pustaka Utama and after that…

TWILIGHTINDONESIA’S 1,000 MEMBERS PARTY
Venue: Kinokuniya Jakarta Store (Plaza Senayan)
Time: 19.30 – 20.00

Join the “Decoding Twilight” crew once more in celebrating the 1,000 memberships of Indonesia’s leading Twilight website. Win prizes by answering quizzes and joining our special challenges.

For more information regarding the event, please click this link http://twilightindo.ning.com/profiles/blogs/breaking-dawn-indonesia-1