If you are looking to get together with other Twilight fans this summer at Twicon, their celebrity list just got bigger. According to their most recent press release:

The nation’s No. 1 motion picture will come to life in Dallas next summer, as five stars of the film "Twilight" have now confirmed their attendance at the US’s largest fan convention dedicated to the Stephenie Meyer’s series of books by the same name. Peter Facinelli – starring as Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the fall blockbuster; and Jackson Rathbone – who portrays Jasper Hale- will join Kellan Lutz (Emmett Cullen), Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen) and Mike Welch (Mike Newton) at TwiCon ’09 — which will be held July 30 – Aug. 2, 2009 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel and Convention Center.

 Now for another project. If you happen to be Stephenie Meyer don’t peak in the scroll box!

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Reelz Channel Interviewed several Twilight fansite operators and ask them their opinion of Chris Weitz. You can see the reaction from around the fandom including ours here.

MTV has confirmed with Summit that there are other actors vying for the role of Jacob Black and pitching their resume to be considered for everyone’s favorite Volturi Aro. There’s also coverage on Rob and Kristen and those oh so romantic scenes. The also have pulled together an article on Chris Weitz here.

Jennie Garth, wife of Peter Facinelli, gave her opinion to Access Hollywood about her husband’s future as Carlisle.

The View Point Inn, the site of the prom in the Twilight movie, was hit by what appears to be an electrical fire.  Prior to the fire, the Inn had been trying to raise funds for various preservation projects.

Variety is confirming that Summit will release New Moon on November 20, 2009.

A little bit of Murphy’s Law, "when things can go wrong, they will go wrong in multiples, and at the worst possible moment."

Anyway, give us a bit and we’ll get the news up.

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One teacher talks about the Twilight Saga and the value of reading.

NOVEL NOVICE Another teacher, Tiffani Truitt of Novel Novice, writes a paper that explores how female fans, particularly female Twilight fans, are misrepresented in various popular culture outlets.
 
This is a result of two main issues: (1), the line between fan and fanatic is often difficult to define, thus large fandoms are often written off as obsessive, dangerous and unable to think for themselves. (2), Female fandoms suffer this cruel and uninformed misrepresentation the most. While society has accepted the buying power of female consumers, it repeatedly tries to write off this power by declaring it a product of superficial desires.

 Here’s where Stephenie’s books are this week.

NY Times

8.  The Host (hardback fiction category)
1.     The Twilight Saga (children’s series category)
1.     The Twilight Illustrated Movie Companion (paperback advice)

USA Today

2.   Twilight
3.   New Moon
4.   Eclipse
5.   Breaking Dawn
18. Twilight:The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
33. The Host

Wall Street Journal

2.  Eclipse
3.  Breaking Dawn
5. New Moon
6. Twilight

Ashley Greene talks to her hometown paper on her fast rise in Hollywood.

Kristen opened up to the Irish Independent about what it’s like growing up in the microscope of the Hollywood lens.

Robert gave his two cents to the UK’s Times on the whirlwind his life has been in the last few years.

Paramore also managed to talk to their hometown paper, The Tennessean, this weekend. Given that Nashville is known for a whole different sound, it’s great that Paramore is taking the town by storm.

New York’s Z100 had it’s Jingle Ball last night. Attendees included Paramore, Peter Facinelli, and Twilight celeb fans like The Veronicas.

Tune into Kaleb Nation’s Blog TV channel tonight!  Watch the video for details.

The Wallstreet Journal’s MarketWatch has more on who’s leading New Moon behind the scenes.

The La Times, which in our opinion is the newspaper who’s Twilight Saga coverage has been second to none, gives their spin here.

MTV points out something that is obviously missing, but does not persay mean anything as Kristen and Rob’s names have frequently been the only two names cited in Summit press releases.

Stephenie Meyer’s official web site has been updated today with the announcement that Chris Weitz has indeed been given the director’s position for New Moon.  The announcement comes with her own feelings about missing Catherine Hardwicke as an authentic voice for the Twilight world and a good friend, as well as her hopes for working with Chris in the future. 

There is a letter from Chris to the fandom because, yes, he is very much aware of how much these books mean to all of us.  He talks about how much he enjoyed Twilight as a film and how devoted he is to bringing a faithful version of New Moon to the big screen. 

Stephenie also updated her movie page with photos from the premiere.

Kallie and Kassie and Twilight Series Theories is back online. They are talking about New Moon possibilities. Check out their podcasts!

The Twilight Guy, Kaleb Nation, is up to the Newborn chapter in Eclipse. Kaleb has his own take on Jasper’s history. Also if you entered Kaleb’s most  recent YouTube Contest, he’ll be announcing the winner shortly. If you didn’t win, no fear, he’s promising another soon.

Speaking of contests, remember that December 19th is the deadline to enter the Muse contest.

Grab the widget here https://www.twilightlexicon.com/index.php/2008/12/11/musea-little-earlier-than-friday/ 

1. Click "get & share" on the bar underneath the widget. Select the place where you want to put it, like Myspace, etc. (If you want to put it on your Facebook, go here:
http://apps.facebook.com/musetwilight)

2. Place the widget on your page and make sure that it plays and works.

3. Take a screenshot of the widget on your page. Don’t know how? Instructions for PC (http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows) and Mac (http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Mac-OS-X)

4. MAKE SURE YOU CORRECTLY DO THE FOUR ENTRY STEPS BY DECEMBER19th!

1. Email your screenshot to [email protected]
2. Your first and last name
3. Mention the Lexicon as the Twilight site you found this contest
4. Your mailing address.

 BOX OFFICE MOJO Here’s the latest on the Twilight Movie from Box Office Mojo.

Interesting Facts

• Twilight is the third most popular women’s focused film this year right behind Momma Mia and Sex in the City. It should easily overtake Momma Mia this weekend, and Sex in the City by next weekend if not sooner.
• Twilight is the 12th highest grossing film this year and climbing. It should easily break the top ten by the end of the weekend. It will probably finish out in the number 7 slot or higher.
• The country outside the USA where Twilight is the biggest success is Italy where Twilight has brought in 12 million followed by Mexico at 6 million and Spain at 5 million
• The movie hasn’t opened yet in the UK, Ireland, Germany, and much of South America, all major Twilight hot spots.
• Twilight is the top grossing vampire movie of all time.