Wednesday News Round Up

New York Post Pop Wrap has an interview with Peter Facinelli about his movie "Can’t Hardly Wait" and the 10 year reunion edition DVD.  Near the end of the article is a new picture of Carlisle, Rosalie, and Edward along with a few questions about Twilight.

  CNN has joined the masses on on-line articles about tourism in Forks being on the rise.

The trailer for the movie Twilight has been released in Spanish.  It is the same trailer that was released a while ago but with Spanish subtitles and the main title in the Spanish logo.  Thanks to Vale for the heads up.

MTV has a new interview with Kristin Stewart, Nikki Reed, and Taylor Lautner about the new scenes shot for the Twilight Movie.

 

 

 Jackson-Rathbone.com has a new interview with Jasper himself posted on their site.  Thanks to Gel and Linds from the site for sending us the link.

 

 

 The Movie-Fanatic has an article about Robert pattinson’s career and the way fans have obsessed over him as Edward.

 

Twilight Tuesday and News from Around the Web

This week’s Twilight Tuesday focuses on none other than Kellan Lutz!  Then head over to the MTV Movies Blog for more on the infamous gift basket delivery.

"I have a note on my door saying, “This is Emmett’s room”! The more free stuff, the merrier. I love Powerades, I love Runts, I love M&M’s, so it’s great.”

It seems our favorite human has created a video for the environment.  Michael made a video for  Kids with a Cause, a group he has worked with since 1999.  Check out the video on his myspace page.


The October issue of CosmoGirl has an interview and some great photos of Rob Pattinson, Kellan Lutz, and Taylor Lautner.  Check it out on news stands everywhere!!  There is no link to this story on line.  We’ve been looking for it.  Should someone find it on line somewhere, let us know and we will link to it.  But for now you have to read it in the magazine.

Thanks to Emmalee for the heads up.

Monday News Round Up

 MNS.com has a story about the rise in tourism around the Forks area thanks to the popularity of the Twilight series.

 Yahoo news also has a Forks tourism story.

Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg will be at the Austin Film Festival held Oct. 16-23.  She will be speaking about adapting the book into a film and will show a new clip of the movie.  Visit the AFF site for details on purchasing admission.

  Kaleb has posted his take on chapter 19 of New Moon.   He also chimes in with some   thoughts on the Midnight Sun leak and Stephenie’s post. 

 

We missed informing you that Interview Magazine posted an interview with Robert Pattinson along with a new picture.  You can read the article at Just Jared.  Interview also has Can Gigandet listed on their "Who’s In " list.  Be warned that Interview is a magazine aimed at adults and not every image at their site is appropriate for minors. 

NY Magazine has an article about Perry Farrel, formerly of Jane’s Addiction, supplying music for the Twilight Movie soundtrack.

Hot Topic has added a new shirt with the Cullen Crest on it.  The shirt is only available in men’s sizes.  Twilighter’s Anonymous has a picture of the shirt as there is no picture currently on the Hot Topic website. 

 

In the News

MTV has an article about the band Paramore and how they will be contributing to the Twilight movie soundtrack.  Check out the MTV blog for more information.  Also, Spin Magazine has an article about the band working on the soundtrack as well.

As a sign of the pop culture influence of the Twilight series, BabyNames.com has added a Twilight names section to their site.

The Reelz Channel has a Twilight quiz for you to test your Twilight knowledge .  The link should be fixed now.

Baseball Giveaway

Twilightthemovie.com is giving away an autographed Baseball.  Check out all the details on the site and enter to win.

Evening News

Media Blvd has a new article from Stephenie and Catherine.

Stephenie, how does your vision of Edward and Bella, and all the other characters, match with the actors who were cast in the movie?

Of course, I have a mental picture and, unfortunately, people can’t climb into my head and pull those out to use them. But, I’m actually amazed, particularly with Rob because Edward was a really hard one to cast.

 

Torrid the sister store of Hot Topic is now carrying Twilight T-shirts.  Torrid offers clothing in sizes 12-26.  You can view the products here. 

Spin magazine has an article about Paramore contributing a song to the Twilight sound track.  Check out all the information here.

Where in the World is Kellan?!

We know where he will be and some lucky fans will have the oppurtunity to see Kellan.  He will be making appearances at a few fan conventions.  And those of you living in New England and England should be very excited!!

 

KELLAN LUTZ, aka EMMETT CULLEN in "TWILIGHT", appearing at the POP CULTURE EXPERIENCE, NOVEMBER 21-23, 2008
 
The New England Fan Experience hosts celebrities in Cambridge, Massachusetts annually.  One of this year’s special guests is Kellan Lutz, who will appear during opening weekend of "Twilight" the motion picture.
 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (September 15, 2008) – – The New England Fan Experience (NEFE) is proud to announce the appearance of Kellan Lutz at this year’s convention at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, near Boston, Massachusetts.  The weekend that the film "Twilight" premieres across the United States, November 21-23, 2008, is the perfect time for the handsome young actor portraying Emmett Cullen to visit with the fans of this exciting book and movie. 
 
The New England Fan Experience has run this a multi-genre fan gathering that hosts celebrities from Pop Culture, Anime Kaiju, Science Fiction, Science and Technology, and Gaming for 18 years.  This year’s Pop Culture Experience will host not only fans of Twilight, but also fans of Back to the Future, as Lea Thompson will be making her first North American convention appearance.  Other celebrities that will take part in NEFE include:  Johnny Yong Bosch (the anime voice actor for Ichigo – Bleach), Don Frye (Captain Gordon – Godzilla: Final Wars, and UFC fight champion), George Takei (Heroes, Star Trek), Story Musgrove (NASA Astronaut and most traveled man outside the Earth) and more.

 

 

 

Kellan is the first guest announced for the Eternal Twilight Convention happening in the UK in Feb 09.  You read about his appearance on the site.

Morning News

An article in the Independent.ie talks about coming movies and the movies and of course Twilight is among them.

But these are just a taste of what is to come. One of the most buzzed-about projects in Hollywood is Twilight, a teen-centric Vampire drama adapted from a mega-selling series by Stephenie Meyer.

 

Stephenie’s site has an update about book releases, Ellen, and a new ALA Twilight poster.

You can check out a preview of the Ellne show here.

 

 

 

 

News

 

 Shock til You Drop has news of a new trailer  due out in mid-October.
 

Media BLVD has a great picture of the cast from the VMAs.  You have to scroll down the the bottom to see it.

 

 

Lake County News– The article talks about how people who have read the books travel to Forks.  The Lake County Library has created a travelling scrap book of Forks.

Frances Clark Sayers, in “Summoned by Books,” commented that “… it takes an extraordinary amount of vitality on the part of the author to set people on literary pilgrimage to haunts that have been described in his books.”

There is a blurb about Michael Welch in Playbill.  It discusses his upcoming play Speech and Debate and has a picture at the bottom.

Twilight Tuesday

MTV has an interview with Kellan Lutz where he disucsses Midnight Sun and Edward.  Be sure to check out the questions of the day.

There is also an interview where Rob and Kellan discuss the flashback scenes shot just a few weeks ago.  It seems the lullaby is no longer Robert’s.  Get all the details here from Rob.

There is also an interview with Melissa Rosenberg discuss the "spider monkey" comment.