Popstar is holding a contest for opening night tickets to the Twilight film, all four Twilight books, as well as t-shirts from TwilightTeez and other great prizes.

About.com has a brief interview with Rob Pattinson where he talks a little bit about how they made him glitter in the sunlight.

MTV has information about Rob Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, and Taylor Lauter being presenters at the VMA on Sept.7.  They also speculate about the possibility for a sequel over on the MTV movies blog.   As a reminder, as of this time we have no confirmation that there will be a sequel.  We will certainly let everyone know when or if that news breaks.

Reelz Channel has a brand new video featuring Catherine Hardwicke.  Some of the footage is from that infamous rough weather day that Catherine cited as being the worst weather filming conditions of her career.

The Salt Lake Tribune has an article examining how Breaking Dawn has critics who at the same time call the book too racy and too tame, pushing a LDS agenda and setting a poor LDS example,and other contradictions.

You’ve heard of football widows? Well a bunch of husbands, who formed an Vampire Support group because their wives were obsessed with the Twilight Saga, have taken things a step further. They have now started a new blog to support Stephenie and the Twilight series.

Twilight Coven Philippines is reporting that they will also get the Twilight movie on November 20th. Which we think (international fans correct us if we are wrong) would put the release roughly equal with the USA/Canada release once you take the international dateline into account.

To give an overview of release dates, that would now mean:

November 20    Philippines
November 21    USA, Canada,

December 12   South Korea, Australia
December 19   Italy
December 25   Argentina

January 1  Portugal
January 2     Sweden
January 8   Netherlands, New Zealand
January 9   United Kingdom
January 22 Germany, Switzerland (German speaking)

February 13   Finland, Norway

March 20   Venezuela

Keeping with our international theme, Peter Facinelli, Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight movie, just gave an interview to the Spanish site Crepusculo. Fortunately it’s posted in English, so you don;t have to dust off your Spanish skills to read it.

 The Movie Fanatic talks about Robert Pattinson’s new film, Little Ashes. They also mention some recent economic woes.

I thought of summarizing this, but in the end, I think this fan’s word’s speak for themselves.

We arrived at Benaroya Hall at about 6:30 -the event started at 7:00-. This is of course after I spent the last hour changing into my costume and putting on make up in the parking garage across the street. But you don`t want to hear about that. Walking across the street to get to the hall is 5 minutes of my life I will NEVER forget. It is burned into my mind forever. Just imagine you are a typical everyday Seattle pedestrian. Minding your own business, waiting to cross a crosswalk. Then suddenly you look to your left side. Low and behold, a 6ft tall teenage girl is dressed up in a huge fuzzy lamb costume, ears and all. You would stare, right? Well, I`m surprised I didn`t cause any traffic accidents, judging by how many drivers were gawking out their windows.

Eventually we walked into the hall`s lobby. Excited and flushed, I raced to the back of the line -this was preassigned seating, so the line was just to walk into the main hall-. Then I looked around. Approximately 2,500 people were in that line. 2,500 people, and from what I could see, I was the ONLY person in costume. This had no effect on me. I was not bothered or embarrassed. More "Whatever!" about the whole situation.

Well people took to the costume really, really well. Lots asked for photos. Comments were made about how well done and cleaver it was. It turned lots of heads and got groups of people laughing. I felt like a Disney Princess.

By the time it was almost my turn to get my book signed, I was more nervous then a tourist walking into the Volturi tower. What is she thinks it`s really weird? Stupid? Doesn’t notice it AT ALL?. I took a coupe deep breaths, made sure my ears were straight, and walked up to the table where Stephenie was signing. She had her eyes down on a book, finishing it up for the person in front of me. Her assistant was the first to look up. She started laughing hysterically.  My mind was racing. Be cool, act normal, friendly is key. Stephenie peeked up to her assistant wondering what had happened to her. Then her head turned to me. She let a huge "Oh my GOD!", covered her mouth, and grinned. "You`re the first lion-lamb costume I have ever seen!". "I wish I had a camera" the assistant mumbled. I was so overwhelmed. She likes it! She likes it! I got SM to say "Oh m god!". My semi-eloquent vocabulary left me stranded, as I stuttered the words "Thanks, you`re awesome!"……seriously?…..Thanks you`re awesome? My mind balks at the fact that I had more then an hour in line, time to think and to plan what glorious insightful words I would say to this woman. And I come up with "Thanks, you`re awesome!"?……*bangs head against wall*

But overall it was amazing.
Justin played beautifully. I cried, I am such a sap.
Stephenie was as sweet as ever. Giving insightful, interesting answers to the many questions that were asked.
Getting my book signed and meeting Stephenie was priceless. I will remember that even better then I remember walking across the street, into Benaroya Hall.

Hot topic has added a Team Edward and Team Jacob line to their already popular movie based shirts. The have also incorporated a quote shirt. See the entire line here.

The Team Edward shirt features a quote on the back that says, "What if I’m not the hero? What if I’m the bad guy?" Then underneath is the familiar Twilight movie title graphic.

The back of the Team Jacob shirt features a twilight graphic with what looks like a claw mark going through it.

Blogger Lauren has written an essay in defense of Edward Cullen. She welcomes commentary.

Twilighters Anonymous has a video contest going. Check them out. Prizes include Breaking Dawn themed bookmarks and the book itself.

According to Lexiconer Rachel, Zune (Microsoft’s version of Ipod) has free video clips to download from comic-con. These include clips titled "meet the "twilight" actors," and "Hear from "Twilight" author, novelist, star."  You need to download the Zune software to get the clips.

The Movie Fanatic has a feature on Rob Pattinson.

Fanpop has caught Twilight Saga fever. Some of their info is movie based, but there is even more with with a place for book based obsession including my new personal favorite, Kate and Garrett.