The Twilight Saga and The Host lauched Stephenie onto a Sci-Fi movers and shakers list.

The UK’s Daily Mail talks about why Twilight is love at first bite for teens and their parents.

The LA Times has an insightful piece on why Twilight isn’t for everybody (meaning age appropriate). One of the best parts is the comments from the kids, proving once again that kids are a lot smarter than anyone usually gives them credit for being.

Someone with Forks roots at the Seattle Times looks back in retrospect at the town. Hell’s Angels once visited Forks, who knew?

Rolling Stone has selected their Rob vs. Jonas Brothers feature for the comment of the week.

The folks over at 4tnz had their own brand of fun based on the Rob vs. Jonas Brothers Rolling Stone feature. We give you, If Joe starred in Twilight. (Put down all liquids, you don’t want Diet Coke all over your monitor, you have been warned.)

According to MTV Twilight is killing off the competition, or at the very least is providing a handy excuse for producer Brad Fuller.

We’ve about lost count of the number of people who have asked us lately, "What do your blog readers think?" So, time to sound off.

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No matter where you stand on who you think should or shouldn’t be attached to the New Moon movie, there is one thing that could cause a MAJOR problem. The Twilight movie dodged a bullet last year when the script was basically done prior to the strike, and filming started right after the strike was settled. A SAG strike could cause real probelms.

Twilight is picking up steam in Tawain.

IT  The Irish Times interviews Rob about his roller-coaster ride in the entertainment industry.

According to MTV, Perry Farrell is dying to get on the New Moon soundtrack. 

MTV also mentions that Summit has not confirmed the story run by EW that Chris Weitz is signed on as the director of New Moon. Despite, the no official commentary from Summit, we’ve quoted EW ( rather than other sources who have been hinting at this) because EW doesn’t stick their neck out unless they have something.

Steve, AKA "Frosty" over at Collider has the scoop on Cam’s latest movie, The Unborn.

Twilight hits home! Sorry I couldn’t help myself. According to Lexiconer, Jen Twilight is all over the virtual world.

 

This just in from Entertainment Weekly, although we have no official confirmation from Summit, EW doesn’t stick their necks out like this unless they have something truly viable.

Sources tell Entertainment Weekly that Summit Entertainment is about to hire Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) as the shepherd for New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight series.  http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/12/its-official-ch.html

Weitz is best-known for his work with his brother Paul. The two directed and produced American Pie and then were nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay for About a Boy, which they also co-directed. Chris’ first solo directing gig, The Golden Compass, didn’t do well stateside but was a hit internationally.

Twilight, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, has grossed more than $141 million so far, but Hardwicke had clashed with the studio during production. It was announced early this week that she would not be making New Moon. Weitz has a solid relationship with Summit’s top brass; he’s considered easy to work with and has experience with special effects. "He’s the quality-of-life-choice," says one source. While Summit insists "we have not yet signed Chris Weitz to do New Moon," and Weitz’s agency says no deal has been signed, other sources say the deal is imminent, and that Summit has stopped negotiations with other potential Moon directors. Summit had planned to announce this hiring decision on Sunday, Dec. 14, and could have Weitz in Vancouver, B.C. as early as Monday to start pre-production on the film

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MTV talks about Rob’s next big thing which is a hook up with Rosario Dawson in Parts Per Billion. Catherine Hardwicke also talked DVD extras with MTV, so you can get an idea of what to look forward to that landed on the cutting room floor.

Reelz Channel adds their two cents in on who would make a good New Moon director.

Make-up artist, Jeanne Van Phue,  talks about her Twilight make up techniques here. and here. TY to Kaila

FANDOM FLASHBACK:  What were we thinking about a year ago today?  Check out this entry and have a good laugh!

Now here’s something a bunch of the major Twilight sites are jumping on. It started on Twilight Moms and now, well everyone is jumping onboard.

"We decided to send a thank you to Summit, the cast and crew of Twilight and to Stephenie Meyer by having The goal is to get all the fans out to see Twilight again on the same day and give the movie a bit of a bump. Let’s make sure that they get the message loud and clear! That we are a powerful box office force. Pass the word on to anyone and everyone!!! Let’s rock the Twilight box office… again!"

For those of you who figured out our cryptic message from earlier today, we are actually able to announce what’s happening today instead of Friday! 🙂

MUSE, the musical artist that we all know and love from what may be the best baseball scene ever is putting on a contest! They’ve built a widget and they want you to put it on your webpage, myspace profile, blog or facebook page so that you can share MUSE and Twilight with the world! The winner will get a MUSE prize pack that includes a rare sticker sheet, a bunch of posters including an exclusive Twilight poster, a copy of their latest CD – Black Holes and Revelations, and a Twilight poster! It’s easy to participate and easier to win. Here’s how:

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. Email your screenshot to [email protected] along with:
     ♦your first and last name, 
     ♦listing the Twilight Lexicon as the Twilight site you found this contest on
     ♦your mailing address.

It’s that easy! Then you’re in the running for a MUSE Twilight prize pack just in time for the Holidays.

TIP: For some reason the Widget is only loading half of the time in Explorer. It’s loading every time in Firefox and Chrone.

A couple of Twilight Fans have started a new project. Imagine what Twilight would be like if it was told via Facebook.

Lexiconer Julia needs your help with a project for her university. The Best part is we get to play the game when it’s all done.

My Twilight saga riddle project will basically function like the weffriddles (www.weffriddles.com) by Weff Jebster and any of the like. Some of them are quite easy and others take several mental breakdowns although the answer always seems quite obvious after solving. I need as many questions for my project as possible. They can be easy as "Which class do Bella and Edward share?" or as difficult as you like. The only conditions are that everyone would be able to find the information somehow and that the answer is not longer than a few words. So think of a question (or as many as you can come up with), provide the answer and where to find it (can either be a website, a chapter in the books or anything publicly accessible), an indication about the degree of difficulty, and send those to me at [email protected] with the subject being "Twilight riddle".