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The Euro Twilight Tour continues.
PHOTOCALL Today Kristen, Rob, and Catherine hit Paris.
TV3 And Irish TV station covers Twilight (TY Aisling)
Maggie, who attended the UK premiere for the Lexicon with a little help from the good people down at Nokia, updates her blog. Go give Maggie some feedback! NOW WITH FUNCTIONING LINK! (Sorry Maggie!)
Footage from when Cam and Kristen appeared in Spain about a month ago was just released. TY to Wolfspirt from Twilight Poison for the heads up.
Novel Novice has a series of Twilight holiday downloads from wallpapers to e-cards. Check them out.
Awhile back People ran a poll to decide who would get their next focus page: Rob, Kristen, or Taylor. Well, probably to the surprise of no one, Rob won and now has his own page. On the off chance People is reading this, cool, but we’d kinda like it if Taylor and Kristen had their own pages too. TY to multiple people for emailing in.
By all reports, The Hub Convention went off fabulously. Taylor, Nikki, and Edi were fan favorites at the one day signing/Q &A events that were held in two cities. Here is one fans report.
Mike Welch updated his blog. Also, if you can find it, Mike will be in the December issue of Stargate SG-1 magazine.
Variety posts a bit of a follow up to yesterday’s news from Summit that Catherine is no longer attached to New Moon, mostly everyone else is just rehashing the same press release that we had. As far as the Lexicon goes, we’re adopting a wait and see attitude. As many people in our comments have pointed out most series do change up directors and this could be a good or bad thing depending on a number of things. So, we aren’t resorting to panic, we’re going for taking a deep breath, and waiting to see where this is going.
Twilight Fun Last, but not least, Kudos to Jamielee for giving us the best laugh of the morning. I’m now wiping the coffee off my monitor.
The Normal Mormon Husbands are back. This time they have their own ideas on New Moon casting, or should we say recasting. They also have a quiz where you can voice your opinion on their recasting choices.
examiner.com The Examiner has a 4-part series/debate featuring book fans who did and didn’t like the Twilight movie.
Newsweek analyzes the latest trend in vampires.
MovieWeb has a post Twilight release interview with Peter Facinelli.
Box Office Prophets just doesn’t know what to make out of the Twilight selling pattern, because frankly it’s not following any pattern they are used to.
BOX OFFICE MOJO Now if you want the really interesting stats, you go to Box Office Mojo where you soon find out that:
| Domestic: | $138,552,000 |
| + Foreign: | $21,325,749 |
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| = Worldwide: | $159,877,749 |
You definitely had to pay attention to the movie and the Rotten Tomatoes site to get all of these right.
Sorry it took awhile to do this, but this is what happens when you hold an event the weekend before Thanksgiving and then the entire admin team comes down with the flu!
Anyway, we both want to say again how completely fabulous it was to see the Twilight Movie in a movie theater filled with Lexiconers! People traveled from Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah to come and see the movie with us.
We have two videos for you. The first one shows you what went into the goodie bags that we gave out, and the second features the winners of the raffled prizes. Given that the cost of the event was $10.00 a person, all-in-all we’d say that people definitely got their money’s worth!
Don’t worry our creative juices are already flowing for what we will do for the New Moon movie. We can guarantee to you that it will be bigger and better than the Nashville event, and frankly…even if we do say so ourselves…we think we did pretty good this last time.
Alphie & Pel
The pre-event bag stuffing and the real story behind the Jacob was here stickers:
The give aways:
Entertainment Weekly has their annual best and worst poll up. Twilight is in three categories:
Under the Movie Category
Favorite movie of the year (competition includes Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Sex in the City, and Ironman)
Favorite cameo for Stephenie Meyer (competition includes Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Long/Brandon Routh, and Neil Patrick Harris)
Under the Books Category
Breaking Dawn vs. Beadle and the Bard
Under the Music Category
Most listened to soundtrack (competition includes Mama Mia and High School Musical 3)
Also, speaking of voting for things, we finally got around to putting the topsites button back . So help us bring our rank back up (it works on averages over a period of time) by clicking on it once a day.
Taylor Lautner talked to the press while in Australia for The Hub convention. Iin his interview he talks about managing school and stardom.
THEage.comThe Age talks about how in books like Twilight "purity is back".
Speaking of The Hub convention, this is what the line looked like to get in! This con was a one day event that featured a signing and Q & A with Taylor, Edi, and Nikki. Remember The Hub is sold out, however they have another event available in in April that looks to have Kellan and Ashley, and is on a prom theme.
The Guardian talks about how over the year the trend has been for vampires to be more approachable the repulsive.
This in from the staff at the Bonnie Hunt show:
"Talk show host Bonnie Hunt announced today on her talk show the start of her website auction, “Bonnie’s Basement,” which allows her viewers to bid on one-of-a-kind celebrity items on bonniehunt.com. The profits from the auction will benefit the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago where Bonnie used to work as an oncology nurse.
After raising over $100,000 for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month, Bonnie continues the fundraising efforts by holding an auction of celebrity items on her talk show’s website, bonniehunt.com. Throughout the month of November and December, Bonnie asked her celebrity guests to bring a meaningful item for the auction.
Some of the items available for bidding include:
Ring that Peter Facinelli’s character, Dr. Carlisle Cullen, wore during the filming of the blockbuster, “Twilight,” as well as a box set of the books signed by members of the cast.
The auction concludes on Sunday, December 14th.
Here’s an on site report from Lexiconer Saskia
It was amazing! Such a cool experience. But first things first.
At about 5am I drove to Munich with a friend. It’s about 2 hours from my hometown, so not far away. The streets were icy and I had to drive very slowly. So we arrived at the cinema, where the event should take place, a little bit later than we planned. When we came in there we were like … WHAT? So many people? We didn’t expect so many people since Twilight isn’t that big in Germany… unfortunately.
Anyways, we stood and waited till they would let us in, so that we could run to the red carpet and find a good place to wait till the cast came. We couldn’t really find one and we started to talk with two other girls who were standing in the front row and we asked them if we could come to the front row when the cast (and of course Catherine) arrived. The one girls answered, that we could have her space since she wasn’t a Twilight fan and only here because of her cousin. So my friend and I were standing in FRONT ROW!!!
While waiting two hours that the cast would arrive the people from the cinema gave some tickets away for a screening of some scenes of the movie. My friend and I were soooooo lucky to get two tickets! Now we stood in the front row AND we were able to see the scenes! (I have already seen the movie, but there were some rumors that the cast would say something about the movie etc. in the cinema so we were really happy to have 2 tickets.)
Then the waiting continued. The press was there took tons of pictures of the waiting fans while we were freezing and hoping that Rob, Kristen and Catherine would come soon. Some girls at the entrance started screaming every time a car would pass by and the press would always run to the entrance. It was quite funny.
Then FINALLY the moment arrived and the cast appeared. The screaming was unbelievably loud. They took the time to give autographs (I’ve got one from all of them!!) and they were so nice. I talked to Catherine or a short moment. About the movie, and that I liked it. She was so nice and told me that she was happy I liked it. And I told her that she did an amazing job. She was so cool. And she looked beautiful! Her dress amazing! Then Kristen came and I got her autograph. When I thanked her she said that it was no problem, and that there was no reason to thank me. She was nice, although I think, that all these events are a little bit too much for her. After all she is only 18. So my age… and I think something like that would also be too much for me. Of course Rob came too and the screaming next to me got louder. He came and I told him that he was an amazing actor and that he did a great job. He smiled and laughed and said: "Thank you so much. It’s always nice to hear that." Then he smiled again and continued giving autographs. He is really handsome! He looks better then on all the pictures on the internet. At least that’s what I think 😉
After that everyone with a ticket to the cinema got into the cinema to see the screening. After everyone was sitting the cast appeared again! They were asked some questions (by a man who could barely speak English… so embarrassing!) and got some gifts. Rob was funny as always. When he was asked a question and everyone started screaming again he said: "Don’t mind… I was not going to say something important" and laughed again.
Then we some the scene were Edward introduces Bella to his family. The long trailer in German (which sucked :D), the ballet scene and some behind the scene stuff which I hadn’t seen yet.
I can say that I had an amazing day! Rob, Kristen and Catherine were as nice as I thought they would be. It was a great experience and I am now owner of a copy of Twilight with the autographs of the three of them. I am so happy =)
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