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Billy Burke, Bronson Pelletier, and Booboo Stewart Supporting Food Drive

November 9, 2010

Saturday Night Foodies, a popular food and restaurant review blog, in conjunction with 19 gourmet food trucks and other leading food bloggers, will host a special food truck event Wednesday, Nov. 17, from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m., in the
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater parking lot (8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA). The tailgating-type event is designed to add momentum to the ongoing two week mobile food drive taking place through Nov. 20, for Drive Out Hunger, the county’s first mobile food drive, benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank. The special Drive Out Hunger event will leverage OC DinDin-A-GoGo, a weekly gourmet food truck event managed by the Tropical Shave Ice Truck, that usually rotates eight different gourmet food trucks each week, but this time will have 19 trucks in its lineup. Attendees are encouraged to bring folding tables, chairs and blankets.

Celebrities helping to bring awareness to the hunger crisis in Orange County will be on hand to take pictures and sign autographs for a donation of 10 non-perishable canned or dry good items, per person. There will also be a silent auction, and participants will have the opportunity to bid on Lakers and Lady Gaga tickets, vacations, and autographed art, to name just a few. Event admission and parking are free.
Celebrities* participating in the special Drive Out Hunger OC DinDin-A-GoGo event at press time are:
Ashley Argota (Nickelodeon’s True Jackson VP)
Rachael Bell (Disney’s Suite Life on Deck)
Doug Brochu (Sonny with a Chance)
Taylor Dayne (Singer)
John and Steven French (Disney’s Suite Life: 2 for the Road)
Shar Jackson (Moesha, Celebrity Fit Club)
Savannah Jayde (Big Time Rush)
Ashley Jones (True Blood, Bold and Beautiful)
James Kyson Lee (Heroes)
Corey Miller (LA Ink)
Bronson Pelletier (Twilight Saga)
Raini Rodriguez (Paul Blart Mall Cop, Disney’s Prom)
Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family)
Gretchen Christine Rossi (Real Housewives of Orange County)
BooBoo Stewart (Twilight Saga)
Fivel Stewart (Guardians of Luna)
Kaycee Stroh (High School Musical 1, 2 & 3)
Jessica Sutta (Pussycat Dolls)

Billy Burke is donating a silent auction item.
*Celebrities subject to change without notice.

Visit www.saturdaynightfoodies.com for latest lineup and more details about the events.

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Lots of Twilight Shout Outs

November 8, 2010

New Moon was featured on the most recent episode of The Big Bang Theory.(TY to Stephanie)

Jack Black mentions Stephenie in Gulliver’s Travels (TY to James)

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What’s In a Name? A Lot If Your Name Is Stephanie Meyers!

November 8, 2010

This story reminded me of this perfectly happy person I used to work with until the circa 1992.  Her name was Aimee Fischer. She spent a lot of time over the next two years saying, “No, not THAT Amy Fisher, and I spell my name differently!”

Check out the following interview from Galley Cat

“Meet Harper Perennial editor Stephanie Meyers. She has blond hair, an obsession with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and reserves her editing pen for nonfiction books, not writing vampire novels. If you look closely, you will see that her name is only two letters off from the name of Twilight‘s famous author.

Meyers recently co-edited a book of essays entitled The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas with Robin Harvie and it features an essay by writer Andrew Shaffer (better known as Evil Wylie/Emperor Franzen).

However, if you want to find her on Google, you need to be very specific with your keywords. When asked if she would do an interview, the editor responded: “I’d love to talk to you about my name doppelganger situation—anything to reclaim a tiny piece of the Google search pie.”

Our interview follows below…

Q: So Ms. Stephanie Meyers, can you please spell you name for me?
A: S-T-E-P-H-A-N-I-E-M-E-Y-E-R-S.

Q: Have you got a funny anecdote about the connection with your name and the Hachette author that the whole world kind of knows about?
A: Well it was funny, I think the first time it really hit home, I got a phone call on my work line and someone said ‘Is this Stephenie Meyer’s?’ and I said ‘Yes’ and they’re like ‘Oh my God! I can’t believe I’m talking to you!’ And I was confused because you know, I think I’m awesome but most of the rest of the world doesn’t know that much about me and then after ‘Oh, oh, you mean the vampire novelist…’”

See more on Galley Cat

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Andrea Powell Cast in Breaking Dawn

November 8, 2010

Andrea Powell will be playing Sasha (no word on who will be playing the immortal children) in Breaking Dawn.

Via TwiFans

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Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier to Make Dallas Mall Appearance for Charity

November 8, 2010

This just passed to us by Creation Entertainment:

KiowaCrea

TWILIGHT SAGA STARS AT STONEBRIAR CENTRE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010
TO BENEFIT THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION
The Twilight Saga, the world’s hottest pop culture phenomenon,
is coming LIVE to Stonebriar Centre November 12 from 5pm to 8pm.

FRISCO, Texas. November 1, 2010 ~ Two of the popular stars of the Twilight Saga films, Bronson Pelletier and Kiowa Gordon (Wolf Pack members Jared and Embry), are scheduled to appear at Stonebriar Centre to sign autographs and pose for photos for Dallas area fans.

Additionally, Twilight fans will have the chance to win valuable Twilight prizes in trivia competitions. Fans are encouraged to come in costume as their favorite Twilight character and try to win Twilight themed products.

Autograph tickets for either celebrity are $20 each. A professionally shot 8” by 10” photo of a fan with both celebrities will be $35. Fans can purchase an autograph with both celebrities and a photo with both for the price of $65. Photos will be delivered on site. A portion of the sales will be donated to The Epilepsy Foundation (www.epilepsyfoundation.org).

This special Stonebriar Centre event is the kick-off for the Dallas visit of The Official Twilight Convention Tour which will arrive at The Westin Park Central on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14. The convention features a weekend celebration of all things Twilight, including celebrity appearances, special presentations, contests, parties and The Volturi Vampire Ball. More information on the convention is available at www.twilightconvention.com.

Tickets for the convention will be on sale at the Stonebriar Centre event.

Become a fan on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Stonebriar Centre is located at Preston Road and SH 121 in Frisco. For directions to the shopping center, visit www.shopstonebriar.com or call 972.668.6255.

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Isle Esme Resort Profiled

November 8, 2010

FoForks profiled what the Isle Esme resort looked like last week. Here are the details:

“We have dozens of excellent pictures from all angles, places and flavors of the wonderful house that would be used as set on Esme Island, during the shooting of ‘Breaking Dawn’ in Rio, in addition to some other information about the possible location:

Located at a paradisiacal region, the house designed by Thiago Bernardes has a complete infrastructure, with confort and privacy, in 220 meters of private beach. Besides, it has exclusive access by boat or helicopter. The accommodation has 2 suites with King Size beds, 2 suites with twin beds and independent rooms. There are 720 meters of decks and balcony with panoramic view and a complete kitchen. The house can be rented for holydays, with it’s daily rate ranging from 8 to 15 thousand reais ( 5.000 to 9.000 us dollars) , depending of the period of the year. You can check the house’s website at www.casaemparaty.com.br”

On Foforks see:

Aeriel photos of the beach
Outside Photos
Inside Photos

As has been previously reported, the location is reachable only by boat. The cast is taking a helicopter from Rio to a location nearby the island and then a boat from there. The location is completely secure. The public will not be allowed on site to observe from a distance. All crew members have signed strict confidentiality agreements with serious monetary and possible criminal penalties if footage is released.

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Bill Condon Gives Press Conference in Rio

November 8, 2010


Bill Condon held a press conference along with producer Wyck Godfrey and Rio Filme director Sérgio Sá Leitão. Here are highlight from R7:

  • According to Bill Condon, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are enjoying the outpouring of fan love. He added that he was enjoying it too.
  • Due to the efforts of Rio Filme they realized that Rio is a very vibrant place, and they decided that the city would be used. They wanted to include the real authentic culture and flavor of Brazil that’s why they filmed in the Lapa section
  • They didn’t want to persay used the most known locations
  • Ilse Esme will be filmed in Mamanguá in Paraty, on the southern coast of Rio, where the team moves today.
  • Wyck Godfrey stated that they were done filming in Rio proper
  • Sergio Sa Leitao, president of Rio Filme, added that the crew would be back to Rio just to make aerial images of the city.
  • They expect to be in Brazil for 10 days and shoot on 5 of them. Other days are for arrivals, departures, set ups, travel, etc.
  • The Isle Esme location is remote and under tight security all personnel working there have been instructed to leave all recording devices, cameras, smart photos, etc. at home or they will be confiscated. Anyone found taping illegally faces serious fines and/or prosecution

See Portuguese on R7

Following the press conference the entire crew packed up from the Copacabana Hotel and proceeded to a helicopter ride to get to their next location.

See more photos on Quem

Some fans from Foforks tried to get the casts’ autographs. They missed Rob and Kristen, but they were able to get Stephenie Meyer.

Another fan on FoForks ended up having her father used as an extra in the Lapa filming while she watched because she was too young. It’s a cute story. Use Google translate to figure it out.

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Hillywood Eclipse Parody Coming Up and They Want Your Reaction!

November 8, 2010

Check out the rules on the Hillywood site!

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Videos from Filming in the Lapa District Featuring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

November 8, 2010

The videos give you the overall of a the crowd scene which is probably an arrival scene in Brazil since you’d hardly expect Bella and Edward to be partying on their way out of Brazil! This is likely some of the only footage that will be seen in Brazil as other areas by all accounts will not be accessible to the public.

According to BlogTwiBrasil and FoForks on Twitter,  filming went through the night, approximately 7 hours. Lots of backing up and resetting to get crowd angles just right which is very typical of large crowd scenes. That many people are difficult to coordinate and timing is everything. Mostly the crowd of extras was cooperative. There were a couple of incidents of fan extras trying to hug Rob and/or Kristen in between takes. (photos here) There was also at least one extra who was removed from set for apparently being drunk and uncooperative.

Videos via BlogTwiBrasil and FoForks

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Fans Not the Only Ones Renting Windows

November 7, 2010

Apparently Summit bought out the windows of residents who lived on the street in the Lapa district where overnight filming is taking place, and paid the bars to stay closed!    Here are the highlights:

  • Overnight filming scheduled from circa 11:00pm-7:00am (this after a circa 8:00pm filming at a local marina)
  • A long city block was rented
  • Residents on the block needed ID to access their homes all day long
  • Residents paid $ 50 and $ 500 reais ($30 to $300 American Dollars) to not have people hanging out their windows depending how close to the action they were.
  • Bars and Restaurants paid $ 10,000 and $ 20,000 reais ($6,000 to $12,000 American Dollars) to stay closed for the evening to eliminate noise and provide a clear street.

Original Portuguese here

A debate arose on Twitter last night as to rings and cuffs. Edward is clearly not wearing the wrist cuff, though as Alison from Twifans pointed out “it’s not exactly wedding attire” other have suggested he may have removed it now that he is with Bella, or maybe it just isn’t in the shot.

Then the discussion moved on to wedding rings. Bella clearly has one one. Edward we think so, but it’s hard to tell.

So, do you care if he wears the wrist cuff or not?

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