We had a great opportunity to interview Dan Cudmore at the Atlanta Official Twilight Convention. we are going to be at the next convention in Houston, Texas and we’ll be bringing you another fabulous interview from one of the Twilight Saga actors.
Monsters and Critics: Cameron Bright Interview
March 24, 2010
The Monsters and Critics site has a great interview with Cameron Bright up.
“M&C – Your character Alec the Volturi only appears briefly in New Moon but we’ll see more of him in Eclipse. How did you flesh him out aside from the book and script?
CB – It’s hard to say what I added. All these characters are so multi-dimensional, but you can do what you want. No one knows how to play a vampire; you can really play it however you want. No one character in Twilight is the same, that’s what so great about it.
M&C – The Twilight storm is so over the top. What do you think about the fans have reacted to it?
CB – It’s amazing, the things I’ve gotten to do – travel to Australia, go to Twilight conventions around the world, and meet people who’ve been following me and watching my career since I was 6. I’m 17 and I live in a town of 100,000 people and not very many people get to do that. People ask me if I’d turn back because of the hype but I don’t regret anything I’ve done in my life. If I can’t walk down the street, there is a possibility that I would turn into Robert Pattinson, I would regret it. But no one strong armed me into doing this and no one really cares.”
Check it all out at Monsters and Critics
There’s also another interview on Lucidforce.
The Lexicon’s Birthday Giveaway #3!
March 24, 2010
This month we celebrate four years of being on line with the Twilight fandom. We posted a podcast three weeks ago talking about all kinds of funny moments and lessons learned over our time online. Every Wednesday for the rest of the month we will be giving away birthday gifts to you, our dedicated readers, as a way of saying thank you for sticking with us and supporting us. Each week we will ask a question that can be answered by listening to the podcast. All you have to do is listen to the podcast for the answer and then post your answer here on the blog.
This week’s questions is: The Lexicon was on the set of Twilight on the worst day of filming EVER. According to Alphie, which actor always says something to her about it when they meet up at a convention?
This week’s prize: A canvas tote bag with the “What I Learned From the Twilight Saga” listed and autographed by Mike Welch, Justin Chon, Peter Facinelli, Kiowa Gordon, Chris Heyerdahl, and Charlie Bewley.
If you want to win the autographed tote bag, reply to this post with the correct answer. We will choose a winner at noon on Thurs. March 25th. Good luck!
Jackson Rathbone Headed to Kids Choice Awards
March 24, 2010
The annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards are coming up this weekend(vote below). Last year Twilight won as best book and Taylor Lautner was there to pick up the award on behalf of Stephenie Meyer. Somehow Taylor managed not to get slimed. This year, according to some well spotted commercials and a press release, it looks like Jackson Rathbone is going to be there promoting The Last Airbender, which started out as a Nickelodeon series.
There are commercials starring Jackson and Nicola Peltz(his co-star). Somehow we are thinking that Jackson, unlike Taylor, is not going to be able to avoid the green goo! via the Racebending LiveJournal Community
According to the press release:
“The 23rd annual “Kids Choice Awards” are set to air live on Saturday, March 27th and its packed with more stars than some of the recent high-profile Hollywood award shows. Among the stars announced as presenters for the awards are Tina Fey, Katy Perry, and Robert Downey Jr.
Fey will appear with Steve Carell, who both star in the upcoming comedy “Date Night.” Also on hand to promote their upcoming summer movies to the tween set are Robert Downey Jr. of “Iron Man 2,” Dev Patel and Jackson Rathbone of the upcoming “The Last Airbender,” and Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan of “The Karate Kid,” among others.”
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Moviefone Interviews The New Yorkers Lining Up For Peter Facinelli
March 24, 2010
It’s a good thing that there were record breaking temperatures in New York City the night of the New Moon DVD release. It was near 70 degrees. Otherwise the people lined up on the street outside of Best Buy would have frozen waiting their turn to get into the store to see Peter Facinelli!
New Moon DVD Hits Sales Record
March 23, 2010
This just in from Summit:
“Los Angeles, CA March 23, 2010 – Summit Entertainment announced today that the home entertainment release of the studio’s action-packed, modern day vampire love story THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON sold just over 4 million DVD units in its first weekend of release. The tally surpasses the first weekend sales of TWILIGHT in 2009 which sold 3.8 million DVD units, and went on to be the top selling DVD title of the year with 9.2 million units sold. The DVD launch of NEW MOON commenced this past Saturday morning with 7,000 retail locations nationwide taking part in events at midnight giving fans their first chance to obtain a DVD of the film.
Thousands of TWILIGHT fans across the nation participated in the “NEW MOON at Midnight” event and some were treated to surprise appearances by members of the cast as well as the film’s director. Fans saw actors Justin Chon who plays Eric, Christian Serratos who plays Angela, and Michael Welch who plays Mike in Salt Lake City; director Chris Weitz and Nikki Reed who plays Rosalie Hale in Los Angeles; Peter Facinelli who plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen in New York; Edi Gathegi who plays Laurent in Pittsburgh; and Liz Reaser who plays Esme Cullen in Phoenix. Other cast members of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON made appearances nationwide including Kiowa Gordon and Tinsel Korey in Cincinnati; Charlie Bewley in Denver; Chaske Spencer and Tyson Houseman in Atlanta; Daniel Cudmore in Houston; and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg in Seattle.
Summit Entertainment’s Co-Chairmen Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger stated, “Once again the incredibly dedicated fans of the TWILIGHT SAGA came out in massive numbers this weekend for the opportunity to be one of the first take home the second movie in the series. As we have said all along, the fans are what make this franchise and we once again thank them for their support.”
“The support that we have received from our retail partners in accommodating the incredible demand for the title has been nothing short of amazing,” said Steve Nickerson, Summit’s President of Home Entertainment. “The ground we have broken with in-store partnerships and the availability of this title has been a positive influence on the retail DVD business.”
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, directed by Chris Weitz and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, was released in theatres on November 20, 2009 and has since grossed over $705 million worldwide. In the film, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of—only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. Following Edward Cullen’s (Pattinson) departure from Forks, Washington, Bella discovers his image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. In time Bella’s frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob Black (Lautner) who has a supernatural secret of his own.
The third installment of the TWILIGHT franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE will be released in theatres throughout North America on June 30, 2010. “
Eclipse One Sheet Poster Revealed
March 23, 2010
So now that we have seen all three treatments, which movie poster is your favorite? Via Novel Novice
Shift the Power to the People PSA Number 2
March 23, 2010
Julia Jones, Chaske Spencer, Justin Chon, Gil Birmingham, Alex Meraz, Boo Boo Stewart and others are again trying to bring attention to the plight of the Sioux Nation.
Chaske Spencer in an interview with Indian Country Today explains that the problem comes down to a basic need of water.
“The current water system is outdated and operating at capacity, leaving the tribe no room for economic expansion and preventing its housing authority from building new homes. To build a new water infrastructure is estimated to cost over $500 million dollars. This was promised to the Sioux people over 50 years ago and this allocation would put a long-term solution in place and give the Lakota Sioux people an opportunity to prosper. Without water, the most basicbuilding block of life and society, the people of the Lakota Sioux Reservation have little hope of impacting their situation in a way where they may prosper and thrive.
Since the late 1950’s the tribe has been forced to move from their original Tribal Head Quarters, known as the Old Agency on Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which was located on the river bottom. The Tribal leaders during this time, built schools, hospitals and their own police department with tribal dollars. All is under water now. The book “Dammed Indians” shows how the Pick-Sloan Act forced tribal people up and down the Missouri River. This was done to make way for the Dam to make Hydro Power for the government. The precious resource of water is utilized to generate billions of dollars worth of electricity yearly, for the United States Government.
Currently, without a water infrastructure, they cannot build new homes and cannot build on any new development. The system is keeping an impoverished nation, impoverished.”
Click here to find out how you as a US Citizen and Non-US Citizen can help. They don’t want your money. They want you to make a phone call or send an email. I sent the email and it took about 30 seconds. Please help them if you are so inclined because it’s very simple to do.
Real Wolves Watch New Moon Wolves
March 23, 2010
File this under “just when you thought you’d heard of everything”…So to celebrate the release of New Moon on DVD in the UK…OK, usually we don’t try to editorialize too much around here…but seriously…I can’t help it…I’m just laughing too hard in a kind of freakishly punch drunk way…just read the press release and watch the clips…and if you value your computer monitor…PUT DOWN ALL LIQUIDS…you have been warned. It’s Pel writing blame me. This is officially the stupidest thing I have seen since the Renesmee womb and THAT is saying something. Below is the press release from the UK distributor that last year ran this promotion.
To mark the DVD & Blu-ray release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, E1 Entertainment has held the ‘World Wolf Premiere’ of the DVD to the wolves of Longleat Safari Park.
The first ever ‘World Wolf Premiere’ has been hosted in Longleat Safari Park as wolves watched their counterparts in action on the big screen for the DVD & Blu-ray release of the phenomenally successful The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Monday 22nd March).
Film company E1 Entertainment previewed the vampire vs. werewolf sequel – starring Kristen Stewart, Brit star Robert Pattinson and US talent Taylor Lautner – on a 16sqm screen in one of the country’s only wolf enclosures, with the unique screening deemed a howling success by the pack of 13 Canadian wolves at the park in Wiltshire.
The film, which is HMV’s highest pre-order title of all time, has taken over
£27 million since its theatrical release in November 2009 and is set to become one of the biggest home entertainment releases of 2010 thanks to the loyal following of ‘Twi-hards’ – fans of both Stephenie Meyer’s series of novels and films released so far.
Ian Turner, Deputy Head Warden at Longleat commented, “We’ve certainly never had a request like this before, so we were very intrigued to find out how the wolves would react to seeing their counterparts on screen. While they weren’t so interested in the romance – the scenes of the wolves certainly got their attention and prompted a series of howls as the film went on.”
E1 Entertainment Senior Product Manager Martin Gough added, “Whilst Twilight was all about the vampires, New Moon develops a new love interest for Bella and in doing so introduces a range of characters that are all werewolves.
Whilst we’re used to deafening screams for Robert Pattinson, it’s a nice change to hear howls of approval for the rest of the cast, including the screen wolves themselves.”
With more of the passion, action and suspense that made Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novels and the first movie smash hits, The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a spellbinding follow-up to the international box office phenomenon, and is out to own on DVD & Blu-ray from Monday 22nd March.”
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