Fansites Interview Robert Pattinson 2008 (audio)

Rob and Twilight Mentioned on VH1

2009 in Retrospect
by officialspunkransom

Courtesy of ThinkingofRob

Twilight In Selected Theaters on November 19th

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 via ThinkingofRob 

Responding to the fans of THE TWILIGHT SAGA, Summit Entertainment announced today that it will re-release TWILIGHT, the first film in the franchise, at select theatres nationwide on November 19th, a day before the highly anticipated release of the movie’s sequel, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON. Despite the first film already being on DVD, fans across the nation have been calling out to see the film once again on the big screen and the studio is honoring their request. Summit is working with exhibitors to screen TWILIGHT one night only with screenings in the evening just before THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON arrives in theatres. Select theatres will offer tickets at a reduced price. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON directed by Chris Weitz and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner will be released November 20, 2009. 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 TWILIGHT film series tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction that pulls them together...even when Edward confides that he and his family are vampires. The action-packed, modern day vampire love story TWILIGHT, the first film in the series, was released in theatres on November 21, 2008 to a blockbuster reception. The second installment of the film franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, will be released November 20, 2009. The third film in the franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is due in theaters on June 30, 2010.

New/Old Twilight Interview with Robert Pattinson

Thanks goes out to FePattz on twitter via Twifans :))

Twilight Saga New Moon Tours Just Announced

Get ready for some promotional dazzle from the cast of New Moon. :) This was just announced tonight via Twilight's twitter page (@Twilight)

Los Angeles, California: November 6, 2009

Denver, Colorado: November 8, 2009

Boston, Mass: November 9, 2009

Chicago, Ill. : November 9, 2009

Washington DC. : November 9, 2009

Houston, Texas: November 10, 2009

Minneapolis, Minnesota: November 11, 2009

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: November 11, 2009

Have fun to all who are lucky enough to attend! Thanks again to @Twilight :))

The Twilight Saga Eclipse Title Treatment

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse new movie "poster" just released! What do you think? Better? Worse? Thanks to @Twilight for the "leak". Get them to 200K followers :) Still hoping for a Rob tweet again!

Times Online Mentions Rob: Cirque du Freak

A few years ago, a friend of mine spent the night in Los Angeles as the houseguest of the head of production at Warner Bros. The latest Harry Potter movie had just opened and in the early hours of Saturday morning my friend was woken by the sound of the phone ringing. “Who on earth could be calling at such an ungodly hour?” he thought. It was J. K. Rowling, hoping to discover the first day’s grosses.

In Hollywood, a successful movie franchise is a gold mine. It generates what people in the business call “Scrooge McDuck” money — enough to fill a swimming pool and then dive in. It’s hardly surprising, then, that sensible people go a bit doolally in pursuit of this holy grail. Paul Weitz, who has chalked up some decent credits (About a Boy, In Good Company), is a case in point. Nothing else can explain the full horror of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.

There’s little doubt he’s hoping to start a franchise. As with Rowling the story and characters are taken from a multivolume series of fantasy novels by a British children’s author — in this case Darren Nash — and the similarities don’t end there. The central character (Chris Massoglia) is a bland teenager who is plucked from his small-town existence and plunged into a secret world where he possesses super powers. He quickly finds himself at the centre of a battle between the forces of good and evil in which the future of the world is at stake.

OK, he doesn’t possess a Nimbus 2000, but he can “flit” — move around at lightning speed — which is the next best thing. A more accurate name for this film would be Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Pinch.

Another source of inspiration is Twilight, the vampire franchise that was successfully launched last year. The teenage protagonist of Cirque du Freak is a “half-vampire”: he allows himself to be bitten by the 200-year-old clan chief (John C. Reilly), but doesn’t go round biting people himself. Vampirism in this film is treated as an addiction and the characters are in varying stages of recovery. The baddies, known as “the vampaneze”, are like full-blown alcoholics: they binge on human blood until their victims die. They are the sworn enemies of common-or- garden vampires, who take only what they need to stay alive — they’re more like social drinkers. Why these two clans are at war is a mystery as there’s no shortage of local claret. As far as I could tell, it all comes down to a question of etiquette: which is the correct way to drink human blood? It’s a tragedy of manners.

The success of Twilight was at least partly due to the performance of Robert Pattinson, the English actor cast as the male lead. He’s been catapulted to stardom and will reappear next month in New Moon, the second film in the saga. A similar fate is unlikely to befall the leading man in Cirque du Freak. Chris Massoglia stumbles from one scene to another looking slightly startled, as if he can’t quite believe he’s in a movie, and his face seems to be made of Plasticine. Perhaps Weitz should have recruited Nick Park to give Massoglia a greater range of expression.

But the biggest shortcoming of Cirque du Freak is the absence of a proper, self-contained story. So convinced is Weitz that his film is going to spawn a dozen sequels that he spends most of his time setting up the characters and their relationships. He appears to have overlooked the fact that unless Cirque du Freak is entertaining in its own right the franchise will be stillborn. Universal Studios, which is behind the film, has had a number of flops this year, including Land of the Lost and Funny People, and Cirque du Freak is unlikely to reverse that trend. Something tells me that Darren Nash won’t be calling up the head of production tomorrow morning to discover the first day’s grosses.A few years ago, a friend of mine spent the night in Los Angeles as the houseguest of the head of production at Warner Bros. The latest Harry Potter movie had just opened and in the early hours of Saturday morning my friend was woken by the sound of the phone ringing. “Who on earth could be calling at such an ungodly hour?” he thought. It was J. K. Rowling, hoping to discover the first day’s grosses.

In Hollywood, a successful movie franchise is a gold mine. It generates what people in the business call “Scrooge McDuck” money — enough to fill a swimming pool and then dive in. It’s hardly surprising, then, that sensible people go a bit doolally in pursuit of this holy grail. Paul Weitz, who has chalked up some decent credits (About a Boy, In Good Company), is a case in point. Nothing else can explain the full horror of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.

There’s little doubt he’s hoping to start a franchise. As with Rowling the story and characters are taken from a multivolume series of fantasy novels by a British children’s author — in this case Darren Nash — and the similarities don’t end there. The central character (Chris Massoglia) is a bland teenager who is plucked from his small-town existence and plunged into a secret world where he possesses super powers. He quickly finds himself at the centre of a battle between the forces of good and evil in which the future of the world is at stake..

Read the article at thetimesonline.com

BREAKING DAWN RUMOR CONTROL

One of the biggest rumors right now  is that Breaking Dawn (if it is made into a movie) will not be filmed in Vancouver, but in Portland Oregon (where Twilight was filmed), due to tax incentives, etc. Kelly at ThePortlander.com apparentlyhas some ‘inside’ info, and Breaking Dawn is indeed being filmed in Portland.

TWITTER DETAILS FOR ENTIRE CAST OF TWILIGHT

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Are you still wondering if Rob, Kristen and the rest of the cast have twitter? Then your in for a treat. Here is the current list which is subject to change so don't follow posers! Click on TruthTweet tab above poster to see the list.