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New Interview With Melissa Rosenberg

Published on April 8, 2010 in Breaking Dawn, Interview, Movie and News by Felicity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Film.com has an exclusive new interview with Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg where she talks about Breaking Dawn, the Twilight Saga Directors and so much more.

24280841 24280847 large New Interview With Melissa RosenbergMelissa Rosenberg is a busy woman. In the past few years she’s adapted three parts of The Twilight Saga for the screen, all the while writing and producing for the hit Showtime series Dexter. How does she balance her life and work? What can we expect from Breaking Dawn? And what’s the difference between the three directors she’s worked with on Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse? All those answers and more in our exclusive interview.

Laremy Legel: When I talked to you for Twilight you were just dipping your toes into the fandom, and what it was all about. Do you check fan sites these days?

Melissa Rosenberg: I stay off the Internet, because I’m very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of “Fabulous job!” and one “She’s horrible!” and it completely throws me. When you’re writing you’re constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you’ll never get anything done. There’s enough inner strife.

I do, however, maintain a fan site, where people are mostly kind. It’s interesting reading their comments, because they talk about what’s important to them, what things really register, what things I need to capture. So I do rely on that.

LL: I think your writing has amazing range; from Dexter to Twilight is a pretty big distance. But do you worry about being locked into a particular genre? Do screenwriters get typecast? Or does that not happen?

27863616 27863617 medium New Interview With Melissa RosenbergMR: Oh, it happens all the time. You become the “teen voice” writer. Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I’ve written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I’ve done it all. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, and the things I prefer not to do, but like most writers I can do, and like to do, a variety of things.

I’m sure I’ll be offered all sorts of romantic teen dramas as I move forward, because I’ve now written plenty of them, and I won’t be doing that again. It’s not of interest me. I do lean more towards doing different kinds of things.

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Catherine Hardwicke Offers Some Advice

Published on December 19, 2009 in Discussion, News, Twilight and Video's by Danielle. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Twilight Director, Catherine Hardwicke gives some invaluable advice to a room full of aspiring film Directors at the 2009 Campus MovieFest International Grand Finale. If you are interested in making your own films this may be of some help, if not it is really interesting when she reveals just what exactly a ‘low budget’ film, like Twilight costs  to make… and that is the per day amount! Madness.

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Robert Pattinson’s Vanity Fair Interview

Published on November 2, 2009 in Actors, Cast, Just For Fun, New Moon and Twilight by Felicity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Vanity Fair‘s December issue has the gorgeous Robert Pattinson on the cover.  Here is an extract of the interview with Evgenia Peretz.

Robert Pattinson Vanity Fair Cover Peretz, follows the Byronic British actor from the Comic-Con convention in San Diego to the Waldorf Towers in New York City, as he prepares for the November 20 release of Twilight’s sequel, New Moon. There are no wild nights out at clubs—even if he could go out without being mobbed, Pattinson would prefer to curl up with a good book.

Rather than working his way through supermodels, Pattinson, who’s been living out of three suitcases for the past year, has been feeling overwhelmed, self-conscious, and guilty. “I’m trying not to drown,” he says in his hotel room at the San Diego Hard Rock Hotel, which is littered today with beer bottles, old scrambled eggs, a half-eaten Twix bar, and a dirty pair of jeans on the living-room floor. And he notices that he hasn’t made his bed. “Oh, God. Sorry about that.”

“I’m unbearably self-conscious about stuff,” he admits. To the point where, while filming scenes before the army of New York paparazzi that has been following him around, he is terrified that his “ass crack is showing.”

Raised outside London in a small village, with a wavering desire to be either a musician or an actor, Pattinson is painfully modest about his talent and looks, and eternally confused by his fans’ devotion.

Despite the fact that he is an exquisite beauty—with perfectly formed red, red lips and a face that might have been dreamed by the Romantic poets—he thinks he resembles “a cartoon character.” One of his legs is longer than the other, which makes him look, he assures you, “like an idiot.”

He’s sure he’s driving people crazy by constantly talking about how he can’t leave his hotel room. And he sees his inability to relish his fans’ reverence as his own shortcoming. “I guess I’m not the type of guy cut out to do a franchise,” he says. “I’m not much of a crowd person.”

Pattinson’s first role in a major film was a bit part in Harry Potter, which ended up bringing him to the attention of Twilight’s producers. But if he had his way, he’d stick to playing awkward, tortured outsiders.

[Pattinson’s director from the indie film How to Be, Oliver Irving,] recalls, “he’d make his eyes water and get himself all worked up … slapping himself and doing everything he possibly could to make him feel ill,” while passersby wondered what the hell was the matter with this guy.

When you play a weirdo, he explains, “You can always have an excuse… He’s a weirdo!”

But Pattinson’s behavior was far from antisocial during the filming of Twilight. In the evenings, director Catherine Hardwicke remembers, Pattinson was “always drunk,” entertaining Stewart and other members of the cast in his hotel room with his guitar. A “nervous attraction” was brewing offscreen.

“What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other. Complex feelings for each other,” says Hardwicke. “It was what we needed. Complex, intense fascination.”

Pattinson, for his part, says of Stewart: “She’s influenced how I’ve done all theTwilight stuff. It’s quite nice to have someone who is genuinely indifferent to the whole spectacle of everything.” For the record, however, Pattinson says the rumors of a love affair are false: “It doesn’t make any difference what you say [to the tabloids]. I’ve literally been across the country [from Kristen], and it’s like ‘Oh, they were on secret dates!’ It’s like ‘Where? I can’t get out of my hotel room!’?” Stewart is even more emphatic: “It’s so retarded,” she says. “We’re characters in this comic book.”

The December 2009 Vanity Fair issue is on sale November 4, so check it out for the full intereview.

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More New Moon Posters…

Published on October 3, 2009 in Actors and New Moon by Danielle. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

There are so many out there at the moment but the more we see them, the more the excitement builds so here is a fresh look at Kristen Stewart, the wolfpack and the Vamps ;) thanks to Twi Fans. Hope you enjoy them and I have to be honest, each new poster that comes out shows just how incredible everybody looks and what a distance New Moon has come since Twilight. Don’t get me wrong, Catherine Hardwicke did a fantastic job with Twilight and catapulted it into stardom but I think New Moon is going to leap frog right over all the success Twilight has had… or at least I really do hope so! ;)

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MTV: Top Ten Twilight Moments

Published on September 4, 2009 in Discussion, Gossip, Just For Fun, News and Twilight by Danielle. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

MTV have compiled a list of their top ten Twilight related moments, we have them below but check out MTV for the info and videos.Twilight Cartoon

1. Spunk Ransom is born

In one of his first interviews for the “Twilight” franchise, MTV News had nearly an hour alone with the soon-to-be A-lister on the set of the film. Among the many questions we brought him was: “What do you think of your nickname RPattz?” He responded in his usual charming, rambling manner, insisting that he wanted a new nickname: Spunk Ransom. The term has stuck, been officially defined, yielded some very cool “Twilight” merch and is reportedly the easiest way to get a smile out of Rob — er, Spunk — if you should ever meet him.

2. Don’t count out Taylor

Barely a month after “Twilight” opened at the top of the box office, young Taylor Lautner had become the J.D. Salinger of the series — disappearing from the spotlight and leaving many to wonder whether we’d see him again. Just when the consensus among fans seemed to be that his role would be recast with a more physically impressive actor like Michael Copon, we found Taylor at a tiny red-carpet event. Noticeably larger, he revealed that he’d been working out around-the-clock, was about to meet with “New Moon” director Chris Weitz and vowed to return as Jacob. Finally, “Twilight” Nation could breath a sigh of relief.

3. Kristen’s Near-Death Experience

We all know that Kristen Stewart is a great dramatic actress, but when she said that filming the next film “killed me,” that took it to a whole new level. As KStew’s quotes rocketed around the Web, Twilighters became even more eager to see her “New Moon” performance.

4. Fach’s Bikini Incident

Peter Facinelli. A one-of-a-kind Twitter bet. A grown man in a bikini dancing down Hollywood Boulevard. Need we say more?

5. Catherine’s Pimp Pad

Who else but MTV could get exclusive access to Catherine Hardwicke’s house/office, the place where the “Twilight” movie phenomenon began? The affable director generously opened her home and gave us a tour of the backyard where Lautner auditioned, the dining room where KStew read her lines — and the bed where she and RPattz first kissed.

6. The RPattz Surprise

In May 2008, we held a contest and landed “Twilight” fan Laura Culpepper as our guest correspondent. But what she didn’t know is that we had arranged for Rob himself to tiptoe in behind Laura while she recorded an on-camera segment and give her a sneak peek at “Twilight.” Without a doubt, this is one of the most memorable pieces of video in all the “Twilight” fandom, revealing Rob’s fun side.

7. Name Those Fans

Once upon a time, an epic battle raged between Twilighters and Twi-Hards over which was the proper name for the fanbase. Since we’re peacemakers as well as journalists, we held an epic poll to settle the matter once and for all. Rob, Kristen and the other stars of the series announced the results — and it’s been Twilighters ever since.

8. A Special Spoilers Evening

To celebrate the conclusion of all those very special Twilight Tuesdays, MTV gave a few hundred Twilighters the chance to attend a taping of our movie special “Spoilers.” All the stars were there, it was a night to remember, and the show continues on as the renamed “Behind the Screen,” which airs Friday and focuses on films such as “Jennifer’s Body.”

9. RPattz Needs Undies

Last November, we reunited Rob and Laura for a revealing interview that may have been, well, a bit too revealing. Ever wonder about Rob’s toenails, his parking-ticket troubles or his underwear? Well, then, you need to watch this.

10. 100 Monkeys Hit MTV

As his fans know, the only thing more fun than watching Jackson Rathbone act may be seeing him in concert. Which is why we were eager to go backstage and onstage to watch his band 100 Monkeys perform at a club in Hollywood. Since then, we’ve caught the band again at TwiCon and spoke to him recently about the Monkeys’ plans to score his new movie. Rock on, Jackson!

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Midnight Sun: The Saga Continues…

Published on March 31, 2009 in Breaking Dawn, Discussion, Midnight Sun, New Moon, News and Twilight by Danielle. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Midnight sun is a companion novel to Twilight, re-telling the story but from Edwards’s point of view. It is the only book she is writing from his perspective but she has said that while Bellas story ended at Breaking Dawn there are others characters in the series. Hopefully this means that the series doesn’t end at Breaking Dawn (considering Midnight sun doesn’t tell us anything new.)

The last update Stephenie Meyer gave fans was in August 2008, she stated that a rough draft of the first 12 chapters had been leaked and she was so hurt by this betrayal and violation of her work that it ruined her state of mind. She is very clear that her writing is a creative process that requires her to be emotionally committed to the project and that now she would be unable to finish Midnight Sun the way it was meant to be written: “My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die… I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely”

stephenie meyerHer agent was bombarded with fans e-mailing and insisting the book be written and so Stephenie took up the project once more. There is however no official release date and she mentioned that she wanted to release the book when people have “forgotten about it” in two years or so. This is probably why most people assume the book will be released between now and the end of 2010. But if she really is waiting for people to forget it will certainly take longer than 2years.

Apparently she let Twilight director Catherine Hardwick read the finished chapters in order to gain some insight into Edwards feelings for the shooting of the film.

Her agent also mentioned that she was very busy last year with the movie release and writing her latest book; the host, and that when she was done she would have much more time to concentrate on the new novel. But with New Moon in shooting and all the publicity work she has at the moment it may delay the completion of midnight sun still further.

The chapters she has put on her website are the first 12. They correlate exactly to the twilight chapters except for 3new chapters: chapter4: Visions, Chapter 7: Melody and chapter 8: Ghost. Twilight goes up to chapter 24 which means there should be at least 27 chapters in total in the new the book, without including any other possible new chapters. So there is much left for Meyer to do in order to get the book done.

She will be releasing it though, she says on her site, with regard to, the 12 chapters you can read: “Please remember this is an unedited rough draft. It is full of typos and all the other flaws that unedited manuscripts have. Enjoy it for what it is, but know that the final copy will be infinitely superior“

So she confirms the book will be published it’s the when that evades her. When she announces a day or there is something a bit more solid than the current rumours I will let you know, I do hope that the rumours are true and that she releases the book in the coming year.

Source:  StephenieMeyer.com

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