E! Talks to Ashley Greene About Breaking Dawn

Ashley Greene talks to  E! about all things Breaking Dawn.

Now that Ashley Greene has her contract nailed down for Breaking Dawn, it’s all business (and a little bit of pampering) for the brunette beaut.

We ran into Ash yesterday at Kari Feinstein’s MTV Movie Awards Style Lounge at the Montage Beverly Hills, where she dished about what’s going on with the final flick being one or two movies.

First things first, Ashley says she’s rooting for Breaking Dawn to be broken up (shocker).

“I think everyone wants to split it in two, just because it’s such a huge story, and we want to kind of actually capture everything and keep everyone happy,” Ash dished, rather matter-of-factly. “But who knows. It’s kind of up to the writers and everyone to see what’s best, but I’m hoping for two.”

Another reason Ash is pumped to get rolling on the final film or films: Academy Award-winning director Bill Condon, who she has yet to meet with to discuss B.D.

“I’m sure I will [meet him] in the near future. I’m really excited to work with him.”

Greene just finished shooting Butter in Louisiana with Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner, so she plans to take it easy this summer before Breaking Dawn.

Back to the real question you all are wondering. Is Ash taking it easy on Summit? We know Kristen Stewart has been pretty easy to deal with, especially thanks to her eagerness to finally apologize for the rape remark (bad case of not thinking before speaking), and because we’re so happy it’s Friday, we’ll give you an “And It Ain’t” for our fussy, mystery Twi star.

Greene is not the castmember making a stink behind the scenes. See, it’s so simple with actors. Give ‘em the money and they shut up!

And for those who have been asking, sure, a diva can be a guy or a girl.

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Bill Condon’s Note To Fans

Bill Condon took to the official Twilight facebook to write a note to the Twilight fans about taking the helm of Breaking Dawn.

Greetings Twihards, Twifans, Twilight Moms, Team Edward, Team Jacob and Team Switzerland,

I just want to say hello to all of you and let you know that I’m stoked to be getting underway on the adventure of making BREAKING DAWN. As you’ve probably heard, I’ve been given a very warm welcome by Stephenie and Team Summit – who are super-focused, as you know, on getting these movies right.  
I’m pretty busy bringing myself up to speed on what you already know by heart: I’ve read BREAKING DAWN twice, rewatched Catherine’s and Chris’s movies 2-3 times each, have all four CDs playing in my car, and have Catherine’s notebook, Mark Cotta Vaz’s companion books, and even Volume 1 of the graphic novel here on my desk – a corner of my office is starting to look like Hot Topic. I realize that this barely qualifies me for “newborn” status in the universe you’ve been living inside for a few years now, but a guy’s gotta start somewhere.

Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series DARK SHADOWS, which I followed avidly as a kid. But that alone hadn’t been enough to get me interested in making a vampire movie, even though my early screenwriting and directing efforts grew out of a great love for horror movies and thrillers. Since making GODS AND MONSTERS thirteen years ago, however, I’ve been yearning for a return to a story with Gothic overtones.

The wonderful world that Stephenie has created has obviously struck a chord with you, and I don’t think it’s difficult to see why. For me, her characters are simultaneously timeless, yet very modern. Rooted in a beautiful, real landscape with a great sense of place, Bella, Edward, Jacob, and the rest of the Forks/La Push menagerie, experience emotions that are primal, and universal: desire, despair, jealousy – and it all comes to fruition in BREAKING DAWN. This is a final chapter in the best sense; not just wide in scope and scale, but emotionally charged and intense throughout.

I’m a huge admirer of the already-iconic Kristen, Robert, and Taylor, and wanted to be the one to work with them as they face the challenges of bringing your beloved characters to the end of their journeys. Really, what could be more fun than that?

Please feel free to ask questions in the comments section below, and I’ll do my best to answer them. I hope that this will be the first of many occasions I’ll get to check in with you as we set to work bringing BREAKING DAWN to the screen. I am excited and grateful to have all of you alongside me for my TWILIGHT journey.

All best,

Bill Condon

P.S. Answer #1: No, there won’t be any musical numbers

Thanks to @Twilight

Who Will Direct Breaking Dawn??

Entertainment Weekly has some information about various directors that have been approached for Breaking Dawn.

According to them, at least three, very high profile directors have been vetted for the post of directing the fourth portion of the Saga.

“Sources tell EW that the studio has reached out to at least three top-notch directors, including Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), Gus Van Sant (Milk), and Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) to gauge their interest in what is likely to be two movies.”

They also reported that Van Sant’s representatives confirmed him as having been approached for the picture

Wyck Godfrey Discusses Breaking Dawn Movie

According to the L. A. Times, The Twilight Saga producer Wyck Godfrey said in an interview last Friday that Breaking Dawn could begin filming this fall in Vancouver.

Wyck Godfrey, the producer of all the films in the “Twilight” saga, admits that the creative team still doesn’t know how they’ll handle the character in the “Breaking Dawn” movie, but said that the plan is absolutely for the production to go forward — as either one or two installments — with an eye toward beginning to shoot in Vancouver this fall. All three stars are signed for “Breaking Dawn,” he said, meaning that Stewart and Pattinson will be dealing with the joys and woes of interspecies parenting and newly minted heartthrob Taylor Lautner will return as often-shirtless shape-shifter Jacob Black.

At the moment, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who’s penned all the “Twilight” movies, is working on the “Breaking Dawn” script(s). “It’s a work in process,” Godfrey said in an interview Friday. “The issue [of whether there will be one or two movies] is not going to be resolved until we get the full treatment and see whether it’s organic. If it’s not organic, I don’t think it will be done, and if it is, it will be. It really has to do with how much level of detail from the books there is, with all of these new vampires that appear in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ the whole section about Jacob… It’s a very long single movie if it does become a single movie.” 

Although there’s been a great deal of online chatter about whether Chris Weitz, director of the second and most recent movie, “New Moon,” would return to helm “Breaking Dawn,” Godfrey downplayed that possibility, saying, “I think everyone would be happy and excited if he came back, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

He and the other principals are formulating a list of potential directors, “but right now,” Godfrey said, “we’re just focused on the treatment and getting that right. At that point, we’re going to see who’s available and who’s appropriate. It’s such a complicated book because you have the emotions and the intensity of the love story — so you need somebody who’s just a wonderful director of actors — and yet it’s really complicated from an action and visual effects standpoint. They’ve got to have both tools in their kit.” 

A visual effects background might be particularly helpful when it comes to dealing with the character of Renesmee.

“I keep having visions of ‘[The Curious Case of] Benjamin Button’ in my head,” Godfrey said, referring to David Fincher’s Oscar-nominated 2008 fantasy about a man who becomes physically younger as he ages. “It’s certainly going to be visual effects in some capacity along with an actor. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being a full CG creation, but it also may be a human shot on a soundstage that then is used to shrink down. I don’t know. We need a director. When we get a director, that director will need to come with a point of view of how they want to tackle it.”

The third movie in the series, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” is due in theaters June 30.

Read the rest on the LA Times.

Stephenie Meyer Lawsuit Dismissed!! :)

Awhile ago we posted an article about Jordan Scott who claimed that Stephenie Meyer plagiarized Breaking Dawn from Jordan Scott’s novel The Nocturne.  It looks like a judge agrees as to what everyone thought about Jordan Scott’s claim. Hachette Books, the parent company of Little Brown that publishes the Twilight Saga novels, released this statement:

“The Honorable Otis D. Wright II of the United States District Court has ruled in favor of Stephenie Meyer and Hachette Book Group and has dismissed with prejudice Jordan Scott’s claim of copyright infringement. In his ruling, Judge Wright stated that the two works have little in common and that the “characters in the two works are vastly different.” The decision admonishes Scott for “the deceptive presentation of the alleged similarities” and notes that she “has twice manipulated aspects of the subject works in order to create the appearance of similarity.”

While an attempt to ride on someone else’s success may not be surprising, it is encouraging that the courts and the public are not so easily misled.This judgment confirms what we have known all along – Breaking Dawn is a wholly original work by Stephenie Meyer and this was a frivolous lawsuit brought for the purposes of publicizing the plaintiff’s personal publishing aspirations.  Hachette Book Group and Stephenie Meyer are pleased to be able to put this case behind us.”

Variety Discusses Breaking Dawn Issues

Variety just posted an article about Summit Entertainment’s Breaking Dawn dilemmas. These include splitting the book into 2 separate movies and re-negotiating contracts. Check it out -

The two-week $481 million worldwide gross of “New Moon” has vaulted Summit Entertainment into the big leagues, but it also has created a high-class challenge for toppers Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger.

They will likely have to cut a few big checks if they decided, as rumored, to split Stephenie Meyer’s final “Twilight” novel, “Breaking Dawn,” into two pictures. Sources said Summit has set Melissa Rosenberg — who wrote the first three films — to finish the series, but Summit has to clear several hurdles before Rosenberg learns how many more scripts she’ll write.

One of those hurdles is figuring out whether “New Moon” director Chris Weitz will respond favorably to overtures from the film company and the cast to shoot two more films, back to back.

Summit execs would not comment, but multiple sources said the company wants to go the two-film route, which means reopening negotiations and securing approval from the author. It also means making new deals with a principal cast that is only locked up for four films. If “Breaking Dawn” becomes two pictures, all of the key cast members will get fat raises, and the three principals — Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — could land paydays in the eight-figure range.

Read more HERE

Breaking Dawn Spoof

Here’s a spoof of a certain Breaking Dawn scene starring Peter Facinelli!

INStyle:Design Bella’s Wedding Dress

Several designers were asked by Instyle to sketch a wedding dress for Bella Swan to wear during the wedding  scene in the Twilight Saga.

Check out the entire gallery over at Instyle.

(Above is Project Runway winner Christian Siriano’s design)

Summit Releases Statement About 5 Twilight Movies

After Boo-Boo Stewart told Access Hollywood last week that he was signed on for three films, word spread that Breaking Dawn would be either split in two or that there would be another film after Breaking Dawn was complete. A representative from Summit contacted AH to clear the air.

“We appreciate our young actor’s enthusiasm for the franchise and his role, but his comments about the number of films were unfortunately uninformed and not accurate,” the Summit rep said in a statement to Access.

Although BooBoo has contract options for additional films after “Eclipse,” there are no guarantees yet that those films will be made.

And while a fourth film in the series is likely since there are four books in the popular Stephenie Meyer’s series, the studio could not confirm “Breaking Dawn” would make it from the page to the screen just yet.

“However, the fans should rest assured the we’re working with Stephenie Meyer to bring ‘Breaking Dawn’ to the big screen,” the rep continued.

“New Moon,” the second film in the series, will hit theaters on November 20. Filming on the third chapter, “Eclipse,” began earlier this month in Vancouver.

Access Hollywood

Update on Breaking Dawn Lawsuit

A new lawsuit claims that Stephenie plagiarized another book when writing Breaking Dawn. Here is the update:

This time, Jordan Scott, author of the 2006 fantasy novel, The Nocturne, has alleged that the fourth installment of the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn, bears a “striking and substantial similarity” to her book. Meyer has had to defend herself after the publishers were sent a cease and desist letter by Scott.

Scott has now taken the matter to court, filing a lawsuit on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 and seeking damages and to confiscate any Breaking Dawn copies up for sale even though Meyer maintains that the claims are “completely without merit”. Scott notes that the two books bear many similarities, such as the plot lines, themes, dialogues, mood, setting, pace, characters, sequence of events and ideas. She also notes that Breaking Dawn is different from the first three installments of Twilight and appears to be written by a teenager, just as her novel, which she began writing at the age of 15, does.

MTV News talks about the lawsuit in this video:

BooBoo Stewart Reveals He’s Signed on for 3 More Twilight Movies!!!

Special Edition Breaking Dawn Book!!

On August 4th a new version of Breaking Dawn will be released in Hardcover. What makes this edition so special? Lots of extras, which include–

• A replica of the handwritten lyrics for Blue October’s “My Never”
• A “Breaking Dawn” Concert Series DVD. MTV says of the DVD that it includes “a performance by Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October, whose performance at the concert was amazing, and a conversation between the singer and Stephenie [Meyer].”
• Full-color Edward and Bella poster

You can order the new version of Breaking Dawn now for $16.49 which includes all these goodies.

The publisher will be doing only one print run of this edition, with 1 Million copies so make sure you get yours early!!!

Breaking Dawn Movie to Remain True to Book

According to Ted Casablanca at E!, Breaking Dawn will stay true to its roots instead of being watered down for the big screen.

Breaking Dawn features scenes that are quite violent and overtly sexual, and it was feared that the script would gloss over important elements that may not be appropriate for a younger audience. Ted cites producers that say it will be “very, very sexual, …almost too hot for Twilight’s fanbase”.

Check out 2:35 in the video to watch the part about Breaking Dawn.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Will the Movie Beat the Book?

Reelzchannel.com has an interesting article on Breaking Dawn movie vs book.

After Robert Pattinson’s announcement that Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s ridiculously popular Twilight Saga, will hit the big screen, we got to thinking: Will it make a good movie? And more important, will it turn out better than the book?

Breaking Dawn is very different from the first three novels in the series (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse) and saw numerous mixed reviews during its release week. The millions-strong fan base was divided — everyone either loved it or hated it.

We’ve come up with 10 ways the movie could either rake in major box-office bucks or epically fail in a way not seen since Speed Racer dropped off the face of the planet. Even Pattinson might not be enough to save this one.

Read the 10 ways here

Will Breaking Dawn Movie Be Made?

Amanda Bell at The Examiner has an article about “Breaking Dawn” the movie. On  IMDB,  “Breaking Dawn” has gone from “optioned property” to “script.”

There is still no official word from Summit Entertainment if the movie is ever going into production.

Read the article at The Examiner here.

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