Anna, Kristen, and Taylor on The Oscars Red Carpet

Here is Anna Kendrick walking down the Oscars Red Carpet a few moments ago.

Kristen looks STUNNING wearing a dress by Monique Lhuillier.

Check out the handsome Taylor Lautner

Taylor Lautner Drops Out of ‘Max Steele’

So it seems that Taylor Lautner  has backed out of playing Max Steel now that he has taken the role of Stretch Armstrong.  Here is what MTV has to say:

After dropping out of “Northern Lights” earlier this week, the 18-year-old has parted ways with another project, “Max Steel,” based on the Mattel toy, reports New York magazine’s Vulture blog.Sources say it was his “Stretch Armstrong” collaboration with rival toy company Hasbro that was the impetus for Taylor’s departure. According to Vulture, Taylor realized Hasbro was doing a better job with its movie properties than Mattel. To wit, the toy company has leveraged board games Candy Land, Battleship and Risk into high-profile projects and had earlier success with a couple small flicks called “G.I. Joe” and “Transformers.” Added one source, “When you sign up to make a movie with Hasbro, you know it will be in theaters a year later.”

Less of Taylor Lautner is never a good thing, but we can’t say we’re too sad to see “Max Steel” go. While the toy is wildly popular internationally, it doesn’t seem to have much name recognition here in the U.S. Though we will mourn those could-have-been shirtless scenes. Sigh.

So to recap, Taylor’s current project list is comprised of “Cancun,” “Abduction” and “Stretch Armstrong.” And “Breaking Dawn” if Summit ever gets around to it. Still a lot for the rising actor, but a more manageable list, for sure.

Read more here.

The Different Career Paths of Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner

iVillage has a new article on the two different directions that each of the Twilight leading men are headed in.  Taylor Lautner has lined up all sorts of action, films while Robert Pattinson’s films are more dramatic. 

No one in Hollywood is hotter right now than Twilight actors Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Producers are clamoring to put them in movies, and the two actors — Pattinson, 23 and Lautner, 18 — can pretty much make any kind of film they choose. So it’s interesting that their post-Twilight movie careers are shaping up to be so drastically different.

Lautner, 18, has just signed on for an action thriller called Abduction, about a man who discovers his own baby picture on a missing persons website. Lautner will also be playing a super-powered secret agent fighting terrorists in the film Max Steel, a martial arts fighter who has to save his kidnapped friends on vacation in Cancun, and the titular body-stretching superhero in Stretch Armstrong. Notice a pattern here? Lautner is definitely gunning to be the next big action hero, following a path similar to the one Will Smith took in the mid-90s.

Pattinson, on the other hand, is steering away from adrenaline-fueled hero roles and choosing small, intense character pieces. Next up is March’s Remember Me, in which the 23-year-old actor plays a tortured college student who finds romance after a family tragedy. Then, post-Eclipse, he’ll be making three period pieces: Bel Ami, about a lothario who sleeps his way to the top in 19th-century Paris (co-starring Uma Thurman); Unbound Captives, about a frontiersman whose children are kidnapped (also starring Hugh Jackman); and Circus, about a Depression-era circus (with Reese Witherspoon as the love interest). These choices are reminiscent of the films made by Johnny Depp earlier in his career.

So while Lautner’s new films will show off his abs, Pattinson’s movies will flex his acting muscles. Both are good strategies for staying in the spotlight — and while Lautner may emerge the richer man, we see Oscar buzz in Pattinson’s future.

Read more here.

Taylor Lautner is a Hot Commodity!

Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood has some new info on Taylor Lautner’s upcoming films Stretch Armstrong and Northern Lights. 

I’ve learned that after 5 PM today, bidders will be told who won that Taylor Lautner-attached script Abducted which the new motion picture lit agency Verve sent out for its client Shawn Christensen. (At one point, Lionsgate had an exclusive negotiating window but couldn’t agree on terms.) Meanwhile, there’s a lot more Lautner news. He and Skydance’s flyboy movie Northern Lights have “respectfully parted ways over casting issues”, sources tell me, noting, “Taylor’s people want to step up and put the best actors and directors around him.” Now 5 more movies have been offered to the Twilight Saga’s 18-year-old co-star, including 2 for that open April slot. As for that new salary high of $7.5 million Skydance had offered him for Northern Lights, I’ve learned that Universal paid him that sum to play the title role in Stretch Armstrong. It’s good to be Taylor right now. (And let me talk you off the ledge if you’re not.)

Taylor and Kristen Presenting at the Oscars

Marc Malkin over at E! online just revealed that both Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will be presenting at the Oscars this year! Check it out!

After a bit of speculation as to whether The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse star Taylor Lautner would be asked to present at this year’s Academy Awards, it has just been revealed that not only will Lautner be there, but so will Kristen Stewart! 

E! Online’s Marc Malkin just delivered the news, saying that he spoke to her – during today’s press junket for her film The Yellow Handkerchief – about that very thing.

“Yeah, I’m going,” Stewart just told me when I asked if we’d be seeing her on March 7 at the Academy Awards. “Me and Taylor are going to present.”

Stewart admits she’s very nervous.

“I’ve been looking at shoes,” she said. “I’m trying to pick shoes that I know I won’t fall down in.”

Source: TwilightExaminer

New Moon Nominated for Kids Choice Awards

The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards nominations have been announced, and there are three Twilight-related nominees! The New Moon movie, Taylor Lautner, and the Twilight book series all got nominated.

Favorite Movie
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Favorite Movie Actor
Zac Efron
Taylor Lautner
Shia LeBeouf
Tyler Perry

Favorite Book
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Twilight series
Vampire Diaries series
Where the Sidewalk Ends

See the rest at the Examiner.

Yet Another Role for Taylor Lautner??

Deadline is reporting that studios are battling over a possible new Taylor Lautner project entitled Abduction.  Here are the details.

The sluggish spec script marketplace will get a jolt today as Hollywood majors battle over a drama that has Hollywood’s highest paid and hardest working teen Taylor Lautner attached to star. I’ve learned the new lit agency Verve sent out the script by its client Shawn Christensen last night — and already two studios are ready to bid when the auction gets going at 9 AM PT today. Called Abduction, WME client Lautner plays a teen who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events and enters Bourne territory. Considering he just got on the Hollywood radar because of the Twilight Saga (imagine, he was almost recast before New Moon) and just days ago blew out the candles on his 18th birthday cake, Lautner with his 8-pack abs is the newest and youngest action star in a dizzying volume of movie deals made over recent weeks. He’s already the lead in two major studio superhero franchises — Universal’s Stretch Armstrong and Paramount’s Max Steel — and was paid $7.5 million for the John Moore-directed Skydance Top Gun-esque thrill ride Northern Lights. Meanwhile, Abduction is the first big spec deal for Verve, whose principals came up at Endeavor and then recently left WME. Since Lautner is repped by WME (and Management 360), it looks like Ari Emanuel and company are playing nice with the upstart tenpercentery.

Happy 18th Birthday Taylor Lautner

 

Feb 11th is Taylor Lautner’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!

Here’s wishing our favorite warewolf a very Happy 18th Birthday!! I’m sure this makes many girls and twimoms all over the world very Happy! LOL

Taylor Lautner at ‘Valentine’s Day’ Premier

Access Hollywood got the chance to speak with Taylor Lautner at the premiere of Valentine’s Day.

Kellan and Taylor at Direct TV Celebrity Beach Bowl

Taylor Lautner and Kellan Lutz competed in the Direct TV Celebrity Beach Bowl in Miami, Florida earlier today, February 6th.   Taylor and Kellan were both on the blue team.

Check out all the photos from the Celebrity Beach Bowl HERE!

Here’s Taylor’s Interview

Taylor Lautner Cast as ‘Stretch Armstrong’

Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood broke the news that Taylor Lautner has booked another project.

According to Nikkie Finke, Donna Langley (co-chair at Universal) stated “In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power,” said Langley. “We couldn’t be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch.”

Taylor will be 20-years-old by the time the movie shoots in March 2012.

Taylor Lautner at AFC Championship Game

Taylor Lautner was photographed at the AFC Championship game today between the Indianapolis Colts and the New York Jets.

Taylor Lautner to Play In Celebrity Beach Bowl

Taylor Lautner will play in the Celebrity Beach Bowl from DIRECTV on Saturday, February 6, on DIRECTV channel 101. Let’s hope it rains!

Ex-Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning will coach one of the sides, with ex-Pro Bowlers Troy Aikman and Warren Moon captaining their respective teams at quarterback. Rounding out the teams will be TV and films stars including Taylor Lautner, Christian Slater, Guy Fieri and Kevin Dillon, all looking to prove they are just as much competitors as celebrities. And keep checking back to see what other celebrities will be taking to the sand.

More info here.

Hope For Haiti Telethon

Many Twilight castmembers helped out with the Hope For Haiti Telethon including Anna Kendrick, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Tinsel Korey.

Here’s a video of Rob’s Speech

YOU CAN STILL DONATE, SO DONATE HERE: HopeforHaitiNow.org

Golden Globe Videos – Taylor Lautner and Anna Kendrick

Taylor Lautner on the red carpet

Anna Kendrick on the red carpet

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