Anna Kendrick Defends Twilight Fans
Anna Kendrick proves that she’s just an amazing person all around. She recently defended the rabid Twilight fan base in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
During a recent conversation with Kendrick, Speakeasy asked the actress about her insider-outsider status. “I just feel really lucky to be in it but not have my privacy completely compromised by it,” Kendrick said. “I’m glad that the paparazzi haven’t followed me every day this year. I do not wish to be in that position.”
Still, Kendrick bristled at the notion that “Twilight” fans, or “Twihards,” are a little overboard. “People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance faires; people do Civil War reenactments; people do what they like,” Kendrick said. “I’m tired of hearing people rag on the fans. If you don’t like ‘Twilight,’ don’t buy a ticket.”
Oprah Wants to Hear From Twilight Fans!
Oprah is looking for Twilight fans who are willing to appear on her show!!
Are you or your kids obsessed with the Twilight series? Have you or your kids read all the books, seen both movies and now you are counting down the days until the release of Eclipse? Have you already made plans for the release of the newest movie in June? Who’s your family’s favorite Twilight star…and why?
Why do you love the story so much? How has it impacted your life? What have you learned from the series and how has it made you a better person? Are you a housewife who’s started a fan club with friends? Do you have a young adult in your family who’s been inspired to write his/her own stories? Has the romance in Twilight sparked the romance in your own relationship?
Tell us how the Twilight series has inspired you or your family! Please only write if you are willing to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Head over to Oprah.com to tell your story!
Edward’s Meadow Announces 2nd Annual Battle of the Twilight Bands
Edwards Meadow has just announced their 2nd annual Battle of the Twilight Bands!
The Battle of the Twilight Bands is a contest where all Twilight fans, both full fledged bands and single song writers, that have written a Twilight related song can send it in to compete against other song writers. We will be excepting entries until November 2nd. On November 4th, we will post all the entered songs along with a poll where Twilight fans can vote for their favorite song! Whoever gets the three highest ratings will win 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place!
Prizes include free merchandise from Essence of Twilight (http://www.essenceoftwilight.com/), and wallpapers with Stephenie Meyer and Robert Pattinson’s signatures! We will also be making a CD with the three winning songs and sending it to Stephenie!
Check out their site for more information! http://www.edwardsmeadow.com/battle-of-the-twilight-bands.html
Twilight Fans Flock to Comic Con
More than 500 Twilight fans are camping overnight in a line so they won’t miss that New Moon panel at Comic-Con Thursday afternoon.
The most dedicated fans started lining up two days early just to make sure they could get a front row seat to see Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and other stars of the movie. As the final night before the big panel begins now, there are already more than 500 people camping out to attend the most anticipated panel at Comic-Con.
Aura Reynolds and Liberty Griffen nabbed the first spot in the long line by getting here Tuesday night at 9 p.m. with their daughters Rebecca and Kristen. Their yellow and blue tent marks the beginning of rows upon rows of tents, chairs and blankets that form the twisting line outside Hall H, where the panel takes place at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow. The landscape looks like a giant family picnic, with bright-colored folding chairs and sleeping bags littered with black Twilight T-shirts and banners.
Check it out over at MTV
CNN Discusses Twilight Fans
CNN has an article up on the Twilight fan experience. They quoted various people at the Creation Entertainment Twilight Tour stop in Atlanta from fans, to the costume replica designer John Henson, to us.
” The fans are fervent enough that “Twilight” conventions will likely go on for years, Joffs said, “A woman picks up the book, expects it to be nothing much, kind of rolls her eyes, and then they get completely sucked in. It’s something about that book, something about the way Stephanie Myers(sic) wrote the books. I can’t see it dying down anytime soon.”
The article is basically good, but there are a couple of inaccuracies, for example this didn’t happen as they lock the building at night, we admit we are crazy fans, but we haven’t held any sit-ins. “Followers of the teen vampire romance also earned a reputation last year for claiming seats at Comic-Con — the huge San Diego-based sci-fi, fantasy and comic book convention — a day in advance and then not moving a muscle.”
And this part we giggled at, Lori wasn’t driven to Twilight because of her divorce, that was a coincidence that happened two and half years into running the site (45 minutes of questions waxing eloquent about female driven media and they quote they last comment when asked in passing “what do you do for a living”)….sometime you just have to laugh, you never know what reporters will pick up on.
Twilight Fans Make Quilt for Stephenie Meyer
Check out this new post from NewMoonMovie.org! -
A group of Twilight fans have been working on a quilt based on scenes from the Twilight universe with the ultimate goal of giving the handmade gift to author Stephenie Meyer.
Crafter Iris quilted the clock tower from the pivotal Italian scenes of New Moon for one block of the quilt, and she tells me that–
We decided to do a group quilt for Stephenie Meyer herself, and that is in it’s final stages of assembly before being sent to quilting. We have 3 main threads on TwilightMoms we communicate with, started a blog, and are super excited about our craft and our Twilight projects! What’s amazing is non of us has met in person, we started the SM Quilt only 6 weeks ago, and coordinated, shared ideas, even fabric swapped to quickly put it all together.
Check out the group’s blog for more info on the quilt over at the Twilight Quilters Coven!
Twilight Fans to be Seat Fillers at MTV Awards
Some intensely dedicated Twilight fans have landed the role of seat fillers for the MTV Movie Awards, and one fan in particular is hoping to keep warm the seat of Robert Pattinson as soon as he has the chance to stand up.
Cam Gigandet vs. Twilight Fans
OK this is the FUNNIEST thing I’ve seen in a while. Enjoy watching this PG-13 spoof by Funny or Die.
