Eclipse Cast on Upcoming Talk Shows
Thanks the the folks over at the Lexicon we have the dates for cast appearances on upcoming talk shows!! Check it out!
June 14: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Jimmy Kimmel
June 14: Robert Pattinson Today Show
June 15: Robert Pattinson The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
June 23: Ashley Greene and Sia(soundtrack) Jimmy Kimmel
June 28: Kristen Stewart The Late Show with David Letterman
June 28: Fanfarlo(soundtrack) Last call With Carson Daily (repeat)
June 28: Elizabeth Reaser Jimmy Kimmel
June 28: Taylor Lautner “Live with Regis and Kelly”
June 28: Taylor Lautner The Today Show
June 29: Kristen Stewart The Today Show
June 29: Nikki Reed Jimmy Kimmel
June 29: Kristen Stewart “Live with Regis and Kelly”
June 30: Peter Facinelli Jimmy Kimmel
July 1: Taylor Lautner The Late Show with David Letterman
July 6: Nikki Reed “Live with Regis and Kelly”
July 7:Bryce Dallas Howard “Live with Regis and Kelly”
Twilight Lexicon Interview With Catherine Hardwicke
May 24, 2010 by Sara
Filed under Interviews, News, Videos
The ladies at the Lexicon had the chance to interview Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke at a recent TwiTour stop. Check it out below!
We had the opportunity to interview Catherine Hardwicke at Creation Entertainment’s Official Twilight Tour in Vancouver. We can honestly say that this is an interview that we are never going to forget.
Source: Twilight Lexicon
Twilight Lexicon Interview With Edi Gathegi
May 10, 2010 by Sara
Filed under Interviews, News
The folks over at the Twilight Lexicon had the opportunity to interview Edi Gathegi at the creation Entertainment Official Twilight convention in Arlington, VA a few weeks ago. Check out some of what he had to say!
Laura: So one of the things actors usually talk about is how acting is this life long process. You never stop learning with acting, and you’ve had the chance to work with two really great directors – Catherine Hardwicke and Chris Weitz. What do you think you’ve learned from Catherine and brought into your ensemble? And what do you feel the same way with Chris? What do you think you got from each of those directors that you didn’t have before? Or maybe a new respect for something having worked for them?
Edi: I’ll start with Chris Weitz. He’s a great director and amazing in so many different ways. But I think in the nature of New Moon with the CGI was a completely different experience for me. I grew up watching big, epic, cinematic films, but I didn’t have that concept of how you make a movie like that.
Read the full interview HERE
Summit Sued By New Moon Script Finder
The folks over at Twilight Lexicon have a very interesting post about Casey Ray, the woman who found both a New Moon script and a Remember Me script in the dumpster in St. Louis.
Roughly a year ago Casey Ray, a St. Louis area hairdresser, found Anna Kendrick’s watermarked New Moon script in a dumpster outside a hotel where Anna had been staying while she shot Up in the Air With George Clooney and crew. Additionally she found another unwatermarked script entitled “Memoirs” at the same location. Memoirs was the original title for Remember Me.
“When Ray found the scripts, she considered leaking them to a national tabloid but decided against it, said her lawyer, Al Watkins.
“My client didn’t really want to get paid,” he said, but she was interested in hanging onto the scripts as collector’s items.
Watkins helped her return them to Los Angeles-based Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio making the movies. He said the studio invited Ray to premieres for the two films, and will certify the scripts as authentic after the movies are released.
“Summit doesn’t comment on any of the deals it does,” Summit spokesman Paul Pflug said. But he added, “We thank Ms. Ray for doing the right thing.”
MSNBC has a good outline of what happened here.
Then several months later, Casey Ray complained to TMZ that it was going to cost her over $1,200 in travel expenses to attend the New Moon premiere and after party. As part of her deal she was able to attend both events, walk down the read carpet, and get a script signed by the entire cast, but travel expenses were never included.
“Casey Ray tells TMZ she’s grateful Summit Entertainment coughed up two tickets to the film’s L.A. premiere and after party on November 16 — but the cost of traveling expenses is biting her in the behind.
Ray says the round-trip tickets for her and her niece cost $1,200 — plus another bundle to pay for a hotel and whatever other expenses the duo happens to rack up.
We spoke to a rep for Summit who says Ray’s complaint comes as a complete surprise. The rep said Ray had no problems with the reward package — which also includes a walk down the red carpet and a signed copy of the script by the movie’s lead actors — when she agreed on it back in May … and Summit hasn’t heard a peep from Ray since.”
EDITED:(Just found more to the story, read below) Al Watkins, Casey Ray’s attorney, denies the TMZ story and sheds more light on his client’s frame of mind:
“”Casey and I told them that we would have loved it if Summit had paid for her flight and hotel, but that was never part of the deal,” Watkins tells Daily RFT. “They just took that one part of our conversation and ran with it.”
Watkins adds that part of the deal with Summit has Ray receiving a copy of the script signed by the actors in the film, which could net thousands of dollars at auction.
“It was a very fair deal,” he says.
But what was Ray — a hairdresser with Salon K in the Delmar Loop — doing in the hotel’s garbage to begin with?
“She was waiting for her boyfriend and just killing time,” explains Watkins. “She’s a Dumpster diver. Look, I’m not going to judge her hobby. She opened the bin and the script was lying there right on top. It’s not like she was inside the Dumpster rummaging through the garbage — though I’m not saying she wouldn’t do such a thing.”
Read the rest on the Riverfront Times. There is also a photogallery of Casey Ray having her photo taken with Melissa Rosenberg, Alex Meraz, and Charlie Bewley at what appears to be the red carpet and the after party.
Now apparently instead of attending the Remember Me premiere personally, Casey Ray tried to auction off her premiere tickets and after party attendance on EBAY. According to correspondence made public via court papers Summit discovered the auction and advised Casey Ray that the items as per their agreement were non-transferable, however Ray’s attorney thinks they are. It then looked like they tried to reach a compromise settlement, which evidently failed, and now there’s a lawsuit.
St. Louis Today has the details. as does the St. Louis Business Journal.
Unless they settle this out of court it’s unlikely that this will be resolved before the Remember Me Premiere which takes place this Monday in New York. It’s all going to come down to contract law and the written agreements. What do you think about the only certain thing here which is, in our opinion, what a mess!
New Moon to Surpass Twilight Sales
Twilight Lexicon has an awesome post about New Moon sales getting ready to surpass Twilight movie sales in only a weeks time! Check it out -
According to Hit Fix New Moon brought in over $14 million dollars on Wednesday.
“”The Twilight Saga: New Moon” go? After making another $14.3 million on Wednesday for a new U.S. total of $179 million, the question isn’t whether it will hit the $250 million mark it’s whether it can hit $300 million. Considering the first “Twilight” made only $192 million a year ago that would be a stunning achievement.”
According to Gossip Cop the Thursday total is $9 million
That would but New Moon’s total domestic earning at approximately $188.4 million dollars. Twilight earned $192.7 million in it’s teatrical run that lasted from November 21, 208-April 2, 2009. In other words, what it took Twilight a little over four months to earn, New moon will earn in a week. Without question New Moon will pull in at least 4 million this Friday which will have it jump the Twilight total. In fact it will probably surpass the coveted $200 million mark by the end of the weekend.
All of this will have New Moon land in the number 6 position right behind Star Trek starting next week. Where it goes from there is anyone’s guess.
EW is celebrating the success with this article
“The ascendance of the Twilight saga represents an essential paradigm shift in youth-gender control of the pop marketplace. For the better part of two decades, teenage boys, and overgrown teenage boys, have essentially held sway over Hollywood, dictating, to a gargantuan degree, the varieties of movies that get made. Explosive truck-smashing action and grisly machete-wielding horror, inflated superhero fantasy and knockabout road-trip comedy: It has been, at heart, a boys’ pig-out, a playpen of testosterone at the megaplex. Sure, we have “chick flicks,” but that (demeaning) term implies that they’re an exception, a side course in the great popcorn smorgasboard.
No more. With New Moon, the Twilight series is now officially as sweeping a juggernaut on the big screen as it ever was between book covers. And that gives the core audience it represents — teenage girls — a new power and prevalence. Inevitably, such evolutions in clout are accompanied by a resentful counter-reaction. For if power is gained, then somewhere else (hello, young men!) it must be lost. ..The key to New Moon’s appeal, of course, is that a lack of consummation is built into the movie’s very premise, and so the sexiness, as it was in the ’50s, has to emerge almost entirely from the atmosphere, and from the interplay of those faces. And that, more than anything, is what makes this a picture dominated, in spirit, by a new kind of girl power. Mock me all you want (and from the haters, I expect nothing less), but the reason I believe that the big-screen success of the Twilight saga bodes well for the future of Hollywood movies is that the teenage girls who are lining up to see New Moon are asserting, in an almost innocent way, their allegiance to a much older form of pop moviemaking: the narcotic potency of mood, story, and romantic suggestion over the constant visual wham-pow! of action, effects, and packaged sensation. It’s not that New Moon has none of that stuff. It’s that the movie uses fantasy to liberate, rather than to steamroll, its emotions. That’s what makes it a new-style, feminine-driven brand of popcorn, one that’s more than welcome at a moment when the other kind — the boys’ kind — has grown more than a bit stale.”
Eclipse Shooting Moving Along
Twilight Lexicon has a cool article up about Eclipse featuring some exclusive info from Malicious Mandy -
It’s always interesting when franchise movies change directors. Everyone has something new to bring to the project. So far from what we can tell as the casual observer, David Slade seems to be plowing ahead with efficiency while maintaining a sense of humor.
In the last couple of days, sets in very different locations have gone up in the afternoon, have had shooting done at night, and by mid morning all traces are gone. Quite impressive. At the same time, after undergoing what is obviously a long night of shooting, David had tweeted to fans about a joke picture he took with the prop guys.
Mandy, talks about seeing this uber organization first hand, where a scene under a bridge involving Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel was done in a heartbeat, while still having attention to detail.
“I was not at all surprised to see NOTHING left…
I know lot’s of people don’t have sets in their own backyard but shooting a scene takes tons of time, money, people and equipment…
I am so impressed so far with how “on the ball” David Slade is.
I remember when I met him outside Blue Water Cafe for the Cast Party at the end of New Moon. He stopped to chat with me and to clear the air about the things he had previously said about Twilight Saga…. he was cordial and really quite sweet… and short… but anyways…. so far this director has been in and out of multiple sets using perfect locations and just hammering it out quick and easy…
So yes, when I saw nothing at under the bridge today I was not shocked… David Slade and his crew are good – really good!”
Check out Mandy’s full report here including pictures of Bryce and Xavier that are a bit spoilerish. So, if you don’t want to see what could be termed a Victoria’s point of view scene, don’t click this link, however this link is safe.
Mandy also mentions some of the craziness that is happening on the local Vancouver air waves and in the print media.
“Last night, we stumbled upon this set while re-visiting a previous set used for New Moon. We were excited to see another live set but did not stay long as they quickly blocked the view with several screens and large trucks…I had been texted a few seconds earlier by a friend saying “some dumb broad called the radio and claimed they would tell everyone where the set was after the break”…I have actually had massive arguements with people about publicizing set locations when you can’t control who hears… meaning crazy people hear and show up and act – well… crazy!)”
Touring Twilight
Twilight Lexicon has an awesome new post about different options for Twilight related tours etc. Check out what they posted -
If you are looking to literally explore the world of Twilight, you have a number of options.
Twilight FanTrips has been in “book travel” business for many years. They are the creators of the highly successful Harry Potter fan tours. Twilight FanTrips has some thing for everyone be it one-day events like Vampire Baseball or full-blown excursions where you tour the filming locations, Forks, and can top it off by shopping like Alice.
Stephenie Meyer Day is September 13 in Forks, Washington. This event is held every year on Bella’s birthday. You can get an actual tour of Forks High School, compete in a costume contest, and meet up with other fans.
Dazzled By Twilight has several daily tours that take you all over La Push and Forks. They hit the high points from Forks Hospital to First Beach. They also tell some great stories along the way. They also have the most complete collection of Twilight items that we have ever seen in their Forks store. Coming from us, that is saying something.
Novel Journeys will whisk you away to fabulous Italy if seeing the filming locations in Montepulciano and the actual city of Volterra is what you crave. A private motor coach will be the transportation of choice. First stop, Montepulciano, where NEW MOON the movie, in theaters November 2009, was filmed. Trip highlights include: retracing Bella’s journey through Volterra, a tour of the filming locations, and a wine tasting in the Volturi’s underground lair. Other towns visited are Siena, the hill town of Montalcino, the abbey of Monte Oliveto and Florence.
