USA Today: Rob, Kristen, and Taylor
May 17, 2010 by Sara
Filed under Interviews, News
USA Today was able to interview Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner when they were in Chicago for Oprah.
“Dashingly disheveled Robert Pattinson has an infectious, high-pitched laugh that would never do for his seductive vampire lover-boy, Edward Cullen.
Buff-and-polished Taylor Lautner is pocket-size compared with the looming stature of his werewolf counterpart, Jacob Black.
Casual yet cool Kristen Stewart can be a real chatterbox, unlike her moody Bella Swan, the high schooler in a romantic tug of war between these two supernatural objects of teen desire.
Dakota Fanning Chats With USA Today
March 29, 2010 by Sara
Filed under Interviews, News
Dakota Fanning recently spoke with USA Today about her role as Cherie Currie in The Runaways.
“A lot of people still think of me as young, and as the girl from I Am Sam, or whatever,” Fanning says on a sunny spring afternoon in her room at the Regency Hotel after a day of doing non-stop press. She’s plopped on a couch, dressed casually in skinny jeans, open-laced boots, a gray blazer layered over a graphic tee. Around her neck is a simple Tiffany gold key necklace.
“After this (film), I might be able to do different things,” Fanning, 16, says. “As you get older, there are roles you can no longer do and so many more things you can do.” Mentored on-set by Currie, on-screen Fanning dives deep into the pitfalls of fame: drinking, smoking (herbal cigarettes, she says), and thrusting sexuality full-force into the camera with each throaty cherry-bomb burst.
In person, Fanning is still the sweet, fresh-faced young actor behind past performances in I Am Sam, The Secret Life of Bees and Charlotte’s Web. ”I really liked that I was 15 (playing the role), and (Currie) was 15 and seeing what a different time I’ve grown up in and thinking, ‘I could probably never do this, I could probably never be on my own and on the road and performing in lingerie.’ “
Read more here.
Twilight Saga Top Selling Books of 2009
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer has swept the top four spots in the USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list of 2009!!
Led by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, vampires devoured USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list in 2009. For the second year in a row, Meyer swept the top four spots. No other author — not even J. K. Rowling— has done that in the list’s 16-year history.Meyer’s coattails pulled 16 other vampire titles onto the list of the year’s 100 most popular books.
“Meyer had an unbelievable impact,” says Michael Norris, books analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm. He wonders what publishers will do when what he calls ” ‘the vampire industrial average’ falls. Every cycle has an end.”
But for now, Meyer — who has also benefited from Twilight movie adaptations, with more to come — has turned “the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books,” he says. “She’s not just read by tweens and teens, but by a lot of 30-year-old women.”
No matter who’s reading them, books for kids and teens accounted for 29% of sales tracked in 2009 — the highest percentage in the list’s history, up from 28% in 2008 and 22% in 2007.
Source: USAToday
Anna Kendrick Gives Traveling Tips
Anna Kendrick talks to USA today about her favorite spots on the globe.
Q: Did you learn anything about traveling while making Up in the Air?
A: I’m getting better about going through security. I’m trying to be better about wearing slip-on shoes and not forgetting to take my laptop out of my suitcase. Traveling makes me a little nervous, because the actual act of being in an airport means you’re completely at the mercy of other people.
Q: What’s the sexiest place you’ve ever visited?
A: I thought Omaha, Neb., was pretty sexy. I swear to God. Conor Oberst (of Mystic Valley Band fame) came out of there, and where we were staying was near all these record shops and used T-shirt shops. They all had this kind of rock ‘n’ roll vibe. It was like every person walking down the street was going to be the next big thing. I’ve got a real thing for kind of rebellious, music-looking guys.
Q: Where have you been recently, and what did you like about it?
A: I went to London to do some press. They don’t have a lot of foods that I’m used to having available at all times, but I did enjoy sticky toffee pudding, shepherd’s pie and black pudding for the first time. Even though (the British) don’t have a reputation for having the best food in the world, I definitely went on quite a binge.
Q: What’s the first thing you do when you walk into a hotel room after checking in?
A: Check the bed. The most important thing in a hotel room to me is the bed and the shower. As long as you’ve got good pressure and a good bed, it doesn’t really matter what else they’ve got. I’ve been in hotel rooms where there’s, like, a chandelier in the shower. It really doesn’t matter if the water pressure is not good. I’ll get in the bed almost immediately and check it out to see if I’m going to have a good night’s sleep
USA Today: Ashley Greene on Eclipse
A new article from USA Today discusses Ashley Greene’s overnight stardom.
On Alice in Eclipse and David Slade:
Just like the first two Twilight movies, Eclipse has a different director, David Slade, who Greene says is “definitely different from Catherine (Hardwicke) and Chris (Weitz). He is technically the most specific director that I’ve ever worked with.” Greene says fans of the franchise should expect Slade to “bring a darker element to this film. He seems to kind of specialize in that.”
That darker side includes Alice as well. “In (Twilight), you see that quality about Alice that makes her so lovable is she’s so positive and upbeat. In (New Moon), you see how she takes these uncomfortable situations and she’s sassy and she brings light to a dark scene,” Greene says. “In (Eclipse), you get to see a little bit of a darker side when her family is in danger. You get to see once again that she is an animal and she’s not human.”
Read the rest of the article at USA Today.
Twilight Saga Breaks Records!!
USA Today just announced that the Twilight Saga broke a record previously held by Harry Potter. So you can see how the sales total comparison is an interesting one.
According to USA Today:
“The four-book Twilight series has sunk its fangs into USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list — with no signs of letting go. Meyer’s domination of the list for the past 12 months has smashed records that until now had belonged to J.K. Rowling.
Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the teen-vampire romance series, entered the list at No. 1 on Aug. 2, 2008. Its sales and those of Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, the first three books, have remained staggering.
This week, Meyer’s novels are Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 on USA TODAY’s list.
Rowling, overall, has sold more books than Meyer — her seven-book series about boy wizard Harry Potter has 143 million copies in print in the USA, while Meyer has sold 40 million copies of her four books. But Rowling can’t match Meyer’s control of the list.”
Twilight Book Sales Not Slowing Down
According to USA Today:
“Vampires won’t let go. Just as they did in the first quarter, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels continued to dominate USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list in the second quarter — selling in the same order as they did in the first three months of the year.
Top 20 sellers for the second quarter
1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer”
