Robert Pattinson update: ‘Twilight’ star talks love, fans, and ‘Water for Elephants’ (video)

The star of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, in a new interview discusses his upcoming film, Water for Elephants.

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Taylor Lautner appears at “The Runaways” premiere but Pattinson still busy shooting!

Kristen Stewart’s Oscar date and “Twilight” mate, Taylor Lautner was quite expectedly present at the premiere of her movie “The Runaways” while her rumored boy friend was a no show. The Brit boy was busy shooting for his upcoming film “Bel Ami.”

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Exclusive: Kristen Stewart Reacts To The ‘Eclipse’ Trailer

Earlier today, Cinematical sat down with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning to talk about their new movie The Runaways, in which the actresses play Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, two of the founding members of the eponymous all-girl rock band. (Look for a full-length, exclusive interview with the duo in the weeks to come.) Following our discussion of the ins and outs of playing real-life rock stars, talk turned to the new 90-second trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which debuted online this morning.

When I asked if either of them got to see the trailer, Stewart and Fanning turned to one another for reactions. “Did you watch it?” Stewart asked Fanning.

“No, I didn’t,” Fanning replied. “I watched it,” Stewart said with enthusiasm. When I prodded her for specific feelings, she said, “Well, it’s really fast, isn’t it? It’s sort of like a couple of pictures strung together. But it looks good – it looks good! I think Taylor [Lautner] looks really great. Like, he looks very strong and I love his voice in it,” she said. “He’s good in it.”

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse official website launched with interactive Twitter feed

As fans wait patiently for the movie to release on June 30, 2010, they can bide their time by visiting the official website for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

The website features an interactive Twitter feed on the official The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie website’s main page. The 90 second trailer is also featured.

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I love that Taylor showed up to support Kristen. He’s such a gentleman. Wouldn’t you agree?

What do you think of today’s Twilight news?

Check out the first official trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse!

The Official Movie site: http://www.eclipsethemovie.com/

What did you think of the trailer? Which scenes are you looking forward to the most?

Twilight Takes Over Oscars! Kinda!

What’s an awards show these days without some teen vampires and werewolves? Nothing! So that’s why at this year’s Academy Awards, they snuck some in. The Twilight Saga: New Moon had, let’s see, zero Oscar nominations, but somehow here’s Anna Kendrick, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner attending the ritziest party of the year.

So Kendrick didn’t technically sneak in. She totally earned it, being nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Up In The Air and also presenting an award (lucky!) with Zac Efron.

But Taylor and Kristen dodged bodyguards and hid behind props to get into this thing. OK, not exactly—but did the Academy cook up a tribute to horror films just to have an excuse to put these two on stage together?

Also, Robert Pattinson couldn’t make it, but still got mentioned in Neil Patrick Harris’ opening ballad.

So now that the stars have gained access to the planet’s most exclusive party, all that’s left is to make a Twilight movie worthy of Oscar night…
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See costumes and props from Oscar nominees at the Hollywood Museum

If you’re in the neighborhood of the Kodak Theatre and can’t get into the Oscars this weekend, try the next best thing. Drop by the Hollywood Museum one block away – it’s located in the Max Factor Building at 1660 N. Highland Ave., where you can see costumes and artifacts from leading nominees like “The Hurt Locker,” “The Blind Side,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Julie & Julia,” “The Young Victoria,” “Bright Star,” “(500) Days of Summer” and “Star Trek” mixed in with treasures from Oscars past, like “Gone With the Wind,” “Ben-Hur,” “Gladiator” and even the first film to win best picture, “Wings.”

I serve as guest curator every year to organize this exhibition titled “And the Winner Is …,” which celebrates all films up for kudos throughout the award season. We even feature items from such popular films as “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Twilight: New Moon” (yes, yes, we have a Taylor Lautner costume in addition ones worn by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) and Miley Cyrus’ concert film. Some of them were up for guild awards or even — yikes — Razzies.

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No Razzies for ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon,’ Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner

A couple of weeks ago, the nominees for this year’s satirical Razzie Awards came down and showed The Twilight Saga: New Moon and its cast to be nominated in several categories.

The Razzies – of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation – are purposed at “saluting the worst that Hollywood has to offer each year.”
The Twilight Saga: New Moon was nominated for several Razzies, including “WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL,” “WORST SCREEN COUPLE of 2009″ for “Kristen Stewart & Either Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner, Twilight Saga: New Moon,” “WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR OF 2009″ for Robert Pattinson, and “WORST SCREENPLAY OF 2009.”

New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner all escaped winning in these categories (one award series that Twilight fans might not be sad to see the franchise lose at), but one person who did win a Razzie was Sandra Bullock (for The Blind Side), and, classy lady that she happens to be, she showed up to accept it herself. SOURCE

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner Presenting at the Oscar’s 2010

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RED CARPET EXCLUSIVE: Anna Kendrick says Oscar red carpet is nothing compared to ‘Twilight’

Oscar-nominated actress Anna Kendrick told FoxNews.com where she was when the Academy Award nominations were announced.

“I was actually running. I was too nervous to watch the nominations come up,” said the “Up in the Air” star. “I waited for my roommate to text me and then I sprinted home.”

When she heard she was nominated she “celebrated with a lot of food and champagne – at 5 in the morning, it was still dark out!”

“This film has been a whole different ball game,” said Anna, who also stars in the ‘Twilight’ saga. “It was the only film I’ve done that i was the youngest person on set.”

And it turns out the young star was one of the old pros when it comes to red carpets.
“It’s a little crazy,” she said. “But once you’ve been to a ‘Twighlight’ red carpet, you’re a pro.” SOURCE

Writing the Twilight Saga: An Exclusive Interview with Melissa Rosenberg

The challenge of adapting Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga to the big screen has fallen to writer Melissa Rosenberg, who, by the end of it, will have provided the scripts for each novel. Earths Mightiest editor Edward Gross sat down for a one-on-one interview with Rosenberg, who is also co-executive producer of Dexter.

This interview, which was conducted at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles back in November, looks at the making of New Moon, Rosenberg’s collaboration with David Slade on Eclipse and what she feels she’s learned from working with Slade, Chris Weitz and Catherine Hardwicke during the making of these films.

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Chris Weitz turns down Twilight Breaking Dawn?

Now that we pretty much know that the final book in the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn, is being broken into two movies (it’s not been confirmed, but there are few who don’t expect it to happen), arguably the big question remaining is just who Summit Entertainment is going to rope in to direct them.

It’s easy enough to rule out Catherine Hardwicke, who helmed the first movie, as she’s now looking to do The Girl With The Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried (also, it does seem that she and Summit aren’t best of chums). David Slade, who’s putting the finishing touches to Twilight: Eclipse, is not someone Summit appears keen to re-recruit either.

Yet, Chris Weitz, the man who steered the ship on Twilight: New Moon, has been near the top of most people’s list to at least take on one of the Breaking Dawn movies. However, that idea now appears dead, as the director himself has ruled himself out of the running.

“Of course I’m interested,” he told MTV. “But I think I’m on record saying I have a 2-and-a-half-year-old son.”

“Because it’d be such a long shoot for ‘Breaking Dawn’, it kind of brings me to the edge of my physical and mental endurance. And I just don’t believe I have it in me, and I think that it’s appropriate that someone else go ahead and do it.”

Summit’s search, therefore, continues. We’d like it to take the kind of gambles that Warner Bros eventually started taking with its Harry Potter movies, ideally, but given how crucial the Twilight saga is to the fabric of Summit Entertainment, don’t be surprised if it goes for a safe choice.

We wonder what Mr Ratner is doing?

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KRISTEN STEWART AND TAYLOR LAUTNER TO PRESENT AT OSCARS TONIGHT

Don’t forget that “New Moon” stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will be among the celebrities presenting awards at tonight’s Academy Awards ceremonies.  The program starts at 8 PM EST (5 PM PST) on ABC.  Click here for international broadcast information.  Live red carpet coverage begins on E! at 6 PM EST (3 PM PST).

AN INTERVIEW WITH MELISSA ROSENBERG

Earthsmightiest.com recently posted the audio of an exclusive interview with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg from November 2009 in which she talks about New Moon and what it was like to work with the different directors on each installment in the Twilight Saga.

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KRISTEN STEWART TO APPEAR ON JAY LENO ON MARCH 10

With the press junket getting into full-swing for “The Runaways”, Kristen Stewart will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday, March 10.  Dakota Fanning will hit the show on Friday, March 12.

CAN KRISTEN STEWART USE “THE RUNAWAYS” TO BECOME A SERIOUS ACTRESS

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Only one week after her “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson will attempt to show off his more serious acting chops in “Remember Me,” Kristen Stewart will also stray from the world of vampires with “The Runaways.”

Surprisingly, it’s not Stewart but Fanning who seems to shine in the film. Fanning is known for her more innocent roles in “I Am Sam” and “The Secret Life of Bees,” but we were surprised by how much we bought Currie’s penchant for hard partying. Stewart, meanwhile, seems to be channeling the persona the public has assigned to her: a surly, rebellious teen who wants to do things her own way.  The question, of course, is whether she has the versatility to pull off roles that go beyond that of the mopey Bella Swan  ingenue in “Twilight” and “New Moon.” Despite the glimmers of possibility she flashed in “Adventureland,” from the bits we’ve see in this trailer, we have our doubts.

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FULL THEATRICAL TRAILER FOR “THE RUNAWAYS” FEATURING KRISTEN STEWART AND DAKOTA FANNING

A full-length trailer for “The Runaways” was released this week featuring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning.

DVR ALERT: ROBERT PATTINSON TO APPEAR ON “THE EARLY SHOW” ON MARCH 9

Set your DVR for another Robert Pattinson TV interview.  GossipCop.com has confirmed that Robert Pattinson will appear on CBS’ “The Early Show” on Tuesday, March 9 in a segment he taped after the show’s regular broadcast three days ago.

KELLAN LUTZ TO APPEAR IN “A MISFITS’ CHRISTMAS”

It has been reported that Kellan Lutz will star in a film called “A Misfits’ Christmas” along with Ashley Tisdale and Brittany Snow.  The film is centered around eight friends celebrating Christmas together.

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“[Misfits'] an escalating drama about eight friends who spend consecutive Christmas Eve’s together during their four years of college,” explains writer/director Tabb. “As we drop in on them annually, we watch the characters lose their innocence and form a dysfunctional family with interwoven relationships.

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I’ll admit that Melissa Rosenberg’s interviews generally get on my nerves because she didn’t really seem to get which scenes were critical in the first movie, but this one has actually impressed me.  I love her comments on how she and Chris Weitz would have been “tarred and feathered” if they didn’t include the scene where Jacob takes off his shirt to tend to Bella’s head wound when she wipes out on the motorcycle.  It’s interesting to hear her take on working with three different directors on the same series.

As always, I love to see news of other Twilight cast members picking up new roles.  I’m looking forward to seeing Kellan in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake.  It will be interesting to see how this movie shapes up.

Rob and Kristen have a lot riding on their performances in “Remember Me” and “The Runaways”.  It seems that too many critics view them as teen heartthrobs and not as actors to take seriously.  I’m pleased to see that Rob has been getting lots of praise for his performance in “Remember Me”.  I hope that Kristen shares the same good fortune.  It bothers me that the author of the LA Times article is basing their assessment on the freakin’ trailer.  It’s not like Kristen lacks talent…unlike some of the bimbos who constantly greet us on magazine covers in the grocery store checkout line.

What do you think of today’s Twilight Saga news?  Join us in the forum and chat – we’d love to hear from you!

Burton Producing ‘Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’

Tim Burton and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov are producing an adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The fictional(?) novel was written by Seth Graham-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is also getting the movie treatment with Natalie Portman.

According to the Heat Vision Blog, the book depicts the 16th President of the United States as an axe-throwing vampire killer out for revenge on the bloodsuckers after one kills his mother. Allegedly. This might not have really happened. I fell asleep in history class a lot. All though it’s unclear how Lincoln’s history of wrestling will factor into the vampire hunting and/or killing.

The two Hollywood directors previously collaborated on the animated film 9. Neither is expected to direct Honest Abe hacking away at the undead, which means Johnny Depp won’t be wearing a top hat (again). Instead Burton will find another established work and somehow make it creepier than it was before. Hopefully with better results than the disappointing Alice in Wonderland.

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Exclusive Interview: Helena Bonham Carter (Alice in Wonderland)
Helena Bonham Carter was enjoying a remarkable career by any standard. She started out as a talented and gorgeous British teen, and has grown up on screen, veering from period dramas, including A Room With A View, Howards End and The Wings of the Dove (1997), to contemporary pieces such as Fight Club, several of the Harry Potter adventures, and Terminator Salvation. Then somewhere along the way — actually, we can pinpoint it; it was while making Planet Of The Apes — Carter also became a seemingly permanent presence in the life and films of Tim Burton.

What intrigued you about the character of the Red Queen?

She’s really funny. I just loved deforming myself. So the idea that I’d have this huge head was immediately attractive to me. I had this special camera that followed me around, that made my head bigger. There’s only two of them in the world. Johnny (Depp) had one that made his eyes bigger. Well, it wasn’t a camera, but it was a special effect. My head was going to get very, very much bigger than my normal head. And then she’s a mixture of things. She obviously has emotional problems. She has something like Tourette’s. “Off with their head!” That’s her answer to everything or any problem. She’s very much given to anger. I thought she was, mentally and emotionally, about age two. She was really good fun to play.

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Apparition recently released this HD movie trailer for the film “The Runaways” starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Both Kristen and Dakota also star in the upcoming Twilight sequel “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” co-starring Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

Synopsis: The Runaways (Neon Angels) is based on lead-singer Cherie Currie’s book ‘Neon Angel’ – a reflection of her experiences as a rock star, but also delivering a strong anti-drug warning to teens and others. David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” serves as a metaphor for the narrative– a slow countdown, a surreal but spectacular rise to fame, then alienation and burnout – a long long way from home.

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What did you think about today’s movie news? Are you excited about the new Vampire book to movie adaptation? Will you see ‘The Runaways’, what did you think about the new trailer?

KRISTEN STEWART AND DAKOTA FANNING TO APPEAR ON “THE RUNAWAYS” SOUNDTRACK

Like their co-star Robert Pattinson did with “Twilight”, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning now have their names tied to a movie soundtrack.   Aceshowbiz.com reports:

The track list to soundtrack from biopic “The Runaways” has been revealed and lead actresses Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning apparently will show their singing skills for this movie. They team up for two songs titled “Queens of Noise” and “Dead End Justice”. Fanning, moreover, performs solo singles, “California Paradise” as well as “Cherry Bomb” which has been featured in the teaser trailer for the film.

The soundtrack is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and will be available in stores on March 23.

ATLANTA TO HOST TWILIGHT CONVENTION MARCH 5 -7, 2010

The Twilight Convention will roll into Atlanta for three days, beginning on March 5.  The AtlantaInTownPaper.com is reporting that the following stars will be in attendance over the weekend:

On Friday only, Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen); on Saturday only, Michael Welch (Mike Newton), Daniel Cubmore (New Moon’s and Eclipse’s Felix), Gil Birmingham (Billy Black) and Christopher Heyerdahl (Volturi Leader Marcus); on Sunday only, Gil Birmingham (Billy Black), Kiowa Gordon (Wolf Pack – Embry Call) and Tinsel Korey (New Moon’s Emily).

Tickets are available through www.twilightconvention.com and at the door.

KELLAN LUTZ IN TRAILER FOR “NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” REMAKE

A trailer has been released for the remake of the horror classic “Nightmare on Elm Street”.  The beginning of the trailer features Kellan in a seemingly deserted diner.

MICHAEL SHEEN TALKS VAMPIRES, POLITICIANS, AND SOCCER

Michael Sheen recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly in an interview about his film “The Damned United” and explained that playing real a real person isn’t much different from playing a vampire.

EW: It seems like there’s these two very divergent strands in your career right now: playing these true-life figures, and playing decidedly unrealistic characters: vampires, werewolves, and now, the White Rabbit in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. How is your preparation different for the more fantastical roles?

It’s all in order to achieve the same things: an imaginative connection and an emotional connection. In the case of playing the real-life people, it means watching as much footage as I can, reading about them as much as I can, maybe meeting people who knew them. I’m ultimately just looking for the bits in me that correspond to them

Every time you play a more fantastical character that’s been done many times, like a vampire, you’re kind of riffing on what’s already gone before. You’re partly using what the audience already know and expect in order to slightly subvert their expectations, to play with that. Which is sort of what Peter Morgan does in the films that we’ve done about the real people.

When I was doing Aro in New Moon, [I thought about] certain characters that scared me as a child, like the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or the Blue Meanie in Yellow Submarine. It was their voice, and it was a certain softness that you could tell could turn nasty at any time. I think it’s a fantasy parent figure in a way. A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry. And that, writ large, can be very, very scary.

EW: Are you excited to return to planet Twilight for Breaking Dawn?

I am! The whole Twilight juggernaut has been focusing on Eclipse for awhile, which I’m not in. They haven’t turned their attention to Breaking Dawn yet. But I’m looking forward to donning the red contacts again.

TAYLOR LAUTNER DROPS MATTEL’S “MAX STEEL” TO MAKE HASBRO’S “STRETCH ARMSTRONG”

Forget Team Edward versus Team Jacob, Taylor Lautner found himself in the midst of a bigger rivalry in toy-obsessed Hollywood: Team Mattel versus Team Hasbro. And Vulture has learned that Hasbro just won this round; Lautner had originally been signed on to do both Paramount’s Max Steel (based on the doll by Mattel, the world’s biggest toy company) and Universal’s Stretch Armstrong (a classic character for Hasbro, the world’s second biggest toymaker), with Steel up first. But insiders tell us that Lautner has just dropped the Mattel movie.

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ROBERT PATTINSON AND ANNA KENDRICK UP FOR EMPIRE FILM AWARDS

The Jameson Empire Film Awards will be held in London on March 28 and two Twilight Saga stars are among the nominees.  Robert Pattinson is nominated in the category of Best Actor for “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”.  Other nominees in the category include Sir Michael Caine (“Harry Brown”), Christopher Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds”), Sam Worthingon (“Avatar”), and Robert Downey, Jr. (“Sherlock Holmes”).

Anna Kendrick is nominated in the Best Newcomer category.  She is up against Carey Mulligan (“An Education”), Aaron Johnson (“Nowhere Boy”),  Sharlto Copley (“District 9″), and Katie Jarvis (“Fish Tank”).

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KRISTEN STEWART TALKS LOVE, KISSING, AND “ECLIPSE”

In this video from ReelzChannel.com, Kristen Stewart talks about levels of love, kissing on set, and what fans can expect to see in “Eclipse” when it hits theaters this summer.

I’ve seen a bunch of backlash on the Internet already about Kristen Stewart having a song on the soundtrack for the film, but let’s be objective here… It’s a biopic where she plays Joan freakin’ Jett and she’s doing songs for the movie.  It’s not like she’s trying to go off and create a music career for herself like she’s Heidi Montag or some other pop princess wannabe.  Joan Jett was on set to make sure that things were genuine and true to the way they happened, and has producer credit on the film.  Kristen sang in “Into the Wild” and we know that she can actually play guitar and has a decent voice.  If she can pull it off and Joan Jett is OK with it, why shouldn’t we be?   To me, it’s no different than Joaquin Phoenix or Reese Witherspoon singing as Johnny and June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line”.

I have to admit that I am really looking forward to the “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake.  I was in high school when the original (with Johnny Depp, no less) hit theaters and remember going with my friends to scare the crap out of ourselves.

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