While people freak out over the new Eclipse pictures, we have some New Moon images we hadn’t seen before, and they’re all lovely! They’re all scans of the New Moon trading cards (which if you haven’t bought yet, you should, because most of those pictures were not distributed online). They feature Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Bella, Alice and more in great close ups we hadn’t seen.
Hollywood Crush has an article about Anna’s success after Up in the Air and what will happen to her character Jessica Stanley:
With so much buzz surrounding her now, it’s hard not to see Anna feeling a little unloved by the “Twilight” crowd. Not only did they say she was the “Twilight” actor least likely to win an Oscar (choosing Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson over her, despite her Oscar buzz and now nomination), but her character Jessica Stanley doesn’t have much shelf life beyond the third film, “Eclipse.”
“I honestly feel like Jessica is one of those characters that if she wasn’t in the movie, nobody would miss her,” she said. “At the same time, I feel a certain affection for the films so if they ask me, I would love to. I don’t have my fingers crossed either way.”
She added, “I’ve been really lucky to not be defined completely by that series.”
And yet, in spite of all that, I remember being at Comic-Con in 2008 when “Twilight” first debuted the entire cast and, despite the fact she was not on the panel, hearing a buzz around the exhibit hall floor that the girl who played Jessica was near the “Twilight” booth. Though Anna was not well known by mainstream audiences before “Twilight” and “Up in the Air,” she was at least beloved by “Twi”-hards for just being a part of the film.
According to Geeko System, the Twilight series will be studied at a Cambridge literature class:
Professor Maria Nikolajeva, who will be the centre’s first director, said it was important to get an understanding of what was influencing young people.
She said: “It’s easy to say that these things are just kids’ fashions or that they’re trash, but I don’t believe that’s good enough.
“If what we regard as trash is popular with young people, we need to know why and whether, as researchers and teachers, we can offer them something that addresses the same needs but also deals with these themes in a critical and ethical way.”
She added many trainee teachers did not understand the significance of the latest children’s books or films when they went into the classroom.
“Studying this can help us deal with questions which are important not only for the children themselves, but for adults as well,” she added.
Some very fancy pants Twilight fans have been getting the car of their dreams: the Volvo C30 driven by Edward Cullen. There’s so many of them getting this particular Volvo model, that Volvo has taken notice and reported a spike in sales for this car. From The Chicago Business:
James Bond has inspired sales of Aston Martins and BMWs with his super-cool onscreen wheels. Now a vampire who drives a Volvo is getting the attention of young drivers.
Since the release of “Twilight” in 2008, teens and young adults have been drawn to the Volvo C30, driven by the character Edward Cullen.
“All these teenagers were going crazy about the C30,” says Carmelo Scalzo, general manager of Volvo of Oak Park. “After the movie launched, we saw this spike in C30 sales. We didn’t know what had happened until we put two and two together.”
Mr. Scalzo helped market the newer XC60, featured in the series’ second film, “New Moon” (2009), after Volvo caught on and tied the car to the movie through advertisements and guerrilla marketing.
The XC60, at $32,995, has not seen the same spike in sales as the C30, at $24,600, Mr. Scalzo says.
But for some, just seeing one is enough.
“I have people coming in with their kids who are taking pictures with the cars,” say Pat Hubert, general manager of Fields Volvo in Highland Park. “These are younger kids, probably 12 or 13 years old. Their parents say they’ll come back when they’re older.”
Franz Mausser, manager of Barrington Volvo, reports a surge of interest in both models.
“We have seen an increase in interest in both vehicles by the youngest of drivers, teens and twentysomethings, and beyond,” Mr. Mausser says. “Young parents also have been engrossed with the plots and story lines of the movie.”
If you could buy one car, any car, featured in the Twilight saga, which will it be? I would get me my own yellow Porsche . Better yet, are you one of the fans who got their own shiny Volvo? Share your story!
In an inteview with The Daily Record, Rob revealed that his favorite movie right now is Braveheart and he watches the movie four times a day!
He admitted: “I saw Braveheart on the television the other day and I’ve been watching it four times a day since. It’s my favourite film. I haven’t been to the cinema in two years.”
About fame he explained:
Robert said: “A lot of people value fame very highly, much more highly than they should and they get angry when they see people either not respecting their own fame enough or thinking that they’ve got famous undeservedly. I took a step in one direction and it kind of just happened, so I can’t really claim anything.
“But I find myself at parties having to apologise for a lot of things, just for being myself. It’s kind of weird – you can never just walk into a place and just reinvent yourself, you’ve always got to explain yourself first, which is tiring.”
About returning to London:
Robert is chatting in a London hotel room and he doesn’t look like his famous vampire character because he has grown a beard for new film Bel Ami. He admits for the first time in two years he’s been able to walk around his home city largely undetected.
“I would like to do an audition with no one knowing who I am and see what would happen though,” he laughed.
What’s it like being back in London? Given he’s been jetting around the world for premieres, is it different now?
“It’s really different,” he admitted. “I’ve been here for such a little time in the last three years. I used to live in Soho and when I came back this time everything was closed. It’s weird. Everywhere I used to go to, everything was closed.”
About his music career and Simon Cowell record deal rumors:
He said: “I don’t know when or how and the annoying thing is, it has to be so good or people will just write it off immediately.”
About the Spider-man rumors:
Robert laughed: “I don’t think I’m going to be playing Spider-Man, even though I would quite like to do it.”
About the steamy sex scenes with Uma Thurman in his upcoming movie Bel Ami:
“The sex scenes with Uma are kind of disturbing. Her character kind of uses sex as a sort of weapon and my character thinks like an animal.
“There’s a lot of sex scenes in this film, so I’m asking quite a lot of myself, and with lots of different people as well.”
About Breaking Dawn he added:
He said: “”It will be strange but it will be great just to be able to know what I’m doing. Not knowing when Breaking Dawn is going to shoot – because it changes all the time – is a kind of burden, to have this thing where you don’t know when it’s going to happen.
“So you’ve got to organise everything in your life around that and that can be difficult.”
About being paraoind of meeting new people:
He said: “Actual real relationships with people you have known for ages never change. Like all of my friends, every one I’ve known, it’s all exactly the same.
“It’s just new people. If you meet a crowd of people, a lot of times you think someone is going to say something, someone could be going to sell a story about you.
“The majority of times, nothing bad ever happens, but having that paranoia there is very annoying.”
UPDATE! According to Gossip Cop the interview is fake!
Gossip Cop was told by a source close to Pattinson that the Daily Record interview is a “fabrication.”
The source adds, Pattinson “never spoke to the [Scottish] Daily Record.”
ESPN caught up with Kellan Lutz during Super Bowl weekend. In the interview Kellan revealed he always wanted to be a professional football player.
“I love football,” he told Page 2. “I miss my high school days where I played. I was going to college for (football) and then acting came up so I had to put school on hold and now I’m on this acting adventure.”
Despite his love for the game, he’ll be the first to admit he made the right choice when it comes to career success.
“I don’t think I’m tall enough, big enough or strong enough to be in the Super Bowl,” he said. “I just miss playing football and getting hit and hitting people.”
“I’ve been dreaming to have the chance to go to the Super Bowl and my Cardinals went last year and I was unfortunately not able to attend that game but this game is going to be a good one,” he said. “I really want the Saints to win. I think Manning and the Colts have such an amazing team, but the heart that the Saints have I really hope pulls through.”
He will soon embody Hasbro’s popular ’80s toy in Universal’s adaptation of Stretch Armstrong. The movie, to be produced by Brian Grazer, will be released in 2012 in 3-D. The studio has yet to hire a director for the movie, but Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty) has written the script. Universal made the announcement late Friday night along with the news that they will push back their other big Hasbro property Battleship, from director Peter Berg, from its original July 2011 release to Memorial Day weekend 2012 to give the filmmaker more time to finish the large-scale project.
For those who are not familiar with the toy this is based on, here’s a picture:
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