Robert Pattinson on 'Twilight' Finale: 'It's the End of an Era'

20 Jan 2011

Public speaking has never been Robert Pattinson’s favorite part of his job. But presenting the Golden Globe to director Susanne Bier for her drama “In a Better World” Sunday night proved to be a welcome respite for the actor, who’s knee deep in the middle of filming “Breaking Dawn,” the final installment of the “Twilight” saga, which will be split into two parts.

“It’s been really hard shooting both films at the same time,” admitted the 24-year-old star, moments before he had run backstage to present his award with “Tron” star Olivia Wilde. “But it’s the end of an era.”

That era certainly will be one that Summit Entertainment, the films’ distributor, not to mention the franchise’s devoted fans, will be sorry to see go. Starting with 2008’s “Twilight,” the fantasy romance that first saw Pattinson’s handsome, brooding vampire encounter his mortal love, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), the movie series has taken in roughly $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office, as audiences lined up to see Swan wrestle with her feelings for her immortal boyfriend and her best friend, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, over the course of the next two films, 2009's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and 2010's "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."

At the start of the first part of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” Bella consents to Edward’s marriage proposal — Edward’s condition if he is to grant Bella’s request that he transform her into a vampire — and the young couple are wed before heading to a remote island getaway for a honeymoon.

Speaking by phone this month, director Bill Condon, who’s helming both installments of the finale, said he has been thrilled with what he’s seen from his leads. “All the characters are moving [in this chapter]," he said. "It’s really about the passage from adolescence to adulthood, and they all seem energized by that. It’s the stuff they are all connecting to in their lives.”

As for Pattinson specifically, Condon added, “Now he’s dealing with a character who’s like him. The final movie allows us to step behind the curtain of what it’s like to be a vampire. It doesn’t seem that exotic anymore; It’s trying to be more real.”

The director, though, was reticent to share any details of the production, which is filming in both New Orleans and Vancouver, Canada, with a jaunt to an island off the coast of Brazil — a location that might in the end prove the most memorable to Condon, because the entire cast and crew needed for the honeymoon scene was stranded after a long day of filming.

“It was incredible. We got caught in the middle of this huge rainstorm — I’ll remember it forever,” Condon said. “Eighty people sleeping on the floor of the set. We couldn't leave.”

Credit: Los Angeles Times

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Twilight' Leads People's Choice Awards Nominees

09 Nov 2010

LOS ANGELES – "The Twilight Saga" has a chance to eclipse the competition at the 2011 People's Choice Awards.

Nominations were announced Tuesday, and the vampire love story and its stars racked up a leading eight bids.

The film is up for favorite movie and favorite drama, and stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are nominated for favorite on-screen team. Pattinson and Lautner are also nominated individually for favorite movie actor, Stewart is up for favorite movie actress, and she and Pattinson are also nominated for favorite movie star under 25.

Fans can vote for the winners online until Dec. 7. The People's Choice Awards will be presented Jan. 5, 2011, at the Nokia Theatre and broadcast on CBS.

Credit: Yahoo! News

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James Franco Found 'Breaking Dawn''s Sex Scene To Be A 'Letdown After All That Buildup'

23 Sep 2010

What we love about James Franco is that, despite pursuing a Ph.D. at Yale, garnering serious Oscar buzz in "127 Hours" and embodying a Hollywood A-list persona, he's taken time out of his busy schedule to keep up with the trends. That's right, James has both read and watched the "Twilight" books and films, and when MTV News caught up with him at the Toronto International Film Festival where he was promoting "127 Hours," he spent more time talking about the phenomenon than the film's stars typically do.

While he may not be a self-proclaimed Twi-hard after reading the series, James can at least reference Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner on a first name basis (you'd be surprised to find there are celebs out there who can't), and can clearly understand the deeper metaphors of the stories.

"I wouldn't say I enjoy them, but I'm fascinated with them," James said about the books. "I'm interested in the metaphor of the vampire placed in the high school setting and how a relationship with a vampire can stand in for general feelings that people have as teenagers. And the obsession people have with that is also fascinating to me."

James also took some time analyzing the role of the films in the whole "Twilight" craze. "It's really hard to extricate those actors from the reading experience of just the phenomenon of 'Twilight' now," he said. He also gave a shout-out to the self-references of "Eclipse" that we loved so much.

"The movies are almost commenting on themselves," he said. "There will be a scene where the go-to guys, Taylor and Rob, are in the tent, it's almost like a 'Brokeback Mountain' scene, where the two guys are talking in a tent and the girl is asleep, and they're having, like, this romantic moment almost through her, in a way. One of them says, 'Well, I'm hotter than you,' and it's almost like they're winking at the fans, like to the Team Jacob or the Team Edwards."

But he does have one "Twilight" concession to make: He hasn't finished reading "Breaking Dawn." He has heard a bit about the birthing scene ("I kind of know what happens, some very strange birth, right?" he asked rhetorically), but at least his reasoning for calling it quits part way through the book matches our own frustrations when we were reading it the first time!

"I read a part of it. I think I got to the sex scene, but it was so brief, I didn't even know if it was the actual sex scene," he admitted. "It was kind of a letdown after all that buildup."

Credit: MTV

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Video: More Scenes From 'Vampires Suck'

19 Aug 2010

Anyone seen this movie yet? Thoughts? Post it on the wall!

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Twilight Nail Polishes Release by Twilight Beauty

12 Aug 2010

The official Twilight Beauty website has just released 12 brand new nail polishes. Each shade comes at the expense of $6.99:

Nox Twilight nail polish is the newest edition of products from Twilight Beauty. Inspired by the powerful Cullen coven, this line of professional quality nail polish prominently features the enduring Cullen crest on the center of each bottle.

Buy your favorite shades or splurge on the Ultimate Collection of all 12 shades at a TwilightBeauty.com exclusive price of $65 (a $84 value).

To reflect each unique member of this clan, Nox Twilight provides a wide array of shades:

Red Velvet - Classic cherry red
Chiffon - Soft delicate pink
Debutante - Fresh peachy-pink
Sugar Plum - Plummy iridescent
Disco Darling - Glimmer shimmer
Wine & Dine - Sparkling champagne
Talon - Forbidding navy
Sangria - Vampy bordeaux
Black Tie - Best-dressed black
Poseidon - Sky blue
Crush - Sassy hot pink
Citrus - Energizing bright orange

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Video: Movie 'Vampires Suck' Spoofs The Twilight Saga

31 Jul 2010

Lol! Here is a snippet of the movie 'Vampires Suck', featuring a spoof scene of 'Twilight' introducing "Edward Sullen":

And here's a trailer for the movie, pretty much based soley around the Twilight Saga:

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Robert Pattinson Reflects On 'Twilight Saga' Success At MTV Movie Awards

07 Jun 2010

'I just have to keep working to not explode,' he tells MTV News of the wild ride.

UNIVERSAL CITY, California — A long time ago, in a faraway land (OK, maybe it was just Portland), the stars of the "Twilight" series were nobodies. Hopes weren't terribly high when that girl from "The Messengers," Mike Dexter from "Can't Hardly Wait" and the kid who died in the "Harry Potter" movies came together to shoot Stephenie Meyer's first novel.

But as the "Saga" stars dominated another MTV awards show this weekend, Robert Pattinson couldn't help but marvel at how far they've come.

"It's crazy," the spiky-haired superstar marveled at the MTV Movie Awards, looking back on simpler times. "For it to have accelerated so quickly."

At the 2008 Movie Awards, the first "Twilight" film was barely approaching the end of production when some last-minute scrambling had Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart walking the red carpet ... so unnoticed that they had to go back and start again because no one was stopping them for questions. Well, except us.

"I should have done a more coherent speech for the Global thing," RPattz said of his Global Superstar win, appreciating the massive audience all over the world that has tuned in over the past few years to hang on his every word (that is, when he's not being cut off by the host). "It's just so ridiculous."

The 2009 Movie Awards were the culmination of the chaos, as KStew and RPattz's initial wave of fame swept over Universal City. This time, the stars were accompanied by Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Taylor Lautner and Peter Facinelli — many of whom weren't even invited the previous year. By the end of the night, they were the new kings and queens of the show.

"I still don't have any idea what's going on," Rob admitted to us backstage this year. "I just have to keep working to not explode.

"I'm incredibly appreciative of every little piece that's come together," he concluded, flashing that same charming, uneasy grin that he's brought with him to Universal City for the past three years, "so I can be living this ridiculous life."

Credit: MTV

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Stephenie Meyer Explains Why Bree Tanner Deserves Her Own Book

03 Jun 2010

'Twilight' author wants fans to read the spin-off novella before seeing 'Eclipse.'

Given the fanfare and publicity typically granted Stephenie Meyer whenever she types or breathes a new word, the famous author has been relatively quiet about this Saturday's release of her "Twilight" novella, "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner." But thanks to a Q&A posted on TheTwilightSaga.com by publisher Little Brown, fans now have a little more insight into why Meyer focused this book on the character Bree, and why she wants fans to read the story before they go see "Eclipse" in a few weeks.

Meyer first explained that because "Eclipse" is so focused on Bella's point of view, she wasn't able to delve into the story of newborn vampires like Bree. "There was always in my mind a general idea of what they were up to," she explained. "To keep it all straight, eventually I made a calendar of the months of May and June — which is all 'Eclipse' deals with — and wrote down on each square what was going on with Bella that day and what was happening in Seattle. ... The story of the newborns was always a big part of the story of 'Eclipse.' And it made me kind of sad that there was no way to express any of that in the book."

Regarding the singling out of Bree, Meyer said she was the only newborn mentioned by name in "Eclipse," and the only one who has contact with the Cullen family and encounters the Volturi in the clearing. "She lives the longest, so she is the narrator who can tell the full story," she said. "She was a natural choice to chronicle the story of the newborns."

Of all her "Twilight" books, Meyer said "Eclipse" had the most elements going on outside Bella's point of view and she wanted readers to be able to experience more of those things before the film opens.

"The [movie] viewer can see things — like the wolves hunting Victoria in 'New Moon' — that the reader only gets hints of," said Meyer, who also appears with "Eclipse" actress Jodelle Ferland in a new featurette about Bree Tanner. "For the movie to work, we have to see and understand some of these things. ... Knowing that elements of Bree's story were being incorporated into the movie, I hoped the story could somehow get out first."

Meyer admitted that her motivation for getting the story out now, is slightly selfish: "Personally, I always want to read a book before seeing the movie," she said. "I like to make my own mental pictures before someone else's picture intrudes. Probably most of my readers don't have the same hang-up, but for those who do, I wanted to give them the chance to create their own mental pictures of Bree and the gang."

Credit: MTV

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Bree Tanner's Time Is Now

03 Jun 2010

The month of June promises to be a feeding frenzy for Stephenie Meyer fans, who have a new Twilight movie and a new book to drool over.

And the two are connected.

Eclipse, the hotly anticipated third movie in the series featuring the steamy lovers, vampire Edward Cullen (played by heartthrob Robert Pattinson) and teenager Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), opens June 30.

But first comes The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Little, Brown, $13.99), an offshoot of the Eclipse novel, to be released Saturday at 12:01 a.m. It tells the story of what it's like to be a newly created vampire.

"I had always wished people could read Bree's story before the movie came out," Meyer writes in remarks released today exclusively to Meyer's international publishers and only to USA TODAY in the USA.

Bree, who appears in just 10 pages of Eclipse, is played in the movie by Canadian Jodelle Ferland. The teenager is part of an army of newborn vampires created by Edward's archnemesis Victoria, who plans to use the newbie blood drinkers to exact revenge on Edward and Bella.

Bree is the only newbie mentioned by name in Eclipse. She dies in the novel as well as the novella — an emotional event for Meyer.

"It was harder for me to kill Bree than any other fiction character I've ever killed," she writes, "even though I was killing her for the second time."

The novella's plot is secret, but we know that it gives a new perspective on events that take place in the saga. All four novels —Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn— are told from Bella's perspective.

The novella is told through Bree's eyes and plot points are included in the Eclipse film. Director David Slade, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and some of the actors had access to the novella during production.

A limited number of booksellers across the country, including some Barnes & Noble stores, are holding midnight release parties Friday evening, Fans can also purchase the books at a select number of Borders stores at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

"We expect this to be a huge hit," says Borders' Larry Norton.

Credit: USA Today

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Video: MTV News' Top 9 Of '09 - #6 'New Moon' Fever Strikes

01 Jan 2010

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