The Stars of Twilight

Facinelli Leads List of Celebrities Bound For Premiere Vamp Fan Cons


LAS VEGAS, NV – January 25, 2010 – TwiCon, the premiere destination convention celebrating the vampire culture phenomenon, welcomes three stars to the roster in Las Vegas and Canada this summer.

Attending the Las Vegas event is “Twilight” star Peter Facinelli, who plays Carlisle Cullen in the series. Facinelli, who attended TwiCon 2009 in Dallas, will return after a busy year filming “New Moon”, “Eclipse” and a new season of “Nurse Jackie” (Showtime).

Convention newcomer and “New Moon” cast member, Tinsel Korey, will be appearing at the Canadian TwiCon. Korey plays kind-hearted Emily Young, the fiancé of the were pack’s leader, Sam.

Rounding out the most recent cast additions is Joe Manganiello, who plays the highly anticipated character of Alcide in HBO’s “True Blood”. Manganiello’s character will be introduced this season as the enigmatic, brooding and sexy werewolf as portrayed in the Sookie Stackhouse series. He will be appearing in Canada and Las Vegas.

Attending celebrities will participate in autograph and photograph sessions, Q&A sessions, exclusive dinners, cocktail parties and more.

“We are thrilled to have Peter join us at TwiCon again. Having Joe attend is great because his character is one of the most anticipated of the “True Blood” series. Tinsel’s going to be a very charming addition to our roster as well, “comments Becky Scoggins, managing partner of the TwiCon event.

These actor additions will accompany other confirmed guests, Sam Trammell of “True Blood”, and Daniel Cudmore of “New Moon”. Trammell will attend both events and Cudmore will appear at the Las Vegas convention.

Additional cast announcements, as well as fandom guests and musical acts, will be revealed in the coming weeks. Registration for both conventions is now open through TwiCon.org, including an all-inclusive Platinum package option. Tickets begin at just $179

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''Look for an upside-down engraving of a wolf in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first-aid equipment; on Jacob's T-shirt when he meets Bella in the school parking lot for the first time; and a wolf trinket on the dream-catcher that he gives her.''

''When Edward, Bella, and Alice get into the elevator on their way to see the Volturi, the music playing in the elevator is from Strauss' Die Fledermaus (a.k.a. The Bat).''

''When Bella is looking for the meadow where she and Edward are seen lying down together, she carries a golden compass clipped to her backpack — part of my baggage!''


''We did a little trick when Edward gets out of Bella's truck and they're arguing. We wanted to show Edward moving impossibly quickly, so we put Rob right next to the camera but out of sight, and used a double dressed like Rob in the driver's seat. When Edward gets out, it's the double, and then Rob steps in front of the camera, and it looks as if he got there faster than humanly possible.''

''And last but not least: If you want to know what Jacob says before he almost kisses Bella, ask a Quileute! The address of the Quileute tribal council is quileutenation.org. I can tell you this much: He says, Kwop kilawtley.''  (Translation: Stay with me forever.)
Want more? Come back to EW.com tomorrow for five more New Moon secrets from director Chris Weitz.

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon finished fourth in its fourth weekend, taking in an estimated $8M from 3635 locations with a per theater average of $2,201. These estimates include $2.4M Friday, $3.4M Saturday, and $2.2M Sunday. This increases the film's domestic cumulative total to $267.36M through its first 24 days of release and represents a 48.1% drop from last weekend. The film continues to dominate the 66 overseas territories in which it's playing, bringing in another $22.3 million from 9,163 theaters for a foreign total of $358.7M. This gives New Moon a worldwide cumulative total of $626.06M.

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Summit International’s New Moon stayed top overseas and soared past the $300m mark as an estimated $40.7m haul from 9,167 sites in 62 territories boosted the running total to $314.5m.

Weekend business was led by a $4.9m number one launch in South Korea from 450 screens that ranks as the fifth highest launch by a foreign title this year, according to unconfirmed data. The debut rises to $5.6m including Wednesday’s opening day.

The vampire saga has amassed $39.2m in the UK, more than $32m in France, more than $28m in Australia, and more than $25m in each of Italy and Spain.

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The Twilight Saga - New Moon remained in the top spot on the international chart with $82.38 million on 8,292 screens in 52 markets for a total of $251.33 million internationally and $482.28 million worldwide. This includes a number of new markets for the film, but most were of the smaller variety. It did place first in Germany with $16.95 million on 703 screens, but that includes previews. On the other hand, it bombed in Japan, opening in fifth place with just $792,000 on 197 screens and was even worse in South Korea, debuting in eighth place with $129,000 on 47 screens over the weekend and $166,000 in total. As far as holdovers go, the film was surprisingly consistent at roughly 60% down in most major markets. This includes the U.K. where it was down 63% to $7.11 million on 504 screens; however, it still managed first place in that market, while it now has $33.57 million after just two weeks of release compared to the lifetime total of $16.31 million for its predecessor. It is important to note that Twilight was surprisingly weak in the U.K. compared to its box office performance in most major markets. That said, New Moon has topped the lifetime total of the earlier film in every single major market it opened in last weekend, which is an amazing feat. It has yet to open in only a few other markets, but unless the film cost a lot more to make than has been reported, it has already shown a sizeable profit.

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Summit Entertainment is reporting that the "Twilight" sequel opened on Thursday night to an unprecedented $26.3 million during its midnight screenings across the country. The film unspooled on 3,514 screens, playing at 12:01 a.m. for die-hard fans — many of whom arrived at the theaters dressed as their favorite characters.

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With just days to go before the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Rolling Stone chatted with the film's director, Chris Weitz, about the anticipated movie's wildest stunts, the loyalty of Team Edward and the scenes you won't find in Stephenie Meyer's original book.

You said everyone's been asking you about the pressures of taking on such a successful franchise, and they also want to know why vampires are so popular.
Honestly, there weren't really any pressures for me because there was a guaranteed audience which meant that even if I made a terrible movie people would still watch it. So once you got that reassurance [laughs], you just set out to make the best movie possible, which is what we aimed to do. And I've felt nothing but support from the fans since day one — actually day one there was a little doubt because I have a Y chromosome, but ever since then I've felt a lot of love from the fans.

And why vampires?
I've actually realized that Stephenie Meyer's vampires aren't really vampires — you really don't see many crosses, there's not much garlic, they don't sleep in coffins, they can go out in the day time — they just look more beautiful. It's just more like Greek gods. So, in some ways it's about this girl who falls in love with this demi-god. I think that symbolizes your first love — the person you've fallen for who you think will never never possibly return your affections.

How much did you research vampires before starting the movie?
Absolutely zero. My research is reading Stephenie's books and talking to Stephenie and seeing the first film and knowing about the actors — getting familiar with the work that they'd done, but not much vampire-ology.

I read that you had this idea about the movie looking like a Victorian narrative painting in terms of the colors — how did you come to approach this film from that angle?
In terms of a model for cinematography I think it's a good one, which is to say the Victorian paintings, especially the pre-Raphaelites, told stories in a somewhat sentimentalized and very beautiful fashion. These books are not afraid to be sentimental or romantic and I wanted every aspect of the production to be unafraid to go to a very romantic place.

Whereas the first movie had a lot of tortured rock & roll kind of love to it, I wanted this one to be a sweeping epic. In many ways it's a much bigger film — in terms of the ground it covers, the emotions and the places it goes to — so I really wanted to make a classic-looking movie that was classically composed and classically shot. It had a classical score in a sense and [composer] Alexandre Desplat is very much from a school of composers who can work very much in a classical vein and in a contemporary vein. There is a sort of groovy component to it, which is the soundtrack, which we were able to get all of these amazing bands to compose for us, which is incredibly gratifying.

Going back to the notion of a "sweeping epic," the book breaks down into three sections: at first everything's fine. Then Edward leaves Bella, and most of the story is her coping and befriending Jacob. The end is packed with action as the story reaches its resolution. For purposes of telling this story on a screen, did you readjust the breakdown of the story?
You've pretty much described acts one, two and three. One of the interesting things is that the fear that people had was that there wasn't going to be enough Edward. That he's banished from the book really doesn't apply to this movie because you don't spend as long away from Edward. But it's also important to have some absence of Edward in order to miss him.

It would have been wrong, I think, to have numerous "back at the ranch" scenes where you're checking in with Edward kind of knocking around the Amazon rainforest looking for Victoria. I think it's a nice balance between missing Edward and having enough of him. Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter, and I decided to have visual hallucinations of Edward instead of just aural. When she sees him it's in a very subtle way so that it wasn't hitting people over the head.

I think the movie's pretty well balanced. Taylor gives a great performance, and his and Kristen's relationship holds down the movie in the middle of the film. Yes, there was a temptation to shift things so that we had as much Rob as possible but for Team Edward they're gonna get their Rob and for Team Jacob people they'll get their moment in the sun as well. But we didn't scramble to make up for any perceived deficiencies in that department.

The book is quite dark, but there are also lighthearted moments.
When things go dark they do get very dark and it is quite melancholy and depressing for a while. But we found ourselves with a few funny moments in our hands and when I hear it play in front of audiences there's laughter and I think it's intentional [Laughs] and not uncomfortable laughter. There's funny, off-kilter moments.

For instance you find out what vampire elevator music would sound like in one part, which is not what you would have expected and is not in the book. I decided in post-production it would be an interesting thing. When Stephenie finally saw a cut of the movie she said she absolutely loved it and wanted more.

You consulted Stephenie frequently as you were making decisions.
I was often checking back with her when I wanted to riff on something to see if it was OK with her and very often she thought, "That's a great idea, that's funny" or we'd have further ideas that would be incorporated into the film. So in some ways it's kind of an extrapolation or extension of the book.

But I did make some mistakes — at one point I had one of the Volturi [the powerful law-upholding Vampires] holding a stone knife to Edward's throat, and she said that wouldn't work [because the Volturi] wouldn't cut Edward's throat. So I said, "OK!" [Laughs]. I get my mythology wrong every once in a while and she sets me straight.

Did you add any scenes?
There's a moment of threat when Bella is drowning that I think isn't in the book. It's really funny — I've heard the response from fans and they saw that scene differently when they read it. I love it when something I've extrapolated or added in — and I always try to do things in the vein I'm adapting — but I love when something I've written or come up with or the screenwriter has written or come up with comes across as having been in the book in the first place. Then you know you've really hit your sweet spot.

I also read that you had instructed Kristen to do that scene one way and then got a wet suit on and got into the water yourself and realized it was an impossible way to tackle it.
Rob had done this underwater work in one of the Harry Potter movies, so he was relatively comfortable doing things at the bottom of a pool. In order to get this shot right, we needed to get a top shot of Kristen as Bella sinking down in the ocean. The best way to do that is to have Kristen at the bottom of a 12-foot pool weighted down, just sort of floating there immobile. And Kristen was already expressing a bit of concern about deep water, and I told her, "12 feet isn't that deep!" [Laughs] I decided to go down there in a wet suit weighted down and I started to panic.

I thought, "Holy crap, this isn't fun at all!" and realized Rob actually had some guts and that the rest of us should really stay up towards the top of the pool. We adjusted it so we could make our shot sideways and it looks just the same as a top shot. And Kristen had a cold that day, so that was the last thing I was going to do — put someone with a cold at the bottom of a 12-foot pool with weights in their pockets. That didn't seem like a wise move.

There's also motorcycle riding in this book — was everyone game for that?
We didn't want to endanger Kristen at all — when she's on the motorcycle, she's actually on a trailer. Even though it looks very realistic, she's never free-riding at any moment. But it didn't keep Taylor doing all of his stunts — he does all but one because he's just kind of crazy to jump around, and when you see him jump up the side of a building and do this parkour gag, it's actually him doing it. He has a wire on him, which we edited out, but the wire was only to prevent him from dying if he fell — it actually isn't hoisting him at all, so he was jumping up the side of a building on his own.

You've also adapted The Golden Compass and About a Boy. Do you think that you would have been able to approach New Moon without those under your belt?
I think given the time constraints we were under, it would have been much, much harder. The fact I was able to go into the CG elements of this movie with a team I already knew from The Golden Compass that had won the Oscar on The Golden Compass helped immeasurably because we were up to speed from day one. So it helps to know the right people — I'm not a master of CG, I just know people who are.

And in terms of translating from the page to the screen?
I think I've had, by now, quite a bit of training on what to keep in and what's extraneous and I've more and more become attached to the idea of being as faithful as possible to the original book and realizing that my responsibility is to the author and the fans and the book.

You had some controversy surrounding the release of The Golden Compass.
The controversy was that the studio removed elements of the book were going to make it less profitable. I objected strenuously and they re-cut my version of the film. So it made me all the more determined to prove the best way to adapt a book that has a fan base is to identify what the fans care about and to present it properly.

When you do that, you know that you're at least capturing what is appealing to people in the written form in the first place. That means that you also know what — who the audience is, even ones who haven't read the book — will like. At least you've identified something good.

You've talked a little bit about emphasizing Team Edward and Team Jacob moments — when did you get acquainted with those important points within the fanbase?
During shooting I tried not to refer too much to the fan Websites because I knew I'd just be worried about it all the time and kind of swayed like a politician by polls. I read the book like a fan — I read it very quickly and sort of gobbled it up and wondered what would be the moments that would matter the most to me as a fan. Melissa, fortunately, had written a great script that encapsulated what mattered most to the fans. At one point I remember Stephenie writing to me and saying that she had checked the Websites and the top 10 scenes that fans cared about were in the script, and that felt good.

There will be a moment here or there that a fan misses or sees differently and there's nothing I can do about it except to present it as another fan, albeit one who has tens of millions of dollars at his disposal to realize things.

Does your favorite moment from the book differ from your favorite moment in the movie?
No. Wait. Yes, it did, actually. The last moment of the movie I think is my favorite moment. It's a moment from the book but it's presented a little differently — it's given a little more of a cliffhanger, sort of romantic feel to. I think audiences will understand why I presented it that way and why it's not [the way it was in the book]. And the whole film builds up to it very carefully.

Did you do that to set the scene for David Slade to step in and direct the third film, Eclipse?
To be honest I was just trying to selfishly trying to choose the optimal emotional moment for myself and perhaps leaving David a bit of a pickle as to how to pick up the next movie. I've seen Melissa's script for the third movie and it deals with it pretty admirably — so they're OK!

More Twilight:
Rob Sheffield Reviews the New Moon Soundtrack
Q&A: Robert Pattinson
Peter Travers Reviews Twilight

Thank you to Rolling Stones for sitting down with Chris.
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Kellan Lutz has a pretty good gig. In between his roles as Emmett Cullen in the vampire saga “Twilight,” he gets to travel around the country and listen to hundreds of teenage girls chant his name.

Several hundred of those teenage girls, among others, screamed themselves hoarse Thursday night when Kellan made an appearance at the Natick Collection shopping center in Natick, Mass (close to Boston). He was originally set to appear with costar Ashley Greene, however, a picture of her head on a stick served as a replacement.

“This is great,” he said about all the adoration, shouting over the squealing hordes. “I wish I could do this every day!”

Kellan’s appearance was part of the “New Moon” Mall tour. He, as well as several other cast members have traveled around the country promoting the sequel (stops we've covered here on Crush, include Hollywood, Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota and Atlanta), which opens in just one week! In between the shrieks of joy, Kellan was able to discuss his childhood ambition to become an actor.

“I grew up in the Midwest, I didn’t realize you could just be an actor,” he said. “I thought it was like being an astronaut. But when I was a kid I used to put on plays for myself.”

Before his main appearance, Kellan took the time to get photos taken with 75 VIP fans. Another 500 fans got to have their "New Moon" posters signed. Many fans were completely undone by their proximity to the “Twilight” hunk.

“He’s just amazingly hot!” said Alexandra Foye, a 17-year-old from Millis, Mass. Alexandra and her friend Maggie Delaporta, 17, also of Millis, had been waiting at the mall since 3 p.m., four hours before the actor was slated to speak.
The band Hurricane Bells (pictured above) performed several songs, including “Monsters,” their song on the “New Moon” soundtrack. Front man Steve Schiltz said they were only told that their song would be included about two months before.

“It’s just crazy,” he said. “I mean, you just look around you. We’ve never played a mall before.”

The event also had free makeovers, giveaways and, of course, plenty of merchandise. Kellan said the tour has showed him the ardor that “Twilight” fans have for author Stephenie Meyer’s creation.

“Doing this has been a roller coaster ride,” he said. “We really are in the ‘Twilight’ zone.”

MTV delves deep into the "Twilight" universe with two can't-miss specials: "Love Bites" chronicles the budding rumored romance between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on Monday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, while "New Moon Revealed" will feature die-hard fans as they gather to meet the saga's stars Monday at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.

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Dr. Cullen would be very proud! Volturi bad boy Jamie Campbell Bower was recently out promotingThe Twilight Saga: New Moon when a fan helped him out with a particular ailment that he had tweeted about a week before. Just wait until you hear what went down. Hint: it involves a fan, a banana, and one of the hottest and most powerful vampires.
Fearnet.com spoke with Campbell-Bower about his addiction to Twitter and his need to leave some personal information off the web. The star said, "Twitter's a great thing, but I never put anything that's incredibly personal on there. Just tidbits of information." Come on Jamie, you should know Twilight fans are super smart and super crafty by now so be careful what you put out there. There should have been no surprise when a Twilight fan came to the rescue like they did on the recent New Moon Mall Tour.

In a recent tweet the Twitterholic tweeted, "There's a twitch in my leg that will not go away. Quite frankly, I'm a little distressed by it. Good night. X" Flash forward a week later, while out promoting New Moon, a fan throws Jamie a bubble wrapped banana. The fan had seen his tweet and thought that his twitch could have been a lack of potassium! So does he eat it? Yes he did, stating, "[I live] life on the edge, man." Once again, Dr. Cullen would be very proud of this super Twilight fan!

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Here are all the “TV bookings” that are 100% confirmed!


November 16:
Kristen Stewart – “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”
Taylor Lautner – “The Jay Leno Show”

November 18:
Robert Pattinson – “The Late Show with David Letterman”
Kristen Stewart – “The Today Show” and “Live with Regis and Kelly” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”


November 19:
Robert Pattinson – “The Today Show” and “Live with Regis and Kelly”
Taylor Lautner – “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”

November 20:
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner – “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (pre-taped)
Robert Pattinson – “Ellen” (pre-taped)
Taylor Lautner – “The Today Show” and “Live with Regis and Kelly”
November 23:
Ashley Greene – “The Late Show with David Letterman”
Michael Sheen – “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”

November 24:
Ashley Greene – “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”

November 25:
Peter Facinelli – “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

December 2:
Nikki Reed – “Jimmy Kimmel Live”
December 3:
Ashley Greene – “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

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Fan vid of KStew’s Agent Security Blanket! Please note, he is NOT her agent



New Moon Press Conference in Brazil – PhotoCall



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Luísa Sfair and Giovanna Lamara are the two fans that broke the security around the starts of New Moon to take a photo with Kristen Stewart. She and Taylor Lautner got to Brazil this Saturday, October 31st to promote the movie.

Before that. Luísa, 15, living in the South of Rio, had to convince his mother to go with her in this adventure along with her friend Giovanna, from São Paulo.

‘Me and Giovanna met on the internet and decided to come here, stay at the Hyatt, and try to get something. I am spending money I don’t have, she says that is stayin in a room with her moon and paying R$ 470 (172€) per night.

Initially, their ‘something’ was to promote their website dedicated to Kristen, to the production people that organized the event she and Taylor will do this Sunday in São Paulo. (sorry that was a bit hard, I think they were trying to get passes to be there because they have a Kristen website) But the proximity with the stars made them dream higher.

‘Kristen is really short’
‘At first we were just walking on the hotel hall trying to see them arriving, but nothing happened. Then we went to the restaurant e someone told us they were in the pool zone. We tried to get closer but they didn’t let us. So we went upstairs, changed clothes and we got to the pool area, but we were stopped but the security. We started calling (I bet they yelled their lungs out) Kristen and she told them [the security] it was ok and to let us go. She was really friendly and took a picture with us. At that time Taylor wasn’t there anymore.’ Says Luísa that was shocked with the her kindness and how small she was.

‘She is so small and slim. I am 1,55mt, she must be 1,60mt tops. She’s almost as small as I am.’, she says that after that she had to keep (nanana I don’t get what they’re saying here, it seems like she was having some sort of meeting and she had to keep talking about wtv she was talking with the production people)

‘I am the owner of Kristen Stewart Brasil. We had to be promoting. I am trying to get it to be official.’

*talking about Taylor here*

She and her friend gave Kristen a mixed CD with music from Brazil.

‘She will be here for not even two days. I wanted her to know a little bit more of our culture. So, me and Giovanna had the idea of making her a Cd with Brazillian songs. It has songs from Chico Buarque, Jota Quest, Marisa Monte and Ls Jack.

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