New Moon Vamp Wants Tim Burton to Direct Breaking Dawn

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases

Can a director for the fourth installment of the Twilight franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, possibly get any darker than the director for the third film, David Slade? New Moon actor Jamie Campbell Bower thinks so!

The actor, who plays the vampire Caius in the second film, touts The Nightmare Before Christmas director Tim Burton: “I think he’d just change it up. I think he’d screw around with it quite a lot, and aesthetically, I think it’d be incredibly different. I don’t know if the fans would like it, but I’d sure like it.”

Wait a sec—haven’t I seen him before?

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New Moon Director Wants to Make You Cry

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Filmmaking, Rumors, Upcoming Releases

Director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Chris Weitz, wants to make fans of the series cry their tear ducts out.

“We’ve tried our best to deliver on the romantic scenes in the film, and I would like to be able to produce more tears than any movie before, if possible. If we could only weigh them with some kind of cubic tear measure!”

Weitz also spoke out about the lack of privacy there is with shooting the film, thanks to Twitter:

“To be honest, even making the movie is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny now, so that when the cast went back to Vancouver there were cameras everywhere. Everyone knows where every set is going to be. It goes with the Internet and all the information is out there all the time, and whenever one of them is spotted it’s immediately Twittered.”

Make sure you bring your tissue box when the film hits theaters November 20th.

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Quote of the Day: Taylor Lautner on Shirtlessness

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sequels, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases

“I worked hard to get in shape for this role. My motivation was the movie and the fans, but I don’t want to become known as just a body. If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that’s not very realistic. I certainly won’t be asking to do it, though.”

- New Moon hunk Taylor Lautner on going topless. I hope that he seriously reconsiders that bit about not wanting to take his shirt off again for a film!

(Make sure to check out other notable quotes.)

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Sneak Peek: New Moon Clip with Taylor Lautner Intro

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sequels, Thrillers, Celeb News, Upcoming Releases, Videos

With just 31 days to go, the folks behind the marketing for The Twilight Saga: New Moon just know when to throw us some bait.

Here’s a clip, complete with an introduction with Taylor Lautner. All I have to say is that those guys must go through tons of clothes!

This is to hoping that you’ve mark your calendars for November 20th (assuming you can still get tickets without pre-ordering).

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New Moon Sells Out Record-Breaking 63 Shows

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Online ticketing sites Fandango and MovieTickets are not wasting any time when it comes to jumping on the sequel to Twilight—the fans have made it quite worth it.

Marking the record for selling out screenings earlier than any other film, fans of New Moon have gobbled up 63 shows!

While one may point out that ticket sales have been offered earlier than most for the film, James Cameron’s highly-anticipated Avatar had tickets selling earlier than New Moon and has not yet sold out a show.

Fear not, frantic Twihards—Fandango and MovieTickets are selling a total of 24,912 shows (that leaves you 24,849). The film hits theaters on November 20.

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Ashley Greene Calls Eclipse Guy Friendly

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Sequels, Filmmaking, Rumors, Scripts, Upcoming Releases

Of the third installment of the Twilight saga, Eclipse, actress Ashley Greene assures us that it is “guy friendly.”

Pointing to the fact that director David Slade, who helmed both 30 Days of Night and Hard Candy (I know what you’re thinking), wants to take the Twilight film in a darker direction.

“I think it’ll be different.I think it’s going to be a battle between the studio and the director, and it’s going to be a hard balance, ‘cause I think he’s… a little more focused on it being real and maybe it being gorier and a little dark and kind of dramatic.”

She went on to describe how the first film centers on love, whereas Eclipse will focus on the vampire-werewolf drama, hence leading to more action sequences.

“The first one was very focused on this love story and really sweet and it was beautiful, but it didn’t have a lot of stuff that guys would go, ‘Yeah, I want to go see that.’ There’s going to be a lot more focus on [action], and the fight scene will have more emphasis on it. I definitely think it will be a little more guy-friendly.”

The film is slated for a June 30, 2010 release.

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Jenna Dewan Wanted Channing Tatum in Eclipse

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Adaptation, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Casting, Celebrity Gossip, Upcoming Releases

What is wrong with Channing Tatum? Not only did Twilight author Melissa Rosenberg say that he would be perfect for the role of Riley, but so did his wife, Jenna Dewan!

“I totally tried to get him to do it. I was like, ‘Baby, do Twilight!’ Oh, my god. I’m a huge Twilight fan. I’ve read all the books. So I was like, ‘You should do it, you should do it, you should do it!’”

Unfortunately for the two women, Tatum hesitated too long; Xavier Samuel has since snatched up the Eclipse role.

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Will There Be Five Twilight Movies?

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sequels, Rumors

UPDATE: The studio calls the statement “uninformed and not accurate.”

Could Twilight soon be following Harry Potter‘s lead?

Although there are only seven books in J.K. Rowling’s series, the dramatic adaption will be drawn out over eight theatrical adaptations. Now there’s a rumor that the Stephenie Meyer’s tale could be extended as well.

According to an Eclipse cast member, there will actually be five segments in the Twilight saga. Actor Boo Boo Stewart and his rep both claim that he has been tapped for a trio of films.

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Move Over, Twilight: Counting Down the Five Best Vampire Movies

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Robert Pattinson is still hot; Kristen Stewart still has the sloe-eyed beauty thing down to a hilt. But is that enough to make us hold up Twilight as an icon in the vampire film genre? Let’s take a look at the five best vampire movies in Hollywood history…and see where this sequel-generating monster really falls in line.

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VIDEO: Twilight’s Edward Cullen Challenges Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Seriously. Why do we even need a Joss Whedon-less Buffy when we could just watch this?

In this clip, see what could happen if Twilight‘s Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) ever attended high school with Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar).

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