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

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

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

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

01 Jan 2010

More Twilight Convention Dates Added

17 Oct 2009

We have been informed that Creation Entertainment has added more dates for the Twilight Conventions that begin in 2010. To see all the dates and possibly sign up for a convention near you, click the image below:

Spike TV Jumps on the 'Twilight' Bandwagon for SCREAM 2009

06 Oct 2009

Let's be honest, if hardcore horror fans turn their noses up at anything it's "The Twilight Saga," but Spike TV is jumping on the phenomenon by making "New Moon" a centerpiece of "SCREAM 2009."

The network announced today that the pseudo awards show will feature cast members from "New Moon" as well as the debut of new footage from what is expected to be one of November's biggest releases. Who will appear from the cast is unclear, but it would be surprising for Summit to drag Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson from Vancouver for the event while they are still shooting "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse." Our guess? "New Moon" vampire and "Underworld" franchise star Michael Sheen or the members of the Wolfpack (with shirts on for this crowd).

"Twilight" isn't the only vampire franchise that will be celebrated, however. Also in attendance will be the "True Blood" entourage of creator Alan Ball, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård and Sam Trammell.

"SCREAM 2009" will tape on Saturday, October 17 and premiere on Tuesday, October 27 at 10:00 PM ET/PT. Will you watch?

Credit: HitFix

Why Brands Are Staking A Claim On Twilight Saga

01 Oct 2009

When reality means frozen pay and job insecurity, brands are cashing in on people’s desire for escapism through the supernatural

When it comes to the vampire-themed book and film series Twilight, it seems that marketers are truly smitten. The second part of the trilogy - New Moon - is released in US cinemas next month and the advertising world wants a bite of the action.

In the past week alone, Burger King has announced it will offer Twilight-branded meals in US outlets with merchandise and coupon offers available both in the restaurants and online through its Crown Card reward scheme. Virtual world Habbo will create Twilight-branded environments online and an iPhone application will let global fans stay connected via messageboards and news updates.

It doesn’t stop there. The Twilight marketing is even managing to rebrand a book first published in 1847. The classic Emily Bronte; novel Wuthering Heights has just been re-released with a cover almost identical to those in the Twilight series and the words “Bella and Edward’s Favourite Book” emblazoned on the front.

The strength of the Twilight branding is clearly thought to be so strong that there is no need for an explanation on the cover of who “Bella and Edward” - the series’ young lovers - are. It is just taken for granted that everyone knows.

Credit: Marketing Week

Gallery Update - Kristen Stewart Graces Interview Magazine

01 Oct 2009

Kristen Stewart is featured in Interview Magazine. I believe this is for either the October or November issue. It's an interesting read about how she feels about the Twilight Saga, playing Bella, and the fame that has come along with it:

Stewart grew up in Los Angeles in a Hollywood family of sorts—her mother is a script supervisor, and her father is a stage manager—and as a kid announced her interest in working in front of the camera. Her second film, David Fincher’s 2002 thriller, Panic Room, in which she played Jodie Foster’s too-quick, too-wise, too-over-it daughter, proved an early indicator of her ability to play young, smart, but not precocious. Her performance in more left-of-center projects such as Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (2007) and this year’s Adventureland has only reinforced that notion. But if there’s a thread that runs through her relatively small body of work, it’s one that’s closely connected to the idea that you don’t have to be old to have soul. With Stewart, you don’t get 19-going-on-35. What you do get is a visceral window into what it means to be young and struggling to make sense of your own life and the world around you—and all the alternating waves of darkness and confusion and brightness and possibility that come with that. In many ways, it’s the unwritten nature of Stewart’s own story now, with its surreal subplots and recent twists and turns, that makes her compelling to watch. It’s true that she might very well be a rebel anodyne to many of her bleached and sprayed-on contemporaries. Or, like Bella Swan, she might just be someone who comes from somewhere, found her way into something exceptional, and is on her way to someplace else. Either way, she’s got a solid arc.

Read the entire article here.

ET Talks to 'The Twilight Saga' Screenwriter

05 Aug 2009

ET Online has a nice interview with Melissa Rosenberg talking a little bit about 'New Moon, 'Eclipse', Rob and Kristen's chemistry, as well as a brief comment about Rachelle's departure:

ET: What can you tell us about 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse'?

Melissa Rosenberg: It becomes bigger in scope. The first film was really a small romance in a way. There was the battle with James (Cam Gigandet) at the end. That was as big as it got. With 'New Moon,' we have the werewolf clan, we have the Vulturi -- and in 'Eclipse,' there is an epic battle, so with every book, with every episode of the movie, it gets grander in scope, which is fun to write. What was great about that, too, is with the small story and the characters ... to be able to grow with it and track it through, it has really been a great pleasure.

ET: Are you writing for the chemistry between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart?

Melissa Rosenberg: When I wrote 'Twilight,' I didn't know who was starring in it, so I wrote in a vacuum. There was some rewriting that had to be done when we knew who they were, because I had started with more of a comedic edge and it wasn't appropriate for those actors and the tone. I lean toward the dark comedy, witness "Dexter." So, going into 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I knew who I was writing for. I knew who the characters were and what their voices were. It got even easier with 'Eclipse.' [Author] Stephenie Meyer's created the character's chemistry; and those two actors brought so much chemistry. I don't think the movies would have been so successful without those two actors and their chemistry. 'Twilight' was beautifully cast.

'Twilight' Author Accused of Biting Vampire Story

04 Aug 2009

Spoiler Alert! If you haven't read the fourth "Twilight" book -- and plan to -- this story is going to ruin your life forever. You sure wanna go on? Here we go...

Turns out Stephenie Meyer, the woman behind the Twilight series, isn't the only person to write about sexy vampires -- 'cause she's being accused of ripping off the storyline for her fourth ultra-successful book by a less famous, less rich author.

A woman named Jordan Scott fired off a cease and desist letter to the publisher of "Breaking Dawn" -- the fourth book in the series -- claiming the Twilight tale contains a "striking and substantial similarity" to Scott's book, "The Nocturne."

In her extremely detailed letter, Scott claims her book was published in 2006 -- two years before "Breaking Dawn" -- and it's no coincidence that many of the scenes are almost identical. Such as...

-- Both books contain a post-wedding sex scene
-- Both books contain a scene about a woman who's sick because she's carrying a child with "evil powers"
-- Both books contain a scene with the death of the main character's wife

And according to Scott, the dialogue in all of these scenes -- and more -- is extremely similar.

But Meyer's rep is calling BS -- telling TMZ, "The claim that 'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer
or her supposed book prior to this claim."

Click here to read the document in full.

Credit: TMZ

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