This article by Oregon Business Magazine outlines why filming for the Twilight sequel, New Moon, will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, instead of Oregon or Washington.
Porter says filmmakers were partly concerned that Oregon wouldn’t have the production resources to support two Twilight sequels being made back-to-back. The lower Canadian dollar also made filming in British Columbia cheaper.
Estimates show that $20 million was spent in the state of Oregon during the filming of Twilight.
Read the full article here.
Big feature on Twilight author Stephenie Meyer in the March issue of Vogue magazine!
Stephenie admits that she considers herself to be an amateur writer, but she does know her audience.
To her great credit, Meyer knows she is not Gertrude Stein. "I'm not a professional yet," she says. "I'm still just an amateur." But she knows her audience like Nielsen. "A twelve-year-old girl has already in her head imagined out fourteen different lives, including if she gets married, if she doesn't get married, if she falls in love with someone who lives in Paris," Meyer says. Indeed, one might argue her authorial success has something to do with her being surrounded by non-girls. "I live in a house filled with testosterone," she says. "There's always sports on my television, and there's nothing except hockey and scooters, and there's nothing of that side of myself left, and so it's great to have a different place to find it."
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MSNBC says that Taylor Lautner is ready to take his place as the new hunk in New Moon, playing the werewolf Jacob, who befriends Bella, and their relationship becomes, well, complicated.
They say that Taylor's ready to take his shot at Bella's love interest:
The clean-cut Lautner added 30 pounds to his frame to help him unseat Pattinson and appear worthy of Bella’s affections.
Rumors have it that 90210's AnnaLynne McCord might be cast as the vampiress Heidi.
The character is a "fisher" who brings humans to the Volturi vampires to eat. She's also known as "bait" because of the way she uses her stunning looks to attract humans. In her brief appearance in the book, Bella describes Heidi as having "exceptional, unforgettable" beauty. She has stunning legs, long hair and violet eyes.
Her 90210 costar Kellan Lutz—and rumored real-life boyfriend—played Emmett in Twilight and will return for the sequel.
Summit Entertainment recently unveiled the official artwork for the upcoming New Moon movie, based on the Stephenie Meyer novel.
Looks great if you ask us!
News is out that a Special Edition of the Twilight Soundtrack is coming March 17, 2009.
New Songs include:
Love Is Worth The Fall by O.A.R.
Decode (Acoustic) by Paramore
Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Live) by Iron & Wine
Spotlight (Sun Lux Remix) by MuteMath
Full Moon (Applebum and Komonazmuk Remix) by The Black Ghosts
There is also a special DVD that comes with, this will include:
Interview with Alex Patsavas, Music Supervisor for Twilight
Interview with Hayley Williams, Paramore
Paramore - Decode Music Video
Paramore - Decode (Beyond the Video)
The Black Ghosts - Full Moon Music Video
Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Live)
When USAWeekend interviewed Stephen King, he told us how he really feels, saying:
"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
Gosh, Stephen, I wish you would quit beating around the bush and tell us how you REALLY feel. He goes on to say:
"People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."
Now, can YOU be objective about this? What do YOU think about Stephen King's comments?
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Ashley Greene (plays Alice Cullen) and Kellen Lutz (plays Emmett Cullen) confirmed some important details from the New Moon movie script. Here's what they told Access Hollywood:
- There will be a yellow Porsche in the movie.
- They both will be returning to take part of the film.
- Taylor Lautner will indeed play the part of Jacob.
Still no official word yet on whether Dakota Fanning will have a part in the movie.
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