Breaking Dawn Director Announced

Los Angeles, CA April 28, 2010 – Summit Entertainment has confirmed that Academy Award® winner Bill Condon (see his IMDB profile here) will direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg, and will star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, and Stephenie Meyer will produce the project.

"Bringing Stephenie Meyer's BREAKING DAWN to the screen requires a graceful and intelligent hand and we believe Bill Condon is exactly the right steward, having shown equal and abundant talents of immense creativity and subtle sensitivity,” said Erik Feig, President of Production and Acquisitions, for Summit Entertainment.

Added author Stephenie Meyer, "I'm so thrilled that Bill wants to work with us. I think he's going to be a great fit, and I'm excited to see what he does with the material."

“I'm very excited to get the chance to bring the climax of this saga to life on-screen. As fans of the series know, this is a one-of-a-kind book - and we're hoping to create an equally unique cinematic experience," said Bill Condon.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.

Condon is well known for writing and directing DREAMGIRLS, KINSEY, and GODS AND MONSTERS, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1999. He was nominated for a second Oscar for his screenplay for the movie musical CHICAGO in 2003. Most recently the multi-hyphenate directed the pilot episode for the Showtime series “The Big C” and produced the 81st Annual Academy Awards telecast, hosted by Hugh Jackman.

The third film in the franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is due in theaters on June 30, 2010.

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What I want to know is when and where they're filming because I want to be there and set stalk visit the local tourist attractions near-by. =D

Update 4/29: The LA Times wrote an article "What kind of Breaking Dawn will Bill Condon make?"

Bella's Engagement Ring

So the Examiner has a nifty article taking on the much talked about engagement ring from the Eclipse trailer #2:

Today on Yahoo!'s main page we have this screen shot of their main page with the top story of "'Twilight' engagement ring for sale":

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We all know about prop reproductions, shoot we buy them. The engagement ring is another piece of merchandise to own. This site, infinite jewelry co, is selling three types of "Bella's engagement ring". There's the Fashion Ring for $35, Fine Ring for $480, and Genuine Ring for $1,980. The thing with this site is that Stephenie Meyer has a say in the ring's design. 

Personally, I think I like this one better:

emitations Inspired by Twilight Engagement Ring: Bella's Wedding Ring $35 - $44

I wonder what they're going to do with the "Bella's Cullen Crest Ring". What that for fun? Why did they even mass create such a horrible thing like that? Wouldn't "Bella's Moonstone Ring" be better?

Thoughts? Other rings for contention? Let me know =)

psst... check out this old article from The Twilight Guy. This dude proposed with Bella's ring. Read it here.

Eclipse Trailer #2

Oprah debuted the second, and final (?), trailer for Eclipse that start playing in theaters on June 30 (see countdown on the right --->)

If you haven't seen it yet, watch it in High Definition here.

So what did you think? I was kinda speechless and had goosebumps the first few times I watched it. Now I'm really really excited for June!

Let's deconstruct the trailer shall we?

First, we've got Jacob at Forks High warning Edward and saying Bella has a "right to know". I think this is about warning Edward about keeping his family off Quileute land (Emmett crosses the line chasing Victoria and has a standoff with Paul).

Love the arial night shot of Seattle.

Carlisle's wig is epic fail, so is his accent... why does he have an accent? Maybe it's his emotions over powering him in the moment... let's hope.

The next clips looks like they're from the graduation party. There are colored lights and people are dressed nicely (except for Bella but she could have changed into one of Edward's shirts ^_-).

The groups shot of the wolves coming over some logs in the forest; I count 8 wolves. They could be Sam, Jacob, Paul, Embry, Quil, Jared, Leah and Seth.

Newborns are looking menacing... why couldn't I have been casted?! There's a ton of 'em.

Hello Volturi. Alec is looking all emo... I bet he's wearing skinny jeans underneath his tailored coat. Demetri is looking all scrumptious with his matching doublet and coat lining. And Felix has a cape =D

Since this movie is dealing with newborns, I hope we get more Jasper! He's looking fierce and he deserves some screen time after Kellan hit him in the head during rehearsal and had to be sent to the hospital.

OK, I'm really really looking forward to the "Marry Me" scene. The ring, the charm bracelet, the scar and The LOOK that Edward gives Bella... Holy Crap! If I had Rob looking at me like that I would forget my own name, what I'm doing and crap fist fulls of his hair and smash his face into mine as I kiss him senseless. You would too!!

Jacob acting all mad... I bet that's when Bella lets him know that she won't be transforming in years, but in weeks (hello heartbreak).

The Volturi in the meadow, there's a fire going in the bottom right corner. Guess they're not needed after all.

Victoria in the tree with Edward knocking it down. If you look closely, you can see Wolf Seth and a twice dead Riley on the ground in the snow. ^_^

Watching the last action sequence of the fight scene between the newborn(NB) army vs. wolves and Cullens you notice a few things. You can see Alice, Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett in the shots... well their stunt doubles at least. Alice is easy to spot, she's jumping over a wolf (Jacob I think) as it bites a NB. You can also see her in the background on the left tugging on one as a wolf (Paul?) is jumping in the air in a "hero" shot. Also in that shot is Esme fighting a NB in front of the rock in the middle. Rosalie can be seen through the wolf's legs in the background (her blonde head at least) and Emmett looks like he's picking up a NB under the arms. Carlisle is seen all in black with this blonde afro in the far right of the shots surrounded by NBs that are trying to tackle and over power him.

Did you see anything else? Have an opinion? What are you looking forward to in Eclipse? Let me know =)

Happy Birthday Kristen

I made this which pretty much sums up her day for her.

:0)

ECLIPSE PREMIERE

ARRRG! There be premiere rumors and drams! See this post.


Date: June 24, 2010
City: Hollywood
Theater: TBA 
but... it might be:
Grauman's Chinese Theatre (6925 Hollywood Blvd.)

It looks like Hollywood is preparing road closures on Hollywood Blvd between Highland and Orange; which is right in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the Eclipse premiere as stated here.

Does this make if official? If the city is going to schedule city workers and police to set up barricades and close off streets, not to mention re-route bus lines, garbage trucks, and other public services... they're going to need time to prepare and plan. We're less than 80 days away from the premiere. How long does Summit plan to wait to make it "official"? And why? They're just making it harder on the fandom by prolonging the announcement.

Surviving the Eclipse premiere

Someone just asked me to give her pointers on how to get close to the red carpet, what waiting in line is like, etc. based upon my New Moon premiere experience.

I suppose that right after I was so busy editing and uploading video from that premiere (see my YouTube channel for the videos) that I never got around to describing that weekend.

So I started writing and it turned out into a three page e-mail. So, if your planning or thinking about going to the Eclipse premiere this summer (official date TBD), look under the cut for more info. I put it behind the cut because, well it's three pages long and I didn't want to crowd my main page with a bunch of text.

New Moon DVD and Eclipse stuff

The New Moon DVD:

Because the US Postal Service is 10 kinds of fail, I didn't get my New Moon DVD until Monday, the 22nd. I had to try and not watch the special features that were posted on-line because I wanted to see it on my large screen TV.

Anyway, I had ordered the 3-disc DVD from Target and I'm pretty satisfied with it. It would be 100 times greater if Kristen, Rob and Taylor were on the commentary but oh well. I guess they didn't want to sell too many DVD *shrugs*.

My favorite part of the DVD was the featurette about the bands that were in the movie and on the soundtrack. They showed a few clips from the Hollywood/Highland cast tour event of the band performing and you can totally see me in the crowd! (pictured with the red arrows point at me) I pretty much told everyone because if you saw yourself on a DVD wouldn't you want to share the news too? Yea, so that was exciting.

The Target 3-disc DVD came with a collectable "cell". Now, I'm a really big fan of anime (japanese animation) and when I would go to conventions and comic book stores and would sell "cells" it's usually a scene of that particular show but without the background. They usually use map paintings or layer another cell below it. So just imagine a clear plastic page with some hand drawn and colored picture. That to me, is a "cell".

So that's what I was expecting to see, just a smaller version of it, in the DVD package. What was really inside was a tiny 35mm piece of film inset in a card. So disappointing. The one I have is the beach rescue scene when Jacob is hovering over Bella after just pulling her out of the water. What am I supposed to do with a 1"x1.5" piece of film? I don't own a dark room so it's not like I can blow it up and develop it. Maybe put a flashlight behind it and project it onto my wall? Lame.

Robsessed has some clips from the press junket in Japan that's on their DVD. Check them out here.

Eclipse stuff:

The Eclipse Movie Companion is going to be released June 29th (amazon.com). Which freakin' sucks because what am I going to have the cast sign at the premiere which will probably be held a few days earlier (official date still not announced). Didn't the New Moon Companion come out way ahead of the movie?

Eclipse is coming out in paperback on May 25th. I own the hardback but I think I'm going to have all the paperbacks as well because I'm getting my hardback signed by any of the cast and crew I can find and don't want to lend them out to people to spread the Twilight love so I'll get the paperbacks to spread the Twilight gospel.

Sort of Random:

Chris Weitz is a rugged hottie. :0)