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Two more months!

It's Official - Breaking Dawn will be Two Films

It's official! According to Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood, the deals have been struck to make Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer's longest novel in the Twilight series, into two films. They will be shot back to back in October. No word yet on the director.

Breaking Dawn is being adapted by Melissa Rosenberg, who has adapted the scripts for all the other Twilight movies.  She'll have a bit more of a challenge with Breaking Dawn, as several of the scenes in the book are definitely not PG-13.

I'm not at all surprised that they decided to go with two films.  It's just like The Hobbit.  Why wouldn't you milk the franchise for all you can, if you can get the actors to sign on for both?  Wonder how much Summit had to pay to make this happen, as the three main actors had only signed for four films.

Eclipse is due out June 30th.

Happy 18th Birthday Taylor Lautner

 

  

  

He's legal!

Not so excited about his latest film choice, though.  Stretch Armstrong?  Really?

What Taylor Lautner wishes he'd done at the VMA's to Kanye West

He's adorable!

Taylor Lautner to play Teen Superhero Max Steel?

According to the LA Times, Taylor Lautner is in talks to play teen superhero Max Steel.  Max Steel was a Mattel action figure released in 2001, and there was an animated show that ran for three seasons. It's still very popular in Latin America.

Lautner would play Josh McGrath, a 19-year-old extreme-sports athlete who is accidentally exposed to the unleashed power of nanotechological machines, which become part of him and (in the old show, at least) give him increased strength, near-invulnerability and the ability to change his appearance.

Taylor appears next in a small role in the film Valentine's Day, and next week hosts SNL.

New Moon - A Skin Flick for the Gals

Monika Bartyzel of Cinematical has written a fantastic post on why men seem so disconcerted about the reaction of girls and women to New Moon.  It's because the guys are the ones objectified this time, and this is a skin flick for women.

Twilight isn't just a rampant fangirl phenomenon of pent up adolescent and homemaker lust. It's a female skin flick for the younger set, both in marketing and execution.

And no one seems to know how to react to that.

For the women-folk, it's old-hat. We've grown up with neverending waves of objectification.

As Monika points out, how many decades have women had to sit through the slow-mo boobs bouncing beach run scenes, or all those bikini babes in 80's music videos?  And just this summer, Megan Fox, anyone?

Skin... It was, and still is, everywhere. It's just always been of the smooth and feminine variety. We're used to seeing women de-robe, jump into the shower, and slowly rub themselves down, watching a film pause and linger on a woman's curves as they change, or seeing contrived plot points that require mass amounts of female flesh.

And now we've got the female version of skin flicks merged with a virulent fandom, which means a pervasive spreading of all things wolfy, vampy, and skin-laden. One sheet upon one sheet, clip upon clip get released of boys taking off their shirts and displaying their rippling muscles, whether they're carefully honed or painted-on washboards.

I've talked to many Twilight Moms since Friday, and we're all saying the same thing - OMG Jacob Black.  That scene where Jacob takes off his shirt when Bella falls off the motorcycle made all of us a bit hot and bothered.  How many guys have you ever seen rip off their t-shirt to mop up blood?  I heard many a mom say they gave an involuntary and audible, "Oh, my."  We're all trying not to think about the fact that Taylor Lautner won't be 18 till February 11.  Although, some of my friends proposed we have a party in his honor that night to celebrate!

Boy, has there been some backlash to all that gratuitous skin:

The Twilight-phobic are fed up with the skin everywhere, and it's led to a lot of hostility and animosity while revealing a rather amusing double standard.

Men are finally forced to face the fact that prudishness isn't the only reason why rampant skin on the big screen can be annoying. The Twilight Saga is forcing them to see lots of male skin and lots of hunky men tantalizing the womenfolk. In this cinematic franchise, the men are the commodity, the physical object of desire, and it's played up to the nth degree. It's the first real opportunity to see how annoying rampant fandom of skin fluff can be; how "perfect" embodiments of men on the big screen can taint real-life expectations. The tables have been turned.

And with record breaking box office for the opening day of New Moon, we women have flexed our financial muscles in appreciation of all those pecs on display.

The masses just have to realize that straight girls have finally found their slow-mo beach scene, and have the fiscal power to make it popular.

Amen, Sister.  Read the whole great article on Cinematical here.

Even Kristen Stewart commented on the turned tables in EW:

 "It's a trip to sit back and look at the sexual objectification of these dudes."

We are Fangirls, Hear us Roar!

Summit Entertainment’s “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” tore up the box office record for best opening day, grabbing the title away from Warner Bros. “The Dark Knight,” and earning a spectacular $72.7 million yesterday at 4,024 theaters.

The only question is if New Moon can break Dark Knight's three day opening weekend record of $158 million.  This is an amazing achievement for a movie aimed at girls and women.  Rowr!  We have the dollars, too, movie executives, and we come out for what we love!

I saw an early afternoon showing on Friday, and the theater was full of Twilight Moms like me since all the tweens were still in school.  I thought it was a good adaptation, but I don't know how it will play to people who have not ready the books. 

They Grow Up So Fast!

Kristin Davis in a recent interview talks about how weird it is to see the newly very muscular Taylor Lautner ("the youngster"!, who she knew as a kid actor on Shark Boy and Lava Girl:

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Just a reminder of how cute Taylor was as Shark Boy!

New Moon Werewolf Clip

This new picture from New Moon and a clip of Bella confronting Paul and the wolf pack just came out. It's short, but shows a bit more of the scene than what we saw in the trailer. It was released for download exclusively on iTunes.

New Moon Posters!

I think this looks like a romance novel clutch, don't you? I kind of prefer the ones with Taylor, Edward and Bella.



Very cool of the Voluturi!

Gorgeous behind the scenes pics from New Moon

The LA Times has 41 gorgeous behind the scenes photos from the filming of New Moon. These five are just a small sample!

Jacob Black New Moon Featurette

Jacob Flips Out!

New Moon at Comic Con

I am so jealous of everyone at Comic Con this weekend. Some day I'll make it there.

Rope of Silicon has posted some clips from the New Moon panel, so we can all pretend we were there in the insanity, too. Except we didn't have to wait for hours, or camp out!

New pic of Taylor Lautner from New Moon

It's almost Comic Con!

New Moon Official Trailer!!

Awesome!

NEW MOON trailer - Fan Made

Check out this amazing fan made trailer for New Moon! She's compiled clips from 8 movies, and even a car commercial to make this fantastic video trailer!

The poster looked very similar to the fan made one floating around the internet for months. It will be interesting to see how the "official" trailer measures up to this!

Hat tip: Darling Diva!

First New Moon Clip to be shown at MTV awards

Twilight fans rejoice! The first look at New Moon will be the airing of a clip on the MTV Movie awards. Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart will introduce the debut footage.

Twilight ties with Slumdog Millionaire for the most nominations -- six. Andy Samberg hosts the MTV Movie Awards on May 31st.

Second part of ET visit to New Moon

Some discussion of disturbing dream sequences where Edward looks like a demon. Creepy scary Edward sounds fun to me!

ET visits New Moon set

Entertainment Tonight visited the New Moon set, and we get some of our first looks at filming. They interviewed Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson and you even get to hear Mary Hart say "Woof!" about how much muscle Taylor put on!