‘The Twilight Saga – Eclipse’ Sends Out Casting Call

FROM MTV.COM: While we only just debuted the first trailer for “New Moon,” the second film in the “Twilight” franchise, it’s never too early to turn our attention to the third adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire books, “Eclipse.” And turn our attention we must, because casting for the June 2010 movie is currently under way.

E! Online reports that a casting notice has gone out for at least three “Eclipse” characters: vampire Riley and two siblings in the Quileute tribe of werewolves, Seth and Leah Clearwater.

According to the casting notice, Riley "is a handsome, blond, clean-cut college boy who falls victim to [vampire] Victoria." The character is in his early to mid-20s and "plays an integral role in Victoria’s attempt to murder Bella Swan."

For the Clearwater siblings, filmmakers are looking for Native American or First Nations (Canadian Indian) actors. Seth is said to idolize fellow werewolf Jacob Black and to be a "tall, gangly limbed boy with a huge, happy grin," the notice explained.

Leah is 19-years-old and the only female member of the wolf pack. "She is tall and slender with beautiful skin and short cropped black hair," the notice said. "She would be considered gorgeous if not for the perpetual scowl she carries due to a broken heart and her anger issues."

Stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are already set to reprise their roles in "Eclipse." Shooting on the film is slated to begin in August, with David Slade ("30 Days of Night") taking over directing duties from "New Moon" helmer Chris Weitz.

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‘New Moon’ Set Pics Are In The Wild!

Those official “New Moon” stills I put up on the blog at the end of the day yesterday have turned out to be little more than a tease. Some intrepid fan worked his or her way onto the set of “New Moon” with a camera in tow. The result? 65+ full-size images. Quite a bit more than the handful of officially released stills.

There’s a big crowd of folks in red, Kristen Stewart running through a fountain and a shirtless RPattz. The image gallery is up at ShockTillYouDrop.com. Since I have no idea what I’m seeing here, I’d appreciate some enlightenment from you hardcore “Twilight”-ers in the audience. Check out the gallery and then hit me back here in the comments.

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Robert Pattinson, Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz To Star In ‘Unbound Captives’

Actors Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson have all had their share of buzz this May, with Jackman and Weisz lining up multiple movie deals in the past two weeks, and Pattinson continuing to ride the “Twilight” wave. Now all three are lending their star power to the writing and directorial debut of actress Madeleine Stowe for her period drama, “Unbound Captives.”

“Captives” is a tale set in 1865 America about a woman (played by Weisz) whose husband is killed by a Comanche war party and whose two children (one of whom will be played by Pattinson) are kidnapped. She is then rescued by a frontiersman (Jackman).

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Emma Watson Talks About Robert Pattinson And ‘Twilight’

While “Twilight” actresses Kristen Stewart, Rachelle Lefevre, Ashley Greene and others recently made their own career breakthroughs, such fan madness is old-hat for Emma Watson. Which is all the more amazing when you consider that the world-famous actress otherwise known as Hermione Granger is still only 18 years old.

Recently, we caught up with the sweet-smiling superstar her eagerness to watch “Half-Blood Prince,” and whether she’d ever bare all for a role a la Daniel Radcliffe. And naturally, we had to ask the star of this generation’s first book-to-film teen blockbuster series what she thought about the “Twilight” phenomenon.

“I don’t know much [about it],” she admitted. “I haven’t seen the film.”

Nevertheless, Watson said she was thrilled to see her hunky “Goblet of Fire” and “Order of the Phoenix” co-star graduate to become one of Hollywood’s most promising young leading men since, well, Daniel Radcliffe. “Obviously, I know Rob,” she explained. “I’m just gob-smacked by the level of excitement and hype around ‘Twilight.’ I’m very happy for Rob that it’s been so successful.”

And although RPattz likes to play up his shock and confusion over all those shrieking, Sharpie-waving fans, Emma insisted that she knew all along that he’d someday become like the Beatles all rolled into one. “Of course I did; he is incredibly handsome!” she grinned. “He is a very, very handsome man, so I’m not too surprised.”

Robert Pattinson vs. Daniel Radcliffe: Who is the better actor? Which is cuter? Which has the brighter future? Discuss.

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Robert Pattinson’s New Look – So What Do You Think?

“Twilight” star Robert Pattinson is known for a lot of things, but first and foremost has to be his wildly styled hairdo that’s gotten Twilighters everywhere atwitter at the sight of him.

So does hair make the man? That question will finally be answered, as Pattinson has decided to ditch his trademark locks in favor of a much shorter cut.

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Robert Pattinson Stars In ‘Little Ashes’

The tag line for Little Ashes declares that this is a story that has gone untold — until now. The film follows three of Spain’s great creative minds in the tumultuous setting of 1920s Madrid. Robert Pattinson plays Salvador Dali, Javier Beltran is Federico García Lorca, and Matthew McNulty takes the role of Luis Buñuel in this tale of art, lust and history.

From the trailer it appears that there’s an emphasis on the lust part, not so much on the actual art or history parts. Visually the film looks pretty cool, though, and it’s an interesting topic for sure. Read more

Dead But Dreamy – Robert Pattinson Is Twilight’s Edward

Normally, a vampire flick heading to theaters would attract the typical genre or horror fans curious to the latest spin on the bloodsucker mythology. But there’s nothing typical about the absolute tidal wave of buzz surrounding the big screen adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s young adult skewing vampire tale, Twilight.

In the four years since Meyer’s released Twilight (the first book in the now completed four series), the book have sold more than 17 million copies in 37 languages, and maybe most importantly, spawned a fandom as passionate, vocal and obsessed over their work that most authors can only dream about. Granted a big reason for that kind of devotion is the love story at the center of the series – the forbidden kind between the human Bella Swan and the immortal vampire, Edward Cullen. Their story is exactly the kind of angsty, breathless affair that make women, young and old, swoon for and studio executives salivate over to convert to film.

The smart executives at smaller studio Summit Entertainment ended up acquiring the rights and now find themselves about to release what will assuredly be their biggest hit (and possible franchise) ever. Just according to the numbers from two weeks ago, online ticket destination Fandango reported that the film’s presales accounted for 51% of all daily ticket sales on the site, with plenty of the November 21st opening day and night showings already sold out. That’s the kind of hype that usually surrounds characters named Iron Man, Batman, Jason Bourne or any other typically male oriented blockbuster fare, not for a $37 million dollar budgeted vampire romance that takes place in Oregon. Read more

Twilight – Interview With Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson, the English actor who takes on the role of Edward the vampire in Twilight, told reporters he approached the part cautiously. The actor–previously known as the ill-fated Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire–has the unenviable job of playing a century-old vampire who is described in Stephenie Meyer’s original novel as the perfect man.

But Pattinson found a way to spark romance with Bella, the character played by co-star Kristen Stewart. Pattinson spoke in a group interview last weekend in Beverly Hills, Calif., to promote the movie, which opens Nov. 21. Following is an edited version of that interview.

Are you fully prepared for the fan reaction?

Pattinson: My brain doesn’t really accept it, so it’s fine. I can be put anywhere, and … it just goes completely over my head. I just don’t want to get stabbed or something. They’re literally, my representation, just saying, “Have you got any fear, like, literally?” … I should say, like, “I just don’t want to get shot or stabbed, and I don’t want someone to have a needle and then I get AIDS afterwards.” That’s my only legitimate, … real fears. …

The Entertainment Weekly cover story on Twilight portrays you as obsessive about playing the role of Edward, of having a lot of angst. It doesn’t seem like you now, but was that true?

Pattinson: Yeah. I didn’t want to do a teen stupid movie. I’d specifically not done anything which anyone would see since Harry Potter, because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn’t want to be an idiot. And this came kind of randomly, and I didn’t really know what it was when it first started. I was going to wait for another year. I wanted to do, like, two or three more little things and then do something [bigger]. But this kind of happened, and I was like, “Oh, OK.” And I’d done another movie where I’d got really intense about it before, and I felt kind of satisfied after. I was much more satisfied than I have from other movies. I don’t know how it turned out or what the result of getting intense about something is, but you definitely feel more satisfied. And I wanted to take that into Twilight and also try and break down the assumption that, if a movie is being made from a book which is selling a lot of copies–which every single book that sells a lot of copies now is made into a movie immediately–they’re actually all not very good and everybody knows, even like 6-year-olds know, that it’s just to make money. I didn’t want to be involved in that. And I thought [director] Catherine [Hardwicke] and Kristen would be supportive of that. Read more