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‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ New Character Posters Bring The Bland

Travis Woods — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:37:43 +0000

Not to have its thunder stolen by The Avengers’ runaway box office, Prometheus’ mysterious buzz, The Amazing Spider-Man’s inevitable Fourth of July weekend dominion, or The Dark Knight Rises’ guaranteed success (or crappy posters), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has dropped a series of bland character posters on the world today. Featuring a trio of the blank stares we’ve all come to know and moderately tolerate, the posters are below.

Hey, we’ll give them this—at least they’re better than the “Let’s write the words ‘Twilight’ and ‘Breaking Dawn’ over a smudge and then release it” thinking that went into the original teaser poster for the upcoming film, right?

Pay close attention and you’ll note that—gasp!—Kristen Stewart’s eyes are red, which means she totes a vampire now, you guyz. Totes! OMG, it’s juuuuuuust like the books. Which, in keeping with the last book, this film will revolve around some kind of vampire army and then a 20 year old muscle-bound werewolf falls in love with a newborn vampire baby and then Stewart will look at things blankly with her mouth slightly agape and set the feminist movement back about 50 years. Something like that.

Stewart costarts with Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner in Twilight: Seriously—How Many More Punctuation Marks Can We Awkwardly Wedge Into This Title?, which is set for a November 16, 2012 release.

What do you think of the posters?

Source: Coming Soon

Latest ‘Twilight’ Stills Reveal ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2′ Spoilers

Damon Houx — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:58:36 +0000

Well, spoilers in the sense that what seemed readily apparent at the end of the first half of Twilight‘s Breaking Dawn is confirmed. Kristen Stewart‘s Bella is a vampire now. We had hope that writer/director Bill Condon would elevate the material a little, but at this point the movies are what they are. So check out the latest stills…

Are you ready? Cause they’re really exciting.

Boom:

Hey look, it’s that Taylor Lautner kid giving his “Blue Steel!” Wow, do you think he’s going to turn into a werewolf or something shortly after this, or is he just posing for his yearbook? That’s a look that says “maybe he’s really angry, or maybe he just wants a sandwich.” We’d bet Lautner made this face for hours after someone read him the reviews of Abduction.

But wait, there’s a little more:

Look at the happy couple. Question to the Twilight fans, we’ve seen the first film, but haven’t read the books, do they get to have sex again? Does it come up? We hope so, because the violent sex between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson was easily the most entertaining part of the last movie. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 hits theaters November 16, and we can’t wait.

Are you Team Edward or are you Team Jacob?

‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ Releases Laziest Poster Ever

Travis Woods — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:45:06 +0000

Apparently, when a film franchise can make hundreds of millions of dollars on name recognition alone, you don’t have to put a lot of money, attention or detail into little things like advertising—specifically, poster art. Case in point: The Twilight franchise, wherein the new teaser poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 might feature one of the laziest poster designs in recent memory.

Apparently, Summit Entertainment couldn’t even be bothered to slap together the quickly airbrushed heads of Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson together; instead, we get the overlong title of the film, and some swirly, out of focus blurs, colors and smudges. Call it The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: Photoshopped in 30 Minutes or Less, if you like.

That said, Summit Entertainment probably doesn’t need to do much to advertise the massively anticipated final chapter in its series of films about a teenager and the sparkly corpse and man-dog that love her, so a rather lazily composed poster is easy to forgive. Honestly, at this point, all Summit has do to is scribble the film’s title and release date in a handwritten scrawl across some store-bought poster board and they’d still clear $100 million the first weekend. Never underestimate the appeal of sparkly corpses, people.

What do you think of the poster?

Source: Collider

‘Cosmopolis’ Trailer: Robert Pattinson Dodges Riots And Assassination While Driving To A Haircut

Travis Woods — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:53:30 +0000

Last month, we gave you a peek at the red-band teaser for David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, Cosmopolis. Featuring as it did a delirious amount of sex, gunplay, Tyrannosaur-sized rats, and shocking violence, it was a dizzying tease into the cinematic version of DeLillo’s cold and darkly humorous world. Now we have a full trailer to expand upon the themes of the teaser, and to give us a plot sketch—a billionaire traverses NYC in a high-tech limo, going through, riots, women, violence and assassination attempts, all to get his haircut.

The film, which is slated to run during the Cannes Film Festival, has a French release date of May 23^rd, with no United States release date yet in sight. It looks to be worth the wait, however—combining the chilly fission of DeLillo’s postmodernism with the controlled chaos of Cronenberg’s earlier works (which seem to be on full display here) seems like a win-win situation for everyone involved. And hey, playing a disaffected, poisoned-by-society did wonders for Christian Bale; perhaps, after Cosmopolis, we’ll no longer think of Robert Pattinson as a member of the sparkly undead.

Cosmopolis co-stars Sarah Gadon, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Mathieu Almaric, and Jay Baruchel.

What do you think of the trailer?

Source: EW

‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part II’ Is Going Back For Reshoots

Damon Houx — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:10:50 +0000

Reshoots are usually buzzed about because it’s often a sign that a film isn’t working, but director Bill Condon has gone out of his way to assure Twilight fans that the recently announced reshoots for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II are just par for the course. He also hints that the film is about to unleash its full trailer shortly. Check out his statement below…

Condon suggests that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will be involved with the reshoots, but makes no mention of Taylor Lautner, which also suggests this is just a touch up or two. As the two-parter was shot as one long movie, this really shouldn’t be a surprise. Here’s Condon’s note, from Facebook:

Hello Twihards!

Greetings from Los Angeles, where we’re hard at work on BREAKING DAWN, PART TWO. It’s truly crazy to think that it’s been a year since we wrapped production in Vancouver, since for those of us in the editing room the work has never stopped.

A film is a lot like a puzzle, with each piece – each shot, no matter how brief – needing to fit exactly with the ones around it. Our Part Two puzzle is finally coming into full view, and in a few weeks we’ll be heading back north to pick up some additional shots – the last tiny missing pieces. We’re not shooting any new scenes or dialogue, just some technical work with some of our cast and stunt actors.

I am really looking forward to being back on set with some of the friends I’ve made on my Twilight journey, like the great Guillermo Navarro, our cinematographer, and his crew. And yes, Rob and Kristen will be there too, to pop in those gold contacts one last time…

I’m excited to report that before too long we’ll have another trailer for you to decode. And wait until you see the first posters — they’re unlike any “Twilight” images you’ve seen before. And then November 16th will be upon us and the final film will be yours!

Until then, have a very happy spring, and I’ll check back in with you soon.

Best wishes,

Bill

Reshoots are often seen as a bad thing, but that’s usually because they’re done after a test screening shows the movie’s problems. It’s possible this is more than what he says, but it seems unlikely.

In the annals of reshoots, sometimes the new scenes work, and sometimes they’re just used as scotch tape to cut sections of a film that were scrapped. Woody Allen notoriously reshot one of his films (September) in its entirety, while recently we’ve heard word on both John Carter and Men in Black III doing extensive reshoots. But you know what also went back to get more footage? The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It seems that bad buzz iss saved for films that are already troubled. The film is due out November 16.

Are you excited or sad that the Twilght films are coming to an end?

View The New Teaser For ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2′

Travis Woods — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:24:53 +0000

Just one week ago, we received the latest in that most obnoxious marketing trend: the trailer for the trailer—a commercial advertising that we’ll be seeing a commercial soon. That fact that it was a teaser for a teaser of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 didn’t make it any less irritating. But now, Twi-Hards, your wait is over, and you can now view the full teaser for the upcoming film in which Kristen Stewart continues to not act, but this time she red eyes. Totes red eyes, you guys!

View the teaser below, in which Stewart’s Bella Swan is now a vampire, leading her new vamp hubby Edward to declare, “Now we’re the same temperature,” which is both a comment on the fact that they are now as cold as corpses, as well as a nice unintentional reference to the cold and wooden performances that litter this franchise.

So there you have it—Bella running around the woods at superhuman speed, Bella sporting red eyes, Bella fetishizing her ring, Bella getting ready to gore a defenseless deer while violently draining its body of life, blood, and sinew—everything a teen girl would want to see in the final installment of the Twilight franchise (at least, of course, until Lionsgate/Summit start making ever more of these things). The film premieres on November 16, 2012.

What did you think of the new teaser?

Robert Pattinson Gets Gritty In Red-Band Teaser For David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ (NSFW)

Travis Woods — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:05:02 +0000

Fair warning: This is probably not a teaser trailer to watch at work, unless your boss is totally cool with a wildly postmodern fantasia in which Robert Pattinson plays a billionaire banker who shots a hole in his own hand, gets an in-limo proctologic exam, hallucinates a Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized rat in Times Square, and has sex with lots and lots of women, as directed by David Cronenberg from an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel. So, fair warning.

Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer (Pattinson), a hotshot asset manager who takes a limo across New York City one day to get a haircut. In that one day, while stuck in traffic, all of the above occurs, and a lot more. Check it out via the just-released red-band teaser trailer:

So, what do you think? Pattinson isn’t sparkling, isn’t causing teen girls to pass out, and isn’t sucking anyone dry. And it almost looks like…gasp!…that he can act! In fact, while an adaptation of one of Don DeLillo’s lesser novels, starring the guy with goofy hair from Twilight, had originally raised more than a few eyebrows, the film seems to be something of a throwback to Cronenberg’s insanely edgy 1980’s work, in the vein of Naked Lunch or Videodrome. And if Cosmopolis is even half as good as those films, this could be a winner.

Cosmopolis does not yet have an American release date, but is set to premiere in France on May 23^rd.

What did you think of the trailer?

Teaser For The Trailer For Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

Damon Houx — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:08:12 +0000

Oh man. It’s almost here. The end of Twilight as we know it. Breaking Dawn Part 2 will be released November 16, but until that time, fans will have wait patiently with small glimpses of footage, and haters will be stuck counting the days until it’s all finally over. To tide one of those parties over there’s now a teaser for the trailer that will be attached to The Hunger Games. Check it out…

As with all teaser for teasers, there’s very little here, expect glimpses at your leads Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. But this is obviously from the new film as we see that Stewart’s Bella can move at vampire speeds. Other than that… well it is a teaser for a teaser.

Calling this the end may be a bit of an exaggeration, but many involved seem happy to walk away from the madness. Stewart is moving on in interesting directions (between On the Road and Snow White and the Hunstman), Pattinson is in the next David Cronenberg movie, and Taylor Lautner might actually get another project off the ground at some point. That’s possible. Sure. Even if a majority of the main cast is moving onwards and upwards, piles and piles and cash have been known to sway even the most stout of objections. From Marlon Brando to Sean Connery, actors tend to have a figure that they can’t refuse.

And then there’s talks of more movies. Perhaps the Cullen family can be brought in as well. We’ve yet to see what happens when this cast isn’t working, and a new Twilight film might be just the break they need from signing booths in three years time.

Does the final Twilight movie make you happy or sad (or possibly both)?

Lionsgate Wants more Twilight

Damon Houx — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:06:46 +0000

In an interview with the LA Times, Jon Feltheimer – the CEO of Lionsgate – talked about his plans for the Twilight franchise now that his company owns the rights. Those plans seem to be to milk it for every cent that it’s worth through spin-offs. Whether that’s on television, or additional sequels, it’s hard to say as Feltheimer basically says he knows that a blockbuster series isn’t finished until audiences are sick of them.

Much of the future of this will rest on Stephenie Meyer, and what she’s going to write or be involved with. Surely if the check is there, she will gladly let other people play in her universe. Perhaps they will go on a spin-off route and follow some of the minor characters. Both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart seem to relieved to be done with the franchise, but many of the supporting players would love to have a steady gig – though someone like Jackson Rathbone can already make a living through Twilight convention appearances and signings.

Having watched Abduction over the weekend, it seems the only way Taylor Lautner will keep working is through the Twilight franchise. Perhaps he and his werewolf friends could have a side adventure. If more of his other projects don’t pan out, he seems the most likely to return, and the easiest to spin off.

Where would you like to see the Twilight franchise go?

Interview: Robert Pattinson on the End of Playing Edward in Twilight

Damon Houx — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:34 +0000

For Robert Pattinson, there is now an end to playing Edward Cullen. In the latest film he marries Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) against Jacob’s (Taylor Lautner) objections, and the film ends with a cliffhanger, but though Breaking Dawn is the final book in the Twilight franchise, it was broken into two halves for the big screen and both parts were shot at the same time. So even though we’ll have to wait until November, 2012 for the conclusion of the series, Pattinson’s work is almost all done except for possible reshoots and doing the press tour. He sat down at a press conference to answer questions about the film and other things.

Also, check out our video version of the press conference below…

It’s interesting that for many of the cast the journey of the films aren’t entirely over because they know they’ll be back doing publicity next year. That’s the final end to all of this. Pattison in person has a certain cool, the good kind, he seems amused by his fervent fanbase, and he was happy to answer questions from what was on his iPod, to filming the birth scene in the new movie, and we did talk a bit about the new film and the new challenges of playing a husband and an expectant father. He was also happy to talk about working with David Cronenberg on the film Cosmopolis.

Also a subject of interest for Pattinson was his music, and he talked about his nervousness about putting out something for the world to judge. It’s probably the best answer he gave. When it comes to movies, there are so many other people who help shoulder the blame if something sucks, but when it’s just you, that’s a world of difference.

But shyness doesn’t seem all that becoming for the actor, who’s been able to use the Twilight films to find other work successfully, and he’s smart to work with a talent like David Cronenberg. But it’s Twilight and team Edward for which he’ll be remembered, and he talked about how hours previous he, Lautner and Stewart were immortalized at Grauman’s Chinese theater, where the three left their hand and footprints alongside such luminaries as Tom Hanks, Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire. Robert Pattinson has a head on his shoulders and he should be working for years to come, it seems. He’s got it down.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 opens November 18, and should quickly become one of the most successful film of all time.

Are you excited for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1?

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1: Review

Damon Houx — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:00:42 +0000

Though The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 doesn’t feature the wrap up of the series, it does get to something the series has been building to since day one: Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) finally putting their desires to bed. And for the couple it is literally a bed-breaking event, one that leads to pregnancy. As a film Breaking Dawn Part 1 classes up the joint by adding Oscar winning writer-director Bill Condon to the mix, but for those hoping for something that might rise above the material, they’re going to be sorely disappointed. For the fans, it’s likely everything they want.

The Players:

Director:Bill Condon
Written by: Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer (novel)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Billy Burke
Original Music by: Carter Burwell
Cinematography by: Guillermo Navarro

The Plot:

It’s time. Bella (Stewart) and “Team” Edward Cullen (Pattinson) are tying the knot so she can finally become a part of the Cullen family. “Team” Jacob (Lautner) wants no part of it, but decides to make a late appearance anyway. His clan is still upset with the Cullens, but currently they have a fragile peace. Edward and Bella go on an exotic honeymoon, and finally couple in an event that leaves her bruised and the bed broken. But as she feels weird, it becomes apparent that Bella is now pregnant with a vampire baby.

Full Disclosure:

I have only seen the first two films and haven’t read the books.

The Good:

Slightly Better: The jokes are funnier, the acting’s a little less stiff, and they managed to have the shortest running time of series. It has the more polished tone of the later films, but with the fun (and some of the camp) of the first film. The wedding sequence has some great little zings and jags – with Anna Kendrick having a number of funny moments.
They Go There: I have heard about imprinting and the more daffy elements of the narrative beforehand, and they’re in there, and it’s just as strange and messed up as I was led to believe. I wish it was R-rated (few films this obsessed with blood and sex are not), but that was never going to happen. Still, it’s weird.

The Bad:

Telenovela: At this point in the narrative, there’s not a lot of drama, and the drama in the film probably means more to the faithful. I guess there’s another war brewing between vampires factions and werewolves, but it’s a minor section of the film. Instead, a good chunk of the film is dedicated to a wedding and a honeymoon. There’s nothing going on under the surface of these things, and when Edward confesses that he once killed people Bella says it’s no big deal and then it never comes up again. And then Bella gets pregnant, and it’s all about waiting for her to give birth (abortion is mentioned, quickly dismissed). Much like the other broken-up book of the last couple (Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows), it feels more like a collection of scenes than a film. And so you wait for Bella to come to term so something happens, because every time Jacob and his crew get antsy it gets resolved quickly.
If You Don’t Know Me By Now: Where a number of franchises make it easy to drop in on later chapters with relative ease (There are Aliens in outer space, Harry Potter’s in school), but with Twlight at this point the mythology is established and the audience is there. Nothing about Breaking Dawn is going to matter much to those who aren’t in for the ride. It’s just for the fans, and only for them.
Not for You: And to that point, this doesn’t really function as a film. The performers are never bad per se (even Taylor Lautner – once the hot property – who has probably 86′d his chances of too much work outside Twilight after Abduction), but there are no arcs. The same could be said for the film. Not even the pregnancy is used as a device. This is a filmed book. And what appears to be not a very good one, that covers half of a narrative, which would be about one and a half of a three act structure. When the film hits its conclusion, it doesn’t feel like a cliffhanger, as all tension is resolved from the incident itself.

Overall:

I guess this is functionally better than the previous films in terms of having scale and better quality of most everything, but this is a movie for people who already care. As an outsider it was dull, but relatively painless, sometimes insane and occasionally interesting, but only to a point.

Rating: 4.5/10

Breaking Dawn opens November 18.

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Trailer:

Two New Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 TV spots

Damon Houx — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:24:39 +0000

Kristen Stewart‘s Bella and Robert Pattinson‘s Team Edward are getting married! That much is certain, and it seems they enjoy a night of conjugal pleasures which have unexpected consequences that upset Taylor Lautner‘s Team Jacob. How much and when the divide of Bill Condon‘s Twilight: Breaking Dawn happens is not spelled out, but it looks like in this one we’re definitely getting to see the couple consummate their love. Part 1 opens November 18, and there’s two new TV spots. Check them out….

The first spot is called “Event”:

The second spot is called “Forever”:

They’ve been building on the same images, many of which seem rather suggestive. I mean Pattinson is destroying that headboard, and though perhaps girls of a certain age have no concept of what he’s doing, that looks like some pretty intense sexxing.It must be, it gets Bella pregnant, stat.

The fourth book was the least appreciated by fans, but I think at this point (much like with the books) the Twi-Hards are in for the ride. Ironically with the placement of Bill Condon at the helm of the picture, the worst reviewed book will likely have the best reviewed movies. Regardless, the rabid fanbase is going to eat this up.

Are you a Twi-hard for this picture?

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Rating: 4.5/10

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