Three new unnamed photo shoots with Eclipse Vampire Ashley Greene (aka Alice Cullen), looking absolutely stunning! You can view all the photos over at Ashley-Greene.us!
Monday, June 28, 2010
New Photo Shoots With Ashley Greene!
Three new unnamed photo shoots with Eclipse Vampire Ashley Greene (aka Alice Cullen), looking absolutely stunning! You can view all the photos over at Ashley-Greene.us!
Eclipse Director David Slade, Ashley Greene and Xavier Samuel In Madrid!
Director David Slade, Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen) and Xavier Samuel (Riley) posed for the photographers at the photo call while promoting The Twilight Saga Eclipse in Madrid, Spain on June 28th.
[Source: Celebrity Gossip, Brandherion]
Elizabeth Reaser Talks Eclipse With New York Daily News!
The New York Daily News has a new interview with Eclipse Vampire Elizabeth Reaser (aka Esme Cullen).
In the interview Elizabeth discusses how we see a different, more fierce, side of Esme in Eclipse -
On being a vamp: “With Esme, most of the time we see these great, loving, motherly, warm qualities in her. But that’s just because her life’s going really well for the most part. In this movie, her family is in danger, so suddenly she has to kick into vampire mode. She’s fast and murderous and powerful and can kill people if she has to. Now that Bella’s in danger, which endangers our whole family, she has to kick some ass.”
On playing a mom: “It’s funny to me that I do play a lot of mothers. And it’s interesting that people see me as that. I’m curious if I have some sort of warmth or something that I’m communicating. I’m not a mother, and I don’t think in that way, so it’s been a challenge.”
LA Times Interview With Eclipse Fight Coordinator
Jonathon Eusebio, the fight coordinator on Eclipse who also worked on Iron Man 2, gave an interview to the LA Times where he talks about how ‘Vampires present their own set of challenges’—
Majoring in biology at UC Irvine may not have been the most obvious preparation for a career as a fight coordinator for films, including “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.” Still, Jonathan Eusebio sees value in his studies of mitochondria and cytoskeletons.
“Biology doesn’t relate to film but school teaches you how to interact with different types of people, be disciplined and turn things in on a deadline,” he said. “School gives you those necessary skills to get things done.”
The Canadian-born son of two nurses, Eusebio moved to California as a third-grader and took up taekwondo, boxing, judo and several other martial arts a few years later.
“When I was growing up, I used to watch a lot of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung,” Eusebio said. “Hung is one of Jackie’s seniors, and he’s a famous martial artist in Hong Kong and China. The way I see choreography is influenced by those guys.”
After college, he followed friends who were stuntmen into the film business, and worked on the “Bourne” trilogy, 2006′s “300″ and this year’s “Iron Man 2.”
“Every movie we approach in the same way,” Eusebio said. “The director tells us what he wants and then we just try and make his vision come true.”[Source: LA Times.
Lively up yourself: While the previous “Twilight” installments may have been more focused on emotions, the third movie packs a real punch. “It wasn’t a fight-intensive series to begin with, but the third one is starting to get a lot of battles,” Eusebio said “There’s a big sequence when the Cullens have to train for fighting [another group of] vampires. There’s a big charge at the end where the Cullens have to fight all the newborn vampires. And then there’s a big scene where Edward has to fend off Victoria and her new lover Riley. So this movie has a lot of action going on in there.”
Art versus life: Eusebio calls film fighting “an entirely differently monster than actual, real fighting. It’s the same basics, but the movement and the philosophy of the movement are different. In film fighting, it looks like there’s contact, but there’s no contact. You want to hide your movements in real fighting. In movie fighting, you have to make everything long so the camera can see it as well as the audience. It’s like choreography, like a dance between the two combatants.”
Getting the picture: Eusebio is a big fan of show-and-tell. “After I choreograph the scene, I usually do a previs, or a video conceptual of it,” he said. “We shoot it on our own video cameras, and we edit it on our own computer and software. We have stuntmen do everything in terms of the action part, not so much the acting part. And I show it to the director. He says yes or no. We change this; we change that. So they already have their base skeleton by the time we get to set.”
Supersize it: Vampires present their own set of challenges. “You want to keep everything kind of realistic in tone to avoid making it look too superhero-ish, but the thing is they are superhuman,” Eusebio said. “Everything is exaggerated. So when they throw someone, the impacts are huge. When they chase somebody, they’re super fast. When they jump, they jump a little higher. We try to do creative camera work; we try to do wires; and we might have to use visual and special effects to help us out.”
Zoom zip: Since the undead aren’t usually formally trained martial artists, Eusebio went for a more general sense of athleticism. “We tried to incorporate a lot of parkour and free running,” he said. “They’re mixes of gymnastics, street acrobatics, running and precision jumping. There’s a lot of stuff going on in there. It’s not a martial art, but we tried to incorporate its physicality. It’s a worldwide thing. I know there’s a team in L.A. called Team Tempest. For this movie, I used a team called Fast Motion. They’re based out of Montreal. I used a lot of them as the newborns on [the film] and they did a lot of running and jumping in the woods. It’s very cool.”
Eclipse Review: Hollywood Reporter Says Twilight Saga “Finally Hits Its Stride”
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse reviews have started to come in now and I don’t think any of us fans will be disappointed. This is what the Hollywood Reporter had to say about the third installment:
Bottom Line: The teen vampire series finally hits its stride with an entertaining mix of romance and action fantasy.It took three films, but “The Twilight Saga” finally nails just the right tone in “Eclipse,” a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer’s novels with the movies’ supernatural trappings.Where the first film leaned heavily on camp and the second faltered through caution and slickness, “Eclipse” moves confidently into the heart of the matter — a love triangle that causes a young woman to realize choices lead to consequences that cannot be reversed.
With the momentum of a movie series that sees installments arriving like clockwork every year, “Eclipse” looks primed to be the most successful film yet in Summit Entertainment’s franchise. The action is pretty much relegated to the climax, but it’s nifty enough that young men may get into the series too even if “Eclipse” isn’t their first choice on a Friday night. (Read about the fan frenzy surrounding the premiere here and here, and check out photos of the Thursday night event at L.A. Live here.)The film starts a little slowly with its classic reintroduction of its main characters, heroine Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), more determined than ever to go vampire for her undead boyfriend; the gloomy dreamboat Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), an ancient being who still hasn’t graduated high school; and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a perennially bare-chested Native American who shape-shifts into a wolf at a moment’s notice.Even here the film doesn’t mind kidding itself. Edward takes one look at Jacob and complains to Bella, “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” The script by Melissa Rosenberg offers a few more opportunities like this that wink at its own silliness.
[Source: Hollywood Reporter.Things pick up rapidly once intros are done, with the ramifications of the girl/vampire/werewolf triangle becoming increasingly intense for all parties while an outside threat looms over them all.
A crime wave has hit Seattle, a few leagues from the bucolic Washington town that shelters so many supernatural creatures apparently without any townspeople catching on. A series of vicious killings and disappearances tip off the Cullen clan that a vampire is creating an army of newborns — newly turned vampires whose ravenous thirst makes them stronger and more deadly than “old” vampires.
This army recruiter is red-headed Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, the epitome of sensual, feline cunning), who, in seeking revenge against the Cullens and Edward in particular, means to destroy Bella. Which causes Edward and Jacob to contemplate the unthinkable, a temporary alliance to protect the girl they both love.
It’s like the uneasy partnership between lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday against the Clanton clan at the O.K. Corral in “My Darling Clementine.” Well, why not a Western? “The Twilight Saga” already mixes together high school melodrama, outsider fiction and teen romance into a mishmash of sci-fi and horror genres. (Check out video of the “Eclipse” stars talking to THR on the red carpet of the film’s premiere here.)
Since Rosenberg’s writing has never been the problem in the series, much of the credit for the success of “Eclipse” probably belongs to the series’ third director, David Slade (“Hard Candy,” “30 Days of Night”). He quickly establishes a rapid yet unhurried pace, a willingness to let tongue perch in cheek and an unapologetic indulgence in this basic fantasy of every teenage girl — that two high school hunks are in love with her and willing to die for her, except, of course, that one is already undead.The three leads shine under his direction. Stewart anchors everything with a finely tuned if not slightly underplayed performance that catches her character in moments of doubt about the course and the man she has chosen. Pattinson makes you forget the white makeup and weird eye contact lenses to concentrate on a person torn over his love for a woman and the sacrifice he knows she will have to make to stay with him.But it’s Lautner who nearly steals the movie with his ripped muscle and steely acting. He definitely has the “it” factor Hollywood always looks for. (The “Twilight” cast invaded “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week; check out photos here.)
The high school scenes and those between Bella and her police chief dad (Billy Burke) are quick and light and doubly effective for not dawdling. The series’ more peripheral characters are coming into better focus as well. The film delivers backstories for both Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed) of the Cullen family as well as the origins of Jacob’s family, the wolf pack, without any of these flashbacks seeming like intrusions.
Speaking of the wolf pack, the CG wolves, huge creatures whose ferocity fails to mask their tenderness, are very cool, and the fight at the climax among wolves, vampires and one poor human is no letdown. It delivers the goods without overstaying its welcome, which is more than can be said about most CG movie fights.
Production values are aces with DP Javier Aguirresarobe and production designer Paul Denham Austerberry very much taking advantage of the dark, woodsy and utterly beguiling beauty of British Columbia.
Eclipse Review: Variety Says “The Most Cinematic of the Series So Far”
Variety has reviewed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and has great things to say about David Slade’s directing work–
It goes without saying that the faithful will devour “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” the third movie in Stephenie Meyer’s immensely popular supernatural love-triangle saga, and also the one in which Bella must finally choose between her two beastly suitors. The pleasant surprise this time around is that the result finally feels more like the blockbuster this top-earning franchise deserves. Employing a bigger budget, better effects and an edgier director (“Hard Candy’s” David Slade), “Eclipse” focuses on what works — the stars — even as the series’ parent-friendly abstinence message begins to unravel. Summer release should reap Summit’s biggest yield yet.Taking a cue from the “Harry Potter” series, which maintains continuity on the writing and casting fronts while introducing a different feel with each change of director, the “Twilight” producers have embraced a variety of different visions behind the camera. Capitalizing on her indie sensibility and keenly observed teen insights, Catherine Hardwicke set the tone with the low-budget first film, with Chris Weitz expanding (and flattening) the world with his broader, daytime soap-opera style in “New Moon.” Now, the task falls to Slade, who clearly understands how to work with actors while also demonstrating a welcome competence in the action and melodrama departments.
It’s no easy task taking a piece of material auds already know inside-out and spinning it in such a way that individual scenes still generate tension and suspense. Slade sets us on edge from the outset with an atmospheric vignette merely alluded to in the book, as small-town boy Riley (Xavier Samuel) is ambushed and bitten by an unseen vampire in shadowy Seattle (looking every bit as ominous as Tim Burton’s Gotham City).
Not much happens for the first 300 pages of Meyer’s novel, during which vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) vie for the affections of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), with our increasingly impatient heroine determined to surrender both her virginity and her humanity to the brooding bloodsucker (to his credit, Bella’s 109-year-old boyfriend wants to marry her first).
Slade and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg wisely intercut these puppy-love scenes with uneasy horror-movie jolts. After all, “Eclipse” builds not to a showdown between Edward and Jacob (no matter how often he takes off his shirt, the poor wolfboy will never be Bella’s first choice), but to an uneasy alliance between the Cullen clan and Jacob’s tribe of shape-shifters, united to protect Bella from the vengeance-seeking Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, taking over the role from Rachelle Lefevre) and her army of “newborns,” undisciplined but super-strong new vampires.
Rather than attempting to elevate Meyer’s swoony prose to the level of literature (the poor scribe exhausts herself trying to find synonyms for “perfection”), Rosenberg’s task is to faithfully adapt the material for fans in such a way that works onscreen; that means having the freedom to remove, reorder or completely rewrite certain passages. She also has to contend with “Eclipse’s” muddled message — Bella’s in a hurry to be bitten, while everyone else is telling her to slow down — and devises a nice graduation speech for best friend Jessica (Anna Kendrick) on the merits of not rushing into things.
Despite the somewhat simple-minded source, the producers plot everything as if it were a strategic game of chess, paying off earlier gambles — Jacob played third wheel in the past, but gets the sexier kiss here — while seeding future films. Of particular interest is a wide-eyed young newborn (played by Jodelle Ferland), subject of Meyer’s spinoff novella “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,” who serves as an effective tool in setting up the powerful Volturi’s villainy for the two-part “Breaking Dawn” finale.
“Eclipse” feels the most cinematic of the series so far, taking scenes out of the lunchroom and Swan house as much as possible. Slade shares Hardwicke’s aesthetic of using dramatic aerial photography to give the otherwise intimate tale a more epic sweep, and expands on it by repeatedly lining up the various clans like the subjects of a Vanity Fair cover shoot, their iconic group poses helping to make the movie seem as big as its following. Though Slade inherits “New Moon” d.p. Javier Aguirresarobe, his choice of lenses and shooting style (including a fair amount of handheld camerawork) gives things a more dynamic energy.
Visual effects have improved considerably, with no fewer than 11 companies working on everything from Edward’s sparkling skin to CG wolves that realistically blend with live-action characters. A scene of Bella side-by-side with canine Jacob feels perfectly plausible, but nothing beats the sight of vampires and werewolves going at it in the climactic battle. If anything, the digital work outshines the other departments, with bad makeup, lifeless wigs and creepy contacts being the elements that disrupt the fantasy.
[Source: Variety.
Jackson Rathbone Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game!
New picture of Eclipse Vampire Jackson Rathbone (aka Jasper Hale) throwing the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game yesterday (June 27)!
Stephenie Meyer's 'Bree Tanner' reaches one million in unit sales and donations to the Red Cross
'Bree Tanner' by Stephenie Meyer - Little, Brown Books
"The novella, released on June 5th, has already become the biggest selling new book of the year so far," according to a recent press release. "The novella, the first new work from Meyer in nearly two years, debuted at #1 on the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and IndieBound bestseller lists as well as bestseller lists in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the UK."
Ever since the announcement that Bree Tanner would be hitting shelves, we've known that the American Red Cross' International Response Fund would receive one dollar from every physical copy of the book sold, and the organization's Senior Vice President, David Meltzer, issued his thanks to Little, Brown Books, Stephenie Meyer, and, of course, the fans for the aid that this "awe inspiring and humbling" "generosity" has done to "help the American Red Cross respond to international crises, prevent life-threatening diseases, prepare for disasters overseas and provide support to help those in need around the world."
This is such great news. As you know, Bree Tanner was (and still is, until July 5th of this year) available for full reading online at BreeTanner.com (and so far, a reported 75,000 readers have obliged this offer), but it seems that owning a physical copy is important to Twilight fans, so involving such a wonderful cause as the Red Cross' fund here was a fabulous idea that is clearly working out well and making a difference for those in need.
Source : Twilight Lexicon
Taylor Lautner promotes 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' on 'Regis and Kelly'
Taylor Lautner - AP Photo
In the interview, Lautner walked down memory lane to re-live some of the past year's biggest highlights, including his presentation (alongside Kristen Stewart) at the Academy Awards, his stint as host of Saturday Night Live, his meeting with Tom Cruise as "Les Grossman" for MTV Movie Awards promotions, and his trip to Stockholm, Sweden to promote Eclipse.
Two fan stories that Lautner shared were of a young lady tattooing his signature upon her arm and another of a little boy "bawling" at the Eclipse premiere last Thursday.
Lautner is scheduled, according to Gossip Cop, to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman on July 1st, and Kristen Stewart will be following up with Regis And Kelly tomorrow. Kristen Stewart will also be appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman this evening and Lopez Tonight on June 30th.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' fight coordinator reveals how the vampire fight scenes were created
Kimberley French - Summit Ent., L.L.C. All rights reserved.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Eusebio about his conceptualization of the film's fight scenes, and he admitted finding them to be a bit difficult to coordinate.
Film fighting, he revealed, is "an entirely differently monster than actual, real fighting," and it's more "like choreography, like a dance between the two combatants."
Particularly, he claimed, when it comes to vampire fighting.
"Everything is exaggerated. So when they throw someone, the impacts are huge. When they chase somebody, they're super fast. When they jump, they jump a little higher," he explained. So, he utilized a mixture of "of gymnastics, street acrobatics, running and precision jumping. There's a lot of stuff going on in there. It's not a martial art, but we tried to incorporate its physicality."
Eusebio also explained that the stunts were partially prepared for with in-house equipment, including videotaping the motions on a small camcorder and showing it to director David Slade for approval long before shooting began.
Melissa Rosenberg says there's a reason 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' is the best script yet
Melissa Rosenberg - AP Photo
"All three directors have been wildly different in terms of my relationship although similar in one very important way which is that they've all been really, really respectful of my process . . . they all understand what I do," she explained. "With David [Slade] it was, there's a lot of back and forth, because I was actually more involved in production and tailoring the script for him than I was with Chris [Weitz] and even Catherine [Hardwicke] . . . well, Catherine and I had a pretty detailed, pretty intimate collaboration, but with Chris it was sort of a hand-off you know, I was jumping onto Eclipse, so basically I just handed it off to him and he went on to production and did all of the production re-writes, so there was sort of not a lot of back and forth throughout. With David, there was more, particularly since he works very . . . he thinks visually, he speaks visually . . . he works a lot with storyboards . . . so when he would storyboard a sequence, he would bring it out to me and I could put it into the screenplay and interpret it onto the page so that everybody would understand what was going on."
She went on to state that with Eclipse, there was much more time on her hands for the project and that this was the ultimate distinction between the three..
"Time equals quality, it just does," she said. "When you just have time to go over something again and look at it another time and say 'Can I make it that much better?' and then having time to get feedback, which is a very, very important part of the process. With Twilight, I had almost no time . . . I think I outlined for about a month [with] five weeks to write the script, and that's really fast because I was fighting the deadline for the writer's strike. New Moon I had more time . . . but I was also juggling Dexter at the time. So, by the time I got onto Eclipse, I was on hiatus on Dexter, I had a little more breathing room, I could really sit with it and think . . . it has been more and more time each one."
Jackson Interview
The Morning Call has an interview with Jackson Rathbone.
He talks The Last Airbender and Twilight.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
Rathbone also was in the region for the filming of “Airbender,” a movie by Malvern, Chester County, native M. Night Shyamalan that was shot in 2009 primarily in eastern Pennsylvania, including Reading.
Rathbone isn’t exactly a household name but thanks to his meaty roles in “Eclipse,” opening Wednesday, and “The Last Airbender,” opening Thursday, he seems to be fast-tracking his way to box-office glory.
“It’s very exciting,” he says. “When I was a young actor starting out at 19, I could never have imagined this scenario. Being a part of two franchises opening the same weekend is really an amazing feeling.”
Anna Kendrick in You Magazine
Check out an Interview with Anna here.
Here is an excerpt:
Born in Portland, Maine, in the US, Anna started acting at the age of six when she became involved in community theatre (her older brother Mike is also an actor). By 12, she had won the role of Dinah Lord, younger sister to the female lead Tracy Lord, in a Broadway production of High Society. She garnered a Tony nomination for her performance, making her the second youngest nominee in the awards’ history. ‘It was amazing to be nominated and pretty similar to how I felt on Oscar night. I have an idea in my head of what a Tony or Oscar nominee is like, and it’s not as if I’ve turned into Penélope Cruz overnight. When I got the Tony nomination I thought: “Wow, they’re letting me play in the cool kids’ club for a few hours.”’
Melissa Interview
Screen Star has an interview with Melissa Rosenberg.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
It’s official that you’re writing Breaking Dawn and it’s also official that it’s going to be broken down into two parts. How excited are you to be sinking your teeth into closing out the story?
It’s a really tough one. I’ve been working on it now for a little bit, and it was hard to crack. It’s a big story. The mythology is just really dense, very, very detailed, and there are tons of characters. It’s been harder than most… I don’t know. I say that every time. These stories are a little like childbirth. You forget the labor pains once the child’s grown up. Breaking Dawn, I feel like I’ve got a grasp of the story, but it’s a long way from being done. To me, the book lends itself to two movies. There are some natural breaks in there. There’s the before Bella is a vampire and after Bella is a vampire. So it’s doable.
Gil Interview
The Examiner has an interview with Gil Birmingham.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
K: Can you talk at all about your role in Eclipse or the film in general? How did this experience differ from the others, and how would you characterize the different directors and what they brought to each film?
G: When filming Eclipse, it was still cold, and always rainy. We filmed Eclipse back to back with New Moon so there wasn’t too much time separation. It was just like coming home. The different directors have different set environments- during Eclipse we had to put big shields up and make more of an encampment to protect against long shots and paparazzi.
Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz Photo Outtakes from Women’s Health Magazine
Check out a ton more behind the scenes pics here.
See high resolution outtake pics here.
Source: Twifans via Ashley Greene Fan
Tyson Interview
Moviefone has an interview with Tyson Houseman.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
Have you had any crazy experiences with ‘Twilight’ fans?
I’ve had some odd encounters. I remember I was at a bar this one time and a woman came up to me who looked like she was seriously 80 or 90 years old. She came up to me she told me that she was a ‘Twilight’ fan and that she recognized me. It was such a weird experience. I guess that speaks to how diverse the ‘Twilight’ fans are.
What are some examples of things that fans have said to you, either in person or online?
Every time I tweet something, no matter what I say – even if it’s like “Oh, I woke up funny today”, I get at least five people saying “Marry Me, Tyson!” I think that’s the one that I get the most. Either “Marry Me” or “Take Your Shirt Off”. I don’t think I’ve ever been asked to take my shirt off so much in my life as I do now.
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