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Twilight News

Today’s Straits Times Life Section has an article on our event Fire and Ice over at page C8! Do check it out!

Teens Magazine will be having a contest giveaway for their July issue where you’ll get to win 10 sets of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie hampers! In order to get your hands on these giveaways, do buy the July issue to know more on how to win them! You can visit their Facebook page for more details!

If you have Starhub Cable E! Entertainment Channel 441, mark your calenders from next Monday 28/6 onwards as E! Entertainment has an E! Special on the Eclipse stars – Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for 3 nights from 2030hrs,  starting with Robert on Monday, followed by Kristen on Tuesday and Taylor on Wednesday.


Dreaming of……..EDWARD!

Cotton On Kids outlet at Anchorpoint Mall!

Am not too sure if this is an old item from Cotton On Kids but hey, it’s EDWARD! :D


Bree Tanner Novella – Over 700, 000 copies sold!

Congratulations Stephenie Meyer! The Bree Tanner novella has sold over 700, 000 copies in the United States!

Fans will still able to read the book online at Bree Tanner.com until 5th July – Or go get a copy at any major bookstores in Singapore!


THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER IS OUT!

GRAB YOUR COPY NOW AT ALL MAJOR BOOKSTORES!!


Twilight News – EW’s Best characters in 20 years.

Entertainment Weekly (EW) is running a special feature this week about : The 100 Greatest Characters of the last 20 years

And which character in Twilight made it?

EDWARD CULLEN! Of course lah!

“Maybe Edward would not be the best boyfriend,” Meyer told EW in 2008, “because he’s such a tortured soul. But you also couldn’t just be his friend because he’s terribly sexy and charismatic.”

Added Pattinson: “If you played it straight-out-manic-depressive, every young girl watching would have been like, ‘Um, I don’t know about that.’So I tried to make it as much as possible like a 17-year old guy who had this purgatory inflicted on him.”

Thanks to RPattzNews for the scan!!


Twilight News – Glee

The latest episode of Glee had Twilight mentioned! Principal Figgins is sooo funny!!


Eclipse News – Robert, Kristen & Taylor will be at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards!

Here we go again!!

Have you guys voted?? Make sure that the Twilight cast win something okay!!

LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WORK AND VOTE HERE!

Other than accepting the awards ..hehe.. the cast will also be presenting another EXCLUSIVE CLIP from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse clip during the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.

It’s an annual thing and so lets look back the clips that were revealed that made us super excited for Twilight & New Moon!

FIRST EVER EXCLUSIVE TWILIGHT CLIP revealed by Cam Gigandet during the 2008 MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show!!

AND IN THE 2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS WE GOT TO SEE ROBERT, KRISTEN & TAYLOR WIN and PRESENT A SNEAK PEEK OF NEW MOON!!

Woo..am getting goosebumps already!

HEAPS OF THANKS TO MTV FOR THE FAN BADGES!!!


Twilight Saga Blogshop

Have you ever wanted to buy a Twilight Saga merchandise but do not have the time to or you can’t buy it online? Well… thanks to one of our Twilighters,Nurul Azirah, she has set up a blogshop for Twilight Saga Collectibles over at http://twilightsaga-collectibles.blogspot.com/

Here are some of the items that she is selling:

For more items, you can browse more at Twilight Saga Collectibles. Enjoy browsing!


Twilight News

PopSugar TV has compiled this video of Twilight’s TV Takeover: The Best References to date!

Cannot run away from Twilight!!


Twilight News

Twilight: The Graphic Novel has been creating a lot of buzz ever since it was revealed and thanks to one of our Twimoms, Janelene, Kinokuniya is selling Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume 1 at $32.63.


There has been many speculations that Muse might or might not be in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack but thanks to Twilighters Anonymous, it is confirmed! MUSE will be in the Eclipse soundtrack! You can find out more about it over at Twilighters Anonymous.

Over at cast related news, People magazine interviewed Nikki Reed and asked her about her Eclipse preparation.

“Movie vampire Nikki Reed says she wanted to “die” shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse because it was so emotionally and physically draining.

You can read more over at Twilight Lexicon.


**********PARAMORE IS IN SINGAPORE!!!!**********

(hehe that rhymes!)

A WARM TO WELCOME HAYLEY, JEREMY, TAYLOR, ZAC AND JUSTIN (who’s filling in for JOSH these few months)!!!!

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!!!


We hope you guys like our weather. Yeah… its a bit HOT  – but maybe you guys can just think of it as skipping Spring & fast forward to Summer!

No more bulky jackets! Light Tshirt/Tank tops & Shorts from here on out!!

We also hope you’ll enjoy your time in Singapore especially the FOOD, THE SHOPPING & THE SIGHTS of our island nation.

We can’t wait to see you guys LIVE!!!!

We’re looking forward an AWESOME SETLIST cos we’ll all sing ourselves hoarse with you!!!

We’ll bring down The Indoor Stadium tomorrow night  TONIGHT!!!!

WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!

and of course the Twilight Universe will always have

PARAMORE to THANK FOR THIS IMMENSELY AMAZING SONG. Its melody would forever be etched in our minds.

From the haunting opening guitar solo, the awesome bass and drums and of course the Twilight inspired lyrics.

THANK YOU PARAMORE!

and of course THIS ONE TOO!!

 

 


Twilight News

The amazing story of this century’s first decade as told through 92 iconic magazine covers. Presented by Magazine Publishers of America and the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Check out the worldwide phenomena that is Twilight at 1:20. Thanks to RobPattz News!!


Twilight News

New York Times has an article about the expected success of The Twilight Graphic novel.

A World of Words Reinvented in Pictures

“We were really pushing the boundaries for the history of the category, and with a property like ‘Twilight,’ it seemed justified,” said Kurt Hassler, the publishing director for Yen Press.

When “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth and final installment of the vampire saga went on sale in 2008, Little, Brown & Company Books for Young Readers, Ms. Meyer’s publisher, printed 3.2 million copies; 45 million copies of the four “Twilight” books have been sold in the United States. If even a small percentage of this audience tries the graphic novel, the ambitious printing will seem like a safe bet. (Little, Brown and Yen Press are divisions of the Hachette Book Group.)

“Twilight” will be split into two graphic novels. Mr. Hassler said that Ms. Meyer was involved in “every panel of every page” of the adaptation, down to the dialogue balloons.

“The characters and settings are very close to what I was imagining while writing the series,” Ms. Meyer said in a statement.

The first graphic novel, illustrated by Young Kim, a Korean artist, will be released on March 16 as a $19.99 hardcover in the same trim size as the original novels. “This will fit very nicely on fans’ bookshelves,” Mr. Hassler said.

Read the article here.


Twilight News – Twilight at The 52nd Grammys

Twilight at The Grammys  was something we looked forward since the nominations were announced in December. But unfortunately The Twilight Soundtrack & Decode didn’t win. :(

Here’s a couple of videos of Paramore on The Grammys Red Carpet yesterday!


Twilight News

 

Twilight cast members such as Rachelle Lefevre, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Anna Kendrick have lent their celebrity influence to help in the effort to raise donations for the earthquake survivors in Haiti through www.hopeforhaitinow.org : A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief.

Here’s a list of other organizations that you can donate if you can :

Singapore Red Cross: www.redcross.org.sg

WorldVision Singapore: www.worldvision.org.sg

Mercy Relief : 6332 6320 or intouch@mercyrelief.org

United Nations World Food Programme: www.wfp.org 

UNICEF: www.unicef.org 

Yele Haiti Foundation: www.yele.org 

www.iTunes.com/haiti

Beginning Friday, 22nd Jan , iTunes customers will be able to exclusively pre-order the “Hope for Haiti Now” full-performance album (US$7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast (US$$1.99). Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon.

Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate 100% their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities. 

The following are a sample of the songs that you will be buying for a good cause:

Christina Aguilera performs “Lift Me Up”

Justin Timberlake performing “Hallelujah”

Jay Z, Bono & Rihanna performing “Stranded”

 

 

 

Taylor manning the phones at the "Hope For Haiti Now" Telethon

 

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 22: In this handout photo provided by MTV, actress Anna Kendrick at the Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief telethon on January 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/MTV Hope for Haiti Now via Getty Images)

 





Twilight News

In July last year we posted the news about the Twilight manga or the Twilight Graphic Novel which EW reported well they’ve got an update on it. Here’s the cover!

I’m delighted to announce, exclusively, that Yen Press will publish Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 on March 16, with a first printing of 350,000 copies.  Here’s a first glimpse at the book’s cover, as well as an exclusive peek at one of its panels (for a full ten-page excerpt, and the entire Q&A with Stephenie Meyer, see the issue of EW that goes on sale this Friday).

What strikes me, looking at the book, is how faithfully, and how beautifully, artist Young Kim has translated Meyer’s original vision. Kim, who has a fine arts background—in fact, this is her first foray into graphic novels—didn’t just read the book; she absorbed it. Her Bella is the Bella I had in my mind’s eye the first time I read Twilight; her Edward is the Edward I always imagined. It took me back to reading Twilight pre-movie: Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson faded into the background.

Meyer talked to us about all this, and more. Here are a few snippets from our conversation:

The text of your original novel is boiled down so carefully that it doesn’t feel like anything is missing. Were you the one who did that?

I was definitely involved.  I didn’t do the original “script” for the book, so to speak.  But when I got the dialogue with the images, I did a lot of tinkering. In a couple of places, I asked for missing scenes to be inserted.  For example, the conversation in the car that Bella and Edward have after she faints in Biology.

How does the feeling of reading the graphic novel compare to that of reading the original? Does it bring something new to the experience for you?

For me, it takes me back to the days when I was writing Twilight.  It’s been a while since I was really able to read Twilight; there is so much baggage attached to that book for me now.  It seems like all I can see are the mistakes in the writing.  Reading Young’s version brought me back to the feeling I had when I was writing and it was just me and the characters again.  I love that.  I thank her for it.

Read more and check out the sneak preview of the book at EW!

Twilight Lexicon has reported that you can actually Pre-Order your copy at Amazon! And they’re also posted the official press release from Little, Brown about the graphic novel.

As is typical in graphic novel publishing, due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into two volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel contains selected text from Meyer’s original novel with illustrations by Korean artist Young Kim.  A rare fusion of Asian and Western comic techniques is reflected in this black-and-white graphic novel with color interspersed throughout.  Meyer consulted throughout the artistic process and had input on every panel.

Read it all at Twilight Lex.


Twilight News

[UPDATED] The Runaways Official website.

The teaser trailer for Kristen Stewart’s NEW film The Runaways is out! Its a film based on the life of Rock/Punk legend Joan Jett and the band she formed when she was just 17 years old.

Thanks to KStewart Source for posting! You can head on there for their screen caps!

Incidentally, here’s a video of the original Runaways performing one of their famous song “Cherry Bomb” in Japan in 1977. Enjoy!

Btw Joan Jett is be the girl on the extreme left playing bass on your screen.

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Twilight News

Check out E!’s 10 Vampires We Love!

Alice Cullen = #9 / Edward Cullen is  = #1


Twilight News: HER WORLD (December Issue) Scans!

We’re happy to share with you scans from HER WORLD MAGAZINE (December Issue). HER WORLD recently interviewed older women who are obsessed about the Twilight Saga Series. Now who says Twilight is only for the teenage girls? &  Janelene, one of our Twi-Mum is part of the interview too! :P

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Twilight News

Pattinson Online UK has posted this great video (through Thinking of Rob.com)about how it was like for fans and Rob during the Hot Topic Mall tour last year. The interview was done by the Boston Herald.


Twilight News – TWILIGHT GOT 02 NOMINATIONS IN 2009 GRAMMY AWARDS!!!

OMG OMG OMG ! Can things get any better!!!?! Twilight: The Score won Carter Burwell the Public Choice Award at The World Soundtrack Academy Awards in Ghent in Belgium. And just a couple of weeks ago, Twilight The Soundtrack won an American Music Award for Favourite Album!

AND NOW!!!

TWILIGHT ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR 02 AWARDS!!!!!

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for DECODE


The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on “GRAMMY Sunday,” Jan. 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

We’ll bring more details soon! Wow, that means Paramore’s gonna perform Decode LIVE!! Oh wonder if other songs will be performed.

Here some songs from the album that we could find on Youtube.com




Twilight/New Moon News

Twilighters! It’s confirmed! Robert and Kristen are dating as told by Catherine Hardwicke herself! For those who have The Straits Times (edit: Washinton Post and TIME magazine), flip over to the LIFE! Section and turn to page F26. For those who don’t here’s the quote from Catherine herself.

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke said the film’s co-starts Kristen Stewart, 19, and Robert Pattinson, 23, are dating. ” I didn’thave a camera with in the hotel room,” she told time magazine. “But in terms of what Kristen told me directly, it didn’t happen on the first movie… it took a long time for Kristen to realise, okay, I’ve got to give this a go and really try to be with this person.

Lookout for the New Moon leads on Jimmy Kimmel next week where Jimmy puts the spot on Taylor to talk about “what’s going on between these two?” – pointing to Rob & Kristen ;)

Star Movies (Starhub Ch 58) will be screening Twilight on 22 November at 2100hrs. You can find more about it at Twilight – Star Movies.

MSN has a picture gallery of the New Moon casts promoting New Moon worldwide.

IT HAS been a hectic fortnight for Twilight trio Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Kristen Stewart as they embarked on a worldwide tour promoting their wildy-anticipated movie, New Moon. The trio were joined by the film’s director Chris Weitz, who was protective of the young bunch as thousands of fans and media track their movements throughout the journey.

You can read more about it here.

You’ve seen Stephenie Meyer on Oprah. Examiner.com now has a write-up about the interview.

When she spoke about The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Meyer stated that she was most excited about the first scene she saw with the wolves. She said that the way that the film brought out the size and power of the wolves had her literally wanting to scream out loud with joy at the capture Chris Weitz had done with the picture.

She also revealed, exclusively to Oprah, the origins of the New Moon Volturi. She said that the New Moon story originally had a very tame and mild ending, but that her mother was the one to suggest a more action-oriented sequence near the end. This is, according to Stephenie Meyer’s revelation on Oprah, how the Volturi came to be.

You can read the whole article here


Twilight News – Reminder Stephenie Meyer Answering your Questions & Going on Oprah!

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Just a reminder for you guys to tune to Stephenie Meyer on 02 outlets this weekend and Monday.

Stephenie Meyer will be on Oprah on Friday 13th November!!!

And on Monday www.thetwilightsaga.com will reveal Stephenie’s answers to your questions on Monday 16th November..

Wonder if she’ll answer questions about Midnight Sun… ;)

And this just in from Twitter/Twilight

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Twilight News/New Moon News

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We’re finally gonna be seeing Stephenie Meyer on TV/Youtube again!! Since last year’s explosion of Twilight, the much beloved author and creator of The Twilight Saga has not been seen doing any major TV interviews. But this year, we will and she’s doing it BIG – with none other than the Queen of Talk Shows herself – Oprah Winfrey.

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YUP! Stephenie Meyer’s gonna be on Oprah!!

Oh btw! If you have any questions for her.. she’s inviting you to ASK!!

I’m doing this for a good reason: I am so pleased and amazed and thrilled with what Chris Weitz has done with New Moon that I want to talk about it, and to show my support for him. And since I’m only doing one interview, better make it big. Really big. So….I will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, November 13th. Check the local listings on Oprah’s website to find out what time it will be on where you live.

Of course, most of the questions for Oprah will be designed for a broader audience than just die-hard Twilight fans, and I imagine people who read this site and other fansites will already know most of the answers. To rectify this, I’m going to answer your more specific questions on-line. The official Twilight Saga website (www.TheTwilightSaga.com) will be taking any New Moon movie-related questions you might have for me, and then I’ll answer those most frequently asked. I’ll post the answers on the Twilight Saga website and also here on my own site. Questions can be submitted to TheTwilightSaga.com from noon (Eastern Standard Time) on Monday, November 9th through noon Tuesday, November 10th. The answers will be posted Monday, November 16th—or New Moon Premiere Day, as it is known around my house. (Details about submitting the questions will be posted first thing Monday morning at TheTwilightSaga.com, you can also get more information below.)

I’m so very excited that you’ll all get to see New Moon in just two weeks! Then you’ll see what I’m going on about. Until then, think up some good questions for me.

Love,

Steph

I have a very good feeling about this interview. Oprah is gonna hit it off MASSIVELY with Stephenie!!

And betcha, the MIDNIGHT SUN questions will come up! No doubt about it! ;)

Moving along….

New Moon News (Updated)

We’ve posted about how Twilight boosted the economy of a small town called FORKS in September.

Now read USA Today’s article about how an ancient town called Volterra in Italy is welcoming tourists from all over the world within its walls because of New Moon.

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To capitalize on New Moon's popularity, the Volterra tourism board sponsors Twilight-themed weekends that include a reception with "blood."

Backpackers carrying battered copies of New Moon duck through the narrow alleyways of the walled city, which has about 12,000 residents. Souvenir shops hawk calendars, mugs and T-shirts bearing the tousled likeness of actor Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward in the films.

And whether fans are Team Edward or Team Jacob (Bella’s two love interests in New Moon), all want to visit the Piazza dei Priori, the town’s square anchored by a clock tower where the Volturi — a coven of elite vampires that plays a pivotal role in the upcoming movie — reside.

Kunke, 19, found Volterra on a map as soon as she read New Moon. “I was like, I have to go there,” says the native of Portland, Ore. “It was just one of those things I had to do.”

Long overshadowed by its more touristy Tuscan neighbor, San Gimignano, Volterra is capitalizing on the interest. The tourism office has created a themed map of the city, encouraged fan meet-ups, and this spring introduced a New Moon weekend package that includes a walking tour called “Hot on the Trail of Edward and Bella,” Twilight merchandise and even a dramatic re-enactment of one of the book’s scenes.”

Read it all here.


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