Robert Pattinson spotted on the balcony of his hotel room in Los Angeles on 8th November 2009.In the book, even though you leave Bella, you are very present in her thoughts. It is difficult to represent it on the screen? How did you manage?Rob: In the book, she hears the voice of Edward, but we used another method in the film: she has hallucinations, fleeting appearances of Edward. Would have been a bit corny to do it with only my voice. Kristen: Everything is in the suggestion. It’s the memory she has of him, not necessarily what he really is.Can you tell us about the transformation of Jacob and the transformation you had to go through for the role?Taylor: I knew the character changed a lot and if I wanted to continue to play the character, I knew I would have a lot of work to do … So, when I had finished working on Twilight, I got into sports, I had a private personal trainer, I started to eat healthier: less sugar, protein and good carbohydrates, etc. In short, it was a lot of work, but it really was worth the shot.Bella’s character developes more in this new movie. What is difficult preparing for this role?No, I wouldn’t say it was harder to prepare for this movie than it was for the first. It’s a film full of emotions, that’s the big difference. We talks about the discovery or falling in love, a moment of intense emotions, then we talk about its ups and downs, the fact that basically she is a bit manic-depressive.Kristen: Yes, it’s not an easy story. Twilight was all about the internal conflict of two people who threw themselves at each other so very impulsively. But we had much more to think about this time, like it had much more to do with instincts in this movie. This film is much more intense. In here, people are not just sad. They’re so sad they want to die. Of course these things exist in real life, but in the film we made it seem stronger, harder.Does the fact that the public is divided into groups, Team Edward, who wants him to stay with Bella, and Team Jacob, which prefers the couple of Bella-Jacob, influence your performance?Taylor: Everything is crazy, about this franchise, that’s why we love so much, and that’s why fans love it so much. It’s true that many fans are split and take sides with one or the other. I happen to be a little nervous about this idea because I try to live up to expectations and defend Team Jacob the best possible. I do not want to disappoint, so I worked hard intellectually but also emotionally and physically for the role.With a new director at the helm of this sequel, did you feel like working on very different a film from the first? Rob: It wasn’t just he change of director that made things very different this time. There’s also the fact that this time we knew the beast, we knew a little bit more what we were dealing with.In your opinion why is it that so many people enjoy this story? Is it because the themes, the characters, the subject of darkness, the sentimental story? Kristen: The reason is the same with other movies, people identify themselves with the characters. I often say that because it is a narrative in the first person, so it’s like being inside this person’s head and they feel even closer to that person. It almost feels that it’s happening to us. What do you guys think?Rob: I think we’re the last persons you should be asking. But I don’ know. The thing is, I never saw the story as a vampire story to begin with. When I play the character, I try to eliminate the vampire element as much as possible and not to see a tool to make their relationship a little more intense. Immediately after passing the audition, I felt strangely invested in this story when I did not even read the books before, and I am more and more attached. In recent weeks, talking about the scenario of Eclipse to friends, I realized that I was very argumentative, which is not like me much. This story has real power.As readers, what book do you prefer, and as actors, on which movie are you most looking forward to work? Kristen: I liked New Moon because it allowed me to push my limits. I feel that after this, everything else is piece of cake for Bella, she is very, very strong, satisfied and happy. But in the second book, she’s nothing, she is literally, totally lost. But yes, without a doubt, it’s my favorite. Rob: I think I also prefer New Moon. Edward is such an extreme character that everyone sees as a romantic hero and suddenly, in New Moon, at least is the impression I had while reading it, he receives a lesson in humility. He says he loves her too much to stay with her and deliberately destroys their relationship. I think this is very painful, which I can identify with. Source: en.twilightpoison.com
With The Twilight Saga: New Moon getting ready to hit theaters on November 20th, Summit Entertainment has released an EPK for the media to use. If youre not familiar with the term EPK, it stands for Electronic Press Kit. An EPK is where the studio puts movie clips, trailers, and behind the scenes footage from whatever movie theyre promoting.
Heres the synopsis:
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyers phenomenally successful Twilight series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of-only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. Following Bellas ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edwards image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks. With the help of her childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella refurbishes an old motorbike to carry her on her adventures. Bellas frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob, a member of the mysterious Quileute tribe, who has a supernatural secret of his own. When a chance encounter brings Bella face to face with a former nemesis, only the intervention of a pack of supernaturally large wolves saves her from a grisly fate, and the encounter makes it frighteningly clear that Bella is still in grave danger. In a race against the clock, Bella learns the secret of the Quileutes and Edwards true motivation for leaving her. She also faces the prospect of a potentially deadly reunion with her beloved that is a far cry from the one shed hoped for.
Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood at Toronto Film Festival - ATU Press Conference (September 10, 2007).Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood at "Across the Universe" LA Screening (September 18, 2007).Jim Sturgess and Natalie Portman in "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2008).Jim Sturgess as Ben Campbell in "21" (2008). Jim Sturgess with Kate Bosworth in "21" (2008).Jim Sturgess Arena Homme magazine, photoshoot by Alasdair McLellan (2009).
"Upside Down" is a project currently sitting in pre-production, due to be helmed by Argentinean director Juan Diego Solanas and to star Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.We first meet with Adam (Sturgess), a Below resident who’s also an inventor and spends his days hanging out with friends Albert and Pablo who run an electrical repairs shop on the Below planet. Their life is fairly grim, fixing old mixers and getting beers at the local bar after hours. It’s here that Adam sees The Lottery on television, a show in which people from their world are offered the chance to live Up Top, in relative luxury and safety. Adam sees the girl announcing the winner and realises it’s his childhood sweetheart, an Up Top called Eve (Dunst). We’re then given a flashback of how they met one day when Adam was climbing trees at his aunt’s cabin in the forest and saw Eve up in the sky, running from her abusive father. He reaches out to her and it’s love at first sight, but Eve’s father, and his mustachioed business partner, Lagabullin, don’t want her corrupted by a lowly Below like Adam, and separate them as best they can. Eve falls into a coma and wakes with amnesia, forgetting the love she felt for Adam… Adam’s literal opposite is a friendly Up Top called Bob Boruchowitz, a programmer who’s been with Transworld most of his long years and warms to the young man, especially when offered a few stamps from his collection in return for some borrowed equipment that Adam can use to access the Up Top world and defy gravity by using powerful inverse matter rods that will allow him to walk, somewhat, normally in their world, and to find Eve.The descriptions of the Below world evoke a communist-era East Berlin, with bombed out building sites, crumbling masonry and an air of despair among the denizens. The writers set-out immediately to establish this, with Adam walking the streets and observing the depression:There is some attempt at an allegorical storyline in which the oppressed Below world represents Latin America and Up Top is clearly North America, the script even mentions apartheid South Africa and (weirdly) ‘England’. As Adam strolls, looking around wide-eyed at all the new sights, a PASSERBY asks for the time. Adam glances at his watch: it droops upward, the wristband too large. He adjusts it briskly with his other hand as if to get a better look.So, what’s left to say? There are a few glaring errors in logic to address. Planets turn on their axis, so any joining tower would simply be torn to pieces by the orbit (although to be fair, in a story this fantastical, I can’t really gripe about this). Any object traded from one planet to the other becomes untouchably hot after an hour (!) of contact with the opposite world, so how the hell to they trade oil without it bursting into flames? So much of the story goes unexplained. What was ‘the war’ about? What’s it like on the other sides of these two planets? Do the inhabitants there even know about the existence of the opposite world?" Source: www.quietearth.us
KRISTEN STEWART (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse) and Sugar Ray Leonard as the 2009 Celebrity Walk Ambassadors for the JDRF'S Annual 'WALK TO CURE DIABETES' at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Ca USA November 8, 2009 For more information on JDRF visit Source: www.jdrf.org
I think this is a good cause. Diabetes currently affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 380 million by 2025. My mother is diabetic type 1 and although she isn't very fond of vampire movies, she likes Kristen Stewart too.
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" short trailer:
"I was in Morocco. I was seeing some of these things get shot. But the first time I saw a rough assembly of [Jake Gyllenhaal] as Prince Dastan running on the rooftops with arrows being shot at him and swinging, I just got this big smile on my face that wouldn't go away, because I just felt like it was ... like what I saw in my imagination when I played the game, back when the character was 40 pixels high and his face was four pixels square, but seeing it like real in visceral in the best way."The reason the movie won't be following the plot of the game exactly is to make it friendlier to people who have never even heard of the parkour platformer - "a movie that can stand on its own even if there never was a video game", said Mechner, "and Prince of Persia is that ... [the film] captures the spirit of the gameplay, but it also really goes beyond it. It is more visceral, more exciting". Source: www.escapistmagazine.com
"Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star in sci-fi thriller "Source Code" for Vendome Pictures and the Mark Gordon Co.
Duncan Jones with his father David Bowie at the premiere of "Moon", Sundance Film Festival on 23rd January 23, 2009.
Duncan Jones will direct and Mark Gordon will produce with Vendome's CEO Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn. Production is slated to begin during the first quarter. Jake Gyllenhaal as Marine Anthony Swofford in "Jarhead" (2005), directed by Sam Mendes.
"Source Code" centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown commuter and is forced to live and relive a harrowing train bombing until he can determine who is responsible for it.
Project had originally been set up at Universal in early 2007 when the studio bought Ben Ripley's screenplay and attached Topher Grace to star. Universal tapped Shane Abbess to helm last year. Current script includes revises by Billy Ray ("State of Play").Gyllenhaal is currently filming "Love and Other Drugs", helmed by Ed Zwick, and will next be seen in Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" and Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time".
Jones is currently writing the screenplay of the upcoming film "Mute", which he will also direct. He has previously directed "Moon", starring Sam Rockwell. Source: www.variety.com
"Mute still in the plans, just slightly delayed. It’s a hard sell... whereas Source Code came with an offer hard to refuse".
First paragraphs of "Source Code" script: Synopsis: Guy with amnesia wakes up on a train. The train may or may not be a target in a terrorist attack. Sci-fi.Source Code is very much like the Denzel Washington vehicle "Deja-Vu". But, you know, actually good. Writer: Ben Ripley.
Denzel Washington and Kimberly Elise in "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004), directed by Jonathan Demme.
"Every time I watch the original "Manchurian Candidate", I'm teased by the possibility that there may be another, deeper, level of conspiracy, one we're intended to sense without quite understanding. It involves the character of the woman named Rose or Rosie, who Marco meets on a train; she was played in 1962 by Janet Leigh and this time by Kimberly Elise". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com
"Source Code" never gets old. There are a couple of key devices the writer uses to keep us interested. First, he creates an extremely likable female character. She sits across from the seat our hero is always warped into. And so amidst all this terrorism chaos, you're intrigued by their relationship". Source: scriptshadow.blogspot.com
Robert Pattinson spotted on the balcony of his hotel room in Los Angeles on 8th November 2009.
In the book, even though you leave Bella, you are very present in her thoughts. It is difficult to represent it on the screen? How did you manage?
Rob: In the book, she hears the voice of Edward, but we used another method in the film: she has hallucinations, fleeting appearances of Edward. Would have been a bit corny to do it with only my voice.
Can you tell us about the transformation of Jacob and the transformation you had to go through for the role?
Taylor: I knew the character changed a lot and if I wanted to continue to play the character, I knew I would have a lot of work to do … So, when I had finished working on Twilight, I got into sports, I had a private personal trainer, I started to eat healthier: less sugar, protein and good carbohydrates, etc. In short, it was a lot of work, but it really was worth the shot.
Bella’s character developes more in this new movie. What is difficult preparing for this role?
No, I wouldn’t say it was harder to prepare for this movie than it was for the first. It’s a film full of emotions, that’s the big difference. We talks about the discovery or falling in love, a moment of intense emotions, then we talk about its ups and downs, the fact that basically she is a bit manic-depressive.
Kristen: Yes, it’s not an easy story. Twilight was all about the internal conflict of two people who threw themselves at each other so very impulsively. But we had much more to think about this time, like it had much more to do with instincts in this movie. This film is much more intense. In here, people are not just sad. They’re so sad they want to die. Of course these things exist in real life, but in the film we made it seem stronger, harder.
Does the fact that the public is divided into groups, Team Edward, who wants him to stay with Bella, and Team Jacob, which prefers the couple of Bella-Jacob, influence your performance?
Taylor: Everything is crazy, about this franchise, that’s why we love so much, and that’s why fans love it so much. It’s true that many fans are split and take sides with one or the other. I happen to be a little nervous about this idea because I try to live up to expectations and defend Team Jacob the best possible. I do not want to disappoint, so I worked hard intellectually but also emotionally and physically for the role.
With a new director at the helm of this sequel, did you feel like working on very different a film from the first?
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In your opinion why is it that so many people enjoy this story? Is it because the themes, the characters, the subject of darkness, the sentimental story?
Rob: I think we’re the last persons you should be asking. But I don’ know. The thing is, I never saw the story as a vampire story to begin with. When I play the character, I try to eliminate the vampire element as much as possible and not to see a tool to make their relationship a little more intense. Immediately after passing the audition, I felt strangely invested in this story when I did not even read the books before, and I am more and more attached. In recent weeks, talking about the scenario of Eclipse to friends, I realized that I was very argumentative, which is not like me much. This story has real power..jpg)
As readers, what book do you prefer, and as actors, on which movie are you most looking forward to work?
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So, what’s left to say? There are a few glaring errors in logic to address. Planets turn on their axis, so any joining tower would simply be torn to pieces by the orbit (although to be fair, in a story this fantastical, I can’t really gripe about this). Any object traded from one planet to the other becomes untouchably hot after an hour (!) of contact with the opposite world, so how the hell to they trade oil without it bursting into flames? So much of the story goes unexplained. What was ‘the war’ about? What’s it like on the other sides of these two planets? Do the inhabitants there even know about the existence of the opposite world?" 
