08:06 PM EDT 11/20/2009
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Top Five Best Things About New Moon
Originally posted 11/20/2009 03:50PM
Because The Twilight Saga: New Moon is probably the most highly anticipated movie of the year, fervent fans – whether on Team Edward or Team Jacob – are practically salivating at the prospect of seeing their favorite heartthrobs on the big screen once the movie opens Friday.
Find out the top five aspects to New Moon that fans can eagerly anticipate. (Warning: Spoiler Alert!)
Jacob Black's Body: Photos of Taylor Lautner's amazing transformation from a scrawny kid to a rippling teen werewolf already have been making the rounds for months. But the first time Lautner rips off his T-shirt to reveal his muscled chest onscreen, the sight is still gasp-worthy. In fact, Lautner sizzles and smolders throughout New Moon as he walks the line between friendship and romance with Bella (Kristen Stewart). Though Bella's heart belongs to Edward (Robert Pattinson), Launter may steal Pattinson's heartthrob status right out from under his pale nose.
Permalink | Filed Under: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Movie News, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
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REVIEW: Only Fervent Fans Will Believe New Moon Shines Brightly
Originally posted 11/20/2009 05:55AM
Romeo and Juliet have nothing on lovebirds Bella and Edward, who pointedly are seen studying Shakespeare's tragedy in a high school English class in New Moon, the stylish but water-treading sequel to 2008's Twilight.
When it comes to star-crossed teenage love affairs – though to be literal, the immortal Edward (Robert Pattinson) is 104 but passes for 17 – this chaste duo didn't pick the easy road. She's human and he's a vampire. If that wasn't problematic enough, it turns out that her best bud and would-be beau, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), is a werewolf, the sworn enemy of vampires. What's a girl to do?
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VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Plays a Rebel in Remember Me
Originally posted 11/19/2009 04:25PM
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Sure, he's the face of The Twilight Saga, but Robert Pattinson is more than just a brooding vampire.
In the MySpace trailer for his upcoming drama, Remember Me, Pattinson plays Tyler, an angst-ridden rebel without a cause who butts heads with his father (Pierce Brosnan), gets in trouble with a New York City cop (Chris Cooper) and complicates things by falling for the police officer's daughter Ally (Emilie de Ravin).
Remember Me – also a Summit Entertainment film – opens March 12, 2010.
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New Moon Director Quitting Movies
Originally posted 11/18/2009 12:55PM
Well, you can't say he isn't going out on top.
Chris Weitz, the Oscar-nominated director of New Moon, will leave all the glitz and glamour behind after he finishes one more film, he tells MovieMaker magazine.
"Every time I make a movie I'm pretty much convinced it's the last time I'm going to be able to do it and that really it's a rather silly occupation to undertake," says Weitz, 40, whose Oscar nod was for the adapted screenplay of 2002's About a Boy. "But I think I have maybe one more film in me."
Permalink | Filed Under: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Chris Weitz
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Jennifer Hudson to Play Controversial South African Figure
Originally posted 11/18/2009 10:00AM
She can do a diva with a dream deferred – now can she portray the mother of a nation?
Jennifer Hudson is set to play Winnie Mandela in Winnie, a movie about former South African president Nelson Mandela's powerful apartheid-busting but disgraced ex-wife that will begin filming May 30.
"I was compelled and moved when I read the script," Hudson tells Variety.
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How Robert Pattinson Felt Doing His New Moon 'Striptease'
Originally posted 11/17/2009 04:35PM
When Robert Pattinson bared his glistening chest in Italy last spring, Twi-hards nearly went blind. Now, the Twilight hunk breaks his silence on nearly taking it all off in New Moon!
"I felt pretty goofy stepping out into the sunlight in front of 2,000 people in a town square, ripping my clothes off," he told Parade.com. "I was essentially doing a striptease."
And although Team Edward devotees went berserk over the sight of his bare torso, Pattinson said shooting the scene in front of his fans – who flew across the world to be a part of the crowd – helped him connect with them on a deeper level.
"It was also one of the moments where I've really felt closest to people's emotional attachment to Edward," he says. "It was a moment where I've felt the whole weight of anticipation, and I guess responsibility as well, of being Edward, for all the people who were kind of so obsessed with the stories."
Permalink | Filed Under: Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
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Nicole Kidman: Post-Baby Curves Helped Me Land Nine
Originally posted 11/16/2009 11:50AM
What did Nicole Kidman find to be an expected plus to giving birth, besides the baby? Bigger breasts.
"They're not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it!" she tells the December/January issue of Ladies' Home Journal. "I felt very Woman. When you've had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breasts is a nice feeling."
Even more than that, Kidman, 42, jokes that her fuller bosom helped earn her a role in the upcoming musical Nine, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
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The Music of New Moon: Match the Song to the Scene
Originally posted 11/16/2009 07:00AM
With the opening of New Moon just days away, we've taken it upon ourselves to pair songs from the top-selling soundtrack to five pivotal scenes in the Twilight sequel.
Here's our musical match-made-in-heaven predictions for New Moon:
Permalink | Filed Under: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's Close Encounter in Paris
Originally posted 11/11/2009 09:30AM
There were fans at the airports, outside their hotels. Fans who waited for hours in the cold. They wore tribute clothing, carried posters and signs, and raised a chorus of cries – "Rob-ert!," "Kris-ten!"
Too bad none were on hand to witness what lucky photographers saw: actual off-screen physical contact between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Fresh from a 10-hour flight from Los Angeles, Pattinson, Stewart, and Taylor Lautner arrived in Paris Monday and checked into the luxurious Hotel de Crillon, before going out for a late-night dinner – where they happened to run into Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.
Permalink | Filed Under: Fergie, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
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Real-life Paranormal Activity in The Fourth Kind: Fact or Fiction?
Originally posted 11/09/2009 03:45PM
It has everything a scary movie should have: a small-town citizenry possessed by outside forces, aliens on the prowl and realistic-looking old film footage to vouch for its authenticity. But is The Fourth Kind everything it claims to be?
In the new movie, which opened last weekend, Milla Jovovich plays a psychologist named Dr. Abigail Taylor who investigates a series of disappearances in Nome, Alaska. Marketed as a fact-based thriller, The Fourth Kind uses a documentary-reenactment approach to explore a series of unsolved disappearances in the Alaska town. One possible explanation? Alien abduction.
But just what is fact and what is fiction?
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