Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

The Twilighters have more reasons to celebrate the Thanksgiving whole heartedly. There is something more than they expected from their favorite stars.

No brownie points for guessing really. Fans contributed millions of box office bucks for the recent release of New Moon to mint. And now its time for the New Mooners to pay them back on the Turkey Day.

What could have been better than a couple of Tweets from the stars themselves? Dream come true? Yes, that’s what many of the fans feel. The official Summit Twitter page reflected Tweets from Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Now that must be an unforgettable early holiday treat for Twi-hards around the world.

The most handsome vampire onscreen, Robert Pattinson wrote, “Thank you for making NEW MOON #1. It’s very exciting to be a part of something embraced by so many people. I hope you are looking forward to ECLIPSE as much as I am”.

Launter too continued the Thanksgiving spirit. His tweet went on like, “Your passion for The Twilight Saga is the sole reason we’re #1 across the world!”

And in case if you are a Stewart fan and feeling a little left out then don’t be. The most heartwarming sentiments went out from her as a holiday miracle! “You all have proven you’re the most amazing fans in the world once again. I feel so lucky to be a part of The Twilight Saga and thank you for making us #1!”, Stewart tweeted.

“Yes, I twittered. Or twitted..tweeted? I dunno, but thank you sooo much anyway..!”, she added trying bring that Thanksgiving smile on her fan’s face.

With New Moon creating box office records of all time, there could have been no better Thanksgiving gift ever for the Twilight fans. Edward, Bella and Jacob let the real-life shout-outs keep flowing.

New Moon Stars

You could just be one of those who helped “New Moon” break all box office records by milking worldwide ticket sales worth $258.8 million in over the past weekend. May be you are one of those crazy Twilight fans who broke into the book store to grab each part of Stephanie Meyer’s gripping vampire series as soon as it hit the store. May be you have gulped down each and every word from the whole series and adopted it wholly. May be the wolfs and vampires have become a part of your everyday life by now and you might have started considering it as not just a form of entertainment but a mindset and a way of life.

Or you could be just one of those unfortunate who is wondering what all the fuss is about.

Let me now get to the point straight. Either way, it reflects your curiosity towards the film. It shows that you want to know more about the story and more importantly the

Either way, you’re probably curious to learn more about the actors and actresses who turned Stephanie Meyer’s tale of vampire felt everywhere around you. So lets stir you up a bit.

Let me introduce you to some of the gumptious “New Moon” stars:

Robert Pattinson: Edward Cullen

Robert Pattinson’s towering fame left everyone intoxicated. As Edward Cullen, the 23 year old star exhibited power over the vampire sect. His sex appeal made him the biggest heartthrob in no time at all and even before he could realize this British star was ruling the real world too with his charm. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, last week, Rob said that a female fan “frantically started taking her clothes off” after he joked to a crowd of autograph seekers that stripping was a definite way to grab his attention. The coveted hero is surely seeked like vampires crave blood.

Kristen Stewart: Bella Swan

Bella Swan, the girl who belongs to Cullen and only Cullen, is also linked to him in real life. The onscreen couple had been making headlines with romancing rumors. Stewart plays Bella, in the “Twilight” franchise, a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire.  Like her growing popularity in the Twilight series in real life as well Stewart continues to be on the top. She recapitulates the role of Bella in Twilight’s 3rd installment, “Eclipse”, and is preparing to play rocker Joan Jett in “The Runaways”.

Taylor Lautner: Jacob Black

The 17 year old Taylor Launter surprised everyone beyond belief with his role as Jacob Black. Launter plays a childhood friend of Bella who lends her great support after Edward leaves in “New Moon”. He is then changed into a warewolf. “The thing is, I love this character, I love this story, and putting on the weight and not wearing much clothing was required by the role. A year from now, if I love a story and I love a character that requires me to lose 40 pounds, I’m ready to do it”, Launter was quoted as saying to Film.com.

Dakota Fanning: Jane

Dakota Fanning handled the spot lights and attention with elan. The 15 year old most promising child star froze the audience first with her performance in 2001’s “I Am Sam”. Fanning plays the role of Jane, who is a part of Volturi trained on to torture the cult’s enemies. “It’s really kind of one of the first times I’ve played the bad character, the villain figure in a movie. It was just really great to get to have the red contact lenses and the vampire makeup and get to have an evil persona, a creepy persona”, Fanning told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview mentioning how thoroughly she enjoys her evil role.

Nikki Reed: Rosalie Hale

Rosalie Hale, played by Nikki Reed, is a Cullen family member who scorns Bella. In an interview with MTv, during the making of “New Moon”, Reed said “My hair fell out”, since she had to dye her brunette hair blond for the role in “Twilight”. “It took 36 hours initially to make me blond, and every other day, I was bleaching my head and my skin. This time around, we are testing out different wigs and stuff”, she added.

Adam Lambert's Kissing Act at AMA

Stop slamming poor Lambert. He just happened to kiss someone from the same sex during his final performance at American Music Award on Sunday.

Over 1,500 complaints have kept pouring in on Monday against the American Idol Adam Lambert. The singer is charged with a kissing act with a male keyboard player during his performance. Besides, it was way beyond ABC’s expectation for one of Lambert’s dancers to stick his face in the singer’s crotch while he sang the S&M-themed performance of “For Your Entertainment”. The act was edited by the channel as the awards show was broadcast on a tape-delayed basis on the West Coast on Sunday.

“A lot of what I do is kind of freestyle. That’s how it was on ‘Idol.’ That’s how I perform. I like to have a framework, and just do stuff. So that kind of came about because of the connection that I had with that dancer”, the dancer explained to The Associated Press about the choreography.

Shart comments that sounded more hostile circulated online about the “American Idol” glam rocker’s performance. While Lambert followed the song’s lyrical theme, “It’s about to get rough for you”, he started to fondle one dancer and briefly pulled two dancers around on a leash.

Back in 2003, Madonna and Britney Spears briefly locked lips during the MTV Video Music Awards, raved similar outrage among the fans. Lambert had been openly gay and spoken about how provocative male performers could be onstage. There is no reason why the American Idol winner should be so largely criticized for an act of his choice.

Adam Lambert Performing at AMA

In an interview with CNN, the singer told he is hurt and that his kiss was “in the moment”. Lambert also added that if if people were upset about it, “That’s a form of discrimination and it’s too bad”.

Timothy Winters, president of the Parents Television Council exclaimed that the people whole complained about Lambert’s kissing act are outraged and, “They just can’t believe the nature of the content, the explicit nature, and how much graphic content there was”.

Winters also added, “”These programs are wholly unsuitable for children now and it’s pathetic, given the amount of economic support that children and teenagers bring to the industry today”.

Ken Tucker, an entertainment Weekly writer, was sensible enough to speak in support of the singer.  He praised Lambert for raising the popularity of the show and for being “an event unto himself”. “As a TV viewer, I thought Lambert’s performance was a gas, a delight, a blast of brash vulgarity in the midst of merely ordinary vulgarity”, he also added.

Matthew Gilbert, a Boston Globe television critic, thought the act to he “pretty harmless”. He wrote on a blog, “It’s all posing and mugging and selling, not real honest provocation”.

Lambert was later quoted as saying in an interview with AP, “I had fun, my dancers had fun, the audience that was in the Nokia (Theatre) had fun. Anybody else who was watching it and enjoying it, thank you for being entertained. There are a lot of double standards as far as that goes. We’ve seen female pop and rock performers do that for the last 10 years. They’ve been very provocative, owning their power and sexuality. You just don’t see men doing it very often. And I’m hoping to break down that double standard with this number”.

The White Glove worn by Michael Jackson during Moon Walk dance

This isn’t surprising at all. At a memorabilia auction held on Saturday, Michael Jackson’s famous white glove was sold for $350,000. Another black jacket the King of Pop wore during a 1989 world tour fetched $225,000. Although the auction constituted of hundreds of rock ‘n’ roll items, including many not associated with the Pop King, yet Jackson memorabilia stole all the limelight.

The white glove of the late pop star was referred as “the Holy Grail of Michael Jackson” by Darren Julien, CEO of Julien’s Auctions, the organization that ran the auction. A pre-sale estimation for the master piece was about $50,000, which was surpassed by large counts. Hoffman Ma, who is a Hong Kong based business man, paid $420,000 as the final price along with the added commission (excluding taxes).

Jackson’s black, strap and zipper-laden jacket that he wore during the 1989 “Bad” tour was sold at $275,000 including commission. The bidding soared to $225,000, which is 20 times higher than what was estimated earlier.

Huge fans as well as dealers gathered at Times Square, New York’s Hard Rock Cafe for the auction. The primary attractions of the sale also included a car driven by Jackson, a guitar of David Bowie and memorabilia from the Beatles to Bo Diddley.

Jazmynn Moore, a 19 year old student from Manhattan, said, “I never got to see Michael, and now that he’s gone this is the closest I could get”.

The white glove of MJ was worn by the King of Pop during the 1983 Motown 25 television special when he first staged the famous moonwalk dance. The opening bid for the glove was $10,000, which immediately leaped to $120,000 before finally closing it at $350,000.

There were about 80 items belonging to Jackson that mostly comprised of items donated by family and friend to whom Jackson had gifted the items. A sum of about $100,000 was collected by selling Jackson’s belongings from the auction, which is close to 20 times the estimates.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

It was speculated something such and the makers of the vampire saga were not let down. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” wolfed $140.7 million in its opening weekend. On the first three days the movie minted total $258.8 million worldwide as per reports of studio estimates on Sunday.

A year back “Twilight”, the first installment of Stephenie Meyer’s popular vampire series, grossed $69.6 million haul over the same weekend. A year after the picture was completely changed. The No. 1 domestic debut for Summit Entertainment’s “New Moon” was more than twice.

“Obviously, with the success of ‘Twilight’ itself, sequels being what they are will generate X-number of dollars more, particularly if it’s a satisfying sequel”, Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit, was quoted as saying.

“New Moon” ranked third on the all-time domestic chart, with Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” ranking 1st with a gross of $158.4 million opening weekend and “Spider-Man 3″ ranking 2nd with a gross of $151.1 million. On the opening day itself, “New Moon” earned $72.7 million, which is an all time domestic high for opening day. This surpassed the previous record of $67.2 million by last year’s “The Dark Knight”. “New Moon” is also the second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever in Hollywood, the top being none other than the July 18, 2008 release of “The Dark Knight”.

Outside “New Moon” debuted in 25 countries and took in $118.1 million over the first weekend. There was no doubt that “New Moon” would emerge this big.

The third installment of Meyer’s next “Twilight” chapter, “Eclipse,” arrives in the heart of summer, next June 30 and is expected to do as big as this.

Twilight had showcased the supernatural teen romance between a school girl and a vampire (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson) and New Moon adds a love triangle with a werewolf (Taylor Lautner) to the plot. Both the films have been hot favorite among female fans resulting to around 80% of the audience for “New Moon” being female. The “Twilight” franchise “taps into something primal and visceral that drives women crazy, and they’re willing to pay for the privilege” commented Dergarabedian. The viewers for the film were mostly young who apparently left to chance to fall in love with vampire and werewolf heartthrobs.

The five films that grossed highest during last weekend are:

1. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” ($140.7 million)
2. “The Blind Side” ($34.5 million)
3. “2012″ ($26.5 million)
4. “Planet 51″ ($12.6 million)
5. “A Christmas Carol” ($12.2 million)

Taylor Swift at American Music Award

Kanye West might just have a major problem and several other issues with Taylor Swift’s growing popularity, but who really cares? West like it or not this is definitely Swift’s year.

The country crooner Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson by picking up 5 leading awards as the King of Pop pocketed 4 nods at the American Music Awards. Swift’s 5 nods included the prestigious artist of the year award at the AMA held on Sunday.

The 19 year old country singer proved all MJ fans wrong who expected the Pop King to get a clean sweep. Swift have him a head to head competition in the ceremony’s final prize, the artist of the year category. Besides winning the favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country categories Swift also won favorite adult-contemporary artist award. “Feerless”, the 2008 release of Swift, was named favorite country album. Feerless became the best-selling release in the United States this year.

Among the other multiple winners hip-hop singer Jay-Z and the Black Eyed Peas won two each.

While accepting her award for the artist of the year, live via satellite from backstage at London’s Wembley Arena, Swift said, “Music has never been ultimately about competition”. Swift also added she feels its an “unimaginable honor” for her to be nominated in the same category as Jackson. The country crooner will be performing at a concert in Wembley Arena on Monday.

“I just want to say that music has never been ultimately about competition and to even be mentioned in a category with Michael Jackson who we’ll miss and love forever is an unimaginable honor”, she added. “And I just want to say I’m sending my love to the Jackson family and Janet”.

Michael Jackson at American Music Award

Jackson won four posthumous including favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. “Number Ones”, a hits collection of the Pop Star, was named favorite album in both those categories too. Jermaine, MJ’s brother, accepted the awards on the Late singer’s behalf.  “We love you, Michael. It’s not just about the winnings, the awards, it’s mainly the message. The message that Michael had will live on forever…and he saw good in everyone and he wanted them to do good.  To start with love and let’s love each other”, said Jermaine Jackson.

Eminem, who was nominated in 4 categories, went home empty handed. While Jay-Z won the favorite male artist and favorite album in the rap/hip-hop categories, Black Eyed Peas were named favorite group in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.

Green Day, the punk rock trio, bagged the favorite alternative artist title. The favorite country group went to Rascal Flatts for the fourth year in a row.

Thanks to Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Whitney Houston who gave some of the most outrageous performances at the event. Janet with her medleys put the stage of fire.

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Are you still holding on to your seats tightly?  You might just have got bowled over by Heidi Klum comeback cat walk, who stole the show with her sex appeal once again. Klum simply put the ramp on fire at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show – A show where angels dare to bare!

Its been 5 weeks the supermodel gave birth to her forth child, and she made all her fans awestruck by making a comeback to the runway at the Victoria’s Secret lingerie fashion show Thursday night at the 69th Regiment Armory.

A reliable source mentioned Klum said at the backstage before the show began that she preferred to play a host instead of modeling because she “wasn’t quite ready yet. This kind of takes a lot of planning. When you have a baby, you can’t really know if in five weeks’ time you’re like everyone else over here”.

When the mother model was asked about her newest addition, daughter Lou, she said, “She’s great. We’re so excited that we had a little girl. Especially (older daughter) Leni is super-excited. (Lou’s) in our room at night. Leni is waiting for her to go into her room. Her brothers share a room and she doesn’t have anyone in her room”.

The 36 year old German Model, Klum, earlier was scheduled to host the desired fashion show on November 18. But she walked down the runway on November 19 simply enthralling the crowd. Klum wore a corset and full skirt instead of a bikini. But who cares to choose!

“You have less pressure. You definitely have less pressure when you don’t shake your booty in front of millions around the world”, Klum was quoted by the People magazine as saying about only hosting the show.

During the show, the models flashing in two part under wears, walked down a jet-black, diamond-dusted V-shaped runway while the Black Eyed Peas performed. The show began with Ambrosio walking first in neon wings, with Miranda Kerr following in over sized space-like armored wings along with Peas’ Boom Boom Pow.

Ambrosio, who was lounged on a sofa before the show, said, “I have three houses and they are packed with lingerie. I don’t even try to count”. Girl, this proves you simply love your job.

The Victoria’s Secret fashion show will be aired on December 1st on CBS at 10 p.m.

Johnny Depp: the "Sexiest Man Alive"

Johnny Depp has been irresistible, not only for his fans but also for the People Magazine, it seems. The 46 year old actor is People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the second time.

Upsetting quite a large number of teenage beauties, Depp overtook the Twilight hunk Rob Pattinson to win the People magazine’s sought after title. Like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Richard Gere, the other double winners of the coveted endorsement, Depp had bagged the title earlier in 2003.

The senior editor at People, Kate Coyne, explained the reason behind choosing Depp for the title on CBS’ Early Show Wednesday by adding, “Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago. He’ll be sexy 10 years from now. He appeals to multiple generations of women — and for many different reasons to different kinds of women”.

People magazine also described the flamboyantly adventurous “Pirates of the Caribbean” star as “the king of cool with the killer cheekbones”. The 46 year old Depp, succeeded the 2008 winner Hugh Jackman this year.

Depp was seen ruling the screen with roles like 1930s gangster John Dillinger in “Public Enemies” and the murderous London barber “Sweeney Todd” in the recent past. In his forthcoming film, “Alice in Wonderland”, the actor will be seen in the role of the Mad Hatter. The film, directed by Tim Burton, is due for release in March 2010.

An overwhelmed Coyne said, “He’s sort of everything. He’s a guy’s guy, kind of a bad boy, he’s a respected artist and actor. You know, he’s got a little bit of everything”.

The previous winners of People’s sexiest man alive title include Matt Damon (2007), Matthew McConaughey (2005), Jude Law (2004) and Ben Affleck (2002).

People’s sexiest men alive issue featuring the 2009 winner, Johnny Depp, hits newsstands on Friday.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Its a one year anniversary of the most popular vampire movie “Twilight” and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson remembers how they were simply floored by the welcome they received from thousands of eager fans of the the Stephenie Meyer’s book. Throngs of fans had gathered to greet the stars at the premiere of the big-screen adaptation.

At the same location the stars were caught unveiling the sequel “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” amid thousands of eager fans. Monday night in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Kristen Stewart and the hottest vampire on screen, Robert Pattinson arrived for the premiere of their forthcoming film. The stars, surrounded by fans waiting for them impatiently, quite knew what was coming their way this time.

“I’m not as scared as I was last year. At some point, the security guy said, ‘This is very unsafe.’ And I was like, ‘Uh.’ Other than that, everything was cool”, Stewart said while she signed autographs finding moments out of her very short visit.

The biggest heartthrob and “The Sexiest Man Alive”, Robert Pattinson, said the crowed was much larger than the previous year’s and this they had expected. “And it seems different to me because we have done this world tour in the last week and it has just been unbelievable in every single city. It is about 10 times bigger than any other city in the world”, the star, who plays Edward Cullen in the movie, added.

A group of fans who called themselves as “Twi-Hards” reached the venue on early Thursday afternoon to secure a place in the line for get the tickets to watch their favorite stars’ arrivals on the red carpet from close.

Taylor Launter, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

The “Twilight: New Moon” stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Launter finally landed in Tokyo for the promotion of the film. New Moon will hit the theaters on November 20th. The stars have been recently all over from Vancouver to Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Brazil and finally to Tokyo promoting their film. And all these in less than a week’s time. Well, it almost requires a vampires sleeping habit to carry on with such a routine.

Rob, Stewart and Launter arrived in Japan early Tuesday morning. The photographs of the stars soon were all over the internet. The most handsome vampire on screen arrived at the press conference in a sharp dark suit. The 23 year old actor spoke about their forthcoming release, New Moon, at the event sponsored by Volvo. Rob was later joined by Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who arrived straight from Brazil.

All the three tried too look less tired but it seems that they only get to sleep once in a “New Moon”. Rob, Stewart and Launter have been really busy with their last minute promotion of Twilight’s first sequel to be released on 20th November.

Pattinson, the heartthrob of millions across the globe, wore a charcoal suit, a deep chocolate shirt, brown striped skinny tie and fit brown shoes. Ahem! Rob is a perfect Englishman, no doubt about that! Kristen Stewart flaunted a short black leather-esque number with a fitted bodice, barely-there straps and a jagged ivory hem. Bella surely looked romantic and sensuous! Taylor Lautner simply stole the hearts of all those present all in black.