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.

Homecoming Queen Dakota Fanning posing with the Homecoming King

At the age of 15, Dakota Fanning is a normal kid. This Charlotte’s Web actress works in movies and when her shooting is over, she’s goes back home to Los Angeles and lives an absolutely ordinary life. While actors at and around her age study at home with tutors coming to them, Fanning prefers going to school. And that is not all. She is also part of the cheer-leading team.

She studies in the Campbell Hall Episcopal High School which is situated in North Hollywood. This high school student is pretty popular in the school too, naturally. So, it might not be surprising for all, that she was named the “Homecoming Queen” this year on friday, the 30th Oct ‘09.

The Viking cheer leader seemed to have a great time performing the cheerleading routine, sources say. When she won the Homecoming award she was elated. It’s really amazing to see someone as famous as she is is having a normal and great teenage life like this.

Dakota is not only in the Pom-Pom brigade, she is active in many other extracurricular activities like horse riding and playing the piano. She started her career in acting from the age of 5 with a Tide commercial. 10 years of a successful career which includes working with some of the greats in the film industry like Mike Myers and Julia Roberts and also leading a normal life, this is extraordinary and also, many might agree, the most coveted life any celeb would love to have. What do you say?

New "New Moon" Posters

New “New Moon” posters are available on the net and fans from all over the world are downloading them at large. “New Moon” is all set to hit the screen on November 20th. Months before its release the production house of the film have released  some larger-than-life stills from their Twilight sequel to give some more of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to you.

The Summit Entertainment released three new outdoor banners featuring Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, Stewart’s Bella Swan, Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black and other starts from the “Twilight” family. The most popular poster shows Edward and Bell embracing each other along with  other vampires like Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene), Rosalie Hale (Nikki Reed), Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz), Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Esme Cullen (Elizabeth Reaser) in the background.

The second poster shows Jane (Dakota Fanning) standing in front. She is looking deadly yet innocent. Fanning is followed by Aro (Michael Sheen), who is the founder of the Volturi, Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower), Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl) and Jane’s brother Alec (Cameron Bright).

The third poster is lethal showcasing the wolf pack of Northwest Native Americans. The whole focus of the poster is on Lautner. Behind him are Sam Uley (Chaske Spencer), Embry Call (Kiowa Gordon), Paul (Alex Meraz) and Jared (Bronson Pelletier).

The posters were initially designed for New York and Los Angeles to be used for outdoor bus shelters and other spots. But it has also been posted on the Web and is widely being downloaded.

Robert Pattinson and Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning will be seen as a co-star of Robert Pattinson in the role of a bloodsucking vampire in the Twilight sequel, “New Moon”. The 15 year old star will be portraying Jane, a member of the Italian Volturi vampires in the sequel, the film bosses have finally declared.

There were much speculation going on regarding Fanning’s role in the film. Several sites claimed that the young actress was cast opposite to Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the upcoming movie. The filming of “New Moon” will begin in Vancouver later this month. Stewart, Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, who would reprise their roles of Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black respectively have been given the scripts to begin preparation.

Nikki Reed, who plays Rosalie in the film said, “We did just get a script, we’re shooting the rest of the films back to back. Chris Weitz is amazing and I think it’s going to be wonderful”. Vanessa Hudgens, of “High School Musical”, might not be seen in the film as it was earlier rumored to be.  Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter of New Moon, said, “I’m not sure about [final] casting but I had heard Vanessa Hudgens was going up for the part of Leah. But at the moment, the part of Leah doesn’t happen until the third movie”.

Dakota Fanning, the teen star, has defended her rape scene in her upcoming movie Hounddog. Earlier the film has received criminal allegations regarding the production that showcased 14 year old Dakota Fanning in a rape scene. The young actor has been filmed in several sexual scenes, including one scenario ending in the pretend rape of her.

Dakota is not perturbed by the controversy. She also declined to comment on calls for her mother to be jailed on child pornography charges for allowing Dakota to act in the scene without having a body double.

The actor when questioned said, “It’s a movie and it’s called acting. What drew me to the film was that my character shows people that you can overcome adversity in life and it doesn’t define you. My character has so many other interests and talents that just because something terrible happened to her doesn’t mean she can’t have a great life. I wanted to do the film because I thought it might help one person that has happened to and help them overcome adversity in their lives”.

Dakota also added, “It is still one of the best books I have ever read. It really grabbed me. The scenes with Paul Bettany, who plays my abusive father, were very challenging and he is very scary in them but he is about the nicest guy you could ever meet in person”.