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.

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)

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.

With “New Moon” all set to hit the theaters on 20th, Summit Entertainment has already decided to re-release “Twilight”. The first sequel of the vampire series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, is highly anticipated to win the heart of millions again. Twilight will be re-released on 19th, a day before New Moon’s release.

Twilight and New Moon all set to release

Summit is right now negotiating with US Theater Operators about the number of screens they will allow or make available for a one night show for Twilight. The blockbuster vampire film will be screened for a single night. A reliable source reports that some of the theaters have also agreed upon selling tickets of Twilight as a discounted rate, while the other theaters might charge full rate. There is also news of Twilight being screened at the same venue where New Moon will open on November 20th.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the modern vampire love tale “Twilight” is a film based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling teen book series. Starring Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella, the movie went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year generating a sum of $383.5 million in worldwide ticket sales. Twilight also sold about 8 million DVDs in US and Canada alone.

The decision of re-releasing Twilight has been souly taken to gratify the demands of the fans who wanted to see the film on the big screen again, reported the summit. Speculations are going on that double ticket sales from both “Twilight” and “New Moon” would be a highly beneficial to Summit. This will also benifit the Theater owners.

Robert Pattinson

Did you find anything unusually similar between “Twilight’s” Edward Cullen and bad boy James Dean? Yes, you are right, its the perfect hair, grizzling looks and outcast persona of the most handsome vampire on-screen. The look of the vampire in Twilight was much influenced from the “Rebel Without a Cause” said Robert Pattinson.

“‘Rebel Without a Cause’ was a big influence on the first ‘Twilight’ film — it influenced the hairdo and stuff. In lots of ways, it has a very similar character arc: An everyday girl brings this relatively strange individual out of his slump”, the actor said in an interview with USA Today.

Pattinson has an image, which is quite similar to James Dean. Right after his Twilight release Rob became the heartthrob of millions of women from all over the world. In a past interview the 23 year old actor was quoted as saying that he does not feel very comfortable handling all the attention and fame the character “Edward Cullen” brought to him.

“I’m not entirely sure what it is. I’ll probably realize afterward how I could have controlled it a little bit more. But I am still like a deer in headlights”, said Pattinson.

Rob also admitted the fact that a large section os his fans are ardent readers of the “Twilight” series of books. And they all could relate his so much with the bookish character that it became difficult for them to distinguish between the actor and Edward Cullen most of the time.

“Right at the beginning, everyone just called me Edward. I don’t really mind either way. There’s something about that character that, for some reason, has sparked an interest in massive degrees in so many different people”, Rob added.

The actor also said, “If you want to compete with your own character, you have to really fight. I don’t know if I could be bothered to fight. I just let it go by.”

The forthcoming sequel of the popular vampire series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, is all set to hit theatres on November 20.

Michael Buble

Second week in a row and Michael Buble still continues to dominated the US Pop Album Chart. The soundtrack from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” topped the second place of the billboard after its release. Buble gave it a strong fight by occupying the top spot for a second consecutive week.

The album named “Crazy Love” by the singer sold over 203,000 copies in a week that ended on 18th October. This is marked as the second-best sales week of Buble’s career as per a report presented by Nielsen SoundScan. Earlier his debut album “Call Me Irresponsible” recorded a weekly sale of 213,000 for in 2007.

As compared to Buble’s “Crazy Love”, the “New Moon” soundtrack marked a sale of 115,000 copies. In order to leave behind the leaks, the soundtrack of New Moon was released on 16th October, 4 days ahead of it scheduled date on 20th October.

In the coming week country king Tim McGraw’s new album, “Southern Voice”, will hit the stores. New Moon will have to give it a big fight to secure the top position on Billboard 200 in the next week.

Following the success of “Crazy Love”, a close second debut was “Embryonic” by Flaming Lips. The album entered Billboard 200 at number 8 after a sale of a little under 32,000 copies. This is the highest rank that the rock band has ever received in US charts. With a sale of 48,000 in its first week, the last album of Flaming Lips, “At War With the Mystics”, was ranked at number 11 on Billboard 200 in 2006.

The 3rd rank is secured by Jay-Z’s “The Blueprint 3″ with 55,000 sales. And the 5th spot is reigned by Miley Cyrus’ “The Time of Our Lives” with 40,000. Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.” took a huge leap from No. 23 to No. 6 with just under 40,000.

New Moon

The “Twilight” saga promises to keep its fans glued to their seats through every possible means. The music of New Moon has been released and the fans have already given it a green signal. In fact the music of New Moon fulfills the hype as the most awaited soundtrack of the year.

The sound track of Twilight’s forthcoming sequel, New Moon, brings in the alt/indie-rock genre. Well known names such as Death Cab For a Cutie, The Killers, Muse, Bon Iver and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have come together to create this fascinating music. Following the innense success of Twilight’s music, the producers didn’t want to take any risk with the upcoming sequel.

The soundtrack of New Moon gives its audience a change to experience elements of the ridiculous and supernatural: vampires, werewolves and the rush of adrenaline. The producers promises to give the fans a chance to hear some of the music clubbing together the supernatural and depression.  There is a rare mix of songs that avoids the already familiar tunes. It would definitely be an unforgettable experience to hear those left-of-center rock right from the beginning till the end.

Groovy female voice and electronic fairy tale soaked melodies gives you the perfect paranormal feel while you watch Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart make romance. As a whole the music of New Moon will drive you through the rural and snowy countryside, sometimes giving you ample comfort and sometimes setting your spine on fire. A magical surrealism brings alive the melodrama between Bella, Edward and Jacob.

Robert Pattinson

The most handsome vampire on-screen, Robert Pattinson, is upset and embarrassed with his mother. The Twilight hunk revealed that his mum reads and trusts every stories spiced up about him even if its not true.

Pattinson, who turned 23 this May, said that he is being discussed too much in media after Twilight’s massive success. The star’s private life is at stake most of the time as he is being constantly hooked with most of his co-stars. This has resulted into a growing speculation in his mother’s mind as she reads and believes in everything thats written bout him.

Awaiting the release of his forthcoming film, New Moon, Pattinson said that he could easily wave off most of the gossips written about him. But when it came to convincing his mother he faced much difficulty to make her understand that most of those stories were unreal.

“My mum says, ‘I can’t believe you did this’, and I’m like, ‘I didn’t do it’, she’s like, ‘yes you did, I know you did’”, Rob was quoted as saying in an interview with the Daily Record.

“It was about swearing, I was like, ’say something about sleeping with people and swearing and stuff, I wasn’t even in the city’. And she’s just like, ‘no, I don’t believe, I bet you did say that’”, he also added.

Presently Pattinson is busy filming the third sequel in The Twilight Saga, Eclipse, in Vancouver.

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.