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.

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.

Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift

The country crooner Taylor Swift says she is on the side of team Jake. In an interview with the CMT Radio’s Cody Alan she said she was on Jake’s part in the vampire movie “Twilight”.

There have been many such instances in the recent days when Swift and Launter have been seen together in public. Such appearances flared rumors about the couple’s love affair among their fans. Twilight fans are assuming if Launter and Swift are dating each other on a much serious note and can be referred as a couple.

Switft was asked during the interview with CMT if the rumors of she and Launter dating is true. The country crooner simply replied, “I don’t know, he’s an amazing guy and we’re really close … and ah … yep,”.

In another interview with People.com Swift said, “We’re in a movie together and I am really excited about seeing it”. The movie in which Taylor and Launter will be see together is “Valentine’s day”.

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

This must be a real heartbreaking news for all those Rob Pat fans. The Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson is planning an exit from his acting career forever. At least the star says so.

The most handsome vampire on-screen, Edward Cullen, thinks he may not carry on with his acting career forever. There is just one clause that can hold him back to films. Rob says he will only continue working in films if his films make money is box office.

“I don’t even know if I want to be an actor that long. I don’t even know how to be someone else… if I start doing lame work, I’m not going to stick around and do it!” the actor said in an interview with Seventeen Magazine.

Sounding very humble Pattinson, in another recent interview, was quoted as saying, that he was very nervous before Twilight’s release. “When the first film came out I felt like a complete tosser, It looked like I was trying to be cool or something, like Eminem. You know, to be in a movie and then do a song for the soundtrack. But I didn’t look cool, I just looked ridiculous”, said the 23 year old actor.

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.