From JustJared:
Taking her hit movie overseas, Ashley Greene attended a meet and greet with fans at a “Twilight” fan party at E-Werk in Berlin, Germany on Saturday (June 6).
Looking cute in a red dress with a short grey jacket, the Alice Cullen actress strolled down the red carpet as she posed for pictures and signed autographs to a mob of adoring fans.
The 22-year-old actress was joined by New Moon cast members Daniel Cudmore and Charlie Bewley. The duo will portray Volturi guards in the upcoming sequel due out in November.
The trio signed autographs and met with tons of their German fans. Ashley even ran into Ashley Tisdale on the flight to Berlin!
Meanwhile, Miss Greene and her co-star beau, Kellan Lutz, have been lined up to take part in a “Twilight” cruise” setting sail on August 8, 2010 from Seattle.
According to reports, “passengers on this special cruise will be treated to guests will be treated to a Q&A session with the stars, a photo shoot, an autograph session, and a costume ball.”
HitFix:
The secret everyone knew in Hollywood is out, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is coming to Comic-Con.
Summit Entertainment has not officially confirmed, but The New York Times is reporting the “Twilight” sequel will make a return visit to the venerable Hall H. Last year, thousands of screaming fans turned the presentation into something akin to a rock concert by screaming non-stop through the public debut of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). In fact, many arrived the night before to make sure they had seats during the panel and it was the first sign, to the mainstream media at least, that this “Twilight” phenomenon might actually be something serious. Even bigger news, however, is the San Diego arrival of acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson.
Fueled by a slew of major wins for “Twilight” and Robert Pattinson, The MTV Movie Awards averaged 5.3 million viewers, up by 78 percent and the highest since 2004. According to Broadcasting & Cable, the Movie Awards were up a whopping 92 percent over last year in MTV’s target 12-34 demo. Once again, thanks, Robert Pattinson.
Also generating buzz for the show was Sacha Baron Cohen’s already notorious entrance as Bruno, a staged bit in which the gay fashion icon landed in an intimate position proximate to rapper Eminem’s face
RadarOnline:
Back from Vancouver and Italy where she filmed “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” Kristen Stewart was all over the mean streets of Los Angeles this week, zooming around in her adorable Mini Cooper.
The petite actress took in business meetings in the Toluca Lake and Valley Village areas of the San Fernando Valley, visited with friends and did a fashion shoot for Allure magazine, driving herself to all her meetings in her cute-mobile.
At just 5’5”, Kristen and her Mini obviously make a great team.
MTV:
Although Kristen Stewart now finds herself elevated to the status of a big Hollywood player thanks her role as Bella Swan in “Twilight,” the actress has long insisted that she never hunted for fame when she was working to get a career in Hollywood. In fact, back when she was auditioning for her small-but-radiant role in Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild,” the then-15-year-old told Interview magazine that her early success was as much a burden as a blessing.
“Well, this is never something that I sought out. For most actors, it’s such a struggle to get work,” she told “Zathura” director Jon Favreau, who interviewed her for the story in 2005. “Once they have it, they feel that there’s an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them. In my case, it was never like that.”
Stewart credited her grounded nature to her family, all of whom have some role in Hollywood. “My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter. My dad’s a director,” she said. “So, it’s like, at heart, I’m a below-the-line girl.”
Stewart also talked about how she’s had to grow up faster than a lot of her peers. When most of them were playing MASH in study hall, she was busy acting and not going to a traditional school. Because of this, she said she found that it hasn’t always been easy for her to act like a normal kid. “When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective,” she said. “When you’re a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family — that’s your whole world, your whole existence.
“I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me,” Stewart lamented, adding that only now, as her friends graduate high school, will they understand what it’s like to have the kind of perspective she’s had for years already.
“My friends who are still going to school are still totally caught up in it,” she said. “When they graduate, they’re going to experience the exact same thing that I did. I just went through it when I was in the seventh grade as opposed to the 12th.”
Vampires are pretty popular right now. I can’t imagine why either. Can you? The overwhelming popularity of “Twilight” can be felt in every corner of entertainment these days. Vampires are officially “in,” and everyone seems to be picking up on it. Even book publishers.
Last week, MTV Splash Page’s Rick Marshall headed down to New York City’s Jacob Javits Center to hunt for scoops at the annual BookExpo America trade show. While it seems you Twilighters will be waiting a bit longer before you see a comic book rendition of Stephanie Meyer’s series, you certainly won’t be wanting for vampire-related content in the coming months. Check out Rick’s BookExpo pictures after the jump for a look at all of the blood-sucking madness.
Exclaim News:
As Jeff Buckley fanatics likely already know, a biopic on the late singer-songwriter has been brewing for years. Several attempts have been made — one even by Brad Pitt — but so far Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert has put the kibosh on bringing the Buckley tale to the big screen. (To read a detailed history on the failed biopic check out The Playlist’s post about it here.) However, via a report from the Australian press, it appears the film is back on track and could be out as early as 2010.
According to the report, Orian Williams, who produced the biopic Control, about Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, is onboard for the Buckley film, titled Mystery White Boy, as is screenwriter Ryan Jaffe (The Rocker). The real juice here is that the list of possible actors that may play Buckley, which includes names like Jared Leto, James Franco, Robert Pattinson and James Marsden.
“Whoever gets the part will need a lot of self-discipline because they won’t be able to fake it,” Guibert said in interview. “It’s going to take a phenomenal set of skills.”
Guibert also added that she has finally come to terms with the idea of there actually being a biopic done on her late son, saying, “I have finally relented against my deep conviction that films about people should never be made until those people are long dead.”
And while all indications now seem to show that the biopic is back on course, the script is apparently nowhere near complete, and the film is still in the very early stages, making that possible 2010 release look pretty tentative.
GossipGirls:
Venturing back out for another day’s work, Kristen Stewart heads to a studio in Santa Monica, California on Thursday (June 4).
Wearing a grey t-shirt with a knot tied at the bottom paired with jeans, the Bella Swan beauty hopped out of her ride and passed by awaiting paparazzi.
Meanwhile, following the filming of “New Moon,” Miss Stewart is gearing up for roles in “K-11” and “The Runaways”.
Co-starring alongside fellow “New Moon” actress Dakota Fanning in “The Runaways,” the film is described as “a coming-of-age biopic about ‘70s teenage band The Runaways.”
Deadline Hollywood Daily:
These fresh stats are astounding. Summit Entertainment has a count of 4.2 million views for the New Moon trailer from MySpace, and another 1.6 million from MTV.com, so that’s 5.8 million conbined views in the first 24 hours from its two domestic online launch partners. By comparison, the 3rd (and last) trailer for Twilight received 3.2 million views in its first 48 hours on MySpace, piddling compared to viewership for the sequel’s trailer.
