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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, 'New Moon' Cast Dazzle Hollywood Hot Topic
6 November 2009 10:40 PM, PST
'Twilight Saga: New Moon' cast tour kicked off in L.A. on Friday.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart kick off the "Twilight Saga: New Moon" cast tour in Hollywood on Friday
Photo: Jordan Strauss/ WireImage
Hollywood — "New Moon" mania took over the Hollywood & Highland Center on Friday night, as one of the first stops on the movie's nationwide Hot Topic promotional tour kicked off with an event featuring concerts by bands from the film's soundtrack, laughs with the cast, and a special appearance by the film's three biggest stars.
"Thank you to you guys," gushed Robert Pattinson, taking the stage alongside Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in front of hundreds of shrieking, black-t-shirt-clad fans. "Without you, 'Twilight' wouldn't be anywhere."
Well, on Friday night, it was everywhere. In two different storefronts, autographs were being signed by the likes of Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene and members of the Wolf pack and the Volturi. »
'The Men Who Stare At Goats': Destination Nowhere, By Kurt Loder
6 November 2009 7:57 AM, PST
George Clooney bogged down on an impossible mission.
George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare At Goats"
Photo: Overture Films
What went wrong with this movie? The subject — the U.S. military's apparently actual flirtation with paranormal warfare — has rich comic promise. And the cast — George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges — couldn't be much stronger. But while the trailer for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" suggests a quirky, Coen-esque romp, the picture itself lacks the Coen brothers' sardonic intelligence and deft pacing. It wanders and wilts and very quickly falls apart.
The story begins in 2003, with aspiring combat reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) waiting in Kuwait for clearance to cross over into Iraq. Biding his time, he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a man with a strange tale to tell. Cassady says he's a "Jedi warrior" (wink, wink) in the New Earth Army, a sub-rosa military unit dedicated to psychic battle strategies — mind-reading, »
'The Box': Which End's Up? By Kurt Loder
6 November 2009 6:56 AM, PST
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in a sci-fi murkfest.
James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in "The Box"
Photo: Warner Bros.
"The Box" is an overlong mess of a movie that's nevertheless eerie and unsettling. You walk away from it feeling befuddled but definitely weirded-out. The picture is based on a 1970 short story by Richard Matheson that was later turned into a "Twilight Zone" episode — which would be just about the right length for a filmic adaptation. In transforming this crisply-told tale into a nearly two-hour movie, though, director Richard Kelly has crammed it with so much additional narrative that the film feels on the verge of exploding at any moment.
The story is set in Richmond, Virginia, in — for some reason — 1976. Arthur and Norma Lewis (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) are feeling a financial pinch even though both have good jobs. He works for Nasa; she's employed as a lit teacher in a private school. »
Ashley Greene Gets Cast In New Thriller 'The Apparition'
6 November 2009 6:54 AM, PST
The 'Twilight' star will face down other supernatural beings in the new movie.
By Jocelyn Vena
Photo: Kristian Dowling/ Getty Images
With three "Twilight" flicks under her belt, Ashley Greene has found time to make another movie. The "New Moon" star will star in the thriller "The Apparition," Variety reports.
There is no news yet on who will star with Greene in the film about a young couple haunted by a supernatural being that was let loose during a college experiment. "The Apparition," which was inspired by true events, will be produced by Joel Silver's Dark Castle company and is set to start production on February 1.
The Evolution Of: Ashley Greene
In the meantime, fans can see Greene in the highly anticipated second flick in the "Twilight Saga," out on November 20. Although she'll be the one on edge in the face of the ghostly figure in "The Apparition, »
'The Fourth Kind': Impossible Dreams, By Kurt Loder
6 November 2009 6:12 AM, PST
Milla Jovovich overcome by alien inanity.
Milla Jovovich in "The Fourth Kind"
Photo: Universal Pictures
With the fumbled release of "The Fourth Kind," sneaky-hip viral movie marketing shoots itself in the foot. It's been 10 years since the makers of "The Blair Witch Project" used the Internet to plant eerie suggestions that the events in their film were real. Today the Internet is patrolled by a legion of bull-sniffing bloggers, so any attempt to do the same thing again is doomed to fail. And the picture expends so much of its energy trying to pound home its preposterous assertions that there's very little left over to animate the story, which is in any case a hopeless jumble.
The movie is an attempted alien-abduction thriller. It begins with what is probably the most laughable opening scene of the year. Walking through some misty woods and straight up to the camera, the film's star, »
'Precious': Hell Up In Harlem, By Kurt Loder
6 November 2009 6:12 AM, PST
A new star arrives, and a few others are re-born.
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious"
Photo: Lions Gate
Claireece Jones is one of life's write-offs: an illiterate, junk-food-fat Harlem teenager living on welfare with her viciously abusive mother and, from time to time, her father, who drops by to rape her. She already has one child as a result of his assaults — a little girl with Down's Syndrome — and is currently pregnant with another. Claireece's future seems anything but uncertain. Somehow, though, she's managed not to write herself off.
"Precious" is one of those rare movies that come winging in from nowhere and knock you out. Gabourey Sidibe, who plays the title character (Claireece goes by the name Precious), is an untrained actress — a Bronx college student whose only performing background is in school stage plays. But she has great instincts, and watching her draw out flickers of hope through the »
'New Moon' Star Robert Pattinson Laughs Off Pregnancy Rumors
6 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST
'Yeah, it's in my armpit because I'm hiding it from everyone,' he jokes.
Photo: MTV News
Beverly Hills, California — Rob and Kristen are engaged. They're going to name their first child a combination of their mothers' names, just like in the "Twilight" books. A big wedding is on the way, quite likely with Bigfoot officiating.
As their fame has grown, so has the insanity level of the rumors about their personal lives. On Friday (November 6), "New Moon" star Robert Pattinson sat down with MTV News, and was eager to address one of the more notable bits of news he saw the last time he Googled himself.
"I like the story about me being pregnant," laughed the 23-year-old British heartthrob. "It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page!"
As they've filmed "New Moon" and "Eclipse," Rob and Kristen Stewart have spent the last »
'New Moon' Fan Questions Reveal Secret Music Career, Yearlong Dare
6 November 2009 3:52 AM, PST
Billy Burke's iPhone app, Nikki Reed's Hawaiian getaway, Kellan Lutz's T.I. love and more 'Twilight' star secrets.
Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
All week long, you've been exposing the innermost thoughts of the "New Moon" stars with questions submitted on the MTV Web site, getting their take on everything from scooters to "Twilight" plot points they'd like to see to what they find when they Google each other.
Now, the week is coming to an end and we have our final installment of "New Moon" Stars Answer Your Burning Questions — but don't worry, we've saved the best for last.
You might be a die-hard, but do you know which "Twilight" star once dropped out of acting for more than a year, just because of a dare? Or who can't start the day without listening to Justin Timberlake and T. »
'A Christmas Carol' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know
6 November 2009 3:52 AM, PST
Before you see a very animated Jim Carrey on the big screen, find out how it all came together.
By Eric Ditzian
Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey) in "A Christmas Carol"
Photo: Disney
Look at ol' Ebenezer Scrooge — now that's a mug not even a mother could love.
Jim Carrey is no doubt a fan, though, because behind all that computer-generated animation is the comedian himself, done up in a performance-capture leotard. An admirer as well, clearly, is Robert Zemeckis, who masterminded the moviemaking magic that not only turned Carrey into Scrooge, but the three ghosts who visit him in this adaptation of Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol."
Their 3-D movie arrives just a bit before the Christmas season — on Friday (November 6), before even Thanksgiving — but that's no reason you should feel like it has snuck up on you. The story, about three apparitions who visit penny-pinching Scrooge during »
Kristen Stewart 'Can't Tell A Difference' Between Herself And Bella Swan
6 November 2009 3:17 AM, PST
'I'm used to playing really distinct characters that are so far away from my normal reality,' Stewart says.
By Eric Ditzian
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
With the end of principal photography on "Eclipse" in Vancouver late last month, Kristen Stewart completed her third "Twilight" series film as Bella Swan, the high school girl who falls hard for a vampire. Even before starting "Eclipse," though— at the very beginning of "New Moon," in fact, the second film in the franchise — the 19-year-old actress felt so comfortable playing the character that she had a hard time separating herself from Bella.
"I feel very much like I can't really tell a huge difference between myself and Bella anymore, as odd as that sounds," she admitted in an interview released by Summit Entertainment. "I'm used to playing really distinct characters that are so far away from »
50 Cent Screens 'Before I Self Destruct' Film In New York
6 November 2009 2:06 AM, PST
Comic moment occurs during screening when 50 cries onscreen.
By Shaheem Reid
50 Cent
Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images
New York — Thursday night was just a regular evening at the movies ... well, if you're used to seeing 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo at the theater! Fif held a screening of his film "Before I Self Destruct"; the movie shares a title with 50's new LP and they will be released together on November 16.
"I'm trying to be ahead of the curve because things are changing in music," 50 told the audience at the AMC Loews Kips Bay 15 theater in Manhattan on Thursday. Members of the audience included Red Café, Uncle Murda, radio personality Miss Info, DJ Jazzy Joyce and actor/Mc AlBe Back.
For Fif, the "Before I Self Destruct" film "was an opportunity to show the cause and effect" of a good guy gone bad. Fif also said making a 90-minute »
Kristen Stewart Slams Robert Pattinson Romance Rumors
5 November 2009 8:22 AM, PST
'I'm just trying to keep something,' 'Twilight' and 'New Moon' star says.
By Eric Ditzian
Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage
While Kristen Stewart does all she can onscreen in "New Moon" to talk Robert Pattinson into staying in a relationship with her, the 19-year-old actress is done speaking about her rumored off-screen romance with her co-star.
"I've thought about this a lot," Stewart told Entertainment Weekly. "There's no answer that's not going to tip you one way or the other. Think about every hypothetical situation: 'Ok, we are. We aren't. I'm a lesbian.' I'm just trying to keep something."
While Stewart deserves kudos for her creative refusal to engage in gossip mongering, that creativity is unlikely to tamp down speculation about her and RPattz, especially as we get closer to the November 20 release of "New Moon." One wonders what Pattinson — who was sitting next to KStew during »
'Twilight' Dad Billy Burke Hopes His Daughter Is Just Like Bella Swan
5 November 2009 4:16 AM, PST
'Bella's got an old soul, and I think that I'm already recognizing [that] in my kid,' he says of 15-month-old Bluesy Larue.
Photo: MTV News
In Stephenie Meyer's novels, some might say he is a bit underdeveloped as a character. In Catherine Hardwicke's movie, he barely got five minutes of screen time. The purpose of Charlie Swan seems to be twofold: be an awkwardly-out-of-touch dad to Bella and a well-meaning-but-clueless chief of police to Forks.
But thanks to veteran character actor Billy Burke, Charlie has become a fan favorite ever since "Twilight" was released last year. And now that he just finished shooting the back-to-back sequels and spending most of his time alongside Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson, Billy stopped by the MTV News studio this week to tell us that the best is yet to come — thanks to a 20-pound Twilighter.
"Well, »
'Twilight' Stars Answer Your Questions About RPattz, Sticking To The Books
5 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST
Plus: Billy Burke reveals what's on his iPod, laments missing Kings of Leon concert.
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
All week long, we've been bringing questions straight from the mouths of Twilighters worldwide to the stars of this month's "New Moon" You guys have already been able to get them to open up about online haters, vital plot points and even "sexual white chocolate."
Now, the fun continues with part four of "New Moon" Stars Answer Fans' Burning Questions, starring three of our favorite "New Moon" males. Read on for their revealing thoughts on iPods, extra scenes they wanted inserted in the sequel and why it ain't easy being Robert Pattinson.
Q: What is Rob Pattinson like behind the scenes?
Campbell Bower: Well, he's into his music. He loves all kinds of music. I don't know if there's a tidbit I could give, »
Jamie Campbell Bower Wants Tim Burton To Direct 'Breaking Dawn'
4 November 2009 10:14 PM, PST
'I don't know if the fans would like it, but I'd sure like it,' the 'New Moon' vampire tells MTV News.
By Eric Ditzian
Photo: MTV News
Tim Burton digs supernatural stories: the goth-comic ghost tale of "Beetlejuice," the headless killer from the great beyond in "Sleepy Hollow," the undead love story of "Corpse Bride." In a way, Burton knows vampires too, resurrecting Bela Lugosi — the definitive cinematic Count Dracula — in the Oscar-winning biopic "Ed Wood."
All of this has made "New Moon" vampire Jamie Campbell Bower think that Burton should direct "Breaking Dawn," the expected film adaptation of the final book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series.
"It'd be cool if Burton came and did 'Breaking Dawn,' " Campbell Bower told MTV News of his "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" director. "I think he'd just change it up. I think »
Exclusive New 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer Packed With Fights And Explosions
4 November 2009 8:59 AM, PST
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law battle baddies as Rachel McAdams tosses witty barbs in second trailer.
By Eric Ditzian
Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes"
Photo: Warner Bros.
Early this year, when MTV News visited the New York set of "Sherlock Holmes," Robert Downey Jr. promised that his take on the masterful inspector would emphasize brawn as much as brains.
"He's a total badass," the Oscar nominee said. "He thinks through all eventualities, possibilities and counterattacks when he's fighting, so he actually has the fight worked out before he starts."
The brand-new exclusive "Sherlock" trailer that MTV News debuted on Wednesday (November 4) makes that commitment to badassery abundantly clear. There are gunfights, sword fights, fistfights, lovers' fights and fights involving electrocution. There are explosions, near-death experiences and horse-carriage races that seem to top out at Ferrari-level speeds.
Yet director Guy Ritchie argues that "Sherlock," which hits »
Adam Lambert Feels 'Honored' To Be On '2012' Soundtrack
4 November 2009 7:27 AM, PST
Disaster flick hits theaters 10 days before release of 'Idol' runner-up's debut, For Your Entertainment.
By Jocelyn Vena
Adam Lambert at the premiere of "2012" on Monday
Photo: David Livingston/ Getty Images
It's a big month for Adam Lambert. He's releasing his debut album, For Your Entertainment, on November 23, which is just 10 days after "2012" hits movie theaters. This isn't exciting news for Lambert because he's a big fan of disaster flicks, but instead because his song "Time for Miracles" appears on the movie's soundtrack.
At the Los Angeles premiere of the film on Tuesday night, he told reporters how great it felt to be asked to contribute to the film's soundtrack since it was long before he had started work on his debut LP.
"I really feel honored that they came to me and asked me. I think it's obviously a risk on their part because this was before any sort of »
Robert Pattinson Takes On Tokyo In 'New Moon' Promo Tour
4 November 2009 6:58 AM, PST
Star says he still finds worldwide passion for 'Twilight' 'really surprising.'
By Jocelyn Vena
Robert Pattinson in Tokyo on Monday
Photo: Jun Sato/ WireImage
Robert Pattinson doesn't have to say much or even speak the same language as his female fans to garner screams and shrieks of excitement. He proved as much when he was in Tokyo promoting "New Moon" on Tuesday along with director Chris Weitz.
"Thank you all so much for coming," Pattinson told the assembled crowd, who began to scream before his words were even translated into Japanese (as you can see in this video of the event). "It's always really surprising, whenever we go anywhere in the world, there seems to be so many people everywhere who are just as passionate. ... It's always just amazing to find that out. Thank you, arigato."
'New Moon' Premieres Around The World
Pattinson has not only been »
'New Moon' Stars Answer Your Questions About Stephenie Meyer, Onesies
4 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST
Kellan Lutz tries to sneak in some Cullen love; plus Jamie Campbell Bower and Edi Gathegi.
Kellan Lutz and Nikki Reed in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
When you think about "Twilight" and the soon-to-release "New Moon," there are plenty of words that come to mind — but they probably don't include "big hugs" and "sexual white chocolate." Well, that's about to change.
As we continue this week's "New Moon" Stars Answer Fans' Burning Questions, a Cullen, a Volturi leader and a nomad take the spotlight, answering queries straight from the lips of Twilighters. Read on for some revealing answers, as well as a good laugh.
Q: Have you been able to meet Stephenie Meyer yet?
Campbell Bower: Yes, she's fantastic. She's really lovely. I got to meet with her a couple of days before we started filming and spoke to her about the characters and stuff. »
'New Moon' Star Jamie Campbell Bower Dreads Seeing Himself Onscreen
4 November 2009 3:31 AM, PST
The 20-year-old actor, who plays Caius in the 'Twilight' sequel, says he hates watching his own acting.
By Eric Ditzian
Photo: Elisabetta A. Villa/ WireImage
With his platinum-blond locks, blood-red eyes and ghost-pale complexion, the vampire Caius is quite a sight to behold. But the actor playing him in "New Moon," 20-year-old Jamie Campbell Bower, is not looking forward at all to taking in his big-screen counterpart.
"I hate that," he told MTV News. "I don't like to see myself up onscreen at all."
He's luckily been able to push off the cinematic confrontation, as he hasn't yet seen the whole film, unlike others in the cast. "They just won't show it to me!" he joked, adding that he's been so busy working, he hasn't had a chance to catch the full picture.
He did check out a couple of clips while at the International Rome Film Festival, »
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