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More details have surfaced on the behind-the-scenes decision over whether to make The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn one movie or two.  Wyck Godfrey, one of the producers of all the films, talked with the L.A. Times yesterday:

At the moment, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who’s penned all the “Twilight” movies, is working on the “Breaking Dawn” script(s). “It’s a work in process,” Godfrey said in an interview Friday. “The issue [of whether there will be one or two movies] is not going to be resolved until we get the full treatment and see whether it’s organic. If it’s not organic, I don’t think it will be done, and if it is, it will be. It really has to do with how much level of detail from the books there is, with all of these new vampires that appear in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ the whole section about Jacob… It’s a very long single movie if it does become a single movie.”

He isn’t very clear about it, but what he’s saying is that Melissa Rosenberg is, in fact, writing treatments (in-depth plot synopses) for two Breaking Dawn movies.  Once she’s finished, the studio and Stephenie Meyer will look them over to see if they work as two separate stories.

Combine this with the earlier story about how Stephenie Meyer might be worried Breaking Dawn won’t work as two movies, and what it sounds like is that Summit commissioned Rosenberg to write two treatments first in order to assure Meyer it would work.  Which is fine.  The sooner everybody gets on the same page, the sooner Breaking Dawn starts filming.

We haven’t talked about how The Twilight Saga: New Moon is doing in theaters lately, but it’s still there, in over a thousand nationwide, still plugging along thanks to repeat business from fans.

Like most other films, it saw bump over the long holiday break.  The weekend before Christmas it made $4.4 million, then dropped to $3 million on Christmas weekend only to see its grosses bounce up to $3.4 million over New Year’s weekend.

Once everybody started going back to school, business fell as expected and it made $1.7 million this past weekend.

Overall, that gives it a total gross of $290.7 million and counting – easily one of the top five movies released in ‘09.

So there’s still no director for Breaking Dawn — although rumor has it Summit Entertainment wants Chris Weitz to come back — and there’s no word on when it might film.  According to E! Online, the reason for the delay might be that Stephenie Meyer can’t decide whether or not to let Summit break it up into two films.

“Stephenie is calling the shots,” our mole tells us, “and she still can’t decide whether or not [making two movies] is the right thing to do creatively.”

Deep Twi insists that everything—including splitting Breaking Dawn into two films—is run by Meyer (after all she penned the friggin’ thing). …  “Meyer isn’t in it for the fame. She hates doing press, and she doesn’t want to be recognized for anything other than her work, so what’s her incentive to drag [the book] out?”

Of course, we’re assured she does want to please the fans, but isn’t four films enough?

Summit is doing its best to “politely inspire” Stephenie to greenlight the two-flick route. For them, double the work equals double the money.

The whole thing sounds a little fishy.  For one thing, Summit owns the rights to the series; I haven’t seen the contracts, but I don’t know whether they would even need her approval.  (Of course, going against her wishes would probably be a total PR disaster.)

But more importantly, Stephenie said a while back that Breaking Dawn is such a big book that she didn’t think one movie should do it justice.  So why would she not be sure now?

If she is worried about whether two movies is “the right thing to do creatively,” then the solution is for her, Summit, and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg to sit down and figure out exactly where the book would be broken up and how to construct two separate story arcs out of it.  Isn’t that what they should have been doing all along?

BooBoo Stewart aka “Seth Clearwater” from Eclipse arriving at The Spy Next Door Premiere in Los Angeles.

Jackson Rathbone is starring in the upcoming horror movie Dread, one of the eight films in an annual “After Dark Horrorfest” festival that plays in a few hundred theaters nationwide next month.

The movie stars Jackson, The Twilight Saga’s own Jasper, as one of three college students who decide to make a documentary about fellow students’ worst fears.

A few new still photos of the movie surfaced, check them out:

Friday’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was a big show — Nick Jonas performed, and Ashley Greene showed up as a guest.  She talked about Twilight, of course, and told a cute story about pulling some strings to get tickets to a championship football game so she could take her dad.  After the show she tweeted:

Jimmy Fallon was amazing! Nick Jonas was as well… Def want to see him play a live show

You can watch part of the interview below:

Remember that story Anna Kendrick told Ellen about pitting Robert Pattinson and George Clooney against each other?  The video of the interview’s now up online, which you can check out below.  It’s near the end; first Anna talks a little about Twilight and how she grew up taking a bus into New York City to go on auditions.

One of the highlight’s of last night’s People’s Choice Award was a skit in which Queen Latifah inserted herself into the Edward/Bella breakup scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon.  Instead of Edward breaking up with Bella, they make it so he’s telling Queen Latifah that he can’t attend the awards show.  Check it out:

This is really funny.  According to People, Anna Kendrick (a.k.a. Twilight’s Jessica Stanley) tells Ellen DeGeneres on the Ellen show airing tomorrow about a feud she created between her New Moon co-star Robert Pattinson and her Up in the Air co-star George Clooney.  Check it out:

Shedding light on shooting Up in the Air with George Clooney and Twilight with Robert Pattinson, Kendrick, 24, tells Ellen DeGeneres on the TV’s host’s Jan. 8 show, “George gave me such a hard time about shooting Twilight. Whenever I came back, it was like, ‘Oh sorry, this isn’t the Twilight set. You’re not working with Mr. Handsome.’ He called Rob ‘Mr. Handsome.’ ”

But Kendrick admits she helped egg on the pseudo-competition, bringing back a GQ magazine that she had Pattinson sign, “To George, Best of Luck. Hang in there. Love Rob.”

Clooney’s response? He signed his Esquire magazine, “Dear Rob, Thanks for all the inspiration. I’m a huge fan. Love, George, two-time ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’ “

Here’s video of Taylor Lautner winning and accepting the Best Breakout Movie Actor award at the People’s Choice awards last night.  Short speech, but very sweet and humble: