According to Forbes magazine, Stephenie Meyer is the second-highest-paid author in the world this year. She’s ahead of Stephen King and behind only James Patterson. So what are the numbers? From June to June, Stephenie reportedly made $40 million. Still, she has a ways to go — although Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling didn’t make the list [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 2, 2010
Bill Condon was announced as the director for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn last week, but he hasn’t spoken about the job until now. In an open letter to fans on Facebook, he lays out why he’s a fan and what he hopes to do with the series: Greetings Twihards, Twifans, Twilight Moms, Team Edward, Team [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 20, 2010
Entertainment Weekly talked to director Chris Weitz on the eve of the Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD release, and eventually the subject got around to Breaking Dawn. Weitz explained that the reason he probably wouldn’t direct it is because he’d rather take a break from effects-heavy films to be able to spend more time with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By now, when Twilight stars are asked about Breaking Dawn, we know what they’re going to say: we haven’t read the script, we’re not sure if it’ll be one movie or two, it’ll probably shoot in Vancouver. So MTV took a different tactic in their recent discussion with Kristen Stewart and specifically asked how she [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Buried at the bottom of Stephenie Meyer’s brief interview with Entertainment Weekly about the Twilight graphic novel was this very interesting tease: When this project is done, are you done with Twilight? I can’t say that I am done with Twilight forever. I’m not working on anything new Twilight-related now, and probably not for a while. But there’s still a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The complete Twilight Saga will be published in a graphic novel adaptation soon, starting with a first volume to be released on March 16th. The series will be based on the novels more than the movies; the artwork, which you can see to the right, has a slight Japanese influence to it, and the characters don’t [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talked to Reelz the other day and offered up some info about Eclipse. In particular, she teased the infamous tent scene: In Eclipse we’re going to see this triangle between Edward, Bella, and Jacob. And I think we’re going to see a lot of heat between these characters. Because Jacob has [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Ashley Greene appeared on Live with Regis & Kelly yesterday and was her usual charming self. She talks about her life before she got cast in Twilight, going to auditions in the day and working as a hostess at night, and eventually jokes that she “started writing down her dreams” after finding out that’s how [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg recently spoke to Film School Rejects about adapting Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse and revealed that the story was going to originally be something totally different. But how? They’re all based on Stephenie Meyer’s books! Well, apparently Paramount first optioned the novels with the intent on taking them in a totally [...]
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
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