I’m clinically unashamed most of the time, but today I come to you with a confession worthy of St. Augustine or at least Diane Keaton : Twilight may be the ultimate Bad Movie We Love. It is surely bad, as it looks and acts like the longest, moodiest Evanescence video of all time, but it’s also hard to resist. It’s neither pretentious nor overconfident. It’s silly. Bella Swan is hot for a shock-white ghoul with darting pupils and a social disorder. Celebrate.
The entertainment world is abuzz with Breaking Dawn hysteria. Maybe you noticed. Even The Muppets , who also have a movie coming out, are getting in on the action. In three new posters for the Jason Segel-written Muppets adaptation, which arrives in theaters next week, Kermit, Miss Piggy and Rowlf channel their Twilight brethren. From one iconic pop cultural phenomenon to another, meet the handsome Vamphibian (Kermit/Edward), the Wererowlf (Rowlf/Jacob) and the lovely Bella Swine …
Over at Entertainment Weekly, David Fincher plays coy joking about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ‘s Oscar chances. [Some spoilers follow, though they’ll come as no surprise to those familiar with Stieg Larsson’s book or Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 film adaptation.] How likely is is that the Academy will be so turned off by the extremes seen in Fincher’s film that they’d pass it over come nomination day?
The Muppets are legendary TV and film characters, but there’s something about Sesame Street ‘s giggliest resident, Elmo, that makes small children perk up. Constance Marks, the director of the new documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey , put Elmo’s appeal this way: “Kids sit up, pay attention, and turn on. There’s that bright red fur and adorable bulgy eyes, but it’s the soul of the puppeteer that people are responding to. It’s an amazing gift.”
We’ve long admired Natalie Wood’s ability to freak the hell out in a bathtub , but she’s most known for her roles in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story — the latter of which is celebrating its golden anniversary this fall. In this exclusive clip from the new 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray, we learn that Mrs. Robert Wagner and her costar Richard Beymer did not get along. Also: Beymer is holding up very well 50 years later!
The marketing blitz accompanying this week’s Breaking Dawn release has prompted a bit of nostalgia about The Twilight Saga around Movieline HQ — particularly its eminently intriguing movie posters. Gone is the quaint patina of the original 2008 film, with sultry, semi-known Robert Pattinson locking his poo-colored gaze and clay-like visage on virginal, vaguely known Kristen Stewart, both doctored with minimalist Photoshop fervor. But gone, too (for now, anyway), are the hilariously earnest, carefully manipulated one-sheets from New Moon and Eclipse — the hand-mangling, the cock-blocking, the stank-eyed cast of thousands. In fact, the new posters look like photographs of actual people ! Very attractive and heavily airbrushed people in romance-novel clutches, but people nonetheless. Join Movieline’s Dept. of Marketing Forensics in looking back on how we got here.
Sure, Edward Cullen gets married in Breaking Dawn . And Bella Swan gives birth . But Taylor Lautner says this installment of the Twilight Saga highlights an especially interesting journey for his character of Jacob Black, telling our friends at Movie Fanatic that it was the most “challenging” film of the franchise to shoot. “Jacob becomes a man in this one and he has to make a lot decisions,” Lautner told Joel Amos. “He’s being torn between his two families. It was really tough.” Breaking Dawn TV Spot: Team Jacob! Lautner gives credit to director Bill Condon for helping him navigate the often-shirtless waters. “I trusted him completely, and it was really special,” the actor says of his bond with Condon. “And now seeing the movie, I’m really happy Jacob starts here and he ends here, and it’s just very exciting to see him in a completely different light than ever before.” Visit Movie Fanatic now and read a lot more from Lautner .
Nothing like girls in skirts sitting at a good vantage point in front of you…cuz you know there’s always going to be a slip up, no one, no matter how well trained they are, can sit and get up without flashing a little twat….and when they are up on stage…it’s far easy to catch the slip up, then the way I’ve been caught many times trying to do when a bitch is sitting at the same level as you….you know pretending to drop a pen, forced to crawl under the table, is far less subtle way to get flashed… Unfortunaltey, I don’t have any panty pics from this TWILIGHT BULLSHIT EVENT, but I know they are out there, or that the audience did, cuz it’s just science motherfuckers…and sometimes just knowing that is enough to get my fantasy wheels turning, because I’m weird and love when girls let us look up their skirts…knowingly, unknowingly, panties or not. It’s always amazing.
‘It was more about romance than hot-and-heavy action,’ Bill Condon tells MTV News about toning down sex scene for PG-13 rating. By Amy Wilkinson Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1” Photo: Summit Entertainment Was the first cut of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” racy enough to be slapped with an R rating? In the December issue of Glamour UK, star Kristen Stewart revealed that Bella and Edward’s feather-strewn sex scene was so saucy that it had to be recut. “It was so weird, it didn’t even feel like we were doing a ‘Twilight’ film,” she recalled to the British mag. “I was like, ‘Bella! What are you doing? Wow! What is happening here?!’ It was very surreal. We [originally] got rated R. They recut it.” Though director Bill Condon couldn’t confirm the R rating when MTV News recently spoke with him on the phone, he did reveal the edits necessary to earn a more teen-friendly PG-13 for the November 18 release. “It’s almost clinical the kind of strict guidelines [the MPAA] have about anything that appears to be — how do I put it delicately? That appears to be, let’s call it thrusting. In fact, you know, it was so much more about romance than it was about hot-and-heavy action, so it was a very kind of simple adjustment to make.” If re-editing the infamous sex scene was one of the simplest items on Condon’s honeymoon to-do list, one of the most difficult was scouting the location: the secluded Isle Esme owned by Carlisle Cullen. “We went to Brazil where it was at, that felt important to us,” he said. “There are very few houses built on the water because it’s against the law. So they’re mostly built up, so it was hard to find a house that was like that. It took us — wow — we were five hours outside of Rio and then a boat trip of 40 minutes to get to this one island that had the house that we wanted.” It was a good thing Condon was satisfied with the locale seeing as he and the crew spent several unexpected extra hours there. “We spent four days there and one night, when we had this incredible hurricane and couldn’t get off the island,” he said. “Eighty of us slept in the house on the floor and in bathtubs. It was incredible.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Is Bringing You An Exclusive Look At ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1’ MTV Rough Cut: ‘Breaking Dawn’ Director Bill Condon MTV News’ Comic-Con Takeover ‘Breaking Dawn’ Special
