Thursday, November 20, 2008
Robert Pattinson admits to being a bad kisser, regrets singl
Even as the frenzy amidst his female fans builds up over his hunky good looks and loving vampire ways, 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson admits to being a bad kisser and regrets his single status. Photo Credit: Splash News
November 19, 2008, (Sawf News) - Even as the frenzy amidst his female fans builds up over his hunky good looks and loving vampire ways, Twilight star Robert Pattinson, admits to being a bad kisser and regrets his single status.
Recalling his intimate scenes in the film with co-star Kristen Stewart, Pattinson said:
"It's terrifying. Especially when you kiss and you've got to do it at a weird angle or something. But I'm skirting the answer because I'm a really bad kisser. That's why I don't want to go into details! I hadn't kissed anyone for a while before the movie, so I'd kind of forgotten how!"
Pattinson also joked about his single status during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show that airs on Friday, November 21.
"I am [a relationship guy] but nobody seems to want to get in a relationship with me," he says even as females within the show audience screamed, "It's strange."
"People like screaming at me -- and they like screaming at me in relationships," he says. "But nobody wants to commit!"
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
'Twilight' glows as Summit high point
2,000 shows already sold out
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
'Twilight'
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With nearly 2,000 shows already sold out, Summit Entertainment's teen vampire romance "Twilight" is looking more like a studio blockbuster than some of the blockbusters.
In other words: Every studio in town, by their own admission, has "Twilight" envy.
The debut of "Twilight" at midnight will mark a milestone for the relatively young Summit Entertainment, which has suffered a string of early box office disappointments since expanding into the production, acquisition and distribution game.
"Twilight" also could prove that there is room for a new generation of mini-majors, a club that also includes Overture Films and Harry Sloan's reconfigured MGM.
Based on the bestselling book series by Stephenie Meyer, "Twilight" has whipped up such a frenzy among tween and teenage girls that advance ticket sales are the biggest for any film since "The Dark Knight."
As of Wednesday afternoon, online ticketing services Fandango and MovieTickets.com said roughly 2,000 runs were sold out, including 600 midnight shows.
How high "Twilight," directed by Catherine Hardwicke, opens this weekend depends on whether the movie leapfrogs beyond its target demo. On the strength of girls and moms alone, "Twilight" could open in the $45 million-$60 million range. Some say it could go higher.
Fangirls have shown new box office might this year, fueling such hits as "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" and "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," while women delivered hit "Sex and the City."
"Twilight" has climbed to No. 7 on Fandango's top 10 list of most advance ticket sales, besting "Sex and the City." It's landed at No. 14 on MovieTicket.com's list, behind "Sex and the City."
The tale of how "Twilight" got to Summit is already a classic. Pic was put into turnaround by MTV Films before being shopped to other bidders. The first to bite was Summit.
Summit's biggest-grossing pic to date is "Never Back Down," which cumed $24.8 million. This summer, 3-D toon "Fly Me to the Moon" failed to catch on, grossing $12.2 million domestically. More recently, "Sex Drive" only mustered a gross of $8.3 million.
Summit and Overture got into the production, acquisition, marketing and distribution game roughly at the same time, and began releasing films in earnest this year. (Summit did release one film in 2007.)
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ROBERT PATTINSON SINKS HIS TEETH INTO TWILIGHT - PART TWO
The actor details his first, interesting, screen test, the scene it turned into and his opinion of the books
By EMERSON PARKER, Contributing Writer
Published 11/17/2008
Vampires are hot right now. Well, actually, vampires have been hot for a long, long time but now seems to be the time where they are buzz worthy and not just something found in books or an occasional film here or there.
Maybe it started with BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL. But since then rabid following of fans have attached themselves to MOONLIGHT – the failed vampire series on CBS – TRUE BLOOD, the brutal HBO romance series and big time have fans gone batty over the upcoming vampire film TWILIGHT based on the books of Stephenie Meyer.
But for star Robert Pattinson, vampires … eh no big deal.
“There’s such an obsessive following for vampires,” Pattinson says. “It’s really strange. I don’t know why.” And for Pattinson he’s never read any books about vampires other than Dracula, which he read after he got the part in TWILIGHT. It is something that has never interested him.
Luckily or unluckily for Pattinson, his very first screen test didn’t give him a lot of time to prepare or ease into the part of a vampire – he did it on the director’s, Catherine Hardwicke, bed.
“As as soon as I met Kristen, we were doing a scene where—it’s a big scene in the book—where I try and kiss her for the first time and then kind of lose control of myself, and I almost kill her,” Pattinson says. “And that was the first thing we had to do, on the director’s bed. It was pretty intense.
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That same scene was re-shot later in production where it turned out to be extremely easier as, well, it wasn’t on the director’s bed for one but it involved more pieces rather than just one long extended scene.
“There was something about that specific scene which could show so much about the story, and so we just kind of spent three days doing it instead of one day, and just got loads more coverage and stuff,” Pattinson says. “And I think it ended up being a lot better. I mean, it’s just so difficult to shoot, like, the actual transition between, when does a kiss suddenly start turning into, you know, murder? It was just like very subtle little things, which involved lots of little shots.”
No so subtle is Pattinson’s opinion about Meyer’s series of books, just ask him. “It was hard for me to get through the first time,” Pattinson says. “Especially when you’re trying to picture yourself in the role. I like the second book a lot more than the first one as I thought the second book was pretty moving.”
But it at least gave him an understanding of what his and the other characters were like and what he need to do in order to make a great film. “I really wanted to make the movie not seem like a kind of cash-in, you know, sort of flash-in-the-pan movie,” Pattinson says. “The core story is very strange. It’s like a really, really bizarre story, and it hasn’t really been done before to such a detailed extent. So, I was trying to play that.”
For Robert Pattison, getting the role of Edward in TWILIGHT is probably the best thing career-wise that could have happened to him. Well … maybe. It depends on how successful the film franchise will be. We know that the book series from author Stephanie Meyer is insanely popular with fans everywhere grabbing at whatever they possibly can in terms of news about the film (which comes to theaters Nov. 21).
But this could have a very HARRY POTTER effect in terms of getting a number of movies under Pattison’s belt – a relatively unknown before TWILIGHT – if the film does as well as the books. Books in which, much like his co-star Kristin Stewart, he had no idea about.
“I didn’t know how big [the Stephanie Meyer following] was when we were shooting,” Pattison says. “When we first started shooting, it kind of, it got bigger and bigger and bigger—like, when we first started, no one showed up at the set, and then, on the last day, there were about 100 people outside the set screaming. Everyone knew everything. But at the beginning, no one I talked to had heard of it, and now everyone’s heard of it.”
And those fans. Oh boy those fans were something Pattison wasn’t expecting. “It’s scary because teenage girls especially are notoriously flippant in their affections for celebrities, so it’s kind of scary,” Pattison says. “The fans of the book are very, very loyal to the book and to Stephanie Meyer. And I got a 100 percent negative reaction when I got cast, I mean, literally 100.”
That just meant that Pattison had to make the proper adjustments to his character, working on Edward, finding out what drives him and moves him and that he’s an enigma but one that’s more of a perfect creature in the wilderness, Pattison explains. So it was only fitting that his choice for the role didn’t fit with everyone’s expected image of Edward.
“Everyone has projected their own image onto him,” Pattison says. “The amount of different people who the fans wanted was so varied. People were saying like Leonardo DiCaprio and stuff. And the guy’s supposed to be 17. It’s completely crazy. But then I met Stephanie Meyer and she kind of gave me the okay. And literally overnight, all the fans – like virtually all of them – completely changed their minds. So now, if anyone says anything negative, people will attack them, and say ‘No, Stephanie says he’s right!’”
ROBERT PATTINSON WILL NOT FADE INTO THE 'TWILIGHT' - PART THREE
The young actor talks about his acting background and the comparisons between TWILIGHT and HARRY POTTER
By EMERSON PARKER, Contributing Writer
Published 11/19/2008
You might call actor Robert Pattinson an old soul. His favorite actor is James Dean. He’s obsessed with Jack Nicholson and Romain Duris from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED. “I generally prefer older movies, from the 1970s and stuff,” Pattinson says.
It might seem odd then that Pattinson is co-starring in the what might be called a teenage vampire flick TWILIGHT – debuting in theaters on Friday – as the main love interest of Bella (played by Kristen Stewart), Edward. Oh, and Edward just happens to be an old vampire in the body of a teenager. That vampire then falls in love with the lamb, Bella, and vows to protect her.
An interesting role for someone that never went to acting school or for that matter never even considered it, no it was something a little more right at the male heart that got him started as an actor. “I saw a bunch of pretty girls and decided to [follow] them,” Pattinson says. “And they went to this drama club and say to me ‘Rob, you’ve got to go down to this.’ That’s the only time he’s done anything like that as well. It was just the weirdest thing.”
He actually stuck around long enough at that drama club in London that he got the lead role in the play OUR TOWN. “That was literally the first acting thing I’d ever done, ever,” he says.
Of course, since that time Pattinson had a fairly large role in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE as Cedric Diggory, a one-time role unfortunately. But he’s moved on to bigger and better things with TWILIGHT and that’s interesting for him considering he never really tried to come to Hollywood in the first place.
“Well, I found an agent here since HARRY POTTER. But I never made the effort to really come out here. And then last year I did this movie where I was playing Salvador Dali, and it was a really low-budget movie and stuff, but I took it really seriously,” Pattinson says. “So I came out to America and, within about three days, booked this and booked something else.”
Any chance of coming to the states permanently? “London is like a part of me, so, I mean, I can’t really leave it,” Pattinson says. “I’ve been there for ages, and I still don’t feel at all like I live [in America] at all. But there’s nothing in London to do unless you’re really famous, so you have to be.”
Having both HARRY POTTER and TWILIGHT makes Pattinson feel a little odd because the magazines and Web sites tend to compare both films together and the rabid following of both fan bases. “It’s really strange, because HARRY POTTER was my break I guess,” Pattinson says. “I hope I don’t seem like some traitor or something, because [TWILIGHT is being compared as] the new HARRY POTTER. It’s really strange, because there’s nothing like HARRY POTTER at all [in TWILIGHT].”
No different? “[TWILIGHT is] a really intimate, small story, “Pattinson explains. “It’s set in the real world; it’s not set in a fantasy world. And it’s just really odd how [people say] it’s completely based on HARRY POTTER. [If so], I hope it makes like $900 million or whatever, like HARRY POTTER made.”
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