49-year-old supermarket worker Cathy Ward spent £2,000 (about $3,100) and 22-hours in a tattoo artists chair for this extensive Twilight back tattoo. The Daily Mail quotes Ward: “‘I wanted a permanent reminder of the amazing series so I got a small tattoo and that turned into what I have got now.” via: tdw
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Not even a day after word came out on the talented-but-unknown Andrew Garfield making minuscule earnings for the Spider-Man reboot, there's a report of less-talented-but-better-known stars scoring a huge payday. This might not be so frustrating to read if the stars in question didn't happen to be, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, the…
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Last year, The Oatmeal published a comic titled "How Twilight Works" . Epipheo Studios decided to write/produce a three minute video adaptation of the comic strip. The video can be watched right now, after the jump.
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley get caught up on Breaking Bad, celebrate Chris Evans' selection as Captain America, and respond predictably to news that Platinum Dunes is remaking The Monster Squad. Special guest Dave3 joins us from Geeks of Doom. Congratulations to the winners of our…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. BREAKING BAD (SEASON 2) Season 2 of Breaking Bad opens with a disturbing but seemingly innocuous shot of a charred stuffed bear…
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The Fine Brothers love to spoil everything, In past years, we've featured their popular videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes and Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History. After seeing all of the big movies of 2009, the brothers are back once again. Their latest video spoils 50 movies released last year (including…
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The /Filmcast crew is off this week, but in its place we have a special bonus episode! Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat with Tyler and David from the Battleship Pretension podcast about what you lose/gain in a home theater experience, the potential of Glee, guilty pleasures, and quality film transfers. Plus, your…
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley celebrate Fight Club's 10th anniversary by diving into the film's newly released Blu-Ray, praise Park Chan-Wook's Thirst, express ambivalence about the upcoming Uncharted film, and dissect the Twilight phenomenon as best they can. Special guest Jen Yamato joins us these evening. You can always e-mail us…
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Every fifth or sixth word in my notes on The Twilight Saga: New Moon is 'mope'. If there's a more listless, disengaged piece of film this year I hope I don't have to suffer it. (Actually, there is, and I did right after writing this. The guys' flipside to New Moon: Ninja Assassin.) This second…
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Chris Weitz's sure-to-be-a-blockbuster New Moon is about to hit theaters, but according to a recent conversation he had with MovieMaker (via In Contention), he might soon be ready to hang up his spurs. Meanwhile, we also learned that actor Jason Lee is finally stepping behind the camera to direct his first feature-length film. Hit the…
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Last night's MTV Video Music Awards saw the debut of a brand new trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon to the delight of Twilight fans everywhere. Hit the jump to check out the trailer, and as always, leave your thoughts in the comments below. This new trailer gives us a little bit more storyline…
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Today, we witnessed the true measure of devotion: Twilight fans lining up over a day in advance to see Summit's New Moon panel tomorrow afternoon. Despite the fact that this event is taking place at COMIC-CON (the world's largest gathering of geeks/nerds), Star Wars fans have nothing on these guys. This afternoon, we had the…
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In conjunction with the MTV Movie Awards, which are pushing the series like mad, the full trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon has debuted online at MySpace. This is the first good look we've had at the work being done by director Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass, About A Boy) who took over after…
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A St. Louis beauty salon owner found the screenplay for the Twilight sequel New Moon in the trash (I know what you're thinking... but the joke is just wayyyy TOO EASY). Casey Ray discovered two screenplays, one for New Moon and the other for a movie titled Memoirs. She considered selling the screenplays to the…
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Michael Sheen played Lucian, leader of the Lycans in not one, not two but three Underworld films - two of which I can personally identify as being particularly tedious, the third of which I'm passively avoiding. Now he's set to switch sides and head up the Vampires as Aro, boss of the fangsters in New…
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MTV has a first look at the title and logo for the upcoming adaptation of the Twilight sequel New Moon. Officially titled The Twilight Saga's New Moon, the logo is basically the same exact lowercase personable font that was used for the first film, but this time appears in a new oragneish color. Head on…
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Editors Update: Warner Bros has contacted us and assures us that the reshoots claim is completely "untrue". The original story can still be read below. Two new rumors allow contrasting voyeuristic peeks into the divergent careers of Guy Ritchie and Madonna or, for those of us who don’t subscribe to Heat or People Magazine, constitute…
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Summit Entertainment has to be blazing full speed ahead to get New Moon out by the end of the year, as is their current goal. To that end, we've now heard from E! Online that 14-year old Dakota Fanning has been offered the role of Jane in the Twilight sequel. According to a source familiar…
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If you didn't already have enough disdain for Twilight, it now looks like a High School Musical star might be joining the cast. Twilight actress Ashley Greene revealed to MTV that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens (you know, the one who is always having naked pictures of herself "leak" onto the internet) has auditioned…
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Summit Entertainment has announced that Taylor Lautner will reprise his role as Jacob Black in Chris Weitz's Twilight sequel adaptation New Moon. Apparently in the sequel, Jacob transformers into an almost totally different character - a foot taller, five years older, and a lot bigger. We have to believe that he can transform into a…
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In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra and Adam discuss their apprehensiveness about a Crow remake, ponder the cheesiness of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer, and debate the choice of Chris Weitz to take over New Moon. Special guests Neha Tiwari and Laremy Legel (from the Film.com podcast) join us. Devin Faraci from CHUD…
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Dark Horizons is reporting that a July 29th 2011 release date for Transformers 3 has been spotted on German release schedules. While I somehow doubt that a third Transformers film has been greenlit at this point (you never know, they did just greenlight Terminator 5 while in post production), the date is probably a tentative…
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Last week we told you that Chris Weitz was in talks to helm the Twilight sequel New Moon, and that the female director who launched the film series, Catherine Hardwicke had basically been let go by Summit Entertainment. Well Weitz has since officially signed on to the project, and now Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has…
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The corpse of Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight-directing career isn't even cold yet, but Summit Entertainment is apparently wasting no time in finding a new director. The other day, we discussed how Hardwicke had been removed from the franchise. Now, Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily has a source that informs her the offer for the sequel…
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Nikki Finke over at DeadlineHollywoodDaily is reporting that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has been removed from the Twilight franchise. Finke's contacts report that Hardwicke was "difficult" and "irrational" during the making of the film. One contact also explains that "Summit didn't like her. They're saying the [director of photography] Elliot Davis is the one responsible…
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Making a Twilight sequel isn't going to be cheap. Stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who were each paid $2 million for the first film, will be getting enormous pay raises. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Pattinson and Stewart will be paid $12 million each for the sequel, New Moon. It's worth noting that the…
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After the exceptional opening day performance of Twilight, Summit Entertainment has officially greenlit that the sequel, New Moon. The film will be moving forward into production, but no production start or release dates have yet been announced. Read the full press release after the jump. Summit Entertainment Announces TWILIGHT Sequel - NEW MOON LOS ANGELES,…
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