EW is reporting that even though there has been no official announcement that Breaking Dawn is going to be made Summit Entertainment is on the lookout for a director.

Yes, it’s still early days, but Summit is trying to up its pedigree for its big-screen adaptation of the final installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Sources tell EW that the studio has reached out to at least three top-notch directors, including Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), Gus Van Sant (Milk), and Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) to gauge their interest in what is likely to be two movies. (Van Sant’s reps confirmed that he’s been approached, but Coppola and Condon’s people didn’t return phone calls by press time. Summit declined to comment.)

No decisions are likely to be made until the studio delivers screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg’s detailed outline to the directors. That should happen sometime next week. Until then we can just wonder how these three very diverse directors will approach Bella’s controversial birthing scene.

The Twilight Lexicon is running a poll about who you’d like to see direct Breaking Dawn. Make sure you stop by and vote.

Moviefone chatted with York Baur and Jason Brown, the filmmakers of Twilight in Forks: The Saga of a Real Town. The documentary will be available for purchase on March 20th.

Have the townspeople seen the film?
Baur: They haven’t seen the whole thing, but we did a sneak peek at Stephenie Meyer Day last year. They were definitely excited. It was disappointing to the town that ‘Twilight’ ended up not being filmed there, and people do understand why the decision was made to film in Oregon. So part of the reason the reaction to our movie was so favorable was they finally got their film after all. In an 83-minute film, there isn’t one word of narration– it’s all the people saying everything. So they were understandably proud.

Read the entire article here.

USA Today talked to the illustrator of Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1, which is available today.

“When it comes to really seeing Stephenie Meyer’s personal vision of the Twilight property, this is as close an opportunity there is to accomplishing that,” says Yen’s Kurt Hassler. “Stephenie was very specific and has very clear images of what the characters look like in her head.”

Read the entire article here.

Will you be purchasing a copy?

Q: I wouldn’t be a good reporter unless I asked about your huge role in Eclipse.

Catalina: It’s not huge though, It’s very very little, very very very small, but it’s a huge movie, and it’s fun and it was great, and the people that I met they were lovely. I didn’t meet everybody, but the people that I met they were just fantastic, so I’m very exicted to be apart of that. It’s huge.

Q: In the books, Maria is very prominent. She’s the evil vampire.

Catalina: I know. I love that she was evil, I love that she had to do something evil. You know If I was going to be a vampire, I would rather be an evil vampire that does crazy stuff than a nice vampire. So yeah, she was so much fun though, she was great.

Q: Were you a fan of the books before you were cast?

Catalina: No, I saw the movies. I was a fan of the films. Chris Weitz is amazing and I loved the first and second “Twilight,” so hopefully this one will be amazing too. It’s going to be great. So I’m really excited they are releasing it very soon.  I know it’s crazy they move so fast.

According to MTV, rumor has it that a producer from The Twilight Saga will accept the award, and a special video message from one of the franchise’s top stars will be played for those in attendance. Twilight won the Fan Choice Award last year.

Heidi Kling, the author of Sea, declared this week Author Appreciation Week and invited all of her blog readers to join in the fun.  The rules are simple- each day this week write a blog post about an author you appreciate and explain why. We actually planned to participate in Author Appreciation Week at Eve’s Fan Garden but for a couple of reasons decided to put our first post up here on TwilightMOMS. The first reason is because of who we chose and the second is because Eve’s is still down. (It should be back up later tonight)

Our first author during author appreciation week was an easy choice- Stephenie Meyer. 

There are many reasons that we love and appreciate Stephenie. I’m going to try and keep this somewhat simple-

• She created the Twilight Universe and all the beloved characters associated with it.
• She gave us The Host and taught us some very important lessons in the process. (Plus she gave us Ian O’Shea….need I say more?)
• She opened my eyes to a whole new book genre. I wasn’t much of a YA Lit reader before I picked up Twilight, now it seems that’s all I read.
• She gave us all of you (awwwww! Sappy but true!!)

Stephenie will probably never know how much she changed so many of our lives. Thank you Stephenie!!

Make sure you stop by Eve’s Fan Garden each day this week to see what other authors we love and appreciate!

To celebrate the release the New Moon DVD Kara (illumin8) and Laura (Pel) from the Twilight Lexicon are going to be at the Borders store in Columbus Circle in New York City on Friday, March 19th. The podcast will start at 10:00pm. We’ll be discussing our experiences on the red carpet, the set visits, current Twilight news and we’ll be doing some trivia with giveaways. Come on down and enjoy the fun!

As a member of the Twilight saga cast, and its pack of high-profile post-pubescent talent, Bright’s been able to bear witness to what’s become a pop-culture phenomenon.

“I have to say, it was kind of funny to be working on New Moon and heading out to set, listening to the The Beat, and hearing (local Vancouver DJ) Nira Aurora talk about trying to get on (the set). It was hilarious,” he says.

“In the end, it was just another set. . . . It’s like a clock. It moves forward, and if someone shows up and having a bad day, everyone else is probably going to have a bad day, too.”

Bright says New Moon, which hits DVD and Blu-ray this week, was a project like any other. As a 10-year veteran, Bright says just because the job came with an entire belief system and a galaxy of ravenous girl fans, it didn’t change the actual task at hand: acting.

“Look, I’m not a vampire, but I can be one. Every time I do a role, it’s me making myself an interesting person and pretending to be someone else. It doesn’t really matter what the actual part is. . . . It’s all the same process. You’re making fun of yourself in a way,” he says.

You can read the full article here.

IS THAT AN ENGAGEMENT RING?

YES! “This is an engagement ring on Bella’s finger!” Tish confirmed. “This is something that was made for her by the props department.” In other words: she doesn’t have a whole lotta info to share on it. So, until we are able to investigate further, we should point out that the ring (at least what we can see of it from our extreme zoom-in) looks like he could be quite similar to the domed oval one authorized by author Stephenie Meyer after the “Eclipse” book came out, which is for sale by Infinite Jewelry Co. Check out a 2009 article from the Salt Lake Tribune for more information on the story behind that ring.

Read what she has to say about Edward, Bella and Jacob’s Eclipse look here.

24 Frames: A lot of people look at this film and say “Rob Pattinson, Summit, of course it got made.” But you toiled for a long time to get it off the ground.

Nick Osborne: It’s not an easy movie to get going — it’s a dark love story set in New York, and we kept trying to get it set up at studios and no one was interested. Eventually it got to Allen [Coulter, the director], and he had interest, but we still had trouble finding an actor. There are simply very few actors in that age range who could pull a role like this off. And I was on IMDB Pro one day and put in “male stars 18-27,” and he literally came up as No. 2. And we called Summit and they said, “Actually, we really like the kid, we’re doing a movie with him.”

So this was before the ‘Twilight’ phenomenon took hold?

NO: It was right around the time of Comic-Con, when they started to realize how big a movie they had on their hands.  But we needed to get Rob interested too. He had read a lot of scripts. He was at the Oakwood Apartments and he would drive to the In-N-Out Burger every day and read scripts in the back of his car. And he eventually read ours and said he wanted to do it. Then we had to put together a budget that made sense [about $16 million] before we could get going.

You can read the full Q&A here.

Can’t make it to Vampire Baseball New Orleans 2010  this March 20? We’ve got you covered! Right now you can sign up for early registration for the Pay-Per-View event for Vampire Baseball in New Orleans this coming Saturday, March 20th. Not only will there be Twilight celebrities there, but members of the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Champions will be in attendance at the game as well. Some of the Twilight celebrities include Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Daniel Cudmore and Tyson Houseman. Saints players include Garrett Hartley and Kyle Eckel. By registering for the Pay-Per-View you’ll be able to be a part of the action right from your own home, so you don’t even have to feel left out of the action. Watch both celebrity-filled teams fight it out using the Pay-Per-View life-feed on your computer!
 
But why register early?  Great prizes of course!
By registering early you’re entering to win some fantastic prizes including
·         A Grand Prize of an official game baseball with the signatures of ALL of  the players in New Orleans with a  display cube
·         2nd Prize is an official game baseball with the signatures of all of the Twilight participating players
·         3rd Prize is an official game baseball with the signatures of all of the New Orleans Saints participating players
·         Plus more prizes! You could also have the chance to win one of 20 autographed photos
All for a Great Cause
 
Just like the Vampire Baseball game itself, the money raised from the Pay-Per-View registrations will benefit the Haiti Relief Efforts along with local New Orleans charities. All you need to do is register by Friday, March 19.  So what are you waiting for? You’ll get to watch an awesome event with your favorite celebrities, win amazing prizes, and also support a truly good cause. Our goal is to register 100,000 viewers before game day.  Come watch Vampire Baseball with us and register now! (Simply click on the graphic above to purchase your pay-per-view ticket)

Today is Kellan Lutz’s birthday. We want to wish a very happy birthday!

Robert Pattinson: “When I first read the script, it seemed so much a part of it. As soon as I read it, I felt immediately connected to it. If it was edited down in any way, I don’t think it would be the same thing. I always feel there’s some kind of power to the script. I wanted to keep that in the movie.”

Love Triangle

The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards were held last night in New York City, and Little Ashes won for Outstanding Film-Limited Release!! Congrats to Rob and the rest of the film’s cast and crew!

Dakota Fanning’s films have earned a whopping $2 billion at the box office.

The 16-year-old actress got her start in 2001’s I Am Sam, which starred Sean Penn as a mentally retarded father trying to gain custody of his 7-year-old daughter (Fanning). Since then the actress has been working almost nonstop. She’s starred in 12 films alongside such heavyweights as Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro and Mike Myers.

Fanning co-stars in The Runaways with our third-ranked teen: Kristin Stewart. The two also appeared together in the latest Twilight film. Stewart’s films have earned a total $1.5 billion at the box office. Although Stewart, 19, is now best known for the role of Bella in Twilight, she’s actually been acting since 2002 when she co-starred with Jodie Foster in the thriller Panic Room. The film earned $200 million at the box office. Her Twilight films have so far earned $1 billion.

Stewart’s co-star Robert Pattinson doesn’t make our list because he is over 21, but New Moon’s Taylor Lautner does. The 18-year-old ranks fourth with $900 million in box-office earnings. Much of that comes from New Moon, but Lautner also co-starred in the recent romantic hit Valentine’s Day, which has earned $125 million at the box office so far. Lautner is now the hottest thing in Hollywood. He’s been offered a reported $7.5 million to star in Universal’s Stretch Armstrong.