Archive for the ‘Breaking Dawn’ Category

• Breaking Dawn’s Birth Scene Onscreen: “As Intense As It Is in the Book”

  September 2nd, 2010 by Amy

  As gruesome as it may be, Bella’s big birthing scene in Breaking Dawn can’t come soon enough.

  But until then, here’s an update on what to expect…

  Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg tells me she’s been in Baton Rouge with director Bill Condon doing rewrites for the scripts for the two BD movies.

  “We’re working on it,” Rosenberg says of baby Renesmee’s less-than-pretty arrival. “And we’re working on it to be as intense as it is in the book.”

  Yikes. That could be a whole lotta gore.

  “I don’t think it’s about the amount of blood you show,” Rosenberg says. “It’s about the intensity of it. It’s on their faces. It’s all from Bella’s point of view when you’re seeing what’s going. It should feel visceral. I think it’s going to be pretty intense.”

  What’s Rosenberg’s ETA on the final scripts? “It better damn well be before the beginning of November,” she says, “because that’s when we start shooting.”

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• Rami Malek Signs On For Breaking Dawn: Part 2

  August 31st, 2010 by Rachel

  He’s making his way into the spotlight, and it sounds like Rami Malek will soon be a regular name around Tinseltown.

  In an interview with ET correspondent, Kate Gosselin, the “Night at the Museum” actor revealed that he will be joining Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2.”

  He told, “It’s going to be super exciting and I’m thrilled.”

  Kate caught up with Rami at ET’s exclusive Emmy party this past Sunday, as the miniseries “The Pacific” – in which he stars in – won the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries.

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• A Rep For James Franco Says The Actor Will NOT Be Joining The Breaking Dawn Cast

  August 17th, 2010 by Rachel

  An interview of James Franco, featured on Esquire.com, was previously released. In the interview James stated that he was reading Twilight for a project.

  Much speculation came out of that interview. We all assumed the obvious — James was joining the Breaking Dawn cast.

  Well Gossip Cop got the deets and has officially busted our bubble -

  A rep for Franco tells Gossip Cop the speculation about him joining Breaking Dawn is “not true.”

  Rumors often seem to come from thin air, their origins a mystery. Given the Esquire piece, this one is at least somewhat more reasonable — but it’s still inaccurate.

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• Why ‘Breaking Dawn, Part 2′ Is Set For Fall 2012, Not Summer

  August 6th, 2010 by Amy

  Last month, as “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” got off to a stellar (if not record-breaking) start at the box office, MTV News squashed the widely held assumption that the second part of “Breaking Dawn” would definitely arrive in the summer of 2012. As Summit Entertainment exec Richie Fay told us, the studio was exploring multiple dates in mid- to late 2012, not just possible openings that would fall when school’s out of session.

  Now, Summit has officially announced that “Breaking Dawn, Part 2″ will open November 2012, and with that, another assumption seems to be taking hold among fans and on the Web: After “Eclipse” failed to wildly out-gross “New Moon” at the box office, Summit got spooked about a summer release date and fled to more familiar autumn territory. But based on our conversations with Summit and box-office analysts, that’s simply not the case.

  First off, it’s important to note that despite all this talk about a weaker-than-expected performance for “Eclipse,” its $289 million haul will eventually surpass the $297 million that “New Moon” pulled in last fall, according to Box Office Mojo.

  When you consider that sequels like “Shrek Forever After” and “Sex and the City 2″ underperformed in the crowded summer-movie season, Summit has to be extremely pleased with the box-office business of “Eclipse.” So if it’s not a fear of summer that persuaded Summit to deliver both “Breaking Dawn” films in the fall, then what was it? A careful examination of the 2012 summer calendar.

  “The lesson is that it’s all about positioning a film at a time when it will face as little direct competition as possible,” explained Phil Contrino, editor of BoxOffice.com. “Summit was wise to stay away from summer 2012, because it’s shaping up to be a record-breaking season.”

  “The Avengers,” “Madagascar 3″ and “Men in Black 3″ are all set to drop that May, followed by “Star Trek 2″ in June, and then new installments of “Spider-Man” (which already occupies the Fourth of July slot held this year by “Eclipse”), “Ice Age” and “Batman.”
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• ‘Breaking Dawn’ to Film in Louisiana and Vancouver

  August 4th, 2010 by Amy

  The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn has found its home, and for the first time, Twi-Hards can travel down south to catch a glimpse of their favorite vampires. Summit Entertainment announced today what had long been expected: that the final two Twilight films, to be directed by Bill Condon, will shoot in both Baton Rouge, La., and Vancouver. Louisiana’s appealing tax credits have drawn a number of productions to its locales, one bright spot on the state’s struggling economy. As such, Summit will take advantage of such deals, heading first to Louisiana, where the film’s interior locations will be shot. Then once weather has improved in Vancouver, the Breaking Dawn production will move to Canada, sometime in the New Year.

  The first installment of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will be released on Nov. 18, 2011.

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  Hollywood Insider

• ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2′ release date has been confirmed

  August 4th, 2010 by Amy

  Breaking Dawn-Part 2 will be released into theaters a full year after the first part, on November 16, 2012.

  The June announcement that the final Twilight movie would be split into two films gave Twihards a chance to extend their favorite phenomenon even longer. Now, fans will have over year of anticipation until the first part comes out and then, one more year after that to await the conclusion.

  The long waits between anticipated movies, often increase the hype for them. This is especially true with the Twilight films because they have such a solid and huge following. With the third installment of Eclipse being so successful, Breaking Dawn stands to break records.

  Both parts will be shot simultaneously to ensure continutity and to make them look as one. Shooting will start this fall and takes place in Vancouver, Canada and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The films ae being directed by Bill Condon with the main cast – Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner – returing to reprise thir roles. Secondary cast members including Billy Burke, Anna Kendrick, Ashley Green, Kellan Lutz, Peter Fascinelli, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser and Jackson Rathbone will also return.

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• ‘Breaking Dawn’ Writer Says She’s Trying To ‘Find Room’ For All Characters

  July 29th, 2010 by Amy

  As all die-hard “Twilight” fans know, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg is still hard at work on finalizing the scripts for the two-part “Breaking Dawn” finale, the first of which is scheduled to begin shooting in November. MTV News was lucky enough to catch up with the “Dexter” and “Twilight” screenwriter at San Diego Comic-Con, where she held court on a “Girls Gone Genre” panel. And while she still won’t reveal where the two films will break, she did give us a few details about the birthing scene and the “Book of Jacob,” as well as some dish on how she plans to handle all of the new characters Stephenie Meyer introduces in “Dawn.”

  “It’s extremely challenging to introduce those new characters because you already have quite a slew of characters to service,” Rosenberg admitted of Meyer’s final book. “The Cullen family is large, the wolf family is large, you have three leads … finding room for all of them is a challenge. For me, it is about pulling forward the ones that are essential and really making sure they have a presence.”

  Naturally, Rosenberg didn’t say specifically which characters would or would not appear in the films, but simply that she hopes “all of them will be there in one shape or another.”

  

  Fans interested in checking in more frequently with Rosenberg’s “Dawn” progress can check out her Facebook page, which Rosenberg told us she checks regularly to see what Twi-hards are saying and involve them in plotline discussions.

  “I ask people to really weigh in with what are their favorite scenes in the books, what’s important to them,” Rosenberg said. “And there generally seems to be a consensus about one scene or another. It’s really helpful for me and I’ll interact with them sometimes.”

  She added that the fan interaction has helped her to squash any out-of-control Internet-generated rumors about her “Dawn” scripts. “At one point, [the fans] were upset because they had gotten the impression that I was choosing not to put the birthing scene in the script, and I was able to go online and say, ‘I don’t know where that idea came from, but of course the birthing scene is going to be in.’ ” Another Net-generated rumor, according to Rosenberg, is that she won’t include the Book of Jacob in the final film. “I don’t know where that idea came from, but that is not true,” she confirmed. “We are going to see Jacob’s perspective equally, so don’t worry.”
  
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• ‘Breaking Dawn’ Scribe Wants Birth Scene To Be ‘Visceral’

  July 28th, 2010 by Amy

  SAN DIEGO — For the first time since 2007, there was no official “Twilight” presence at the Comic-Con panels this year. But screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg was in attendance, and she was more than willing to take a break from the convention to chat with MTV News about her upcoming work on “Breaking Dawn.” The two films are set to start shooting back-to-back in November, and Rosenberg said she is still working on finalizing the script.

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  Fans have been most concerned with how Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) pivotal, not to mention traumatic, birthing scene will be portrayed in the movie, and Rosenberg said she and director Bill Condon are continually revising the script to make it work. Despite an earlier comment, she said the scene will be included, but the specifics of how it will be represented have not been solidified yet.

  “I’ve written and continue to rewrite it, working on it with Bill Condon … He has a vision as well, but it’s kind of a shared vision I would say, but ultimately it comes down to, what does he actually want to see?” she said. “I know what I want to see, which is, I want to see the terror of the experience. I want to have the experience of the fear and feel her pain. I want to feel everyone’s pain in this.”

  Still, Rosenberg said that there are some of the gruesome elements of the scene — like Edward (Robert Pattinson) having to give Bella what has been dubbed a “vampire caesarian” — that she doesn’t think need to be included in the scene. “I want it to be visceral, so that is what’s most important. Do I want to see teeth in placenta? No,” she said. “Someone else may. I don’t actually want to see that, but to each his own.”

  Another of the other big scenes in “Breaking Dawn” that has been the subject of some controversy is the imprinting scene. It features Jacob (Taylor Lautner) having what Rosenberg describes as a “spiritual experience” with Bella’s newborn child that ultimately leads to the revelation that the infant is his soul mate.

  “One must be very careful with that,” Rosenberg said about the scene, “but hopefully you’ve taken this ride with Jacob for all four movies; you know Jacob, and so I think you’ll experience it the way he does, which is spiritually, as a spiritual experience, as an emotional experience and not something that makes one uncomfortable.”

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• ‘Breaking Dawn’ won’t have an R rating

  July 20th, 2010 by Rachel

  If you’re familiar with the “Twilight” book series, you know that the “Breaking Dawn” films are gearing up for some gratuitous action. Bella and Edward will be engaging in their first sex scene, followed by a particularly disturbing birth. Finally, all this chaste kissing is building up to something.

  This leaves screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg in a bit of a pickle. How will she capture the intimacy and gore of these scenes in a way that doesn’t ratchet the film rating to R? In the interview below, Rosenberg seems dedicated to sparing no gritty details, while producer Wyck Godfrey told Fearnet that the film would still be PG-13.

  “I’m unwavering in my belief that these will be PG-13 movies,” he says in the interview. “And really, I say that not because I know what we’re shooting but because I feel that they should be. I feel like the audience of the books and the movies, many of them are under 18; my ten-year-old son goes to these movies, I can’t make an R-rated conclusion to the franchise.”

  That’s all well and good, but we don’t think the Motion Picture Association of America will give much consideration to Godrey’s feelings. Rosenberg will have to be pretty clever if she wants the Twi-hards under 17 to enjoy “Breaking Dawn” without a chaperone. Which is basically all of them.

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• Breaking Dawn Producer Talks Plans for Birth Scene

  July 19th, 2010 by Rachel

  Twilight Saga producer Wyck Godfrey has revealed how the filmmakers are considering handling Breaking Dawn‘s graphic birth scene, and why 3-D is still an option for the final installment of the franchise.

  My wife’s an OB-GYN so we should bring her on set to make sure that if Edward is going to do an oral Cesarean, he really needs to make the proper incision with his teeth.” Then, he shared the anti-gore rational that, I have to admit, makes perfect sense:“I think the one thing that we’ve done that we’ve really done in all the films is keep them very subjective and keep them from Bella’s point of view. So the conversations we’ve had with Bill, is that we’ll try to do something similar here; you’re with Bella’s perspective and her point of view of what’s taking place in the rush around her, as she’s in intense pain. Not so focused, objectively, on her body and his body and that. So I think it’ll be something like that, in terms of trying to make the audience experience and feel the confusion, almost, of what’s happening to her.”

  When rumors first broke in February that producers were considering going 3-D for Breaking Dawn, 67 percent of readers responding to a PopWatch poll didn’t like the idea. But Godfrey makes a reasonable case for that as well:

  “We have considered it, and everything’s being discussed, but I know that part of a way to differentiate the two movies would be to have one be in 2-D, and when she becomes a vampire we move into 3-D. But we haven’t really gotten far enough to decide what we’re going to do. I’m of two minds of it, frankly, and I think everyone is; I don’t want to chase the format if it’s not organic and appropriate. If we think it is, we will.”

  Thanks PopWatch