"the-twilight-saga" Articles & Blogs:
Summit signs Bill Condon to direct 4th film in the Twilight saga
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I can’t say I am surprised, but I have to say I am dismayed. Summit has signed Bill Condon — who I believe is a very talented director and I have seen all his movies — to direct the 4th film in the Twilight saga – Breaking Dawn. There is a p...[Read on] |
Book Alert: Bitten By Twilight Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise
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Twilight has infiltrated the academy!
Several professors have put together a book of essays looking at the Twilight phenomenon. I came upon the book because I have been following Professor Melissa Click’s feminist analysis of Twilight in my book re...[Read on] |
What drives Edward Cullen? Volvo invites you to enter to win movie tickets...And maybe a Car!
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To celebrate the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie, Volvo is giving away two tickets to the world premiere in Los Angeles on November 16, 2009. To enter the sweepstakes for a chance to win the tickets, visit WhatDrivesEdward.com before Monday,...[Read on] |
Twilight Eclipse arrives in five days
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It’s beginning.
I’m glad the din about this one has been a bit muted (at least in my world).
But that’s now over.
Several thousand people from across the country camped out for days in order to get a spot on the red carpet for last night’s pr...[Read on] |
Will New Moon be the biggest film of the year?
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I spend a lot (too much) time in the twittersphere and the blogopshere and from the people I follow and read (lots of movie, TV and pop culture people and feminists) you’d never think that New Moon is opening next week. Granted all the movie folks hav...[Read on] |
Women Directors Talk Permeable Wall
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Martha Coolidge
A bunch of high profile female directors (Martha Coolidge, Penelope Spheeris, Catherine Hardwicke, Kimberly Peirce) participated in a symposium at Chapman University in CA this past weekend called Women in Focus. They spoke about the di...[Read on] |
Women Directors for Hire
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We all know that things suck for a woman wanting to direct films in Hollywood, especially a studio film. So what’s a talented woman director to do while waiting for the gender apartheid to end to make a living? The answer is anything and everything ...[Read on] |
What a Girl Wants: Mixed Messages in Twilight
| When my daughters, now ages 22 and 25, were growing up, I knew better than to forbid them to do something. It’s the quickest way to make that forbidden activity all the more tempting. I find it interesting that Stephanie Meyer’s novel Twilight has an ...[Read on] |
So you think you want to be a Rodeo Cowgirl
| Another chapter in the "So you think you want to be a Rodeo Cowgirl" saga...
Last night we were at Gladewater, TX, right in the heart of the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. It was hot, and the clouds starting coming in from the north and...[Read on] |
5 best things to come out of Comic Con 2009 for the ladies
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The San Diego Comic Con is on of the largest comic book and pop culture events in the nation. Every year in July, super fans from across the world gather for four days to find out the biggest and best things coming to comics, movies, TV, video games and m...[Read on] |
Fist of a Flower
| The UK darling Gemma Ray has been impressing people with the sweet sounds of her Harmony Rocket (her guitar of choice) since her US debut Lights Out Zoltar! came out in Fall.
Now comes a new video for her song "Fist of a Flower" which is actually compose...[Read on] |
Catherine Hardwicke books her next film
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It’s been a while — November 2008– since the release of her last film, you know that little film Twilight, the one that made her the highest grossing female director EVER. It’s taken way too long for her to get back in the saddle. I personall...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts The Black Keys
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You would probably never guess it by looking at them, but blues rock band The Black Keys are subtly ushering in a new age of musical genius.The seemingly nondescript pair, never wearing much more than their own jeans and Converse in videos, effortlessly b...[Read on] |
Women writers talk New Moon
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As New Moon descends on the world today I asked a couple of colleagues who write and think about film from different cities to answer some questions about the global phenomenon.
The questions I posed are followed by the answers by the different women. ...[Read on] |
Women’s films kicking butt at the box office
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So Precious rolled out further this past weekend and continued to astound at the box office. The movie made it to number three for the week grossing over 5.8 million in just 174 theatres.
A little perspective: The Men Who Stared At Goats starring Georg...[Read on] |
Battle of the Sexes: Fall Movie Battles to Come
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Fall is the time of year when you can catch the soon-to-be award-winning films on the big screen. Despite the strong list of Oscar worthy gems this fall you also have those fun genre movies we all like to enjoy in between. There will still be battles betw...[Read on] |
A Tale of two young actresses
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The NY Times ran two very different stories about two very different young actresses – Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart – who both appear in huge franchises, Fox in Transformers and Stewart in Twilight. Both women had cover pieces, Stewart in the Arts ...[Read on] |
Fired for Being Too Skinny
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The Megan Fox saga continues. The Wrap is reporting that the reason why Megan Fox was let go from Transformers 3 was because she showed up looking “pale,” “underweight” and “unhealthy” and the director, Michael Bay didn’t like how she look...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin lands gig with Fox News, gets new action figure
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Looks like the Sarah Palin schoolgirl action figure has been trumped, big time. After all, who needs some silly doll when you can have your very own Sarah Palin embryo ornament?
This is one of many of this Etsy vendor's "baby's first" fetus ornaments ...[Read on] |
Women’s Weekend Box Office Report – July 4th Holiday
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To no one’s surprise, Twilight Eclipse opened big, almost as big as New Moon. Here are the numbers:
The first six days of Eclipse brought in $175 million domestic and another $100 million overseas. New Moon’s domestic gross was $178 in six days...[Read on] |
Great offer for Women & Hollywood readers to attend Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deveare Smith
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I had the chance to check out Anna Deveare Smith’s play on health care issues courtesy of the folks at Second Stage Theatre. If you have never seen Anna on stage doing her interpretations you are really missing out. Her Ann Richards’ piece was ama...[Read on] |
Five writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing
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Looking for a way to kill time on your lunch break? Need something occupy your time on a long car, train or plane ride? Want to do something that will stimulate your mind and be fun at the same time? Tap into your creative side and try your hand at writin...[Read on] |
Jolie gets Scarpetta franchise
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Angelina Jolie is teaming up with Patricia Cornwell to play Kay Scarpetta in what will hopefully become a long term franchise says Variety. Women are not known to lead franchises, Jolie had a previous one with Tomb Raider. Other I can think of include...[Read on] |
Seven hot vampires to sink your teeth into
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Thanks to a little movie called Twilight, vampires have become a bigger pop culture phenomenon than ever before. But Edward Cullen isn’t the only good looking vampire on the scene. There were many others before him who were equally attractive and powerf...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: July 23-25
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Salt starring Angelina Jolie didn’t make it to number 1 thanks to the growing cultural obsession with Inception (which I liked a lot), but it was number 2 for the weekend bringing in a total of $36.5 million (the budget is estimated to be between $110...[Read on] |
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