It doesn’t come as a surprise, but the New York Times is now reporting that a Breaking Dawn panel will be part of Comic-Con:

Among smaller studios, Lionsgate, which won strong results last year for “The Expendables,” will be back; and Summit Entertainment will stage a panel for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1.”

While there’s been no official word from the studio or Comic-Con, c’mon.. this is the New York Times.

Among smaller studios, Lionsgate, which won strong results last year for “The Expendables,” will be back; and Summit Entertainment will stage a panel for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1.”

While there’s been no official word from the studio or Comic-Con, c’mon.. this is the New York Times.

Summit confirmed their attendance via http://twitter.com/SummitEnt/status/80283791066804224

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What can you say about what you’ll be doing in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?

SHEEN: Personally, I was only on New Moon for two weeks, so it’s not like I got used to it. But, for the other actors, there’s probably a wariness about, “Is this person going to come along and not really get what it is we’re doing, or are they going to try to change it too much?” For a director coming on board, I would imagine there’s the pressure of wanting to make your mark and be different to what other people have done, but at the same time, not wanting to go against the flow of the whole series. I would imagine it’s quite a difficult balance to strike, but everyone seemed very happy on it and seemed to enjoy working with Bill.

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She’s not yet 30, but the pop icon has lived a life and a half in public. Now, with a new hit album and world tour, the beat goes on.

Britney Spears is on the phone from rehearsals in Los Angeles, where she is busy singing, dancing, and “It’s Britney, bitch”-ing in preparation for her summer tour. She sounds energized and positive, occasionally flashing a wry sense of humor that those who see her only on TV and in the tabloids never glimpse.

BS: She’s unique and extremely talented. I love her spin on everything.

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The first time I met Robert Pattinson, a few months shy of the release of Twilight in 2008, he strolled into the lobby of the Beverly Hills hotel completely unnoticed. No one had the slightest notion that his character, the charismatic vampire Edward Cullen, would soon prevent him from sustaining any kind of normality come the release of the film. He said back then, “I still haven’t decided if acting is going to be my career. I don’t know if it’s going to work out. Who knows if people will go and see this movie?”‘

“It was insane, intense,” he says of the scene, explaining that Edward can either lose Bella or give her a bite and thus immortality. “It was a pretty traumatic scene for me to do as an actor and, frankly, horrible for me emotionally. Edward has tried for so long not to turn Bella into a vampire and now … well, it’s very sad. He feels like he has let her down.”

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British actor Sam Claflin is quickly becoming one-to-watch in Hollywood. After completing his acting training at LAMDA, and doing a few roles on television and one smaller film, Claflin managed to land a coveted part in one of the most well-known franchises today, Pirates of the Caribbean. We had the chance to speak with the actor about his character Philip (the missionary lost in a sea of ruthless pirates) in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the Los Angeles press day for the film. Stay tuned for our coverage from the event.

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The cast of “The Twilight Saga” is many things — young, exceedingly attractive, impressively talented — but are they stuntmen and women?

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ doesn’t hit theaters until Nov. 18, but you can see Ashley in “Skateland” this weekend.

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It’s no secret Catherine Hardwicke’s interested in teenage life. Just take a look at most of the movies she’s made – Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown. And it’s not hard for her to explain why. “This is a time when a lot of crazy things happen,” she says. “Drinking, leaving home, having sex, crashing cars, and figuring out who you are as a person.” Her films, however, focus on some pretty specialized teen activities: whippits and amateur navel piercings in Thirteen; sexual tension with werewolves and vampires in Twilight; skateboarding empires in Lords of Dogtown. No trips to the mall or soccer practice here. Instead, hormone-driven sexuality and aggression play out in moody, detailed environments.

Hardwicke has a degree in architecture from the University of Texas. “I designed and built a bunch of houses in Texas before deciding that real architecture might be a bit of a creativity stifler. I applied to grad school in Film at UCLA and people said ‘You’re an architect, why don’t you design my movie?’” Her design influences range widely. “Before shooting Thirteen I watched Mean Streets and A Woman Under the Influence. So Scorsese and Cassavettes and also Baz Luhrmann are a big influence. For design, my favorite architect is Antonio Gaudi. I also love European hill towns and lots of third world architecture. Treehouses and surfboards are cool, too.”
While serving as the production designer on films like Vanilla Sky and Tombstone, she waited for the opportunity to direct. “It’s hard to get a movie made. I finally co-wrote a script that I could make for almost no money. I couldn’t be stopped.” That movie was Thirteen (co-written with fourteen-year-old star Nikki Reed); a film that shattered all preconceptions about the level of debauchery to which an eight-grader could sink.
A unifying feature of her diverse films is that they brim with intoxicating images. Just linger over the opening scene of Twilight (haters relax: Teams Jacob and Edward are nowhere to be seen), as the camera tracks a deer tearing through the lush Pacific coastal rainforest. Or the sun-soaked, washed-out world of Venice California in the much underrated Lords of Dogtown. When beginning a film project, Hardwicke says, “I get an original idea or read a draft of a script or a book and then start getting a rush of images for the scenes and characters. I start doing research– how could the sets look? How could the characters look?” The mass hysteria around Robert Pattinson who she cast rather controversially (75,000 fans initially signed a petition saying they wouldn’t see the movie if Pattinson was in it) proves her discerning eye. When asked what it was like to adapt a movie with such a rabid fan base, Hardwicke replied, “It got more ravenous as we were working on the project– at first it wasn’t so intimidating. In fact, when I asked for a bigger budget, the studio said. “For all we know there are just 400 girls in Utah going online talking about Twilight.”
For a woman with a 100-year-old California beach house, Hardwicke loves to be inside working. “I love creative collaborations with actors, artists, and musicians. I love crazy brainstorming jam sessions.” And while she admits that it’s still “pretty damn difficult” to make the films she wants to, she has a lot of projects in mind for the future. Next up, a gothic adaptation of the Little Red Riding Hood story starring Amanda Seyfried– “It’s twisted and sexy and scary” – sounds like a walk in the park for the connoisseur of dangerous drama and teen lust. Ms. Hood might not make it to Grandma’s but Ms. Hardwicke is sure to deliver the goods.

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