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Vampire Lipstick!
Ah, the Twi-merchandising engine rolls along.
If shirts and those ever-so-pseudo-cool leather wristbands weren’t enough, now you can add Twilight lipstick to your makeup bag!
It’s called Lip Venom V (is that a little “True Blood” reference in there?) and it comes from Hollywood Crush. It also comes in a little vial so it looks like blood, says Entertainment Weekly.
So does this make you look like a vampire or just make you more attractive to vampires?
Ahoy Matey! We’re Sailing with Vampires!
Oh my. Where do I even start here? In many ways, this post sort of writes itself.
Want to sail the seas with the undead? Now, you can!
Next summer you can take a trip from Seattle to Juneau with the actors who play Alice and Emmett Cullen in Twilight. Brought to you by a company called Cruises, Cruises, Cruises, the trip will include movie viewings, a costume ball and trivia contests, according to this report.
Will you be signing up for a little Ahoy Matey with vampires?
Cam Gigandet Can’t Resist Vampire Roles
“Twilight’s” villain, but also a pretty buff babe in his own right despite being evil, can’t seem to stop playing the undead. Cam Gigandet, who starred as Bella’s nemesis in the first flick (and was killed by the Cullens), has now been cast a “young wasteland sheriff who is part vampire” in the upcoming film “Priest.”
I guess half vampire isn’t so bad. But really, Cam, is there something you want to tell us? Is life imitating art? Do you only shoot after dark? Enquiring minds want to know about your vampire predilection.
Stephenie Meyer is the Godfather
I kind of picture Stephenie Meyer as a female Marlon Brando. OK, maybe she doesn’t talk in that Don Corleone voice, but she kind of is the “Godfather,” at least when it comes to vampires and vampire romance. According to this MetroNews story, she receives the shooting schedule for the Twilight films – Summit is now filming “New Moon” – and then visits the set or location when her favorite scenes are being shot. “It’s really cool because she comes up here every once in a while for her favourite scenes. At the beginning of filming, she gives a list of her favourite scenes that she wants to be up here for. You’ve got the best person in the world to ask for advice. So if you have a question, you can just walk on over and ask her,” says Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob.
So I’m picturing Stephenie sort of holding court, actors flocking to her, creative types on the film asking her for advice. Bowing down before her – the legendary vampire chronicler.
How would you fit Edward/RPattz into New Moon movie?
By now you’ve probably heard the news that should surprise, like, no one. (Anyone remember in “Aladdin” when the evil parrot says sarcastically “I’m going to die of not surprise?” Well, that’s how I feel.)
Anyway, so the big news…drum roll…is Summit Entertainment is going to make the fourth movie in the Twilight saga. Yes, this is a BIG SHOCK. Who would have thought the studio that’s raking in the bucks from the hit film, the studio that is shooting the second and third installments this year, would go all the way and also shoot – egads – the final flick?
Enough about that. Let’s talk about New Moon. The filmmakers and Rob Pattinson himself are making a big deal about how the largely-absent-from-the-second-book Edward will actually play a larger role in the movie version.
Let’s speculate – how do you think the film will address his absence? How will the film incorporate the star into the storyline when he’s gone for most of the book?
New Moon Poster is Out!!
So everyone, what do we think of the New Moon poster?
I, for one, think it’s fantastic. I like that the color is different from Twilight’s poster. The New Moon poster has more earth tones, which fits with the rise of the werewolves in the storyline. Plus, I’m all into seeing Jacob smack dab between Edward and Bella.
‘Course, it’s no secret I’m on Team Jacob.
But what do you think?
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com
A Whodunit: The Case of the New Moon Script
Memo to Anna Kendrick (aka Jessica) and Rob Pattinson:
You know, Anna and Rob, those scripts Summit gives you are kind of like gold. Or diamonds. Or lots and lots and lots of money. Meaning you want to keep them under lock and freaking key.
That means you don’t watch to ditch the shooting script for “New Moon” in a St. Louis garbage can. OK, fine, their fingerprints on the script. But the “New Moon” script was found by a beauty salon owner along with one for the Summit film “Memoirs,” which Rob may be starring in. Of course, they were found outside a St. Louis hotel where the cast for “Up in the Air” is staying and that cast includes Anna Kendrick who plays Jessica in the “Twilight” saga.
The beauty salon owner returned them the studio and got tickets for the premieres of both.
Who do you think did it?
Priests as Vampires…
You know about the sparkly vegetarian vampires in “Twilight,” you know about synthetic blood drinking ones in “True Blood,” you probably even know about the dreadful, soul-sucking ones in Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming vampire novel “The Strain.”
But there’s a new fictional vampire about to join the ever-swelling world of vampire fiction and this one might just be your spiritual leader too.
The South Korean film director Park Chan-Wook, best known for his award-winning film “Oldboy,” is releasing a movie at Cannes in May called “Thirst.” And in it, a Catholic priest becomes a vampire during a medical experiment.
In an interview with Reuters, Park said “I thought I could add some changes to this old genre by approaching the subject — vampire-ism, so to speak — without the usual mystery or romanticism but from a realistic perspective where being a vampire is sort of a disease.”
What do you think, friends of BCNN? Should we root for “Thirst” to win big at Cannes?
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
Guillermo Del Toro Shows Other Side of Vampires
And on one side of the ring is Stephenie Meyer with her vampires who sparkle and don’t want to kill you and on the other side of the ring is film director Guillermo Del Toro with his vicious bloodsuckers. In this new book series “The Strain” releasing this summer from Harper Collins, he said he plans to show vampires for who they really are. He has said his vampires will be menacing, disgusting and thirsty for blood. The book is described as portraying a battle of “mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets.”
On June 2 vampires no longer sparkle.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
Will David Slade Spill Vampire Blood?
The latest news from Summit Entertainment is that the director for the third film in the Twilight series has been chosen and it’s none other than vaunted horror film director David Slade.
This news just kind of gives me goosebumps all over when I think about the kind of havoc he could wreak with a filmic interpretation of “Eclipse.” Just imagine for a moment – what if instead of the Cullens defeating the new vampires both sets of vampires went poof, bye-bye? Ah….a vampire-free world.
Well, it’s a nice thought and I know I’m not totally crazy or whacked out in thinking it, because Slade has the pedigree to take down a harem – I mean, coven – of vampires. After all, he directed the 2007 horror flick “30 Days of night” about an Alaskan town plagued by vampires.
He knows a thing or two about vampiric extermination. Garlic, stakes, holy water, anyone? Oh, Mr. Slade, what treats have you in store for us? I, for one, cannot wait for him to just turn everything on its head.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
