 As we barrel towards the fall movie season, more information is coming out regarding highly anticipated titles. Knowing that Summit Entertainment has released tons of new stills for two of its biggest films, The Perks of Being A Wallflower and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2. Whether by shear coincidence or manufactured circumstances, these photos are arriving during a strange period of high public discussion about the stars of the movie, with Kristen Stewart’s dalliance with a director or Ezra Miller’s coming out. In either circumstance, these pics are a welcome look at movies that will surely be discussed a lot in the following months. Take a gander at the photos after the jump!
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 Today was a day of firsts for me at the Con: first panel attended in Hall H, first interviews, and first (and probably only day) of being done with the convention at about 5:30 pm. I was all over the place today and definitely enjoyed the extra winding down time. The first thing I did was stop by the Comic-Con Film School 101 seminar. In addition to the regular convention, Comic-Con runs a much smaller film festival and as a part of that they do a four part series on making films for cheap. For anyone interested in making their own movies, you can find the entire syllabus here: Film School 2012 Syllabus. After that I got a call from my friend who was standing in line for the Twilight panel that the line was moving, I booked it over to her and proceeded to wait another 2 hours before being let into Hall H in time for the start of the Trailer Park segment. Even though I had seen most of the trailers online, it was nice seeing them on a big screen. The Dredd 3D trailer played predictably well to the crowd and the Despicable Me 2 trailer is really great.
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 This was a panel I never thought I’d get into for a myriad of reasons. Sleeping in line for Hall H overnight wasn’t an option nor was fighting a twihard for a seat. But even with getting in line at 10 am for this 12:45 panel, there was plenty of time to find a decent seat and take in this unique Comic-Con experience of attending a Twilight panel. It was a very nostalgic affair with the cast sharing favorite memories, jokes and sadness that the show was coming to an end. The panel opened with the main trio of Kristen Stewart, Robert Ptattinson, and Taylor Lautner, as well as newcomer Mckenzie Foy and writer Stephanie Meyer being introduced. After sitting down on stage, the moderator, Eric Morro of Wikia.com, introduced a video clip from Bill Condon who told the estatic audience that we would be seeing the first 7 minutes of the next film.
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 Truth is…it matters not at all whether any film reviewer praises or pans “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″, because people are going to flood the cineplexes in droves to see the latest chapter in the cinematic retelling of the Bella Swan/Edward Cullen/Jacob the Werewolf story as it reaches its feverish conclusion. I have avoided drawing comparisons to the “Harry Potter” franchise thus far in my reviews of the previous “Twilight” films, but the reality is that along with “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, these three literary franchises have, or will have, parallel cinematic lives of their own and for the “Twilight” team, they have opted to go the way of the epic final “Harry Potter” film(s), and therefore, we are having the opening half of the final “Twilight Saga” installment.
They likely shouldn’t have.
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 Twilight (2008) – (**)
It’s so bad, it’s almost good. I guess that’s how I and those who aren’t 15 year old girls would characterize Twilight. Catherine Hardwicke brings Stephenie Meyers beloved series Twilight to the screen, a story about the love between a teenage girl Bella Swan and a vampire, Edward Cullen.
Isabella Swan moves to a town called Forks to live with her father. While there she attends a new school and quickly becomes popular despite her awkward ways of interacting with people. Everybody wants to be her friend, but she only cares about becoming close with one person, Edward Cullen.
I will avoid getting into plot details for those who already know what happens. Girl meets boy, girl finds out boy is vampire and they fall in love. La Dee Da. But what makes this series of movies so engaging that we form an obsession over them? Twilight, the most corny of the series so far, is so unbelievably bad that you can’t help but watch. The dialogue between Edward and Bella is downright awkward, yet filled with romance and need. The special effects are horrendous, they almost ruin the film, and the acting is another story.
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 As a new and ongoing feature here at Awards Circuit, here are the latest ratings provided by the MPAA Ratings Board – The Classification and Ratings Administration (CARA).
In this edition, dated 9/21/11, can your tweens see “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -Part I”? How far does the Brett Ratner-directed Ben Stiller/Eddie Murphy action comedy, “Tower Heist” go? And Martin, Black, and Wilson aim for families. Plus a lot more…
Read more on MPAA Ratings Bulletin No. 2190 (9/21/11)…
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As we barrel towards the fall movie season, more information is coming out regarding highly anticipated titles. Knowing that Summit Entertainment has released tons of new stills for two of its biggest films, The Perks of Being A Wallflower and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2. Whether by shear coincidence or manufactured circumstances, these photos are arriving during a strange period of high public discussion about the stars of the movie, with Kristen Stewart’s dalliance with a director or Ezra Miller’s coming out. In either circumstance, these pics are a welcome look at movies that will surely be discussed a lot in the following months. Take a gander at the photos after the jump!
