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marketing
Harry Potter Does Not Get Its Romantic Ideals from Twilight, Thank You Very Much
Supernatural-obsessed youngsters are delicate creatures to cater to. Just ask the producers of Harry Potter and Twilight. The juggernauts often square off in ideological combat, but when it comes to their movies, they mostly stay far away from each other. More »
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Comment by BullfightsOnAcid: What happened to the Asian girl he was with in the last movie? Is Harry Potter a slut? 7 Responses | Other threads
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midweek madness
This Week In Tabloids: Michael's Drug & eBay Addiction; Twilight Star Put In Box
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, where instead of Duck Duck Goose, it's Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Twilight. Margaret assists in the deconstruction of Star, Us, In Touch, Life & Style and Ok!, after the jump. [Jezebel]
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By DodaiComment by kellieherson: The "Who Wore It Better?" with the kids is one of the more disturbing things I've seen lately. Jesus H.... 10 Responses | Other threads
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midweek madness
This Week In Tabloids: Angelina's Twins Are Sick; Real Housewife Sex Tape Secrets
Welcome back to Midweek Madness! It's been a long time since every single magazine had a different main image. Inside? Mostly the same old bullshit. We did learn new details about Angelina's babies, Aniston's date and a Gosselin tell-all book. [Jezebel]
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By DodaiComment by Trulymadlyme: "Jen will never last with someone who doesn't drink. She loves her margarita Sundays." For the second day in... 10 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Sam Weir, Omar Little, and Don Draper Walk Into a Bar...
Young people do extraordinary things in Hollywood, and make, I'm assuming, extraordinary money. Some good news about television, plus some bad news. And a film wins a very deserving prize. More »
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Comment by kinneyG: John Francis Daley is not *just* from Freaks & Geeks he plays Dr. Lance Sweets on Fox's BONES (just picked up... 7 Responses | Other threads
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fandemonium
Twilight Trailer Reaction Videos Will Ring In Our Ears Forever
You thought those American Idol reaction vids were bad? Oh honey, no. You haven't seen anything until you've seen fans reacting, on camera, to the teaser for New Moon, the next Twilight twinklevamp movie. They're... loud. More »
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Comment by Astigmatism: Question: who records themselves watching this trailer and then puts it out into the world for all to mock? ... 3 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
If They Make Footloose With Sparklevampires You Will Be In Heaven
Today we have some bad news about Footloose, some good news about The Fighter, and some unexpected surprises from old friends. More »
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Comment by DahlELama: Confession--I never saw the original Footloose. Is dancing the only skill that's required, or are we going to be forced... 3 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
When Will Cameron Diaz Be Eaten By Vampires?
Today Cannes gets a bit clearer, a comedy haus has opened, Cameron Diaz continues to invade your multiplex, another Twilight movie staggers along, and Straw Dogs gets remade. More » -
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"I'm Thrilled to Meet You Too."
["Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, center, amicably takes a photo with a fan at a bar in Vancouver, where band Sage Dill was performing; image via Splash]
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Comment by lafleur: Have you guys seen this? She chose to make this her public face to the world. 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Glenn Beck Will Kill All the Pirates For You, Live!
British people make the best vampires, they also make good crooks. Pirates are all the rage! As is crazy Glenn Beck. An HBO pilot gets more interesting by the day, while Showtime finds none of its pilots worth keeping. More »
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Comment by mmstk101: Okay. Is the group of vampires seriously called the Voltrons? I have no knowledge of this Twilight business, and am... 4 Responses | Other threads
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midweek madness
This Week In Tabloids: Choose Your Own Brangelina Adventure
Wednesday means one thing: Midweek Madness. The covers are all over the place this week, like what's up with Brangelina? Did she kick him out? Agree to be Mrs. Pitt? Is he cheating with Natalie Portman? [Jezebel]
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By MargaretComment by mommymash: "They run around in the same dirty clothes, underwear, and socks for days at a time. And when Nadya gets... 13 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Two New Seasons of Friday Night Lights Just Begging to Be Ignored Completely
Your favorite football series returns, Drew Barrymore's dating Justin Long again, NYC film gets a tax break, plus movies about babysitters and killer crazy girls. More »
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Comment by rina: I would like to have sex with almost every single character on Friday Night Lights. Maybe even Buddy if I'd... 3 Responses | Other threads
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open caption
"Oh... Um... Cool. But I Really Just Wanted Directions."
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Trail of Tears Finally Ends In Forks, WA
New Moon has found its werewolves, E! has found its late night muse. Cameron Diaz forges new territory, while Catherine O'Hara ought to look good toting a gun. Plus, Amanda Bynes news. More »
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Comment by dandles: What's with Amanda Bynes face? She got freaky cheek implants it seems. She's a pretty girl, and very... 3 Responses | Other threads
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lookalikes
Tina Fey Mistakes Robert Pattinson For Satan
Jimmy Fallon was mercifully blessed to have former Saturday Night Live/Weekend Update co-star Tina Fey on his second show. More » -
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'Twilight'-Pandering MTV Desperately Attempts To Wring Paragraphs Out Of 'New Moon' Logo
Few outlets have done as comprehensive a job at Twilight pandering as MTV, and Summit has finally taken time out of its busy schedule of being fellated by EW to throw them a bone. More »
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Comment by Heather Ellisor Ache: wait...didn't you just write an entire article (with 7 paragraphs) about another journalist writing 1 paragraph about ummmm a movie... more » | Other threads
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entertainment meekly
Popular Magazine Continues to Fluff Sad Vampire Books
Entertainment Weekly continues its embarrassing plunge into Twilight blowjobbery. They have yet another cover this week featuring the vampire movie's be-shagged leads. This one's a lame stretching-it story about a book about the movie. More »
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Comment by Ptarmigan: EW=shit AGREED. But before you go pointing the finger for EW shilling shit like Twilight, let's take a look a... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
'Twilight' Director To Publish Stirring Account Of Making Blockbuster She Didn't Finish
If you couldn't wait for Catherine Hardwicke's candid expose detailing her rise and fall from Twilight glory, well, we're sorry. Twilight: Director's Notebook probably isn't it. More »
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By STVComment by the_other_argento_kid: Despite the constant Defamer insinuations otherwise, Catherine Hardwicke was not "fired" from the Twilight sequel. She wanted to work on... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
'Twilight' Doll Preview Hints Makers Haven't Seen 'Twilight'
The marketing powers behind Twilight on Monday gave what their adoring fans at MTV have apparently craved for more than two months now: Dolls. For, like, another movie or something. More » -
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Dakota Fanning Out For Blood
When there are no more Oscars, and there is no more Sundance, there will always be the phenomena behind Twilight. And Dakota Fanning will walk among them. More »
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By STVComment by RocketRockit: I will now air my Twilight nerdliness. Dakota is perfect for Jane. Like, seriously, this is the best... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
'Access Hollywood' Eager To Perv All Over Teenage 'Twilight' Star
Meet 16-year-old Taylor Lautner! The Twilight star almost lost his role in the sequel unless he could massively bulk up. Now, the media wants to slobber over those results. Did we mention he's 16? More » -
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Fill In The Blank: Robert Pattinson Wants To Lick ______ All Day Long
By now we think you know how this goes: We give you the censored gossip item, you fill in the missing word. On today's show: Twilight and PrivacyWatch star, Robert Pattinson. More »
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Comment by metroville: The correct answer is "his publicist", and I will defer my prize. 3 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Hunky Vampire Edition, Part 2: Robert Pattinson
1/8 — I saw that vampire dude from Twilight, ROBERT PATTINSON, just this morning at the Coffee Bean in Los Feliz. EVERYBODY within 100 feet recognized him but nobody bothered him, thank God. He ordered a Chai Tea Latte and waited patiently with everyone else, pretending to text somebody on his blackberry. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.] -
chick flicks
Shoes, Self-Help & Catfights: What Women Want In Movies
This was the year, we're told, that Hollywood started making movies for women... as long as they were totally inane. And next year, as Self-Help Cinema launches, they'll be even more vapid! [Jezebel]
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By SadieComment by cuteasabutton: OK, I don't know how this is going to sound...But I have wanted to be a screenwriter for a long... 19 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
Robert Pattinson Hates Prop 8, Los Angeles Comedy Scene
Has the comedy world learned nothing from the time it angered Brooke Shields with jokes about a freshly-dead Estelle Getty? Apparently not, since it now falls to Twilight star Robert Pattinson to cry, "Too soon!"
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Comment by lrubemp: The guy's got good politics AND dignity AND balls. Hat's off to him -- the punk ragging on Heath deserved... 2 Responses | Other threads
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box office
'Twilight,' Dark Knight' Disappoint After Adjustment For Inflation, Reality
Among the year-end movie surveys bombing the landscape, few offer as rewarding a reality check as the one recapping 2008 as the Year of the Sucker.
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By STVComment by Bryan Fedor: Go ahead, take inflation into account. It means nothing. The fact remains that Hollywood generates a huge portion... 1 Responses | Other threads
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style
Robert Pattinson Now Has Less Hair to Never Wash
In Twilight Nation, expect Dec. 22 to be the date that will forever live in infamy: Floppy-coiffed vampire hunk Robert Pattinson has cut his hair.
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By STVComment by Juancho: And he's even packing his own cardboard box to live in when all the other Twilight gigs wrap and his... 3 Responses | Other threads
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awards
'Twilight' Lady-Pandering Earns MTV 'Patronizers of the Year' Award
Where most media have moved on from courting Twilight fans, MTV has one remaining drop of profit to wring from the condescension flood. To wit, Twilight More »
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By STVComment by Victor Ward: iLuvMe21 (12.18.08 | 5:16 PM)I love how these people on the comments are just like "OMG this is so stupid...... 3 Responses | Other threads
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the end of ideas
Success of 'Twilight' Spares World From Remake of 'Near Dark'
The 1987 vampire classic Near Dark has been on the industry's equivalent of death row for a while, with Michael Bay producing a remake for Rogue Pictures. But Twilight just issued a stay of execution. -
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Man Chosen to Replace Catherine Hardwicke
... on her answering machine. As of Monday, the ousted Twilight director's outgoing message was still spoken by a man portending the grim news to come: -
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Blood Suckers: We made our own wishlist for who Summit should pick to helm the next Twilight sequel, but it looks like the fledgling studio had other plans. Bucking murmurs that a female director ought to be picked (and a fanboy consensus that the Summit-friendly Kathryn Bigelow should be offered the job), Nikki Finke reports that an offer has been made to Chris Weitz, who's friends with Summit's head of production. Weitz's last film was the enormous bomb The Golden Compass, a film he developed then departed from when he decided he couldn't handle an effects-heavy film of such scope. He changed his mind and eventually came back to Compass, though the finished flop killed what was intended to be a huge, youth-friendly franchise. That should work out well, then! [Deadline Hollywood Daily]
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Comment by JudgeFudge: Okay, so what's the concensus on the Golden Compass? I know it didn't make any money in the states, but... 1 Responses | Other threads
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catherine hardwicke
'Twilight' Director Bumped From Sequel; We Size Up the Replacements
As hinted at two weeks ago and confirmed Sunday, director Catherine Hardwicke is done with the Twilight franchise, leaving a giant "Help Wanted" sign around the blockbuster's swoony, more wolfy sequel New Moon barely a year before its studio hopes to rush it into theaters. No problem, though — after a helpful consultation with Defamer HR, producers should be able to lock up a qualified helmer by the end of the business day.
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By STVComment by JudgeFudge: David Gordon Green? He could do the screenplay too! Ext. North Western Mill town, "Magic Hour". Slow montage of rusting machinery. Boy... 2 Responses | Other threads
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robert pattinson
Kristen Stewart: You Were Poked By Robert Pattinson. poke back|remove
We make no guarantees as to the authenticity of the blurry Facebook screencaps to land in our inbox this morning, allegedly belonging to sumptuously becoiffed Twilight dreamcake Robert Pattinson, working under the alias "Randle Patrick McMurphy." (Ring any bells? 10th grade English students? Anyone? Anyone?) In one exchange, he laments the life of a newly minted Hollywood It-pire ("everybody are such tossers. the bottle does me fine. the girls in this town are quite odd, you know...") and responds to a query of "get Kristen yet?" with a bloodless, cad-like, "you know I did. You're the one person I've told this to but, she wants me more than that twat of a bf that stalks her every move around me." -
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Whatever Happened to 'Twilight,' Anyway?
We weren't kidding yesterday when we expressed relief at teen-sex romp The Reader having supplanted Twilight as the movies' hottest new youth movement. Still, after Twilight's massive 62% box-office plunge in its second week of release, and with the only the random, pot-gorging snapshot of Kristen Stewart to replace that long-running plague of EW covers, we can't help our sniffling, lonely-ish concern at the edge of the black hole where Twilight used to be. But thankfully, we've found the one place in the world where the vampire romance remains a holdover — and how!
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By STVComment by Leviticus_71: So...they're vampires but they can survive in sunlight? Bullshit. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
Audrina Patridge Cracking the Books For 'Twilight' Sequel Audition
Foreseeing a day when curtailed Hills shooting leaves her without anybody to antagonize, or maybe just catching a faint whiff of those $12 million salaries (or something else) around the corner, Audrina Patridge is angling to join the Twilight revolution. The starlet tells MTV today that, like, hell yeah she's a fan of the vampire novels and their blockbuster movie adaptation, and she's in for the sequels. Just as soon as she's invited: More »
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By STVComment by jwick25: Was one of the vampires feeding on her arm? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Bloodshot
Kristen Stewart Partakes Of Ancient, Vampire-Summoning Herb
We're now beginning to get a more complete picture of why Twilight star Kristen Stewart seemed a little glassy-eyed and distracted on a recent Late Show with David Letterman appearance, responding to the increasingly annoyed host's questions about the film with non sequiturs like, "You know what would be so choice right now? S'mores!" More »
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By SethComment by StratfordX: the comments thread on TMZ seems focused on her performance in Twilight. She must, like any thinking person, *despise*... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
'Twilight' Stars to Suck $24 Million Payday For Sequel
Twilight's record-breaking opening gross was downgraded to a measly $69.6 million on Monday, which nevertheless failed to deter Summit Entertainment from officially nudging the sequel, New Moon, into the pre-production queue. That was the easy part, though; paying its young stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart a reported $12 million apiece for the second film (and possibly a third) — and locking in director Catherine Hardwicke for millions more — is where the mess might arise. More »
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By STVComment by HandsomeBwonderful: Can these idiot producers look outside to see what the financial climate is like? It's pouring! And, just so they... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twilight
Kathie Lee Gifford Breaks 'Twilight' Audience Into Good Girl and 'Tramp' Segments
No explanation of the Twilight Phenomenon™ would likely be complete without such sizable insights as Kathie Lee Gifford's and the authoritative cultureklatsch at Fox and Friends. The latter group's ownership of the story — as evidenced by last Friday's extraordinary investigative study of "babes" headed to the multiplex in droves — continues today with a more think-y survey of how the chaste-vampire genre trumps the more occult flavor of the Harry Potter series, but over on TodayKathie Lee diclosed the real trick nudging Twilight toward box-office immortality: Teen girls are more into romance than sex. And those who aren't will be after the dressing-down delivered here. Failing the ready availability of another tween-friendly franchise, Hollywood would do well to bottle this and sell it. More »
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By STVComment by franklinshepard: I'm seeing Shrek tonight. I imagine it'll be just about as terrible as you'd think it would be. more » | Other threads
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twilight
America Surrenders to New, Walletsucking Vampire Breed
It was the weekend that moviegoers gave blood whether they wanted to or not; take a moment, relax and recover with us as we comb through the Monday Morning Box Office: More »
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By STVComment by deleteboy: I forgot - which did I care about? O - Bond. Saw it twice. Good stuff. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Robert Pattinson Plays Dumb About the Appeal of Hair He Can't Stop Touching
We've pushed Defamer's overworked, underpaid Twilight Bureau as far as it can go this week, and why not: Variety now reports that the film will pull in $30 million today, establishing it on the lower end of the 20 all-time best opening-day grosses. Among other attributes, Robert Pattinson's dense, unruly mop of hair has been of particular interest to the ticketbuying public, whose every tousle, stroke, pat and otherwise swoony self-grooming invariably culminate in hormonal yelps of appreciation from his female fan base. But when asked by Ellen DeGeneres today about that hair's appeal, Pattinson simply raked through it once more — and once more, and once again, and again — in dumbfounded wonder before confessing, "I have no idea." As the accompanying hair-touching highlight reel suggests, however, we think someone doth protest too much. On the other hand, if we only washed our hair once a month (if that), we'd probably have the same curiosity. Carry on, Rob. [Ellen]
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By STVComment by ObamaIsMyPresident: Isn't that like a little methy? 1 Responses | Other threads
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robert pattinson
Bite-Sized: Tyra Banks welcomed Twilight-ers Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner to her program today, where Pattinson for once proceeded to fulfill the wish of every woman he's encountered since beginning his vampire flick's press tour. Lautner looked on with a smile, shielding his disappointment that he was not invited to feast on the host, but clearly relieved to see the host-devours-guest trend that claimed co-star Kristen Stewart reversed in time for his daytime-TV appearance. Click through for the full-size image. [Tyra Banks Show]
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By STVComment by NoWireHangers: Maybe he can just suck the stupid out of Tyra. 3 Responses | Other threads
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