(Hopefully) Jace? Shirtless? Yes, please.

God Bless Ellen.

Link

Hunger Games movie date set!

YES! We finally have a date for the Hunger Games movie!

According to EW.com, it'll be March 23, 2012:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/25/hunger-games-release-date/

Awesome.

New Moon in 15 Minutes

In case you won't be seeing New Moon in theaters and want the summarized version, check this out... (it made me giggle!)

Early O'Clock, Casa de Swan

CHARLIE: Happy birthday, Bella!

BELLA: DAAAAAAAAAD! I was dreaming about being my own grandmother, DO YOU MIND.

CHARLIE: Look, I got you a camera so you can take pictures of your friends! You know, those kids you should stop ignoring, in case your creepy boyfriend suddenly leaves you. And hey, your mom got you a scrapbook to go with it... what? What? Why is that so funny?



Forks High

EDWARD: *jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames

JACOB: Happy birthday, paleface! I stopped by Redskins 'R' Us and got you a dreamcatcher. I hear you'll be needing one a few scenes from now.

BELLA: Thanks... I guess?

EDWARD: deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan*

click here to read the rest. HAHA!

SM's Mom is my New Fave

OK, so forget having Oprah tell Stephenie to finish Midnight Sun. Seems like her mom is taking up the cause for us (very end of clip). Yay, Mrs. Morgan!

Mortal Instruments MOVIES!

Cassandra Clare posted about this on her Facebook page - but said as far as she knows, there's only going to be one movie (in the plans so far).

YAYYYYYY!

Dream cast suggestions???

New Moon News - Weekend Edition

Thanks to Ginger for the heads up - lots of New Moon news happening over the weekend! Each time I see a clip, I am more and more excited to see the movie. :-)

Link

Question of the Day

With actress Rachelle Lefevre being replaced in her role as Victoria for Eclipse, who else would you recast? Let's put together a whole new lineup for:

Bella
Edward
Jake
Alice
Jasper
Emmett
Rose
Carlisle
Esme
Mike
Jessica
Angela
Eric
Tyler
James (even though I know he's not in future movies)
Laurent
Victoria (if you were to replace this Bryce chick)
Volturi characters
Anyone else?

I tend to have a lot of actors in my mind based on SM's archives page for the movie, just because I read it way back when...

Robert Pattinson vs. Daniel Radcliffe

Random Weekend Observations

A few things of note:

Joanna Krupa's name was brought up when I was watching E! News and for a minute, I couldn't figure out where I had heard her name. Turns out, on Stephenie Meyer's original Twilight movie site (constructed before any of the actual casting had been made), she had listed Joanna as someone who looked like Rosalie to her. I totally agree. Anyway, Joanna is starring in an upcoming movie this year called Six Days in Paradise.

The SVC coven leaders came over to my house last night, and we had several exciting events occur, includingbutnotlimitedto me taking an embarrassing picture at the town festival of my husband with a former coworker he barely knew, simply because she was wearing a "I Run With Vampires/Team Edward" tshirt, toasting to Jace, some AWESOMEAWESOME LaPush mementos from Corinne, and a bird flying into my house at the end of the night (I think it was the Scribe Virgin at work). We also listened to Crash and Burn by Jesse McCartney, which (much to Alison's dismay) is totally a Jace and Clary song, as pointed out by Jes.

I just finished Evermore by Alyson Noel - Kari lended it to me, and I really enjoyed it. The ending was okay-ish for me, but for the most part, I loved it! There are sososo many parallels to Twilight! And I laughed out loud when I got to the end and realized the sequel (due out July 7, 2009) is titled Blue Moon. Niiiiiice. I am so checking out her blog!

Many, many random things. We have an exciting week ahead: a SVC baby shower, Corinne's birthday celebration, and we may get to begin planning for our girls' cabin weekend? YAY!

We spent the night with Carlisle

because we're watching CAN'T HARDLY WAIT!!!!!! <3 Mike Dexter. And Ethan Embry. And Seth Green.

Alison, Ryah and Jes are at my house hanging out, and we're loving it. 92%, yo!!

Anyway, I thought with four SVCers together, I should blog. That, and Jes and I have been marveling at IMDB after discovering the crazy number of celebrities who make small appearances in the movie. And trying to determine if James Marsden is in the movie.

Kari, hope you had fun at Benihana, and we all know Corinne's having a great time! ;-)

Eclipse director: It's NOT Drew Barrymore

Whew...

Read about it here

Sounds good to me. Hard Candy was a really good movie, very well done.

Wolf pack!

Click HERE to be linked to the USA Today article

Helloooooooooo, Paul! And the rest of them...

Thanks for the heads up, Heather. Enjoy, ladies!

Some other tidbits comming in from the NM set:
When asked about how the computer generated wolves are going to look Chris Weitz was quoted as saying "Though they will be computer generated creatures the size of horses, the eyes will be digitally pasted on from the actors’ actual eyes, in order to make them as realistic as possible." (SOURCE)

Love Stinks

Say it ain't so, Perez!

Twilight DVD Extended Scenes Leaked

Don't peek if you want to wait for your DVD.

You Fragile Little Human

Twilight plug (?) on American Idol

OK, so by posting this, I'm admitting I watch American Idol, but did anyone else catch the Twilight references at the end of the night? The last singer, Adam Lambert, sang "Satisfaction". I don't know that I liked or disliked it, but then Randy said something along the lines of "you've got this great old school rock meets Fall Out Boy meets Robert Pattinson from Twilight vibe" and then Seacrest was like "How does it feel to be compared to Edward Cullen?" It almost seemed like a plug. Entertaining, anyway.

Here's a link to a photo of Adam. Meh.

More EW Photos

You probably already saw this on www.stepheniemeyer.com, but EW has a sneak peek at their new Twilight photo spread:

First Page

Second Page

I liked reading about how they brought the mossy meadow carpet into LA...

Question of the Day

Jes had a really good question about whether Leah Clearwater being cut from New Moon was acceptable or not.

Today's question asks if you think any characters are expendable. Going forward in all of the movies, do you think any of the characters we meet are less necessary than others? What did you think of Lauren being cut from Twilight? Give us your thoughts!

Taylor Lautner is still Jacob Black

Via SM's official website and MySpace blog, Taylor Lautner will be playing Jacob Black in the film version of New Moon.

Check out the note from director Chris Weitz:

www.stepheniemeyer.com

Vanessa Hudgens as Leah Clearwater?

That's the rumor. Crazy, brilliant, boring?

Read more here.