Fans of the first movie from the “Twilight” series either really love or really hate it. But they all agree that when it comes to Catherine Hardwicke’s adaptation, Robert Pattinson’s work on the soundtrack was A+. So it should be no surprise when fans got excited at the revelation that “Breaking Dawn” director Bill Condon plans to pay a bit of an homage to the first film by incorporating similar music. Carter Burwell, who scored the first movie, will be back for part 1 of BD. Bill also alluded to the idea that someone from the cast is in negotiations to perform a song to be part of the soundtrack as well. He didn’t say who but Jackson Rathbone and his band 100 Monkeys is the likely guy, though I wouldn’t be opposed to Robert singing again.

The Hobbit movies have been given titles and release dates. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is set to open on December 14, 2012, while The Hobbit: There and Back Again will open on December 13, 2013. The movies, which are being filmed by Peter Jackson in New Zealand, star Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and also feature Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving and Stephen Fry. As prequels to The Lord of the Rings, the two Hobbit movies follow Bilbo as he tries to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from Smaug the Dragon.

Johnny Depp believes that his Pirates Of The Caribbean character Captain Jack Sparrow would not be able to cope if he found love. The 47-year-old actor, who reprises his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, said that he doubts Sparrow will ever find his soul mate. He told MTV News, "I think if we did a scenario where it was Captain Jack really falling in love, it would most likely be a silent film. "I think he would go completely catatonic and be unable to speak. He would probably sit there and quiver for an hour and a half. It would mess up the legend. Which I think is always working for it, to leave the legend behind." Talking about his friendship with co-star Penelope Cruz, he added, "She’s one of the greatest gifts you could get. She’s so fiery and has such spirit and such talent. Also, besides that, she’s a great friend. She’s so funny and so capable of anything."

Twilight star Kristen Stewart said she hasn’t tried on her Breaking Dawn wedding dress yet. The 20-year-old actress’s character Bella gets hitched to boyfriend Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson, in the final movie and Stewart admitted a decision hasn’t yet been made on the dress. She said to MTV News: “I haven’t put ‘the one’ on yet. To be honest, it’s such a big deal. It’s such a big decision. I have a little hand in having a decision – or having an opinion more – but I think it’s pretty much up to Stephenie [Meyer].” Stewart added: “I’m not quite sure exactly what it’s going to look like, but it will be beautiful. I’m sure.”

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Eclipse star Kellan Lutz has said he thinks the movie has a ‘great mix’ of romance and action.

The US actor plays the role of vampire Emmett Cullen in the hit movie series and admitted he really enjoyed making the third flick in the franchise.

He said to MTV News: “I just love doing my own stunts. I love stunt work. It sucks that I can’t rewrite the books and add more dialogue for Emmett, because I really do have more action scenes than dialogue.

“So it’s great when Eclipse came around, ’cause I do love the book the best, and I think it just had such a great mix of the romance and the action and the collaboration of the two.”

He added: “I love to work, so it’s great when Emmett’s in there, and he’s there to fight. So I really just loved doing stunts.”

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Twilight star Kristen Stewart has said it was weird kissing co-star Taylor Lautner.

Stewart, 20, plays the lead role of Bella Swan in the movie series and it used to locking lips with co-star Robert Pattinson, 23.

However, Stewart admitted that it was strange kissing another cast member, Lautner, 18.

She said to E! Online: “The one that was weird was kissing Taylor on top of the mountain. After every single take, I would be like: ‘We just kissed. That’s so weird.’”

However, Stewart said she isn’t so worried about kissing scenes in general.

She said: “It’s totally like any other scene. It’s all about getting the scene right, and, like, they’re your friends, so it’s not weird.”

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Matt Damon and Emily Blunt lock lips in their new sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau.

The Bourne Identity star, 39, plays a US politician who falls in love with British actress Blunt, 27, who stars as a ballerina.

But as the pair get closer the affair is stopped in its tracks by mysterious men who are set on keeping them apart.

The film, directed by George Nolfi, is based on a short story by Phillip K Dick.

John Slattery, best known for playing Roger Sterling in Mad Men, also appears in the just released trailer as one of the mysterious men who explain to Damon’s character that his relationship with Blunt must not be.

The film was originally planned for a July 30 release but has since been moved to September 17.

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The Back-Up Plan star Jennifer Lopez has revealed that she has “learned a lot” from her past relationships.

The singer-actress, 40, has had a number of high-profile relationships – most notably with actor Ben Affleck and hip-hop mogul Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs – but she is now married to third husband Latin singer Marc Anthony, with whom she has twins.

Asked if she has learned anything from her past relationships, she said to UK magazine Marie Claire: “Right, I’ve learned nothing! No… I’ve learned a lot.

“But what I’ve discovered is that it’s something that needs to be worked at, and something that’s not to really be figured out. Just something to experience.”

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Brit comedian Russell Brand has revealed he hated shooting sex scenes for his latest movie.

The star, a notorious ladies man, had to strip off in his new comedy Get Him To The Greek.

But he admitted to The Sun he found it “stressful” and “awkward”.

Brand, who is engaged to singer Katy Perry, said: “It’s actually sort of stressful. Not like actual sex, not as I know it. You’re standing with no pants, hunched over someone but without the lust.”

He even has a threesome in the film, a sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But he insisted: “It was awkward.”

Brand was also accidentally set on fire during filming, adding: “I stood in the wrong place.”

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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland may have transported viewers – and Alice – back in time. But the movie has had the curious effect of boosting sales of a particular timepiece.

The UK Mirror reports that Argos’s sales of a $60 pocket watch-style timepiece have increased by 35 percent due to Alice In Wonderland, a 3-D fantasy that has shattered the box office looking glass with robust takings.

The movie starring Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska (pictured) as Alice has already garnered much curiosity and fascination for its costumes and props, and the watch is now a hot seller’s item.

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Johnny Depp’s long-term love Vanessa Paradis has ordered the actor to quit his new movie after she discovered that he would be sharing a passionate sex scene with Angelina Jolie, according to US reports.

Paradis flipped out and reportedly “ordered Depp to find another gig” after hearing of his intimate scenes with Jolie, who famously fell in love with married co-star Brad Pitt while shooting the 2005 movie Mr & Mrs Smith together.

Depp and Jolie have already started filming The Tourist in Venice – but according to reports, Paradis is still trying to get Depp to quit as she “found out that there was a real long and intense love scene between [Depp] and Jolie” in the movie.

A source said: “He’s currently trying to get out of the movie, but I don’t know if he’s succeeded. But he’s trying, and they’re talking about replacing him with Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio.”

Paradis is Depp’s partner of 12 years and they have two children together.

The French actress is reportedly alarmed that the sex scenes include Jolie, who has a reputation for seducing her married co-stars.

In 1999, Jolie started dating her Pushing Tin co-star Billy Bob Thornton, while the actor was reportedly engaged to actress Laura Dern.

Spokespeople for Depp, Jolie, Sony Pictures and producer Graham King could not be reached for comment.

A sub-plot that had George Clooney’s corporate high flyer character in Up In The Air dealing with cancer was nixed by upstart director Jason Reitman.

After a bit of buzz in the blogosphere, Reitman put to rest the rumour that Clooney’s jaded character who travels light in a life without relationships was also battling cancer.

He said that in the book from which the movie was adapted, “You find out that [Ryan Bingham, Clooney's character] is dying of terminal disease and that he’s going to the Mayo clinic.”

But he decided against including the scene that appeared early on that showed an airline stewardess mistakenly asking Clooney if he “wants the can sir” with Clooney thinking she’s saying “cancer” the first few times.

Reitman said the idea for the scene came out of something he actually saw on a plane. He said he included it because it was a “cute nod” to those who had read the book and because it was just the kind of problem Bingham might have had given his addiction to travel and obsession with flying.

Zooey Deschanel loved learning to sing like Janis Joplin, she has revealed.

The actress was due to play the star in a movie but the project has fallen through.

She said: “It seems kind of dead now. It’s such a fantastic story and a dream role, but it doesn’t seem to be want to made, and you can’t force these things. I don’t think any of the work I did was lost. I enjoyed doing the research, so I don’t regret any of it.”

Actress and musician Deschanel has sung in several of her films and released her debut album last year.

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Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has revealed he has always had a secret crush on his latest co-star, Jennifer Connelly.

The pair play characters in the new animated movie, 9.

Elijah, speaking on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, gushed: “She’s amazing, a truly generous spirit.

“She was beautiful, extraordinary to work with.

“I’ve always had a secret crush on her.”

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New Moon star Kristen Stewart said filming the movie’s love triangle scenes nearly “killed” her.

Kristen, 19, plays the role of Bella in the movies and is caught in a love triangle between werewolf Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner, and vampire Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson.

Talking about the new movie, she said: “I think it’s the one book in the series that I was intimidated by – in a good way. That’s the best feeling to start a movie with.

“But probably my favourite line in the book is when I have to say to [Jacob], ‘It’s him, it’s always been him!’ Like, I have to say that. Yeah, it killed me, it killed me.”

Asked if it was a tough day to shoot, she said: “Yeah, and just like everything in our movie, it’s such a heightened version of reality.

“It’s like, people don’t just break up [in the Twilight films] – they break up and it literally kills you. It’s not like you just say, ‘Oh, I’m really depressed and crying’.

“Everything is supposed to be a fantasy version of that. So I always had a really hard time figuring out, ‘Am I doing enough? Do I look like I’m going to die’?”

Twilight star Christian Serratos has said that the cast of the movie often hang out together off-set.

Serratos, 18, played the role of Bella’s schoolmate, Angela Weber, in the movie and will reprise her role in New Moon, due out later this year.

Talking about how the films have taken off, she said: “It was an epic experience and so massive. I didn’t expect it. But we all get along so well.

“We film and get our work done, and then we all get together, we go to dinner, we have fun. We’re all around the same age so we just mesh really well.”

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Strike Entertainment Producers announced a prequel for the super hit horror movie “The thing”.
The producers are on the outlook for the right script writer for screenplay of the movie and screenwriter Ronald D. Moore who has previously worked for the relaunch of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica is one of the persons who is being considered for raising a hell-raising plot.

Usually movies fans are always excited to see the sequels to previously release hit flicks but the idea of a prequel seems really interesting if they can get a plot that can show the script leading to the one already released. Everyone was looking forward for the sequel but producers must have the ideas about the prequels and hence all are waiting eagerly.

We hope that prequel must contain good animation effect and better story than before. Could bomb, or it might be just the thing. I personally like to keep away from creepy things they really tend to get the better of me.

I commend the films producers for milking the film and book’s cult following.
Preliminary box office analysis has found that Twilight could be on its way to a spectacular $70 million opening weekend.
My goodness, those numbers are for Disney films!
As of last Friday, the book turned blockbuster movie has made $33 million and it looks like it’s not stopping anytime soon.
According to industry insiders they expect the movie to net $145-$150 million by the end of its box office run.

Hello Officer! Joe Jonas of the latest boy band sensation the Jonas Brothers popped some bubble gum in his mouth while dressed as an NYPD officer around New York City’s Columbus Circle last week. The almost 19-year old cutie directed traffic as he shot a new scene for the group’s 3D concert movie which will premiere on February 22, 2009. In another scene, Joe pretended to arrest someone and even slapped on a set of handcuffs on another cast member. Why does Joe play the mustache-sporting cop in all their videos? First the ‘Burning Up’ music video and now this. Maybe it’s some weird fascination of his.

What’s in a name? well, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are about find out. Both parties are now in talks to as they’re in talks to lend their voices to the title roles of Gnomeo and Juliet. The film is a cartoon version of the Shakespeare classic, produced by Miramax and Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
McAvoy and Blunt will play two star-crossed (lovers) gnomes, whose love for each other is complicated by the fact that they’re from opposite sides of the veggie patch.
The Juliet was originally offered to Kate Winslet but she was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
The film’s producers originally planned and hoped for lyricist Tim Rice (The Lion King) team up who teamed with Sir Elton to write original tunes for Gnomeo. Instead, it looks like the film will mainly feature a number of Elton John’s classic songs. Rumors claim that some the songs to be used are “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” “Sad Songs” or “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues”. They also are expecting John to write a couple of new tracks for the film slated for release in 2010.