Cinema Bizarre: Twilight & Ashley Greene Fans
Paramore Makes MTV Award Plea
“We’ve already broken news about the release date of their new album and critiqued their basketball skills. And now that Paramore are officially MTV Movie Award nominees — their “Twilight” song “Decode” is up for Best Song From a Movie — we decided it was time to get their take on the big show too.
It’s no secret that the band — or, more specifically, frontwoman Hayley Williams — is an avowed “Twilight” nut. Since “Twilight” landed a whopping seven Movie Award noms, we figured it would be interesting to have them handicap the film’s chances in one of those categories: Best Kiss.”
MTV Movie Awards: Twilight Leads The List
The finalists for the MTV Movie Awards were just announced. According to MTV,
“Twilight” took the lead with seven nominations, including nods for Best Movie, Best Female Performance (Kristen Stewart) and Breakthrough Performance Male (Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner). “Slumdog Millionaire” garnered six nominations, including Best Movie, Breakthrough Performance Female (Freida Pinto) and Breakthrough Performance Male (Dev Patel).”
Twilight was originally up for consideration in the following categories:
Best Movie: Twilight
Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart
Best Male Performance: Robert Pattinson
Breakthrough Female Performance: Kristen Stewart (Dakota Fanning is also nominated for Push)
Breakthrough Male Performance: Both Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are nominated
Best Villain: Cam Gigandent
Best Kiss: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Best Fight: Robert Pattinson and Cam Gigandet
The total, final-cut nominations for Twilight in a tough year are:
Twilight: Best Movie
Rob Pattinson: Breakthrough Male Performance
Taylor Lautner: Breakthrough Male Performance
Kristen Stewart: Best Female Performance
Best Kiss: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Best Fight: Robert Pattinson and Cam Gigandet
Best Song: Decode by Paramore
Unfortunately Cam Gigandet didn’t make the cut to compete in the Best Villain category. It’s a tough year for that category where Heath Ledger’s Academy Award Winning performance as the Joker is all but a done deal. There’s also the interesting possibility that Rob and Taylor being nominated in the same category may result in a split vote in which case another nominee could glide in.
Taylor Lautner Makes Abs Cut
Access Hollywood has voted Taylor’s 8-pack among the best abs in Hollywood.
While we are on the subject of Taylor, Robert Rodriguez, who directed Taylor back in day when he was Sharkboy, told MTV that Taylor’s success is no surprise to him. He knew back then that Taylor was “the complete package”.
MTV: Emily Browning and Twilight Spoof
MTV has an interview with Emily Browning, who was once suggested as a possibility for the role of Bella. Like Henry Cavil, Emily talks about the part that never was.
“It’s really strange,” the actress laughed when we caught up with her Tuesday. “It’s bizarre…What actually happened is that I was asked to audition — not take the part, but to just audition — shortly after ‘The Uninvited’ had finished filming,” the actress said. “And I’m not the type of person who can just work back-to-back. So I was just exhausted, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, but I just can’t sign on to a trilogy right now.”
MTV also has up a great Twilight parody featuring cheeseburgers. It’s the brainchild of LA’s UCB Theater.
Henry Cavil: The Part That Got Away
MTV caught up with Henry Cavil and talks to him about how he was once what Stephenie and others invisioned as Edward.
MTV Needs Movie Awards Insider
MTV is searching for someone to be their next Movie Awards Insider, and clearly Twilight is going to be majorly represented at those awards with nominations if not wins in various categories.
Here’s the low-down according to co-sponsors Coca Cola and MTV:
“Coca-Cola and MTV have just launched the search to find one super fan to be whisked away to L.A to begin an assignment of a lifetime, and rub shoulders with celebrities, as the “Movie Awards Insider” at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.
This is not a random drawing. Registrants need to prove their movie knowledge and on-screen personality to enter. They have to make their case in 250 words or less saying why they are worthy of working side-by-side and behind-the-scenes with MTV’s News correspondents.
Once selected, the Movie Award Insider will join the MTV News team in L.A and receive guidance and mentorship on how to capture exclusive behind-the-scenes content (pretty cool, amazing opportunity). The Insider will get to cover the following:
– What’s going on in the days leading up to the awards
– Exclusive interviews with show nominees, presenters, and MTV talent
– Backstage happenings during artist performance rehearsals
– Interviews with A-List celebrities at the After-party
Think you’ve got the ingredients to be the Movie Awards Insider? Can you write and report on the coolest movie awards show of the year for MTV.com? Can you keep your cool and go on-air as part of the MTV News team? Make your case in the form to the right. Tell us why you should join us at the Movie Awards in 250 awesome words. Be creative. Be passionate. Be persuasive. Be you! Show us why you are the one and only person who has what it takes to be a part of the MTV Movie Awards madness. You’ll be whisked away to L.A., join the MTV News team and report on the days leading up to the night of the big show and the star-studded after party.
Eligibility: This Contest is open to legal residents of the forty-eight (48) contiguous United States and District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry.
To register click here.
Registration goes through midnight EST on May 5th, 2009.
MTV Movie Awards: Twilight Fans Take Control!
The nominations for the MTV movie awards are just starting. This year, there’s something different, and no we don’t mean that they had the very good sense to not to have Russel Brand host again. Mercifully, Andy Samberg of SNL fame will be doing that.
According to MTV the awards, for the first time in history, are now in your hands:
It’s time for some serious pop-culture studying because MTV is putting you — and your love of the year’s best movies — to work. For the first time in the 18-year history of the MTV Movie Awards, we’re opening up the nomination process to fans.
Here’s how it’ll happen: Starting Monday (April 13), head over to the official Movie Awards site to select the nominees in categories like Best Movie, Best Fight and Best Kiss. You’ll be able to pick from a list of more than 200 movies. MTV Mobile users can also make choices in the Best Movie category by texting VOTE to 66333. Voting for this round will close on April 20.
Twilight is among the nominees in these categories:
Best Movie: Twilight
Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart
Best Male Performance: Robert Pattinson
Breakthrough Female Performance: Kristen Stewart (Dakota Fanning is also nominated for Push)
Breakthrough Male Performance: Both Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are nominated
Best Villain: Cam Gigandent
Best Kiss: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Best Fight: Robert Pattinson and Cam Gigandet
It’s ONLY GOOD TILL APRIL 20th, SO GET OVER THERE AND START NOMINATING!!!!!!
Robert Pattison:So Much Coverage, So Little Time
MTV just about turned over their entire website to Rob yesterday.
First they had the outtakes of his sizzling photoshoot with Dosier.
Then they had an accent expert analyzing his Spanish accent in Little Ashes. The expert seemed to think it was pretty legit. Only the real Castellanos can tell us if he actually nailed the right dialect.
According to their expert, “There is one thing he did that really struck me, and it is something he does as an Englishman well, I say, for example, ‘I am going “ta” the store.’ Like Americans, we don’t say ‘to,’ we say ‘ta.’ And in one little clip, he says [‘I need to go further’] without the ‘ta.’ People who learn English as a second language learn it properly, and a little word like ‘to’ is a hard thing for them not to say properly. So [someone like Salvador Dalí] would say, ‘I am going “to” the store.’ It’s a hard thing for them to break.”
Now if a throwdown is what you are up for, there is the never ending Edward vs. Buffy (et. al.) debate.
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