Hi, Twilighters! The last couple of days I have been working on a new page for the site. This page is a complete character list from all four books. It took me awhile to make this page since I went back to the books to dig up all this info! Please enjoy and tell me what you think!

Check it out HERE!

Edit: Thanks to all your feedback, I have added character’s powers and more characters to the list.

An interesting little article by the Examiner caught my attention. Listen to this! During the admissions interview for Oxford University, students were asked, “Why might it be useful for an English student to read the Twilight series?”. So reading twilight is truly educational! How about that!

The popular book series, Twilight has now made it to the halls of Oxford University.  The Telegraph is reporting that students applying to Oxford University were asked a question about Twilight by Stephenie Meyer during the rigorous admissions process.

Here is the question that was asked in the interviews for applicants in English Literature:

“Why might it be useful for an English student to read the Twilight series?” 

Whether or not you are a fan of the series, how might you answer the question?

MTV has posted yet another interview from this year’s official Twilight Convention with Edi Gathegi in which he talks about the special screening of “New Moon” with Stephenie Meyer, wearing shoes as a vampire and much more.

Gathegi confirmed that he’s seen a cut of “New Moon” and said it follows Stephenie Meyer’s novel closely. “That’s the whole point of having Stephenie Meyer as a consultant for all the books, because you know she has final approval and final say and they’re not going to do anything to upset the fan base,” he told the audience. “You guys are the driving force behind this entire thing.”

The 30-year-old spent about three weeks on the “New Moon” set and was met with a few happy changes from the first film. For one, the cloudy red contact lenses used to give the vampires their signature scarlet stares were replaced with sleeker models more closely resembling regular contacts. For another, Gathegi finally got to wear shoes. “God bless Chris Weitz,” he said. “In “Twilight’ we didn’t have shoes, because in the book they don’t have shoes — you know, nomadic vampires don’t have shoes. And I was cold, I was froze to death! But Chris was like, ‘Well, wear shoes.’ ”

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By now, most Twilighters know more about Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed and the others than their own mothers. So, with filming of “Eclipse” finally under way in Vancouver, the fanbase is excited to welcome some new blood into the vampire franchise.

With that in mind, we present this handy guide to five key actresses joining the “Twilight” saga for its third installment. Much like Bella, we can all look forward to making new friends in Forks, and tomorrow we’ll take a look at the new “Eclipse” men. But to be courteous, here are the ladies first.

Meet The Cast Of “Eclipse”

Character: Maria
Actor: Catalina Sandino Moreno

The Lowdown: Fan-favorite Jackson Rathbone has already expressed excitement over the fact that his role as Jasper Hale will be expanded greatly for the third “Twilight” film. Oscar-nominee Moreno may no longer be “Full of Grace,” but will now play a very different Maria. Described in Stephenie Meyer’s pages as being petite with a soft voice, Maria is the woman who turned Jasper into a bloodthirsty immortal when he was 20 years old in 1863. Her inclusion will play a major role in the young vampire threat that emerges throughout “Eclipse” and the likely-to-film-someday “Breaking Dawn.”

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MTV: Hollywood Crush has made a list of the five things they look forward to the most in “New Moon”, “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn”. They sure got some epic parts from the books on that list. Here’s what they had to say.

“New Moon” is only 13 short weeks away, “Eclipse” is shooting and just recently, there was an apparently false rumor that we would be getting two “Breaking Dawn” movies. Even though the last “Twilight” film tentatively won’t be coming out until 2011 (or 2012?), it’s hard not to keep our eyes on the last three novels in the “Twilight Saga” as they move toward hitting the big screen. In honor of our excitement over these film adaptations, we have put together a list of our top five favorite scenes we can’t wait to see (in order of importance, of course).

SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t read anything past the very first book in Stephenie Meyer’s series, you probably should skip reading this list, run out to your nearest bookstore, and, uh … get on that!

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We’d love to read which scenes you guys are looking forward to the most in “New Moon”, “Eclipse” & “Breaking Dawn”!

InStyle has another very interesting article about Bella’s wedding dress. The article includes sketches of some of the top fashion designers visions of what Bella will be wearing when she says “I do”. Does this mean Kristen Stewart will be wearing a couture wedding dress?! I certainly hope so! Feel free to make fanart with Kristen in a Chanel wedding dress haha!

While we don’t want to ruin the plot for any latent Twi-hards, ever since Eclipse started filming we’ve been dying for a sneak peek of Bella’s wedding dress. In the meantime, we reached out to some of our favorite designers (Christian Siriano’s sketch at left) to see how they envision her gown.

In Eclipse, Bella’s dress is described as an early 1900s design (which complements her antique engagement ring) with friend and Maid of Honor Alice Cullen’s modern tweaks to the train and veil. “You look like you just stepped out of an Austen movie,” Bella’s mother says to the bride-to-be when she spies her in the gown in the final book,Breaking Dawn. “It’s gorgeous! So graceful, so elegant.”

One of the “bloggers” at Examiner recently posted a very interesting article about the CGI in “New Moon”. The article is focused mainly on the scenes in which Bella, in the movie adaption, will see an illusion of Edward when riding a dirt bike.

In this situation, Bella’s scene was shot weeks earlier and now Edward must be placed into the scene seamlessly. This means Mr. Pattinson must be in the perfect position, with the exact same lighting and the exact same camera angle as was used with Ms. Stewart. Every mathematical equation is used and computer controlled cameras are used to ensure that is exactly what happens.

Then the Visual Effects Department must marry the two (the two shots, not the two characters) into perfect alignment, erasing the entire green screen and placing Edward in Bella’s arms. To match this shot will take about 15 days of hard work from both cast and crew and, in the final film, will only have about 5 minutes of screen time.

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Booboo Stewart recently spoke with Access Hollywood in a video interview (a few posts down) in which he told them that there will be a fifth installment of the Twilight saga. This is something Summit Entertainment now are confirming is false, there are no guarantees at this state that the movie will be split into two parts.

However, a rep for Summit Entertainment – the studio behind the hit vampire film franchise – has now told Access that BooBoo (who will join the big screen saga as wolfpack member Seth Clearwater in the next installment) was premature in his statements.

“We appreciate our young actor’s enthusiasm for the franchise and his role, but his comments about the number of films were unfortunately uninformed and not accurate,” the Summit rep said in a statement to Access.

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Parade Magazine has posted an article, featuring word from representatives, about “Twilight”-author Stephanie Meyer being sued once again over claims that she plagiarized the fourth novel in the Twilight series, “Breaking Dawn”. Stephenie has earlier been sued for plagiarism by her former college roommate for plagiarizing the whole Twilight series.

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer was sued Wednesday over claims that she plagiarized the fourth novel in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, according to TMZ. Fellow author Jordan Scott claims that the book is very similar to her 2006 novel The Nocturne.

21-year-old Scott’s publisher claims that Breaking Dawn has “striking and substantial” similarities to The Nocturne.

Scott claims there are several coincidences in the two plots, including a wedding, a post-wedding sex scene, a woman becoming sick because she’s carrying a child with “evil powers” and the death of a main character.

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Someone (Jordan Scott) is trying to get their five minutes in fame if you ask me.

It has already been confirmed long ago (not officially though) but this article features some words from representatives about making “Breaking Dawn” into a film.

“The fans should rest assured the we’re working with Stephenie Meyer to bring Breaking Dawn to the big screen,” the rep said. “As in all creative processes, things take time. We want to make sure we get it right.”
And as Twilight fans know, that probably means softening the more hard-core aspects of Breaking Dawn.
“Our fans are in the PG age range, and I don’t feel a big necessity to see violence and to see gore,” Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg told us in late April.
Gore or not, Kristen Stewart probably said it best when we chatted with her in March.
“We all really hope there is going to be a number four,” she said at the time. “I’m pretty confident that the fans aren’t going to…lose interest. The only case that a fourth one wouldn’t be made is if all of a sudden people stopped caring, and I really don’t think that’s going to happen.”

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