Salon.com has a new interview with Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke.

Salon.com: You’ve directed several films, including “Thirteen” and “The Nativity Story,” and now “Twilight,” about teenage girls. What is it about the teenage years that you find so fascinating? 

Cathering Hardwicke: It’s the first time you can get drunk or kiss a guy or drive a car, or do crazy, stupid or great things. It’s a time that just has so much drama in it, and that makes it cinematically exciting: dramatic, and beautiful, and painful.

Salon.com:The books obviously have a cult following, primarily among women. How would you explain their popularity?

Catherine Hardwicke: It’s just this obsessive rhythmic prose that’s almost repetitive. It’s like you’re getting drawn into this world of obsessive love and that’s kind of addictive and fascinating. I think that people get hooked on that feeling, whether it’s your first time falling in love or you’re 35 and want to fall in love again.

Salon.com: It seems to me that the books are mostly a kind of wish fulfillment. The book positions Bella as an everygirl, while it obsessively emphasizes Edward’s beauty.

Catherine Hardwicke: And how he is protective of her, and yeah, I think that’s wish fulfillment. I think there is also the wish fulfillment of being in love with the bad boy and that he’s in love with you too.

For the rest of the interview, click here.

MTV is having an interview everyday now, lol; Not complaining, through. I love them, especially this one with director Catherine Hardwicke, which brings some pretty good news about the DVD.

MTV: Obviously, someday there will be a “Twilight” DVD we’ll all want to buy. Do you have any details yet that you could share?
Hardwicke: Oh, yeah, we’ve already put together all of the deleted scenes and extended scenes. I think there’s about 10 or 12 pretty cool things that people are going to like. And then I made a montage of all the other scenes that didn’t quite make it in, of vampire bites and sexy, crazy stuff. And then I put all of the human kids [into another montage]. They did a lot of crazy things, so you’ll see all that stuff too. There’s a pretty neat video that we made that goes with the Jason Bentley remix, and that’s very intense and beautiful. So I think there’s going to be some delicious things. But, of course, there’s also the “making-of,” talking about how we really figured out every scene. It’s gonna be pretty good.

MTV: Very cool. And will it be a two-disc or a three-disc?
Hardwicke: I think there’s gonna be a two-disc and a three-disc. A one, two and three! I’ve also got all the cool storyboards and drawings and sketches and stuff, so we’ll probably get all that stuff out there.

Read the rest of the interview here.

Robert, Kristen and Catherine attended the “Twilight” press conference at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on November 8 in Beverly Hills, California, we have pictures in the gallery

[x85] ‘Twilight’ Press Conference in LA.

Collider has an amazing and huge interview with Catherine Hardwicke, she says there are 12 deleted scenes on the TWILIGHT DVD!

Speaking of deleted scenes, and I’m sure fans want to know, what’s the length of stuff that was cut out of the film? Is it any of the special effects stuff or is it dialogue scenes? Could you talk a little about what you cut?

Catherine: Well, for example the diner. You know, the first day after school, where you go see Bella and Charlie and talking about their awkward meeting and stuff, that scene was about twice when we shot it. And so it kind of slowed down the pace …and it’s still cool, but it just kind of kept going. (she makes a cutting sound) So we just put the whole thing on the DVD. There were times when Esme and Dr. Cullen make a comment on how Bella’s brought Edward to life, it was kind of in the middle of the tree top sequence, and you kind of just wanted to stay with Edward and Bella. So you’ll see that. And there’s a little bit more sexiness with the bad vampires. A little kissing and biting, nyah, nyah, nyah.

Read the full interview.

We lost the ‘Twilight’ Countdown yesterday, but here it is:

14 days left…
Two weeks and counting. Today I’ve got Part II of the Countdown’s Catherine Hardwicke interview. (Read Part I here if you missed it!)

The director talks about the original “Twilight” script, sets the record straight about Robert Pattinson’s music and early reaction to the movie.

What were the major differences in the original “Twilight” script and the one eventually written by Melissa Rosenberg?

The very first thing in the script said that Bella was a track star. She’s obviously not a track star so the first moment you’re like whoa. And then she’s sitting in a diner with James and the bad vampires in the first couple pages. Wow, that doesn’t make sense. And there’s this whole FBI organization that’s tracking these bad vampires, the nomadic vampires, as they go down from Canada to Mexico. I mean, it’s pretty way out. And by the end the FBI is chasing them around on jet skis out in the ocean.

It kind of turned into ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ It was cool enough that when I read it I became curious. I went out and read the book and was like, ‘Whoa boy. Throw the script away and let’s start over.’ Out of fairness to the original writer, he’s a great writer, the book wasn’t out at the time the MTV and Paramount people were developing it. The idea of ‘Twilight’ was only a jumping off point and they did their own thing after that.

Read full interview here.

16 days left and the LA Times – “Twilight” Countdown has an amazing interview with the director Catherine Hardwicke, she talks about the meadow and making Robert Pattinson ‘dazzle’.

Can you talk about how you got Edward to dazzle in that meadow?

That again was super challenging. We had probably 10 special effects companies trying out experimental ideas on some footage we had to see how we can make him dazzle and sparkle and shimmer. Most of it wasn’t good. We ended up going with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas’ company) and they, of course, are masters at creating amazing effects. We did a full body scan of Rob, which we turned into a 3-D model of him — (laughs) there is a 3D model of Rob somewhere! — and did all this very high-tech mapping of every surface of his face and body.

Besides reviewing zillions of versions of it, I wound up flying to ILM with the visual effects supervisor three different times and spending whole days working with the three-dimensional models and the geometry and the physics going, “How can we get this to be beautiful?”

Read the full interview

Sonia e Benedetta let us to put their photos of the Melbooks Library Signing at our site. Thank so much girls!!! I love the photos.

Robert Pattinson and Catherine Hardwicke attended last night at Apple to promote “Twilight” in New York, and we have added for 64 pitures in HQ in our gallery for now.

[x064] Robert Pattinson and Catherine Hardwicke Promote “Twilight” at the Apple

We have uploaded to the gallery some Robert and Kristen pics signing books at the Melbooks Library, Rome.

Thanks to Topaz Shadows.

We’ve completed the albums for the Rome Film Festival 2008: ‘Twilight’ – Premiere with a total of 203 pictures and the Rome Film Festival 2008: ‘Twilight’ – Photocall with a total of 250 pictures.