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| ‘Breaking Dawn’ sees its stars looking to new horizons Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 — As "Twilight" fans gear up for the emotional roller-coaster of weddings, babies and battles that is "Breaking Dawn — Part 1", the movie's three stars are beginning to look to new horizons. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1", opening in US cinemas on Friday, has young lovers Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) finally marry in a wedding that has the "Twilight" fan-verse in a frenzy. But wedded bliss doesn't last long for the young couple after Bella finds herself pregnant with a vampire baby that is slowly killing her. Back home, werewolf Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner, faces conflict within his own tribe as he chooses to protect Bella and her unborn child. "Lots of milestones are crammed into this one and there's a very accelerated bit of life lived in this movie," said Stewart. The end to the "Twilight" movie series eventually plays out when "Breaking Dawn — Part 2" reaches cinemas in the summer of 2012. But with filming already wrapped up, Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner already are emotional about the end of the saga that turned them into worldwide stars and good friends. "I'll never have anything like that again in any other aspect of movie-making," said Stewart, 21. "It's a very shared love, but to share that with so many people, it is just so unique and it's so rare." Lautner, 19, said the three of them had become very close since making the first "Twilight" movie, released in 2008. "We've gone through a lot with each other," he said. "We have a lot of fun making the movies, and it was definitely a bummer when it all finished." But the young stars already have begun to move on. Lautner took a turn as an action hero in "Abduction" earlier this year, and he stars in the movie version of upcoming young adult sci-fi novel "Incarceron". No more white face Stewart, in 2010, played rock singer Joan Jett in "The Runaways" and a teenage prostitute in "Welcome To The Rileys". She will next be seen in the classic beat generation drama "On The Road", and in the lead role for 2012 fantasy "Snow White and the Huntsman". For Pattinson, 25, there's one thing he won't miss as "Twilight" draws to an end. "Putting a bunch of white face make-up on so you notice all the wrinkles you're getting," the British actor said. "After awhile, it's kind of depressing. I'm looking forward to not seeing that anymore." Pattinson branched out in circus romance "Water for Elephants" opposite Reese Witherspoon earlier this year and has two other movies under his belt — "Bel Ami", in which he plays a young Parisian seducer, and "Cosmopolis". He is still surprised by fan response to the first three "Twilight" movies based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer. Combined, the three films have made more than US$1.8 billion (RM5.6 billion) at worldwide box offices. "I'd be curious how long it would go on for if we just kept making sequels," Pattinson said. "That would be so strange if it went on for 10 years or something." "Breaking Dawn", directed by Bill Condon and produced by independent studio Summit Entertainment, has generated mixed reviews. Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter criticised the "dirge-like" pacing and "banal" script. But Variety's Justin Chang said Stewart and Pattinson "have merged so completely with their roles and each other that the sight of the duo's matrimonial bliss — delicately shaded by that sense of transience and loss that attends even happy life transitions — delivers a genuine emotional payoff." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Tinseltown to tackle Time Lord with Dr Who series Posted: 15 Nov 2011 03:18 AM PST  Director Yates "starting from scratch". — Reuters pic Yates, who made the last four of eight Potter blockbusters, is teaming up with Jane Tranter, head of the LA-based BBC Worldwide Prods, according to Hollywood trade publication Variety. "We're looking at writers now. We're going to spend two to three years to get it right," Yates told Variety. "It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena." The television series about an eccentric, super-intelligent humanoid alien travelling through time in his "TARDIS", ran from 1963 to 1989 before being rebooted in 2005. The current "Doctor Who" stars Matt Smith as the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, and the series is one of the public broadcaster's most lucrative exports. The series airs in the United States on BBC America. Yates said he would "start from scratch" rather than try and follow on from the existing storyline. There have been two big-screen adaptations of Dr Who already — "Dr Who and the Daleks" in 1965 and "Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D." the following year — both starring Peter Cushing as the Time Lord. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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