Dazzled By Edward

The Twilight Lexicon gives us a list of options of companies offering trips to expand and live your knowledge of Twilight.

1. Twilight FanTrips want to lead you on different adventures in all the sights from the Twilight books and movies. The creators of the highly successful Harry Potter FanTrips, you will not be disappointed. There are many different trips, such as a full excursion to filming locations, Vampire Baseball, and visiting Forks.

2. Stephenie Meyer Day is happening September 12-13 in Forks, WA. It’s held on Bella’s birthday, and you get tours of Forks High School, a costume contest, and meet other Twilight fans!

3. Dazzled by Twilight has daily tours that take you all over La Push and Forks. They also have an awesome collection of merch in their tour store.

4. Novel Journeys takes you away to Italy to spots where New Moon was filmed. Trip highlights: retracing Bella’s journey through Volterra, a tour of the filming locations, and a wine tasting in the Volturi’s underground lair.

View the Lexicon’s original post here!

The Examiner reports:

One thing fans are looking forward to is the announcement of who will portray Leah Clearwater in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The same is true for casting of Seth Clearwater, Leah’s brother in the series. Both of these characters play an important part of Eclipse, but they are an even bigger part of Breaking Dawn.

Fans are also eager to know the full song and artists list for the New Moon soundtrack, a compilation that is due in October (approximately five weeks prior to the film’s release).

Obviously, there are many who look forward to an announcement as to the status of Breaking Dawn as a film – particularly, whether and when the film will be made.

Finally, fans also hope to see Midnight Sun make it to the bookshelves as a finished, complete product of Stephenie Meyer’s writing.

View the full article here!

In Entertainment Weekly magazine’s “What to Watch” section (“a day-to-day guide to notable programs”), it says:

Monday, August 10th
Series Debut
10-10:30PM
Twilight Weekly: Spotlight
Reelz, TV-PG
For the truly insanely obsessed: weekly updates on Edward, Bella, and the rest of the bloodsuckers.

Be sure to check it out!

The band Meese met Stephenie backstage at one of their concerts with The Fray and Jack’s Mannequin. They posted on their official blog about it:

“Hi guys, Nathan here. Now for something that you probably didn’t know about Ben and me. We’re into Twilight. Like IN TO it. It started when we were visiting our record label almost a year ago and they had a bunch of copies of the book laying around and I needed something to read on the airplane on the way back to Denver.

Stephenie was AWESOME. We got to hang out and chatted for a while! If it wasn’t for the fact that we had to go on stage to play, I probably would’ve tried to talk to her all night.”

Read more at their blog here!

MTV reports, “After a lengthy contest and many memorable submissions, we broke the good news to our contest winner Wednesday morning (July 15). ‘Are you serious? Am I the winner?’ screamed 18-year-old Farah Madi of Fairfax, Virginia, when we told her the good news via webcam. ‘Oh my gosh, it was so worth all the stress and the work. I cannot wait!’ Farah will join us in Dallas for TwiCon at the end of the month.”

View the entire article here!

Meet the Twilight correspondant finalists here, and be sure to vote.

Reelz Channel reports, “The voting pace is picking up — and the competition is getting fierce — with one week remaining in our TwiCon Fan Correspondent Search. At the moment, Samantha Fabetti and Jessica Gueco are in a neck-and-neck race for first place. And Dominique Alexis and Ana Velazquez are close behind them.”

Be sure to vote daily between now and July 17. Then tune in on July 27th to find out who’s going to Dallas.

You can vote HERE!

The Twilight Lexicon reports,

Becket Teen Sensations recently published a Twilight edition that focused on the the fan reaction to the series and movie. Unsurprisingly, it was wildly popular, and they are planning another issue. They again want fan input.

They are looking for fans to submit a 50-100 word paragraph on why they like Twilight. You can submit your paragraph to Spotlight@beckett.com .

If you are under 18, please ask your parents’ permission before submitting as they do ask for a photograph as well.

As we all know, many Twilight fans visit Forks to view Bella’s house, or Carlisle’s parking spot at the hospital. But with the release of New Moon, many fans are heading 7 miles west to visit La Push, and the Quileute tribe does not know how to react.

The NY Post reports, “Locals marvel at how much she [Stephenie Meyer] got right, but the economically depressed reservation is ambivalent about ‘Twilight’ and how its 350 residents should capitalize on it. Compared to Forks, where visitors can pose with Bella’s truck and participate in a ‘Twilight’ look-alike contest, the reservation is cloaked in centuries-old anonymity. ‘There are mixed feelings,’ says tribal council member Anna Rose Counsell. Over the last three months, the tribe has struggled over what to do. ‘This is a phenomenon that is happening whether we like it or not.’”

The Tribal publicist states, “‘The Quileute have traced their ancestry to the Ice Age,’ she says. ‘One day, ‘Twilight’ will go away and they will continue being the hospitable, welcoming people they’ve always been, practicing the culture they have been practicing for tens of thousands of years.’”

Read the entire article here.

Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse screen-writer Melissa Rosenberg posts updates on her facebook profile fairly regularly.
In one update, Melissa had this to say; 

“Just found out Showtime has bought the three Twilight Saga movies for pay cable. … I’ll be bound to the Showtime “family” more than ever, which I’m delighted about.” Go here for more :]

First, there were tote bags, pins and t-shirts. Then, both a life-sized cutout of Edward and a mini, pocket sized doll were developed for the Twilight franchise.
The latest venture spurred by the Twilight phenomenon? College senior Brandon Gardner, a Game Software Development major at Westwood College online, is creating Twilight: the video game.

to read more about Twilight; the video game and an interview with it’s creater, click here!

Peace. Love. Twilight! snagged an interview with the designers of the Twilight board game. Check out the excerpt below as well as the entire interview here.

Is this game something anyone can play, or do you need to be a fan of the series to play?
It definitely helps to be a fan of the series especially with the trivia challenges, but we intentionally designed the game in such a way that you don’t need to know everything about Twilight to enjoy the board game. Although we didn’t include a house rules section in the rulebook, players are encouraged to play the game in the way that they want to play it. For example, if you are playing with a bunch of friends who don’t know anything about Twilight, feel free to use only the non-trivia halves of the cards.

How did you come up with the questions?
We based the trivia questions on the movie. We wanted this to be the kind of game that you would want to play with your friends, so we brought in social and party elements. We also wanted you to have things to do even when it wasn’t your turn, which was the inspiration for some of the more social questions.

One of the routines on So You Think You Can Dance was inspired by Twilight! Check it out:

As you all have been previously told, Peter Facinelli made a bet with Rob DeFranco that Peter couldn’t get 500,000 followers on Twitter by Friday, June 19th. Too bad for Rob, us Twilight fans are very determined people.

Peter won the bet and in return Rob DeFranco has to walk down Hollywood Boulevard while wearing only a bikini and dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.”

And folks, that day has come.

WARNING: Don’t watch if you don’t want to laugh. Hilarity will ensue. ;D

ReelzChannel will show their Twilight Spotlight Special TONIGHT, June 29th, at 10 pm EST. The spotlight special will have new interviews as well as naming the six finalists to be ReelzChannel’s Twicon Fan Correspondent!

ReelzChannel states, “The half-hour original series gives movie fans the television equivalent of bonus features on their favorite DVDs -– with extras not available anywhere else, including extended interviews with the stars, movie trailers and clips, behind-the-scenes coverage, and in-depth stories.”

Go here to see where you can watch ReelzChannel in your area!