While I was watching the ABC To the Oscars Red Carpet, Reese Witherspoon was asked about “Water for Elephants” in a special room with someone from Vanity Fair (didn’t catch her name). Of course, she was asked the lame question if the cast of “Water for Elephants” were wearing “Team Edward” shirts. She said she guessed she would have to be now. The interviewer referred to Rob as “Mr Twilight Guy”. Wow. lol

I hope someone gets a video!

@TodaFanTwilight:

James Franco said in an interview that he would like to sing with Rob, this may be the surprise

The Academy Awards have to attract young viewers to remain the biggest awards show. That’s why they expanded the Best Picture category to 10 nominees, allowing more populist films to be included.

They’ve also started a huge social networking push, announcing recently that the ceremony will be streaming live online, and named the unlikely young duo of Anne Hathaway and James Franco as co-hosts.

This is all costing the Academy a pretty penny, during a time when movie ticket sales are down. However, all they really need to attract younger viewers is “The Twilight Saga.”

I am not suggesting that the prestigious awards show should tarnish its reputation by including “Twilight” nominees in undeserved categories. Most reasonable Twi-Hards are willing to admit Robert Pattinson’s performance as Edward doesn’t quite match up to Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech” or James Franco in “127 Hours.”

What I am suggesting, simply, is they add some categories where “Twilight” will be a lock.

Young folks love vampires and wizards and supernatural storylines. However, with the current Academy’s taste and categories, those films are rarely nominated outside of snoozefest categories like Best Makeup or Best Visual Effects (no offense, makeup people and visual effect dudes). The Academy has added categories in the past like Best Animated Feature Film. Why not a few more?

In a selfless effort to help the film industry, I am listing suggestions for new categories and what movies and actors would have been nominated had the awards been included this year. Members of the Academy should note that these not only allow “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” to be nominated multiple times, but also other popular movies like “Paranormal Activity 2″ and “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”

Most of my suggestions are fairly self-explanatory. Obviously, to be considered for Best Supernatural Feature Film, there would have to be supernatural elements in the movie. Others may not seem as clear-cut.

Best Performance In A Supernatural Redemption Role is where a supernatural character does something wrong, but makes up for it by doing something right. Jasper Hale almost ate Bella, and then protected her by training the Cullens and the wolf pack to fight newborn vampires.

Reese Witherspoon is walking the red carpet. MTV wants you to tweet your questions. Perhaps some “Water for Elephants” news? Also, keep current on the “Twilight” surprise.

@pursuit23:

So one half of #Robsten has arrived into Vancouver…wonder when we get to see Rob…#twilight #BreakingDawn

@onemadhatter:

There is a twilight musical number in tonights show. Just confirmed by Ryan seacreat

@TwiSource:

Ryan Seacrest says tonight’s Twilight surprise at this Oscars is a musical skit and to expect it at 10PM ET/7PM PT.

@RobPattzNews:

Seacrest probably talking #Twilight surprise producers promised. Summit said no cast attending. Taped sketch? maybe @myRobPattinson #Oscars

@larry411:

Yup, my understanding is a musical number halfway thru the show RT @BellasGuardian: @MellyBelly626 @TwilightLexicon apparently no footage

tracygee from Rob’s IMDB message board said,

The mass-market version of Water for Elephants! There it was, all lined up and pretty with the rest of the mass-markets. I had to do a double take because I know it’s not out yet, but then I bought one.

We’ve all seen the front and back I think, but I took pictures anyway. My camera phone is crap, so I took them outside, so excuse the shadows. I was more than pleased to see that they’ll be distributing the book to secondary “non bookstore” places as well. This store normally hasn’t been carrying WfE.

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Actor Robert Pattinson and the beloved French actress Juliette Binoche have officially signed on to star in David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” which is scheduled to begin principal photography on May 24, 2011. Casting for the film’s co-stars, supporting actors, day players, and extras will take place in New York and Toronto where shooting will take place.

Robert Pattinson replaced Colin Farrell for the role of Eric Packer, and Juliette Binoche replaced Keira Knightley for the role of Eric Parker’s wife. Paul Giamatti will play Benno Levin, aka, Richard Sheets, a psychotic man who stalks Eric Parker. Another French actor, Mathieu Amalric, has signed on to the film.

David Cronenberg has completed the adapted screenplay which is based on American author and playwright Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel published in 2003. “Cosmopolis” is the first direct adaptation for the screen of a DeLillo novel.

Details on how talent can submit for acting roles, and registration information for extras can be found on the following casting post:

David Cronenberg Feature Film “Cosmopolis” Auditions

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Thank you to alanbaltes from Rob’s IMDB message board!

Like the late John Hughes, who discovered the teenage actors who became the Brat Pack, Hardwicke has created many of this generation’s tween idols. Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown), Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner (Twilight) all got their big breaks in a Hardwicke film. She dishes about them like an older sister; how Hirsch was too lazy to do sit-ups and drew abs on his stomach with mascara or why Pattinson had to pluck his eyebrows. “They were a bit bushy,” she says. “We needed to see some eyes!”

For Twilight, Hardwicke had trouble finding an actor otherworldly enough to play vampire Edward Cullen. Then she got a call about a guy in London. “I looked at a couple pictures and was like, ‘I’m not sure,’?” Hardwicke says. “He had been fired from his last job, he was unemployed, he was in debt.” Pattinson flew to Los Angeles on his own dime to read with Stewart. “I have footage of their first meeting at my dining-room table,” Hardwicke says. “Kristen was like, ‘It’s got to be Rob!’ She felt connected to him from the first moment. That electricity, or love at first sight, or whatever it is.” Hardwicke gave him the part, but he had to make a promise. “You’ve got to realize that Kristen is 17 years old,” she told him. “She’s underage. You’ve got to focus, dude, or you’re going to be arrested. I made him swear on a stack of Bibles.”

Despite Twilight’s $400 million global success, Hardwicke left the franchise when it came to the sequel. She said it was her decision, despite a blog report that she was fired. “I couldn’t even be fired, that’s what’s so funny,” she says. “In my contract, I had the first right of refusal.” She turned down the second film, she says, because the studio wanted to rush it out. “I do not regret it at all, thank the Lord,” she says. “The truth is I liked the first book the best.”

There is something of the vampire in Hardwicke herself. Just as Edward will never grew old, Hardwicke refuses to abandon the mischievous joys of youth. There’s nothing formal about the way she does business. She frequently invites her protégés over to audition or rehearse. Her home is “right on the beach,” says Shiloh Fernandez, who plays the hunky Peter in Red Riding Hood. “It’s like a loft for a young surfer guy.” It’s not Grandma’s house. But there is a bed. And she lures young actors onto it, though not in the traditional casting-couch way. When Hardwicke auditioned Evan Rachel Wood for Thirteen, she had her get into her bed with Nikki Reed. That’s also where Pattinson kissed Stewart for the first time in his Twilight screen test. “That bed made Pattinson who he is right now,” says (Nikki) Reed. Asked about her lair, Hardwicke laughs. “MTV came and did an episode in my house filming the bed. It’s legendary,” she says, flashing a wide—dare we say wolfish—grin.

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According to kitkattz from Rob’s IMDB message board,

April 15th at 9:00PM.

Save the date! Check you local listings!

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart threw their hands in the air like they didn’t care all night long at a Friday/Saturday pre-Oscar bash at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood.

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