The following publication uses a paparazzi photograph in this particular scan, hence I have placed it under the cut.

We all know that Twilight couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are one of the most sought after couple in Hollywood these days. But do you know that the beautiful couple brings $7 Billion to Hollywood indirectly. The Twilight franchise is a superhit, infact a bumper hit and the vampire-human love story is a super-money maker!

We also know that Pattinson and Stewart are fond of cigarettes, wants to remain away from paparazzi and keep their relationship under wraps. It is rumored that the couple is currently dating with their Bel Air love nest.

Pattinson and Stewart started this vampire with their balanced act in Twilight, the first installment of the superstar vampire saga and their team received very warm welcome by millions of movie goers across the globe. Before the release of Twilight, no one had expected that the vampire and human love story will become such a major hit. The super success of Twilight forced HBO and CW to launch their own “Edward and Bella” stories, “True Blood,” and “Vampire Diaries.” Some other networks also started their vampire movies to cash in on the success of Twilight.

“Vampires bring $7 bill to Hollywood economy,” reported THR. The $7 billion revenue came after the release of ‘Twilight’, which hit the theaters two years ago.

“The three ‘Twilight’ films, released in 2008, 2009 and 2010, have a $1.76 billion cume at the global box office. The first two each has grossed another $160 million or so in home video sales (the third hits Blu-ray/DVD in September). That’s more than $2 billion right there,” added THR report.

When it comes to vampires, it doesn’t take much to suck a mag in. To celebrate Robert Pattinson’s and Kristen Stewart’s romantic anniversary, Who has ”the latest – and most conclusive – evidence” uncovered in the past 12 months that the pair are even dating – shots of them kissing at a house party. ”The image is grainy, but the passion seems clear,” it says.

Famous airs a ”thinly veiled and cowardly” claim that Pattinson had turned to drug use to cope with the pressures of fame. ”Why would someone … spread such a vicious and totally untrue story about him – one with the potential to destroy his career?” it asks, rhetorically, we suppose.

Rob is in a little star to the left of Taylor.

The mischievous tone is set by Mark Flood’s “Twilight Feelings” (2010), a distorted, mosaic-style portrait of the vampire-franchise heartthrob Robert Pattinson. Using multiple copies of the same photograph, Mr. Flood gives the actor a giraffelike neck and sharply protruding chin.

Teenage fans of British heartthrob Robert Pattinson would have paid a premium for a Hillsboro man’s seat Friday in a rural area outside Chickamauga, Ga.

While the teens gathered with their cameras at a blocked-off road leading to a movie set at a farmhouse, Eugene Glenn sat behind the steering wheel of a 1930 Model A Ford as members of the crew gave him a push to start his car. Pattinson, 24, who appears in “Eclipse” with Kristen Stewart, sat in the passenger seat.

“I didn’t say a word to him,” Glenn said, “and he didn’t offer any conversation.”

Filming scenes of “Water for Elephants” brought Glenn to the cattle farm about 28 miles south of Chattanooga, although the story from the Sara Gruen novel during the Great Depression originates in Tompkins County, New York.

Pattinson, the star of the “Twilight” movie series who appeared in two Harry Potter flicks, portrays Jacob Jankowski, a veterinary student shy of a degree who abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a third-rate traveling circus as the veterinarian. The story unfolds as Jacob meets Marlena Rosenbluth, a beautiful equestrian star played by Reese Witherspoon, and her husband and animal trainer, August, played by Christoph Waltz.

The behind-the-scenes saga for Glenn and his wife, Rita, began when Scott Owens, a Trinity firefighter, responded to a Craigslist ad placed by David Tinsley of Ragtop Picture Cars in Lebanon, Tenn.

On Thursday morning his wife, Kim, also a Trinity firefighter and EMT, and their teenage daughters joined him in taking the Plymouth to the set. The Glenns transported their Model A.

“We had to be there Thursday to get the car checked out,” said Glenn, 74, a retired farmer who served on the Morgan County School Board for five years. The crew transformed the vehicle into the Tompkins County sheriff’s patrol car.

“They removed my tags and put on a New York license plate,” Glenn said. “I had to take off a third stop light in the rear window to make it look authentic but that wasn’t any trouble. We returned on Friday about 8:30 a.m., and they began shooting about 3 p.m.”

“Every time they wanted to move the car, I drove it and repositioned it,” Glenn said. “After they finished with the still shots, I moved the car down to where they were going to do the moving shots with Lauria and Pattinson. I cut the car off and got out. When they got in, the car wouldn’t start.”

While the Glenns and Owenses had limited access to the actors, they got the royal treatment for the trip.

“They had a tent on the set with water and snacks and a caterer served a full buffet meal Friday,” Glenn said. “They served Robert in his trailer. Reese Witherspoon was never on the set for our one-day shoot.”

Owens said it was a fun time for both families, especially their daughters, Margaret Thompson, 15, a sophomore at West Morgan High School, and Brie Ann Owens, 13, an eighth-grader at West Morgan Middle School. He said they were the only teen girls on the set. The movie has a release date of April 15.

Robert Pattinson stood inches from me. Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, both Oscar winners, were only feet away. Directly in front of me, and behind the camera, sat Rodrigo Prieto, an Oscar-nominated director of photography.

I should have been completely awestruck at the level of talent that surrounded me. Yet the only thing I could truly focus on was my aching feet and legs due to the flat slippers the wardrobe department had given me to wear – and having to stand on them for hours on end.

Playing the Tall Man, a non-speaking, featured-extra role in the film “Water for Elephants” proved to be equal parts fun and exhausting.

Based on the popular book of the same name by Sara Gruen, the story is about a young man who joins a Depression-era circus. I was cast as a part of a group of sideshow performers that included a midget, Wolfboy, the Fat Lady, the Strong Man and a couple of contortionists.

My job was to be present in the background and, in some cases, right up next to the lead actors. I suppose my claim to fame was the scene in which I and a few other men physically shoved Pattinson to the front of a group of circus workers so that he could be properly “initiated” into the circus life by being sprayed with water, pelted with pies and kissed by the showgirls.

But there were other scenes, too, including one on the sleeping car of the train, another when I stood with Pattinson and a few others and watched Witherspoon cavort with an elephant.

There is a chance that I will be seen on screen. But, being familiar with filmmaking, I understand that there is an even better chance that I will not be seen. Wait and see, I guess.

It was fun to meet and work with such talent, including director Francis Lawrence. Yet the thing that I found most impressive – as I always have – was the extraordinary work ethic of the crew.

The grips and gaffers – those responsible for rigging the lights, the electrical cables and supplying power from the generators to the set – truly garnered my respect.

Thanks to tabloids and gossip websites, much of the public believes filmmaking to be glamorous and glitzy. There are certainly aspects of it that are. But even more of it is hard, physical work.

I won’t soon forget the camera operator in the train sleeping car scene, having to get the shot with a handheld camera, doing it over and over again. Between each take, he collapsed on the floor, wheezed loudly and held his back, which had buckled under the weight of the camera. Sweat poured from his brow.

I also won’t forget the wardrobe department and working with costume designer Jacqueline West – another Oscar nominee – and their passion for their craft. A couple of days I arrived on set before 6 a.m. They were already there, waiting for me, preparing to put me in yet another ridiculous costume. Meticulous and motivated, they loved every minute of their work.

As a filmmaker myself, working on this project only confirmed what I have always known: filmmaking is not for sissies.

Behind the Robert Pattinsons, Reese Witherspoons and others is always a multitude of men and women who exude professionalism and redefine what it means to work hard. They are the ones whose names roll later in the credits, long after most have risen from their theater seats and gone home.

Without them, there would be no film, no story brought to life on a shimmering screen. I have spent a considerable amount of time on film sets but have always had a job to do. On this set, however, my time was spent mostly watching what others do – at the highest level.

On my last day of shooting, I realized that it was these people who I admired the most. They are the unsung heroes of the film, the ones that make it all possible. When this film is released, they will be long gone and working on another project – doing it all over again. I’ll be thinking about them and, perhaps, our paths will cross again.

Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cryus ARE genuine movie stars. Because true stardom is opening a movie with just your face on the poster.

Brent Lang of The Wrap just doesn’t get it. Plain and simple. In his provocatively-titled piece ‘Zac Efron and the Incredible Shrinking Teen Idol Stars’, Land submits that the newest generation of young stars (Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, Miley Cyrus, etc) have disappointed at the box office even as the numbers he uses fail to bear that out. Once again, a pundit has fallen into the classic trap: Because a movie star’s latest movie has failed to match up with his or her all-time best performances, said actor’s star must be fading. But it fails to take into account two obvious factors: not every film an actor makes is identical in appeal and marketability, and a star cannot be expected to top their previous best every time out of the gate.

As I’ve said any number of occasions, movie stars are worth certain paydays for certain projects. Robert Downey Jr. is worth whatever he can get for a theoretical Iron Man 3, and he’s worth almost as much for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes 2 (on that note, fan-favorite Jude Law can and should hold out for a career-high payday to return as Dr. Watson, as the sequel needs his chemistry with Downey Jr. to work again). But no one should expect The Soloist, a dark, sobering drama about homelessness and mental illness, to perform at the same levels as a crowd-pleasing franchise picture. Brendan Fraser knew that The Mummy Returns was his big payday back in 2001, so he asked for and got $12.5 million. And for that film and that franchise, he was worth every penny. But he certainly wasn’t so foolhardy to ask for another $12.5 million for The Quiet American.

The absurd idea that a small intimate drama starring a given actor should be expected to perform as well as a crowd-pleasing genre picture is asinine. In fact, such expectations actually discourage actors from stretching or trying artier or more challenging works. Call it the Harrison Ford trap: all of Ford’s fans constantly belittled Ford for not stretching his acting muscles and branching out. But every time he did (Random Hearts, Six Days Seven Nights, Hollywood Homicide), he faced the wrath of box office pundits who couldn’t figure out why a romantic drama about two people whose cheating spouses died in a plane crash didn’t perform quite as well as Air Force One. Eventually Ford caved in and went ahead and made Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where he was again lambasted (not entirely unfairly) for not living up to his prior work in his iconic role.

Point being, Charlie St. Cloud is not High School Musical 3, Hairspray, or even 17 Again. It is a dark drama about grieving and loss, and it had absolutely nothing going for it other than Zac Efron’s name and face on the poster. Opening a well-marketed and appealing mainstream comedy like 17 Again to $23 million is impressive. Opening a poorly-marketed and not-terribly appealing drama like Charlie St. Cloud to $12.5 million all by yourself: You, Zac Efron, are a genuine movie star. Same goes for Robert Pattinson. Sure Remember Me ‘only’ made $55 million worldwide (on a budget of just $16 million), but that means that $55 million worth of tickets were sold completely on the shoulders of one Robert Pattinson (quick, raise your hands if you saw that one for Pierce Brosnan or Chris Cooper….?). And by all means, let’s compare the box office performance of Kristen Stewart’s The Runaways, an R-rated 70s rock biopic that never even got a wide release, with the box office run of New Moon.

Sure, Shia LeBeouf is a big star in theory, but does he really deserve much credit for the opening weekends of Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, or Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (or the upcoming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)? Even his two other star vehicles, Disturbia and Eagle Eye, were mass-marketed all-audience thrillers that were backed by Steven Spielberg himself. While he obviously gets points for shrewd choices in selecting solid commercial projects (and all of the above projects, even Transformers 2, had legs, implying that they clicked with audiences past just opening weekend), let’s see how well he can open a film that has absolutely nothing to offer except Shia LeBeouf. Star power, true star power, is about opening a film to a level to bring about eventual profitability with nothing but your pull on audiences.

While Angelina Jolie’s Salt opened ($36 million) a touch below Tomb Raider ($47 million) and Wanted ($50 million), Salt’s opening is just as, if not more impressive, because it relied purely on the draw of Angelina Jolie the action star. Again, this is a question of comfort zones. A Mighty Heart and The Changeling did not pull in blockbuster numbers, but Jolie is worth whatever she can get as an action heroine. Thus, quite obviously, Robert Pattinson shouldn’t be getting paid nearly as much for Remember Me as he did for Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He didn’t, so the film’s box office should not be judged on the same level.

Pattinson and Efron could spend their entire careers doing rip-offs of, respectively Twilight and High School Musical. The fact that they are instead making more challenging pictures, and still posting decent returns, means that they are absolutely bankable names on a reasonable budget. Miley Cryus could spend her whole career making Hanna Montana sequels, but she chooses not to. And to say that the $88 million worldwide gross of The Last Song (on a budget of $20 million) is a disappointment compared to the $155 million gross of The Hanna Montana Movie is no different than saying that Inception is a flop because it won’t gross two-thirds of what The Dark Knight pulled in. Both Chris Nolan pictures cost around $180 million, yet one will only make around $700 million worldwide while the Batman sequel grossed a billion. So obviously Inception is a stinker and Nolan should be laughed out of town, right?

Stardom is relative and somewhat flexible. Put Johnny Depp in a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel or a big-budget Tim Burton fantasy, and he’s worth $30 million plus points. But he shouldn’t be getting, nor will he be asking for, the same cut for a theoretical Terry Gilliam picture, and thus said Gilliam picture should not be judged on the same scale as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Depp didn’t become a star when Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl opened to $43 million in July 2003. Depp became a star when The Secret Window, a thriller than basically starred Depp all-by-himself in an old cabin, opened to $17 million in the Spring of 2004. Will Smith isn’t a star because Men in Black 2 opened to $52 million back in July 2002. He’s a star, arguably the biggest one around, because he can open Seven Pounds to $14 million in the middle of a crowded pre-Christmas weekend. And speaking of the Smith family, don’t be that idiot who screams failure when Jaden Smith’s next movie doesn’t equal or top the $56 million opening weekend of The Karate Kid.

Star power isn’t opening something that is already highly appealing to a mass audience that has the benefit of your name on the poster. Star power is scoring a reasonable or better opening weekend for a film that has nothing to offer except your name on the poster. On that scale, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Robert Pattinson are genuine movie stars.

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Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon are coming. At least according to Kathy Carver, owner of Chaparral Talent Agency in Chattanooga.

“I was asked back in June to find stand-ins for Robert and Reese and extras for the movie,” she said. “They would not need stand-ins if they were not coming.”

Carver said she turned down the job because it didn’t pay enough, but still, having the cast and crew of the 20th Century Fox production here for about a month is good for the local economy.

“They leave lots of money,” she said.

Meanwhile, Internet social media sites and chatrooms are stuffed with fans of Pattinson, who is best known for his role as vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” series, plotting ways to catch a glimpse of him.

After the Times Free Press identified their particular web page, some fans created a private, invitation-only site to dish their swoons and secrets.

Rumors abounded Wednesday that Pattinson was in town. On the On Location Vacations website, “Monkeybreath” wrote, “Rob just bummed a smoke from me on Market Street across from the Choo Choo.”

Reports also said he was spotted in Lupi’s Pizza Pies downtown and at the Tennessee Aquarium. Those reports were denied by employees at the restaurant and the aquarium.

Even some fans were skeptical of all the sightings.

“Someone on this thread is fibbing, and it’s most likely everyone,” wrote “Rhonda” on the website. “So today, he filmed in GA, ate lunch at Lupi’s, bummed a smoke and went to the aquarium. And the director of the film is still in LA. Hmmmm?”

After finishing her night-shift nursing job Wednesday morning, Harrison resident Kimberly Raspiller read that Pattinson might be in North Georgia. She called her 17-year-old daughter, Courtney.

“She got right out of bed,” Raspiller said. “She never gets up early (around 7 a.m.).”

The two got online and read fan reports claiming that filming would take place on West Cove Road in Kensington, Ga., and headed out, hoping to glimpse the star or get a picture.

They found the house, which is unoccupied, and even managed to speak to the owner — though they did not get his name — who they said was there along with film-crew members.

He told her that “he and his brother own the property and they were fertilizing the land when a scout stopped last spring to ask if he could take a look around,” Raspiller said. “They (the brothers) were planning to tear the house down, he said.”

The homeowner told the mother and daughter that crews have done some minor cosmetic work to the house getting ready for this weekend’s filming there, Raspiller said.

“He said, ‘By Friday, you ain’t gonna get anywhere near here cause they will have the roads blocked.’”

Kimberly Raspiller took the photo (below). It is a house on W. Cove Road in Kensington, Ga., where the owner, whose name she did not get, says will be used in the filming of “Water for Elephants” starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.

WFE set tweeted yesterday by brightnshiny86

To read more about the Chattanooga, TN filming, click here.

Robert Pattinson was like a big brother to his Remember Me co-star Ruby Jerins, she has revealed.
The 11-year-old plays the Twilight star’s younger sister in the tear-jerker, and said their on-screen chemistry was just as real once the cameras were switched off.

“He’s really fun and very funny, he was like a bigger brother except he wasn’t mean – sometimes big brothers can be mean,” she said. “He is very supportive and respectable, and easy to act with. I really admired his work from the beginning, and he was really nice to everybody.”

The actress added: “It is extremely easy to bond with him. When we first met at the screen test, he suggested we should hang out a little and build chemistry but we never got to – it wasn’t really necessary because we did a lot of waiting around on set, so we got to know each other then and goofed around.”

Ruby – a Twilight fan – was amazed by the constant presence of fans and paparazzi around the Remember Me set in New York.

“It was crazy. From the time when we woke up, all these fans and paparazzi would already have surrounded the set. They were all over every scene. It was definitely a new experience for me,” she recalled.

:: Remember Me is available now in Blu-Ray and DVD.

“Everyone has sex before marriage”

Vampire Robert Pattinson talks about fame and roomservice, noble knights and ‘the first time’

The good vampire is back. The third part of Stephenie Meyers saga ‘Twulught’ started last week in de German theathers, and Robert Pattinson gets into the role of ?blassen? Edward Cullen. In ‘Eclipse’ Bella must choose between the bloodsucker and her friend who becase a wolf. What a drama. But heartbreaker Pattinson stays relaxed. In some kind of brown jeans and a tshirt, the 24 year old comes to the interview in a suite of the Four Seasons in Los Angeles.

Rob, they call you the ‘most famous actor in the world’. How does that feel?

It has good and bad days. So far my ego hasn’t gotten any damage yet.

You are 24 and you can barely go out the door without a bodyguard. Doesn’t that bug you?

Sometimes. But then I remember how my normal life was: boring.

People, that have shut the door in your face when you were a Nobody, now roll out the red carpet for you.

Well, that’s how it is. In London this goes different, there it doesn’t matter where you are, as long as you give the bouncer 200 pounds in his hand. There was a really good phase before ‘Twilight’ came out and someone knew my name. Suddenly my name was on the really hip guestlists. I wanted to go to a party with a friend (girl), just said my name and the woman t the admission just said: ‘ All is good, come on in’. I was quite ready. Four months later ‘Twilight’ came out. Since then I rarely go out.

Where do you live now, London or L.A.? Do you even have a home?

No, my ‘house’ consists of three suitcases out of which I live. They have everything in it.

Can you even live without a chambermaid, mini-bar and roomservice?

Last I was in London in a hotel with a fantastic roomservice. There I ate the same thing every day: Chicken Tikka, an Indian chickendish. It was so good, that I kept ordering it every time. Eventually I was fed up with heavy food. In Los Angeles I then got the services of a delivery service, that only offers fresh and healthy food. Also if I sometimes come over stupid (don’t understand thisfirst part of the sentence well :s), I let them bring me a big bag with only healthy food in the morning. I have never felt this healthily well-fed in my whole life.

Do you sometimes long for a homecooked meal?

Sure, but mostly I’m on my own or on the road. And I can’t cook myself. I know just enough to make me a slice of toast. I don’t have the genetic ability for it. I’m incapable of judging if something tastes good. The only thing I do know, is that Barbecue-sauce goes with everything!

Has Twilight made your life more lonely?

I always work, am always surrounded by people, who ask questions or give me pointers. That’s why I enjoy when I am on my own. I don’t have a problem with that, not talking to anyone for two months.

What do you wake in women as Edward? Is it the noble knight, of whom we all dream?

I often hear, that this history comes over as oldfashioned and that this encourages women to take the role of a victim. I don’t think this. Even when Bella has some moments of helplessness, she is still a fictitious figure. Where do we come to the conclusion, that a fictional filmfigure is automatically held as an example for our company?

‘Twilight’ represents rather old-fashioned virtues. Bella and Edward only sleep together after their marriage. Are you against sex before marriage?

I rather believe, everyone has sex before marriage. Me personally, I wouldn’t like to always have a chaperone along.

You once said, you think the saga is sexy without sex.

I mean that. Everyone of us, knows of the time before something happens between a couple, where you aren’t completely sure if the other likes you or not? That is a valuable time. That moment can last forever. With that sweet unknown comes fear, especially when it’s a first for both. I believe, that this fear stokes that longing. And with us, this time of wanting stretches over four books.

How has your relation with headliner Kristen Stewart changed?

A lot has become easier. She’s always very good, but also gives a clear opinion. That can already be uncomfortable. Sometimes she peeks at the director during a scene and says: ‘We’ll do this again’.

Did you ever do this the other way around?

She would probably kill me! She would say something like ‘Shut your mouth! That scene was perfect!’

According to Examiner.com,

Twilight: Eclipse star Robert Pattinson can’t cook but is eating healthier than ever, thanks to a service that delivers fresh meals to his home every day.

“In Los Angeles I started using a delivery service which only delivers fresh and healthy food, Pattinson, 24, tells German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung. “Even in the morning I have a bag with healthy food delivered to me. I’ve never in my life lived as healthy as I do now.”

‘I CAN ONLY MAKE TOAST’

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On what is a very rare occasion, Polyvore users are getting inspired by a man, but it has nothing to do with his style.

Fans are fantasizing about date nights with Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, coming up with countless outfits to impress the saga’s heartthrob. His colleagues Ashley Greene and Kristen Stewart also make the top ten, serving as style inspiration, while Audrey Hepburn defends her top position and Lady Gaga continues to drop in popularity – could it be that people are experiencing ‘Gaga overkill?’

In brands, Polyvore users are still experimenting with lesser known brands, including the Danish DAY Birger et Mikkelsen, casual wear label Vince, or Steven Alan, a fashion store that carries its own brand as well as other designers, such as Isabel Marant. Steven Alan also tops the websites this week.

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