We are waiting to see what’s happening next in the fan line for The Grauman Theater event where Rob, Kristen and Taylor get their hands and footprints immortalized in cement. The theater gave out wristbands to the first 121 fans and we are 122 and 123…
Right now the theater is setting up the white chairs for the viewing area. The event begins at 10:30am PST.
Yesterday, Cullyn and I were having a fantastic day at the Baltimore Twilight Convention when it was time to gather for the much-anticipated auction session. During the auction, Creation Entertainment offers Twilight Saga items ranging from action figures to the coveted convention banners for fans to bid on and take home. At the last LA TwiCon in March we scored a great deal on a Volturi banner ($70!) , so we were primed for bidding battle!
After about 15 minutes, the host/auctioneer decided it was time for a Robert Pattinson banner to go up for auction. For the prior banners, he threw in an autograph ticket so the celebrity guests at the Baltimore event could sign them…making the items even more valuable! When talking about the RPatz banner, the auctioneer casually said, “Unfortunately, Rob is not here to sign it, but he will be at our Century City event.” The Breaking Dawn Convention on 11/4 – 11/6 is being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in the Century City area of Los Angeles!
Surprisingly, there wasn’t a huge reaction from the crowd, which made Cullyn and I look at each other and ask, “Did we just hear that?” Then someone from the back of the room yelled, “Would he sign it there?” At that point, we knew we heard him right. (BTW – the auctioneer did not respond to that person’s question, and no autograph ticket was provided.)
Earlier in the day, the host/auctioneer asked if anyone was attending the LA event, and we were only part of a handful of people to raise ours hands (and cheer). Plus, there weren’t a ton of people in the auction session. So, we attributed the lack of reaction to the Rob news to those two things.
Also, there was no mention of Kristen Stewart or Taylor Lautner attending the Breaking Dawn Convention, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t gong to be there…just that the auctioneer didn’t say anything about them.
So, we are super psyched! Of course, this comes with the caveat that Summit has not confirmed this news!
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At last! The long-awaited playlist for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was released today. Unfortunately, Jackson Rathbone’s band 100 Monkeys and Robert Pattinson do not have songs on the soundtrack. Not surprisingly, the Noisettes’ tune Sister Rosetta, which played during an exclusive Breaking Dawn Comic Con clip of Bella preparing for her “big night” and caused excited fans to scramble online to identify the title and artist, is track #9.
There will be two versions of the soundtrack; one will have the songs that appear on the artwork, below, and a second that contains four bonus tracks.
Here is the soundtrack!
1. End Tapes – By The Joy Formidable (Perfect for the soundtrack! Here’s their video “Austere.”)
2. Love Will Take You – By Angus & Julia Stone
3. It Will Rain – By Bruno Mars (According to recent buzz, he’s Team Bella.)
4. Turning Page – By Sleeping At Last
5. From Now On – By The Features
6. A Thousand Years – By Christina Perri (She’s a Twilight fan and known for her song “Jar of Hearts.”)
7. Neighbors – By Theophilus London
8. I Didn’t Mean It – By The Belle Brigade
9. Sister Rosetta (2011 Version) – By Noisettes (Scene: Bella frantically running around preparing for the beach/wedding night.)
10. Northern Lights – By Cider Sky
11. Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version) – By Iron & Wine (Link is to the 2008 version from Twilight.)
12. Requiem On Water – By Imperial Mammoth
13. Cold – By Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz
14. Llovera – By Mia Maestro (Mia plays Carmen from the Denali Coven in Breaking Dawn!)
15. Love Death Birth – By Carter Burble
BONUS TRACKS
16. Like A Drug (Bonus Track) – By Hard-Fi
17. Turning Page (Instrumental) – By Sleeping At Last
18. Eclipse (All Yours) [Bonus Track] – By Kevin Teasley (Here’s the version by Metric.)
19. It Will Rain – By Bruno Mars [Edit]
The Breaking Dawn – Part 1 soundtrack will be available on November 8.
Thanks to Summit Entertainment for the info!
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Photo credit: Summit Entertainment/Creation Entertainment website
Creation Entertainment announced today that gold packages (now called the Cullen Crest Gold Package) for the Los Angeles Breaking Dawn Convention on November 4-6, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza are on sale for $349. Other, less expensive, tickets will be available at a later date. Hotel reservations can be booked now.
Although there are no details posted on the website about confirmed celebrity guests, the 2010 Twilight Saga: Eclipse Convention featured the big three: Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
So far, here is what Creation Entertainment is sharing about the weekend:
“Friday afternoon: Pre-Registration for attendees coming the entire convention. Not a necessity, but a convenience, you are free to register at any time. Friday early evening: Celebrity Panel events in the theatre Friday evening: Celebrity Karaoke Party.
Saturday morning: Registration Saturday afternoon, early evening: Celebrity Star Panels, Special Theatre Events Saturday night: “Twilight Saga Wedding Reception” Party: join fellow fans and celebrity drop-ins for this special celebration featuring music and dancing. Come dressed to kill!
Sunday morning until early afternoon: Celebrity Breakfast and Silent Charity Auction, Autographs and Photo Ops with supporting stars to be announced.”
As with prior Twilight Conventions, there will be several competitions; including costume, trivia and centerpiece. However, instead of the Volturi Vampire Ball, Saturday night’s event is now listed as “The Twilight Saga: Wedding Reception Party” in honor of Bella and Edward’s nuptuals.
Other highlights include The Hillywood Show sisters, Hilly and Hanna Hindi, reprising their roles as convention hosts, as well as a Celebrity Brunch and Charity Auction on Sunday morning.
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While enjoying the Stephenie Meyer Day 2011 vendors, we met Tena Gagnon, jewelry designer and owner of The Forks Forest. A resident of the Twilight town, she launched her jewelry business in 2009 on Etsy, first making Twilight-themed items but recently adding pieces representing The Hunger Games.
Tena’s stunning SMD 2011 display featured beautifully hand-made jewelry, but what caught our eye was her Upcycled Collection fashioned out of debris from Forks High School’s past structural improvements and recent demolition. The repurposed items, crafted from the gymnasium floor, facade bricks, copper pipes and aluminum scrap, are limited editions and all one-of-a-kind.
The Forks Forest Upcycle Collection includes wooden boxes, bricks, bookends and bracelets – all available for purchase on Tena’s Etsy site. At SMD 2011, we couldn’t resist buying a copper and aluminum bracelet with “Dazzle Me” stamped on it.
Twilight Bond purchased this keepsake bracelet made out of copper pipes and aluminum scrap from FHS. Photo credit: Megan L. Reese.
Forks High School Historical Book Ends made from 1925 bricks and 1963 gym floor. Metal stamp on the front says FHS. Photo credit: The Forks Forest.
Forks High School Upcycled 1936 Flooring Box and 1925 brick. Photo credit: The Forks Forest.
Built in 1925, Forks High School added a gym in 1963 and replaced the wood floor in 1996. At that time, West Waste and Recycling, owned by Tena’s husband, salvaged and stored the wood in its facility for almost 15 years until Tena reinvented it. Last summer, Forks High School was torn down to make room for a new FHS building, which provided additional materials for the innovative, green designer.
Forks High School demolition. Photo credit: Chris Cook, Forks Forum
Immortalized in The Twilight Saga after Edward and Bella met and fell in love while attending classes there, Forks High School was a must-see on the to-do list of TwiHard tourists. Fortunately, visitors can now own an actual piece of the school as a special, unique keepsake!
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If you’ve never been to Forks, here’s 30 seconds of Highway 101 – one of the only ways into the town.
Cullyn is narrating. She really IS excited, but we’d been traveling for 10 hours at this point…
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Our trek to Forks, WA for Stephenie Meyer Day 2011 began at 6:00 am EST and ended at 8:15 pm PST. Here are the details of our (almost glitch-free) trip:
6:00 am EST – Wake up, shower, eat breakfast and wait for the airport shuttle to arrive at 7:15 am.
7:15 – 7:25 am EST- Wait for the shuttle. Double check Twilight Saga apparel.
7:30 am EST – Shuttle arrives with a very chatty driver (we’re not morning people) and news that we need to pick up two more people.
7:35 am EST – receive SWA text that flight is delayed an hour which will make us miss our connection. Great.
7:45 am EST – Pick up a very buff 60 year-old women who is flying out to San Diego (sigh) to meet a cycling group who is biking from CA to Georgia. She’s riding 120 miles/day. We’re doing that, too – today…in a car.
8:00 am – Receive text from SWA that flight is now on time. ???
8:15 am – Pick up last passenger who is not real chatty. Realize I left our boarding passes on the dining room table.
8:45 am – Arrive at PHL. Reprint boarding passes. Wait for 30 minutes to get through security line because there were two TSA people checking IDs and only two security lines. On a Friday morning.
9:50 am EST – Take cheesy tourist self-portrait. Board flight to STL. No drama.
At PHL waiting to board our flight.
11:35 am CST – Arrive in STL. Seek lunch. Not many healthy options.
12:10 pm CST – Board flight to SEA. Read The Official Guide to the Twilight Saga. Slept 90 minutes.
2:10 pm PST – Arrive in SEA 35 minutes early! Yay! Get rental car. No drama.
2:30 pm PST – Cullyn, “Why is the GPS taking us north?”
3:00 pm PST – Cullyn, “Why are we following the signs for the ferry?” (She’s afraid of being on boats.) Me, “Trust the GPS.”
3:45 pm PST – In line for the Edmonds – Kingston, WA Ferry. Whoops. 
So, after disembarking the ferry and traveling on a lot of two-lane, windy roads we arrived in Forks at 8:15 pm! Off to Bella’s Bridal Shower!
Those of us who attended Creation Entertainment’s March 2011 Los Angeles Twilight Convention were given the opportunity to “re-up” while at that event and buy Gold tickets for the next LA TwiCon (Burbank 2012) with the understanding that it could be rescheduled as a Breaking Dawn Convention in November 2011. So, we plunked down our money – with fingers crossed…
Twilight Bond at the LA TwiCon in March, 2011.
Yesterday, we received an email from Creation Entertainment requesting we let them know if we wanted our tickets changed over to the Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Convention on November 4-6! Yes!
Stay tuned as I would deduce that tickets for the Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Convention will be on sale SOON! It’s fewer than two months away, after all!
So, who’s planning on going?
Multi-talented Robert Pattinson is many things, but a thief? Not so, even though some sources are hinting at the idea that the Twilight Saga star may possibly have “stolen” a song from his friend – “stolen” being used in a very loose sense of the word.
It seems that a while back, Robert Pattinson was hanging out with mate Marcus Foster. The guys were reportedly together in a pub, when the two “sang [I Was Broken] …. and someone recorded it on their phone.” Sounds convoluted, with maybe a jealousy tinge. But let’s look at the alleged situation:
Apparently, that recording landed on the ether, and before either singer realized what was happening, the song went viral on the Internet.
Turns out the song in question — ironically dubbed I Was Broken – eventually ended up on the Twilight sound track and the rest is history as Pattinson has been able to add accomplished musician to his ample resume as rarefied thespian du jour and big time Hollywood hunk.
But did Robert Pattinson end up stealing the song from Marcus Foster? It seems that answer would be a big negative. In fact, the song in question, one that Foster claims is his, is voiced as such. On the track, as linked here, RPatz says the tune is by Marcus Foster. Credit is given where credit is due.
Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson serves as a great ambassador for the song he and Marcus Foster worked out. Indeed, as a perk of their pub work, I Was Broken has become famous — with no apparent stealing involved in the process.
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From the Forks, WA website 8/9/2011.
Written by Christi Baron
The members of West End Business & Professional Association and Forks Chamber of Commerce have gone in together on two Sanicans placed downtown for the summer tourists. Merchants in the area of the stoplight had been complaining about Twilight visitors using their restrooms which are usually back in store rooms and not meant for public use.
Now Forks visitors have their pick: regular or Twilight!
