Ellen on Robert Pattinson!

Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning get wild with 'The Runaways'

The 'Twilight' cast mates raise the heat in the punk-infused story of Joan Jett and her all-female '70s band. Good thing they're friends.

Dakota Fanning's porcelain-doll features were swathed in exotic makeup and her blond hair coiffed into a feathery shag; she raised her umpteenth shot of sake and cast a knowing glance at Kristen Stewart. The "Twilight" star held Fanning's gaze briefly and toasted back, looking every inch the tough rocker chick, with her matching black shag hairdo, spiked bracelet and razor-blade charm necklace.

The actresses clinked glasses and giggled.

With downtown Los Angeles' Kyoto Grand Hotel standing in for a bustling Tokyo sushi joint last summer, the teen stars were on the set of the coming-of-age drama "The Runaways" -- in character, with Fanning as Cherie Currie, the wild-child lead singer of the titular all-girl rock group, and Stewart portraying Joan Jett, its electric-guitar-wielding, 'tude-copping founder. Between the years 1975 and '79, the Runaways packed shows from coast to coast, toured the world and racked up hits before self-immolating in a blaze of drugs, jealousies and in-fighting.

"The Runaways" will premiere next Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, arriving as one of the fest's most outrightly commercial offerings, thanks largely to Stewart's demonstrated "opening" power as a marquee draw. (Put out by independent distributor Apparition, the movie reaches theaters in March.) But "The Runaways" is also one of the most piquantly feminist films to touch down this year at America's preeminent independent film forum -- albeit a punk- infused genre pic with a pronounced generational viewpoint and no shortage of blood, drug abuse and bodily effluvia.

Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the acclaimed photographer and video director behind such foreboding, atmospheric clips as Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" and Christina Aguilera's "Fighter," the movie was less intended as a by-the-book musical biopic à la "The Doors" or "La Bamba" than an impressionistic character study illuminating a unique female predicament: What happens when teenage girls get handed too much, too soon via worldwide rock stardom?

Kid rock

No stranger to the rock 'n' roll life in her own right, the Italian-born first-time feature director -- a striking woman with a mane of raven-black hair who was clad in a vampire-chic, all-black ensemble on set last summer -- said she drew on personal experience to connect with the characters. "It's young girls getting swept up into a world they couldn't handle," Sigismondi said. "Feeding on those confusing feelings that develop from moving from girl to woman, I could reach deep into myself to find those things."

Sigismondi, who is married to Lillian Berlin, lead singer of the hard-rocking alt-quartet Living Things, continued: "I wanted to focus on Joan and Cherie. How different they are, how they were drawn together for this crazy experience. Joan is so focused, she really wanted to have this band. And Cherie wanted the rage of rock 'n' roll, the rebellion."

The film follows Currie at age 15 as she chafes against the San Fernando Valley's suburban torpor and her family's psychological abandonment en route to becoming the most forward female face in rock. On a parallel track, Jett is shown raging against the proverbial machine, defying all cultural expectation to stake out her place as a young woman in the boys' club of hard rock while still in her midteens.

One night in Hollywood, Jett approaches record impresario Kim Fowley (a scene-chewing Michael Shannon in campy glam drag) who introduces her to drummer Sandy West (Stella Maeve) and becomes the band's Svengali. Fowley "discovers" Currie at a nightclub, installs her as frontwoman and even concocts the lyrics to one of the group's biggest hits, "Cherry Bomb," on the spot during Currie's audition. Scant character development is devoted to West and bandmate-guitarist Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton).

"Runaways" producer John Linson pointed out that even though the film is partially based on Currie's 1989 memoir "Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story," "The Runaways" is not a "band film" per se, because the filmmakers did not secure life story rights for Ford and bassist Jackie Fox (drummer Sandy West died from a brain tumor in 2006; original bassist Micki Steele was fictionalized by Alia Shawkat's character "Robin").

Instead, the grander ambition was to faithfully capture "the youth ethic in film."

"It's about 15-year-old rock stars, the rise and fall of kids," Linson said. "We're trying hard not to let that get taken away."

Profligate prop sake consumption aside, Fanning, who turns 16 next month, and Stewart, 19, appear side by side in an overwhelming majority of the movie's scenes. The two are shown snorting cocaine in an airplane bathroom as well as getting very up close and personal in what is sure to become one of "The Runaways' " primary talking points: a make-out scene in a roller rink that takes place about two-thirds of the way through the movie.

The scene was inspired by a remark Currie made in the rockumentary "Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways," made by former band member Victory Tischler-Blue.

"In 'Edgeplay,' Cherie mentions that Joan is really good in bed," Sigismondi said. "I thought, 'I have to pry into this a bit. It will cause an explosion in the film. Why not go there?' "

Stewart and Fanning first shared screen time in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and became fast friends. "You can probably tell we get along really well," Fanning said in between takes. "For the characters, it's really important that bond is portrayed. And we have that in real life."

Rather than talk up the more sensational aspects of filming -- like, say, the scenes in which Fanning writhes and vamps onstage dressed in fishnet stockings and a revealing bodice -- the actress chose to explain how she and Stewart (with castmates Taylor-Compton, Maeve and Shawkat) rehearsed the Runaways' music together for a month before filming began. Stewart and Fanning then re-recorded the vocals for several of the songs heard in the film.

"When you're up there and you hear yourself singing the songs and feel yourself performing the dance moves that are so iconic -- when you're up there having the time of your life -- you feel like you are those girls for a few minutes," Fanning said. "It's really fun!"

Asked if the role was an attempt to shatter the conception of her as the child star of such kid flicks as "The Cat in the Hat" and "Charlotte's Web," the actress demurred, explaining it was simply part of her natural career evolution.

"I'm just portraying what was going on with [Cherie] when she was my age," Fanning said. "I want to continue to act for my whole life. Eventually, everyone will have to let me grow up, somehow, some way. I'm just trying to let that happen as naturally as I can."

Look-alike

During production, the real Joan Jett was a semi-constant presence on-set. At the Kyoto Grand location, the rock icon huddled with Stewart conspiratorially in between takes, their closeness highlighting a remarkable physical similarity. In the film, Stewart convincingly channels something of Jett's androgynous, take-no-guff demeanor and rock star swagger. (Stewart declined comment for this story.)

"She has completely embodied the character of Joan," Sigismondi said. "Her body language, her face, her walk. It's amazing how she has just become her."

Production designer Eugenio Caballero was even more blunt. "Kristen is Joan," he said in between scenes. "You talk with her and you think it's Joan Jett."

The notoriously private rocker, whose post-Runaways project Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'N Roll" famously hit No. 1 and has sold more than 10 million copies, did not want to be interviewed. But she admitted feeling a strange satisfaction while watching the actresses perform the Runaways' music.

"It's surreal, that's all I can say," Jett said. "But I have a smile on my face."

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‘Twilight’ Author Stephenie Meyer Hints She May Return to the Series

Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer gave the strongest hint yet that she may return to the best-selling series! Meyer hinted to Entertainment Weekly that the vampire romance series isn’t dead and buried, and that there may be more in the pipeline.

Stephenie Meyer abandoned the series after a rough draft of Midnight Sun, a companion novel to the Twilight Saga was leaked online. Midnight Sun was a retelling of the Twilight novel but from the perspective of Edward Cullen rather than Bella Swan. After the leak Meyer chose to focus on non-Twilight related work but it appears Meyer hasn’t turned her back on the series after all. Stephenie told Entertainment Weekly:

I’m not working on anything new Twilight-related now, and probably not for a while. But there’s still a possibility that I’ll go back and close some of the open doors.

There is new graphic novel adaptation of Twilight coming soon. Yen Press are set to publish a manga style version of the series, with Volume one being given a first print of 350,000. The original novel has been translated by Young Kim with input from Meyer.


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Twilight’s Taylor Lautner Seen Having Trouble Driving His Expensive Car

Twilight’s Taylor Lautner seen having trouble driving his expensive car. Taylor Lautner aka Jacob Black of the popular “Twilight Saga” movies was reportedly seen having trouble driving his really new and expensive Audi R8 car, according to celebrity-gossip.net. They say he recently purchased an Audi R8 sports car with a price tag that flutes a whopping $150,000 ! And it looks like it has too much power for him.

They said he stalled out numerous times while trying to drive the Audi R8. Their source said, “Taylor didn’t really know how to drive a stick when he bought the car. “Plus, the Audi R8 is complicated. It’s full of controls that even the most experienced driver would have trouble getting used to.” However, Taylor refuses to give up learning how to drive his new $150,000 Audi R8. We’re sure he’ll get it down. We know he had no problems affording it since he has now recently become the highest paid teen actor in Hollywood by landing $7.5 million dollar movie gig with legendary co-star Tom Cruise in “Northern Lights.” He’s also signed up to be in more numerous lucrative film deals,and ,of course, we don’t for get “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and the rumored 4th “Breaking Dawn” movie.

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Kellan Lutz Conquers Mt Summit

Getting in a little wintertime activity over the weekend, Kellan Lutz was spotted in Big Bear City to go snowboarding on Mt. Summit on Saturday (January 30).

Along with his brother Brandon and a lovely lady friend, the group hit the slopes with smiles and spent the entire day cruising down the mountain.

As for work duties, Kellan recently lined up a role opposite Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy “First Love, Then Marriage”.

Also starring Blythe Danner and Christopher Walken, the movie “centers around Mandy’s marriage counselor character, who after finding out her parents have separated, does all she can to bring them back together, to the detriment of her own new marriage.”









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Preview of the Vanity Fair Young Hollywood Issue

The actresses featured on the cover are:
Abbie Cornish
Carey Mulligan
Amanda Seyfried
Emma Stone
Kristen Stewart
Mia Wasikowska
Rebecca Hall

Vanity Fair Q&A: "Welcome To The Rileys"

With Kristen, co-star Melissa Leo and director Jake Scott.

Taylor Lautner Is Orange and LG's Star Ambassador

The following clip is a LG and Orange promotional video.







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New Kristen Stewart Interview!

Runaways Q&A
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Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart Participate In A Sundance Q&A

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Kristen Stewart on Robert Pattinson – why did she run away?

Kristen Stewart aka Bella Swan aka Joan Jett escapes from the spot when asked about her personal life with Robert Pattinson. It is not unknown news that Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson has been the target of media for crafting linkup stories.

On The Flix reports that Kristen Stewart was being interviewed recently by a TV Guide reporter named Jessica York. Kristen was promoting her latest film “The Runaways” at the Sundance Film Festival. She was okay as long as Jessica asked her about her films and onscreen characters. But when asked about her romantic linkups with Robert Pattinson, she flew from the stage!

See… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEAWgKfRc0I&feature=player_embedded

Why? I guess that’s because…

1. Kristen Stewart is pissed off with the same question time and again! Chooses running off the best option to avoid it this time!

2. Kristen wants to keep her personal life private.

3. Kristen is too shy to speak about out her love life! (Huh? Is it?)

4. Kristen feels the time hasn’t come yet to speak about Robert, waits for the right time.

5. Come on guys, she is promoting for “The Runaways” and that’s why ‘runs away’! (Perhaps the most apt reason in the list!)

Whatever…have patience and leave RobSten alone for some time. They will surely announce their relation officially if they are together, isn’t it Kristen?

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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Twilight kiss voted one of best

The kiss that the co stars shared during the Twilight movie has been voted as one of the best kisses of the decade coming fourth in a survey.

Madonna’s kiss with Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003 came top of the vote which was carried out by department store Selfridges.

A source has described the kiss as “one of the most memorable moments ever”.

“Madonna performing with both Britney and Christina was a big enough event in itself, but nobody – even the MTV people – expected what happened,”

Also in the top five were Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst for their kiss in Spider-man and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain.

Also was Scralett Johansson and Penelope Cruz for their kiss in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

The survey was carried by Selfridges ahead of the opening of their kissing booth in the London store next month.

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2010 Preview: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Release Date: June 30
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
Director: David Slade
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg (based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli, Gil Birmingham, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard
Studio Description: As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella (Stewart) once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward (Pattinson) and her friendship with Jacob (Lautner) — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death.

Analysis: After Twilight, the first entry in The Twilight Saga before the franchise was called "The Twilight Saga," became a box office sensation in 2008, ultimately grossing $192.8 million, its sequel, New Moon, was dubbed one of the most-anticipated movies of 2009. It did not disappoint, drawing massive crowds out of the gate and finishing the year with nearly $290 million and counting. While the first two movies had pre-Thanksgiving launches, the third, Eclipse, has been aligned with the Independence Day holiday, in part, because the next Harry Potter reclaimed that series' historical pre-Thanksgiving slot. Eclipse is scheduled for Wednesday, June 30, or only seven months after New Moon.

Odds are that Eclipse won't reach the heights of New Moon, given the history of closely-timed, serialized sequels. The Matrix Revolutions, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and even Back to the Future Part III all grossed significantly less than their predecessors. When a second movie is hotly-anticipated after the first movie's success, it's highly unlikely that the next picture will even maintain the momentum (The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter being notable exceptions), and signs from New Moon's run suggest that The Twilight Saga will follow the pattern. New Moon had one of the biggest openings of all time, was extremely front-loaded and probably wasn't as well-liked as the first Twilight: Box Office Mojo readers gave it a "C+," compared to the first movie's "B." Also, the vampire fad could show fatigue by the summer, given the flood of vampire-themed TV shows, movies and paraphernalia in the market.

However, it would be silly to bet against Eclipse's chances at being a big box office draw in its own right. The Twilight brand is so strong right now that even a massive drop-off would mean a near blockbuster run for Eclipse, there are few other offerings this summer that will be as attractive to younger females, and there's always the possibility that it pulls a Harry Potter in terms of longevity. With no trailer available at publication time, it remains to be seen how Summit will up the ante in its marketing campaign.

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Eclipse teaser trailer soon??

First Cut of ‘Twilight: Eclipse’ ready. David Slade, who directed the vampire flick “30 Days of Night”, has been working hard as the director for the highly anticipated third installment in Summit Entertainemnt’s “Twilight” franchise. He has revealed that the first director’s cut of the flick is ready and has been sent over to the studio. He took to his Twitter page to announce, “Big day, screening first director’s cut to the studio phase 1. This will be the first time anyone out of editorial has seen the cut”.

Remember, the director’s cut is not the final cut and the general public most likely won’t get to see that version unless it winds up as a special feature on the DVD. The good news is, with a director’s cut of the flick finished, fans may be seeing a teaser trailer at the very least hitting the web very soon.

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Some Pictures of Kristen Stewart at the New Moon Conference

CREDITS: Jaypat (Thanks!)

Taylor Lautner Valentine's day interview

New Moon dvd out on Mar. 20th

Special features include Director Chris Weitz's commentary and over 3 hours of exclusive extras:

• The Journey Continues: A 6-part making-of documentary:
- Life after Twilight
- Chris Weitz takes the helm
- The subtle details
- A look at production
- It’s not magic
- Ready for the World

• Music Videos:
- Death Cab for Cutie: Meet me on the Equinox
- Anya Marina: Satellite Heart
- Muse: I Belong to You behind the scenes rehearsal footage
- Mutemath: Spotlight

• Fan Event Q&A with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Chris Weitz – Content Exclusive for the UK
• Fandimonium: A look at the die-hard fans
• Team Jacob vs Team Edward: The ultimate love triangle
• Deleted scenes
• Edward goes to Italy
• Edward Fast Forward
• Jacob Fast Forward
• Interview with the Volturi
• Introducing the Wolfpack
• Becoming Jacob
• Edward goes to Italy
• Jacob fast forward
• Edward fast forward
• The Beat Goes On: The music of The Twilight Saga: New Moon
• Frame by Frame: Storyboards to screen

Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert are doing the commentary this time instead of Rob and Kristen.

Vanity Fair Hollywood Edition

Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska and Emma Stone pose for the cover of Vanity Fair: Hollywood Edition. Out on stands Feb. 9th.

Kristen and Dakota in EW

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Kellan Lutz at Calvin Klein Collection

The 'Breaking Dawn' Question We Had To Ask Kristen

Although she claimed ignorance on some key issues, we managed to get some "Breaking Dawn" out of Kristen.

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To hear Kristen Stewart talk about her role as an underage stripper in "Welcome to the Rileys" is to understand the way in which the character continues to live in the actress' mind and affect her emotionally. For all the attention she's garnered for the "Twilight" series, the 19-year-old actress maintains that her experience on "Rileys" stands out as both the most personal and most natural of her career.

"This ... was different from any movie that I've done," she told MTV News at the Sundance Film Festival. "How do you describe a feeling? I don't know. It just felt so completely right to be telling this story with [director Jake Scott] and [Melissa Leo] and Jim [Gandolfini], and that's different to any acting I've ever done."

In tandem with her other Sundance entrant, "The Runaways," Stewart has entered 2010 with two gritty films that showcase her acting talents in ways the "Twilight" franchise never could. Of the two movies, it seems "Rileys," in which her damaged stripper connects with a grieving couple (Gandolfini and Leo), is the one that has affected her the most.

Speaking about how "right" the part felt, Stewart said, "You have moments of that [in other roles], but you never have that for an entire movie, and I had that on this. But I have moments on 'Twilight' all the time. That's the only reason I'm able to do it."

In an earlier interview with MTV News, the actress argued that even though the film presents her in a far different light than the "Twilight" films, fans of the vampire franchise will find much to connect with in "Rileys."

"Most 'Twilight' fans are young girls, and this is a really, really good story for them," she said. "It just sort of opens your eyes. You just don't have any options."

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Taylor Lautner has had ENOUGH of dating girls

Teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner wants to date someone who can just be themselves.

Twilight star Taylor Lautner — who split from singer Taylor Swift — has had enough of dating girls who are preoccupied with themselves and instead is opting for the single life for a while.

“I just want someone who can be themselves. Not put on a show,” said Taylor. “It is as simple as that. I’m not dating anyone right now.”

Following Lautner’s split from Swift, it was claimed the two Taylors decided to call time their short-lived, highly-publicized romance after a series of fights over food.

“Unlike Lautner, Swift is anti-diet. Her favorite restaurant is the Cracker Barrel near her family’s Henderson, Tenn., home,” a source said in December.

“Her favorite dish is their biscuits and gravy — something Lautner wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole!

“Lautner is very athletic and health-conscious, so he eats mostly low-fat protein like skinless chicken breasts, egg whites and vegetables and fruits.

“But Swift loves cheeseburgers and has a major sweet tooth.

“Picking restaurants for date nights has turned into a huge headache and always leads to a squabble.

“The only food option they can agree on is sushi.”

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KRISTEN STEWART: UNDERAGE DRINKER

Kristen Stewart couldn't use her celebrity status to get into a bar over the weekend as she wasn't old enough to drink at the bar.

Kristen Stewart was denied entrance to a bar.

The ‘Twilight’ actress – who at 19 is two years shy of the legal drinking age in the US – attempted to get into the Ed Hardy Shoes Happy Hour event in Park City, Utah, on Saturday but was denied entry by a bouncer.

An onlooker told OK magazine: “As they started walking in, the bouncer stopped them and asked for their IDs. When he informed Kirsten that she couldn’t enter because she was underage, she and her friends seemed pretty surprised.

“Her friends tried to reason with the bouncer and told them that they just wanted to sit down and relax for 30 minutes but the bouncer still declined them. They huddled up for a few minutes, discussing what to do next and eventually left.”

Kristen is currently in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, where she is promoting ‘The Runaways’ alongside Dakota Fanning.

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Stephenie Meyer on the Haiti Relief

Stephenie Meyer posted a new blog on her website!

Hope your new years have all started off right. A few unrelated things:

- I've been very impressed with the world in general and the Twilight fansites in specific in the support and love everyone is giving Haiti. It's amazing to see how Twilight fans have come together to help. You are wonderful people. At this point, I think it's important for all of us to remember that the situation in Haiti is not going to be cured overnight, so... keep up the good work, and let's all keep the Haitians in our thoughts and prayers.

- A new book recommendation: I recently read and adored The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It was one of those books that feel absolutely perfect and satisfying, and when you finish it you sit around wishing that you could find another book just like it.

- I realized that there was an egregious oversight on my music recommendation page. How have I never listed Metric? That's crazy. Anyway, Fantasies was one of the best albums of 2009.

- Finally, a movie recommendation: Dear John comes out Friday the fifth of February. Thanks to my cool friend Wyck (who many of you have seen in various Twilight Saga interviews, as he is one of the producers on our movies, and who is a producer on Dear John) I got to see this one early. I will confess, I cried. Also, I discovered Channing Tatum, who I’ve somehow missed until now. Likey. Lots. Amanda Seyfried is entrancing as always, and the chemistry (chemistry is always the crux of a movie for me) between them is lovely. Though the chemistry between Channing Tatum and Richard Jenkins (who plays his father) was my favorite part.

Have a great week!

Steph


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New Moon DVD and Blu Ray Available on Amazon!

Taylor Lautner Is Super Bowl Bound!

Does Taylor Lautner have game?

We'll find out Super Bowl weekend in South Beach, when the teen wolf takes the football field to play in DirecTV's Fourth Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl.

(We're betting Taylor will attend the big Saints vs. Colts game on Sunday too. He was cheering on the Indianapolis team at their game last weekend, along with Rob Lowe.)

As for Saturday, Taylor won't be the only hottie tossing the pigskin...

Chace Crawford is also participating in the game, along with his Gossip Girl costar Jessica Szohr, Victoria's Secret model Marisa Miller and more sporty stars.

Now we just need Rob Pattinson to get on board for the ultimate dream team!

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Kristen Stewart’s Haiti Donation

While George Clooney, Robert Pattinson, and practically every other celeb in the world helped raise more than $57 Million for Haiti relief, one star was upset she couldn't partake in the telethon last Friday: Kristen Stewart.

The Twilight babe was traveling Friday to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, 'cause K.Stew had two films (Welcome to the Rileys and The Runaways) premiering.

But don't think that stopped her from helping out…

At the premiere for Welcome to the Rileys, the film's producers, Giovanni Agnelli and Scott Bloom, filled us in on Kristen's idea of how to help raise money for Haiti.

K.Stew & Co. raised cash by hosting four lucky ladies in Park City. The fortunate four paid handsomely for the privilege of a free plane ticket, a place to stay and the pleasure of Kristen's company.

"They paid, like, a thousand dollars a piece for tickets which went to support the cause for Haiti," says Agnelli.

Adds Bloom:

"Kristen on the plane here said [she was upset] she could not be doing the telethon…So we decided to use all that money to benefit Haiti."

Don't ya just heart this girl? Glad to hear she's a celebrity who knows how to use her star power for good.

Also, anyone else just a tad curious where Kristen was traveling from all day Friday? Just an FYI: It only takes about an hour and 15 minutes to get from L.A. to Salt Lake City.

But a trip from, oh say, England perhaps, certainly would make you completely unavailable for quite some time.

Just sayin'!

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Kristen Stewart Flashes Her Butt in 'Welcome to the Rileys'

Portraying a stripper which makes her donning a skimpy skirt, the 'Twilight' beauty allegedly bares her buttocks in a scene of the drama film.

It has been known that Kristen Stewart plays a stripper in "Welcome to the Rileys" though it cannot be seen in a recently released clip from the movie. However, the contributors to Trailer Park Movies's MySpace Blog who had a chance to watch the premiere of the film at 2010 Sundance Film Festival reported that the actress has shown off a little bit of her skin while doing a racy scene.

According to the site, Stewart is seen doing a pole dancing in platforms while donning "an extremely short skirt" at the first scene of the movie. Few moments later, there was a scene which allegedly gives a glimpse of the 19-year-old beauty's "bare rear end."

On the red carpet of the premiere on Saturday, January 23, Stewart admitted to reporters that she was a bit freaked out the first time she put on all the fishnets. "I really tried to own it though," she added. "I was able to walk around the streets. I was literally walking down the street in cut-off shorts and a robe that was cinched. I looked like a crackhead!"

Director Jake Scott has also claimed he will not expose Stewart's naughty side in the movie, saying "This is not about a stripper. It's about a damaged child." Stewart then agreed the helmer's statement, saying "The cool thing about my character is she is not sultry and she is not sexy. She sort of throws herself into all her moves. I tore myself up doing it."

"Welcome to the Rileys" centers its story on Mallory, a troubled teenager who becomes a lap dancer as well as a prostitute. On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man meets her. Later, he and his wife try to help Mallory. The young woman, in return, unites the grieving couple who has drifted apart after the death of their daughter.

Beside Kristen Stewart who takes the major female character, the movie has James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo portraying the married couple. Also among the cast ensemble are David Jensen and Lance E. Nichols. Directed by Jake Scott, the indie flick is planned to be dropped in U.S. theaters in 2010 by Argonaut Pictures.

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Many Interviews with Kristen and Dakota at Sundance

Kristen Stewart is back in LA!

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Kellan Lutz: ‘Twilight’ actor to step into Arnold Schwarzenegger’s shoes

Kellan Lutz, the vampire star of the hugely popular ‘Twilight’ saga is pretty thrilled coz he has earned himself the lead role in the remake of the action flick ‘Conan The Barbarian’. The protagonist’s role that was earlier played by the big man Arnold Schwarzenegger, is, now, almost certain to go into his kitty.

And he’s over the moon, as the role would not only be a challenging one but also help him showcase his versatility and shed off the ‘vampire’ tag.

“It’s something that I’ve been actively going after because I’d die to put the weight back on… I want to be the big guy that I was,” he quips in ecstasy.

“I’ve been waiting for a while, doing screen tests. There are just so many cooks in the kitchen. If it happens, it happens… I’m just excited, because the script is great,” Kellan adds unable to conceal his glee.

However, besides being super-excited, he’s also a tad anxious as the final confirmation is yet to arrive. Plus, actor Jason Momoa has also been approached for the same role.

But, given a chance, he’d put his best foot forward and even his fans, especially the fairer sex, would love to ogle at a beefier and muscularKellan Lutz.

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Robert Pattinson and Simon Cowell to Make Sweet Music Together?

Are you ready for a Twilight-American Idol mash-up?

Simon Cowell wants to sign Robert Pattinson to a major record label deal, according to the U.K. Sun. If you believe the British tab, a bidding war has broken out and the cranky judge is so keen on scoring the sparkle vamp, he's reportedly all but written him a blank check.

As any Twihard knows, Pattz plays the piano and guitar and has even contributed tracks to the movie soundtracks.

But the hottie isn't budging.

"Robert is reluctant to be turned into a pop star—he takes his music very seriously," a source tells the Sun. "He is a bit wary of signing up with Cowell, who is, of course, associated with X-Factor and pop."

Still, can you even contain your squeals?!

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Kristen Stewart on Kissing Dakota Fanning: Nothing Romantic About It

Filming her kissing scene with Dakota Fanning in The Runaways was just another day at the office for Kristen Stewart.

"It's just something we did," Stewart said at last night's Sundance Film Festival premiere of the biopic about Joan Jett's 1970s all-girl rock band, The Runaways. "In this story, it's so not like a romantic thing. It's just something that they just do."

Besides, Stewart added…

"We had so many other really crazy things that we were intimidated by, like, we had a performance that day," Stewart said. "So when that came up on the schedule we were like, 'Whoa!' But then, 'Alright, whatever.' It was sort of just like another thing."

If you haven't heard by now, The Runaways stars Stewart as Jett and Fanning as the band's Lolita-esque lead singer, Cherie Currie.

It sounds like working with real-life Joan Jett on the performance numbers was much harder on Stewart than getting steamy with Fanning.

"Horrible!" Stewart laughed when asked what it was like singing and playing guitar in front the legendary rock star. "At first, she was like, 'Come on!' She was actually kind of getting upset with me. She was like, 'Ya gotta relax.' [But] I kept telling her, 'I can't do it until we shoot it. Like I literally can't.'"

Meanwhile, after last night's screening, the cast headed over to Bing Bar for a packed-house party. Stewart, Fanning, Michael Shannon and a slew of other castmembers huddled in a VIP corner.

We're happy to report that the underage stars haven't adopted the rock n' roll lifestyle, and stuck to Coca-Cola and water.

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Twilight Eclipse Gets A Lord Of The Rings Score

The Twilight Saga is getting serious about music. They’ve hired Oscar winning composer Howard Shore to provide the score for its next installment, The Twilight Saga Eclipse, according to Movie Score.

Shore is probably best known for his masterful, award-winning work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy. More recently he provided the music for Mel Gibson’s upcoming thriller Edge of Darkness.

So far, the music has really been a non-factor in the Twilight series. They’ve already gone through two different composers. Carter Burwell scored the first movie in 2008 and Alexandre Desplat handled New Moon, but I doubt you noticed. Go ahead, hum the Twilight theme. You can’t, it doesn’t really have one. Maybe Shore can change that, and inject some sort of bombastic musical life into this mega-franchise.

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EW: Kristen Stewart Can Act

From the moment I arrived at Sundance, the movie that more or less everyone, including me, wanted to see most was The Runaways — and not just because it offered the chance to see whether Kristen Stewart, as Joan Jett, could leave her swoony Twilight mopiness behind her and play a rock & roll princess with down-and-dirty spunk. (Verdict: She can.) It’s also because the Runaways, a packaged group of choppy-haired teen-glam feline punkettes from L.A. who, in 1976, did for girls playing power chords what the Sex Pistols did for beer-spewing anarchy, may seem cooler now than they did then. In hindsight, they blazed quite a trail, but they didn’t have many good songs — and even their best one, “Cherry Bomb,” never quite broke free of their jailbait novelty-act image.



The most entertaining thing about the movie is that its writer-director, music-video veteran Floria Sigismondi (making her feature debut), has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were an image first and a rock & roll band second. Early on, we see Stewart’s black-shag-haired Joan in an L.A. boutique, where she has to coerce the sales woman into selling her a man’s studded biker jacket, which she wears as if born to it. Stewart’s no-frills, casually likable performance begins with Jett’s distinctive tough-girl saunter — which is to say, the actress knows just how to walk like a skinny dude. At the same time, we meet Cherie Currie (first name pronounced Sher-ee), who chops her platinum-blonde mane into a David Bowie shag, paints on the facial lightning streak from his Aladdin Sane cover, and lip-syncs to him at a high school talent show, which results in her being pelted with wads of paper.

These girls, it’s clear, have their underground fashion bona fides down. But it takes Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), the noted record producer who becomes their psycho Svengali, to teach them how to rock out like boys. Fowley, who favors red-leather jackets and dog collars the size of tiaras, is a hyped-up hustler-manipulator who looks like a punk Frankenstein and shouts everything as if in mid-tantrum. He’s a ruthless creep, a kind of jadedly oversexed type-A head case, but he knows what sells. He finds Cherie in a nightclub, immediately placing her in the band as if he were casting a porno film. The fact that she’s only 15 is, to him, icing on the bad-girl cake. (a clip of this scene was released, ontd had a collective LOL over it)

There’s a fun scene set in the girls’ grungy rehearsal trailer, where Fowley, with a little help from Joan, makes up “Cherry Bomb” on the spot (“Hello, daddy! Hello, mom! I’m your ch-ch-ch-ch- cherry bomb!”), and he teaches Cherie how to sing it…nasty. Beneath her postures, she’s supposed to be a sweet, quiet girl who loves Peggy Lee and Don McLean, but she learns how to snarl and wiggle her crotch. Then Fowley teaches the girls to brace themselves for hecklers, and to fight back. At a concert in Japan, they’re in full flower, and you can feel the electric pull of what’s new about these girls co-opting the male-hormonal thrust of rock and making it their own.

When it gets away from the stage, however, and from the iconography of strutting she-devil-in-lingerie empowerment, The Runaways is just a watchable, rather so-so rock biopic, with the thinly imagined characters and desultory, one-thing-after-another episodic slackness of a TV movie. Granted, there’s a special challenge in bringing this story to life: The Runaways were really just little girls who fed themselves into a giant, buzz-saw machine of image and marketing, all ruled over, of course, by Fowley, the gonzo manager-producer from hell. So they’re really passive vessels in their own story. But The Runaways turns them passive in a different way: They’re made so likable and innocent and quaintly brash that they don’t fully have egos, erotic or otherwise. Stewart, in black eyeliner, nails Jett’s sinewy attitude, but Joan’s sexual proclivities are treated in a teasing, music-video way. I mean, why be so coy in a movie that’s supposed to be a rowdy celebration of a new kind of audacious feminine sexual power?

But then, Joan is really just the side player here. The Runaways is fashioned as Cherie Currie’s story — and the little bite-size conflicts provided for her, though they may be rooted in fact, aren’t fleshed out in a convincing way. She squabbles, tiresomely, with her twin sister (Danielle Riley Keough), and when Fowley forces her to do a solo cheesecake photo shoot for a magazine, Joan blows up at her for selling out the band’s image. Excuse me, but does Joan understand what the band is selling? Cherie falls into drug and alcohol addiction, but the script is so scattershot that Dakota Fanning’s performance ends up a little all over the place. She’s a Bowie freak, a soft-rock innocent, a dissolute addict, a nice girl in over her head — and with all that going on, she never even raises her voice. The Runaways shows you that the Runaways were authentic — if packaged — stars, and they they were victimized for being ahead of their time. As a band, the movie gives them their due, but as individuals it doesn’t make them interesting.


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The Runaways premiere @ Sundance.

Hitting the arrivals carpet, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning attended “The Runaways” premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on in Park City, Utah on Sunday evening (January 24).

Held at Eccles Center Theatre, the “New Moon” co-star cuties hammed it up for photogs alongside Joan Jett and Cherie Currie before heading inside and grabbing their seats to see the first screening of their new flick.

As for the theme of Kristen and Dakota’s theatrical offering, the film is a coming of age biopic telling the story of Joan and her former bandmates, The Runaways.

Having arrived in Park City on Friday, both Miss Stewart and Miss Fanning were spotted making their way to Harry O’s the previous night to see a performance by Joan - with insiders telling that Kristen and her “The Runaways” co-star Dakota Fanning were brought up on stage by Miss Jett during the gig.















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