The Twilight gang helped out the MTV Movie Awards in a big way–viewership was up 76% over last year, making it the biggest show since 2004. This follows on the heels of the Oscars–

This is the second awards show this year in which a little bit of Pattinson has helped produce a whole lot of ratings. February’s Oscars, featuring Pattinson on presenting duty, saw its numbers zoom among teens and kids.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno’s fall into Eminem’s lap, meanwhile, would like to think it aided the MTV Movie Awards’ cause, too. According to MTV, the incident was its site’s most-watched award clip at one point today—drawing even more traffic than the New Moon trailer.

If such a thing is possible.

  Wonder If Robert Pattinson’s Available for the Tonys?

[thanks, IndiesR!]

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There are some new auditions for New Moon sequel Eclipse coming up soon–including the roles of Riley, Seth Clearwater and Leah Clearwater. Also up for grabs is various members of the La Push wolf pack–

Leah Clearwater: Female, 19 years of age. Seth’s big sister, and the only female member of La Push wolf pack: “She is tall and slender with beautiful skin and short cropped black hair. She would be considered gorgeous if not for the perpetual scowl she carries due to a broken heart and her anger issues.”

Seth Clearwater: Male, 15-16 years of age is a “tall, gangly-limbed boy with a huge, happy grin, Seth idolizes Jacob.” Black hair, lean muscle type, think swimmer type body.

Riley: Male 19-21. Good looking, blond, clean-cut, muscular college guy who falls victim to Victoria. He’s in his early to mid 20s and Riley was a newborn that was created by Victoria to act as the leader of her recently formed newborn army. He accompanies Victoria in her attempt to murder Bella Swan.

There will also be additional members of the La Push wolf pack and Quileute tribe cast in Eclipse. Like New Moon, they are looking for Native American or First Nations actors ONLY to fill these roles – no actors who “look like they could be” Native American or First Nations people.

Check out all the details at Acting411.

[thanks to everyone that sent this in!]

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Robert Pattinson was spotted touching down in New York after his trip from Los Angeles, evidently to begin filming his new movie Remember Me in the Big Apple.

Check out all the new pics of Robert Pattinson at Popsugar.

[thanks, Denise!]

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New Moon stars Michael Welch and Peter Facinelli, who play Mike Newtown and Peter Facinelli, both agree that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is quite a bit different than New Moon director Chris Weitz. Michael Welch says that–

“We have a new director, Chris Weitz. (He) was amazing. It’s interesting because between him and Catherine, they’re so different. Catherine is somebody who can only function at a cluttered desk. She needs chaos to success. That’s wonderful. Chris is the exact opposite. Just couldn’t be more cool, clam and collected and had his stuff together. It’s the people at the top that affect everyone below them — so the energy was more calm.”

Peter Facinelli agrees, stating that–

Catherine (Hardwicke) is a ball of energy and infuses passions when she comes on the set. Chris is more laid back, insightful and thought provoking. It’s completely different. It’s like two different rollercoaster rides, but you still love the rides. They’re fantastic.”

Read the rest of what the two have to say at SheKnows.

[thanks, TeamSpaceHeaters!]

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