I just thought I’d share these photos with you, my name is Emma from Australia and I won a competition to the premiere of New Moon in LA back in November. I took my good friend Kathryn (who is also a huge Twilight fan) and we got to go to the after-party and managed to get some awesome pics with some of the cast. I couldn’t get over how lovely and down-to-earth they all were and very willing to have fan pics with us! Nikki Reid and Anna Kendrick were especially lovely, spending the time to talk to us and answer our questions (which I’m sure they have heard thousands of times before!).
 
We got to meet more of the cast in the actual movie theatre, including Robert Pattinson *swoon* who was just as gorgeous in person as he looks on camera. It was honesty the best night of my life and it still feels like a dream but I’m so glad I got the opportunity and also got to meet so many other Twilight fans that will be friends for life.

Congratulations Emma!!  Lucky lady! That is amazing.  Great pictures!  I just love our Twilight cast. 

Thank you Emma for sharing your story and pictures with us!

Check out the rest of Emma’s pictures after the break!

The Twilight cast birthdays are in full effect in January! Charlie Bewley aka Demetri and Cameron Bright aka Alec  who play Volturi guards in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, both celebrated birthdays this week. 

Charlie celebrated his birthday on January 25th all the while claiming he is a whopping 14 years old.  While Cameron celebrated his 17th birthday yesterday January 26th.  Happy belated birthday guys!

(Source: ExaminerThanks, McNutters!)

Great job Charlie!! 

[Source: Twilightxchange]

Malicious Mandy has yet another awesome summary of a Q & A session during the Seattle Twilight Convention. This time it is with New Moon-ers Charlie Bewley and Daniel Cudmore -

• Wolf Pack vs Cullen’s – Dan would rather be Wolf Pack, run shirtless through the forests. Vampires wear running shoes and he jokes about pumping them up “pump pump pump – oops too much swoosh” (old school pump shoes for those of you lost)

• They say as Volturi they are just doing what vampires do, drink blood…. not like the “Vegan-Facinelli-Rubbish” He wouldn’t want to go hunt deer in Italian gear… unless it was Nike Tracksuits, like a Volturi mafia.

• Eclipse Fight Scene was approximately 5 days rehearsing and 5 days filming 12 hour days.

• Daniel would like Edward’s Hair, he pokes fun of his hair and points to the banner. He and Charlie banter about hair.

• Daniel would love to be any character that meant he could work with Will Ferrell, though he thinks it would be hard because he would just laugh the whole time. Charlie would love to play a character that was really deep and emotional… or a spin-off about Demetri.

• Daniel wears contacts already so the Volturi ones weren’t too much trouble, he hates contacts as a whole but wears them everyday. Charlie felt he was instantly dangerous with them on, just like sweet innocent Dakota Fanning.

• Audition process was very fast. Charlie had tried for Marcus also. Daniel had recently lost out to a few roles and had actually auditioned for the “motorcycle guy Bella rides with in Port Angeles” and didn’t even know if he could make it back for the call-back because of a job he was doing but managed to go in thinking he’d be a biker and was actually cast as a vampire and thought “wait – what?” cool!

• Charlie said it was flattering that the Cullen’s wanted to kill him more than any other Volturi and he also discussed how when he auditioned he had almost no hair so he took one little piece and swirled it down, like the old school vampires had the “peak” and he thinks that may have influenced his hair style for the movie. Personally, I adored the hair he was sporting at TwiCon. Rawr.

• For open questions in the end they walked around the crowd. Charlie also acted as Demetri and pretend choked Hillywood Alice. Daniel spoke at the podium for fun and they lounged on the stage.

You can read the rest of Mandy’s detailed account and more pictures here!

Charlie Bewley who plays vampire tracker extraordinaire, Demetri  in the Twilight Saga: New Moon, participated in the 2009 Nike Human Race back in October.

The Nike Human Race, is an event for celebrating the report of running by giving runners everywhere the opportunity to run together, that takes place over the course of  multi-cities.  In 2008 there were nearly 780,000 participants joining the event from more than 24 cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and Rome. 

I can’t say it enough, how the entire cast, is either so giving, thoughtful, or kind.  It’s really nice that Charlie took time out of his schedule to participate in this event.  Look at his feet, too cute!

Soo let me get this straight.  Demetri  is a tracker, Charlie is running track in a human race?  Talk about role reversal, but I think I like the concept.    Check out all the pics at Lunanuevameyer.

(Thanks, Spectra!)

Here is the list of questions for the first video -

• Guys, you’re new, introduce yourselves to us
• How was it to work with so many new co-stars?
• How do you deal with all the hype?
• Is this the reason why you became an actor?
• Would you like being a heartthrob like Rob Pattinson?
• How did you prepare for your role?

List of questions from Part 2 of the interview -

• What is harder to play: a human being or a vampire?
• What is the main difference between both movies?
• Are the Robert and Kristen rumors true?
• In what kind of movies would you like to take a role?

[Thanks, H.N.!]

Various Twilight Saga stars spoke out about the sudden death of Brittany via twitter -

New Moon-er Dakota Fanning (aka Jane) also spoke out about her Uptown Girls fellow cast member’s death -

My thoughts go out to her family & friends. I am just very grateful that I had the chance to work with her.

I truly thought Brittany was a great actress and enjoyed every movie she was ever in. Such sad news! The cause if death has yet to be determined. Various theories are out there via Gossip Rags. However, I choose not to believe anything until the Coroner’s office makes their official statement.

Today the world lost a little piece of sunshine ~ Ashton Kutcher

RIP Brittany Murphy – November 10, 1977 – December 20th, 2009.

[Source: Examiner, and TwiFans.com]

There’s a an amazing new video on the official Twilight Saga: New Moon video podcast on iTunes, and it’s a Volturi Featurette.

It shows brand new behind-the-scenes clips of the filming of new Moon as well as interviews with cast members such as Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Dakota Fanning (Jane) and Jamie Campbell-Bower (Caius) There’s even a bit with author Stephenie Meyer as well!

The feature can be downloaded for free in sizes ranging from small for the iPod to stunning 1080p HD resolution direct from the iTunes Store.

With Chaske Spencer, Tinsel Korey, Christopher Heyerdahl and Charlie Bewley continuing the promotional tour down in Australia they were interviewed by SAFM-Hot 30.

The above are just clips of the interview but you can hear the full two interviews here!

Now I get to watch Chaske and hear that voice….SHAM-WOW!!!!

[Source: SAFM-Hot30. Thanks Miki1995!]