On Thursday (October 16) Hot Topic is hosting exclusive listening parties of the "Twilight" soundtrack.
The parties will take place at all Hot Topic locations on October 24 at 7 p.m. sharp. Fans will be able to hear the entire soundtrack — which contains new songs from Paramore and Perry Farrell, plus tracks from Linkin Park, Muse and a host of others — and preorder the album, too.
Summit Entertainment has revealed the full new trailer for director Catherine Hardwicke's big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book, Twilight . Opening November 21, the romantic thriller stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Cam Cigandet, Kellan Lutz, Anna Kendrick and Taylor Lautner
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So far it's sold 1.5 million copies. During it's first weekend, Breaking Dawn, the final book in the series, sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours.
The story takes us to days before 18-year-old Bella's wedding to Edward Cullen. Bella is finally going to marry Edward, after countless misunderstandings , estrangements, etc).''He had the most beautiful soul, more beautiful than his brilliant mind or his incomparable face or his glorious body,''
Edward transforms Bella into a vampire. But, first they enjoy a ''real'' honeymoon . The book goes into some detail about the honeymoon adventure. Bella gets pregnant on her honeymoon, then nearly dies during the birth of her half-human/half-vampire baby. And Edward turns Bella into a vampire.
Jacob Black, the werewolf/boy Bella rejects, instantly "imprints" on Renesmee, Bella's daughter. It's implied she is his soul mate. Because she's a hybrid, she'll be an adult at age 7.
Meyer tells USA TODAY that some fans are still "reeling" over Bella's pregnancy, but the fan reaction she's getting is mostly positive. "People are really happy that not only did Bella and Edward end up together but that things really worked out for them."
The build-up and suspense got thousands, if not millions, of us excited to attend the parties and purchase the book. It also got many of use not so literate types reading again.
And, like everything else that is good, there are those who want to spoil the fun. In come the bloggers (not the good ones!) and complainers.
According to MTV one reader expressed her disappointment in the book by launching a discussion on Amazon.com urging fellow disgruntled fans, "Don't burn your copies of the book — RETURN THEM."
Judging by the heated back-and-forth that followed, there are plenty of other Twilighters complaining about what is or isn't in the book: the lack of more explicit sex scenes, the excessive amount of sex scenes, the implausibility of Bella's pregnancy, the pace of the story, the lack of a big battle scene, the whole Jacob section, and on and on.
One blogger told Entertainment Weekly that the story "didn't seem to fit the world that I thought Stephenie Meyer created." Oh please, get a life.
So how does the author feel about this venomous reaction to the novel that sold 1.3 million copies in its first day?
"You see the punch coming; that doesn't mean it's not gonna hurt when it hits," Meyer told MTV News on Thursday. "There's no way to make everybody happy. When I do one thing that a lot of people want, there's always the opposite reaction.
"But how can you possibly meet up with the expectations that this book had?" she asked. "It just got so built up. There is no book in the world that could stand up to that. So I knew it was going to happen, but at the same time it hurts."
"If they really love the characters, then I would hope that this would make sense to them, because these are the true characters," she explained. "This is the story the way it was always meant to be."
And other readers are giving Meyer grief about the fact that Bella does get a "happily ever after" without having to make any major sacrifices.
"I think she worked for it pretty hard," Meyer countered. "It doesn't always work out that way. Sometimes you make a decision about what you want and you pay for it and you suffer for it and it doesn't work out. Those types of stories always leave me horribly depressed. I'm not going to live in a world for a year at a time where that's going to be the ending. If people wanted a really depressing, tragic ending, I gave them a lot of hints that it wasn't going to be that way. They really shouldn't have been surprised!"
"I should have known that people would feel that way," she laughed when we read aloud one comment about Bella's hybrid of Renee and Esme. "The name has been real to me for so long now that I've forgotten how unusual it would sound to everyone else."
Meyer did seem taken aback by the "don't burn it, return it" threats. "I've read a lot of books that I didn't like very much, and that thought never occurred to me, because I had read them! I hadn't heard of [doing] that before. That's not fun to hear."
But Meyer holds out hope that "Breaking Dawn" detractors will eventually see her side of things. "I hope that if they really do enjoy the other books, they'll realize that this is kind of where it was supposed to go."
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The Breaking Dawn Concert Series begins on Aug. 1st. Coincidentally, this is on the eve of the book’s release.
The series starts at the Nokia Theater in Times Square and makes stops in Chicago on Aug. 5, Los Angeles on Aug. 7 and Seattle on Aug. 12. Tickets cost $20 and will go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.; details are available on stepheniemeyer.com and thetwilightsaga.com.
Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final book in the bestselling Twilight Saga.
The highly-anticipated novel will be released at 12:01am on Saturday, August 2, 2008 with a
first printing of 3.2 million copies – the largest first printing in the publisher’s history.
The Breaking Dawn Concert Series will feature music from Meyer’s own
personal playlists which include songs that inspired her while writing each of her books.
Special musical guest Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October will perform several songs during the concert. Music played a major role in the writing of the Twilight Saga and
" I'm thrilled to be able to incorporate my love of music into these special events for my readers," said Stephenie Meyer."I'm a huge Blue October fan! To have Justin at these Breaking Dawn events playing songs that inspired scenes in the book is cooler than anything I could have imagined.
According to the Stephanie MEyer Website, the following titles that will be coming out this fall in connection with the Twilight Saga:
Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone star in Summit Entertainment's Twilight - 2008
ET airs the never-before-seen 'Twilight' trailer on Tuesday.
ETonline has a clip of the new behind-the-scenes footage of the highly anticipated vampire thriller/love story flick based on the New York Times best seller.
In an excerpt from the new footage, which can also be seen on the DVD of the Christina Ricci film 'Penelope' -- on sale Tuesday -- screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and author Stephenie Meyer chat about the film, in theaters December 12.
And you can also see an actual scene from 'Twilight' on the 'Penelope' DVD.
Entertainment Tonight will air the world premiere of a BRAND NEW Twilight trailer TODAY!!! This will include PART of the exclusive scene from the Penelope DVD. Check your local listings to see when Entertainment Tonight airs in your area.
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