Last month, as ”The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” got off to a stellar (if not record-breaking) start at the box office, MTV News squashed the widely held assumption that the second part of ”Breaking Dawn” would definitely arrive in the summer of 2012. As Summit Entertainment exec Richie Fay told us, the studio was exploring multiple dates in mid- to late-2012, not just possible openings that would fall when school’s out of session.

 

Now, Summit has officially announced that ”Breaking Dawn, Part 2″ will open November 2012, and with that, another assumption seems to be taking hold among fans and on the Web: After ”Eclipse” failed to wildly out-gross ”New Moon” at the box office, Summit got spooked about a summer release date and fled to more familiar autumn territory. But based on our conversations with Summit and box-office analysts, that’s simply not the case.

First off, it’s important to note that despite all this talk about a weaker-than-expected performance for ”Eclipse,” its $289 million haul will eventually surpass the $297 million that ”New Moon” pulled in last fall, according to Box Office Mojo.

When you consider that sequels like ”Shrek Forever After” and ”Sex and the City 2″ underperformed in the crowded summer movie season, Summit has got to be extremely pleased with the box-office business of ”Eclipse.” So if it’s not a fear of summer that persuaded Summit to deliver both ”Breaking Dawn” films in the fall, then what was it? A careful examination of the 2012 summer calendar.

”The lesson is that it’s all about positioning a film at a time when it will face as little direct competition as possible,” explained Phil Contrino, editor of BoxOffice.com. ”Summit was wise to stay away from Summer 2012, because it’s shaping up to be a record-breaking season.”

”The Avengers,” ”Madagascar 3″ and ”Men in Black 3″ are all set to drop that May, followed by ”Star Trek 2″ in June, and then new installments of ”Spider-Man” (which already occupies the Fourth of July slot held this year by ”Eclipse”), ”Ice Age” and ”Batman.”

”Why compete with an amazing slate like that if you don’t have to?” Contrino added. ”I’m sure ”Breaking Dawn, Part 2″ would still open very well during a summer that crowded, but its audience would be devoured very quickly.”

The point, then, is not that summer is a poor time in which to release a ”Twilight” film but that fall simply presents less competition, which is not to say that there will be no box-office battle in autumn. ”Breaking Dawn, Part I” is set to open against ”Happy Feet 2″ on November 18, 2011, while the second in the two-part finale will compete with ”Monsters Inc. 2″ on November 16, 2012. But when you consider the more jam-packed summer season and the fact that an entire year will have passed between ”Twilight” flicks — as opposed to the eight months between ”New Moon” and ”Eclipse” — the fall 2012 release date makes perfect sense.

”There’s a mood and spirit to these movies that make them play really well in the fall. They’re darker, they’re more emotional than standard summer fare, and thematically, fall is a great fit,” said John Singh, a box-office analyst for Flixster. ”It also allows the audience to build even greater anticipation — rather than seeing the follow-up just a few months later. This gives them a full year to anticipate the final film in a series that has generated hugely positive response from its fanbase.”

Källa: TTS

Robert Pattinson has revealed that he is looking forward to a “pillow-biting” sex scene with his co-star Kristen Stewart in new Twilight movieBreaking Dawn.

In the fourth and final film adaptation of the vampire saga, the pair share heated sex scenes and Pattinson, 24, revealed his excitement about the intimate scenes.

Pattinson, dubbed R-Pattz by fans, told Access Hollywood: ‘I’m looking forward to the pillow-biting scene.

‘I thought that was so funny, of all the random things too do, really? He bites the pillow.’

Stewart, whose character Bella Swan has a baby in the new movie, added: ‘It does actually literally get more physical [in Breaking Dawn].

‘It doesn’t get more action-packed… [But] they definitely get more physical – well, they get married…

‘We totally have sex – finally!’

”Jag ser framemot scenen med kudden och bitandet.”

”Jag tyckte det var så roligt, av alla saker som man kan göra  så biter han en kudde!”

”Det blir inte mera aktion än tidigare men mycket mera fysiskt, vi gifter oss…”

”Vi kommer ha sex – äntligen!”

Källa: TTS

Källa: KristenS

*Breaking dawn spoiler!*

Stephenie Meyer har uppdaterat sin officiella hemsida med följande uttalande talar om Breaking Dawn filmen:

Just a quick note on the subject of the Breaking Dawn film: there is no drama over whether the book should be one movie or two. My personal feeling is that it would be very difficult to cram the whole story into one movie (as I’ve said in many interviews previous to this), but if a great way of doing that surfaces, I’m all for it. Two or one, whichever way fits the story best is fine by me, and everyone I’ve spoken with at Summit seems to feel the same way. We’re all excited to move forward on this, and we are slowly and surely getting there. I know people are anxious for news, and so sometimes gossip get fabricated to stir things up, but there’s no basis to this particular story.

Steph

Nu har LA Times officiellt klargjort att breaking dawn blir film. Här nedanför kommer lite nyheter som de även hade med om detta.

• Taylor, Kristen och Robert har alla skrivit under för att göra breaking dawn. (Robert har ju redan avslöjat att han har skrivit på för filmen, men nu har vi alltså på svart och vitt att faktiskt HELA trion kommer delta i den slutgörande filmen.)
• Melissa Rosenberg har även hon skrivit på kontrakt för att skriva manuset till den fjärde och sista filmen, hon håller just nu på med det enligt källor.
• De hoppas att filma breaking dawn i Vancouver i höst.
• Chris Weitz kommer nog INTE göra sista filmen, men de har inte gett ett klart nej heller till idéen.