DAVID_A_SLADE "Very first impression of KS, Shy, strong, talented, smart beyond her years and direct. No messing around."

via DS's 10-minute Q and A on Twatter. lol

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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart arrive together in a taxi back at the pacific palisades hotel. Kristen's manager is also in the taxi, along with Twilight Eclipse director David Slade. I asked Rob "Can I get one quick picture?" and he replied "yeah sure" and I took one frame, changed camera orientations, and took a second one. He jokingly added "hey, you said just one!" after that and patted me on the back and said goodnight. The hotel is being converted to condos now.


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Robert Pattinson leaves the metropole, a bar in the gastown neighborhood of vancouver, BC. he briefly looks at the camera and pops the collar up on his jacket, and runs his hands through his hair.

At Sam Bradley's concert  -May 2009




From August 15, 2009

KOL Day - Leaving gastwon restaurant after new moon cast screening 15 aug 09.


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Starts at 1:21 "Rob is an enigma, he is very charismatic..."

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Blog Rule # 4353 If you don't see an article or an interview here - don't ask me about it. *Popping in some Tylenols.* Migraine looms. lol


For those of you who are asking for this Edward Cullen - Broken Glass Poster/Puzzle, featured during David's interview - here it is.

Vancouver Sun "Eclipse was a lot broader . . . but it's still a character-based drama. That's what I really enjoyed about it," he says. "I think it's also a much more adult film than (the previous two), because the characters are becoming more mature. There's loads of fun stuff to play with, and because we treated it as a drama, the transformation (of character) takes place."

The substance was always bloody and meaty, but Slade says the pragmatics of the whole ordeal were anything but easy. He feels exhausted just thinking about the experience.

"It was a 50-day shoot, with many 16-hour days," he says.

To make things even more challenging, the cast was losing itself in its own Twilight cosmos. All actors have to surrender to their roles and inhabit their characters to some degree for the duration of production, so Slade was pleased his cast was taking the whole project seriously and sincerely.

Everyone was committed, he says. "Kristen, in particular, was very tough on herself."

Slade says because Stewart didn't pull from her own life and her own person to play Bella Swan, she found it personally demanding to find Bella's truth.

"She would say, 'I don't know who Bella is to me.' In a lot of ways, I think she felt Bella was the antithesis to her, which presented a lot of challenges for Kristen. . . . She would beat herself up about it, because she wants to be there. She never wants to leave a scene undone.

"There were tears," says Slade. "But you move on and you keep going. . . . Even in rehearsals with Rob (Pattinson), there was a similar spiralling that would happen."

Actors are people. They get insecure, and any human being facing the weight of expectation surrounding Twilight would have to buckle, if only a little. To offset as much of the thespian obsessing as possible, Slade says he's learned the value of preparation.

He says he rehearses his actors as much as possible, so they're comfortable with the material and their characters, and he gets to focus on the minutiae of performance without the intrusive presence of a camera.

"You're always looking to get the emotional truth from the performance," he says. And with Twilight, that emotional truth is nothing less than the blood-red heart of romantic love — which pounds away in Slade's heart, even though, at 41, he's supposed to be a member of a more cynical generation.

"I do believe in romantic love. How could you not, if you're lucky enough to find it? It seems like we live in a much more sarcastic . . . cynical culture, and I don't like to use the c-word. There's the idea out there maybe that (romantic love) isn't cool. But true love is a wonderful thing."

Slade says romantic love is the gooey hook on the Twilight narrative, but after reading Stephenie Myers' books, he also feels they address a lot more issues than mere vampires and teen romance. via @Vonch

E!OnLine - Marc Malkin By now you've seen the pics of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Edward and Bella making out on the beach.

We could only imagine what they would have been doing if Eclipse director David Slade had been hired for Breaking Dawn, too...

"I would have probably gone after it," Slade says of racier scenes in the final installment of the Twilight franchise. "I'm kind of fairly tenacious that way.

"I'd have probably done a special red band version if it were up to me," he laughed. "But no, poor ole Bill Condon has that task."

As for Eclipse (out on DVD tomorrow), Slade did reveal that there was some chatter of turning it into a 3-D flick. But the talks didn't get very far.

"There was talk of a conversion, but it was really idle talk," he explained. "I think it's really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn't shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don't."

So much for Robert Pattinson jumping off the screen and into your lap.

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AccessHollywood "What did Taylor Lautner think of having to carry Kristen Stewart all day (shirtless!) to shoot a scene?"

Sound off guys! Do you already have your Eclipse DVD? Oh yeah!

EONLine- MarcMalkin If Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were ever bothered by the constant paparazzi and tabloid attention to their private lives during the making of Eclipse, director David Slade says he didn't know anything about it.

And even if he did, Slade wasn't about to get involved in any of the dramarama. It's not that he didn't care, but…

"We had a very tight schedule so there wasn't much time to be too sympathetic, to be honest,"  "We had to go. We had to shoot. We had shoot after shoot after shoot. We had a 50-day schedule which isn't normally what you have for a film of this scale."


"So we just had to crack on," he continued. "If anything, there wasn't time to go, 'How are you feeling today? Are you all right? What's going on?'"

They were so busy that Slade says he never even had the chance to get to know Pattinson, Stewart and the rest of the cast too well. "All the time we spent together was working," he said. "We never hung out and had a beer. We were rehearsing. If we weren't rehearsing, we were shooting. If we weren't rehearsing or shooting, we were sleeping."

Even so, maybe we'll see Slade directing another Twilight movie one of these days? Sure, the Breaking Dawn flicks are supposed to be the last two installments of the megahit vampire franchise, but Slade laughed, "There was only going to be three James Bond movies, right?"

At least David is honest. Why am I missing Chris Weitz and Catherine Hardwicke so much? lol Oooh hopeful about 'Bond reference' comment.

Next Movie Any Twi-Hard knows that Bella Swan’s extravagant wedding to her handsome vampire suitor occurs in the beginning of series closer “Breaking Dawn” — chapter three, to be exact.

But according to David Slade, the director of the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” adaptation, it might have come a little earlier on the big screen.

“We discussed a lot of the things at the script-writing stage — at one point, we were even going to shoot the wedding at the end of ["Eclipse"] but we knew there was another film coming,” Slade tells NextMovie exclusively.

“We knew that a lot of that could go into the next film. And we just made the most concise version of this story that we could.”

LA Times caught up with director David Slade, who steered the third installment of the franchise, as he reflected on his whirlwind year in the Twi-universe. After all, a year ago at this time, Slade was only a month into editing the flick.

"Finishing the film is a moment of great weight. It's not just getting it cut, it's when the final print is timed and there's nothing more to do," he said. "It was the night before we did our press junket we finished it."
Finished staring at the famous faces of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, that is. Slade, whose pedigree is in music videos and darker indies such as "Hard Candy," said he did his best with the "Eclipse" DVD to please the vampire saga's legions of fans.
"This is the only thing I've ever done that's had such a fan subculture, so with the deleted scenes I wanted to do a little justification for them," Slade said.
Chief among the scenes cut from the theatrical version of the film was an exchange between Stewart's Bella and her on-screen dad Charlie, played by Billy Burke.

[Spoiler alert!] The two have a bonding moment after her high school graduation, one of Bella's last mortal activities before Pattinson's Edward follows through on making her a vampire.
"It's all in Billy's face, when you watch the film 30-odd times or more, there's more in his face than in his words," Slade said. "I was so confident that was going to make it in, we did it in one shot. It was two people trying to be as close to each other as possible."

MTV David Slade talks about the DVD special six-part making-of documentary.

"I can't remember it," he admitted rather sheepishly. "I do remember having to watch it to approve it and stuff."

"All credit due to the people who made the behind-the-scenes. They were almost invisible when we were making the film. They really were exceptionally discreet. So I can't remember them ever being there," he said. "I noticed them with a camcorder every now and again. I remember grabbing a hold of it once or twice and gesturing into the camera, but other than that, I don't remember them being there. You could attribute this to old age."

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From Collider , here are some excerpts.

David on his fave scene to shoot...
"There are favorite scenes or moments, and there were things that were just predictably fun. The scene where Charlie (Billy Burke) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) have the discussion in the kitchen, which starts out as trying to explore whether she understands this need for marriage and turns into this admission of being a virgin, was genuinely fun because both actors have great comic timing. It wasn’t about going in to find the joke. The joke was there, and everything was actually a bonus. I remember that being tons of fun. 

Do you feel it was a help or a hindrance with Eclipse that the cast had already been together for two previous films?
SLADE: It was a bit of both. Yes, there is something absolutely wonderful to build upon because they’ve done it before. But, the way it worked for me was that I met each actor individually and asked, quite honestly, what worked and what didn’t work, so we could excise what didn’t work and build upon what worked. And with so little time to shoot the film, and pressures of the schedule and weather, and all the rest of it, it certainly wouldn’t have been as successful, had they not been through this before.

Read the full transcript of the interview at Collider

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David_A_Slade "Spent the weekend making photo prints and this website: http://thechromatic.virb.com/"

I got inspired as well...

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This is a repost. Initially posted this back in June during the Eclipse promo -lol, crazy times. Anyway, for you guys who might have missed it, producer Wyck Godfrey talks about his fave part in the movie, which is the proposal scene. He talks candidly about Rob's take on Edward's  'sweet' proposition to Bella. Aww, awkward Robward is just too cute.

Oh and yes, David Slade and Melissa Rosenberg share their fave scenes as well. Wyck's part is at 0:44.

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From Making of .  David starts talking about the leads at 2:25

"(talking about inspiration) ...particularly with Rob, who is very charismatic and will improvise. And sometimes his improvisations are wonderful."

Oh DS, you and your poker face. I hope you really 'mean' it. 

Not really new.  We have seen this from the Eclipse Movie Companion. 

Now, released as an actual still.

HQ scan , click to enlarge.

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Kristen already landed in Montreal a few hours ago.  Let's hope she'll have fun with pre-prod.  Beatnik camp will be so much fun! I see Rob moping.  Poor baby.  It's TomStu and the Britpack's time to babysit Jella's pop.

No trolling allowed here. Doubters and shakers as well.  Move along to your next blog stop. Thanks and Bye.

David Slade at 3:18. "She wants another kiss." lol
"It was very sexy wasn't it? Actors, funny enough, they do it all the time. Doing those kissing scenes - makes the spray gesture  and the spray sounds lol  - they would do the full kiss. I remember at one point, going on cut and she ... " but I've got two more lines" and you know she wants another kiss."

I bet both of them want more takes, more kisses. lmao and DS's humor is growing on me.

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"When you put your heart and soul into something as intense as the duration of a film production, you become completely lost in it. You focus on doing your very best to get it right each day and you work on this for so long that you assume an ownership of it.

When shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I always felt an awareness of how many people this film would reach and as a result, knew that this film did not just belong to myself, the producers and the studio, but more so, to all of you, the fans of The Twilight Saga.

At the end of the day, after all the hard work is done, all that's left is the film itself, and your overwhelmingly positive and supportive responses have made me feel like we must have done something right. As a filmmaker, this is a rare and strange feeling of connection with an audience of which I will never forget and I thank you all for it. "

DAVID SLADE
JULY 2010
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GossipCop Holiday Weekend Actuals
UPDATE – 7/6/10 – 5:00 PM
The actual box office figures for Eclipse are slightly higher than the estimates provided until this hour.  According to Summit, the movie’s actual four-day North American (Friday through Monday) haul at 4,468 locations was $83.6 million. The actual 6-day cumulative North American box office stands at $176.4 million.

UPDATE: – 7/5/10 – 11:00 AM
The numbers are in, and in the first six days since Eclipse was released, the film made $175.3 million in North America.A serious $9 million came from IMAX screenings.

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Eclipse Box Office Report:  Eclipse finishes first 6 days with $175.29M domestic (USA), $275.49M worldwide.

Box office estimates are in for Sunday, July 4 and Monday, July 5. For Sunday, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse finished in first place, taking in $16.6M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $3,715, representing a drop of 30.5% from Saturday to Sunday. This brings its 5-day cumulative domestic total to $161M. On Monday, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse stayed in first place, taking in $13.545M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $3,032, representing a drop of 18.4% from Sunday to Monday. This brings its 6-day cumulative domestic total to $175.29M. Adding in partial overseas returns of $100.2M gives Eclipse a current worldwide total of $275.49M.

For the 3-day weekend of Friday, July 2 - Sunday, July 4, Eclipse finished in first place with an estimated $69M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $15,443. For the 4-day weekend of Friday, July 2 - Monday, July 5, Eclipse finished in first place with an estimated $82.545M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $18,475. In second place for the 4-day weekend was The Last Airbender with $53.15M from 3,169 locations for a per theater average of $16,772. This brings its 5-day cumulative domestic total to $70.5M.

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"Oh, we know" lol

This is just an excerpt from TheWrap.com's interview with David Slade.

Summit has so much riding on the “Twilight” series. Everything must have been a committee decision.
DS:  You can get every single person who needs to make a decision at Summit into the bathroom. So it’s not as many as you think.  Summit is a studio like any other studio, and in this day and age, you have to know how to work with studios. But the main thing is, as long as you’re on the same page when you go in, you stay on the same page. You’ll have your ups and downs, but mostly you can make the film that you want to make.

What did they want input on?
Largely big general points like, “Don’t make Edward ugly in this scene. Make sure he’s not in the sun because he should sparkle.”

Read the full interview HERE

Thanks Kathy for the link.

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It wasn't a big surprise last night at the "Eclipse" premiere that the stars of "The Twilight Saga" said almost unanimously that the tent scene was the moment in the film they were most looking forward to.

We already knew that it was that scene that sent the cast back to do last minute reshoots, and that Robert Pattinson liked the original version better, but director David Slade set the record straight that the two versions weren't very different after all.

"It was all the same dialogue. It was more of a pickup shoot, really," he said. "We actually inter-cut between the first shoot of that scene and the later one, and really it was just one of those things where in the schedule, we needed two days to shoot it, and we had one. So, I was really relieved to go back and just pick some stuff up. I think the only difference really was Taylor actually holds [Kristen] to his chest more, and Rob's better than he was [laughs]."

Rob had said that he hoped the original cut of the tent scene would make it to the DVD as an extra, but David said that probably wouldn't happen.

"The initial cut is in the film up to a certain point, then we cut back and forth between them, and Rob wouldn't know because we color-timed them all to look exactly like the same scene," he said.

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