Producers who want to make a lot of money off of their movie could spend money on talented writers. They could hire a big name director or pour money into special effects. But if they’re looking to get the most bang for their buck, they should hire Kristen Stewart.

Kristen Stewart topped Forbes list for Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck. For every $1 Stewart is paid she brings in $55.83.

Fox reports that the list looked at actor’s salaries and box office performance for films from the last three years. Stewart, of course, has the money-making Twilight franchise in her corner, which just scored the third highest opening day in history last month.

Anne Hathaway took the number two spot on the list. Hathaway’s helped Alice in Wonderland make millions in 2010, while other movies like Love and Other Drugs and Bride Wars kept her from the number one spot. Hathaway is about to release The Dark Knight Rises so there’s a good chance she could top the list in 2012.

Robert Pattinson took the third spot on the list, again, thanks to Twilight, before Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.

Here are the actors who give you the most bang for your buck. 

1. Kristen Stewart: Per $1 paid earned $55.83
2. Anne Hathaway: Per $1 paid earned $45.67
3. Robert Pattinson: Per $1 paid earned $39.43
4. Daniel Radcliffe: Per $1 paid earned $34.24
5. Shia LaBeouf: Per $1 paid earned $29.40
6. Robert Downey Jr.: Per $1 paid earned $18.74
7. Matt Damon: Per $1 paid earned $15.83
8. Cate Blanchett: Per $1 paid earned $15.17
9. Meryl Streep: Per $1 paid earned $13.54
10.  Johnny Depp: Per $1 paid earned $12.48

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Michelle Trachtenberg was almost cast as Bella Swan in the Twilight franchise. The “Ice Princess” actress said that she was seriously considered for the role because, well, there aren’t too many pale actresses in Hollywood.

Trachtenberg told US Weekly:

“There was definitely interest here and there because there’s only so few pale girls in Hollywood.”

Tratchtenberg also said that her relationship with Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first movie in the Twilight series, also almost landed her the role.

Tratchtenberg said:

“I’ve known Catherine Hardwicke since the movie Thirteen. I was actually supposed to star in that, but I was on Buffy at the time.”

“Twilight: Breaking Dawn,” just had the third biggest opening day of all-time, but Tratchtenberg isn’t disappointed that she missed out on the role of Bella Swan.

Tratchtenberg said:

“I already have “Buffy.” I’ve already done the vampire thing… (If you keep asking yourself ‘what if?’ than) you’re not living in the moment and you’re looking negatively at what you’re doing now.”

Do you think Tratchtenberg was joking when she said she was almost cast as Bella Swan because she’s one of few pale actresses in Hollywood? Kristen Stewart now owns the role of Bella Swan, but did she earn the part because of her acting abilities or her pale appearance?

Do you think Michelle Trachtenberg would have made a good Bella Swan? Can you imagine any actress besides Kristen Stewart playing the famous Twilight role?

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Kristen Stewart has been talking up the bond she has with her co-stars in Twilight, leaving a special mention for … no, not real-life boyfriend/on-screen lover Robert Pattinson, but Taylor Lautner, who has played Jacob Black in the film series since 2008.

The 21-year-old says she always does her best to ensure her or Lautner keep in touch, insisting that they bonded strongly on the set of the vampire movie:

“When I don’t see Taylor for a while I take out my phone and call him. It’s not like I see him all the time or every day, it’s just that when you work with people like that, you can give so much. It’s so comfortable, you can do no wrong – they’ve got you. We get along together and I think it shows.”

The 21-year-old actress got close to her 19-year-old co-star while filming the vampire movies. and says phone calls and emails help her keep in touch with Lautner.

Not that Pattinson should be getting too jealous – Stewart says she has become close with all her cast-mates, and believes that such friendship was critical when it came to making so many damn Twilight movies:

“I couldn’t have done this without them. I can’t imagine what this movie would have been if I didn’t have really solid – and always growing – relationships with them.”

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Despite scathing reviews from various outlets The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1 earned more than six times it’s nearest competitor this weekend with $139.5 million in domestic box office earnings.

That total makes the newest chapter in Stephanie Meyer’s book series the fifth biggest opening weekend movie of all time, yet it still fell short of the last installments $142.8 million weekend.

In second place was Happy Feet Two which took in just $22 million compared to a 2006 take of  $41.6 million during the first week of release.

Rounding out the top five movies for the weekend were:

• Immortals, $12.3 million; down 62% in its second weekend.
• Jack and Jill, $12 million; also in its second weekend, down 52%.
• Puss in Boots, $10.7 million in its fourth weekend.

Does it surprise you to learn that Twilight did so well at the box office despite awful reviews and an ending that much like the final two Harry Potter movies left fans wishing they would have just made one longer movie?

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Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson are on their way to setting a few box office records. The new Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, brought in $72 million from domestic tickets on opening day, and another $66 million worldwide.

Breaking Dawn‘s box office performance on opening day was the third highest in history. According to the Hollywood Reporter, only Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Twilight: New Moon had bigger opening days. When New Moon was released two years ago, it brought in $72.7 million on opening day.

MTV reports that midnight showings helped Breaking Dawn to set box-office records. Breaking Dawn played in more than 3,000 theaters at 12:01 on Friday morning, before adding another thousand location by mid-morning. The new Twilight movie brought in $30.25 million from midnight showings alone.

According to Bloomberg, industry experts are predicting that Breaking Dawn will gross $300 million during the film’s domestic theater run.

Breaking Dawn may be a huge money maker, but critics aren’t too impressed. The movie currently has a score of just 27% rating from more than 136 critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Dana Stevens at Slate writes:

“By any normal standard, this is a terrible movie, with stilted dialogue and leaden pacing — every 15 minutes or so, the action stops for a musical montage involving slow-motion handsomeness. But the Twilight saga stopped being normal a long time ago.”

Of course, Twilight fans disagree. Fans gave the new Twilight movie a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Were you surprised by Breaking Dawn‘s box office performance? What about the reviews?

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Want to be the first to see Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? If you’re reading this, you’re probably out of luck. Fans have been camping out for days in front of the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles for the Breaking Dawn premiere.

The movie will hit theaters worldwide this weekend, but for fans who just can’t wait to witness Edward and Bella’s marriage, the Nokia Theater is the place to be tonight. According to Zap2It, fans have been sitting outside of the Nokia Theater since November 10th in order to get a glimpse of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner as they walk the red carpet tonight for the Breaking Dawn premiere.

If you can’t make it to the Nokia Theater tonight, you can still catch a glimpse of all the action. MTV.com will be streaming the event live starting at 8 pm ET. (You can see the feed below.) MTV will also play a “never before seen scene” from the movie at 7:56.

Oh, and in case you can’t wait. Here’s a teaser for the Twilight teaser.

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As the Evil Queen, Theron opens the clip with a chilling narration, uttering:

“Do you hear that? It’s the sound of battles fought, and lives lost. It once pained me to know that I am the cause of such despair.”

“But now their cries give me strength,” Theron narrates as the scene cuts to her sucking the life from a hapless girl before throwing her mercilessly to the ground. “Beauty is my power,” she adds.

After she utters the timeless words — “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is fairest of them all?” — the Queen discovers – to no-one’s surprise – that the pretty Snow White (played by Stewart) is her adversary set to bring her down.

Snow White and the Huntsman, currently in production, is slated to hit theaters June 1, 2012.

In the meantime, check out Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart do battle in the intense, action-packed new trailer for the upcoming film below:
via NY Daily

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Kristen Stewart may have shot to fame as the impassive Bella from the blockbuster Twilight series of books and films, but the actress is arguably known for her- well, lack of range. (This was recently even sent up on Beavis and Butthead in their debut return episode.)

Along with Stewart’s chronic “meh” face, Twilight is notable in a genre that is a sex metaphor for being notoriously sexless. Sexless! The romance novels hardly get any sex until the very last book, only after the lead characters are married, and even then results in a half-breed demon baby that essentially kills one of the main characters, because sex is bad, mm-kay? But it seems that when the sex finally did come to Twilight, in the Breaking Dawn installment, Stewart’s acting ability came to the forefront- and threatened to impede the movies’ squeaky clean appeal.

Both Robert Pattinson and director Bill Condon joked about Stewart’s on-screen prowess, saying that the intensity of the scenes needed to be dulled somewhat despite a firm lack of MPAA guidelines about what constitutes an R-rated sex scene. Condon explained:

“It wasn’t rated R, they don’t rate it.They just say, ‘you know, we’re not hitting a PG yet.’ Frankly it’s a very clinical thing. I’ve been through this before when I was trying not to get an X or NC-17 rating on Kinsey, but because it’s so subjective, they have very specific guidelines.”

The director continued:

“I hate to be clinical, but guidelines on thrusting intercourse. Anything that suggested that- not to make people too excited it was never explicit — but I think any movement that suggests that is what they object to. I suspect that because of the popularity of Twilight we had an even bigger focus.”

Will you be lining up for Breaking Dawn on November 18th?

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The “Twilight” saga stars join Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Kevin Costner and an array of other Hollywood greats in getting the special honor.

The handprint ceremony, which was officiated by Jimmy Kimmell and only lasted about 15 minutes, kicked off the beginning of the United States promotion for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 which is slated to hit theaters on on November 18th.

Twilight‘s author Stephanie Meyer was on hand to introduce the trio, and was beyond thrilled to help them celebrate their big day.

“Everything that they expend in the service of these characters is really touching to me,” Meyer said of Robert, Kristen and Taylor. “I’ll never not be grateful for what they’ve done.”

After the ceremony, Kristen Stewart and her two on-screen loves signed autographs for the screaming fans crowded around the theater entrance.

In case you missed the live stream of the Breaking Dawn handprint ceremony, you can watch it in the video below:

via OTRC

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It may be hard to imagine Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as anything on screen but Bella and Edward after the massive impact the Twilight series of films has had on pop culture.

At the end of the entire Twilight set, the pair will have completed five whole films in the saga: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and parts one and two of the current and last book adaptation, Breaking Dawn. Both Stewart, 21, and Pattinson, 25, shot to international fame after starring in the films (although Pattinson was well-known to fangirls the world over after his role as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter films) and are well linked with their characters in the Twilight universe.

That’s not to say the pair haven’t worked outside Twilight obligations- both have been busy with other projects throughout the books’ journey to the silver screen. And somewhat uncharacteristically of stars their age, the real-life couple have kept very quiet about their long-term off-screen romance. But Stewart and Pattinson may ‘come out’ in a bigger way after the last part of Breaking Dawn wraps.

According to a Hollywood source, the couple may star in a film centering around a real life celebrity couple. No actual plot was revealed, however:

“The story revolves around two actors who meet on a movie and fall in love,” says a Hollywood insider.

“The producers want to get an actual couple to plays the leads and Kristen and Robert are top of their list. They are looking for new challenges after Twilight so this may be perfect for them.”

Would it be strange to see Stewart and Pattinson together not as Bella and Edward?

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Twilight and Harry Potter star Robert Pattinson caused a massive stir among fangirls when he joked that he and co-star Kristen Stewart may already be married after their wedding scene in the upcoming Twilight saga film Breaking Dawn.

Breaking Dawn is the last installment in the vampire love drama, and covers the (spoiler alert) wedding of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Their eternity-ever-after, however, is hijacked by the improbable human-on-vampire pregnancy that occurs roughly ten minutes into the honeymoon, and the lovebirds must deal with the life-threatening horror of giving birth to and raising a vamp-human hybrid.

As you can imagine, there is an elaborate wedding scene in Breaking Dawn that has to occur before Bella and Edward can actually have sex. And it is during this scene, says Pattinson, that the actual in-real-life marrying could have theoretically taken place. Us Weekly quotes Pattinson:

“The wedding scene’s funny because we used a real priest. So technically we are already married because he did all the things you would do in a normal ceremony,” Pattinson, 25, joked during a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden Friday. “So we don’t have a civil union in law, but I guess in the church we are actually married.”

Pattinson also dished at the conference about filming the hotly-anticipated Twilight sex scenes with Stewart. He said:

“It was very charged, but a very tender and sentimental scene. It’s not a scene from the book, so everyone was nervous about doing it right,” he explained. “A ton of other people were nervous. And, Kristen and I were both worried about the shape of our bodies would look on camera. We felt vulnerable.”

But the messages in Twilight perceived by some as anti-sex were not lost on Pattinson. He also opined:

“I’ve never been able to relate to that fear of sex or sexuality. It’s funny that all three movies portray sex as something scary and then, when they have sex in the fourth movie, they have a child with really rather devastating consequences. I’m not sure what they are trying to say. . .never have sex with anyone ever?”

Are you a big Robert Pattinson fan? Do you have your Breaking Dawn tickets yet?

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Twilight actress Kristen Stewart has reportedly been hurt while filming a scene for the upcoming movie Snow White and the Huntsman. While the actresses injury remains a mystery it was bad enough to stop production until Friday.

Kristen’s injury was announced on Twitter by co-star Max Mangenello who tweeted:

 ”It’s a wrap for today. Kristen has hurt herself … nothing scary. We shoot on Friday.”

The move is being filmed overseas and Stewart and the rest of the gang have been spotted in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Snow White and the Huntsman is expected to reach theaters on June 1, 2012 with an excellent cast that includes Charlize Theron (the Evil Queen), Chris Hemsworth (the Huntsman) and Sam Claflin (Prince Charming).

Unlike the original story in which the Queen wants to destroy Snow White in this retelling White has been training with the Huntsman, the same man that has been ordered to kill her.

Speaking with MTV News Stewart said of her character:

“It’s not a little girl sitting by a well with little tweety birds telling her what to do and where to go,” and ”[The costume] makes you feel kind of strong occasionally, sometimes, but I kind of feel tiny, my pinhead sticks out of these enormous things.”

Will you be heading out to see this movie when it reaches theaters next year?

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Kristen Stewart, the somewhat expressionless actress known for playing Pants in the Twilight saga, has long been rumored to be dating co-star Robert Pattinson.

Since Pattinson took on the role of Edward, he has been hugely popular with the many screaming, fervent fans of the Twilight films. (Note: someone even invented a chillable Twilight dildo to partially replicate the undead sex experience.) So while news that the two are hot and heavy may not be a surprise, it’s also a big deal to Twilight fangirls.

In a recent interview, Stewart responded to a question about England by saying “my boyfriend’s British,” and then realized her slip. When pressed about it the next day, she admitted that she meant for the comment to be off the record, but that its easily confirmed she and Pattinson are an item:

“I never would have said that if I knew you were interviewing me,… So much of my life is so easily Googled. I mean, it’s like, ‘Come on guys, it’s so obvious!’”

Stewart continues:

“I don’t think you realize what a big deal it is for people. Well, it is a big deal. They would be ‘Oh. My. God.’ There would also be still a 50/50 split… Some people would still be, ‘See, told you they’re not together.’”

The actress explains her reticence, and says that discussing her relationship has no palpable return for herself or her fella:

“I’m selfish. I’m like, ‘That’s mine!’ And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It’s a funny little game to play and it’s a slippery slope. I always say to myself I’m never going to give anything away because there’s never any point or benefit for me.”

Breaking Dawn is out on November 18th in theaters.

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It’s one thing when Hollywood recycles a played out idea, it’s something completely different when two versions of a played out scenario film at the same time but that’s exactly what is currently happening as both Twilight star Kristen Stewart and Lilly Collins both star in different Snow White live action movies.

Stewart is starrting in Show White and the Huntsman where the Huntsman who has been sent out to kill Snow White ends up protecting her while trying to vanquish the Evil Queen.  The movie is set for a June 1 2012 release.

In the other move named The Brothers Grimm: Snow White Collins stars in the move in which her and the seven dwarfs attempt to reclaim a destroyed kingdom.  The move opens on Mar. 16, 2012.

At least the two actresses are not remaking the same old Snow White story we’ve heard a million times before.

Which Snow White movie sounds like a better concept to you?

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Twilight Actress Kristen Stewart likes smoking pot, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but when you’re the star of a hit movie and you’re smoking the pot outside a house in broad daylight, you’re going to get caught.

And that’s exactly what the photos show Kristen Stewart doing.

Some are claiming that the photos are inconclusive, but seriously, what else could it be? A Sherlock Holmes impression?

Take a look at the Kristen Stewart smoking pot pics above and below, with more on TMZ Here (via PopCrunch)

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New Moon, the sequel to the box office hit Twilight has been confirmed.

Summit Entertainment officially greenlit New Moon after Twilight box office sales generated $35.7 million from 3,419 plays on Friday, including $7 million from Thursday midnight shows.

There are four books in Stephenie Meyer’s series with Twilight being the first, and combined sales for the book series are more than 17 million copies worldwide.

According to Variety, New Moon is centered on Edward Cullen leaving Bella Swan in order to keep her safe from other vampires. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart play the leads in the film.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, and want to get a taste for what the hype is all about, here’s the Twilight Trailer.

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While looking up Twilight movie reviews and listings (screaming fans, show yourselves!), you might want to check out an MTV Exclusive that’s looking past 2008 and onto Kristen Stewart’s next role– as a man. According to their report, Twilight co-stars Kristen Stewart and Nikki Reed will reunite in a few weeks in a film called K-11.

Reed revealed earlier this week that “I’m doing a movie called ‘K-11’ in January with Kristen Stewart. It’s about a little-known section of the men’s county jail. I’m playing a man, and Kristen’s playing a boy.”

Jules Stewart, Kristen’s Stewart’s mother, is said to be directing the film, which is based on the dormitory section called “K-11″ in the Los Angeles jail used to house gay inmates. Regarding their next parts played as men, Reed said that “I suppose I would be [nervous about the handling of our transformations] if it were coming from left field, but I’ve known about the script for a very long time.”

Now that’s a change from Twilight madness!

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