Bill Condon

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’s gay moment will not be deleted from the film, posing the question if Malaysia shall still allow the film to air. A request was made by the Film Censorship Board in Malaysia asking Disney to cut out the scene. However, Disney has declined to alter the film for Malaysia and […]

Backlash over Beauty and the Beast‘s inclusion of a gay character is apparently not limited to the U.S. According to BBC, Russia is considering banning the new Disney live-action movie to prohibit the spreading of “gay propaganda” among minors. Russian lawmaker wants Beauty and the Beast banned for "gay moment" https://t.co/MrxAqCD5i9 pic.twitter.com/sDSj1yGsXF — The Daily […]

There’s something here that wasn’t here before, and it’s pretty incredible. Last week, the world watched wide-eyed as they saw Emma Watson and Dan Stevens speak their first full lines to each other (or, at least, the first we’ve seen). But now, with the release of the 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition of the 1991 classic […]

Disney has announced that they will be making a live-action film from the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. According to People magazine, the success of Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent has encouraged production of more live-action films. Already announced and said to be in the works are The Little Mermaid, directed by Sofia Coppola, Cinderella, […]

Have you seen the creepy Twilight doll that was originally slated to appear in the second half of Breaking Dawn? Let’s put it this way: Child’s Play has absolutely nothing on Renesmee. Before director Bill Condon and producer Wyck Godfrey decided to user computer-generated imagery to create Bella and Edward’s rapidly-aging baby, the filmmakers put […]

Benedict Cumberbatch, one of the hottest British actors of the year, had a uncharacteristic bomb at the box office with The Fifth Estate. The drama is based on the events surrounding government secret revelation by the website WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange. Cumberbatch (Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug) stars as […]

When interviewed at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Fifth Estate star Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, said that the whistleblowing website would not approve of the film. He was right. Wikileaks has put out a memo slamming the Bill Condon film which also stars Daniel Brühl. In the detailed memo the […]

British actor Ian McKellen (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Wolverine) will play famed detective Sherlock Holmes in a new film from Bill Condon (Gods And Monsters, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Parts 1 and 2). The Oscar winning director is making A Slight Trick Of The Mind, starring McKellen as a retired Sherlock, sans […]

A Richard Pryor biopic has picked up a new producer in acclaimed actor Forest Whitaker, who has developed a solid reputation behind the camera as well. According to Deadline, Whitaker has teamed with the late comedian’s wife Jennifer Pryor to bring a biopic to the screen, and if it seems like you’ve heard of someone […]

The first era of The Twilight Saga may be over on the big screen, but in terms of DVD, Blu-Ray and merchandise there’s plenty more road left. Today Lionsgate announced that an extended edition of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 containing eight minutes of never-before-seen footage will debut on Blu-ray, DVD and […]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has crossed $ 700 million box office worldwide. With a total haul of $702,393,000, the finale installment is set to surpass New Moon’s$709 million and become the franchise’s biggest earner worldwide. “This will be the biggest Twilight movie ever at the box office and the foreign grosses […]

While The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 continues to dominate box offices around the world, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart spent a well-earned Thanksgiving break together with Pattinson’s family in the UK. After being spotted by an onlooker at London’s Heathrow airport on Friday, the pair boarded a flight bound for New York. […]

It didn’t set a new, domestic franchise record, but make no mistake The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 made an absolute killing this weekend. Dominating box offices and the public’s entertainment conversation, the finale installment in the wildly successful vampire-human-werewolf series took $ 340.9 million worldwide. Specifically, $ 141.3 million of that came […]

After all the speculation The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 broke its own franchise record at the box office last night. Deadlinereports that the final film in the quintet series surpassed its previous Thursday night-Friday midnight record and took $ 30.4 million in North America. The new record beats the $ 30.25 million […]

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner brought star wattage to London’s Leicester Square on Wednesday night for the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2. Against a backdrop of Christmas lights and the screams of over 6000 fans, the three stars worked their way down the red carpet signing autographs and […]

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart led the charge at the much anticipated Breaking Dawn – Part 2 world premiere in Los Angeles last night. Attended by thousands of screaming, placard bearing fans — many of whom had camped for days — the black carpet event marked the first of four send-offs for Summit Entertainment’s wildly […]

The tents have disappeared, but the 2, 250Twilight Saga fans that thronged downtown Los Angeles for the past four days haven’t gone too far. In just a few hours, battalions of fans, press, TV crews, celebrities and the cast of Lionsgate-Summit’s $ 2.5 billion franchise will descend on the Nokia Theater for the world premiere […]

There are now only 15 days until The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 lands in multiplexes around the world. A gargantuan amount of product has already been released, but Summit are clearly keen to mobilize fan anticipation with drip-feed reveals right up until the film’s debut on November 16. In addition to a […]

After a summer of speculation about an awkward Breaking Dawn — Part 2 press tour, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s first joint interviews proved the naysayers wrong. Make that very wrong. Sitting down with MTV’s Josh Horowitz yesterday — apart from one tumbleweed moment when Horowitz asked which of them googled themselves the most — […]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is coming to a theater near you very very soon. November 16, in fact. If, in the unlikely event you don’t care or already know that, the next 14 days will be testing ones. Even before next week’s talk show blitz with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and […]

With 21 days still to go before The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 juggernaut lands in theaters, the adjectives are already flying. Deadline’s Nikki Finke reports that expected box office for the fifth film in the franchise is “tracking like [a] monster hit” and could become the “biggest of them all.” According to […]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 promotional machine is now officially firing on all cylinders. While the series’ ‘big three’ — Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — rallied troops in Australia, Japan, and Brazil, Summit Entertainment has been busy unloading new product online. Four TV spots, one featurette, and a brand […]

Unless you’ve been studiously averting your eyes and ears from the modern world as we know it, you will be aware that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 is preparing to land in multiplexes around the world in just 26 days. In other words, we’re at DEFCON 2. Not quite a full meltdown, […]

While The Twilight Saga publicity machine gears up for its — for now — finale installment, Robert Pattinson’s indie movie exit strategy continues apace. Deadlinereports Pattinson will join fellow Brit, Carey Mulligan, (Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby) in a new film Hold On To Me. Penned by Brad Ingelsby (Out Of The Furnace) and helmed […]

Commentary | It’s the money shot the world had been waiting for. The first post-scandal picture of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart together. Now, courtesy of Entertainment Tonight, that picture has arrived. Candid shots of the couple taken in the early hours of October 14 at the Ye Rustic Inn, a bar in Los Angeles’ […]

After a summer of ugly headlines and angry, online reaction to Kristen Stewart’s ill-fated tryst with Snow White and The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, gloomy predictions about a “tainted” The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 now appear distinctly premature. Reasons for this are undoubtedly due to multiple media outlets reporting that Stewart and […]

It’s officially bonus week for Twilight Saga fans. Following the massive roll out of five posters, culminating in a sixth and final poster, in just over 24 hours, Summit have now unwrapped 15 new The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 stills. The stills frame the entire Breaking Dawn story: Edward and Bella (reprised […]

After Summit Entertainment ramped up anticipation for just over 24 hours with five separate poster releases, the pieces of the puzzle have now come together. The sixth and final theatrical poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is now online. With a tagline that reads “The epic finale that will live forever,” […]

When it comes to The Twilight Saga, any news concerning lead actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart is big news. Combine their names with the announcement of an international promotional tour for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, and, these days, that news becomes huge. Today Deadline trumped its competitors and made not one […]

If you’re a Twilight Saga fan, November 12 has your name all over it. Summit Entertainment-Lionsgate (via the major Twilight fan sites) have announced it as the date for the world premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and it’s all taking place at the Nokia Theater LA Live in, er, Los […]

Hot on the heels of Kristen Stewart’s recent assurance that cast promotion for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will be “fine,” comes even more good news for the franchise – and fans. Today, Summit Entertainment (parented by Lionsgate) announced back to back marathon screenings of all five saga installments will take place on November 15 […]

For the millions enthralled by Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga, the last two days have been heady ones. Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli and Jackson Rathbone introduced an exclusive preview of the last The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 trailer at Thursday’s MTV Video Music Awards. Now Summit Entertainment have released […]

With 79 days left until The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 hits theaters, a new MTV Fall Movie Preview interview with director Bill Condon reveals interesting deets and what happens during downtime on a Twilight Saga shoot. As most know by now, Part 2 picks up exactly where Part 1 ends. Bella (Kristen […]

For those of you out there who keep hoping that, perhaps, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will patch things up following the former’s make-out session with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, Forbes’ omission from its highest-paid celebrity couples list is probably very unsettling. Were the pair still a functioning couple, they would […]

The countdown to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 continues. Current status? 97 days to go. Much has been written about how the promotional tour will go because of the storm now engulfing Pattinson, Stewart — and to a lesser extent Liberty Ross and Snow White and The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders — […]

As fall out from recent revelations of Kristen Stewart’s liaison with Snow White and The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, 41, continues to enthrall media attention — and just about everyone else’s — now comes more shocking news. Following reports that the actress has pulled out of the London premiere of On The Road set for […]

Adorning the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart reprise their much beloved characters — Edward and Bella — and return to the halycon meadow. A stark visual reminder of the difference between the idealism of one of most enduring fictional romances in modern times and the real life turbulence that […]

After a fraught week and a bit of breathless headlines and endless punditry about Kristen Stewart’s affair with Snow White and The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, Summit Entertainment have released a statement which – in itself – acknowledges they needed to make one. With only 107 days left until The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – […]

11 new promo images for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 have arrived online. Featuring characters already well known to audiences, the new pictures are fierce, smoldering and dramatically stylized. Among them; Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart as Edward and Bella Cullen, Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, and most of the “Cullen” family […]

It’s the clearest sign yet that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s relationship may have reached the end of the road. U-Haul removal vans were seen at the Brit actor’s Los Feliz home on Saturday morning July 29, destination unknown. The move caps an explosive week that saw Pattinson, 26, vacate the $ 5.98 million property […]

Hosted by Glee favorite Kevin McHale and singer Demi Lovato (now ‘X Factor’ judge’), over 130 million people tuned in to see Fox’s 14th Annual Teen Choice Awards on Sunday. Multiple wins for The Hunger Games, The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, together with awards for stars such as Ellen DeGeneres, Justin Bieber, Emma […]

It’s only 28 seconds long, but it’s 28 seconds that – so far – only the Breaking Dawn – Part 2 audience at last Thursday’s Comic-Con throwdown in San Diego have seen. So feast your eyes. The opening scene of The Twilight Saga’s final installment picks up exactly where it left off. For those that […]

No-one was entirely sure what would happen when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 cast and creatives hit San Diego for the opening day of Comic-Con 2012. For a number of reasons, not least of which the shocking news of the death of Gisela Gagliardi in San Diego days before, emotions in the […]

It might be best to start queuing now folks. Summit Entertainment has confirmed that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will be the opening panel in Hall “H” at Comic-Con 2012 in San Diego on Thursday, July 12. And if the 7 million viewers that powered the recently released BD – Part 2 […]

There’s still five months to go before the fifth installment of The Twilight Saga drops, but clearly anticipation is high. As Deadlinereports, yesterday’s full teaser trailer for Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has already delivered one record-breaking milestone. Stacking up a stonking 7 million views in its first 24 hours after Yahoo’s exclusive premiere, the […]

Unveiled on the cover of Entertainment Weekly today, that other “First Family” – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’s “Edward, Bella and Renesmee Cullen” – stare resolutely into the mid-distance. The saga’s denouement won’t hit theaters until November 16, but when a beloved, multi-billion dollar franchise is involved – there’s no time like […]

Robert Pattinson is a changed man. Many have noticed it, some have commented on it, and just about everyone has speculated about it. Now, it seems, Pattinson is ready to talk about the reasons why – and it’s a helluva read. A new Cannes special interview with French magazine Premiere, reveals an actor not all […]

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have returned to Vancouver. After a solo stopover in Washington where the Brit actor met up with friends for dinner at The Majestic on April 28, Kristen Stewart and Pattinson were both spotted at Vancouver International airport on Sunday afternoon (April 29). Actors Michael Sheen and Ashley Greene have also […]

With a firm but friendly hand, Bill Condon, director of Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 and 2, nipped recent speculation in the bud today. Announcing via Facebook that some of the cast ofThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 would be reconvening in Vancouver for reshoots, Condon confirmed that the film’s leads Robert Pattinson […]