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Five years ago Robert Pattinson was an unknown British teenager – now he is the multimillionaire star of the hugely successful Twilight film saga. Here we chart the rise and rise of Pattinson, 24, from model, to vampire and beyond.
Pattinson, who is from Barnes in west London, started his career as a model aged 12 but struggled to find work by the time he was 16. He has described himself as having “the most unsuccessful modelling career”.
In May 2005 Pattinson was set to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre but was fired shortly before opening night and was replaced by Tom Riley.
However, also in 2005 came Pattinson’s big break when he was cast as Cedric Diggory – a Hogwarts prefect – in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
The first installment of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series was released in November 2008 in America. It launched Pattinson as a Hollywood heart throb. He was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine in 2008 and 2009.
The following year sequel New Moon was released while the latest installment Eclipse will be reach screens at the end of June 2010.
Also released this year is Remember Me, a romantic drama starring Pattinson which he also produced.
Such is his new-found fame that a wax work of the actor has even been added to Madame Tussuad’s displays in London and New York.
Next year he will star alongside Uma Thurman in Bel Ami and Water For Elephants opposite Reese Witherspoon as well as fulfilling his commitments to the Twilight Saga which will be Breaking Dawn part I.
Pattinson has written several songs two of which have appeared on the Twilight soundtrack. He has said: “Music is my back-up plan if acting fails.”
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With the ink still damp on $709.7 million of worldwide box-office gross from “Twilight Saga: New Moon,” Summit Entertainment well debut part-three franchise “Twilight” installment “Eclipse” into 4,408 engagements Wednesday, many of them offering midnight engagements.
With that theater count including 193 IMAX locations, Summit Entertainment officials are moving “Twilight” out of November for the first time, giving the film access to its young-female core demographic at a time when its constituents are out of school.
Conservative forecasts predict the PG-13-rated film will gross $150 million domestically in its first six days of release, spanning through the holiday weekend. That would usurp the $142.8 million three-day opening for “New Moon” last November.
“Eclipse,” which returns the core cast of Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, will also debut in 41 foreign territories this weekend.
“We hope our opening day will be bigger on opening day because our audience isn’t getting up for school,” noted Summit distribution chief Richie Fay.
With tracking surveys revealing the “definite interests” of young female demographics to be in the almost unheard of 40-percent-and-above range, “Eclipse” will try to improve on a male-demo turnout that tallied less than 20 percent of the total audience for “New Moon.”
“We think being in IMAX this time around will help with that,” Fay added. “IMAX has the tendency to broaden the audience.”
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I had hoped to cover this last week, but wasn’t able to fit it in. “Eclipse” stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart gave an interview to EW’s Hollywood Insider on Wednesday. In it, Pattinson fired out some critical statements about the culture of online entertainment news reporting. It’s best if you just read it in his own words, but here’s some general context: Stewart recently compared paparazzi intrusions on celebrity private lives to rape, drawing a fair amount of heat from pop culture observers. Said Pattinson:
“None of those [sexual assault awareness] associations came out and gave a statement [criticizing Kristen] without being called upon by the media first — who were doing it specifically to get hits on their websites. That whole system of Internet journalists, where no one is called to account, is almost entirely about hate. All these people get away with doing it because they have no responsibility to anyone. All they need is to get a salacious headline and people click on it, because it’s easy. And it’s quite good being part of these Twilight films because you have to give so many interviews all the time, you can defend yourself. That’s the only way. All of us stick together, as well. There are so many little nerds behind their computers, on their little blogs.”
I’ve got to admit, the dude makes an eloquent point. I’m not a “Twilight” fan, so the Team Edward/Team Jacob debate really doesn’t hold much interest for me. But after reading this… is it okay if I side with Team Robert?
While I don’t necessarily think that the sum total of entertainment reporting on the Internet is fueled by hate — I challenge you readers to pinpoint any MTV content that casts aspersions simply to make good headlines — I think a fair portion of it is, especially when you delve further into the fanperson community. Some of these outlets take their feelings to the next level, verging on parody with their treatments of certain news items. FilmDrunk is particularly good at this, and I urge you to check them out if you haven’t.
I think some of it, as it relates to “Twilight” specifically, is purely reactionary. There are a lot of fanpersons out there who take umbrage at the vastness of the Twilighter fan community. It creates an interesting scenario, since many of the people casting scorn down on fans of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire universe are themselves obsessive about one geek-friendly franchise or another (or more). This in turn gives a lot of the hate Pattinson is referring to an ironic spin.
Look, it’s easy to spout nasty sentiments on the Internet. Exceptionally easy. The people you’re speaking ill can’t really track you down, and even if they could they probably won’t. I’m not calling for that attitude to stop because, frankly, it won’t. But I do think that Pattinson’s remarks amount to an eloquently stated point, one that bears further examination.
And so I put the question to you readers? Do you think there’s too much negative spin in the entertainment reporting community? Does it ever bother you? Do you think “Twilight” has been the unfair target too frequently?
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