New ‘Immortals’ Clip: Athena (Ft. Kellan Lutz)

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MovieFone Interviews Bill Condon

[Bill] Condon rang up Moviefone on Friday to discuss 'Breaking Dawn,' his lengthy hiatus from the big screen after 'Dreamgirls' and when you can expect to see his Richard Pryor biopic.

This will be your first feature film since 'Dreamgirls' in 2006. I know you did a lot of television since then, but what made you step away from filmmaking for the last few years?

It's the same reason that anyone does, I suspect. I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. Richard Pryor, I wrote for -- gosh -- over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, "God, five years have gone by." It's really a scary thing.

Is that what led to 'Breaking Dawn' or did Summit come to you?

They came to me. I was getting ready to do another movie -- and I worked on that for about a year, and some casting and a bit of financing fell out. Suddenly, there was this thing. The one thing I knew about 'Twilight' was that it would actually get made. [Laughs] But more than that, I was actually interested in it; they had come my way once before. So, I read it and thought about it and met with them, got excited about the possibilities and jumped right in. That was like March and we were shooting by November. There was only an outline for a script at that point.

Were you familiar with the books and movies, or did you have to do a crash course before shooting?
The movies -- the movies, then the books. But the movies I knew.

So, during that time when your were reading the books and watching films, did you stumble onto anything in particular that you thought you could bring to the franchise that wasn't done before?

I don't think it was about what hadn't been done before. What I did think was interesting is that these movies are really different, one from the other. Based on the director. And that excited me. It didn't feel as though you were fitting into any template, which would have been as interesting. For me, I was really turned on by the first movie, and how the first half is a real classic Hollywood romantic melodrama -- a kind that doesn't really get made anymore. Soulful and about a women's concerns, which are more interesting to me maybe than a teenage boy's concerns. Then it turned into a flat-out horror movie in the second half. I have a background of that and a love of that. Then the second movie is this epic story that was interesting in another way. It was on a canvas I had never been involved with before. A lot of things added up to make it appealing.

Franchise films have really become appealing to some pretty major filmmakers -- you, Christopher Nolan, Marc Webb, Sam Mendes. Why do you think these big blockbusters, which in the past might have seemed like a producer's medium, attract such talent nowadays?

It's interesting. I don't know. Part of it for me -- and I got a taste of this for 'Dreamgirls' -- is that there is something really appealing about knowing you have a very committed audience. It sort of feels like, right from the beginning, you're in a dialogue with them. I was, literally, on Facebook, but more than that, you kinda know how much people care. There's something exciting on the other end of that. With 'Dreamgirls,' you'd see that kind of buzz in the audience, and a visceral reaction in a theater. That is really thrilling. I've only seen this with a tiny little friends and family group of Twi-hards, and we kind had the same reaction and that was really exciting.

You can read the rest of the interview over at MovieFone.

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*Irish Breaking Dawn Competition* Win a copy of the Breaking Dawn Soundtrack!

Thank you for all the amazing entries!
This competition is now closed.

The Breaking Dawn Soundtrack hits Irish Shores this Friday (November 4th).

And with artists such as Bruno Mars and Christina Perri having contributed to the music, it's shaping up to be one of the most popular OST's from the Saga!

Fancy winning yourself a copy?

Simply go to the Irish Twilight Fans Facebook Page, 'like' their status, and then send an email to 'competition@irishtwilightfans.com', naming your favourite song from all of the Twilight soundtracks, and explain why you love it so much!

(Please use the word "soundtrack'' as the subject of your email)

Closing date for entries: 19th November 2011

*Open to residents of Ireland only*

New Breaking Dawn Still - Rosalie, Alice and Bella!

From MTV:

Tomorrow's the big day! In just over 24 hours, we'll be sitting down with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for our MTV First: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, and as you probably know, a portion of our festivities will be dedicated to debuting a never-before-seen clip from the saga's fourth installment.  And because you've been such patient pals waiting for this EXCLUSIVE scene, we're giving you a quick peek! (Shhhhh! Don't tell our bosses...)  This still is straight from the brand new footage, and as you can likely surmise, captures the moments right before Bella and Edward's long-awaited nuptials. Alice (Ashley Greene) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed) are visions in purple as they help Bella (Kristen) get ready to walk down the aisle to her vampire groom.  But the question remains: Just who are they looking at? I guess you'll have to tune in to find out!  And you better believe this isn't the last tease you'll get before the clip debuts during our MTV First. Check in with MTV Movies tomorrow morning at 7 ET (12AM GMT) for an entire 10-SECOND SNIPPET of the scene. That's major. Be sure to tune in to "MTV First: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," which kicks off Thursday, November 3, on MTV at 7:56 p.m (11.56PM GMT), followed by a Q&A with Kristen, Rob and Taylor on MTV.com!

**Note** 

MTV.com never stream anything outside of the US. 

We will try to get a YouTube version of the snippet-clip(and the full version, obviously) up on the blog ASAP!

New Breaking Dawn TV Spot - "Heartbeat"

If the Yahoo! Video doesn't work, we'll update this post with a YouTube video when it's available! Source