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The special edition of Breaking Dawn now has a release date of August 4th, 2009!!!

The hardcover special edition (only 1 million copies will be printed) will include a DVD of the Breaking Dawn Concert Series, a poster of Edward & Bella, and a reproduction of the hand written lyrics to “My Never” from Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld.  The special edition is set to retail at $24.99.

Also, being released on Aug 4th is the paperback edition of Eclipse set to retail at $12.99.

New Moon movie tie-ins are set to be released this fall:

October 6, 2009

New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion -  $18.99

Sept 15, 2009

New Moon Trade Paperback Tie-in Edition – $10.99

November 2009

New Moon Mass Market Tie-in Edition – $7.99

To read the whole press release from Little, Brown go HERE

Well that didn’t take long, a little over 24hrs have gone by since TwilightLexion, myself and many other media outlets reported on the comments Eclipse Director David Slade made about Twilight, putting the entire Twilight universe into a frenzy.

Well, Slade sent a personal email to the good folks over at TwilightLexion.com, you can read the whole post HERE.

Here is the actual email from David Slade posted up the lex:

“Dear Laura and Lori

I would be grateful if you could distribute this statement to the fans of Twilight:I would like to address some statements that I made regarding Twilight.

When I made these comments, I had neither seen the film nor read the books. I was promoting a comedy short film that I had made for Xbox and every pop culture subject was seen as a possible comedy target. I was being silly and none of the statements were from the heart.

Of course, I have since seen the movie and read the books and was quickly consumed with the rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created.

I would like to reassure everyone involved that I am invested in making the best film that I am humanly capable of, and that I am acutely aware of the power of the original books we serve.

Please be rest assured this statement is absolutely from the heart.

yours sincerely

DAVID SLADE”

Now, I am not an easy forgiver,  but he does sound sincere.  At least he had the good mind to issue a statment via the TwilightLexicon.com and not some crap PR statement.

Tell me Twilighters, do you belive him or is he just trying to dig himself out of this grave???

The Twilight Lexicon has an article addressing this question (and Slade’s sudden Twitter deletion) , due to an audio clip released.

Wow, from the sounds of an audio clip up over at slashfilm.com, its sounds like David Slade, the director for the 3rd Twilight film “Eclipse” didn’t see Twilight and sounds like he actually hates the saga altogether.

This is a transcript from the article:

“…and so yesterday we were trying to find a movie to see and we’d seen all the good ones, you know, and there was nothing really coming out this weekend that we really fancied at all and having directed a vampire film and really gone for something completely different to the kind of romantic, you know, repressed hormone teen vampire movie we really weren’t interested in seeing Twilight but a lot of people said lets go so I wrote -

“Twilight drunk? No, not even drunk. Twilight on acid? No, not even on acid? Twilight at gun point? Just shoot me.”

[That’s like] a poem in a way [...] at this point excites me even though people think I’m a really violent and unpleasant person I actually do have this romantic violent side to me. Maybe I should have seen Twilight.”

I have yet to see “30 Days of Night” which is the vampire movie he directed, but due to these statements, I am greatly concerned Slade is only in this for the money and doesn’t give a crap about the making “Eclipse” an awesome movie.  Further more, those statements are kinda a big F**K you to Stephenie Meyer and Summit Entertainment.

David Slade better watch his mouth and his steps.  Cuz hell have no fury like thousands for Twilighters scorned!!!

Tell me Twilighters, what do you make of this statement.

EW.com has lots of Twilight Saga news for us this morning.  They spoke with Melissa Rosenberg (script writter for Twiligh, New Moon and Eclipse), had she the following to say regarding how much of Edward we will see in New Moon:

“In the book, he’s actually an enormous presence in [Bella’s] mind,” Rosenberg said. “He’s so present in her mind throughout the entire center of the book, so we really played off that, and it kept him alive in a slightly different way, but fans will feel it’s true to the book.”

Moving on to some Eclipse news, Melissa also said when it comes to casting “Riley”, she knows who would be great for the job, Channin Tatum.

“There’s a very big battle at the end with Riley, and I think Channing would do that so well,”

She goes on to say “And there are some complexities to that character,He really is tragic. He’s a puppet for Victoria [bad-girl vampire played by Rachelle Lefevre]. So he has to break your heart a little bit at the end when he realizes that she doesn’t want him. Channing could do that beautifully.”

Channing can currently be seen in “Fighting” which was released this past weekend.

Melissa also talked briefly about the issue of making Breaking Dawn PG-13

“Our fans are in the PG age range, and I don’t feel a big necessity to see violence, and to see gore,” Rosenberg said. “I don’t need to see that. This whole series is more about their relationship. It’s not about the gore. I mean, there are some scary and special elements to it, but the series is really about relationships and coming of age and owning one’s power.”

Melissa hasn’t be asked to write the script for Breaking Dawn yet, but in a recent interview she was asked to start re-reading it.

You can read the whole article HERE

You can also read my thoughts on the whole Breaking Dawn rating issue HERE!!!

Its like Vampire day!!!

Well, we can now all end the rumors and speculations, Eclipse has a director, David Slade

Here is a brief part of the official announcement from Summit:

“Los Angeles, CA April 22, 2009 – Summit Entertainment announced today that David Slade has been hired to direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE from a screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, the third film in the studio’s TWILIGHT film franchise based on the Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster book series, will be released theatrically in North America on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The announcement was made by Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production.”

Slade has directed Hard Candy and another vamp flick 30 Days of Night.

Eclipse has a release date of June 30, 2010.  Filming is rumored to begin just 8 weeks after New Moon wraps up next month.

I’m sure this also means that more casting rumors are about to be hitting us.

To read the whole press release, its up over TwilightLexicon