Date set for Twilight�s �Breaking Dawn Part 2�

he final film in The Twilight Saga will draw the romantic vampire franchise to a close on November 16, 2012, it was announced yesterday. It comes a full year after �The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One� is released in November 2011.

Director Bill Condon will shoot footage for both films at the same time, starting this November. The burning question seems to be whether the final installment from the last book in the series by Stephenie Meyers, will be in 3D.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the studio has not decided yet though the director is not leaning toward 3D. Many Twilight fans have voiced opposition to three dimensions.






Both films will steer clear of busy summer schedules and next year�s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows finale in July 2011.

Meanwhile the three principal stars are busy filming. Robert Pattinson is working on �Water for Elephants� with Christoph Waltz and Reese Witherspoon set for release April 2011.

Kristen Stewart is shooting another independent film, �On The Road�, based on Jack Kerouac�s seminal book and co-starring with Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) and Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man 3).

Taylor Lautner, the third star of the series, will be seen in �Abduction�, a thriller directed by John Singleton (2 Fast 2 Furious) with Alfred Molina and Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), and signed on to play action figure Stretch Armstrong after Twilight.

Bella's suitors tussle in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

I would've pegged high-schooler Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) as a Sylvia Plath fan � this is a girl with daddy issues, for sure � but it's Robert Frost she quotes in the beginning minutes of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series.



"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," she reads aloud to her undead � although he doesn't look a day over 18 � boyfriend Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). The fire-and-ice metaphor signals early that the dominant dramatic struggle of this installment will be Bella's push-pull between two suitors, her hot-blooded wolf friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and her cold-to-touch vampire beau Edward.

The two rivals bicker and tussle like schoolboys in a sandbox over a prized toy � and, really, for long stretches of the film, Bella might as well be an inanimate object. She's the narrator of this saga and nominally its heroine, but more often than not, she's just a bystander, referred to in third person even as she stands mere inches away.

Bella has always been a milquetoast � that much is a constant, both in Stephenie Meyer's source books and their feature-film adaptations; but what especially rankles here is that when the sexually curious Bella does try to take action, by initiating sex with Edward, she's swatted away, with Edward � the mouthpiece for Meyer's hectoring pro-abstinence message � murmuring paternalistically about her "virtue." (Vampires, a famously lusty lot, should consider a defamation suit; this neutered, even priggish portrayal can't be good for business.)

So, no action in the bedroom: Let slip the dogs of war, then. Make that wolves: When a vengeful vampire amasses against Edward an army of "newborns" (brand-new vampires who are especially bloodthirsty during their baby-steps phase), the outnumbered Cullen clan must strike an uneasy alliance with their longstanding enemies, Jacob's wolf pack. (The CG wolves, alas, have become less convincing, but they fit right in with the Cullens, who storm through the movie like poseable action figures with bad bleach jobs.) During this brief d�tente, Eclipse becomes more emphatic and more energized, especially when Lautner and Pattinson get a quiet mountaintop scene of teasing back-and-forth that's sparkier than any other configuration heretofore seen in this tormented love triangle.

Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) splits the difference between kick-starter Twilight's stylish camp and follow-up New Moon's turgid drama, and, as a piece, it's superior to the latter film. But the supposedly epic battle the entire film builds toward � the single action set-piece � is a ho-hummer. Fire and ice, turns out, was an oversell: Think tepid tap water instead.

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Kristen Stewart apologizes for rape statement-sorry for comparing fame with rape

Kristen Stewart is known for being ill at ease with the media frenzy surrounding her role as Bella Swan in the blockbusting vampire movie franchise.

�Twilight Saga� star Kristen Stewart is apologizing for comments she made in Britain�s ELLE magazine which have left some people outraged.

�I really made an enormous mistake � clearly and obviously,� Kristen told People. �And I�m really sorry about my choice of words.�

The actress previously compared her life in the Hollywood spotlight and the constant hounding by the paparazzi to a sexual assault, telling Britain�s ELLE magazine in its July issue, �The photos are so � I feel like I�m looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time I can�t handle it. I never expected that this would be my life.�



�I�ve made stupid remarks before, and I�ve always reasoned: �Whatever. They can think what they want,�� she explained to People. �Violated definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought.�

The 20-year-old star said her regretful comments have torn her apart.

�People thinking that I�m insensitive about this subject rips my guts out. I made a big mistake,� she added.

On Wednesday, Harriet Lessel, the executive director of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, told Radar Online, �Clearly that kind of violation is not the same as rape� it�s just not the same� understand that Kristen Stewart was expressing that she feels violated. Sure violation is a form of sexual assault, but it�s the most serious and the most personal. It�s clearly a poor choice of words.�

Kristen Stewart on Twi-hards, Seeming 'Miserable'

Ramping up for the next round of vampire madness with 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' set to drop in June, Kristen Stewart graces the cover of this month's Elle, talking relationships (why she doesn't divulge much), Twihards (yup, they're mental) and if she's really as glum as the tabloids make her out to be. For highlights, read on.



K-Stew doesn't kiss and tell: "I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them. People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics."

K-Stew doesn't see K-Stew the way the media sees K-Stew: "I think it's funny that when I go onstage to accept an award, they think I'm nervous, uncomfortable and awkward -- and I am -- but those are bad words for them."

K-Stew is not depressed on the red carpet: "People say that I'm miserable all the time. It's not that I'm miserable, it's just that somebody's yelling at me ... I literally, sometimes, have to keep myself from crying ... It's a physical reaction to the energy that's thrown at you."

K-Stew can't really do normal-person things in the wake of the Twihards: "It's insane! Once somebody finds out, you have to get the hell out of wherever you are. People freak out. Somebody knocked on my hotel room door and asked for a light, then said that they were a big fan. I was like, 'Do you really need me to light your cigarette? How do you know what room I'm in?' I can't be by myself and I like being by myself."

K-Stew is not fond of the paparazzi: "They're vicious. They're mean. They're like thugs. I don't event want to drive around by myself anymore. It's f***ing dangerous."

New �Twilight Eclipse� Trailer Premieres (VIDEO)

The new and final trailer for the next film in The Twilight Saga, Eclipse, premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday. While Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner continue the love triangle, their appears to be less moping about and more action this time, set up by the threat of an army of vampires. We finally get a glimpse of the much-anticipated battle scene between the Cullens, the Wolf Pack and Victoria�s army of newborn vampires. Twilight Eclipse is set to take a bite out of the box office on June 30. But you can catch Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning on a special episode of Oprah on May 13.