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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Taylor Lautner in QQ magazine talks about Twilight and others

At 18 years old, Taylor Lautner has found himself to be the heartthrob of millions of teens around the world, despite his short acting resume. His loyal Twilight fans have propelled him into the spotlight for his role as Jacob Black, (once a mob of rabid �Team Jacob� members swarmed him in a Brazil, forcing him and co-star, Kristen Stewart, to lock themselves in a small room until the SWAT team arrived).



But this level of fame, as GQ senior editor Mickey Rapkin discovers (over lunch at the Olive Garden), comes from an extremely humble and oddly fortuitous beginning � one that involves a karate program, the Blue Power Ranger, and his pilot father. And while Lautner seems to have learned to cope better with his popularity, the young star demonstrates an impressive level of modesty and a sincere appreciation for his comparably quiet home-life for someone experiencing such success so early on.

Taylor Lautner on what it felt like to present at the Oscars, with Kristen Stewart:

�I would have passed out if she wasn�t there!� Lautner says. �You�re looking down and you�re talking to George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio�and they�re listening to you!�

...on having to audition a second time for the role of Jacob Black:

�I�m in the gym, and I�m doing reps, and I�m reading the books, and I�m studying the character. I�m just saying to myself, �I want this role. I love this role. I�m not gonna lose it. And I�m gonna know it better than anybody, and I�m gonna do that extra

rep, because I�m gonna be Jacob Black.� �



...on if he�s considered getting his own place:

�Um, you know, not so much. There�s really no point. I�m so busy. I really haven�t thought about it.... The thing I love is that my home life hasn�t changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.�


�on being careful about his rep as a �beefcake�:

�Originally I was supposed to take off my shirt. The script [of Valentine�s Day] said we were walking into school and Willy takes off his shirt. I said, �Whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out. He�s gonna take off his shirt in the middle of school? No, no, no. The reason I took off my shirt for New Moon is because it�s written in the book that way. And there�s reasons behind it.�

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.