Film tells the story of star-crossed lovers plagued by family tragedy.

By Eric Ditzian

While Robert Pattinson is deep into filming the “Twilight” sequel “New Moon” for Summit Entertainment, the studio has tapped the 22-year-old British star for another project about star-crossed lovers.

Pattinson will play the lead role in “Remember Me,” a story of a young couple whose burgeoning relationship is complicated by a succession of family tragedies that test their bond, according to ScreenDaily.com. The makers of the film, which had previously been titled “Memoirs,” have not yet settled on which actress who will play Pattinson’s love interest.

Emmy-winning director Allen Coulter (”The Sopranos,” “Damages”) will direct, and Jenny Lumet, who penned the script for last year’s critical darling “Rachel Getting Married,” is working on a draft of the screenplay.

After “New Moon” wraps in May, Pattinson will head to New York to shoot “Remember Me,” which will finish in time for the actor to begin filming the third “Twilight” movie, “Eclipse,” in August.

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Twilight banned by Mormon bookstore: beginning of religious backlash?

Reports say that Stephenie Meyer’s hit book series Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn have been removed from a religious bookstore (The Deseret)’s shelves because it has been “met with mixed review” by the store’s customers. According to the report, the store is owned by the Mormon church and its primary revenue stems from religious book sales.

While The Host remains on the shelves, says the report, the Twilight series has been taken from this Mormon bookseller’s listing.

As we all know, Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon herself. Says she, “I am . . . a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . . . and that has a huge influence on who I am and my perspective on the world, and therefore what I write (though I have been asked more than once, ‘What’s a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires?’).”

Yet, up until this point, the Twilight series has received fairly little backlash from mainstream religious organizations. This event, however, might mark just the beginning.

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For many Twilight fans, it’s hard to imagine life without Robert Pattinson after his brooding performance in the 2008 film. 

But Pattinson, 22, who stars in the independent film How To Be, almost decided to change his career focus, the film’s director tells PEOPLE. 

“He was thinking about giving up acting and maybe doing music solely when this role [in How To Be] came along,” the film’s director, Oliver Irving, tells PEOPLE. “He wanted to play the roles he wasn’t getting.” 

Irving says that for Pattinson, being cast as the lead of role of an awkward, quirky young musician who hires a self-help guru to come live with him “got him back into the swing of things again.” Irving adds that after the Harry Potter films, in which Pattinson played Cedric Diggory, “He was looking for something more challenging.” 

Among the challenges for Pattinson in How To Be, which filmed prior to Twilight, were playing the guitar, harmonica, and, for the director, muting his good looks. 

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Recent news that Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and K-11 star Nikki Reed’s brother, a film student U.C.L.A. will be making a documentary entitled The Glorification of Celebrities, has certainly sparked the interest of Twilight fans the world over.

Says Reed, “I am trying to be as involved as I possibly can. I think Twilight was a wonderful thing for him to use [in the film], because it escalated quite quickly. It went from being this little tiny book series that none of the actors really knew anything about to this explosion that happened somewhere around the summer [of 2008]; I started walking outside and people started yelling ‘Rosalie!’” While the book series might not have exactly been “tiny,” as Reed says, before the film was made, the fact that they were unaware of its sheer stature in the reading world has been duly noted on a number of occasions.

“My brother has been following that,” she explained. “And it’s great because I know Kristen [Stewart] and he gets to speak with her. And he has a reason to travel with me now.”

The film, which is supposed to chronicle the happenstance of overnight celebrity coming off of film roles for these actors and actresses (which, though including Reed and Stewart, will feature more than just Twilight stars), has brought her brother and his camera to her side on number of occasions, according to the interview.

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Robert Pattinson’s “dark” scene in New Moon a re-hash of a left-out Twilight scene?

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight (see here and here), Robert Pattinson described his performance as Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga: New Moon to include a rather dark scene.

Said Pattinson, “it’s kind of as close as possible to the book.” Yet, said he, “there are some really bizarre moments, I mean, ‘cause she’s having constant nightmares all the time. And the nightmares are all based on the person she loves, like, haunting her, so, uh, there’s a lot of kind of weird dreams about death, decay …”

“The dream sequences are really eerie,” says Kristen Stewart, “it’s like you have something that is your idea of like perfection but you’re afraid of it while afraid of losing it, it’s like very masochistic.”

“He gets the chance to be a little bit more scary in the dream sequences. He’s not so perfect,” she continues. “One dream sequence which I don’t think anyone will expect,” says Pattinson, “Edward is this kind of demon.” “So, hopefully people will be a little freaked out by it.”

Ever since this statement, fans have been searching page by page through New Moon trying to figure out just where that is coming from. We know that Bella has nightmares throughout the books, but, in them, they are usually her searching for something that is lost – something that is gone, Edward.

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If Channing Tatum hasn’t read the Twilight books, he may want to start.

At least one very important person in the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire love story thinks Tatum would be perfect to play bad-boy vampire Riley in Eclipse, the third in the four-book series.

“There’s a very big battle at the end with Riley, and I think Channing would do that so well,” Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who is currently writing the Eclipse script, told us this weekend at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival benefit for the Writers Guild Foundation.

“And there are some complexities to that character,” she adds. “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.”

Rosenberg also confirmed some good news for Robert Pattinson fans…

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‘Mission Hollywood’ airs in Germany starting in June.

By Larry Carroll

Over the past year, Twilighters have endured enough action, drama and intrigue to make them feel like they’re trapped inside a reality show. Now, they’re finally getting one to call their own.

Plans have been announced for a new reality show called “Mission Hollywood,” which will feature 12 women competing in an “American Idol”-like competition to see who is the best actress. The prize? A role in one of the upcoming “Twilight” sequels.

But before you send in your headshot, here’s the bad news: “Mission Hollywood” is a German show that will air on a network called RTL. And the young beauties have already been selected. And it likely won’t even air here in the States. As a frustrated German might say: Verdammt!

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‘Entertainment Tonight’ grabbed some behind-the-scenes footage on the sequel’s Vancouver set.

By Eric Ditzian

Earlier this week, the first official photo from “New Moon” teased fans with a tiny peek into the “Twilight” sequel. On Friday (April 24) comes actual behind-the-scenes footage from the film, as “Entertainment Tonight” paid a visit to the closed Vancouver, British Columbia, set.

“I really hope it’s going to live up to the hype,” star Robert Pattinson told “ET.” “Hopefully it will. … The last one was kind of a success.”

Of course, that’s more than a bit of an understatement. “Twilight” grossed $380 million internationally and the DVD sold 3 million copies on its first day of release. That level of success, however, has the cast both nervous and eager to get another movie out there.

“It’s almost like, ‘Well, they’re waiting,’ ” Kristen Stewart said. “ ’Let’s make it as good as we can make it.’ ”

“We have very high expectations,” Taylor Lautner, who packed on 30 pounds for his role as the werewolf Jacob, explained.

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Will Twilight and New Moon Spawn Designer Vampire Knock-Offs?

by Nadya Vlasoff

Will Twilight and New Moon spawn designer vampire knock-Offs? It’s not a question of “will,” it’s a matter of “when.” With Twilight mania raging worldwide and the upcoming sequel New Moon not even wrapped up filming yet in Vancouver, new life has been injected into vampire fiction as new novels are cropping up by the week to jump on the Twilight bandwagon. The time that we’re likely to see an explosion of Twilight wannabes is the gap between New Moon and the third Twilight Saga film, Eclipse, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.

This is in no way a negative inference on fiction literature at large since it exists to entertain and sweep you into worlds far away in the mind, but the drama of the vampire legend is nothing new or inventive. Keep in mind, even Blade made its way back as a short lived TV series over the past couple of years with shows like True Blood popping up as well. Vampires have always intrigued us bloodthirsty humans. From books to film to television and back to novels, throughout the years new vampire worlds have revamped the concept of the traditional stake-in-the-heart type vampire to incorporate more current themes, opinion, values, social trends, and personal author thoughts in a wide open information age that has had an impact on how stories are conceived. And with each new vampire world comes even more sub-vampire copycats.

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