Release Date Confirmed for Third Twilight Movie

Whoa! It has been reported that the release date for the third Twilight movie has been announced by Summit Entertainment.

The date is 30 June 2010. As for the second Twilight movie, its release date is 20 November 2009, which is this year. Robert Pattison, star of the movies, has even barely start the filming of the second film.

How on earth are they going to make the third film in such a short time? Well I have no idea but it remains to be seen whether the quality for these films will turn out to be as good as the Harry Potter movies by Warner Bros.

Churning the movies out in such a short period of time would require enormous amount of capital, something which is not lacking for Warner Bros. However for Summit Entertainment, it might be quite a different story.

Perhaps the first movie has given the studio some windfall and so it dares to make all these release dates.

Oh well, whatever the case, let's wait and see how they can meet the deadline. After all, Hollywood always uses the postponement tactic when they fail to meet deadlines.

Anime Watch: Vampire Knight Guilty Ends!

Finally, the long awaited finale to the hugely popular Japanese anime, Vampire Knight Guilty, has been aired on Japan's TV. Subsequently, fans in other countries are able to watch the finale via online streaming too.

Vampire Knight

I watched all the episodes here and I am so thankful for the person's kindness in sharing the videos. In the end, Yuuki chose Kaname-senpai and went away with him. All Zero could do was to let her drink his blood so that she can sense his feelings for her. Yet they can't be together as they are two worlds apart.

Yuuki is a vampire and Zero is a vampire hunter. The hunter and the prey. It's sort of like a forbidden love story but Yuuki did not fully return Zero's love. Ah well, Kaname isn't that bad himself. After all, he is now the most powerful vampire since Rido Kuran has been successfully killed by Zero.

Still, the episode has its light-hearted moments too. As usual, Kaien Cross provided the comic relief, albeit for a short while. He had totally forgotten about his human students who were still hidden in the school building. The series ended with Kaname and Yuuki leaving the Academy along with some of the other Night Class vampires.

The manga version of the series is still ongoing though. There might be a possibility that the series will return with another sequel. But for now, let's just enjoy the two seasons that have already been produced.

It's such a pleasurable activity to watch the animes as they are so cute and funny. If you are game for some anime fun, do consider watching Vampire Knight. It's worth it.

For now, I do feel a little sad that there is no more new episodes to look forward to anymore. The wait itself is part of the fun too. Till then, goodbye Yuuki, Kaname and most of all, Zero. He's such a pitiful hero, don't you think so? Aww....

Whoa! Robert Pattison in USA Today's Top 100 People List

Harry Potter's Page has posted that Robert Pattison has just made it to the USA Today's Top 100 People list this year.

Pattison is placed at number 20 on the list. Reason is listed as follows:

His glistening skin distracted millions of teen girls this year, and it's safe to say the Twilight franchise will transform the actor into a superstar. Even if the sequel bites, Pattison's hair is a box-office cash machine.

So, will he be able to match Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter movie franchise? It remains to be seen as Radcliffe is not included in the list this year. This is probably due to the fact that the latest Harry Potter film's release has been pushed back to July 2009 and so, his influence is not as great as Pattison's this year. After all, Stephenie Meyer's vampire series has hogged the limelight this year and it's no surprise that the movie will do the same.

On a side note, the HP Page also reported that Pattison had just recently cut his famous Twilight hair into a super short cut. Here's a comparison of his hair:

Before: His famous Twilight haircut.


After: His new super short haircut. Btw, those words are not written by me.

I could still remember the time when he was first cast as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He was quite a relatively unknown actor before being casted in the Harry Potter movie. Here's how he looked while portrayed as Cedric:




Heh heh... he certainly looks very different back then, eh? Now with the enormous success of Twilight, his career can only go up and up. Besides, I doubt he could return back to the Harry Potter franchise movies as his character, Cedric Diggory, had already been killed off in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though he still appeared in flashbacks in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Will we be seeing more of this rising young star? I think so but he has to be careful not to be typecast permanently as Edward Cullen. Otherwise, he would never be recognised as anything else except as Edward. That would be a disaster for an actor, I believe.

Look at Daniel Radcliffe. He has since branched out to act in other movies such as December Boys and also acted in musicals such as Equus. Thus, Radcliffe proved to the critics that he is not just a one-time boy wonder but a serious thespian to be reckon with.

Too bad I won't be able to see Equus as it is currently not staged in Asia. Hmmm... Besides, the naked scenes would have made it impossible to premiere in conservative Singapore's theatres.

So, between the 2 guys, who will prevail? For me, I will always support Radcliffe as I am very impressed with his performance in the Harry Potter movie franchise. As for Pattison, his acting is nah. Oops.

There you go. My few cents worth. Keke....

Anime Watch: In Love with Vampire Knight

Lately I have been watching many animes on the new TV channel, okto, and now I do admit that I have become an anime fan. Long long time ago, I remembered watching Doraemon and Sailor Moon on TV and memories of those animes have been vague. However, I wasn't that hooked on them as I do now.

Mainly this is due to the new influx of animes that are beautifully drawn and the storylines are getting very good and intriguing. Among all these animes that I have liked, Vampire Knight and its sequel, Vampire Knight Guilty, is one of them.

Vampire Knight is not officially shown on Singapore's channel. So I watched the anime online. The anime itself is adapted from a popular manga of the same name. A cover picture of the manga is shown below with the three leads.

From left to right: Zero Kiryu, Yuki Cross and Kaname Kuran.

The manga is written by Matsuri Hino, as seen on the book's cover. The story is about a young girl, Yuki Cross, whose earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran.

Yuki is the adopted daughter of the Headmaster of Cross Academy, Kaien Cross and has grown up and became a prefect for the school with one main purpose: to protect the Human Day Class Students and the Vampire Night Class Students from each other. Yuki is actually a vampire but her mum had blocked her early childhood memories as well as her vampire side in order to protect her from her evil uncle, Rido Kuran.

Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by the same pureblood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hio. Having come from a family line of vampire hunters, he rejected his vampire side but was eventually forced to accept his vampire side when he was overpowered by the thirst of blood in him. However, he still set out to destroy vampires and through a twist of events, he ended up being the strongest vampire hunter ever and managed to defeat Rido Kuran together with Yuki.

For Kaname, he leads the group of Night class as their President. On top of that, he is also a pureblood vampire who commands awe and respect from his fellow mates. Unknown to Yuki, he is also her fiance and they had pledged to marry each other when they were young. Unknown to Yuki, Kaname is actually the ancient ancestor of the Kurans, and Rido is his master who awakened him from his grave, making him unable to kill his 'master'.

Because of the theme of suggested incest, this anime will never get to premiere in Singapore. It's a pity though. The story is intriguing yet humourous at the same time. I enjoyed watching the anime as it has many light-hearted moments. Kaien Cross provided many of the comic reliefs in the anime and it's a good thing that I watched this anime in the comfort of my home. Ha!

I like the way the vampires activated their powers by turning their eyes red, or something like that. When they are not sucking blood, their eye colours are normal. However their eye colours turned bright red when they reveal their vampire side. See the picture below of the vampire side of Zero:




Eh, it's kind of different from the Twilight vampires. They just suck blood normally and the Cullen family only feeds on animals and not humans. Zero had fed on Yuki on several occasions when she was still living as a human. For the rest of the vampires in the Night class, they survived on blood tablets which was not quite the same thing as human blood.

Nonetheless, all the vampires are so cool and gorgeous in Vampire Knight. Just like the Cullens in the Twilight series. I think being cool is part of the job description of a vampire. But Yuki is so, erm, uncool. However, she is still loveable enough for both Zero and Kaname to fight over her. I'm so envious of Yuki. She gets to choose between 2 gorgeous guys who are willing to do anything for her.

From I have searched on the internet, Yuki finally makes her choice in Kaname and Zero wishes her all the best before leaving her. Aww... Honestly if it were me, I wouldn't know who to pick. They are good in their own way so it's hard to make any comparison. Many fans out there actually hoped that Yuki would choose Zero because he's so protective towards her.

In the second season, Vampire Knight Guilty, they have shown up to the latest episode 11. Now I am waiting for episode 12 to be aired so that I can watch. Zero actually has a twin brother, Ichiru, and in the previous episode, he had sacrificed himself so that Zero could finally gain power as an individual rather than be split into 2 parts as twins do. For it's a curse for twins to be borned to a vampire hunter family.

Oh man, I can't wait for the next episode! It's gonna get exciting and things are certainly going to get rough between Yuki, Kaname and Zero.

w00t!

Twilight Gallery

For those who are wanting more of Twilight's cast, I have found a gallery which has quite a number of pictures which mostly includes Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart.

Click here for the site.

Most of the pictures are taken on the set of Twilight and some of them featured light-hearted moments between the 2 main leads. A sample is posted below:




So go feast your eyes on the pictures and hopefully more pictures of the movie premiere can posted online too.

Kudos to the web!

New Moon Gets a New Director

According to this report, the new sequel to the hugely successful Twilight, New Moon, will be getting a new director, Chris Weitz.

Director Chris Weitz. Hm, doesn't look very good, imo. LOL.

Stars of Twilight, Robert Pattison & Kristen Stewart.

His previous work included The Golden Compass, which was a box-office bomb. At least, that was the case in Singapore. Hmmm... would he be a suitable steward for New Moon? That remains to be seen.

So far, I still have yet to see Twilight in the theatres although sneak previews are out. I'd rather wait for the official release of the movie which is coming this Thursday. What's the difference between sneak previews and the official release anyway? I still don't get it.

=)

Twilight director won't return for Sequel

According to this report, Twilight's director, Catherine Hardwicke would not be returning to direct its sequel, New Moon.

It was quoted as saying that due to timing differences, Hardwicke had to bow out of the commitment. Some say that Summit Entertainment wanted to do the sequel as soon as possible, given that the current Twilight movie is doing extremely well at the box office.

For Hardwicke, whose previous films include Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown, had the highest opening ever for a female director when Twilight made nearly $70 million in its first weekend. It has grossed over $138 million in three weeks.

Twilight will officially open in Singapore on 18 December 2008 and that's when I will be watching it along with maomao. She's very excited over the movie though she has been claiming otherwise.

So for me, it remains to be seen whether the film is really that good or I should just concentrate on Harry Potter, whose next film release will be in July 2009. Boy, that's such a long, long time. Warner Bros better catch up quickly if they want to beat the Twinkies in their movie debut. Hee...

=(

Singaporean Died in Mumbai Terrorist Attack

It was reported on the news that one Singaporean had been killed in Mumbai's recent terrorist attack on Tuesday.

Initially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had confirmed in earlier reports that the female Singaporean was unharmed as of yesterday. But at 9.35pm news tonight, the situation had turned for the worst.

Circumstances surrounding her death is still unknown at the moment though her family members had already flown to Mumbai. All we know is that she died a tragic death.

I don't know what all these terrorists are thinking but its totally unforgivable that they took lives away so cruelly. Besides, they were targeting the British and the Americans, what has a Singaporean got to do with anything? The Singaporean probably has the dubious honour of being the first Singaporean to die in a terrorist attack. *sighs*

The main issue that comes to mind is that why the Mumbai authorities couldn't save the hostages earlier? Unless their technology is not advanced enough to take on the terrorists? What could be the reason for Mumbai's failure to contain the situation and the losses?

Even right till now, the situation in Mumbai has not improved. But I don't care about that. I only know that Singapore citizens are not significant enough for India to get involved. Unless we get a satisfactory answer from India's government on their rescue operation failure, we will never have a peace of mind.

The losses are simply not tolerable. Not especially India should have been on the lookout for such terrorist attacks ever since their elections started. This breach of security is a serious issue that needs to be investigated and put in check.

As for the female Singaporean Chinese woman, I can only say that she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one could have predicted that she would come to harm. Not like this. This barbarian way of the terrorists.

We should stand up to terrorism and not allow it to ruin our lives. Every single one of us must do our part to be proactive in preventing terror attacks. Terror attacks are such a lame and cruel way to destroy humanity. What is this world coming to?

I may not be able to do much but at least I can help to spread the message around. We are all human beings, is there a need to treat each other so hostile? Hmmm, actually I am sort of a hypocrite when it comes to equality. I don't have a single good impression of the China people but that does not mean we should launch a terror attack on China.

We should resolve issues through diplomatic talks, not through violence. What does violence acheive in the end? Only more loss of innocent human lives. These terrorists are probably brainwashed to the point where they regards humanity as nothing more than pawns in their games. Stupid, mindless games, I might add.

Besides the disaster in Mumbai, Thailand is also facing its own domestic problems with its people going all out on the streets to wage protests against the current government. Negative news are all the new staples for current affairs news these days.

When will it ever end? We might never have a satisfactory answer at all. Such is the downfall of humanity.

Unless, my own Twinkies comes along and takes me away with him, to live in eternal vampire happiness. Heehee!!! My very own Edward Cullen! Ok, I'm disgressing here.

We need to have more light-hearted moments in our lives. Otherwise we will remain gloomy and life will be something that we DON'T look forward to. That would be so depressing.

Now I'm off to my lala land, together with my Edward, to find light-hearted happiness! Tada!

Barack Obama Wins the USA Presidential 2008 Race

History has just been written into the books of USA. Yesterday's race for a new US president resulted in an expected win for Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Hundreds of thousands of American who had been yearning to see a shift change in the political scene casted their vote behind the man who would become America's first black president. In addition, they also showed through their voting that support for the Republicans is rapidly waning. Many Americans are very unhappy with President George Bush, who kept waging wars endlessly for the past five years and often with many fatalities that left families broken.

To add salt to the wound, the current economic crisis is proving too much for the US government, and the public, to handle. Thus loss of confidence from both investors and citizens might have contributed hugely to the Republicans' loss. And more specifically, to John McCain.

For me, I am hoping that Obama will not follow in the footsteps of that damn Bushfire and start waging fires wars on Afghanistan again. It's time to pool precious wood resources into other areas, more specifically the US economy.

With the lousy US economy crisis, everywhere else in the world is also feeling and getting the pinch. Here in Singapore, prices of essentials like rice, oil and water have gone up largely due to the US economic crisis.

Furthermore, we are still facing the onslaught of tainted food from damn China and that has definitely NOT help us a single bit. Most of our products are currently sourced or made in China and many people are worried about getting food poisoning from eating such stuffs.

Well, I'm not surprised by that. C for China. C for Corrupt. China and Corruption comes hand in hand. All right, I may sound very harsh here but that's just the way the officials work in China. No money no gain. So the China people are quite a bunch of practical and intelligent species. You can't doubt that.

Every small little thing can transform into a poorly made China product. From Louis Vuitton to Hermes to toothpaste to soaps to biscuits to drinks. You name it, they already re-make it. It's interesting how these China brains work so fast and seize a money-making opportunity.

Between the US and China now, I really don't know who is the greater evil. Both countries' economies have major impact on Singapore's economy and God knows that we can't afford to have either one of them being belly up. That would be a disaster. If both economies go belly up, then we are in deep shit man. No joke.

When that happens, I want to find my Edward Cullen a.ka. twinkie in cleolinda language quickly and get him to whisk me off to some obsure places where I can escape from the impending calamity. I would swear on my grave, if I had one, of course.

In really extreme cases where survival is at stake, i.e. I can't afford to buy staples like rice, bread or even potatoes, then I would get my twinkie to give me that special love bite so that I can feast on bears instead. Lions are welcome too. Or penguins. Hmmm penguins are so so so cute. Oh all right. I will spare them on the account that they are nearing extinction now. Then when I had my fill, I would dance with my twinkie under the stars on the arctic ice. Won't that be so romantic? Plus I won't even need a winter jacket since I'm supposed to be dead and get as cold as the ice. Wee!

Ok ok ok . Enough of my dream talk. I'm sure it's gonna disgust some people. Wahahaha! That would have been my goal. You are tricked! Ok, I think my sanity might be at stake here. Hmmm...

No matter what, I am definitely looking forward to see the changes as promised by Obama and see a transformed US. Otherwise, it will be just like another round of suffering like the one bestowed on us by that Bushfire. In that case, I will grab and activate my twinkie!!! Muawahahaha!

Meanwhile, Obama looks forward to his victory celebration before eventually settling down to his new office. Well, he better celebrate and enjoy his victory to the fullest because after that, a daunting task is awaiting him back in office. Hint: Economic Crisis.

I won't envy his position right now. It would be a big challenge to tackle the economy successfully and it might just make or break his presidential seat. Will he prevail? Only time will tell.

Interesting Commentary on Twilight Series

If you haven't heard about the Twilight series by now, you should seriously thank your lucky stars for that. No, seriously.

IF, by chance, you are interested to know about this series, you should try wikipedia. It's got a brief summaries of all 4 books that will help you to understand the series in a jiffy.

Alternatively, you can also check out Cleolinda's LJ, in which she gives her own commentary on all 4 books and trust me, you will have fun reading her comments. She's downright hilarious and witty in her excerpts. Which kind of makes me feel inferior. It's true, I swear.

My writing is so boring compared to hers. I should really, really learn a pointer or two from her. But for now, you should satisfy your Twilight craving by visiting her site. It's definitely worth a visit.

Cheers!

PS. I should have just stick to my Harry Potter. Darn. I absolutely love JK Rowling.

The Hynoptic Power of the Twilight Saga

Finally. It's done.

I have completed my reading of the whole Twilight saga and I must say it was quite an eye-opener for me.

I rarely read vampires stories like those of Anne Rice and so, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight was my first foray into the vampire world.

Overall, I am happy with the whole series as it touched on several topics from love to family to friends to alliance to power. There's so much more to each book than just a love story on Isabella [Bella] Swan's love with an ancient vampire, Edward Cullen.

The story arc covers literally everyone in the plot. From the first time Bella seen Edward to her despair when Edward left her for her safety and then coming back together again forever, it has been hell of a ride.

Though in the final book, Breaking Dawn, it seems quite dubious when all of a sudden Bella turns into the strongest member of the Cullen vampire family, a big contrast when she was first introduced as a clumsy and injury-prone human in Twilight.

Nonetheless, the books kept me entranced throughout right to the end. If you are interested, check out the covers below:










The new movie of Twilight shall be released on 21 Nov 2008 and I will be watching it together with maomao. She was the one who introduced me to the Twilight saga. Ironically, she has never read the series before so it would be the first time that she will learn about the eternal love between Bella and Edward.

As it's a teenage story series, the writing is not as intense as those of mature writers like Judith McNaught and Nicholas Sparks. Nonetheless, it was still good to read for the action sequences in the plot.

I would give the series a 3 out of 5 stars for easy reading. Overall, my favourite book of the series has to be Twilight as it offers the freshest insight into Bella's and Edward's world. I hate eclipse and breaking dawn as it kind of pisses me off whenever the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob comes up.

It's too draggy and the author simply has a penchant for taking out old stuffs to write. It does not make any sense to me but she's the writer, who can argue with her? Then there's Bella's hesitation on almost everything. Frankly speaking, it's got onto my nerves. One moment she wants to be a vampire, then the next she worries about being a vampire. Darn. I don't think eighteen year old girls are supposed to behave so wishy-washy.

But that's just my opinion. You have to read the series in order to understand what I'm trying to bring across here. Or maybe you should spare yourself the agony and just read the spoilers on wikipedia.

Right.

That should prolong your life by just a margin, I suppose. Or perhaps, we could find our own Edwards and get them to vampirize us. Won't that be absolutely lovely?

Yum! Being a vampire should certainly be a good thing. Then I won't have to worry about anything, except to get blood. That should be easy if I have a diet like the Cullens, hunting only on animals.

Too bad, there are no real vampires in this world and no, I won't haunt Robert Pattinson to try to get him to bite me, if ya know what I mean. He's human too. Awww shucks!

I guess it will all be just a bad dream. Oh well, I'll get over it soon enough. =P