Chris Marquette Message Board

In case anyone missed this saga. Particularly how Nikki describes him:

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/l … dance-pic/

I sure hope he turns it down, or at least does some indies between now and then. One tentpole -- maybe two in a row -- but three??? Sorry, but real actors do Hollywood movies in order to do indies, and he'd better get back to doing what got him there in the first place. Knowing Anton I'm sure that's his plan.

You can see Michael onscreen with Dakota Fanning!

No, not in New Moon, although it's a distinct possibility. I'm talking about the small screen. Michael and Dakota played brother and sister on an episode of Malcolm in the Middle that first aired on January 21, 2001 (Michael was 13).

It will air on Tuesday 3/3 at 2 PM Eastern and again on Wednesday 3/4 at 7 AM Eastern on FX.

The latest Early Report just out still says "select markets."

Interestingly, though, Adventureland hits 1000+ screens on the exact same day. I doubt that Jesse Eisenberg is very happy.

Deja vu. They said the same thing about Michael Angarano in One Last Thing. It was actually a hotly debated topic until the doctor who was a consultant on the film spoke out. He had taken Michael and his dad on a tour of a cancer facility where kids that age were dying. Instead of a few hours they ended up there all day. Michael and his dad's biggest surprise? Many of the kids looked perfectly healthy. I met the doctor myself -- he participated in Q&As at a couple of screenings. He said that the depiction was accurate.

Bottom line: Linus could look healthy but still be dying of cancer. That said, we don't know what kind he had, of course. But the most common cancer for young people that age is leukemia.

Drew Barrymore will definitely not be directing Eclipse. However, it is true that Chris Weitz will not be directing it but that is because he will be more valuable in the post-production of New Moon.

Therefore, his brother Paul Weitz will be directing Eclipse.

New Moon and Eclipse will not be shot back-to-back, however. Eclipse will have a separate production company (i.e., personnel, crew, etc.).   

New Moon begins shooting on March 23 in Vancouver. They may also be shooting in Volterra, Tuscany, Italy.

Breaking Dawn is now officially an optioned property, that is, Summit has acquired the rights. Production will begin mid-2010.

Here are some more details about the hour-long extras on the 2nd of the two-disc DVD to be released on March 21:

    * Audio commentary by Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen  Stewart, and Robert Pattinson 
    * Muse music video: "Super Massive Black Hole"   
    * Paramore music video: "Decode"   
    * Linkin Park music video: "Leave Out All the Rest"   
    * Five extended scenes with director introductions   
    * Five deleted scenes with director introductions   
    * Seven-part documentary: "The Adventure Begins: The  Journey from Page to Screen" 
    * Comic-Con "fandom" piece 
    * Comic-Con NY sizzle reel 
    * Three trailers
    * Penelope  trailer

In addition, the Borders set will have:

       1. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Robert Pattinson (Edward)
       2. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Cam Gigandet (James)
       3. Exclusive Twilight Cast Interviews with Edi Gathegi (Laurent) and Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria)
       4. Exclusive Red-Carpet Interviews from the Twilight Movie Premiere
       5. Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Red-Carpet Footage! Includes extra interview footage with Kellan Lutz (Emmett), Ashley Greene (Alice), rock band Paramore, and Nikki Reed (Rosalie)
       6. Exclusive Borders Book Club: Stephenie Meyer talks about the Twilight Saga

Tri-Fold Packaging

    * The finish of the rigid case is a tactile coating called "soft touch", which is a smooth, almost velvety/rubbery matte finish. A pattern of tree branches will be foil stamped over the matte coating, which creates beautiful tone on tone imagery. The title treatment is foil stamped in a silver/blue, which completes the effect.

Exclusive Photo Cards

    * The exclusive photo cards are printed on 2-sided pearlescent shine stock, which has a sparkle effect imbedded in the paper. The (10) photo cards look really amazing on this special stock, and the back sides have the same tree pattern from the inside of the rigid case, carrying the design throughout.

Here's a quick box office update. Twilight has broken $190M domestically.

The film is still showing legs. Of the top 36 films this weekend, of all the films that dropped, Twilight had the smallest percent decrease (6.1%). In fact it was the only single-digit drop of all the films that declined.

It went from #27 to #24 an took in another $460,000, for a domestic total of $190,094,000.

Just a quick note in general to anyone who's curious how they do this (not directing this at TeeJay)...and I'm not saying that any of the info they posted is correct...but most of the time when they do these auctions they include items that were in the wardrobe or prop department for that character's use but just not seen onscreen.

They have 3 types of items:
1) Intended for that character's use but never worn or used
2) Worn or used during shooting but not seen onscreen (i.e., deleted, w/e)   
3) Seen onscreen

They are supposed to tell you which it is. If they say seen onscreen and it wasn't, that is definitely mislabeled. But if it says "Jim's shirt" and you don't see it onscreen it doesn't necessarily mean Jim didn't wear it. It can mean he wore it but it didn't show up in the final cut or that it was there for him to use but he never did. 

Like I was saying earlier, I have a skateboard that was supposedly ridden by Michael in Dogtown but I don't see that skateboard anywhere in the film. But he told me there were so many skateboards he rode and so much that never made it into the movie. So it doesn't mean he didn't actually use it.

Of course, if Sean comes on here and says "I never wore that Godforsaken ugly thing" then I think we can rely on that lol.

Thanks for that. It really cements my decision to see the film. What I don't get, then, is why they are releasing it under the Disney imprint and not Touchstone, which is their adult label. Or even Miramax. If the want to present it as a darker, more grown-up film they should definitely have put it under Touchstone. 

Premiere would have to get the information from someone who works for the production company (which could include the propmaster, costume supervisor, etc.). The production company itself has nothing to do with TWC -- they are just the distributor in this case since they didn't produce the film. Someone in publicity for TWC may have been the one responsible for getting the gear and info to Premiere, but TWC's person would have to have gotten it from the production people who don't work for TWC. Of course, one could argue that someone at Premiere or TWC should have done fact-checking but that is generally quite insulting and disrepectful to the person giving them the information. You don't ask the propmaster, "are you sure you labeled these correctly?" Whoever dropped the ball wasn't someone at TWC.

I want to echo the comments about Alpha Dog too. They did a pretty good job. I bought a shirt and skateboard that Michael wore and used. Fortunately, since I know him personally and saw him shortly afterward I was able to ask him if I had actually purchased a board he rode (it was $500). He said that he used dozens of boards lol. I never saw any picture of him holding a board which was the one I bought. It did say Sid on the carriage. But they always let you know if it was actually USED in the film or just available but NOT used. All you can do is trust what Premiere says.

It will be in theaters on July 17, we believe. That's the latest official word from Senator, who just announced their upcoming schedule.

A DVD would follow about 3-4 months later, most likely, which would put it late October at the earliest.

Well, not to give them any credit, but they got rid of it almost 2 years ago. 95% of the jerking around has been by Senator, who had never released a move in the U.S. before and had no clue what they were doing.

Senator makes Weinstein look like Fox Searchlight.