“Barbershop’s” Toni Trucks will play a friend and secretary to the street-smart woman at the center of “Baby Big Shot.”

Former Barbershop star Toni Trucks has joined CBS’ legal drama pilot Baby Big Shot.

In the project, which revolves around a working-class woman named Marina who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a top New York law firm, Trucks will play Cindi, Marina’s edgy secretary and “comradette” in arms.

The actress, whose credits include Showtime’s short-lived Barbershop series, will next appear in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 as American Nomad coven member Mary as well as Fox Searchlight’s He Loves Me.

Baby Big Shot, which hails from Sony Pictures Television, CBS Television Studios and Fanfare, will be executive produced by Jamie Tarses, Julia Franz and Kevin Falls, who will serve as showrunner. Dana Calvo will co-exec produce.

Trucks is repped by Greene & Associates and Rugolo Entertainment. CBS picked up the project to pilot last month.

via hollywoodreporter.com

February 11, 2012

I’ve already said a lot about Breaking Dawn in various interviews, so most of this is probably not news. It was a surreal year in a lot of ways and also a crazy crash course in movie making, which came in really handy last summer (see Austenland).

Some of my favorite memories from filming BD 1&2, in random order:

- Weathering a “white squall” off the coast of Paraty, Brazil with the cast and crew during the filming of the honeymoon. We got trapped for the night due to rough seas—roughly 130 people in a house with eight beds, no food, and a very small amount of drinking water. I spent the night on the stair landing, sharing an old mattress covered in blackout fabric with the set photographer, set publicist, and the EPK team. (Shout out to the stair gang! Never forget!) I was actually offered a chance to escape, as was Bill Condon, but we both decided to go down with ship rather than abandon our crew.

- Exploring the third version of the Cullen House, a.k.a. Howl’s Moving Castle, now bigger and better than ever. Finally getting to see Alice’s room was awesome.

- Watching the creation of a three-story wedding cake composed of dead bodies. I may or may not have climbed to the top to get a picture.

- Being there for Kristen’s first wedding dress fitting. Magic. Even Summit’s head of marketing got all teary.

- Hanging with the new vampires. We had a lot of very cool people with us, which made the daily grind—particularly the days with wall-to-wall green screen and breathing-hazard fake snow—much more fun.

- Playing Farkle (wikipedia.org/wiki/Farkle) with Taylor and company. Yes, it is a real game, and just because I won doesn’t mean I was cheating.

- Wearing more clothes at one time than I’ve ever worn on our Pemberton , B.C. set. People from Arizona should not go outside during February in Canada. They just embarrass themselves.

read lots more over at stepheniemyer.com

So, the quality of the video in this scene from “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2″ is not the greatest. Nor is the sound.

But if you’re a serious Twihard, that may be an acceptable tradeoff to get a glimpse of the final installment of the movie franchise, which will be released in November.

Target stores hosted DVD release parties for “Breaking Dawn Part 1″ at midnight Friday (Feb. 10), and they included a peek at a scene from “Part 2.” A fan shot video of the scene playing on several TVs, and while we can tell it’s a tender moment between Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), the audio — it sounds as if the volume was up on several of the sets — is pretty tough to make out.

Per one of the comments on YouTube, Edward tells Bella in part, “I? have a bad habit of underestimating you. Every obstacle you’ve faced, I didn’t think you’d overcome. You just did. You have something to fight for — our family.” As he leaves the room, Bella then goes to examine a copy of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” from which a page has been torn.

Also? It looks like Target is having a sale on TVs.

So what do you think, Twihards? Was the scene worth staying up past midnight?

via zap2it

In just a few short hours, Bella and Edward will be yours to have and to hold forever as “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ hits DVD and Blu-ray. Target stores across the country (500 in all) will be hosting special release parties beginning at 11 p.m., where you’ll not only be able to pick up a copy of the hot hit but also see a sneak peek clip of “Breaking Dawn – Part 2.” (Yes, we are squeezing our Edward Cullen doll extra tight right now to avoid hyperventilating…)

But we can’t let Target have all the fun. Nuh-uh. Which is why we spent the better part of this afternoon watching the disc’s nearly 90-minute, six-part making-of documentary. And boy did we learn a lot—we could write a thesis! But we won’t. Cause that’d be boring. So instead, we’ve compiled a list of five interesting facts we gleaned from the special feature. Check ‘em out after the jump!

See the 5 things at hollywoodcrush

He’s baaaaaaack. After haranguing Saturday Night Live for their Tim Tebow lampoon, Pat Robertson has joined the anti-Twilight bandwagon. The 81-year-old aspiring hipster and fundamentalist minister deemed Stephenie Meyer’s sparklevamp franchise “evil” in a recent segment on his TV show, the 700 Club.

Responding a a viewer question about whether the series promotes witchcraft, Robertson recounted a story of demon possession told to him by a friend. According to Robertson, the demon in question “had permission” to possess a young girl because she had been enticed by the timeless love story of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. “It opened the door to demonic power. Yes, I think those vampire movies are evil,” said Robertson. “There are no vampires. The whole thing is demonic.” See more of Robertson’s thoughts on Twilight below.

read more at ew.com

The Summit co-founder and now Lionsgate exec said the indie studio will produce a sixth vampire flick if Stephenie Meyer writes another installment.

TORONTO – Will there be a Twilight 6?

That depends on getting a fifth book out of Twilight writer Stephenie Meyer, Lionsgate motion picture group co-chair Rob Friedman said Friday, giving hope to Twi-hards everywhere.

“If she (Meyer) wishes to do it, we’ll be there to support her” with a sixth film, said Friedman, who now runs the Lionsgate movie division with Patrick Wachsberger after the duo sold Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the Twilight franchise, to Lionsgate in January as part of a $412.5 million leveraged buy-out.

Friedman was participating in his first Lionsgate analyst call after the indie studio missed on its third quarter earnings Thursday, but insisted it was bullish about the future now that it has swallowed privately-held Summit and its Twilight franchise.

read more at hollywoodreporter

Confession: When I started Confessions of a (Male) Twi-Hard and wrote my introductory Twi-Hard Bucket List, I wasn’t honestly sure whether or not I would cross any of the items off the list. That isn’t to say I didn’t want to, I just looked at most of the items as pure fantasy. And besides, most of the personalities listed would probably be freaked out by a 30-something male “Twilight” superfan.

That’s why my stomach kind of dropped when the NextMovie editor called me and said Peter Facinelli agreed to meet me for chicken wings. “Really? You’ve got to be kidding.” He wasn’t. That’s how I found myself in Midtown Manhattan’s Lansdowne Road bar at 11 a.m. on Friday morning, sitting across a table of Buffalo wings from the man who plays Carlisle Cullen.

read more over at nextmovie.com

Kellen Lutz promoting the Breaking Dawn Part 1 dvd release

Calling all Twilight fans! If you are planning to pick up The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 DVD (available Feb. 11) you should know that there’s an entire second disc of bonus features, including a six-part documentary that chronicles the ins and outs of this very action packed (Marriage! Honeymoon! Pregnancy! Totally insane birth!) movie.

In this exclusive EW clip, it’s all about the wolfpack and their climactic battle with the Cullens towards the end of the film. (And if you don’t want your wolves-are-real illusions shattered, we suggest you don’t continue onward.) The choreography and special effects and stunts were all carefully thought out and planned to the very second in order to make the scene look as realistic as possible. Funny then, how hard it is for the actual actors to pantomime fight scenes versus the air, or in some cases, a not-so-ferocious beanbag. My favorite part? Watching Jackson Rathbone (Jasper) explain that the hardest part in shooting these dramatic scenes is trying not to laugh. Take a look below.

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Robert Pattinson has sent fans crazy by saying ‘nobody would give a s***’ about him if he hadn’t starred in Twilight. And although omg! beg to differ, Vampire Diaries star Joseph Morgan agrees with his fellow British star.

Joseph, who plays Klaus in the series, told omg! exclusively: “Provided he didn’t mess it all up, Robert was guaranteed a fan base thanks to Twilight,” Joseph told us.

“His character is iconic and there’s a huge following of the books but there’s a tremendous amount of pressure that comes with that.

“People have their own very distinctive ideas of how a character should be portrayed especially when you’re playing a vampire.”

read more on what he has to say over at OMG! yahoo