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You're the Best Dads Ever, Dads of 'Twilight'

I am not a father, nor do I even pretend to know how to be a good one. (It involves owning a briefcase and knowing how to throw a baseball back and forth, I believe?)

However, I do know "The Twilight Saga."So with Father's Day coming up this weekend, I'm paying tribute to the dads from the series.

But who is the best "Twilight" dad? (Besides all of them?) Allow me to lay out the facts.

Charlie Swan, Carlisle Cullen, Billy Black and (future screen daddy) Edward Cullen are the men under the microscope. While everyone has their own ideas on what makes the best father, I've done some in-depth research (thanks, Ask Jeeves!) and these are the qualities most will agree on:

They should be of high integrity, but never high on other things. They should be able to provide for their kids, meaning they need some cash money -- Benjamins, if you will. And a father needs to be responsible, offer guidance, and spend quality time with children. These are proven techniques that keep daughters (and sons) off the stripper pole. Let's break down how these four fellows have done so far:

Children

Charlie: Bella Swan, 24 (looks 18 for eternity)
Carlisle: Adopted vampires Edward, Jasper, Alice, Emmett and Rosalie
Billy: Jacob (21), twins Rebecca and Rachel (25)
Edward: Renesmee Cullen, 5 (in human-vampire hybrid years)

Relationship Status

Charlie: Divorced
Carlisle: Married 90 years
Billy: Widower
Edward: Newlywed

Career

Charlie: Police chief
Carlisle: Physician
Billy: Quileute council leader and disability
Edward: Student for over 90 years

Net Worth

Charlie: Earns between $35,605 to $49,640 a year
Carlisle: Forbes estimates $34.1 billion
Billy: Median income of Native American households is $35,343. That's a fair guess since he's essentially unemployed.
Edward: Billions in family money

Parenting Approach

Charlie: Hands-off. Only sees daughter on holidays until she's 17. Shows as much emotion as a vampire, so it makes sense that his daughter falls for one.
Carlisle: Permissive and lenient. Allows his adopted offspring to do anything short of murder and pays their bills well into adulthood.
Billy: Authoritative. Doesn't give Jacob many choices, only allowing him to be a wolf when he grows up.
Edward: Reads daughter's mind. She will never be able to get away with anything.

Quality Time

Charlie: Spends most of his time working and fishing, unless Bella makes dinner for him.
Carlisle: Despite being a busy doctor, finds time to play baseball, throw parties and fight evil vampires with his family.
Billy: Unemployed, he has all the time in the world to hang with Jacob.
Edward: Still a new parent, he makes time to take his daughter hunting, when he's not occupied with saving her life from Volturi.

Family Planning

Charlie: Started family on whim and wasn't active in raising daughter.
Carlisle: Randomly adopts children like he's Angelina Jolie in a third-world country.
Billy: Seemed to plan well, until his wife suddenly passed away.
Edward: Considered abortion and doesn't practice safe sex. To be fair, vampires have no bodily fluids, so how could he know?

Fatherly Advice

Charlie: "The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So… good luck figuring that out."
Carlisle: "Don’t get your family slaughtered for pride."
Billy: "What I meant to say was, don’t do what you’re doing."
Edward: "You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating."

Pole Probability

Charlie: High. Being an absent and unresponsive father can give women "daddy issues" and create strippers (allegedly). If Bella hadn't fallen for a vampire, her life would look more like "Welcome to the Rileys."Carlisle: Medium. When you adopt grown children, it can be a grab bag of potential psych issues. Still, Carlisle is really rich, smart, loving and can beat up any pimp, drug dealer or strip club owner.
Billy: High. Not totally his fault since his wife died when his kids were young. Still, he's not close with his daughters and his son is constantly taking off his clothes in public for free.
Edward: Medium. When Jacob, a much older man, "imprints" on Renesmee, Eddie still allows his daughter to see him. Kind of creepy and sends the wrong message for healthy relationships. However, they're rich and she'll have a strong education, so she won't need the money for college.

And Now... Readers Weigh In On Favorites -- and I Comment on Their Comments

@SkylarLSpencer: "Carlisle Cullen, of course. Cuz if you accidentally kill someone, he helps you hide the body. Oh, and he's f*** hawt. [sic]" (I'm not sure why you'd want your dad to be hot.)
@tashpalo: "Charlie!!! For the way he lovingly puts up with Bella always running off without explanation." (She could be running off to join a cult, though. The Cullens seem a little culty if you don't know they're just merely vampires.)
@theMwagon: "CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE. He's so sweet & earnest." (She's more excited about Charlie than he is about himself.)
@IAmYuliaBelka: "Edward! Hands down . . . lol." (I’m not sure if she's joking with the "LOL" at the end. But this is no laughing matter, IAmYuliaBelka. This is serious business.)

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Billy on What He Likes About Charlie & Twilight

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Say good-bye to the Swan residence

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'Eclipse' director David Slade on fans, Bella and Charlie, and married life

While we're busy screaming over feathery Twitpics from "Breaking Dawn," Summit Entertainment is offering "The Twilight Saga" fans a juicy stocking stuffer to tide them over -- an extras-packed, two-disc DVD set for "Eclipse."
The Ministry caught up with director David Slade, who steered the third installment of the franchise, as he reflected on his whirlwind year in the Twi-universe. After all, a year ago at this time, Slade was only a month into editing the flick.
"Finishing the film is a moment of great weight. It's not just getting it cut, it's when the final print is timed and there's nothing more to do," he said. "It was the night before we did our press junket we finished it."
Finished staring at the famous faces of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, that is. Slade, whose pedigree is in music videos and darker indies such as "Hard Candy," said he did his best with the "Eclipse" DVD to please the vampire saga's legions of fans.
"This is the only thing I've ever done that's had such a fan subculture, so with the deleted scenes I wanted to do a little justification for them," Slade said.
Chief among the scenes cut from the theatrical version of the film was an exchange between Stewart's Bella and her on-screen dad Charlie, played by Billy Burke.

[Spoiler alert!] The two have a bonding moment after her high school graduation, one of Bella's last mortal activities before Pattinson's Edward follows through on making her a vampire. "It's all in Billy's face, when you watch the film 30-odd times or more, there's more in his face than in his words," Slade said. "I was so confident that was going to make it in, we did it in one shot. It was two people trying to be as close to each other as possible."
Fans will get to live that moment when the DVD hits stores on Dec. 4.
Meanwhile, Slade will announce his next film in a matter of weeks, but insists it won't be any of the numerous projects that have been rumored.
"It always surprises me, what can get out there, like I'm doing 'Christine,' the Stephen King story. No, I'm not!" he said.
He did consider directing the next installment of "Wolverine," starring Hugh Jackman.
"We've gotten a ton of scripts, 30-odd projects, and one of them was 'Wolverine,' which Darren Aronofsky is doing. I met with Hugh, but felt it was right that they continue together."
The Ministry is also happy to report that Slade eloped Aug. 12 with his girlfriend of eight years, mere weeks after the June 24 world premiere of "Eclipse."
"Married life suits me," he said.
And now it's Stewart and Pattinson's turn -- on screen of course. Shooting is underway for "Breaking Dawn" parts one and two, under director Bill Condon.
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New Clips

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They Grow Up So Quickly, Don’t They?

THE title of Lisa Cholodenko’s wonderful new film, “The Kids Are All Right,” quotes an ancient youth-culture anthem by the Who: a song released before the parents of many of today’s teenagers were born. At least for members of my generation (to stick with the Who’s back catalog for a moment) the phrase’s original defiance has given way to anxious, fingers-crossed hopefulness. In the context of Ms. Cholodenko’s movie — a comedy of domestic manners and misunderstandings set amid the liberal-minded American middle class — “The Kids Are All Right” is a statement shadowed by an implicit question: Aren’t they?

Sure they are. Right? They have cellphones and pizza money just in case we’re late getting home. They have access to healthy food, good schools and cool stuff. But of course we can’t help worrying, as every aging generation has since the invention of modern adolescence back when our grandparents were young.
Kids these days! They spend all their time playing video games or texting and sexting and cyber-bullying instead of reading and going to movies. And when they do go to the movies, it’s to see the dumb action blockbusters and slasher pictures that are ruining the experience for everybody else. Instead of going steady, they “hook up.” What kind of music are they listening to? What kind of jobs are they going to be able to find? Where did we go wrong?
Maybe we didn’t. There is a chance that Ms. Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, who together wrote the screenplay for “The Kids Are All Right,” meant the title to be sincere and reassuring, though without entirely letting the parents off the hook. Maybe the implication is that the younger set is doing better than their solipsistic, dysfunctional elders. Or maybe that’s a bit harsh.
But it does seem that the difficult relations between parents and semi-independent, no-longer-cute-and-precocious offspring have caught the eye of filmmakers lately. Of course clueless, hapless or antagonistic mothers and fathers have been a staple of cinema at least since Jim Backus stood in his apron and endured James Dean’s histrionic whining in “Rebel Without a Cause.” (Sorry, but that’s how it looks to me now.) But alongside these more familiar intergenerational patterns — and at a time when the childishness of grown men and the childlessness of grown women are the twin axioms of mainstream big-screen comedy — there is also a quieter sense of rapprochement and mutual sympathy.
The parents in “The Kids Are All Right” are Nic and Jules, a lesbian couple played byAnnette Bening and Julianne Moore, who have never been more enchanting or seemed less like movie stars. With their Volvo and lovely-but-not-fancy house, Nic and Jules are a picture of middle-class contentment, their complacency lightly mocked and their frustrations treated with affectionate empathy by the filmmakers. They seem like good parents, and in the end their two children might agree.
Those children — Joni, who is 18 and about to leave home for college, and her 15-year-old brother, Laser — certainly lead complicated lives, but the problems that keep the movie veering from farce to melodrama and back again do not primarily belong to them. Joni, a stellar student and dutiful daughter (played by Mia Wasikowska of “Alice in Wonderland”), is put off by the way her best friend, Sasha, “sexualizes everything” and is also attracted to Jai, a cute, nerdy buddy who does not seem to reciprocate her romantic interest. Laser, under the sway of an obnoxious and anti-social friend named Clay, seems to be tumbling into the male identity crisis that often begins in high school and concludes, if we’re lucky, sometime before retirement.
His moms think Laser, played with the right measure of mischief and diffidence by Josh Hutcherson, might be gay, a possibility they handle with the earnest, nonjudgmental concern that their straight counterparts might bring. But the questions Laser has about sex, love and biology are at once more basic and more elusive than the relatively simple matter of whether he likes girls or boys. Her brother’s desire to know where he came from — and perhaps also to find some connection with an adult male — leads Joni to contact the anonymous sperm donor who is at least technically their father and who is played by a scruffy and appealing Mark Ruffalo. Jules and Nic, respecting Laser and Joni’s curiosity about this almost mythical character, find the ground of their own relationship shifting in uncomfortable ways.
“The Kids Are All Right” is, to a large extent, about the unstable, comical and sometimes appalling parental triangle that emerges among the three adults. This article, however, is about the children, whose real-life counterparts are probably less likely than their parents to flock to a wry independent movie whose marquee stars are, at least to adolescents, unspeakably old. But the teenagers who do tag along may wonder why Mom and Dad (or Dad and Dad, or Mom and Mom, or just Mom or just Dad) are crying at the end, when Joni, as we always knew she would, steps out of the nest and into her own story.
Of course many more children will already have asked themselves the same question about“Toy Story 3.” The pathos in that film is rich and various, but as they did in “Up,” the clever heartstring pullers at Pixar have zeroed in on a phase of the life cycle not generally associated with children’s entertainment. In “Up” the handkerchief moment came early on, as the long, loving marriage of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen was chronicled in a montage that located the film’s emotional heart simultaneously in boyhood and senescence. In “Toy Story 3” the equivalent moment comes near the end, when Andy’s mother, an unsung stalwart of the franchise voiced by Laurie Metcalf, looks around his empty room and wonders where the time went.
It’s a touching moment, evoking the universal heartbreak of parenthood, but the movie does not stop there. It follows Andy, not all the way to college, but to a stop on the way, the house of a little girl named Bonnie who will inherit Buzz, Woody and all the other toys who have guided Andy through childhood. He does not just drop off the box, but stops to introduce Bonnie and her current toys to the new arrivals.
The two children, one in the first flush of her juvenile imaginative power, the other in the twilight of his, spend what might be many hours or just a few minutes spinning out new adventures. The tenderness of this little scene is breathtaking, because it finishes the“Toy Story” cycle in an unexpected and entirely convincing way, by showing that Andy, a kind and creative young man, was worthy of the devotion of his toys, and that his decency was indeed the product of that devotion.

Andy, ready to put away childish things, is able to acknowledge what they have done for him. And of course his story has really been theirs all along, in that we know much more about life among the inanimate objects in his room than we do about his interactions with his sister, mother, teachers and friends. But we do know, from the haunting example of Sid, the toy-abuser next door from the first “Toy Story,” that not every child is Andy. Some even grow up to be like Cyrus, the stay-at-home man-child played by Jonah Hill in the recent movie of that name.
“Cyrus,” written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, sometimes uses its title character’s situation to harvest queasy laughs. At other moments the filmmakers draw out more unsettling, even gothic implications in an Oedipal triangle involving Cyrus; his sweet-natured single mother, Molly (played by Marisa Tomei); and her new boyfriend, John (John C. Reilly). But as off-kilter as this predicament is, and as icky as the filmmakers sometimes dare to be, the resolution is curiously sweet and affirmative. After much anguish and acting out, Cyrus grows up and moves on, helped by the older man who is both his role model and his rival for Molly’s love.
The family — as if there were only one kind, ideally or in practice — has been the subject of culture-war skirmishing for a very long time. Depending on your perspective, the movies have been agents of wantonness and amorality or upholders of old-fashioned, even outmoded values. Both conclusions are warranted: there has always been lots of sex in movies, and lots of traditionalism as well. And everyone understands that reality is different.
But reality nonetheless finds interesting reflections on screen, where even apparently simple stories can be full of ambiguity and contradiction. Take the “Twilight” series, which for all its widely publicized pro-abstinence themes and its nostalgically Victorian sexual morality envisions some fairly radical twists on family life. Bella Swan’s parents are conventionally divorced, loving, lonely people who mostly hover around the margins of her life.
The alternative to this fractured family is not so much eternal commitment to the vampire Edward Cullen as membership in one of two sprawling nonnuclear groups: the undead Cullen clan, who are not blood relations in the usual sense, and Jacob’s werewolf tribe. Both of these kinship networks offer a way of life that seems emotionally richer — if also more dangerous — than small-town existence. And while there is a bit of suspense about which group Bella will join, there never seems to be any question of her settling down into the nonsupernatural humdrum that lies in store for most of her peers.
Bella is different, special, and the great paradox of American life is that everyone else believes they are too. Or at least our children, who labor under intense and contradictory pressures from which the end of adolescence offers at least partial escape. Not that their parents will stop worrying. But there are movies that can offer us at least a measure of comfort. Like Charlie Swan and Nic and Jules and Andy’s mom and Cyrus’s, we try our best and mess things up anyway. And the kids are all right. They can’t help it.


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Billy Burke On ‘Twilight’: It’s ‘Comfortable’ Being Charlie Swan

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Eclipse Clips

Better and longer versions of the two we have already seen.

'Eclipse' Clips Have Arrived! Check Out Edward's Warning To Jacob And Rosalie's Speech

Alright Twilighters, we've seen these clips premiere on TV, but we haven't had yet them (in non-bootleg form that is!) to play over and over again in the comfort of our own homes and Edward-postered bedrooms.

The first, which we first saw on "Oprah" last week, shows Edward (Robert Pattinson) fired up at Jacob (Taylor Lautner) in the moments after Jacob kisses Bella (Kristen Stewart) for the first time and she punches him in response. Luckily for the frantic teen, her dad (Billy Burke) interrupts just in time.

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The second new clip, which premiered on "Ellen" this past Tuesday, takes us to an significant moment between Rosalie and Bella — when the ice queen finally lets down her guard down. "I don't hate you…. Bella, I envy you," Rosalie says. "You have a choice, I didn't. None of us did, but you do, and you're choosing wrong."

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Longer Edward Threatens Jacob

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this scene, cant wait to see the whole movie.

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Thank goodness, I don't think any of the cast is replaceable.

THE CULLEN FAMILY CAST RETURNS FOR SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT’S THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN

Los Angeles, CA May 19, 2010 – Summit Entertainment has confirmed that Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, and Nikki Reed will all return as members of the Cullen Family in THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN. These cast members join Billy Burke as Charlie Swan.

Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. The project is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, and Stephenie Meyer producing. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN is slated to be released November 18, 2011.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.

The family of vampires, to which the leading male character Edward Cullen belongs, is comprised of Facinelli as Carlisle, Greene as Alice, Lutz as Emmett, Rathbone as Jasper, Reaser as Esme, and Reed as Rosalie.

The third film in the franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is due in theaters on June 30, 2010.

About the TWILIGHT film series
The TWILIGHT film series stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction that pulls them together...even when Edward confides that he and his family are vampires. The action-packed, modern day vampire love story TWILIGHT, the first film in the series, was released in theatres on November 21, 2008 to a blockbuster reception. The second installment of the film franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was released November 20, 2009. The franchise has grossed over $1.1 billion in worldwide box office ticket sales to date.

About Summit Entertainment, LLC
Summit Entertainment, LLC is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio. The studio handles all aspects of marketing and distribution for both its own internally developed motion pictures as well as acquired pictures. Summit Entertainment, LLC also represents international sales for both its own slate and third party product. Summit Entertainment, LLC releases on average 10 to 12 films annually.
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Two new Eclipse Scenes from Oprah

I just love these two...can't wait for June 30.



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More New Moon clips

Another extended scene and a deleted scene with Victoria.  Rachelle actually speaks in this clip.



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New Moon Deleted Scene

So exciting about this...a video of one of the deleted scenes from New Moon that will be on the Target DVD.  I think this helped make my decision on what DVD to get, I think it will be the borders and target ones, I love deleted scenes.

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New /Old Twilight

Some great New/Old Twilight pictures.

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New/old set pictures

We have some fan pictures from the set of Eclipse and a account of the day.  For more pictures go to her blog.  The wig doesn't look that bad in these pictures.

Yesterday was, by far, the best day I have had at a set. Generally when I have been to sets it is so closed off that you can't see anything. I am not a tree climber or professional so I have to try to see what I can see from the streets like everyone else. This means I rarely get to see anyone or anything that isn't covered with black tarps or strategically hidden behind umbrellas or tinted glass. Yesterday was a totally different experience for me.

About 20 minutes in, I had gotten a picture of David Slade and a profile of Rob and already called the day a success! Seeing anything at all is a win as far as I am concerned and based on my past set experiences yesterday was just that.

They were filming shots at the Fork's Police Department. We were all struggling trying to remember what scene from Eclipse would include the police station. I have a friend that is a walking talking Twilight reference guide. She knows everything there is to know about the books, even details not included in the books but that Stephanie Meyers has mentioned in interviews. This girl is good and even she was stumped. The best guess is that it has something to do with the newborns and the script must include a scene where Edward and Bella go see Charlie at the station about the problem. But, your guess is as good as mine.

After walking around the set while the actors where at lunch, we were asked to move down the sidewalk because they had permits for the road adjacent to the set and behind the set. This was fine with us and we made our way down to where we were asked to stand. This, along with a street lined with Washington plated cars led me to believe their would be street scenes and that we may get a chance to see some filming. I never guessed that we would be able to see Rob and Kristen in full view, in hair and make-up, driving the volvo into the station. It took quite a few takes to get it right so we got a clear view of Rob & Kristen pulling in and then reversing and pulling out.

Rob would check himself out in the rear view mirror and fix his hair and Kristen appeared to be filing her nails? Odd but, maybe it was a nervous twitch, who knows! Rob appeared to stay in character even when the camera wasn't rolling. He had a stern expression on his face that conveyed that he needed to be serious for the scene they were shooting.

Before they filmed these scenes that everyone was clearly able to see, I got some pictures of Rob, Kristen & Billy filming/rehearsing on the steps of the police station. It really was cool just to see it all. I love filming of any kind. I find it amazing how they can transform a sunny day in Vancouver Canada into a rainy day in Forks, Washington.
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Bunch of stills

Great stills from New Moon.

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New Stills

Great new New Moon stills.  There are actually 15 stills but MTV had 10, the others are from Twilight Poison.

'New Moon' News! More Than 10 New Stills To Whet Your 'Twilight' Appetite

Seriously, we weren't kidding earlier when we said we can't keep up with all the delectable photos coming our way! Moments ago we received a brand new crop of "New Moon" photos from Summit, and while we can't help but think, "Uh, are there actually moments we haven't yet seen?" (you know, with all the stills previously released before these), we were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves digging into a ton of new goodies.

For instance: The Cullen clan looking quite pretty (especially Esme)! Bella's school buddies paling around! The Wolf Pack .... with shirts on! (OK fine, that last one didn't really deserve the exclamation point, but still...) Chris Weitz peeking into a video camera! Oh my!

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Billy's own Bella

Billy Burke talks about his relationship as Charlie with Bella.  He mentions how his appreciation for how the relationship is between Father and Daughter has grown since having his own daughter.  Its sweet how having a real daughter has changed his perspective on the relationship between Charlie and Bella.

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New Moon stills..

Well..in the spirit of it almost being New Moon time..here is a little post with some HQ stills that I found throughout the internet!

Enjoy!

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