It is time for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards and it is no surprise that Eclipse and the cast have been nominated for several awards. What I found great is that Robert Pattinson is also nominated for non-Twilight related awards for Water for Elephants. If you are between the ages of 13-19 years old, then be sure to vote! The show will air live Sunday, August 7^th, at 8/7 central on FOX.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie: Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actor: Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actress: Kristen Stewart

Villian: Bryce Dallas Howard

Male Scene Stealer: Kellan Lutz

Female Scene Stealer: Ashley Greene

Best Drama Movie: Water for Elephants

Dramatic Actor: Robert Pattinson (Water For Elephants)

Male Hottie: Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner

Best Liplock: Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart or Taylor Lautner/Kristen Stewart

The nominees are in and of course Eclipse and the cast are raking in the nominations with eight. Make sure to vote daily for your favorites and tune in June 5 for the show!

BEST KISS
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”

BEST FIGHT
Robert Pattinson vs Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel “Eclipse”

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Robert Pattinson “Eclipse”
Taylor Lautner “Eclipse”

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”

BEST MALE BREAKOUT STAR
Xavier Samuel “Eclipse”

BEST MOVIE
Twilight Saga: Eclipse

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Well, it is that time of year again. The 2011 MTV Movie Awards will be held June 5 at 9/8 CT. The Nominee Round of voting has begun and Eclipse and some of the main actors have been nomintaed. Be sure to vote! The categories that Eclipse or one of the actors is in are listed below.

BEST VILLAIN
“Victoria” Bryce Dallas Howard

BEST KISS
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”

BEST FIGHT
Robert Pattinson vs Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel “Eclipse”

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Robert Pattinson “Eclipse”
Taylor Lautner “Eclipse”

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Kristen Stewart “Eclipse”

BEST MALE BREAKOUT STAR
Xavier Samuel “Eclipse”
Jackson Rathbone “Last Airbender”

BEST LINE FROM A MOVIE
“Doesn’t he own a shirt?” – Robert Pattinson “Eclipse”
“Let’s face it, I’m hotter than you.” – Taylor Lautner “Eclipse”

Via the Lex

Chaske Spencer, Julia Jones, and Alex Meraz talk about their views on why the films have such appeal.

Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Jackson Rathbone talk about the potential male appeal.

Dakota Fanning, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Xavier Samuel cover their characters and conflict.

Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, and Liz Reaser also chime in on the male aspect.

Xavier Samuel is profiled in the June/July issue of Interview Magazine.  Bryce Dallas Howard conducted the interview. Go here to see the entire article and more pictures.

HOWARD: When we were shooting Eclipse, it was amazing for me to see how the girls all went berserk over you. These girls were totally losing their minds—and much like everyone else in the cast who experiences those sorts of things, you dealt with it really graciously and wonderfully. Were you at all startled by that?

SAMUEL: I mean, it’s kind of bizarre, isn’t it? Having that kind of attention. I’m not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

HOWARD: Well, it’s been interesting to see how these young women have responded to you and your hair and your accent.

SAMUEL: My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

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” Ravine Chase ”

Ooooo! This ties together the earlier clips of Victoria jumping through the trees, jumping the ravine and then looking backwards. Emmett and Jasper have just missed her as she ran through the forest and then she jumps the ravine, thinking they can’t follow. Is this maybe when Edward and Bella are in Florida?
Bryce looks good!
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From VanityFair:

Dakota Fanning tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales that she and co-star Kristen Stewart are “really great friends in real life,” despite the tension between their characters in the movie. It’s also the reason she felt only a twinge of regret that she didn’t get to play Bella. “The parts are very specific, and by the first one the main roles were already cast, and so it was great that I was able to be a little part of it….I’d read the books and seen the first film and definitely I was a fan, and I was honored that I got asked to be a part of this whole phenomenon.” Fanning’s mother, Joy, says, “It’s so much fun for her. It defines their generation—like Star Wars defined ours.”

Sales talks with the other women of the Twilight series as well—Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Elizabeth Reaser, and Bryce Dallas Howard—on what it’s like to be a part of a global phenomenon.

Nikki Reed on what makes Edward special:
“I think Edward represents the modern-day perfect man in that he’s very sexy, very dangerous, but there’s also something very unattainable about him. Bella and Edward’s love is very taboo and forbidden, and I think that kind of represents all youthful relationships, because that’s what all first loves feel like. This isn’t like a healthy love, Edward and Bella’s love—it’s sort of borderline, like, insane.”

Nikki Reed on the Twilight set:
“It’s just like high school in that the wolves really don’t hang out with the vampires. That’s the yin and yang of our movie. The wolves are a bunch of cubs. They run around and wrestle and punch each other. When do you see us [vampires] touch each other? We’re cold.”

Ashley Greene on what Twilight has done for her:
“The franchise is the whole reason I have this [new] film right now. It’s given me this incredible springboard to dive into my career. I would still be working as a hostess at a restaurant to support myself.”

Elizabeth Reaser on the cast dynamics:
“It’s like any family in that we have moments where we love each other, and we have moments where we irritate each other.”

Bryce Dallas Howard on taking over the role of Victoria:
“The fans are disappointed” about the change. “Rachelle [Lefevre] did a great job, and I think that needs to be honored. The most critical thing to me was the continuity of a character that was established extraordinarily well.”

The July issue of Vanity Fair will be available on newsstands in New York and L.A. on June 2, and nationally on June 8.

Fangango’s poll of the Most Anticipated Summer Action Hero and Movie Villain put our Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria in Eclipse as the most anticipated villain of the summer movies. She scored 31% of the vote, with Micky Rourke from Iron Man 2 at 29%.

On the villain side of things…I mean, c’mon – is there anyone we despise more than Bryce Dallas Howard’s Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse? This is Howard’s first go at the role (the character was previously played by Rachelle Lefevre in both New Moon and Twilight), and so fans will need to warm up (or down) to her. That said, even with Howard taking over the role for the first time, fans are still more than pumped to see her run all sorts of naughty deeds with the character

This is a video of the full Twilight Saga: Eclipse Live Chat with Bryce Dallas Howard, Nikki Reed, and Julia Jones. Recorded April 23rd.

Click here to read a taste of what was said:

Well!!!! What did you think????

I “feel the love” that I wanted to feel, at least in the crumbs of Enward and Bella that we get to see. But Wyck Godfrey promised we’d be happy so…and we do see a ring. Also, the wolves look good, the newborns look scary. Carlisle still looks a tad odd but, hey, we see the Cullen family! Edward pushed over a tree to get to Victoria in the fight scene in the forest – that’s different. Bryce Howard looks pretty much just like Rachelle Lafevre. So much hair to hide behind…The coloration looks good, blueish like Twilight was. I don’t know, but it seems to me I am seeing more expressive faces? I’m sure I’ll think of more as I watch it a few hundred more times. Anyhow, your thoughts?

Here is MTV’s breakdown of the trailer.
From MTV:

Many in the “Twilight” fan community thought they’d have to wait until this afternoon to see the brand-new “Eclipse” trailer on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” But Oprah posted it on her Web site as soon as her show aired in Chicago (at 9 a.m. CT). And now we can all determine whether this look at “Eclipse” gives us a clearer sense of the film than the first one.

Most important, this new trailer highlights the the violence of “Eclipse,” and a lot of it. While the first teaser focused on the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner), this one is all about the threat bad-girl vampire Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) is posing with her newborn vampire army.

The trailer kicks off with Jacob confronting Bella and Edward at their school. “Jacob, what are you doing?” Bella asks him. “I’m here to warn you,” he replies, adding as he looks at Edward, “She has a right to know.” The tension between the three of them is pronounced, setting up that dynamic without having to dedicate an entire trailer to it.

While Edward narrates the “situation in Seattle” for Bella, the trailer shows Riley being attacked by Victoria on the dark streets of the city. Continued shots of newborn vampires trashing cars and causing havoc are spliced with the Cullens planning their response. “Sounds pretty alarming,” Carlisle (Peter Facinelli) says.

Finally there are some clear shots of the new vampires climbing over what looks like an unused lumber yard and walking up to a body of water. Then there’s a close-up shot of Riley (Xavier Samuel), their leader. “They’re coming here,” Alice (Ashley Greene) foresees.

“This means an ugly fight, with lives lost,” Carlisle tells an unseen person, and then Jacob replies, “We’re in.” The next scene shows the werewolf pack walking out of the woods, for the first time showing the alliance between the vampires and werewolves. “As long as we get to kill some vampires,” Jacob adds while looking at Edward.

This trailer also shows the Volturi as a presiding force over the battle between the newborns and Cullen/Quileute team. It’s a bit surprising that the vampire elite have been featured so much in both trailers, considering they have a fairly small role in the actual novel. Fortunately, after their brief moment in the trailer, the much-hyped epic “Eclipse” battle is shown, and plenty of violence ensues.

In the midst of the final battle scene, a scene with Edward pressing an engagement ring into Bella’s hand is cut in, showing that the editors of this trailer didn’t forget the romance that accompanies the action-packed plot.

In the last 20 seconds of the trailer, Victoria runs away from Edward in the woods. Then we see the wolf pack leap into the fight, in a shot reminiscent of Jacob’s transformation at the end of the “New Moon” trailer.

Unlike the first “Eclipse” teaser, this newest trailer will give viewers an adequate idea of what they have to expect from the third installment of “The Twilight Saga.” Judging by the great action scenes shown in this newest video, “Eclipse” might convert some new fans to the “Saga” after all.