After enjoying a record-breaking stellar opening here in US theaters, Twilight is about to take the UK by storm. The film’s protagonist star Kristen Stewart and Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke were among the guests on hand at the Vue Cinema in Leicester Square in London, England last night for the UK premiere of their film:
Teenage fans braved the cold to catch a glimpse of Robert Pattinson at the premiere of his new fanstasy film Twilight. The 22-year-old English actor plays vampire Edward Cullen in the film, which has been touted as the “girl’s answer to Harry Potter”. He was joined on the red carpet by co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays his teenage love interest Isabella Swan. Stewart, 18, arrived at the West End Vue Cinema in London’s Leicester Square wearing a single-strap blue dress, apparently unconcerned about the bitter temperatures. Twilight is based on the series of books by Mormon housewife-turned-author Stephanie Meyer which have sold around 14 million copies across the world. The film, which raked in £24 million ($35.7 million) on its opening day in the US last month, is expected to catapult Pattinson – who played Hogwarts pupil Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter films – to international heart-throb status. Pattinson was raised in Barnes, west London, and first trod the boards in Guys and Dolls at his local theatre group seven years ago. In Twilight he stars as Cullen, a 108-year-old vampire who looks like a teenager and wins the heart of Stewart’s character when she moves to his hometown of Forks, Washington. The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, opens in cinemas in the UK on Dec 19.
Something tells me that Twilight mania is going to hit the UK about as forcefully as it did here in the US … especially considering that Robert Pattinson is a native Brit. Lest you think R. Pattz was not in the hiz last night for the UK premiere of the film, I do have a very special photo of the lad on the red black carpet last night. After the jump, check out a pic of Pattinson with a few new friends …
LOL! I think the folks in the white outfits are supposed to be representative of the Cullen family … or, at the very least, they’re meant to be vampires. Hahahahaha … the pic is just funny. Even tho the premiere looks a wee bit cheesy, I have no doubt that British Twilighters are gonna EAT this film up! The movie is still a couple of weeks away from opening in the UK … here’s hoping the rabid fans there won’t die of excited anticipation in the meantime.
[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin; Source]
i guess they could be a rep for the Volturi Kat but they werent really talked about in the first one that much maybe once if i remember right
AND PLEASE stop hating on Kristen I have seen tons of pics of Rob not smiling (‘course hes hott either way ;D)
I love ROB Pattinson. HOTNESS!!!!
I understand that you can’t smile 100% of the time, but you don’t have to frown.
And Kristen Stewart is.
Her mouth is down-turned at the edges.
And we all know its a fact that it takes more effort and muscles to frown than smile.
That little “pose” isn’t natural.
But she can’t be deliberately going for that look, right?
K-Stew is always frowning. Its like she doesn’t like the attention and is telling people with her eyes: “get out of my face and stop taking pictures of me”. Its funny but, doesn’t this sort of stuff come with the territory of being an actor? Helloooo!! I personally don’t like her. She seems like she is better than the rest. She is “too good” to do another big movie and will go back to do her little indie craptastic no-one-hears-about movies. But oh well. Everyone is different! She’s still not the worst actor out there but definitely not the best.
I wish I was there! It looked interesting though, Rob was amazing as usual but Kristen looked like she wanted to kill someone.(maybe she was just cold- I would be!) and then Catherine Hardwicke was just doing her own thing which is cool I guess. I Don’t really know what the people in white were though it did kind of confuse me!
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