And so it begins … the principal cast of The Twilight Saga: New Moon were on hand for an in-store appearance at the Hollywood & Highland Complex here in Hollywood, CA to kick off a nationwide mall tour that will take various members of the cast in various incarnations to malls around the US so that fans can press the flesh with their fave Twilight stars … and to hear live music from bands like Deathcab For Cutie, Anya Marina, Band of Skulls and more. A horde of rabid Twilighters filled the open-air mall last night just to get as close to Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz and Kristen Stewart as possible … behold:

The scene was electric outside of Los Angeles’ Hollywood & Highland open-air mall on Friday evening. A huge line snaked out into the streets, and much of the crowd looked strikingly similar: gaggles of teenage girls (plus guys, moms, dads, and little ones) in black T-shirts emblazoned with five key words: The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Awaiting them inside? Autographs and a Q&A with the film’s supporting cast, plus courtyard performances from four bands who contributed to New Moon’s excellent soundtrack: Band Of Skulls, Sea Wolf, Anya Marina and, to close it out, Death Cab For Cutie. In other words, this was the Hot Topic-sponsored New Moon mall tour. One of the first fans to the stage screamed to no one in particular, “Oh my God! This is the coolest thing ever!” And for the crowd that braved the odds to get there – camping out at the mall on Halloween eve to buy the shirt that would grant them their entrance – it truly seemed to be. The coolness began when Twilight heartthrobs Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner paid a surprise visit. On stage, opening with their bluesy “I Know What I Am,” U.K. three-piece Band Of Skulls burned through a set that ran just shy of 20 minutes and channeled bits of the White Stripes, Black Sabbath, and the Black Keys. An apropos performance of “Hollywood Bowl” prefaced the closing song – their garagey New Moon contribution, “Friends,” which was met with squeals at an octave previously reserved for the likes of the Beatles. Indie folk-poppers Sea Wolf followed, delivering a cello-swathed selection of songs whose titles were matched to the event: “You’re A Wolf,” from 2007’s Leaves In The River, “Turn The Dirt Over” and “Wicked Blood,” both off of the just-released White Water, White Bloom, and the at once bouncy and autumnal soundtrack piece “The Violet Hour.” Both were impressive, but Anya Marina, whose “Satellite Heart” is one of New Moon’s most captivating moments, stole the show. “What’s up Hollywood? Are you guys having fun?” the grinning singer asked to a chorus of shrieks. “Well, we want to have fun with you.” She meant it. Marina was the only musician to engage the exuberant crowd – at one point leading them in a “Team Jacob” vs. “Team Edward” cheer-off – and it paid off. Her ubiquitous hits “Vertigo” and “All The Same To Me” were extremely well-received. Another surprise, mostly lost on the audience, was regular Morrissey collaborator Alain Whyte manning guitar, especially shredding on “Afterparty At Jimmy’s.” At the other end of the spectrum, Death Cab For Cutie greeted the incredible mania with zero banter and two songs – New Moon single “Meet Me At The Equinox” and Narrow Stairs highlight “Cath…” – well-performed, but over far too soon. The band said their thanks, unplugged and walked off. Before the ensuing melee caused by the rush to see Pattinson and Stewart up close, we asked one fan if she had a favorite band on the soundtrack. “I don’t really listen to this kind of music,” said Carmina, backed by an army of self-described “Twi-tards.” “But I like it now!”

Not since Tiffany took the US by storm with her mall tour back in 1987 have mall tours been this hot. To be honest, anything attached to The Twilight Saga franchise will generate huge interest … you throw in the actors themselves and you could sell anything at a high premium. Lord, this is just the beginning of the fervent Twilight melee that is about to be unleashed upon the world. The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens in theaters in just a few weeks … I don’t know that we’re quite ready to handle the onslaught … but it’s comin’ nonetheless.

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Earlier today we saw photos of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine … now we get to see K. Stew with her other Twilight co-star Taylor Launter promoting The Twilight Saga: New Moon at a photocall press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mexico City, Mexico yesterday afternoon:

Yeah, there is a decidedly different feel to this set of photos as opposed to the photos of Kristen and Rob in HB mag. Kristin is back to rockin’ the tom boy look in these pics … plus, you can feel that she and Taylor are just friends. These Twilight kids have a lot of promo left to do in the coming weeks … this is only just the beginning. I wonder where they’re off to next.

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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the principal stars of The Twilight Saga movie franchise, are featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine in order to promote their upcoming sequel film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. In their joint coverstory interview, K. Stew and R. Pattz talk at length … about each other. To be honest, it’s a cute read … here is their cover of HB mag and some excerpts from the coverstory article:

Rob Pattinson’s and Kristen Stewart’s rooms sit side by side on the thirtysomethingth floor of the Sheraton hotel in Vancouver (”the Couve,” as Kristen calls it), where they are filming Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight saga. They spend a lot of time in their rooms in the sky — two Rapunzels of sorts entertaining themselves behind closed doors — because it’s really, really hard to go out. “There are like 15 different exits in this place,” observes Kristen of the tactics she and the rest of the Twilight cast use to avoid the paparazzi. She adds, “Rob is more frustrated with it, but he’s 23 and I’m 19. He had a couple more years to be an adult and to be independent, whereas just as I was getting to the age when it’s normal to go out by yourself …” She pauses. “But it’s boring because this is all I fucking talk about.” Rob talks about it too. “Do you mind if we sit outside?” he asks as he stands in his hotel room, looking longingly out the window. “I need some air.” It’s a cold, gray day, but who is to deny him some freedom? (And chivalry is not dead, girls. A young man will still lend you his jacket. Maybe because he is British.) Rob doesn’t just face paparazzi, he gets clawing, shrieking girls too. New Yorkers may remember he was clipped by a cab while fleeing from the ladies on the set of Remember Me this past summer. “But at least that’s an experience, something new,” he says. “If it’s just screaming — and I know this sounds so ridiculous — that gets old. But sometimes when there’s literal chaos, it’s like being in a war zone, and that’s kind of exciting. You’re just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what’s going on” … At the moment, there is only one thing anyone cares about regarding these two, who, as Twilight’s Bella and Edward, manifest all of our vampiric romance fetishes: Are they dating or what? Well … it’s clear that Rob and Kristen are close — very close. Okay, who is the most romantic then? “I have a no-bullshit detector,” says Kristen, “so I’d have to say Rob is. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.” Rob chuckles when asked the same question. “Um, I don’t know. What did Kristen say?” You. “No. I’m better at faking.” This is followed by a very long laugh … Of the two, it seems Kristen wears the pants. (While she will admit to one girlish thing, a love of Chanel, her dream outfit is a custom Brooks Brothers suit.) When she ventures into a dress, it might just be covered in metal, like the Rock & Republic mini she wore to the Teen Choice Awards earlier this year. “Everyone was like, ‘Look at your spiky skirt!’” she says with a grin, “and I was like, ‘Spiky skirt? They were bullets, mofo!’” She gets some stick in the media for not suffering fools. “People think I’m trying to be rebellious, but that’s the last thing I’m doing,” she says. “But I would hate myself if I tried to satisfy the people who have a problem with the way I speak about myself, so it’s okay.” “Kristen doesn’t take any slack,” Rob says. “She sticks to her guns — and that’s difficult to do.” He also thinks she’s a better actor than he is. “I don’t really know how to act. I’m kind of guessing everything. … Even though I can conceptualize stuff, she can actually do it. I can make something so complex and then be like, That was pout 27.” He reckons she’s a better judge of character too. “She’ll decide on someone a lot quicker. She has a lot more self-esteem than I do, so she’s like, ‘You’re an idiot and I don’t want to talk to you,’ and I’m like, ‘I’m an idiot too!’ So I’ll talk to an idiot for like three days before deciding.”

The back and forth banter of this interview carries on from there. After the jump, checkout a few photos from Kristen and Rob’s Harper’s Bazaar photospread (the photos are pretty fantastic, I have to say) and read some more from their HB interview …

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Earlier this week we learned that filming production has wrapped in Vancouver, BC on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (the third film in the franchise) and that the cast and crew gathered last weekend to celebrate at the official wrap party. Today we get to see photos of principal stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson making their way thru the airport on their way out of Vancouver, presumably bound for their individual homes:

And that, folks, is that. If these two are leaving town then all the important filming is truly finished for Eclipse in Vancouver. While the actors may pop up elsewhere in the world to film some more scenes, I don’t expect any of the actors will be back in Vancouver again … until production starts up on the final sequel film Breaking Dawn. So I guess there won’t be any more vampire or werewolf sightings in Vancouver for a while … well, at least after Hallowe’en :)

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Kristen Stewart will be featured in the October issue of Allure magazine (on newsstands October 20) but thus far none of the photos from her shoot have made their way to the Internets. Instead, we get a sneek peek at her Allure photospread by way of a bunch of behind the scenes photos that were snapped on the SoCal set of her shoot:

It turns out that photos were snapped before she cut off all of her hair to play Joan Jett in her upcoming new movie The Runaways. This is another of her really pretty shoots and from the look of these behind the scenes photos, her Allure spread looks like it’ll be a great one. After the jump, check out a few of the behind the scenes photos and read some quotes from her upcoming Allure interview …

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Kristen Stewart is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Interview magazine … K. Stew’s photospread and coverstory interview was just posted online today so it can be read by all who are interested. Here is Kristen’s coverphoto and some excerpts from her interview with Interview:

On everyone talking about her personal life:
“There’s nothing you can do about it, I don’t talk to anybody about my personal life and maybe that perpetuates it too. But it’s really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.”

On spending lots of time in her hotel:
“That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn’t go out at all. So that’s what I’m trading. It depends what mood I’m in. Some nights, I think, “You know what? I don’t care. I’m just going to do what I want to do.” Then the next day I think, “Ugh. Now everyone thinks I’m going out to get the attention.” But it’s like, no, I actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.”

No lie, she looks fantastic. I like the mixture of high glam and her personal style … she’s still a bit tomboyish but in a really dressy way. After the jump, check out a few of the photos from her Interview photospread …

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It looks like the folks workin’ hard in Vancouver, BC on the sequel film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse are doin’ the damn thing as these new photos snapped on the set show just how bizzy everyone is these days. Here are photos of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson shooting an emo scene together, R. Pattz gettin’ his hair did and Taylor Lautner standing around being hawt:

Folks, these actors are working hard for YOU. It is YOUR insane fandom that has insisted that they toil night and day to bring the storied fable of The Twilight Saga to the big screen. It is YOUR rabid need for all things Twilight that has forced these young actors to give away parts of their lives for your entertainment. I just hope you’re happy now.

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