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  • 12
    Nov
    2011
    9:47pm, EST

    Best Bets: Bella weds Edward in 'Breaking Dawn'

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    The week ahead in entertainment is a busy one. Here are some of the highlights.

    Movies
    "Twilight" fans have been anticipating "Breaking Dawn Part 1" for years. Ever since Stephenie Meyer published the book in 2008, readers have wondered how the wedding and honeymoon of Bella to vampire Edward, and her dangerous pregnancy and delivery of their daughter Renesmee, would play onscreen. After all, there's a scene where Edward uses his fangs to bite into Bella's delivering belly to help with her emergency C-section. The drama will begin this week, but there's more to come. In "Part 2," due out in November 2012, the vampires and wolves of Forks, Wash., must protect Bella and her fast-growing baby from the tumult unleashed by the birth. (In theaters Nov. 18)

    The dancing and singing penguins of "Happy Feet" won the best animated film Oscar back in 2006. Now, Mumble and the next generation of feathered friends are back in "Happy Feet Two," dodging seals and kicking it penguin-style. Sadly, Brittany Murphy, who provided the voice of Mumble's mate Gloria in the first film, passed away from pneumonia in 2009. Singer Pink takes over Gloria's voice. (In theaters Nov. 18.)

     George Clooney's "Ides of March" is still playing in some theaters, but now his "The Descendants" will open in New York and L.A. this week, and all over the country the week after. Clooney plays a Hawaiian land owner who learns a devastating secret about his wife after she falls into a coma.  Clooney as a family man is a different role for him -- we like him best as a single loner -- but this movie has plenty of Oscar buzz. (Opens in select cities Nov. 16, nationwide Nov. 23.)

     TV
    No, not "Big Pimpin'." The new History Channel docuseries is called "Big Shrimpin,'" and it follows captains and crews out to catch shrimp in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Like "Deadliest Catch," it sounds messy and dangerous to those of us not in the commercial fishing trade. (Premieres Nov. 17, 10 p.m., History Channel.)

    DVD
    Blu-ray owners, "something's coming, something good." The classic musical "West Side Story" will make its Blu-ray debut this week, in a special 50th anniversary edition. The 1961 film won a record-breaking 10 Oscars, including best picture, best directing, and best original score. If you once met a girl named Maria, think you might have a social disease, or just like to be in America, you may want to pick this up. After all, when you're a Jet, you're a Jet in Blu-ray. What, those aren't the lyrics? (Out on Blu-ray Nov. 15.)

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    No one knows Ozzy Osbourne as well as his own family, and the rocker's son, Jack, produced a documentary about his famous father. "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne" features plenty of concert footage as well as personal anecdotes. In the clip below, Ozzy and Sharon discuss the infamous dove-decapitation (not the bat, another one). (Out on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 15.)

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  • 11
    Nov
    2011
    11:40am, EST

    'Breaking Dawn' wedding almost 'too real,' says Stewart

    By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor

    In the upcoming “Breaking Dawn Pt. 1,” “Twilight” fans will see Bella Swan and the brooding Edward Cullen finally swap vows. While that's an expected part of the story, according to leading lady Kristen Stewart, the made-for-the-big-screen ceremony felt anything but fictional.

    “It felt, like, too real almost," Stewart explained during a Thursday night interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." "It was coming to the end of the whole series, and it sort of felt like — maybe it feels like this at normal weddings; I don’t know — but it wasn’t just about me and (co-star Robert Pattison). It was like, ‘God, you guys! Awesome — good job!’ You know what I mean? It was like, ‘We made it!’ So, it felt great. It felt like a real ceremony.”

    But even though the wedding seemed like the real deal to Stewart, she can’t say the same about the subsequent sex scene. She wanted the long-awaited honeymoon romance with Pattinson’s character, or “the thruster” as she described him to Kimmel, to be hot and heavy. In the interest in keeping things PG-13, she didn’t get her way.

    So what’s the difference between a PG-13 sex scene and an R-rated one?

    “Noises,” Stewart said.

    “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1” hits theaters Nov. 18.

    Are you looking forward to the film? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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  • 9
    Nov
    2011
    4:51pm, EST

    National Guard kept Lautner safe from girls

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    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    It's become a punchline: "Call out the National Guard!" But in Taylor Lautner's crazy life as shape-shifting wolf Jacob in the "Twilight" series, it's reality.

    In an interview with Parade Magazine that will be published on Sunday, Lautner says the Brazilian National Guard protected him and co-star Kristen Stewart from an enormous crush of fans.

    "Kristen and I were doing interviews in a hotel in Brazil and all of a sudden our security barges in and locks the door," he tells the magazine. We’re like, ‘What’s going on?’ And they said, ‘Remain calm, but about 2,000 girls just broke through the hotel lobby and they’re on their way up the stairs to get to this room.' Then they went, ‘But it’s OK because we have the National Guard on their way.’ And the National Guard actually did show up and everything was fine."

    Lautner also discusses how he had to sacrifice to look ab-tastic in those shirtless scenes. ("They sort of had to force me" to eat, he says.) And he was shocked, he says, when he found out from the "Breaking Dawn" book that his character would end up, not with Bella, but with her half-vampire daughter, Renesmee.

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    "Stephanie Meyer sent it to me and I was turning the pages and I’m like, ‘Is Jacob going to end up with Bella or not?’ " he said. "I finally get to the chapter where he’s with Bella’s baby and that was a shocker for me. It kind of took a while to get used to that idea."

    And if you think Jacob and Bella's on-screen friendship seems real, you're right. "Sometimes on set, we’d catch ourselves just being Taylor and Kristen, laughing and being ourselves," he says. "And there just happens to be a camera rolling, and then that makes it in the movie and that becomes Jacob and Bella."

    "Breaking Dawn Part 1" hits theaters Nov. 18.

     

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