This page includes fan reports from various events and premieres that were previously featured on TST.

Eternal Twilight 3: Birmingham

Fan Report by Laura

So the weekend was your basic twilight convention; autographs, photos, parties, talks and general madness with a little bit of UK/European filth throw into the mix.  The line up for the weekend was Charlie Bewley (Demetri), Jamie Campbell Bower (Caius), Christopher Heyderdahl (Marcus), Tinsel Korey (Emily) and Kiowa Gordon (Embry).  All the actors were really friendly and all the Volturi gang made alot of dirty jokes and funny references that totally stole my heart from Jamie’s constant British humour, Charlie’s never ending flirting to the audience that no one was going to argue with and Chris giving both the younger Brits a run for their money on both counts!  Tinsel and Kiowa were both slightly quiet in comparison but were by no means quiet.  Tinsel as the only female guest in attendance kept the lads in check with their naughtiness and Kiowa enjoyed his time meeting and sharing with new fans.

After the first evening’s introductions to the guests the gold pass members got their wine reception and the rest of us got ready for the Jasper inspired Civil War themed party.  Alot of fun seeing all the Gone with the Wind-esqe outfits and general fun times.

Saturday for us standard people involved mainly getting our autographs and a chance to explore the dealers room and the costume display that was brought over from the States by John Henson who not only owned these wonderful items but was the costume designer on the Hillywood Show’s parody of New Moon.  As an added bonus for this weekends event we were treated to a guest appearance by the talented Richelle Mead, author of the Vampire Academy series and Succubus Blue books (I highly recommend the Vampire Academy series; read, read, READ).  There was a stall put together by Penguin books (her UK publishing group) where we could ‘enroll’ at St Vladimir’s (the school in the novels) and purchase the book series as they’ve only just been all released in the UK.  I could finally return my borrowed US editions to my cousin and get my own. Plus free badges always get my attention.  She signed copies of her books and after I finished gushing to her I gave her a small gift which I later found had been posted on her blog (O.M.G.)

The afternoon involved a group talk with the Volturi boys which saw them enter dressed in their robes (loan to them by John H) and totally get the level of the room which was basically British style smut and humour.  I’m shocked that there wasn’t a ‘THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID’ shouted out after ever guest response.  Chris made a shout out to his Supernatural fans (woot), Charlie was his usual charming self speaking French and also answering a question put to him by my cousins and I about one of his tweets referencing Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series.  He said he kept getting told he’d be a great Jace and if he was offered it and the character and script was good he be sure to look into it. EPIC!  Jamie talked about some of his previous work and his music and all three made fun of their characters on occasion.  The next talk saw Kiowa and Tinsel talking about muffins, how they got their roles and favourite scenes in the movies as well as their love of performing music.  They both sang a little to much applause and seemed much more at ease by the afternoon talks compared with their friday night introductions.  The final talk of the day was a complete group were Chris basically took centre stage with his witty comments and played off Jamie’s camp batter during most of the questions.  This was followed by an auction of twilight stuff and exclusive items, all of which were too rich for my blood.  The dinner with the guests for two people that evening went for around £600 I believe.

Saturday night’s party was Graduation Party themed as seen in Eclipse and not only was the music pretty decent we had several fair ground booths to play and a bouncy castle. I had my 5 year moment and a good jump around on that until I exhausted myself!  This party went pretty late with a few of the guest dropping by but by 2am we left due to sleepiness and knowing we had an early morning photo shoot.

Sunday began after a swift breakfast with our photo shoot with Charlie.  SUCH A FAN FAVE!  He was smiling and fake biting people.  The cutest thing was when a little girl went up for her turn he bent down and said hi and swooped her up in his arm and held her for the photo so they were the same height. adorable.  i had a bit of a swoon fest about that photo.   Though I couldn’t afford to do a photo with everyone  I did get another with Jamie and he was ever so sweet and has a huge grin in my photo making me smile twice as hard.  My cousin Alex had a photo with Kiowa and was fairly delighted finding out he was taller than Kiowa (though Alex is nearly 6ft tall so most people are shorter than him even if he’s only 14).

The last day of talks began early with a lone talk with Jamie as he was rushing off to the BAFTAs that evening and we got to learn that he wasn’t wearing any underwear that day (no suprises that this got a huge reaction from the mainly female audience) to hear about his love of cheese as well as his twitter, work on the movies, working with Johnny Depp on Sweeney Todd and his band The Darling Buds.  We were also treated to a little info on his recent work on the soon to be released Harry Potter movie and comparisons of the fans and fandom; basically Twilight fans are nuts but in a good way!  The next talk was Charlie and Kiowa and then Chris and Tinsel and apart from a few questions about their work on the movie, hopes for future acting and next projects they talked about their favourite places and life during and post twilight mania and how they dealt with it.  The afternoon finished with a group talk again though without Jamie who had left for London all of which ended with huge thanks for the awesome weekend from both the fans and the guest.  Though the evening party that night was a Newborn Vampire theme myself and my cousins had to leave for our return to London as we had work/school/college the next day but all in all we had a wonderful weekend!

I know more happened at the weekend and there were lots more I could say but I can’t remember everything and I’m sorry for this but nothing too exclusive was announced except for hints at scenes in Eclipse.  They mentioned filming the scenes at the graduation party when the wolves and vamps team up and the show down scenes at the end with the Volutri but no major details really.  The costumes for the Volturi are ment to develop in as such that they are more detailed in Eclipse or so we hear.

Laura

xoxo

Eternal Twilight 2: London

Fan Report by Laura.

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This past weekend was the 2nd UK Twilight Convention and naturally I had to go!

I’d been waiting for this con since the end of the last one literally as I bought my ticket on the last day of the 1st con!

So the weekend began with myself and my 2 cousins on the 2 hr coach ride to Northampton from London and found a fair few other Twilighters on the coach too. lol.

Once checking in etc the time came for the opening ceremony which is generally a quick hi from the weekend’s guest and a run down of what is to come over the next few days.  Rachelle LeFevre sadily couldn’t make the actual opening ceremony but I believe she made some of the Gold pass drinks reception and then later on she popped in to the 1st night party too.  It was made clear that for known reasons she wouldn’t be discussing the whole Summit/Victoria situation over the weekend and we were asked not to mention it and naturally no one did because to be honest that wasn’t what the weekend was about.  She had her opinion and Summit had there own one too.

Edi Gathegi started the laughs by putting on a Nigerian accent and pretending that it was his ‘real voice’ and then after dropping it he then looked at the convention sign behind the stage and asked the organizer, Mark, where was his face (it only showed Edward, Jake and Bella) and then knocked his chair over. We all laughed and he smiled, added general chatter and sat down. loved him already.

then we got MORE BOYS. lol.  In came Gil Birmingham, Tyson Houseman and Chaske Spencer.  They all shared their excitement for the weekend and meeting people and Tyson admitted this was his second ever convention so he was sort of a newbie.

Then after they left we all returned to our rooms to change for the first night’s party: Baseball with the Cullens.  The main hall was decorated with a popcorn and candy floss machine, a rodeo bull, or a sheep really to play into the lion and lamb theme and blue and white colours everywhere for the baseball.  A great evening that we stayed to til round 11.30pm before turning in to prepare the 1st full day or events!

Saturday

Up early, breakfast done, kicking off with a signing with Rachelle at 9am. she was lovely and bubbly and had the most amazing ring on that she said she had bought in Vancouver while on the New Moon set and it was made by a local artist there.  It was a large silver ring about the size of half her finger. (i have a thing for BIG rings).  Then the rest of the day was a blur of photo shoots with the guests including Chaske Spencer who gave me the biggest hug and made my life, and one more autograph from Tyson Houseman who seemed a little quiet but totally understandable considering he’s new to the whole twilight fandom and the craziness. lol. he was still very sweet and lovely to everyone!

The afternoon panels were made up of ‘Gil Birmingham & Edi Gathegi’, ‘Rachelle LeFevre’ and ‘Tyson Houseman & Chaske Spencer’.  Tyson and Chaske shared their love for music and finding new bands and sharing musical tastes and how they worked out as a pack and Chaske had a little playlist going including stuff such as Metalica and his fave song line was ‘Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty’ by Guns & Roses.  They also said that other bands they’d want on the OST would be bands like White Lies etc whom they both loved but said the actual OST  is SO good they’d buy it even if they weren’t interested in the series just for the music.  Rachelle talked lovingly about her career, the fans and her work and got a little choked up at one point remember her ‘great memories’ and once the talk ended she paused to thank all the fans for their support and words of love during ‘the thing’ and how much she loved everything.  Gil and Edi are too too too funny for their own good.  They discussed Twilight and New Moon and Gil talked about how he was driving the truck in Twilight to give Edward the ‘death stare’ and then suddenly was in a wheelchair was mainly a techinally thing because he had to be on that side of the truck to ‘stare’. lol.  Edi talked about the prank he played on Jaskson calling up claiming to be a PA called Kelly about his hair having to be changed because the director didn’t like it and Jackson told his agent, who agreed it was awful and then Edi confessed it was him

The evening party was ‘The Volutri Masquerade Ball’ and the main hall had been done up amazingly with hanging fabrics from the ceiling, pillars and ivy etc and EVERYONE looked amazing in their gowns, capes, suits and various masks.  There was a band for an hour or so doing various covers and more music till 2am when we left but I think it went on much longer than that.  The guests came out to party too and Edi, Chaske and Rachelle could be seen grinding and shaking it on the dancefloor in masqurade masks with the fans too.

Sunday

Early start to que to get my ticket for the next event and feeling a tad rough from the night before but after breakfast in me we went off to get our signing from Edi and Chaske (swoon).  Both had Macs and iTunes going playing music while thier signed and both commented on liking my Batman tee.  I also happened to have a ‘I <3 SPN’ pin  on my Con ID strap and was asked what it stood for by one of the event workers (Supernatural, naturally) and when I mentioned it Edi asked to see and said how he loved Supernatural which made me more than happy to share my passion for, haha.  Again Chaske was amazing to meet and has a voice that could melt butter.

After a quick dip out to the dealers room which had a ton of offical merch this time round we got our last autograph from Gil who was charming as ever and a great edition to the weekends event.

Afternoon talks were a little behind schedule but once inside we had the Quileute tribe (Chaske, Tyson and Gil), the vamps (Edi and Rachelle) and then a group talk before the closing ceremony.

Summary of the talks were that Claire will be mentioned in Eclipse as Quil’s imprint but won’t be featured, though it was discussed and was considered to be ‘just wierd’ so the idea was left. (agreed!).  They they were vamps they’d be ‘meat-eaters’.  For the role of Quil he auditioned and it was his 1st ever audition and he got it.  Gil and Chaske have worked together and known each other for over 10yrs from various other projects.  Gill enjoyed finding out there was a big following for Buffy (hale yes, whedonverse love).  They all did a quick howl for us and Gil growled too.  The boys have read the books but Chaske admitted he only read New Moon and Eclipse so he could make character notes etc but plans to read the rest asap.  They said alot of other things too but I was in tears with laughter from all the jokes that I can’t remember it all.

Edi and Rachelle clearly got on really well and Rachelle helped out Edi with his french accent as she’s french-canadian, she kinda stalked him for 4 hrs on the 1st day because she thought she knew him from somewhere else and it turned out that she’d seen him on ‘House’ (lol). Edi only autioned for the part because he’d worked with the casting director before and knew she worked on great stuff but after reading the script thought it wasn’t him at all but went any way and after meeting Catherine REALLY wanted the part.  Rachelle heard about the part from a friend and after reading the books over a weekend she was desperate for an audition.  Edi does an amazing ‘girl’ voice but it’s very creepy too!

Then the final talk, the whole gang, was so so funny with all the group kind of just chatting and joking with each other and picking on one and other too.  highlights includes them sharing what thing they would go to cons to or had an obsession over like we did for twilight.  Chaske loves Battlestar Galatica, Tyson picked Lost, Edi had Family Guy and I can’t remember who Gil or Rachelle picked.  Generally they all talked about their experiences filming, doing stunt work, working together, the fans, the fandom and some of their other work and personal interests such as music, sports and photography.

there were loads of stories i could tell you and endless small details i could add but to be honest this report is huge as it is but feel free to ask more questions if there are any!

sorry for any mistakes I may have made but i seem to have a cold after the weekend so am slightly dozey on cold meds.  last time it was the Facinelli flu everyone caught so this time i’m calling it the Chaske Cold.

Laura H

xoxo

Hello Twilighters,

Here is my report on last weekend`s happenings at and around “Twiprom London”, organised by Massive Events.

Like for many of the UK / European fans who had attended the sold-out con “Eternal Twilight” in March, it was totally out of question for me whether or not to come to the London “Twiprom”.

The initial idea behind the event was to give people who could for whatever reason not make it to “Eternal Twilight” the chance to attend a smaller but therefore more private con in either London or Birmingham. The London event started out Friday and ended Saturday afternoon whereas the party in Birmingham started Saturday night and ended Sunday afternoon. One aspect I particularly liked about the concept was that the tickets were much cheaper than the ones for the first con, mostly due to the fact that Twiprom was only a two-day event and would have less guests in attendance. Countless fans have already expressed their excitement and appreciated to be given the opportunity to meet the cast and fellow fans even without possessing a cash cow.

I was nothing less than blown off my feet by the spirit of the March con and have the greatest memories of it but nonetheless, I have to admit that I even had a better time at the smaller “Twiprom”. It was great seeing many of my new friends again and since there were only about 150 – 200 attendees in London (my estimation…), everyone had a fair chance of communicating with the cast, take pics, get signatures and exchange a few words about whatever was of interest.

When the event first got advertised, Kellan and Jose Zuniga (who plays the teacher Mr. Molina) were announced as the guest stars. Sadly, Kellan had to cancel due to scheduling difficulties but the fantastic Showmasters team around Mark and Jason were able to bring Charlie Bewley (funny, adorable goofball) and Daniel Cudmore (lovely, laid-back “colossus”) to the UK. Let me say, they outdid themselves! Charlie, Daniel and Jose were amazing guests who showed a lot of appreciation and dedication to the whole franchise and the fans. All three of them stayed at the party until very late (or early in the morning) and let the attendees take pictures, chatted and gave us a few intesting insights on filming, working on a large project like “Twilight” and their personal backgrounds.

We all celebrated the guests, our love for “Twilight” and old and new friendships at the main party, the prom. Mind-blowing dresses and costumes swayed over the dancefloor that even the guests shared with us. Seven more than lucky ladies bought / won a dance with Charlie, Daniel or Jose and seemed to enjoy themselves to the fullest 😉

There was also a group photoshoot will all the guests included in the ticket plus all attendeeds were given the chance to get more pictures with the guest(s) of their choice taken. Of course, getting these gorgeous photographs signed was possible the next day! Charlie, Daniel and Jose proved a lot of patience when it came to personalizing and also took their time to have a quick word with the fans.

The guest talk on Saturday afternoon sure was one of the many highlights of the event. We heard many funny little stories about filming in Italy, how it felt to become a member of the Twilight-family and what the guests felt like when experiencing the intensity of the whole phenomenon.

I cannot wait for “Eternal Twilight 2”!

xxx Tara xxx

Eternal Twilight Convention