After the French actioner District B-13 showed how cool parkour can look onscreen, the crazy athletic practice started showing up in big American movies like Casino Royale, Live Free or Die Hard, and The Bourne Ultimatum.  Now, years after the cinematic fad would seem to have passed, comes Tracers, an action project centered around parkour and titled for the name applied to practitioners therof  The film will star none other than Taylor Lautner as a bike messenger who becomes enthralled by free-running, a skill that presumably helps him get out of his trouble with organized crime.

With four blockbusters in the bag and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 ready to cap off the hugely profitable film series, Summit Entertainment could probably market the last film in the franchise with nothing more than classified ads reading, "One last Twilight, November 16th."  Nonetheless, there will be giant marketing campaign to ensure that the second half is Breaking Dawn is appropriately huge, and today's two new images are but a hint of the promotional fatigue that will set in by Thanksgiving.

Synopsis: As Bella adjusts the being a vampire in the final installment of the Twilight series, the Cullens and Jacob must band together to protect Bella and Edward's child, Renesmee, from the vampiric Volturi.

After an almost comedically abrupt hype-building glimpse last week, the first teaser for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 has arrived online in full.  It's probably a moot point, though, since this trailer was attached to The Hunger Games, and it looks as though pretty much everybody in America went to see that novel adaptation, meaning y'all have probably already laid eyes on Kristen Stewart as the now-vampiric Bella Swan.

Ladies and gentlemen – but let's be honest here, mostly ladies – here we have a teaser to a teaser trailer for a movie based on half of a book.  By which I mean to say that a video excerpt from the teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. 

It's a really quick look, clocking in at under twenty seconds and consisting of basically five shots.  Not a word of dialogue is spoken, nor does anything overly dramatic happen, but presumably fans of Stephenie Meyer's novels and the films will see much to get them psyched.

Okay, months worth of accolades and awards speculation are over.  What better way to cleanse your palette than with the Golden Rasberries, the annual joke awards honoring the very worst in theatrical features.  The list of Razzie nominees from the year that was in 2011 is now online, and it contains a surprise or two.

Next month, Lionsgate is releasing The Hunger Games, a hopeful franchise-starter based on the first in series of phenomenally popular young adult novels by Suzanne Collins.  For the past four years, Summit Entertainment has been quite profitably pumping out Twilight features based on the ridiculously popular young adult novels by Stephenie Meyer.  The last installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, is due in November.  Lionsgate recently bought Summit Entertainment.  You see where they're going with this, right?

You may have thought that, with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 having dominated the box office and gone on its merry way, you'd not be seeing any Twilight-related items until later this year when the hype for Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will inevitably begin in earnest.  Well, you thought wrong.  Part 1 arrives on Blu-ray and DVD in ten days, and in order to build some awareness for this consumer event, Summit Entertainment has released an online tease of a special feature from the Breaking Dawn Blu-ray.

Summit Entertainment has formally announced a home entertainment street date for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.  For the most part, Blu-ray and DVD releases take place on Tuesdays, with certain titles occasionally dropping on Fridays.  This year, Valentine's Day falls on a Tuesday, so you'd think, "Twilight + Valentine's Day = money avalanche."  You're almost undoubtedly correct, but Breaking Dawn won't be dropping on February 14th.  Instead, it will be available for purchase on February 11th.  That's a Saturday, which is pretty odd.  It makes perfect sense that Summit wants to give consumers several days before Valentine's to get those Blu-rays purchased and wrapped, but why not Friday?  Either way, now you know exactly when the latest round of Kristen Stewart on Robert Pattinson action will be at a store near you.

In 2005, author Stephenie Meyer's first novel kicked off what would become a massive pop-cultural sensation across multiple media with a simple story aimed squarely at young adult readers.  Meyer played with erotic vampire tropes that go back further than Bram Stoker's Dracula, upending them for a tale of quasi-symbolic sexual repression and idealized, melodramatic love that allowed the love story of vampiric Edward Cullen and human Bella Swan to become a publishing sensation well beyond its original audience.

By the time Twilight arrived in theaters in 2008, fans were already displaying an unusual fervor for the material, and the film series from Summit Entertainment caused both the breadth of the audience and its passion to increase exponentially.  Since that first film became a surprise hit, its sequels, New Moon and Eclipse have arrived in consecutive years and the franchise has grossed over $1.8 billion dollars globally, making international superstars out of the young cast pretty much overnight.  The teenage romance became a commercial juggernaut, one that has proven polarizing even as it pervades the culture and rakes in massive amounts of money.

Now, the penultimate installment of the franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, is about to debut, and fans are characteristically ecstatic.  The new film, adapting roughly half of the final novel in the series by Meyer, is directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bill Condon, and takes the story in both more outrageous and more mature directions, as Bella and Edward finally get hitched, forcing them deal with the unforeseen consequences of their union, including a vampiric pregnancy and some very angry werewolves.  At the Los Angeles press day for Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Myer and Condon were present to discuss this latest entry in the series, as were stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner.  Read on to discover their thoughts on this sequel, shooting two movies simultaneously, vampire birthing, imprinting on newborns, and the impending end of the series.