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Italian town hopes to lure Twilight sequel New Moon
7 January 2009 5:20 AM, PST
Still taking a massive chunk out of the UK box office, the phenomenon that is Twilight continues. And such is the incredible pulling power of the Stephenie Meyer saga based on the love affair between human Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) that a location is lobbying for inclusion in its (already) much-hyped sequel New Moon. The hotspot desperate to get its fangs into the film is the Italian town of Volterra which should already have a pretty good chance of securing some screen time. Why? Because it is already featured in the novel.
Without giving too much away to those that haven’t read the book (get it here), the Tuscan sunspot is a critical location in New Moon with particular landmarks such as the breathtaking Palazzo dei Priori named. An interview with Stephenie Meyer is even published on the Volterra tourism website.
With such strong ties
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Pretty Woman Lotus Espirit for sale
7 January 2009 4:47 AM, PST
In 1990’s Cinderella story Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts’s “hooker with a heart” Vivian reveals that as a young girl she dreamt of “being a princess trapped in a tower and this knight on a white horse would come charging up and rescue me”. Well, she doesn’t grow up to become a princess, nor can love interest wealthy businessman Edward (Richard Gere) claim to be a white knight, but I’m sure she wasn’t too disappointed by his stand-in for the white horse – a silver Lotus Espirit. This sleek motor features significantly during the first meeting between the pair as a lost Edward asks Vivian for street directions and now that actual car has been put on sale by the Volo Auto Museum in Illinois, USA.
Interestingly, the seller reveals that other top brand car manufacturers declined to supply the blockbusting romance with a car. Both Porsche and Ferrari refused,
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Fashion fix of the week: Faux fur gilet
7 January 2009 4:17 AM, PST
Brrrrr! To say it’s cold in the UK at present is one serious understatement. Our little island has been plunged into minus temperatures having us ratcheting up the central heating and dusting off our heaters in a desperate bid to stay warm. Another way to preserve every ounce of body heat is to don layers and layers of clothes, bundling up in huge coats with every accessory possible to fight off the freeze – gloves, hats, earmuffs, scarves – if it covers skin, it’s in! And so in this spirit of keeping the chill at bay, we bring you this faux fur gilet for our fashion fix of the week.
This cosy winter warmer is worn by Halle Berry’s feisty agent Jinx from Bond adventure Die Another Day, and we’ve spotted a fantastic lookalike courtesy of high street chain Peacocks. Available in black or white, it works as
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Auto of the week: Ford Thunderbird convertible
6 January 2009 5:53 AM, PST
Hitting the road to shake off the shackles of their humdrum lives, repressed housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) and her chum single waitress Louise (Susan Sarandon) do so in classic style – a 1964 Thunderbird convertible. Five such motors were used on production of the 1991 feminist flick with one sold by Coys for €30,680 at auction last October, but for this wasn’t the first cinematic outing for the fourth generation model. Oh no, they have assumed starring roles in films as varied as Nicolas Cage thriller Wild At Heart and early Tom Cruise drama The Outsiders (which like Thelma and Louise was directed by Sir Ridley Scott), yet it took a pair of free-spirited females to help the Thunderbird snag this week’s Auto of the Week blog post.
Manufactured by the Ford Motor Company, Thunderbirds have become synonymous with their 1950s roots epitomising the rebellious teenage spirit of the era. In production
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Robert Pattinson hated using contact lenses in Twilight
6 January 2009 4:51 AM, PST
We love the gorgeous fashions in teen phenomenon Twilight. From the stunning blue dress as worn by Bella (Kristen Stewart) to the effortless elegance of vampire beau Edward (Robert Pattinson), but it seems that it wasn’t such fun for the cast. One in particular. The film, a box office sensation on both sides of the Atlantic has made an (almost) overnight star of Pattinson and yet the Brit has one painful memory of filming the Stephenie Meyer story – wearing contact lenses. “Wearing coloured contact lenses… It was like I constantly had sand in my eyes,” he grumbled in an interview with Ok! magazine. Good job they didn’t give him fangs to wear as well.
“I was wearing them for three months constantly and my eyes never ever accepted them,” he adds. “It took me 20 minutes per eye every single day and I ended up having to literally fold it into my eyeball.
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Jack Torrance's book from The Shining available to buy
6 January 2009 3:47 AM, PST
Searching for some New Year reading? Look no further Boxwishers as we are not just your number one stop for movie goodies but also a bastion of literary loveliness. May we present All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy. From writer Jack Torrance, this masterpiece of language and form is a timeless classic that will prove popular with all age groups and will be a papery pal for years to come. Either that or it’s just a fantastically funny gag based on the Stephen King book/ Stanley Kubrick horror flick The Shining. It’s probably more the latter.
Fans of the book/ film will remember that writer Jack Torrance (played with bug-eyed menace by Jack Nicholson) takes his family to live at the isolated Overlook Hotel where he struggles to get his creative juices flowing. This writer’s block takes a terrifying form as Jack’s
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Smell like Bella with the new Twilight perfume
5 January 2009 5:13 AM, PST
You’ve read the book, watched the film and bought the fashions (see how to get the look here), but for Twilight fans that can’t get enough of the Stephenie Meyer phenomenon there’s a new must-have item on the market – the Twilight perfume. Yes, you can smell just as enticing as teen Bella and hopefully bag your own Edward (though perhaps a less bloodsucking version) with this gorgeous new scent from Hot Topic.
Described as a luscious combination of lavender and freesia, this perfume retails from the Us retail chain for $44 and comes in a red apple bottle reminiscent of the book’s front cover. Across the front of the bottle reads the classic line: “The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest”, yet detractors have noted its similarity to Nina, a fragrance by Nina Ricci which also comes in an apple-shaped bottle while others have whinged that anything with
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Hitler's globe sparks Valkyrie copyright dispute
5 January 2009 4:46 AM, PST
What does Tom Cruise have to do to catch a break? The toothy star has been behaving himself so well recently (he’s refrained jumping on any sofas), but his much talked about return to meaty drama in Valkyrie, the story of German Army Officers conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 has suffered another setback. It’s the latest in a long line of problems for the Bryan Singer World War II film which has been plagued with production problems (German authorities refused permission to film in Germany as Cruise’s Scientology beliefs are deemed a cult there) but is definitely the oddest – a prop of Hitler’s globe has been reproduced without permission from the globe’s copyright owner. See – told you it was odd.
Robert Pritikin, an advertising executive from San Francisco owns the infamous globe formerly belonging to the Fuehrer, stumping up $100,000 for the privilege back in 2007. An avid art collector,
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Blu-Ray release inspirations including Serenity
5 January 2009 4:08 AM, PST
Welcome to another week Boxwishers. It’s the first Monday of the New Year and for many it’s that depressing trudge back to work. It’s a tough business getting back into the old routine after endless mince pies and mulled wine, but to make the grind that bit easier we’ve rounded up the new home entertainment options heading your way today. It’s pretty quiet for films on the DVD front with most new offerings fitness work-outs guilt-tripping you about that holiday weight, however if you’re already sleek and trim or don’t care that you’re not (Boxwish loves you just the way you are!), here’s some exciting movies new to Blu-Ray.
If you see… Serenity, the “space western” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
Why Not Go back to the beginning of the story with Firefly, Whedon’s cult TV
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