The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail behemoth said it would host midnight events and giveaways in its 24-hour stores, including a program for fans to interview Twilight cast member Taylor Lautner on BlogTalkRadio.

Wal-Mart will distribute exclusive Twilight gifts for those first 50 fans in line to purchase the DVD movie at each 24-hour store.

Preorders for the single disc DVD movie (Wal-Mart exclusive for $17) and the special edition DVD are available today at Walmart.com. The retailer also has created a micro site specific to the release at Walmart.com/twilight.

The two-disc edition Twilight sells for $22.86. A special two-disc plus exclusive gift edition is pre-selling for $24.99. Amazon.com priced the two-disc edition (no bonus gift) at $22.99 and BarnesNoble.com has it at $26.39.

Lautner, who plays Jacob Black in Twilight, will be featured on the Stardish Radio program March 9 at 9 p.m. (EST). Speaking from the set of The Twilight Saga’s New Moon, Lautner will take questions from fans with hosts Jo Ann Kubasek and Amy Clark.

Callers must be logged on BlogTalkRadio.

“Fans of all ages have fallen in love with the Twilight series, and we will bring to as many as possible special access to the stars, great priced products and additional, memorable activities around this DVD movie release, both in our stores and online,” said Greg Hall, VP, merchandising at Wal-Mart.

Who’s hotter? The Jonas Brothers, or Robert Pattinson in “Twilight”?

One thing’s for sure: Together, they could rule the teenage girl world.

The Jonas Brothers talked to MTV about being involved in the “New Moon” soundtrack.  They’d even love to write a song especially for the new film.

“The movie was obviously a huge success, and if they asked us to be a part of [the sequel], that would be great,” Nick Jonas said.

“It would be really cool.” Joe and Kevin agreed: “That would be really cool”

Settle down, dudes. Before they write a song for “New Moon,” they’d have to actually see “Twilight.”

“I haven’t seen it,” Joe admitted. “But I have heard it’s a great movie.” Kevin added that they often get advance DVDs and “watch them on plane rides.”

According to the JoBros, “Twilight” is not just for girls.

Joe admires vampire Edward Cullen’s strength. “He’s a vampire, but he’s pretty strong and stuff.”

Turns out the Jonas Brothers got pretty close to the L.A. “Twilight” premiere. They’d been invited, but got stuck working on their TV show all day. On the way to their hotel, the tired lads stopped to pick up a pizza in Westwood.

Surprise. The pizza place they ordered from just happened to be across the street from the premiere.  “And so, we come up driving, and didn’t realize that it was the ‘Twilight’ premiere,” Kevin said. “It was one of those comical moments that was really funny for us.”

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Twilight sensation Robert Pattinson totally immersed himself in his brooding Edward Cullen character months before filming began. In fact, he says he even wrote little suicide notes to articulate the tortured mindset of his on-screen alter ego.

“If you really prepare for a role, there’s going to be a moment in which he’s all you can think of,” Rob, 22, recounts. “So I did things like [write] little suicide notes. I was a little worrisome, actually (laughs).”

What triggered this morbidity in the usually-cheery Brit was when he started keeping a journal as Edward in the weeks before shooting began on Twilight. Understanding the vampire’s morose mindset was key to fully inhabiting the role.

The marketing powers behind Twilight on Monday gave what their adoring fans at MTV have apparently craved for more than two months now: Dolls. For, like, another movie or something.

A Twilight obsessed MTV News staffer enjoyed the privilege of opening the figurines of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan — at least until that privilege dissolved into a kind of chore, mired in disappointment over the un-Pattinson-y hair, the un-Stewart-y blouse and the glaring lack of a Porch-Bong Accessory Kit. We’ve included the video below in the spirit of customer service, but really, we know you could take or leave the prototypes. Just as long as the process shapes up in time for a reasonable approximation of bloodthirsty Dakota Fanning this fall, America will withhold its judgment.

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This year we discovered that vampires make perfect boyfriends, which totally makes sense; zombies are boring conversationalists and werewolves have hairy backs. In the HBO hit series True Blood, Southern vamp-gent Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) risks becoming shrivelled like a sun-baked worm in order to save his love, mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin). Sensitive, brooding teen bloodsucker Edward (Robert Pattinson) wouldn’t dare cop a feel or bite his girlfriend Bella (Kristen Stewart), in the teen phenom flick, Twilight. No surprise that both these stories are based on novels by women involved in their churches (Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer respectively), although Harris—a senior warden at her Episcopalian congregation—has no problem with vampy love: True Blood has more hot sex scenes with cold-blooded creatures than late-night Showcase programming. Expect vampires to dominate in 2009, with season two of True Blood and a Twilight sequel already planned, plus the North American DVD release of the exquisite Swedish film, Let the Right One In, about a young bullied boy who befriends a vampire child. 

 

As Dr. Carlyle Cullen, the patriarch of the vampire Cullen family, Peter Facinelli plays an important role in “Twilight” — and his wife, “90210” star Jennie Garth, told Access Hollywood‘s Billy Bush in an interview forAccess and “The Billy Bush Show” that fans will be seeing a lot more of him.

“Not so much in the second one, but in the third and the fourth one,” she said. “He’s just so happy to be a part of it and proud of it.”

But, she said, some young fans of the film may have seen too much of him already — or at least her daughter Luca Bella, 11, thinks so.

“It’s so funny because my daughter has friends that have seen the movie and they think that Dr. Carlyle is hot,” Jennie said. “She gets all weirded out, and like, ‘Eww, that’s my dad.’”

The teen vampire film earned $69.6 million its opening weekend, a figure it has now shot well past. Though Peter and stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will be back for the sequel, “New Moon,” director Catherine Hardwicke will not — which came as a surprise to Peter and Jennie.

“I can’t understand it because she did an amazing job,” Jennie said.

Summit Entertaining announced that “The Golden Compass” director Chris Weitz would be taking over the series on Saturday, after announcing that Catherine would not be returning earlier in the week — even as she was promoting the film overseas.

“It’s risky,” Jennie admitted, who had nothing but praise for the director. “We were just talking about it — she did such an amazing job with [‘Twilight’] and the visual aspect of it. Everything was spot-on for that film and I hope they can kind of keep it in the same vein.”

In the meantime, Peter’s biggest fans are right at home — his three daughters, Luca Bella, 11, Lola Ray, 6, and Fiona, 2.

“They just can’t get enough of him,” Jennie said. “He loves it.”

Robert Pattinson is hoping to keep a low profile in London to escape attention from American Twilight fans.

“I’ll probably go to London and hide,” he laughed. “Since the day I finished shooting there’s been at least one person come up to me every single day and then after the trailer came out, at least four. It’s absolutely bizarre to me. This was before there was any systematic promotion of the movie. It’s just completely nuts.”

Twilight, which is based on the novel by author Stephanie Meyer, has done brisk business in the US Box Office, and looks likely to do well when it is released in the UK next week.

But this latest movie is not Robert’s first film adaptation from a bestselling book – he also starred in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

“You’re not playing the book, you’re playing the adaptation otherwise it’s just impossible,” says Robert, who stars as ‘vegetarian’ vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight. “The book just becomes material afterwards and you can take bits and leave bits – I shouldn’t really say that or people will probably get annoyed with me. I did the same thing with Harry Potter, you just take the bits you like and which relate to your idea of the character and just abandon anything that contradicts that.”

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