What’s a great way to whip Twihards into a new froth over Eclipse, the next movie in the Twilight series? Leak out some photos of the two main characters, dreamy vampire Edward and his randy girlfriend Bella, cavorting in bed. There’s chest hair! (His, not hers.) And then what’s the best way to stoke that flame? Yank the pictures down. Seems a number of Internet sites that had posted a handful of images from Eclipse received lawyerly cease-and-desist letters from studio distributor Summit Entertainment. They promptly removed the photos. Movieline, not so much. So, go take a look here while you can. The shots are incredibly tame, even by teen-flick standards, but they push further than anything yet seen in the movie series based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novels. Plus, they’re incredible pieces of marketing. If execs at Summit didn’t engineer this entire episode, they certainly should have.
—Posted by T.L. Stanley