Twilight Coven Philippines

UPDATE: All seats have been reserved. However, we're still accepting reservations as part of our wait list. Be sure to email your reservations in tcppromos@gmail.com.


Twilight Coven Philippines is sponsoring a block screening of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 on Friday, November 18 at Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5, 7:35PM. Tickets are Php200.00 each; this will serve as your pass to the movie, a raffle, and other special events that we might be hosting to celebrate the release of the film.

Fellow Twilighters,

We are now closing reservations for tickets to the TCP New Moon Block Screening. As it stands, we have requests for 100 tickets on the Wait List, and we're sure that not all of them can be accommodated. We're very very disappointed that we can't accommodate everyone - it really is kinda heartbreaking for us because we want everyone to be able to join. We did our best to do some last minute maneuvering by trying to book a bigger cinema, but you know how it is when it's Twilight season - the cinemas are all booked.

We didn't expect the overwhelming response to this project - all tickets reserved within 17 hours! - and we honestly were a bit conservative with our estimates because we don't have any financial sponsors for this event, and if we don't sell all the tickets, we'd end up paying for them. So we decided to book a smaller theater and hope for the best. You all exceeded our expectations and we're truly thankful. Don't worry, we learned our lesson; expect something bigger next year for Eclipse! :)

Thanks to everyone who reserved tickets. We look forward to meeting you all during the claiming dates.

Daene, Mabelle, Clair de Lune and Minami
TCP Administrators

UPDATE (10/22): Reservations are now closed. Details here.

UPDATE (10/17, 1:17am): Someone cancelled. 6 tickets freed up, and they've now been assigned to the first person on the Wait List.

UPDATE (10/16, 8:30PM): We are so overwhelmed because as of 4:30pm today, all 165 tickets have now been reserved. However, we encourage you to still send your reservation requests for inclusion into the Wait List because these reservations are not guaranteed sold yet; people may still cancel or miss their claiming dates. Thank you so much for supporting this TCP event!
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Twilight Coven Philippines is sponsoring a block screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on Friday, November 20, 8pm at Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3. Tickets are Php200.00 each; this will serve as your pass to the movie, a raffle, and several special events that we will be hosting to celebrate the release of the film.

TICKET RESERVATION AND CLAIMING PROCESS: Click this link for instructions >>> Read the rest of this post

1) TCP Members (those officially registered in the Forums) can reserve their tickets starting October 16, 12:01am by sending a PM to TCP Co-Administrator Mabelle (Forum Username: mabelletaka) with the following information:
- Your full name
- Your contact number
- Your e-mail address
- Number of tickets to be reserved
- Preferred date of claiming (see instruction #3 below).
Reservations via the Forum will only be accepted until October 17, 11:59pm. Within 24 hours, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and instructions regarding payments and claiming your tickets. If you miss the deadline, please follow instruction #2 below.
NOTE: It doesn't matter to us if your friends/companions are non-TCP members, as long as you (the person who is reserving) are a member.

2) Non-TCP Members can reserve tickets starting October 18, 12:00am by sending an email to the admins at tcppromos(at)gmail(dot)com (Subject: New Moon Ticket Reservations) with the following information:
- Your full name
- Your contact number
- Number of tickets to be reserved
- Preferred date of claiming (see instruction #3 below).
Within 24 hours, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and instructions regarding payments and claiming your tickets.

3) To ensure that all reserved tickets will be claimed and paid for and we don't end up with a bunch of reserved but unclaimed tickets, we are only assigning two Reserved Ticket Claiming Dates:
- Saturday, October 24 - 2pm-7pm at Blenz SM Megamall (Atrium)
- Saturday, October 31 - 2pm-7pm at Gloria Jeans Glorietta 3
NOTE 1: If you fail to claim your ticket on the date you indicated in your reservation, your reservation will be forfeited, and you'll have to go through the whole process again and re-send your reservation request.
NOTE 2: Even if you did not send a reservation request, you can meet with the Admins during these dates to buy tickets as long as there are still unreserved ones. If all the tickets have been reserved by the time you arrive, you can try again during the Free Selling Dates; just make sure to check the Ticket Sales status here on the site.
NOTE 3: If, for some reason, you already have a confirmed reservation but suddenly cannot make it to the claiming dates, you can send a representative to claim your tickets for you. Please inform us a day before the claiming date (at the latest) so we can send you further instructions.

4) If you cannot make it to any of the Reserved Ticket Claiming Dates, you can still buy tickets during the following Free Selling Dates:
- Saturday, November 7 - 2pm-7pm at Blenz SM Megamall (Atrium)
- Saturday, November 14 - 2pm-7pm at Gloria Jeans Glorietta 3
Of course, if there are no tickets to sell anymore, these Free Selling Dates will be cancelled. Make sure to regularly check the Ticket Sales status here on the site.

5) The screening will be Free Seating. All TCP special events on November 20 will end early so that you will all have sufficient time to have dinner or line-up early to get good seats.

6) Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE.

7) All other instructions for claiming tickets will be sent to you in your confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail within 24 hours, please re-send your request. No confirmation e-mail, no reservation.

We will post a daily log of the number of seats available to update everyone of the status of ticket sales. We will also update you on the special events connected to the movie as soon as they are finalized with our event partners.

We look forward to seeing "New Moon" with you, our fellow Twilighters, because it's more fun to be in a theater full of people who totally understand and appreciate the Saga.

If you have concerns, please post a comment. When posting a comment, please include your name, even if it's just an online nickname; it's not fun answering the questions of several "Anonymous" people. ;)

TCP's good friend, Ronald Lim, wrote a profile on Sam Bradley for the Manila Bulletin. The article was published today.

If you weren't able to get a copy of the paper, you can read the article on Manila Bulletin's website here. The online version doesn't have any photos, but you can see how the article looked like on print here (see image).

We conducted our own interview with Sam on the same day Ronald did, so we were able to take some behind-the-scenes pics during the photoshoot. You can see them in our Flickr album here. We hope to obtain permission to publish some of the actual photoshoot images, but until then, this is the best we can do. :D

Thanks, Ronald!

Sorry for the delay of this news round-up, as the TCP administrators have been busy supporting the performances of the talented Sam Bradley :P Be sure to grab a copy of the Manila Bulletin tomorrow, October 14, since there is a lengthy exclusive on Sam Bradley (with great photos!) in tomorrow's issue.

We also would like to announce that TCP's New Moon blocked screening will be on November 20, 2009, 8PM in Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3. Tickets are at Php200, which includes your pass to the movie, raffle, and related activities (we'll be having a major event in the cinema lobby prior to the screening). There will only be 165 seats so check the blog daily as we will post reservation instructions this week! We hope to see you there and get to share this movie experience with fellow Pinoy Twilight fans!

So on to the latest (at least the major ones) Twilight news...

There is now an official Twitter page for the Twilight movies, which was launched by Summit Entertainment. Follow them and get to read exclusive tweets from the cast and staff and behind-the-scenes goodness.

The running time for The Twilight Saga: New Moon is 2 hours and 10 minutes according to Cineplex.com. Is this is shorter or longer as you expected? Or is just right?

There is now a documentary on Robert Pattinson as reported by ScreenDaily.com entitled Robsessed. Its UK distributor, Revolver Entertainment, is looking for a November release of the dvd.

Taylor Lautner shares more on being Jacob and his other projects c/o Box Office.

Michael Sheen shares more about being Aro (and playing the undead in general) in this article by USA Today.

Entertainment Weekly rates the New Moon soundtrack and comes up with a resounding grade of A. Be sure to check out the soundtrack as it hits local stores here in the Philippines on October 20.

Check out Vanity Fair's exclusive on three acts in the New Moon movie soundtrack: Sea Wolf, St. Vincent, and OK Go.

Get to know Lykke Li's writing process and how she got hooked on New Moon in this interview by MTV. She is the songwriter of Possibility, which is part of the New Moon movie soundtrack.

Matt Bellamy from Muse talks about their latest album, performances, and their song in the New Moon soundtrack in The National Post.

MTV made an analysis of the music video of Death Cab for Cutie's Meet Me on the Equinox. If you haven't watched the video yet, click here.

UPDATE (10/15, 6:17PM): Information on how to reserve and buy tickets are now posted. Click here for more info.

We're so excited about New Moon, that we're going to share the news now.

TCP will be sponsoring a blocked screening of the Twilight sequel on the first day of its release at Greenbelt 3. An advanced screening is sadly beyond our resources at the moment, so we hope you won't mind a regular one, since you'll get to watch it with your fellow Twilighters! (No worries about overreactions here, guys. You'll be able to giggle and squeal and swoon to your heart's content.)

Please do not repost the interview, just link to the site. Thanks.

A few weeks ago, we were contacted by a member of Solomon Trimble's PR team, and she asked if we would be interested in doing an e-mail interview with Solomon. Of course we jumped at the chance since we loved Solomon as Sam Uley in the movie, however brief his appearance was.

So here are Solomon's answers to our questions, and boy, did we also get a nice surprise revelation from him. ;)

TCP: What was your most memorable experience on the set of Twilight?

Solomon Trimble: The whole experience was memorable. I was really amazed by how much time and effort goes into making a film. I think I will remember singing a Quileute song for the camera crew the most. I had written the song with the intention of becoming more fluid with the pronunciation of the language, and then I got the chance to perform it for the camera, who knows where the footage will end up...

[Hey, we'd love to see that! Dear Catherine....]

TCP: Which of the Twilight Saga characters do you have the most in common with?

Solomon Trimble: Sam and Carlisle. Sam, because I have had to choose between two cousins I was romantically involved with and Carlisle because I too resist the urge to bite at random. Sorry, I like having fun with these questions, I get asked it most often. It's really Sam. He is true to himself and his people, and to the ones that he loves, above all wants or desires. Out of the pack, I respect him and oddly Paul the most.

TCP: What did you think of how the Quileutes were portrayed in the book?

Solomon Trimble: I like how Stephenie Meyer kept the story in Bella's perspective for the most part, and that even when she wrote from Jacob's perspective, she treated the Native American characters as just that, characters. Many authors lose sight of that when writing stories with a little Native American flavor.

TCP: Can you tell us about your favorite Quileute legend?

Solomon Trimble: I feel very privileged to have learned of the Quileute's histories. I am very careful of not referring to indigenous oral histories and beliefs as legends or myths. No matter the religion or belief system I belong to, I was given the same respect from them. Yet of all that was shared I found it most interesting that Quileute honor the bear and the wolf equally. Now the entire story is not mine to tell but this belief is shared amongst more than one tribe. One elder told me "The Bear is our brother, our sister. They walk like use, breastfeed like us, cry like humans do when in mourning, and I mean their cries sound human. And if you ever happen to come upon a bear's corpse-all the bones look human, especially the hips and ribs, all but the skull is the same. We don't eat bear because of this..." I wonder if Stephenie Meyer knew this about the Quileute. If she did, she made a good choice in picking the more marketable animal; I can't imagine how popular "Twilight" would have been, if it had been about gigantic teddy bears wondering the woods hunting vampires.

TCP: If it were up to you to decide, who is your personal choice to play the role of Emily and why?

Solomon Trimble: This is a dangerous question to ask a 24 year old. The answer would just be my celebrity crush, and not a good fit for Emily, Leah maybe. Sorry, you're not getting this one out of me.

[Aww, shucks. Well, you can't say we didn't try. :p]

TCP: We remember reading in "Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion" that you were an invaluable help to Catherine Hardwicke and the crew when it came to all things Quileute. Were you also involved in or did you influence Sam Uley's characterization in the film?

Solomon Trimble: I studied the histories of the Quileute and learned as much language as I could before the shoot. But the work with wardrobe is what the quote is referring to most. I wore a now infamous coat. The coat has an image with what appears to be a werewolf/shape shifter wearing the same coat, which I thought was very relevant. It is also made out of Pendleton wool, a highly sought after material by tribes in the northwest of North America. The coat is a token of leadership and acknowledgment, my mother made it for me when I graduated high school, and since I've graduated from college she has decorated it further. I digress. Sam is technically a werewolf when at the beach scene. I worked with wardrobe to dress the Quileute's but more to plead with them to wear the least amount of clothing as possible, because Sam is running a werewolf fever. I felt dumb when I got sick the day of the shoot. I'm glad Catherine made me wear an extra hooded sweatshirt... But to answer the question, bringing an authentic Quileute characterization to Sam was an honor. I feel blessed to be a part of such a successful film and I would be honored to be given the chance influence the characterization of the whole pack to be more authentically Quileute in the future.

TCP: If you could exchange roles with anyone on the Twilight cast, who would it be and why?

Solomon Trimble: Sorry Kristen, but I would rock Bella! Just kidding, I need to quit drinking red-bull before interviews. Seriously though, I wouldn't change a thing.

[See? Everyone wants to be Bella. Heheh. :p We kid, we kid. ]

TCP: If you can ask only one question of Stephenie Meyer about your character or about Twilight in general, what would it be?

Solomon Trimble: "What is his hobby?"

TCP: What is your dream role?

Solomon Trimble: I feel as though being a part of "Twilight" has been a dream come true for me. As of now, I would like to work with the actors, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe and Shia LaBeouf. As for directors I would like to work with, Gus Van Sant, John Carpenter, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor to name a few.

TCP: Finally, we just have to ask: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Solomon Trimble: Edward, because as a wolf-pack member I'm sure we're all tired of hearing about Bella on the telepathic werewolf radio station broadcast by Jacob.

Solomon also said: "I've always wanted to go to the Philippines and meet the people still living in the mountains and hills in the original traditional ways, before the Spanish Influence. And of course party in Manila!" and added that he once dated a Filipina.

[If you ever visit the Philippines, Solomon, we'd love to show you around and introduce you to the ways of our indigenous peoples. And of course, we'd love to party with you too. :)]

We wish we could've asked him more questions or follow-ups to this one. We admittedly panicked a little bit when we were asked regarding the interview. *is sheepish*

We hope to see Solomon as Sam in New Moon, or at the very least, see him get involved in the movie in some way. :)

Thanks so much to Solomon for taking the time out to answer our questions, and thanks to Nicole for arranging the interview.

Links: Solomon Trimble's Official MySpace Page | IMDB page | Team Solomon Website | Team Solomon on MySpace