The Hollywood Reporter weighs in on this summer’s movie ticket sales:

Summer 2010 won’t set a box-office high, and fewer tickets have been sold than in any swimsuit season in more than a decade.

The industry’s near-flat summer revenue is largely because of a shorter industry season this year, featuring 18 weekends compared to a year-earlier 19. The box-office season ends Monday, with projections showing $4.24 billion in industry coin collected between May 7 and Labor Day, or slightly 1% less than in summer 2009.

But summer admissions are down almost 6%, to a projected 538 million. Hollywood hasn’t marked a new summer admissions high since 2004, when 642 milliontickets were sold, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners.

Exhibitors charged an average $7.88 for summer movie tickets, up 4.5% from $7.54 last summer, NATO said. That compares with an almost 6% ticket-price jump between summer 2008 and last year, when the spread of premium pricing in 3D venues fueled a more dramatic inflation in moviegoing costs.

Summer 2010 produced 11 films that rang up more than $100 million apiece, three fewer than last year. That simply means there were too few attractive films in the market, Corcoran suggested.

“There’s been too much emphasis on the increase in ticket prices,” the NATO spokesman said. “It’s too quick and easy to point to ticket prices and say that’s the reason a summer does better or worse. The difference in almost any year is how attractive the movies are to an audience.”

But, as usual, the summer triggered a few likely franchises.

Moviefone is taking a poll now that the summer blockbuster season is over. Rob appears on the list several times; you can vote for him as the summer’s hottest leading man and as part of the best on-screen couple.

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These days, Edward has competition from more than just Jacob.

Vampires have become a $7 billion industry, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and “Twilight” isn’t the only phenomenon sucking the dough out of your pocket. HBO has a hit with “True Blood,” and the CW’s “Vampire Diaries” has tweens and teens dreaming of undead heartthrobs.

Team “Twilight” reigns supreme, of course. Globally, the three “Twilight” films have earned an unbelievable $1.76 billion at the box office, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Even the low-budget Fox/New Regency “Twilight” parody “Vampires Suck” grossed $20 million in its first six days.

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Thanks to Twilighters Latinoamérica, we have a lovely new still from New Moon featuring Rob. The still can be viewed in our gallery by clicking on the thumbnail below. Enjoy!

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Several new outtakes from the Another Man photoshoot have hit the internet! Check out the new images starting HERE in our gallery.

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Translation courtesy of Clara at http://clara-blog.jugem.jp/

“Gorgeous vampire is the shy 24 year-old
“They are screaming for Edward, not to myself. Then it is easier to take all the hysteria.”

Q: Isn’t it tough to be followed by Paparazzi any where you go?
Rob: I guess I should relax and think “It’s only a pictures taken and posted to tabloids.” and let it go.To tell you the truth, surrounded by 50 Paparazzis 24/7 is really tough. And I have a bad habit to react them with nasty face; I should come up with better look for paparazzi photos by now. Laughs.I am always thankful to my family and close friends; they never change their attitude toward me. They keep me to the ground. Some of them haven’t even seen “Twilight” movies yet! So relieving!

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The NY Post Page Six is currently featuring a 35 picture slide show of Rob cleaned up at premieres and looking scruffy on-set.

“Still, the final Edward-v.-Damon showdown trumped ‘em all. Our polls were open for 72 hours, and midway through the final day of voting, the virile vampires were separated by less than 200 votes. With six hours remaining, and our finalists still locked in a statistical dead-heat, EW.com’s Sexy Beast special-ops team decided to hide our poll results, and began to plan a special issue of Entertainment Weekly commemorating a tournament that had becoming nothing short of an Internet sensation. When the blood, sweat, and broken fangs were wiped away, it was Damon Salvatore who eked out a mild upset victory over Edward Cullen by a margin of 138,630 to 134,728, a difference of just 3,902 votes.”

View the Sexy Beast bracket here.

For more on EW.com’s Sexy Beast tournament pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands August 27. To purchase a copy of the Sexy Beasts issue of EW, visit ew.com/backissue.

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E! Online is hosting a tournament to see which male star ruled summer 2010. And Rob is one of the sixteen stars that have been chosen for the first round, which ends tomorrow August 25. The first contestant to go up against Rob is Brian Austin Green, so make sure to head over and vote to make Rob king.

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Want to see Rob in all of his pre-Twilight glory? Of course you do, as you don’t want to miss seeing him in a rainbow sweater (or jumper, for those of you from across the pond) and Coke-bottle glasses.

In The Bad Mother’s Handbook Rob plays an awkward teenage boy who befriends a pregnant teenage girl.

Get it here on Amazon! for $19.99 or rent for $3.99

Happy viewing!

How many of you have already seen this? Leave us your comments below!

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Stewart Shining had a photoshoot with Rob and now more pictures from the shoot have been released. Check them out below! There are 33 in all, so be sure you visit our gallery, too!

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Movie Star Magazine, of Japan, recently interviewed Rob. The interview is (fairly) short, and rather philosophical. It’s mostly about how he deals with fame. Check it out below!

Q: Do you think that from early on being pushed into the pub­lic spot­light has made you more aware than other peo­ple that you have to be sure to live your own life?

Rob: It’s true that I was put in a place where I had to be more mind­ful and take more respon­si­bil­ity for every­thing. I couldn’t just be aim­less. Also, the direc­tion of my career has finally moved in a pos­i­tive direc­tion and I’ve tried to make a bit of progress. Thanks to the fact that I’ve had the time to think about a lot of things dur­ing this period, life itself is now free of the anguish that I felt in my past. I’m also now aware of just how lucky I am. I think that’s why I can enjoy it more and be more aware of what’s inter­est­ing to me and expe­ri­ence it all.

Q: When some peo­ple attain the kind of enor­mous suc­cess that you have they develop a sense of guilt over how much they’re blessed. Do you have any sense of guilt?

Rob: Sense of guilt? No. I just think it’s luck. I’ve just wanted to get the most out of all my oppor­tu­ni­ties and build a long career. That’s why now I have my feet firmly planted on the ground and I try to con­cen­trate on the work I’m get­ting and try to enjoy the sit­u­a­tion I’m in with­out get­ting both­ered by all the stuff that’s hap­pen­ing around me. After all, the most impor­tant thing to me as a human and as a pro­fes­sional is to evolve.

Q: Is it pos­si­ble to real­ize your own desire to have great act­ing skills as an actor and only as an actor even when you’re in the midst of all this pop­u­lar­ity?

Rob: The major­ity of peo­ple who are crit­i­cized by the pub­lic for this and that are the peo­ple who are con­stantly putting them­selves in the pub­lic eye. So I guess that means I could say that it’s bet­ter not to show one­self in pub­lic too much. I’d like to think that if you work hard to make high qual­ity movies then you won’t be eval­u­ated as a “mean­ing­less celebrity,” but rather by other fac­tors. If you’re seen as a celebrity, then it becomes more dif­fi­cult to be eval­u­ated based on the level of excel­lence of the movies you act in. But, to give one exam­ple, Johnny Depp has been win­ning that bat­tle. He’s the kind of per­son you can’t eval­u­ate based on image right? The object of eval­u­a­tion is always his act­ing skills. That requires a lot of self-discipline, and the abil­ity to hide from the pub­lic eye has also become impor­tant. You just have to get used to that.

Q: If you look back on your cur­rent self 10 years from now, what will you think?

Rob: I’ll prob­a­bly think that I should have enjoyed every­thing more dur­ing this com­pletely amaz­ing moment in my life. But it’s just now that I’ve finally begun to be able to really enjoy everything.

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Rolling Stone recently named their top 10 and bottom 5 vampires of film and television. They reviewed the actors’ performances as vampires–not the strength of the vampire characters. Rob barely made the top 10, coming in at number 10 behind Kiefer Sutherland, Nicholas Cage, Alexander Skarsgard, and Ian Somerhalder, among others. Here’s what they had to say about Rob:

Admirers of both sexes might name the Brit actor Number One for his humongous fan base. But as Edward Cullen, he has neither the fangs nor the balls to go for the human jugular when he can hunt Bambi or moon around Bella instead. What Pattinson does have: Byronic good looks that are unfakably hypnotic.

The number one worst vampire according to Rolling Stone was none other than Rob’s on-screen dad, Peter Facinelli.

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These amazing art of Rob as himself and Edward Cullen are by Rhianydd Easton! Just click on the thumbnail for full view!

One of her fabulous drawings also travelled to Forks, Washington, USA to the “Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Literary Symposium”. Click here to learn more about it!

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Well, kind of. McAfee has made this year’s list of “riskiest” celebrities to search for, based on the risk to the user’s computer. Rob is in at the #30 most dangerous. The rankings, according to the internet security company, are based on the “chance of landing at a Web site that’s tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware.”

If you’re visiting us at PO, though, you don’t have to worry!

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EW Popwatch is in the final round to find the ultimate Sexy Beast and it has come down to Edward Cullen vs Damon Salvatore (Vampire Diaries).

“Right now, it is your all-consuming duty to get out the vote in the final round of EW.com’s Sexy Beast single-elimination bracket tournament! Yes, folks, a battle of the beautiful that began almost a month ago with 64 entrants — vampires and werewolves, mutants and machines, aliens and other creatures (even Ms. Pac-Man!) — has been whittled down to just two combatants: The Vampire Diaries‘ Damon Salvatore and Twilight‘s Edward Cullen. So stop what you’re doing, think deeply about the most important question you’ll ask yourself all day.”

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TheStir.com has declared the top vampires of all time and Rob comes in at #2:

“Robert Pattinson: What’s a hot vampire list without the most popular vampire in pop culture right now? Rob plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies and falls madly in love with Bella, a human. The love story between the two will make any woman’s heart swoon. Oh, and he sparkles.”

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Vogue Magazine is currently featuring the red carpet style of Rob and his fellow Twilight co-stars.

“With that many detail-hungry eyes upon the stars, savvy designers – including Pucci, Roland Mouret and Calvin Klein – are making sure that their creations are seen on these bright young things, which means the Twilight gang certainly are on the ascent.”

“The biggest stars by far… have been snapped in Doo Ri, Marchesa, Prabal Gurung and Dolce & Gabbana”

Check out Rob’s red carpet style’s directly at these links here, here, here, and here.

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