After being the first outlet to report that M.I.A. had delivered her baby and would not be performing at this year’s 81st Academy Awards, HitFix can now exclusively confirm that Robert Pattinson will be presenting an award during this year’s telecast.

The “Twilight” star had long been rumored to appear on Hollywood’s biggest night, but barring any unforeseen last minute conflicts, he’ll be giving the franchise’s legion of fans something to look forward to on Oscar Sunday.

Still unclear is whether Pattinson’s “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart will also appear on the telecast and what award he will specifically present. And, obviously, speculation will now run rampant on who Pattinson’s date down the red carpet will be.

Pattinson rose to super-stardom after being chose to play the dreamy vampire Edward Cullen in “Twilight.” The first in a series of big screen adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s popular book series, “Twilight” astounded the industry by raking in $188 million domestically and $357 million worldwide.

The 22-year-old Brit will appear later this spring as Salvador Dali in the indie drama “Little Ashes.” He’s expected to begin production next month on the “Twilight” sequel, “New Moon” which will be released Nov. 20.

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Today, while speaking with Regent Releasing’s Theatrical Marketing Manager, Bryan Westbrook, about the 2009 promotion schedule for Little Ashes, he asked if we would like to break the news about a certain Little Ashes star taking the cover of a major magazine.

Of course we would!

The April edition of the magazine, GQ , will be featuring Robert Pattinson on its cover, to promote the March 27, 2009 release of Little Ashes. Fantastic news for Robert as well as everyone who had a part in the making of this film. Be looking for the issue mid-March to read more about Rob and Little Ashes!

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Entertainment Weekly – November 14th, 2008

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What does he like about being Edward Cullen? ‘You never have a hair out of place’.

Come to think of it, you might also find it hard to believe that Robert Pattinson wants to be your president. Or that he hasn’t kissed a girl in ages. Or that he secretly longs to “do” Jessica the cheerleader.

To celebrate the arrival of Stephenie Meyer’s vision to movie theaters, we present our most recent and most revealing interview with one of the newly minted Sexiest Men Alive. To some, he’s RPattz. To others, he’s Spunk Ransom. But to true Twilighters, he’ll always be the most charmingly self-deprecating and immensely talented vampire we’d ever want to watch on the big screen.

MTV: You were a big hit with the crowd at the “Spoilers” taping. When you told the audience to “shut up,” they loved it.

Robert Pattinson: [Laughs.] Good!

MTV: After all this time, “Twilight” is finally coming to theaters. We know you’ve been working on it all year. So how has your life changed, personally and professionally, over the past 12 months?

Pattinson: I’ve been so busy compared to last year, [when] I wasn’t busy at all. It’s very strange constantly working, doing various things, and that’s basically how my life’s changed. Professionally, I guess, I’m vaguely more commercially viable, so people want to have meetings with you instead of not wanting to have meetings with you. That’s kind of the basic difference.

MTV: What are your top five reasons why it’s great to be Edward Cullen?

Pattinson: Well, you can kiss Kristen Stewart. You can drive a Volvo. You can hold yourself back from killing people, which is always handy. Five reasons? You have a great peacoat, and you never have a hair out of place.

MTV: Well done! In the movie, we hear a little bit of your music, and the Twilighters know how much you love music in real life. Will we ever get a proper Robert Pattinson album?

Pattinson: I think if I did it, I’d do it under a different name and not promote it.

MTV: Spunk Ransom, perhaps?

Pattinson: [Laughs.] Maybe I could just do it under “Edward Cullen,” and we’ll see what happens.

MTV: I think they’d catch on.

Pattinson: That would be pretty obvious. [Laughs.] But, uh, maybe? I don’t like to look like I’m cashing in on stuff, so I probably won’t do it for a while. But I’m not really interested in having a music career. I don’t care if people buy my stuff or not.

MTV: When we showed the big kiss scene at the MTV “Spoilers” taping, there were audible gasps from the audience. We wanted to ask: How do women react in real life when you try to kiss them?

Pattinson: Um, I can’t really remember. [Laughs.] I haven’t kissed anybody in ages. I don’t remember. I don’t even remember how Kristen reacts in the thing. She’s just kind of, like, blank, right? She’s just like, “Why are you being so slow?” So, I don’t know. Normally? I have no idea.

MTV: Well, once “Twilight” comes out, you might find yourself with a few volunteers for getting over the I-haven’t-kissed-anybody-in-a-while problem.

Pattinson: Yeah. It’s funny. You would have thought that doing this movie — and I’m supposed to be such an attractive guy or whatever — would open up the floodgates for lots of 15-year-olds to come in. [Laughs.] But it has the converse effect, because everyone’s so, “Oh, everyone must be throwing themselves at you!” And it’s like, “No! Throw yourselves at me!”

MTV: So the next time you’re out in public, you want girls to throw themselves at you?

Pattinson: Yeah!

MTV: Wow, you just opened yourself up to a world of pain, my friend. Now, we have some questions from the fans here, if I could hit you with a few of these: Imagine you’re stuck on a deserted island. What three things do you bring — and is a girl one of those three items?

Pattinson: Yeah, I guess a girl would be a logical thing to bring. [Laughs.] That’s one of them. I’d bring a guitar — that sounds so cheesy. No, if I had a girl, I wouldn’t need a guitar. So I would bring maybe a little pad and a pen and a satellite phone.

MTV: Very useful!

Pattinson: Yeah, I’d just [call somebody and] leave.

MTV: Another fan contributed a question to the MTV Movies Blog, saying she’d read an interview where someone asked if you could be anybody who you’d want to be. And you said you wanted to be President Bush.

Pattinson: What?!

MTV: Did you ever say you wanted to be president? Would you want to run for president someday?

Pattinson: I would love to be president! Yeah, definitely. I want Schwarzenegger to change the [born-in-America requirement] from the inside.

MTV: What would you do as our president?

Pattinson: Nothing. [Laughs.] I’d just go around saying, “Kiss my ass!”

MTV: Are there any laws you’d want to pass?

Pattinson: No, not really. I’d just do really stupid stuff. I’d just be like, “Everyone needs to call me ‘sir.’ ” Actually, no, they call you Mr. President, right? I’d just want everyone to call me Mr. President. I’d just like to say, “Hey, I’m leader of the free world. What do you do, loser?”

MTV: OK, we’ll all start calling you Mr. President from now on. There are several romantic scenes in the movie, where you and Kristen are on the bed, on top of the tree, in the biology lab, stuff like that. What, in your opinion, is the most romantic moment that Edward and Bella share?

Pattinson: Hmmm … probably the scene in the hospital, when she’s in the hospital after the big fight. I like that scene. I think it’s quite honest.

MTV: So, to you, the essence of romance is honesty between people?

Pattinson: Yeah, definitely. [Especially] in that scene, because he’s saying, “You have to leave. You have to leave!” Just seeing how, sometimes, you’re not in control of yourself anymore [when you're in love]. There’s something more. Your emotions have transcended the reality of your lives, and I think that scene shows it.

MTV: If you woke up tomorrow and discovered you were a Forks High student, which “Twilight” character would you want to date?

Pattinson: I would probably date Bella. Bella is the coolest girl, you know? Well, it depends if it was from the movie or the book version. In the book version, I’d do — what’s her name? — Jessica. The cheerleader one.

MTV: I love how you said you’d “do” her.

Pattinson: [Laughs.] I’d do her, yeah. Take her? She’ll do.

MTV: OK, one last question from the fans: What do you have in your pockets right now?

Pattinson: [Rifling through pockets] A telephone and a wallet. Very uninteresting. Oh, and I have a pair of sunglasses.

MTV: Have you read the other “Twilight” books yet?

Pattinson: I’ve read the first three. I haven’t read the last one yet.

MTV: Is there a scene in “Eclipse” or “New Moon” that you’re particularly eager to shoot, if they make the sequels?

Pattinson: Yeah, I’m looking forward to doing the re-emergence in the second book, at the end of the second book, when he’s killing himself. I think that’d be kind of spectacular seeing that. And the second book is my favorite book, so I’m quite looking forward to doing it.

R.M. VAUGHAN
From Friday’s Globe and Mail
November 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM EST

Should I ever earn the privilege of interviewing the Prime Minister (and I’ve got some choice questions for him), I doubt he will be as difficult to access as the young British actor Robert Pattinson.

In exchange for eight precious minutes with Pattinson, the former Harry Potter regular and current star of the tween vampire movie Twilight (which opens today), I not only faced the usual flotilla of handlers, but also several layers of boutique hotel security, followed by a Get Smart-like series of locked double doors leading to a secret penthouse loft. Once inside, I was stared down by two burly, very still men I assume were bodyguards. I wonder where the panic room was located?

In fairness, the Prime Minister is only a leader of the country. He’s never been swarmed by thousands of insane, screaming tweenage girls, as Pattinson was a mere hour before we met. And tweenage girls, not boring old prime ministers, are running the cultural show today — because they’re the only people with any money. Maybe our auto plants should start making Hannah Montana and High School Musical gimcracks.

Despite all the hysteria, the baby-faced Pattinson turned out to be a likeable, slightly goofy sort of kid; one who openly admits he’s bewildered by all the seething estrogen his appearances inspire. Playing Edward Cullen, Twilight’s bloodsucker with a pensive, emo-boy heart, Pattinson comes across as both beautiful and sullen, romantic yet chaste (at least when it comes to neck biting). His flannel-clad, awe-shucks Edward is more underachiever than undead, more Morrissey than Ozzy — a refreshing change from the overly arch, Euro-trash art-fop vampires seen in the Blade and Underworld franchises.

Now that Leonardo DiCaprio has completely transformed into Mickey Rooney, it’s time to crown a new tousled teen wonder.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novel, and its sequels, have sold millions of copies and have a huge cult following — inevitably, some people will think you do not match their idea of Edward. The author has even labelled this reaction the “Rob effect,” after you.

Is the Rob effect the universal effect of people disagreeing with the casting? Ha!

I think she meant just you.

Yeah, I had masses … there was a huge, universal backlash about my casting, I think. I mean, there was a petition. Seventy-five-thousand people signed it, they sent it around. But, I mean, I expected it.

Did it bother you?

No, I mean, the casting breakdown for the audition was, “Edward is the ideal man, he’s the perfect man,” so I just thought anyone who has the gall to even go into the audition is, like, really asking for it! Ha! I would have done the same thing if I was a little girl.

That’s telling, because the novel’s critics argue that the characters in Twilight are overly obsessed with beauty and have no emotional depth.

I did read the books, and I thought, mainly because I was trying to find something in there that was playable, that you have to realize that the whole story is told from Bella’s [the teen heroine] perspective, and she is completely infatuated with Edward’s world. She’s completely lost in the vampire world, she wants to be part of their world so badly. So the talk of beauty and everything, you can be objective about it, because it’s from Bella’s perspective. I don’t know if that’s how Stephenie Meyer [intended]it, if they genuinely were the most beautiful creatures ever, but it is from Bella’s perspective, so I really thought they could kind of be anything.

Have you been told how much you resemble Prince William in the film?

Oh, Jesus! I used to get that from Harry Potter! Ah, it’s terrible! Ha!

Why? He’s beloved. He’ll rule the Commonwealth one day.

No, it’s terrible! Ha! It’s the worst thing you could possibly have said. This interview is over! Ha! I mean, I don’t have anything against him, but, oh God, it’s so typically English. I’m trying to get away from that whole stigma of the floppy English posh person.

This is the first vampire film I’ve seen that is about the problem of immortality, not blood drinking.

The vampire aspect is very much secondary. They aren’t vampires in any other way than name. Umm, it is, it is kind of … they don’t have any immediate desires. It’s more about responding to your base instincts. If you’re going to live forever, should you do whatever you want, have no constraints, or should you pretend to live within the confines that death gives you as a human. Edward especially has a problem with this, until he meets Bella.

What’s your security plan, now that hordes of young girls want chunks of your hair?

I don’t know … I might start lashing out at them! Ha! It might make me genuinely terrifying. I was noticing this — nobody really goes up to hard-core rappers, they don’t get too many problems with little girls! I’m hoping I can just go to London and it will be like a switch, I can just turn everything off.

I doubt that.

More and more people are noticing me, but if you go to really crappy places, people don’t expect you to be there. And I have a tendency to only be in really crappy places.

But … God, I’m still reeling from the Prince William thing!

Oh, stop it. I could have said Camilla Parker Bowles.

Oh, God. Oh, God, no. Prince William. Jesus!

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Robert Pattinson and Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams sit down at Hollywood’s Velvet Margarita to sink their teeth into Myspace’s Artist on Artist.

The duo, who are featured on Twilight’s #1 soundtrack, interviewed each other about their experiences growing up, their passions and what was life before Twilight.

Hayley, 19, recently revealed that she has yet to finish the book series! She shared, “I’ve read the whole series, and I’m finishing up ‘Breaking Dawn’ right now, I’ve got five chapters to go. It’s tough, though! Now that I’m home, I’m so unfocused that I can’t sit down and finish it … but I’m going to before the film.”

Be sure to catch MySpace’s Artist on Artist, November 21st @ 1PM ET/PT

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