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Finally! Someone is answering our most burning questions about "The Twilight Saga"'s two-part finale, "Breaking Dawn." Producer Wyck Godfrey recently sat down with USA Today to address fan queries, including where the two films will split, how the honeymoon scene will stick to a PG-13 rating (ooh la la!) and the logistics of the grisly birthing scene.

We've long suspected "Breaking Dawn: Part 1"'s closing moments would revolve around Bella's transformation into a vampire—whether hinting at what was to come or showing an actual bloodsucking glimpse. Well, Wyck has confirmed our suspicions saying, "We basically want to take the audience through the emotional part of Bella's journey as she becomes a vampire. The first part will cover the wedding, the honeymoon and the birth." The first film will end right before Bella turns (meaning director Bill Condon might be able use some of our closing scene suggestions!).

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Tags Breaking Dawn, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey

Last year we listed off the movies, TV shows and other pop-cult gems we were most excited for in 2010, and though the Wizarding World of Harry Potter got the top spot (come on, it's a theme park), "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" was the movie we were most looking forward to. It's been a big year for "The Twilight Saga," and "Eclipse" definitely did not disappoint. As another year of "Twilight"'s domination is about to begin, we figured now would be a good time to look back at the series' biggest moments in 2010.

"New Moon" had hit theaters only several months before, but "The Twilight Saga" started 2010 off with a bang when there was reportedly some drama between Stephenie Meyer and Summit Entertainment over "Breaking Dawn," though the "Twilight" author quickly dispelled that rumor. That was followed closely with producer Wyck Godfrey's announcement that "Breaking Dawn" was gearing up to film the coming fall. We were all holding on to every will-they-won't-they rumor (3D? CGI Renesmee? One or two films?), and it took the majority of the year for any of those questions to be answered.

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Tags Best of 2010, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey

This news is a bit late hitting the film blog world, considering FearNet's Jen Yamato managed to hide it inside an interview with Wyck Godfrey from the "Eclipse" press junket posted on June 13 (sorry that we're guilty too, Jen, but kudos to you for getting this scoop a month before Deadline). Unfortunately, when Nikki Finke wrote her post to confirm that Amy Adams would indeed be playing Janis Joplin in a biopic, she failed to realize that the FearNet article was actually posted a month and two days before her own, not that same day as Nikki reported.

Scoop discrepancies behind, we have to admit we think Amy is a surprising choice to play the late, great female rocker. We don't have our doubts that Amy will be able to pull off an edgy enough performance to capture Janis' life, it's just… well, wasn't there anyone else who could have better played the part?

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Tags Amy Adams, Enchanted, Janis Joplin, Wyck Godfrey

We think we're going to rename "backwards psychology" in the "Twi"-verse" as "Midnight Sun-chology," because it seems like that's what it takes to get the answers we want to know.

Maybe it's because Robert Pattinson was hard at work filming "Water for Elephants" while Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner promoted "Eclipse" and that's why everyone stepped back from the "are-they-or-aren't-they" questions, but extra-talkative producer Wyck Godfrey finally dropped the big one on us and seemed to confirm "they are."

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Tags Eclipse, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Time, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey

Sure, there has been a lot of exciting stuff that has happened since Bill Condon was signed on as the director of "Breaking Dawn," but that doesn't mean he has faded far from our thoughts.

Website Earth's Mightiest managed to snag an interview with "Twilight Saga" producer Wyck Godfrey and got him to talk about the choice of Bill — who is best known for his work on "Chicago" and "Dreamgirls" — to direct an angsty teenage vampire story, and his reasoning was enough to convince us.

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Tags Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse, Marty Bowen, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey

Undershadowed by this week's Stephenie Meyer/Summit Entertainment "Breaking Dawn" disagreement rumor was a piece the LA Times put out where they spoke to "Twilight Saga" producer Wyck Godfrey about the series' final installment(s). In it Wyck talks about such bland things as Renesmee possibly being an entirely CGI creation?!

With the success of "Avatar," it makes sense that this idea is being toyed with, but Summit isn't Fox and whoever ends up helming "Breaking Dawn" (which Wyck says he doesn't think will be Chris Weitz, fyi) will be no James Cameron. Therefore, with so many such CGI situations turning into unrealistic disasters, Wyck's comment was cringe-worthy to say the least.

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Tags Breaking Dawn, Chris Weitz, Melissa Rosenberg, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey

Breaking news! One huge teen pop sensation hates an extraordinarily popular vampire teen film series. Or, translated, Miley Cyrus hates "Twilight."

And she doesn't just kind of hate it. She loathes it.

"I don't believe in it. I don't like vampires. ... I don't like the wolf that pops out of the screen when I'm watching my TV at night. I don't like it. I don't want anything to do with it. I don't like the shirts. I don't like any of it," she told radio station Q92 in a backstage interview after her Cleveland show.

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Tags Marty Bowen, Miley Cyrus, Twilight, Wings, Wyck Godfrey

Last week we got a hair-raising sneak peek at how "New Moon" filmmakers brought Jacob Black and his pack of shapeshifting wolves to life. It seems only fair, then, that the same treatment be given to that dastardly ruling coven of vampires, the Volturi.

The "Volturi Featurette" (available on MySpace and embedded after the jump), focuses on the fight between Bella's dazzling vampire love Edward and monstrous enforcer Felix (played by Daniel Cudmore). "He doesn't have a hope in hell of winning the fight," Robert Pattinson said in a behind-the-scenes interview. "It's on much more of a grand scale than anything we did on 'Twilight,'" he added. If director Chris Weitz's goal was to top the ballet studio scene from the first film, he surely did it with this epic dust-up.

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Tags Cameron Bright, Chris Weitz, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Cudmore, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kristen Stewart, Michael Sheen, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Video, Volturi, Wyck Godfrey

With the first "Twilight" movie grossing more than $380 million world wide and "New Moon" poised for similar success, it's sort of a no-brainer to tap producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey to transform your page-turner into a bloody good movie. At least that's what Lauren Conrad thinks.

"I mean, you can't do much better, right?" the "L.A. Candy" author told MTV News at the West Hollywood launch party for her new Kohl's clothing line "LC Lauren Conrad." The former "Hills" star went on to explain the process of getting her novel onto the big screen.

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Tags Books, L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad, Marty Bowen, The Hills, Twilight, Video, Wyck Godfrey

It's been a good week for Lauren Conrad. Not only did she launch her new Kohls clothing line, but she also got her first novel, "L.A. Candy," picked up by the executive producers of none other than "Twilight."

It was Lauren who approached production company Temple Hill Entertainment partners, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (the same duo who are bringing the novel "Wings" to life on the big screen), to make the film. "Lauren, who became an icon in that reality show world, came to us with a structure of how to tell the story in an interesting fashion that was separate and apart from the book," Marty said in an interview with Variety.

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Tags L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad, Marty Bowen, The Hills, Twilight, Wyck Godfrey