When Robert Pattinson talks, Twi-hards listen. And when a heartbroken Robert Pattinson asks Twi-hards to make sure his new flick does better at the box office than The Dark Knight Rises, they show up in droves and ensure that despite only playing in three theaters (in NY and LA), Cosmopolis grosses $72,300. Not too shabby at all! And possibly part of a master plan involving a highly orchestrated cheating scandal.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not the only one who has had a sneaking suspicion that maybe just maaaybe Kristen Stewart didn't actually cheat on Rob with Rupert Sanders. Maybe the story was neatly crafted by the couple themselves or a snickering team of movie publicists, as a publicity stunt that could kill several birds with one big fat juicy stone ...
The Cosmopolis box office results -- which may have been a canary in the coal mine to test the potential for a huge Breaking Dawn: Part 2 opening -- isn't the only piece of evidence to support the scenario.
There's also the fact that the two seem to be getting out of multiple Twilight press events scot-free. Given how OVER it the two of them have seemed for some time, I could totally see Rob and Kristen having their agents try to finagle a way for them to get out of promoting the franchise they've undoubtedly become fatigued with over the past few years. By chalking their absence up to being "estranged" and "distressed" due to a split, they could easily back out of the usual circuit of junkets, Twilight conventions, and even award shows (cough like the VMAs) they never seemed really game for in the first place.
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And by no longer being known (publicly) as one-half of "that Twilight couple," both Rob and Kristen might have better shots at more versatile roles. Not to mention that a faux breakup throws the public "off the scent." If we assume they're dunzo, the couple automatically gets the privacy they've always seemed to crave!
Or ... perhaps she really did cheat, and they're really broken up, and Jon Stewart wasn't that off by assuming they've both been crying into empty pints of Chubby Hubby. Who knows? But if anyone's capable of an elaborately scripted break-up for bigger box office gains, it's two young movie stars and the forces initially responsible for their blockbuster success.
Do you think the RPattz/KStew split may be a stunt?
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I am sorry I know they like their privacy and all that but I do not think for one second these two would deceive their fans like that in that way. They would suck it up for their fans and deal with all the other stuff then to out and out lie like that to their fans and risk losing those fans because of it. If not for their fans their other movies might not make them as much money. Yes the scandal is hitting them some but not like a a scandal of an out and out lie to the fans. Now might the whole Cheating scandal be a ploy on Rupert Sanders part hmm lets see. Get photographed having an affair with a big star from the TWilight Saga. Would that up his films sales or bring more attention to it. UMMM yeah. In my case I refuse to watch Snow White and the Huntsman because of it. I thought Kristen and Rob made a great couple and would go the distance. Not because of the whole Twilight Saga but because they just seemed to have so much in common and they seemed to have gotten along so well and had fun together and I was saying that before they ever came out as a couple.
Yeah I wondered and could totally make sense! Oh they have broken up boo hoo oh yeah its almost time to promote ( we are so tired) oh lets break em up! boo then its getting closer to the premiere oh they are miraculously back together YEAHH yeah okay I will buy it just let them do what they are going to do and let us have our dreamy ending and then let them ride off into the sunset. OR NOT!
I THINK THEM GOING OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS FOR PUBLICITY AND NOT THAT THE MOVIES ARE ALL MOST OVER NOW THEY DON'T HAVE TO FAKE IT ANYMORE.