In a post by Marc Malkin, artist Jason Mecier has created candy portraits of several artists including Twilight actor Taylor Lautner. The portrait was made from 500 pieces of Red Vines Licorice. Prices for the portraits treats range from $1,000 to $2,000.

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With the trailer of Kristen’s newest movie, Welcome to the Rileys, being released today, what’s next for the Twilight trio?

Twilighters already has some idea on what projects they are going to take but nonetheless, Yahoo has listed down the movies that they have done or have been lined up to do.

After hitting the A-list playing Bella, the lovestruck heroine of “Twilight”, Kristen Stewart could have easily developed a nice cushy career starring in Nicholas Sparks weepies. Instead she went for something dark and daring. “Welcome to the Rileys” — which also stars James Gandolfini of “Sopranos” fame and Oscar-nominee Melissa Leo — was the talk of this year’s Sundance Film Fest. In the flick, she plays a troubled teenaged stripper who finds herself adopted by a grieving couple. Critics have praised her performance, where she bares her soul, and a lot else, for the part. She’s even getting some early Oscar buzz. The flick opens in November.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Stewart has gone edgy for a part — remember her turn in this year’s “The Runaways” — and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be her last. She is slated to star as Marylou in the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal book “On the Road.” That movie is set to open in May 2011.

Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson cropped his trademark floppy locks to play a circus veterinarian in “Water for Elephants.” The film boasts a high-caliber cast — including Reese Witherspoon, Hal Holbrooke, and Chistroph Waltz, aka Col. Hans Landa of “Inglourious Basterds” fame — causing that famously dour actor to lament, “It feels like everyone [in the cast] is an Oscar winner except me.”

Also on his plate is “Bel Ami” (see left) — a tale of power and seduction set in fin-de-siecle Paris — which costars Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci. Both films open next year.

And finally, Taylor Lautner’s biceps and six-pack will be getting plenty of action in his upcoming projects. Everyone’s favorite werewolf is currently filming the action-thriller, “Abduction” — about a young lad who learns that he was kidnapped as a child. He’s also signed on to play the lead in “Stretch Armstrong” — the rubbery Hasbro toy superhero — once the Twilight franchise wraps up.

And, of course, you can catch all three in the penultimate movie in the Twilight series “Breaking Dawn, Part 1″, which opens November 2011.

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With the rise of the Twilight Saga into pop culture phenomenon, it also introduced Taylor Lautner into mainstream Hollywood. And with the success of New Moon, he is now being targeted as Hollywood’s next leading man. So far, he has two action movies being lined up and with the success of Eclipse, it is expected that more Hollywood executives would be knocking at his door.

New York Times Vulture Blog looks into Taylor Lautner’s star power and how far will he go in Hollywood. Here is an excerpt:

At all of 18, Taylor Lautner has appeared in films that have grossed over one billion dollars at the box office, and just by threatening to doff his shirt, he can reliably elicit shrieks and heart palpitations in a significant segment of the female population. But is the money and the screaming for Lautner, or for his Twilight character, Jacob Black? He’s become wildly in demand, with studios abruptly anointing him as the next big thing, yet he’s a bit of a cipher. When he leaves his phenomenon of a franchise, will he be Harrison Ford … or Mark Hamill? To find out, we examined his career arc and upcoming projects, interrogated agents, publicist, and managers, and measured the decibel levels outside theaters showing Eclipse, all to determine his value in the Star Market.

STOCK HISTORY: Michigan-born Lautner has been acting professionally since he was 9 years old, with such credits as Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl. But he didn’t become a name brand until he got the Abs. When New Moon grossed $710 worldwide (and with Robert Pattinson largely absent from the movie), he and Team Jacob became the story. He made for the perfect focal point for the sequel’s success because of his triumphant tale of fighting to keep his job and butterflylike rebirth; his new buffness made people root for him, just as they do the wiseacre outcast teenager in a teen movie who ditches her glasses and gets a makeover for the prom. Suddenly, even though he had only two hits to his name (both in a name-brand franchise), studios were weighing him for seemingly every new blockbuster that needed a young star — Spider-Man, Max Steel — and he was cast in Universal’s Stretch Armstrong, as well as two genre movies, Abduction and Cancun. He’s a bit of a blank slate, with a nondescript (though age-appropriately-so) persona, which allows Hollywood to project their own franchise fantasies on him and for tweens to latch onto. However, a true movie star has to attract a lot more people than just tweens, and he has a lot of work to do before adults consider him anything other than “that kid on my daughter’s screensaver.”

PAST EARNINGS:

Twilight (2008): $1 million

New Moon (2009): $4 million

Eclipse (2010): $7.5 miion

Abduction (2011): $7.5 million

Stretch Armstrong (future): Deal pending delivery of script, though Eclipse’s ever-multiplying grosses will put him in an ever-stronger bargaining position.

PEERS: When movies looking for a young star for popcorn fare are being cast, Lautner’s name is often mentioned in the same initial brainstorms as the much more entrenched Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron (though Efron, in a bid for seriousness and a longer career, is vanishing from that conversation). Other stars in his strata: Kick Ass’s Aaron Johnson; Anton Yelchin (Chekov in Star Trek); future “Thor” Chris Hemsworth; and more serious thespians like The Social Network co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. The last two have the advantage of adult recognition and industry confidence, if not the musculature, but if Garfield’s recent anointment as the new Spider-Man proves, that’s not a deal-breaker.

MARKET VALUE: Hollywood is desperate for a dependably bankable male star, and Lautner’s mix of muscles and soft, not-quite-ripe cuddliness is a combo that sparks fantasies of movies that attract both men and women. Though his winning track record is entirely tied to one franchise, at least that means that millions of people know him, which is more than one can say for the squads of equally good-looking guys on marginally rated CW shows or slasher films. The studios behind his next two movies, both likely to be mid-priced genre movies — John Singleton’s Abduction, in which his character sees his face on a milk carton and realizes his childhood was a lie, and Cancun, a Taken-like thriller, only with the vengeful son tracking down his kidnapped dad — are betting that even if only a fraction of the Twilight audiences come to see him again, that will be enough to make a nice profit. As long as the Twilight movies keep coming, he’ll be the matinee idol de jour — but the franchise’s last movie opens in 2012, so the studios have to move fast.

WHAT HOLLYWOOD THINKS: “Everyone wants him because that’s what the Hollywood business culture wants: franchise movies,” explains one agent. “And he’s a bankable star because he’s been in a successful franchise. You couldn’t have a better launching pad.” A manager liked what he saw when Lautner hosted Saturday Night Live, “because he showed he was game for anything.” And a publicist thinks his rep has been well managed: “His press all along has been very classy without being too trendy. That’s good, because if you’re too trendy, you can wind up looking like you’re just of-the-moment, rather than someone who’s going to have longevity.” What Lautner mostly has going for him is that he has nothing going against him yet, but that’s also a concern. As the manager explains, “Lautner’s the perfect guy: all success, and no failure — but no failure because there hasn’t been much of a chance to fail. So, everything remains to be seen.” A second agent, however, was more frank, disparaging Lautner’s acting abilities and predicting that unless his current fame gets him some excellent scripts, “he’ll wind up retiring as a very rich 20-year-old, or on some Aaron Spelling–type TV show.”

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“If it was for a role that I was passionate about, I would definitely do that,” he told MTV. I want to challenge myself to everything,” he said. “I’ve got a really cool action thriller [in 'Abduction'] and then an awesome superhero movie [in 'Stretch Armstrong'], but I want to find a great drama script.”

He also talked about his confrontation scenes with Rob.

“We’re always like an inch away from each other’s faces, screaming at each other, spitting at each other in the face. It gets a little awkward,” Taylor Lautner told PEOPLE of costar Robert Pattinson at Monday’s Cinema Society and Piaget-hosted screening of their latest Twilight film in New York.

“Not anything super dramatic,” Lautner says, “but I’m sure he caught a couple splats.”

Shouting at each other doesn’t come naturally for two guys who don’t, in real life, despise each other. And so, the scenes often veer into laughter. “Rob and I ruin a lot of takes,” Lautner admits. “It’s hard to keep a straight face, because we actually like each other. So, it’s pretty funny.”

Here is also another video of the Eclipse New York screening courtesy of Fox New York.

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In Breaking Dawn, what do you think Edward’s evolution will be?

Pattinson: I haven’t read it yet! I mean, it’s weird – I’m starting it a month after this job and it’s something I’m quite glad I haven’t read it yet. I didn’t intend to not read it until now, it’s quite exciting. I have no idea, I just heard brief rumors about what happens in the story but I don’t really know what happens at all

Your current haircut is shorter than Edward’s. How are you going to go about getting your long hair back for Breaking Dawn?

Pattinson: I’m thinking maybe Edward got a haircut – it might be easier. I didn’t even think about that when I got it cut, that is a bit silly. Vampires can cut their hair though, so I like the idea of Edward having a shaved head in the last one. That [would be] pretty cool.

Taylor Lautner

Since Breaking Dawn will be two movies, do you if one movie will be from your perspective and one will be from Rob’s?

Lautner: I do know it will be two, which I am extremely excited about. It is going to be great. Bill Condon is doing both. I it going to be awesome and I can’t wait to work with him.

Do you have a clause in your contract saying you have to keep your shirt on?

Lautner: No clause (laughs). Whatever the book says is most likely what we are going to do.

Would you ever do another film where you have to go shirtless again?

Lautner: I mean really, it all comes down to character. If I love the character, I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose thirty pounds, I’m ready to do it.

Kristen Stewart

Now that you’ve done three of these are there things that you wish had made into the movie from the book that didn’t?

Stewart: Yeah, totally – there are a million things. I mean every single time we watch one of the movies, especially when the cast watches it together, it’s always an incredibly frustrating experience. That’s why I’m glad that Breaking Dawn is going to be two movies, which I can finally say. So there’s going to be less of that, less of having to lose stuff. I know you want specific things but I’m trying to think of one now but I can’t.

How long have you known that Breaking Dawn was going to be two films, and how long will the shoot be?

Stewart: The shoot is going to be something like six months. We start in October. I think we’re not going to be finished until maybe March or something, maybe February. I clearly don’t really look at the schedule. I had to hold onto this forever. They’ve been talking about it for a really long time and we all definitely knew that it was going to be two movies forever now. It’s been really hard not to say that. We’re all really stoked on that.

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