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A new photo of Jackson Rathbone as Sokka from the film The Last Airbender, has surfaced. The actor is shown (in what I believe to be) the South Pole with a child from his tribe.

The summer will be a great time for Jackson fans. His two movies, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens June 30th and the following week, The Last Airbender hits theaters, July 2nd.

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Nickelodeon’s incredibly popular animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is headed to the big screen with director M. Night Shymalan overseeing the live action film. Jackson Rathbone has left his Twilight character of Jasper Hale behind and plays Sokka, the wisecracking, boomerang-throwing Southern water tribe teen who, along with his sister Katara (Nicola Peltz) help airbender Aang (Noah Ringer) discover his true destiny and restore balance to the world. After casting controversy, Dev Patel has the role of Prince Zuko of the Fire nation and Jesse McCartney is not the banished prince.

The Last Airbender will hit theaters July 2nd, 2010.

The Last Airbender, the live action version of Nickelodeon’s popular animated show, Avatar, isn’t due until July but we are finally getting a few more set photos. The pics were in Empire magazine and our friends at BackseatCuddler.com have them for us to take a peek at. No shots still of Jackson Rathbone as Sokka or Dev Patel as Prince Zuko (there is one shot of Dev on the movie’s imdb page here.) Guess we will have to wait until the full trailer is released in February.

I am looking forward to this. The series was great and I have high hopes that M Night Shyamalan does craft a great film from the material.

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Jackson Rathbone and his band 100 Monkeys will be part of a tribute concert for their fellow musician, Spencer Bell, who lost his life in 2006 to adrenal cancer. As part of the Spencer Bell Legacy Project, the concert will raise awareness and money for the cause.

Along with 100 Monkeys is Tin Tin Can, Ervo, The Kissing Club, Drew and the Medicinal Plan and The Stevedores will perform April 24, 2010 in Dallas Texas. Tickets go on sale January 15th for the springtime event.

For more concert, promotions and giveaway info, check out this page here.

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon world premiere took place at Mann Village and Bruin Theater in Los Angeles, California, on Monday (November 16). The fans wouldn’t stop screaming, everyone looked amazing and it’s just a few more days until ‘New Moon’ hits theaters November 20th.

New Moon Premiere Mega Gallery include: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Stephenie Meyer, Chris Weitz, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Dakota Fanning, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alex, Meraz, Boo Boo Stewart, Martin Sheen, Christian Serratos, Lea Michelle, Kristen Pout, Gill Birmingham, 50 Cent, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anna Kendrick, Julianne Hough, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Joan Jett, Elle Fanning, Emma Roberts, Justin Chambers and Emilie de Ravin.

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MTV has premiered a ‘new’ clip of The Twilight Saga: New Moon during it’s Ulalume Festival special that aired this weekend. This isn’t really new - just an extended version of Bella’s birthday and her paper cut that unleashes Jasper’s thirst for human blood. Check out all the interviews and cast chat with Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser and Nikki Reed. Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson do make a brief appearance at the end to intro the extended clip. I still think someone should create a youtube with all the clips and pics Summit has released - there would be no need to go to the theaters - it feels like the entire movie is online already.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon theatrical release of November 20th is right around the corner but for actor Jackson Rathbone, it doesn’t mean he will be slowing down. Not only is he gearing up for the crazy promotional schedule of New Moon, he is finishing work on the third film of the franchise Eclipse, and he is starting work on the indie flick Girlfriend, which he will also produce. All that back and forth between characters could be a problem for some actors, but not Rathbone.

“The process of going through the works; getting makeup, getting hair and all that, you have enough time to kind of contemplate your character. And I always put a lot of work into the way my characters move and the way they speak and the way they relate to others around them. It’s just the simple things. I like the subtle nuances that really kind of establish a character and how a character grows throughout a story.”

He also finished filming The Last Airbender with Dev Patel and directed by M Night Shymalan and he is about to embark on a tour with his band 100 Monkeys. While he can’t officially confirm it yet, Breaking Dawn should start filming in February or March so Jackson still has quite a bit of work on his plate for a long while yet.

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ETOnline is reporting that actor Jackson Rathbone who plays Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, was injured and taken to a doctor while performing a fight scene for the film. Thankfully, it appears to have been minor.

“As a precaution, he was driven to the hospital and checked out by a doctor. He’s fine and is back at work on the set of ‘Eclipse’ today.”

Filming was not halted and everything is on schedule again. Eclipse will hit theaters in June of 2010, while New Moon is opening November 19th 2009.

In the upcoming release of the second film in The Twilight Saga, some characters with limited screen time will see their roles expanded. One fan favorite from the books was Jasper Hale, played by Jackson Rathbone, and he had a very small part in the first movie. That’s about to change. In New Moon and the now-filming third installment, Eclipse, Rathbone will have a chance to give depth to his Civil War Era human-turned-mood-altering-vampire.

“I’ve been studying up a lot on the Civil War and that era; it really was a crazy time, it was all-out war on our own turf and between countrymen,” Jackson told MTV News. “It’s an interesting time to see when Jasper was actually human, and what his human form was, and when he gets turned how intense and how dark he is. Then [we'll see] his realization of what he’s become, him finding Alice and being redeemed by love.”

In Eclipse, the Cullen family needs a leader and Jasper steps up to the plate to deliver the fighting techniques they’ll need to defeat Victoria’s army of blood thirsty newborns. Rathbone is given more substance to work with in the coming films and says that fans will get to see Jasper work his emotion calming magic in a school scene in New Moon. Jasper happens to be the character I like most and I’m looking forward to Jackson having more scenes in the next two flicks.

Read more of Rathbone’s MTV interview here. Can’t wait for November!

We have more ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ casting news to bring you: Along with Jodelle Ferland as (possibly) Bree, Bryce Dallas Howard as the new Victoria and Xavier Samuel as Riley, Royce and Maria have been announced as the filming begins at the end of August in Vancouver.

Jack Huston will play Royce King II, Rosalie’s (Nikki Reed) dastardly fiance and Catalina Sandino Morena will be Maria, the vampire who creates an army of newborns and turns Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) into a soldier for her clan’s dominance.

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson looked as handsome as ever in his own shy style, running his hand through his hair a couple million times at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday (August 9) in Universal City, California.

Robert, who won the award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama, was accompanied by Twilight co-stars Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone… what a cute troop!!

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Actress Ashley Greene (Alice) confessed to have a secret crush on her on-screen lover Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper Hale in the Twilight Saga.

Ashley said, “I’m glad I don’t have a boyfriend. It’d be hard to tell him, ‘I have a crush on Jackson Rathbone!’”

Can Ashley and Jackson be the new Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart? We doubt it, but Alice and Jasper do make a super cute vampire couple.

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