“When their powers combine…” This is one of the most brilliant marketing strategies I have ever heard. The Twilight people have asked the Jonas Brothers to write a song for the next movie in the series, New Moon. The soundtrack for the first film did very well on the charts, and adding a Jonas Brothers song to the next one could prove to be a money maker.

“The movie was obviously a huge success, and if they asked us to be a part of [the sequel], that would be great,” Nick Jonas said when we caught up with him and his brothers Monday, revealing that the trio are fans of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire franchise and would be willing to write a song for the “New Moon” soundtrack. “It would be really cool.”

“That would be really cool,” agreed Joe and Kevin.

In November, the “Twilight” soundtrack opened in the top slot of the Billboard albums chart and continued its strong sales throughout the film’s box-office run. Staying true to Meyer’s close relationship with music — and director Catherine Hardwicke’s love for mixing her images with disparate tunes — the soundtrack featured such diverse bands as Paramore, Perry Farrell, Linkin Park and Collective Soul.

Next month, Chris Weitz begins filming the sequel and will at some point start making his choices for a “New Moon” album. Whether the Grammy-nominated Jonas Brothers would write a “Twilight”-themed track remains unclear, but this much is certain: Before they can do much more “New Moon” campaigning, the chart-topping trio still need to actually sit down and watch “Twilight.”

“I haven’t seen it,” Joe admitted. “But I have heard it’s a great movie.”

“We’re looking forward to seeing it,” Nick added. “We’ve been a little busy, so it’s kinda hard to get the movies, but we’ll see it.”

[from MTV]

Although they haven’t actually seen the movie, The Jonas Brothers realized how popular the film was when they decided to get a bite to eat on the night of the premiere.

Edward and his Cullen family are so popular, in fact, that “Twilight” recently proved its power as a franchise by distracting screaming teens long enough for the JoBros to grab a pizza.

“I think this is really funny,” Kevin remembered of the first time the trio realized how huge “Twilight” was. “We were in town [the day of the ‘Twilight’ premiere], because we were working all day on our TV show.

“We weren’t able to make it to the premiere. We were invited, but we couldn’t make it,” Kevin continued. “That night, we were starving coming home from work. And we wanted to get pizza.”

While thousands of Twilighters screamed their heads off, unaware, the rock sensations snuck into a restaurant across the street and had a rare, peaceful meal. “The pizza place that we ordered from just happened to be across the street from the premiere,” Kevin laughed. “And so, we come up driving, and didn’t realize that it was the ‘Twilight’ premiere. It was one of those comical moments that was really funny for us.”

[from MTV]

The Twilight saga and The Jonas Brothers have a lot of the same fan base, as evidenced by the pizza story, so I’m not surprised that this joint venture was accepted by the boy band. And this move will only increase their popularity among the Twilight crowd – it won’t be surprising if the song, as well as the soundtrack, hits top ten.

Can you imagine what the premiere for the new movie will be like? Robert Pattinson and the Jonas Brothers in a photo together – a preeteen girl’s dream. I would not want to be doing crowd control that night.

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