It’s the final round of our Twi-Potter Tournament, a weeklong showdown with daily duels between the two smash-hit franchises. Today’s face-off is between Robert Pattinson’s roles in each series:

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Twilight vs. Harry Potter: Team Rob or Team Rob?

Consider yourself lucky, Louisiana.
You—and Canada!—might get an an up-close and personal glimpse of a brooding Rob Pattinson, or even a doe-eyed Kristen Stewart over the next year, because Summit Entertainment has officially booked the landscape for Breaking Dawn.
Starting this fall, parts one and two of the final Twilight chapter begin production, shooting the films in both Baton Rouge and Vancouver—so locals, start staking out potential star-sighting spots now.
Don’t forget to mark you calendars: Breaking Dawn numero uno hits theaters November 18, 2011. And if The Awful Truth tells us it’ll be “way hot,” we’re there!

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Summit Entertainment has reportedly agreed to pay “Twilight Saga” stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner $25 million each for the final two installments of the film franchise. — Full story at X17online.

Get more “Extra” scoop on the latest headlines for July 6!

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‘I got to do some really interesting and important things,’ Davis says of two-part ‘Deathly Hallows.’
By Kara Warner

Warwick Davis

Photo: MTV News

Ask any of the “Harry Potter” castmembers to name their favorite moment over the course of filming eight movies, and they’ll be hard-pressed to select just one. No matter what level of involvement, from stars to extras, production designers to makeup artists, those close to the wizard franchise feel lucky just to have been a part of the “Potter” magic.

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Did fireworks scare off fang-girls? Did Team Jacob’s screams scare off the unaligned crowds? Why couldn’t Eclipse’s box-office start quite match New Moon’s?

We break down the best parts of the new sneak peek.
By Terri Schwartz

Bonnie Wright and Daniel Radcliffe in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”

Photo: Warner Bros.

The first full-length “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” trailer comes at the perfect time to remind everyone why they loved the story about the boy with a lightning-bolt scar to begin with — and to ask everyone else who didn’t what they were possibly thinking.

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Harry’s confrontation with Lord Voldemort takes center stage in the full-length sneak peek.
By Josh Wigler

Emma Watson in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”

Photo: Warner Bros.

The end is almost here for Harry Potter and his friends. The J.K. Rowling-penned novel series about a young boy who ultimately becomes a powerful wizard concluded with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” published in 2007. Three years later, that same final chapter is about to play out once again — this time, on the big screen.

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RPattz hasn’t yet seen the final version: ‘I saw an earlier cut, and I liked what happened in the tent scene.’
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Robert Pattinson in “Eclipse”

Photo: Summit Entertainment

The tent scene is already a cast favorite and the most eagerly anticipated moment in “Eclipse,” opening June 30. At a “New Moon” screening last year, Taylor Lautner said it was his favorite moment to film, while Elizabeth Reaser described it as a “chaste three-way.”

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Part 1 of the final chapter is set for release on November 18, 2011.
By Kara Warner

Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in “Eclipse”

Photo: Summit Entertainment

Confirming what many have speculated for months, Summit Entertainment officially announced Thursday (June 10) that “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” will be released as two separate films. The first of the two films is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 18, 2011. The release date for the second film was not announced.

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Now that Ashley Greene has her contract nailed down for Breaking Dawn, it’s all business (and a little bit of pampering) for the brunette beaut.
We ran into Ash yesterday at Kari Feinstein’s MTV Movie Awards Style Lounge at the Montage Beverly Hills, where she dished about what’s going on with the final flick being one or two movies.
She couldn’t possibly be the difficult Twilight star we alluded to yesterday, right?

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