New Moon News – New Moon Junket – More Interviews
ABC’s Nightline’s feature on Twilight
HitFix.com has these great interviews with Kristen, Taylor and of course, the rest of the Cullen Clan. Thank you HitFix!
We’ve finally got MTV’s Rough Cut video interview with Kristen Stewart. See Rob’s here.
New Moon Singapore News
Singapore Twilight Fans! You’re gonna be in for a treat from our very own Mediacorp’s Channel 5 – The Official TV Station for The Twilight Saga: New Moon!
They have so many exciting stuff in store for you and will be launching their New Moon promotions with 02 EXCLUSIVE INTERSTITIALS on the following dates! When we say exclusive we mean E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E (..leh)
FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER, 2009
MONDAY 23RD NOVEMBER, 2009
Mark your calendars and let us know what you think!!
New Moon Festa
Twilight Singapore is organising a New Moon event specially for you Twilighters in Singapore! A fun-filled event where you can mingle with other Twilighters and stand a chance to win New Moon premiums! This year, we’re taking at a different notch than last year’s Twilight Soiree with a different venue and a different theme! So what are you waiting for! Register with us to twilightsingaporeexclsuive@gmail.com with the subject title as New Moon Festa!
DATE: 22 NOVEMBER 2009
TIME: 1800hrs – 2000hrs
VENUE: Merpati Hall @ Geylang Public Library (nearest MRT – Aljunied MRT)
DRESS CODE: Semi-formal
THEME: Masquerade
P.S.: There will be prizes for the best dressed so do dress your best with your best mask on!
Twilight Singapore Movie Marathon
[EDITED] PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES IN TIMING*
The wait is over! Twilight Singapore presents to all Twilighters in Singapore the Twilight-New Moon Movie Marathon! 1ST Marathon in Singapore!
DATE: 1st DECEMBER, 2009
TIME: 1830hrs
VENUE: LIDO 3 [EDITED]
FREE SEATING
Programmme Rundown:
1830 – TWILIGHT
2030 – Break
*2100 – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
Book your tickets now with us at twilightsingaporeexclusive@gmail.com with the subject title as Twilight Singapore Movie Marathon! Ticket prices will be revealed to you once you’ve confirmed your booking. Any enquiries about the movie marathon, do send them to the same email address as above. Dateline for the registration is on 28th November at 1800hrs.
New Moon Singapore News
Hey Singapore Twilight fans!!
Twilight Singapore will be organizing a movie marathon with Twilight & The Twilight Saga: New Moon shown back to back!!
On December 1st!
We are finalizing the payment procedures and will have details for you tonight. So don’t fret you’ll be part of an exciting event!!
Join us cos we’re doing this just for Singapore Twilight fans – BOOKS & MOVIE!
And we KNOW just how to make it MORE exciting for YOU! 
[EDIT]
Thanks to Jan for the news!! VANITY FAIR with Robert Pattinson IS OUT!! If you wanna get it – its priced at $11.97.
HARPER’S BAZAAR will be on the shelves on Saturday – Please call your news agent/bookstore to confirm!
New MOon News – *NEW* New Moon EW Cover out 20th Nov [UPDATED]
Thanks to HisGoldeneyes.com & EdwartEmmett09@LiveJournal for the pic!
Wild, Uncensored 3-Way Interview? Yes please – bring it on!
[UPDATE]
Entertainment Weekly has released outtakes from the EW cover photoshoot of our 3 main leads in New Moon.
See the rest at Entertainment Weekly.com
New Moon News – More New Moon Junket Video Interviews
Chuck-The Movie Guy has his video up!
Talking about the making of the ‘SLO-MO’ WALK!!!! (the very same one we saw first in the Volvo Advert! )
A new behind the scenes video (from an Italian news feature) about the filming in Montepulciano. Thanks to RobertPattinsonLife.
New Moon News
Rob ‘bare’, Kristen, Taylor and Chris are in Paris at this moment promoting New Moon!
Here’s what we have so far:
Rob introduced on News Program TF1
[Update] Translation/Transcript of interview at RPattzRobertPattinson.com
Then the journalist compares Harry Potter and Twilight and Rob says that in HP there was no sex at all. What seduces the audience according to Rob is the characters whom you can relate to whereas in HP there are so many characters that you can’ t relate to their feelings.
The reporter says that 3 films have already been done. So she asks him how he will get rid of his character? How will he continue his career ?
He jokes and say that maybe everything will stop after the last film. Then he tells her that the film are quickly done so he hopes he will be able to go on later with other roles or movies. He says that he isn’t imprisoned by his character.
Woot!! Another TV Spot for New Moon – Battle
Looks like the scene where Edward has the fight with Jacob…. Oh Edward look soo fierce!!!
New Moon News – Press Junket Australian Radio Interview (Very funny!) UPDATED
This is an awesome interview done by Hamish & Andy for an Australian radio station.
I love it – A guy who is a ‘Closet Twilight’ fan!!!
Hope you guys enjoy it too!!
Part 1 : Interview with Kristen
Part 2 : Interview with Robert
[UPDATED] Wow! Thanks to HisGoldenEyes.com There’s actually a video of this interview! And we get to see this Brad guy! 
[UPDATED PART 2 ON 12NOV]
New Moon News
Here’s another New Moon TV Spot – ‘Devotion’:
Check out Taylor’s interview at IESB. From New Moon to his other projects, read it all here:
Just in case we missed this one – Another article from MTV: ‘New Moon’: Five Fun Facts You Didn’t Know!
Any Backstreet Boys fans here? If you’re one of them, you should be glad that A.J McLean is Team Edward. Watch the video here and he’ll explain:
Given the fact that A.J. McLean have always been the Backstreet Boy who wears eyeliner and occasionally dons shirts that sparkle in the sun (like in the “I’ll Never Break Your Heart” music video), it seems pretty unsurprising that the dude loves himself some “Twilight.”
His bandmate, Brian Littrell, has been going around revealing to everyone that A.J. adores the vampire-centric teen movie, so when MTV News got our grubby little hands on him, we had to hear it straight from A.J. himself about how much he adores the story of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. And in case anybody was wondering: A.J. is Team Edward.
Lastly, a new ‘New Moon’ still….Thanks to I Felt Hope!
New Moon News – New Moon in Singapore!
Betcha many fans’ hearts jumped and secret smiles were all around when they came up the escalator at Dhoby Ghaut’s North East line today… Riiiight?? And I can truly vouch seeing these posters made the day for them!!
NEW MOON will be in Singapore 3rd December!!!!
And the reason for it all?
This!!!
Don’t stare too long – later ‘kena’ DAZZLE, then you know!
We have sumore and will add later! We love the fact that each clan have their own poster, they look so AWESOME – and of course more reason to collect!
Click here to see where New Moon’s ‘invasion’ of Singapore began!
New Moon News – More New Moon Press Junket Video Interviews
Wah LIOW!!
Sumore video interviews! Twilightxmas is here!
Here’s from Reuters:
CNN
ABC News
ET Canada
HollyScoop.com (GREAT Interview!)
MTV Rough Cut where Larry Carroll asked him questions we’ve been waiting to be answered!
Head on here, here and here for the Press Junket interviews we posted the past few days.
New Moon News
Gotta love this photo from CinePremiere magazine scans from TwilightPoison!
Rob : *need to listen to what Chris is saying* .... Woo! Cheetooos.. Gimme! NOM, NOM NOM!!
More Video Interviews plus extended versions of press junket interviews posted previously:
Access Hollywood : The Cullens, The Volturi and Rob Pattinson
Entertainment Tonight – Robert Pattinson
HitFix.com – Robert Pattinson
Updating will be done to compile all videos on one page.
New Moon News
Pattinson Online UK has an exclusive interview with Robert Pattinson!! They were invited by Summit Entertainment to the press junket and the best part – ROB Thank them personally for great job on the website!! So exciting for them!
[EDITED- NEW VIDEO ADDED 13/11] Without further to do here’s the video of their interview. Pattinson Online will provide a transcript of the interview soon.
[Update 10NOV] EDIT: The admin of (Pattinson Online UK) have received an opportunity to further edit the video in a smoother manner and so have decided to pull the vid until we can release a better version. You won’t have to wait long….we promise!
TimesOnline.co.uk has a pretty extensive and long article about Robert Pattinson : Trapped in the Twilight Zone .
The article doesn’t really cover much about Rob but more on the Twilight phenomenon as a whole and how it has affected people. Check it out!
On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks. Instead he lives in danger of being trampled in a stampede of teen love. He plays the vampire Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga, the biggest books-to-screen phenomenon since Harry Potter — in which, by the way, Pattinson was Cedric Diggory, heroic golden boy and victim of Voldermort. Boy, his life has changed since Hogwarts.
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“It’s been a little frightening,” he laughs, a sort of embarrassed chuckle that punctuates his conversation, the sound of someone negotiating the best bit of luck they have ever had, not wanting to sound arrogantly blasé or overexcited. “In England no-one had heard of the series when I went for the audition, so it has been a total, utter surprise. The change to my everyday life is so extreme. Before this I was used to working 10 days a year. Originally, I did a three-picture deal, but I wasn’t even really thinking about that… I had no idea that I’d still be working on it now.”
Does the poor boy, who still calls London home, feel he has to hide? “I tend to stay in the hotel because it’s highly publicised where I’m staying all the time. There’s always a bunch of people outside. I can’t really be in LA now at all. It’s not that the fans are threatening, but the paparazzi follow me all night.” This hounding can evoke an absurd sympathy, considering the kid’s fortune and prospects. But then he brightens, telling me he was buying a guitar the other day and had to spell his name 12 times, and the guy still didn’t twig. “I loved that. It was my fault — I wasn’t speaking loud enough.”
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Indeed, the Twilight books are a moralist’s charter, an advertisement for abstinence under duress. Bella might be seized by an obsession with Edward’s “liquid topaz eyes” and an “overpowering craving to touch him”, but essentially this is a narrative about good kids not having sex. In Northampton, Sarah, a Twi-mum chaperoning her 12-year-old daughter, says: “It was her birthday, so I thought why not? There is not a lot of sex, none until the last book… and they do get married. When they go away on honeymoon it’s all very discreet.” Uber-fan Katie, by contrast, did not welcome the consummation after the most drawn-out of all literary foreplay. “I really hated it, actually,” she says. “I felt I knew the characters so well, I didn’t want to intrude on such a personal thing.”
Gossip Cop has a very interesting article about Kristen Stewart & The Media
“I probably would’ve answered it if people hadn’t made such a big deal about it,” Stewart told the magazine, going on to point out that people seem to assume that the choice to become an actor erases one’s right to privacy. Then Stewart gave the comments headlined around the world, “There’s no answer that’s not going to tip you one way or the other. Think about every hypothetical situation: ‘Okay, we are. We aren’t. I’m a lesbian.’ I’m just trying to keep something.”
Smart and media savvy, Stewart knew which word would rock the blogosphere.
And it did.
While it’s surprising that the majority of outlets actually took the time to read two paragraphs and understand the comments’ context, the fact that these same outlets used Stewart’s plea to leave her personal life alone as just another opportunity to keep it in the news cycle is all too predictable.
Of course blogs are going to run with the “lesbian” headline. Few words will grab more eyes. If those eyes happen to read enough of the article to understand Stewart was joking, great. If not – well, they don’t care. They got you to click.
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We’ve seen the paparazzi’s destructive behavior with Pattinson, Stewart, and dozens of other young celebrities. We’ve seen the relationship between stars and the people who cover them deteriorate. We see increasingly antagonistic bloggers turning otherwise charismatic actors and actresses into pin cushions less willing to open up when it is appropriate and when they do feel comfortable.
And when someone like Stewart speaks out like she did, sites miss the point and keep stoking speculation.
New Moon News – New Moon Press Junket – Press Conference + Hollywood & Highland Mall Appearance Photos [updated]
KStewartfans@Livejournal’s ljmd (bless you!!) has posted beautiful photos of Kristen Stewart, Chris Weitz, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Dakota Fanning taken at the press conference during the New Moon Press Junket on Saturday! They’re untagged so enjoy cos they are oh soo nice!!
Great pictures too from the New Moon Cast appearance at Hollywood & Highland Mall.
Click on the following links for MORE pictures. And of course you can find them not exhaustive in the internet.
New Moon News – Press Junket Taylor Lautner Interview
Yeah! Taylor Lautner’s Interview from the press junket has been posted! Yesterday you guys read The Twilight Saga: New Moon Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Interview.
Tonight we have Taylor’s. Thanks to Christina Radish of iesb.net for transcribing the interview! Still looking for the audio footage though. We’ll update here once found. Thanks a heap to TwilightXchange/KStewart fans for the picture!!
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Interview with Taylor Lautner
The Twilight Saga: New Moon is sure to shine the spotlight on actor Taylor Lautner, way more so than he received for his performance in Twilight. Even though legions of fans already love him for being a part of the first film, New Moon showcases his talents as Jacob Black, the werewolf vying for the affections of best friend Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), while her vampire love is gone.
The personable and gracious 17-year-old is soaking up all of the extraordinary experiences being a part of this film franchise has brought him and is taking it all in stride, as he prepares for the release of New Moon. At the film’s press day, Taylor Lautner talked about proving his ability to convincingly portray the transformation of Jacob Black.
Q: Did it ever feel like you were really in danger of not getting the role in this movie?
Taylor: Honestly, I knew where my character went in New Moon and that’s all I tried to stay focused on. I couldn’t control things outside. I couldn’t control the media. But, I could control what I was doing to portray Jacob Black correctly. That’s what I stayed focused on, the whole entire time.
Q: Did that start with going to the gym and gaining 30 lbs?
Taylor: Absolutely. Jacob transforms a lot in New Moon, not only physically. but mentally and emotionally as well. So, it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right food, and a lot of it. But, it was also about reading and studying the book and the character, over and over and over again, so I could have his character down as well because he changes in many, many different ways
Q: How does he change?
Taylor: Basically, my job was to continue what I started in Twilight, which was this extremely happy, friendly, outgoing guy, who is best friends with Bella. I had to continue that for the first half of the film, but as soon as he transforms, he snaps and becomes a completely different person. He’s dealing with his issues and it’s really hard for him.
Q: You have a lot of opportunities in the film to show off your new physique, like when Jacob takes off his t-shirt to wipe Bella’s blood.
Taylor: I start laughing so hard, every time I see that scene. “You’re bleeding? Okay, let me fix it.” It’s so embarrassing. Here’s the thing: there’s a reason that he’s not wearing clothes, all the time. One, when he transforms, all his clothes get shredded. He can’t help it. And, when he goes into the woods to get something to put on, so that he’s not naked, it’s just a ripped pair of jean shorts. He’s also hot. He’s 108 degrees. So, that’s another reason. The thing is, I love this character and story, and putting on the weight and not wearing much clothing was required by the role. A year from now, if I love a story and I love a character that requires me to lose 40 lbs, I’m ready to do it.
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Q: How freeing was it to get rid of Jacob’s wig?
Taylor: It was very freeing. I’d look at myself in the mirror and I wouldn’t even be able to recognize myself. It was so weird just to see that hair on me. It was also very itchy, hot and annoying. And, it slowed down the filming process. Whenever it got caught in my eye or whatever, we’d have to cut and start over. It got caught in my mouth and I’d be spitting hair out in the middle of the scene. I’m coming this close to kissing Bella and I’d have to spit my hair out. It was annoying.We actually had a picture wrap on the wig. The crew claps for you at the end of shooting. My last day of filming with the wig, we ripped it off, held it up in the air and were like, “That’s a picture wrap on Taylor’s wig.” The whole crew gave it a standing ovation. It was amazing. It was great to chop that thing off.
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Q: Who else are you close to?
Taylor: I wouldn’t be able to pick one. If I were to start, I’d end up listing the whole cast. I do spend a lot of time with Kristen because all my scenes are involved with her, so Kristen and I are very close. I guess I’m close with Rob, too, ’cause we spend a lot of time together as well. But, the great thing about this series is that the whole entire cast is so close, and it would be a nightmare if we weren’t. It would be impossible to make this series because the characters are so tight. So, we’re really thankful that we all get along so well.
Q: What has it been like working in Vancouver, Canada?
Taylor: Canada is great. I’ve spent a while there. I’ve spent six months out of this year. The first time we were there, it was really rainy, dark and cloudy. It was snowing. That was difficult weather-wise. But, it’s just one of the most beautiful cities and I’m definitely going to miss it a lot.
Q: How was it to film Eclipse? What can you say about that film?
Taylor: Filming Eclipse was beautiful. Eclipse was my favorite book, so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it’s the height of the love triangle. Twilight develops Edward and Bella’s relationship, New Moon develops Jacob and Bella’s, and in Eclipse the three of them are physically together. It has one of my favorite scenes ever, in that movie. The tent scene, where Edward is forced, and I guess it was a choice of his, to let me sleep in the same sleeping bag as Bella, just so she doesn’t die, because she’s shivering to death and I’m warm. I’m the only thing, at that moment, that can keep her alive. It’s a funny scene. There’s a lot of ribbing going on between Jacob and Edward. It’s going to be a really good movie and visually stunning. David Slade is incredible visually.
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Q: In the movie, Jacob speaks Spanish to Bella. Do you speak any Spanish at all, and are you going to speak more Spanish in Eclipse?
Taylor: I don’t speak much Spanish. I took it in school, but that was about it. I think it’s just Jacob’s personality. He’s really outgoing and he’s random. It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with his character. It’s just the fact that he’s friendly and you never know what to expect.
I didn’t speak any Spanish in Eclipse. That was a bummer. But, at the end of this one I did speak a little bit of Quileute, when I was leaning in to kiss her in the kitchen. I’m not gonna tell you what I said. I’ll leave that to you to figure out. But, it was really cool. There’s only like four people left in the world that actually speak Quileute, and we were able to talk to one of these ladies. It was really interesting.
New Moon News – Interview with the Volturis
MoviesOnline’s Sheila Roberts has caught up with the Vampires of the Volturis
We caught up with all the members of the Volturi and got to talk about them about their new film New Moon. Those who participated in the interview are as follows;: Michael Sheen (Aro), Jamie Campbell Bower (Caius), Dakota Fanning (Jane) and Cameron Bright (Alec).
The Twilight Saga: New Moon marks the first appearance of the Volturi, the closest the vampire world has to royalty and a major force in the future of the saga. Centuries old and unimaginably powerful, they serve as lawmakers and enforcers for the community. The leader of the group is Aro, played by Michael Sheen. Sheen is no stranger to this world, having played a werewolf enslaved by the vampires in the Underworld series.
Q: Dakota, as such a fan of the series, you’ve said in many interviews before that you were really excited about this so what were the highlights of playing Jane and do you get to do more in the next movie?
Dakota Fanning: I think the highlight of playing Jane was getting to wear that costume and to have the red contact lenses — I was really excited about that – and getting to play an evil character. The next movie I already finished doing, Eclipse, and it’s about the same. It’s still not very much in the movie.
Q: What did you think when you saw yourself for the first time with the red lenses in?
Dakota Fanning: I know. It’s really scary. I think it makes anyone look automatically evil. But yeah, it was really fun. You get used to them after a while. You can see pretty good, but it’s still kind of weird.
Q: Michael, I wanted to know what you were saying into that tape recorder, but secondly, I wanted to know about you finding your voice. You mentioned the Blue Meanie. Did it take you a while to come up with that or was that kind of an instant thought when you read the script?
Michael Sheen: No, it was from Stephenie in the book. She describes Aro as having a voice like feathers, so that made me think about what would it sound like if someone had a voice like feathers. And then, as I was starting to play around with it, I reminded myself a little bit ofthe Blue Meanie. You remember the Blue Meanie in Yellow Submarine and the hand that goes with it? And then I was also thinking about characters from when I was a kid watching stuff that really freaked me out andthe Blue Meanie really freaked me out. The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – you know, “Lollipops” and all that. I liked the idea of a character who on the surface appears to be very friendly and thinks of himself as just being a sentimental old fool, a romantic at heart, and then he wants to eat your eyes. I liked that sort of idea so that was where Aro came from. And what I said into thetape recorder is between me and whoever owns that tape recorder. [Laughter]
Q: Jamie, can you tell us and describe what the Volturi are for the group?
Jamie Campbell Bower: We are basically the vampire government, I guess. We’re there to sort of keep all the vampires in check. People keep describing us as evil. I wouldn’t say we’re evil necessarily. We’re the government and not everybody likes the government, which is fine. So, we’re there to keep everybody in check. Without us, like you were saying earlier, it would turn into complete anarchy. It would be vampire anarchy. So we’re there to keep the Cullens in check in particular. There’s me and Michael and Chris Heyerdahl who plays Marcus, Aro and Caius respectively, and we sit on these big thrones and then there’s you (Dakota) and Charlie (Bewley) and Dan (Cudmore). They’re our runners effectively.
Michael Sheen: It’s quite thrilling to have Dakota Fanning calling you “monster”.
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Q: Let’s just pretend that you could be the vampire government when the cameras stopped rolling also. With you on set, out of the cast would you have to punish any bad pranksters or jokers there?
Jamie Campbell Bower: I’d like to punish Chris Heyerdahl – not sexually. That sounded a bit naughty, didn’t it?
Cameron Bright: The way they talk on set, it would sound like it wasn’t. They talk hilarious to each other. I don’t know. That’s kind of weird – who would we want to punish – one of the random guards standing in the background of the shot.
Michael Sheen: You could punish Chris Weitz for some truly awful jokes now and again. On the whole, not really, no, they’re all a very sweet bunch, very law abiding. They wouldn’t [inaudible].
Q: So now that you’ve entered into this Twihard machine for fans, how has that been for you, and also, were you obsessed with anything when you were growing up as much as fans are obsessed with this?
Michael Sheen: I haven’t really experienced much of the Twilight fan stuff yet. But, I did go into a store in L.A. to buy a pair of jeans and I went into the little cubicle to try my jeans on. It’s always a quite nerve-wracking time when I come out of the cubicle to look in the mirror anyway and I like that to be a private moment. As I came out, there was a woman shaking, going “You’re Aro, aren’t you?!” and I just hid in my cubicle again. Whooo! Anyway, I’m slightly to the right of where you are. [Laughter] That’s been really my only experience with that. Apart from also going into my daughter’s bedroom and seeing — she’s just got pictures from Twilight and New Moon everywhere — and seeing my own little picture which I think she did out of pity. [Laughter] Have Dad up there as well. That was quite a ball [bore?].
More of this interview at MoviesOnline.ca
New Moon News
Fansite Fridays are BACK!!
The Fansites (Twilight Lexicon, Twilighters Anonymous, Twilight Moms, Twilight Source, His Golden Eyes & Twilight Series Theories) who were invited on the New Moon Film set have released their interviews of the NM Cast! Thanks guys!
Last Friday it was THE HUMANS – Justin Chon & Christian Serratos .
You guys portray the nice people in the series, does it feel ostracizing to not be included in the fight scenes or action sequences?
Justin: Well, I love being on the lighter side of things. I think it is definitely needed in the film. It can’t just be dark moods, love triangles and stuff like that. I think that it is refreshing to us to act in those type of scenes too. I very much enjoy it.
Christian: It would be fun to get to do some of the training, but it’s still nice to have this brighter, lighter role where I can bring some comedy to it.
What do you think the fans will be most surprised by in New Moon?
Justin: They will be very surprised when they see how amazing Taylor looks without his shirt on.
*Justin & Christian laugh*
Christian: Each film is definitely growing, and getting slightly darker as each movie/book goes on. So I think it’s going to be the same but better… a little edgier.
We’ve heard a lot about Chris Weitz, and we’d like to know what you took away from working with him?
Justin: What i took away is how important it is to be meticulous and thorough in pre-production and planning for a movie because once we got on set he had done all the work in terms of setting things up. So all we had to do was come in and just play. So, it was really relieving and it just shows because I am just an actor but with working with different directors, he really was on the ball with this stuff.
Christian: The thing about Chris was that he was on point. We got there, and he had already had a phone call with each of us. He was really into getting to know each of us. He was probably one of the best directors I have worked with, but he wasn’t like a ‘director’ director. He was like this friend that just happened to be amazing at directing! He knew what he was doing and he had a vision. He made sure we incorporated what we wanted to, but still got across what he wanted to, and it has created this awesome flick.
Read it all at TwilightersAnonymous!
This Friday! THE VAMPIRES – Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathborne & Nikki Reed.
Sure, since so many of you are musicians yourselves outside of acting I was wondering what sort of role you think the music plays in the movies. There was so much emphasis placed on the soundtrack and the score in both ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’, I just wanted to kind of get your perspective.
Jackson: Ah, yeah as a musician myself, I’ve done soundtrack work, it’s one of those issues where the music has to be really closely tied to the movie you’re watching. It’s one of those things where music can really draw an emotion; it can really evoke a certain feeling within you like you know sadness or despondency. I mean how many times have you heard a song on the radio that makes you cry. I mean it happens, there’s a lot of emotion in music, it can be used really well and I think ‘Twilight’ did that extremely well. After watching ‘New Moon’ I mean….
Nikki: Yeah I think more so in ‘New Moon’, only because I think in ‘New Moon’ there are a lot of moments, there are a lot of long, I don’t want to say long dramatic pauses, but moments where you sort of need the music to communicate with you because of the subject matter and really to bring it all together with Bella’s traumatic emotional journey.
Kellan: Yeah I definitely agree. I mean when I read ‘New Moon’, being a male, you know it kind of was a little slower for me because I really couldn’t grasp what a female would go through in a way. And I know, I’m not trying to talk for most men but I feel like Bella did go through some characteristics that a lot of females do. And kind of on a relationship-basis you know, with growing up and there are parts of the book where there are a lot of pages of that, and watching ‘New Moon’, Chris found a brilliant way to captivate that and make it; I mean there’s a lot of pages say he made thirty pages of just sitting there as Bella did and showed it within like a minute of film. It was really cool and I think music really you know, is an important part to when you do see those beats in the movie where you don’t need dialogue. You can express a lot just with expressions and not words that the music helps motivate those feelings with the audience.
Nikki: Just helps you feel it.
Complete Interview here. Thanks FANSITES for the Great questions!!
Vale @ Twilight Poison has translated an interview done by Mexican magazine, Tu, when they went on location during the filming of New Moon. Danke sehr Vale!!
Now we hear about what Jackson, Kellan and Nikki talk about the phenomenon.
What’s the best thing about being a vampire?
Kellan: You never sleep, so that lets you do many different things, and your To-Do list is always empty. The bad ting is that you can’t get a tan, and you need an umbrella everytime you go out in te sun. There’s also the whole idea of being eternal and not dying that is not very appealing to me, because the fact that we know we are all going to die one day is what makes us live everyday to the fullest. However, living in different eras makes you see how history repeats itself, how the world changes for better or for worse. If I had been a vampire I would’ve loved to live the 50’s, the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s…. I love those times and I would’ve loved to live in them and see today how far we’ve come. That would be cool.
Nikki: I think they’re strength it’s amazing, for me.
Speaking of fans, what is the most forward thing they’ve ever said to you?
Jackson: I’ve had marriage proposals, which is nice. In fact, I’ve created files and I classify them as “Yes, probably. I’d like her to be my future ex-wife… my second ex-wife” (laughs).
Kellan: We actually thought of making a reality show for Jackson called ‘Who wants to marry a vampire?’, with all his marriage proposals and the girls who adore him, it would be great!
Nikki: The fact that I’m in a film with mostly guys and the majority of the fans being between 10 and 30, makes it a little difficult for me to receive as many marriage proposals as they do. I get perhaps two or three via e-mail, which I’ve kept because they make me feel good.
New Moon News – BTS Clips Revealed and On location Interviews [Part Zwei]
We posted Part One this morning, NOW here’s more! Thank you Thank you Collider.com! And special THANKS to Summit Entertainment for knowing what we want and made these videos!
New Moon News
This is new – SNL Parody with Taylor Swift. LOL!
If you can’t watch the embedded video above, try this one:
Twilight fansites interviewed Alex Meraz and Edi Gathegi. You can read the full interview at Twilight Lexicon. Here’s an extract:
Q: I wanted to know, now Edi you play someone that’s actually a bad guy, and then Alex you’re playing someone who’s kind of misunderstood but comes across as mean, and I was wondering where you guys draw that energy from to come across that way on film?
Edi: Well if Alex’s character is misunderstood, then I want my character to be misunderstood. [Laughs] My character is a vampire, and they eat people, and he wants to eat Bella, and that doesn’t make him a bad guy.
[Alex laughs.]
Edi: He’s just, he’s just doing what nature intended him to do, and it’s actually … he’s not apologetic but he’s explaining, you know, why he must do what he has to do. And I think that’s interpreted as being the evil and bad because the heroes of our stories are vegetarians.
Alex: Which is funny because here’s two characters that both try to kill Bella, so that’s pretty good.
Edi: Yeah, your character tries to go after her …
Alex: … but my character, I think he has a sense of pride, you know? For his culture, for the land … and he just does whatever it takes to protect the land, and when Bella – at first, when I turn to try to kill her – she’s just an outsider. I don’t think she belongs there, and she’s bringing nothing but trouble so it’s just a thick sense of pride that’s really what Paul feels.
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Twilight News/New Moon News
We’re finally gonna be seeing Stephenie Meyer on TV/Youtube again!! Since last year’s explosion of Twilight, the much beloved author and creator of The Twilight Saga has not been seen doing any major TV interviews. But this year, we will and she’s doing it BIG – with none other than the Queen of Talk Shows herself – Oprah Winfrey.
YUP! Stephenie Meyer’s gonna be on Oprah!!
Oh btw! If you have any questions for her.. she’s inviting you to ASK!!
I’m doing this for a good reason: I am so pleased and amazed and thrilled with what Chris Weitz has done with New Moon that I want to talk about it, and to show my support for him. And since I’m only doing one interview, better make it big. Really big. So….I will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, November 13th. Check the local listings on Oprah’s website to find out what time it will be on where you live.
Of course, most of the questions for Oprah will be designed for a broader audience than just die-hard Twilight fans, and I imagine people who read this site and other fansites will already know most of the answers. To rectify this, I’m going to answer your more specific questions on-line. The official Twilight Saga website (www.TheTwilightSaga.com) will be taking any New Moon movie-related questions you might have for me, and then I’ll answer those most frequently asked. I’ll post the answers on the Twilight Saga website and also here on my own site. Questions can be submitted to TheTwilightSaga.com from noon (Eastern Standard Time) on Monday, November 9th through noon Tuesday, November 10th. The answers will be posted Monday, November 16th—or New Moon Premiere Day, as it is known around my house. (Details about submitting the questions will be posted first thing Monday morning at TheTwilightSaga.com, you can also get more information below.)
I’m so very excited that you’ll all get to see New Moon in just two weeks! Then you’ll see what I’m going on about. Until then, think up some good questions for me.
Love,
Steph
I have a very good feeling about this interview. Oprah is gonna hit it off MASSIVELY with Stephenie!!
And betcha, the MIDNIGHT SUN questions will come up! No doubt about it!
Moving along….
We’ve posted about how Twilight boosted the economy of a small town called FORKS in September.
Now read USA Today’s article about how an ancient town called Volterra in Italy is welcoming tourists from all over the world within its walls because of New Moon.
To capitalize on New Moon's popularity, the Volterra tourism board sponsors Twilight-themed weekends that include a reception with "blood."
Backpackers carrying battered copies of New Moon duck through the narrow alleyways of the walled city, which has about 12,000 residents. Souvenir shops hawk calendars, mugs and T-shirts bearing the tousled likeness of actor Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward in the films.
And whether fans are Team Edward or Team Jacob (Bella’s two love interests in New Moon), all want to visit the Piazza dei Priori, the town’s square anchored by a clock tower where the Volturi — a coven of elite vampires that plays a pivotal role in the upcoming movie — reside.
Kunke, 19, found Volterra on a map as soon as she read New Moon. “I was like, I have to go there,” says the native of Portland, Ore. “It was just one of those things I had to do.”
Long overshadowed by its more touristy Tuscan neighbor, San Gimignano, Volterra is capitalizing on the interest. The tourism office has created a themed map of the city, encouraged fan meet-ups, and this spring introduced a New Moon weekend package that includes a walking tour called “Hot on the Trail of Edward and Bella,” Twilight merchandise and even a dramatic re-enactment of one of the book’s scenes.”
New Moon News – BTS Clips Revealed and On location Interviews
These videos were provided by Summit and may appear in the New Moon DVD.Thanks Collider.com
Cast On Location Interviews
Behind The Scenes – 9 mins Clip
From MTV.com
New Moon News – New Moon Press Junket Videos [Updated]
Video Interviews done during the press junket
Access Hollywood
MTV (Larry Carroll)
Entertainment Tonight
E! Online
[Updated]
Extra
After the press junket, the New Moon Cast headed to Hollywood Highland Mall to kick off The New Moon Mall Tour!
From MTV.
[Updated 7NOV] Thanks Sharon Macross!
