Ashley Greene On the Hunt for New Acting Role

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 08:29 AM PDT

New Moon beaut Ashley Greene was spotted in Hollwyood working on scoring an audtion for a role for a new post-Eclipse movie role.

No word yet on what the project is, but Ashley was spotted in Santa Monica Thursday to have a meeting for the potential role.

Check out the rest of hte pics over at Justjared!

New Poster of Edward and Bella for New Moon

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 06:20 PM PDT

Check out this stunning new poster/promotional shot of Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan in a loving embrace that’s just hit the web.

No telling if it’s an official post, as it has the NECA symbol in the lower right–they make New Moon paraphernalia–but the art is well worth a look.

UPDATE: These seem to be promo posters you can buy from NECA. Check out the rest of the amazing posters after the break!

New Moon Toys and Crowns Coming to Burger King ?

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 09:56 PM PDT

You may be able to get your hands on some New Moon schwag with your whopper, as a tipster at TwiFans notes–

Now my cousin went to BURGER KING today and found out that NEXT WEEK they will have NEW MOON TOYS and CROWNS!!!!! Just wanted to tell you all. SO SPREAD THE WORD!! I hope you all can get yours too. I know i will be getting them too!

I can defintely believe this rumor since they gave out New Moon themed Burger King crowns at Comic-Con recently.

HQ New Still of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 03:30 AM PDT

Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan look lovingly in each others’ eyes in this new super high resolution still from New Moon.

They also touch hands and show an intense longning for each other.

Click the pick for the super high resolution version.

Robert Pattinson Spotted at Bobby Long Concert Last Night

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 05:44 AM PDT

Robert Pattinson and several other members of the Twilight gang were spotted at the Bobby Long concert last night at the Backstage Lounge in Vancouver.

Robsessed has the full wrap-up of the sightings on th Robosphere, such as Malcious Mandy noting–

 

Rob, Kristen (both in ball caps) stayed mostly in back room watching from doorway. Kristen mostly sitting and Rob leaning in the doorway.

Noone bothered them or snapped their photo or invaded their privacy. I actually walked by them a few times to go outside for air or to the bathroom and they seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Nikki and Paris were inthe same area as Rob and Kristen but came out once to the dance floor.

Near the end a few crowded outside and two taxi’s pulled up.

[Pic Source: Breaking-Dawn.fr]

Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner Face-Off in February!

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 09:22 AM PDT

Well, its not quite what you think! But they both have movies premiering on the exact same day – February 12th!

Twilight Examiner gives the deets -

Twilight fans may or may not face a bit of a conundrum on February 12, 2010. It is the shared date of release for Remember Me and Valentine’s Day.Remember Me stars Robert Pattinson (Edward in The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), while Valentine’s Day stars Taylor Lautner (who plays Jacob in the saga).

Both films were shot with the Twilight actors during their off-time between filming New Moon and Eclipse and will be released on the same day – perhaps reanimating some of the Team Edward versus Team Jacob spirit?

Peter Facinelli Shares An Indispensable ‘New Moon’ Line With MTV

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 01:59 PM PDT

At first this ‘line’ was dispensable. Not making it to the final cut of Melissa Rosenberg’s script for New Moon. But our beloved Chris Weitz knew this particular scene was important. Peter Facinelli tells MTV -

MTV: When it comes to the “Twilight” films, there are two types of scenes: Those in Stephenie’s books, and the new ones Melissa Rosenberg added. Do you feel an extra level of excitement shooting those, because they’re so new?

Facinelli: I do. A lot of people keep asking “Hey, what happens in ‘New Moon’?” And you say, “Well, if you’ve read the book, you know what happens.” But I like the scenes that aren’t necessarily in the book, that get to tell a little bit of the backstory. It adds another element to the moviemaking, and it’s a little surprise for the fans.

MTV: We’ve been asking your co-stars to give us their favorite “New Moon” line in character. Can you do yours?

Facinelli: Oh, wow. Now I have to reach back a whole year and try to remember my lines from a year ago, when I can barely remember my lines the day of. … OK, here we go: “Like everything else in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.” That’s a line that Carlisle says.

MTV: OK, cool. But can you do it in character?

Facinelli: No. [Laughs.] Then, you gotta pay me. If I’m gonna act, you better pay me, Larry Carroll!

MTV: All right, we’ll take down your address and have every fan send you a quarter.

Facinelli: You know, I don’t even know if I can do Carlisle on the spot like that.

New Interview with Chris Weitz in Bliss Magazine

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 10:29 AM PDT

Lion_Lamb was awesome enough to scan and transcribe, a new interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz from Bliss Magazine. In the interview he talks about Rob, Fans, and Robsten -

Body Beautiful:
“It’s impossible to take a bad picture of Rob, even with these motion picture spots all over him! I think the hysteria over him is greater than for any of the other guys because the character he’s playing is unattainable and perfect. Thankfully, Rob has a highly developed sense of the absurd, so he doesn’t suffer as much as he otherwise would. However, when we were in Vancouver, there were days when he would just stay indoors and read or watch movies. If he went to his window, people would scream! He was kind of a hermit, really/ It’s hard for me to judge how he’s changed because I didn’t know him in the last movie.”

Fan Frenzy:
“I tried not to check what fans were saying on the internet until the film finished, as I knew I’d be influenced by them. We had a lot of crazy fans show up during filming, especially in Italy. I mean crazy only in a nice way! More and more fans showed up every day until the entire town was just awash with young people. They didn’t even sneak around – they were just there. I’d say 90% were what you’d think of as typical Twilight fans – young girls – and then there were the parents, the Twilight Mums… even the occasional heterosexual male! The only difficulty is when you have a camera, all the lighting gear and you’re in a little city with small alleyways and there are thousands of fans there, it’s actually hard to move from one place to another. That posed a practical probelem.”

Robsten’s Snog Secrets:
“I was surprised at how clever Rob and Kristen are. That’s not to say that I thought they were dummies before, but they had such a strong sense of their own characters and they’re very serious about what they might say at any given moment. In a way, you expect people to coast a bit in the sequel or to think, ‘This is not a realistic situation because I’m playing a girl who’s in love with a vampire, so I have no responsiblilty to convey realistic emotions.’ But they both want to put some kind of truth into everything, even when the scenes they’re playing are just bizzare.”

Chris also talks about Kristen you can check it out here!

Michael Sheen Talks ‘New Moon’ at the GQ Awards in London

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 09:47 AM PDT

In a new interview with New Moon Volturi leader Aro aka Michael Sheen he talks about how tight security was on set. He also touched base on why he wanted the role as Aro -

He said: “I remember someone whose job was containment and I thought: ‘What does that actually mean? Does that mean stopping people from getting on the set?’

“And it wasn’t, it was to stop people on the set taking pictures and sending them out.”

He said: “The best thing about it is I’m now a poster on my own daughter’s wall, which is about the best thing that could ever possibly happen.

“When they first asked me if I wanted to do it, I hadn’t read the books or anything, so I had to ask my daughter what the character was like without tipping her off… because I didn’t want to get her all excited if I didn’t end up doing it.

“She said she thought Aro, my character, was bald but he’s got long black hair so I hope I haven’t ruined it for her by not being bald. She cried when I told her.

“No matter what happens I have to be at the premiere in LA. That’s the whole reason she wanted me to do it, so she could go to the premiere.”

Check out the rest of the interview over at BBC!

Kristen Stewart to Grace the Cover of Dazed and Confused Magazine

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:22 PM PDT

New Moon-er Kristen Stewart will be on the cover of Dazed and Confused Magazine. It hits shelves this Thursday (August 20th!). For those who are not familiar with the magazine they cover Music, Arts & Culture, Fashion, Photography, etc. And are located in London.

You can check out their website here.

New Moon-er Kristen Stewart will be on the cover of Dazed and Confused Magazine. It hits shelves this Thursday (August 20th!). For those who are not familiar with the magazine they cover Music, Arts & Culture, Fashion, Photography, etc. And are located in London.

You can check out their website here.

[photo source: Dazed & Confused Twitter page!]

Dakota Fanning’s New Photo Shoot with New York Times

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:08 AM PDT

Absolutely stunning. Hard to believe she is only 15. New Moon Volturi Guard Jane aka Dakota Fanning, had gorgeous photos taken of her recently via New York Times. The New York Times article states -

Dakota Fanning is so self-possessed and so articulate that the only reminder you’re speaking with a 15-year-old and not someone much older is her occasional tendency to giggle when she’s sharing some droll aspect of her life.

Dakota shares details on Jane being pure evil -

‘‘You have to be able to separate your personal life from playing a character. . . . That’s not your real life.’’ Good thing; next up for her is ‘‘New Moon,’’ the second film in the ‘‘Twilight’’ series, in which Fanning takes a fangs-first plunge into the darkness as Jane, a very nasty vampire who functions as a kind of vampire enforcer. She didn’t bother trying to find some redeeming characteristic in Jane, she says. ‘‘She’s pretty much evil,’’ Fanning says with a laugh. ‘‘Yes, she may feel like she’s just doing her job by torturing people, but that’s evil.’’

You can read the rest of the article here. With pictures over at JustJaredJr!

Thousands Give Blood and Met ‘New Moon’ Actor Peter Facinelli During a Recent Blood Drive

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 08:00 AM PDT

The Red Cross stated that a couple thousand donors came to the blood drive. The young girl in the above picture was so excited about meeting Peter, that she forgot her copy of Twilight and had to buy a new one!

You can read the article here!

Stephenie Meyer – I Know What You Did This Summer!

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:53 AM PDT

Stephenie Meyer just posted on her official website, what she has been up to this summer! And apologized for not updating very much (its ok Steph! Just keep on working on Midnight Sun! lol). She also went to the movies to see the New Moon trailer on the big screen!? -

And then this Saturday I went to see an actual grown-up people movie, yay! Admittedly, I went to see the New Moon trailer on the big screen (yes, I’m a total dork. Who cares? It was worth it). But then I stayed to see Bandslam because the reviews were so good, and I was glad I did. With my hopeless love of music coupled with my total lack of musical ability, I really dug Will. He’s my hero right now. It had a good soundtrack, as one might expect, a lot of very quotable one-liners, and it turned upside down some of those lame female-interaction stereotypes. It’s a good time.

You can read the rest about Stephenie’s summer over at StephenieMeyer.com!

Team Chris Weitz – New Moon Will Have More Natural and Authentic Performances!

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:45 AM PDT

Rotten Tomatoes has an awesome article outlining Chris Weitz’s style as a director,? what we can expect from him when it comes to New Moon and what he has brought to the table -

Coming into the project, Weitz’s filmmaking pedigree was already impressive. In the span of just a decade, he’s notched numerous successes under his belt, including an Oscar nomination (shared with brother Paul) for About a Boy; a hand in the successful American Pie franchise; and most recently, the honor of bringing Philip Pullman’s enormously weighty His Dark Materials novels to the big screen, in the form of 2007’s The Golden Compass. But our earliest familiarity with Weitz himself was as an actor in the darkly comic indie, Chuck & Buck, where he starred opposite Mike White’s obsessive man-child as Charlie (formerly known as Chuck), a yuppie record exec trying to put his past (and his childhood buddy, Buck) behind him.

Producer Wyck Godfrey, speaking exclusively to Rotten Tomatoes, surmised that Weitz’s own acting experience and affinity for actors made for a remarkably comfortable working environment on the set of New Moon: “I think having been in a movie himself and having acted before, he really trusts actors and I think they can really feel that inherently. And as a result, we’ve gotten much more authentic, very natural performances from all the actors.”

I don’t about you, but I kinda like Wyck. He seems cool. (off topic, sorry!)

The Rotten Tomatoes article also lists what Melissa Rosenberg, Taylor Lautner, and Rachelle LeFevre think of Chris Weitz! You can read the rest of the article here!

New Moon Cast Attends Speical Screening

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:25 AM PDT

Some? New Moon cast members have been lucky enough to attend a special screening of New Moon! We previously reported that Edi Gathegi tweeted that he had watched New Moon with Stephenie Meyer! Now there are pictures surfacing of various New Moon cast members in Vancouver, attending the? screening on Saturday.

You can view the rest of the pics of Kellan here!

UPDATE: More cast pictures have been added! You can view the rest of them here!

Kristen Stewart Interview with MSN Mexico

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:17 AM PDT

Journalist Oscar Uriel from MSN Mexico had the opportunity to interview New Moon-er Kristen Stewart, during Comic Con. Twilight Poison has the complete English translation -

Stewart arrived with a heroin chic look, probably because of the movie she’s filming ‘The Runaways’. She completely avoided any visual contact with the journalists interviewing her.
I’ve been told that it’s because the actress is extremely shy and doesn’t like certain aspects of her job.
We still managed to talk to her about the dificulties of her character in this sequel and this is what she said: “In this movie the only way we can see Edward is through the very subjective point of view of Bella. It’s only through her memory that the character is present, so he doesn’t have to be there physically.
This movie is much more emotional than the first, I can promise you that. Anyone who’s read the books knows that the second book is much more intense than the first because unlike Twilight, New Moon is not about your first love.

In this movie, Bella presents herself as a manic depressive person and my challenge was asking myself ‘How Can I get this character to come out of that state she’s in? And how can I play a character who’s going through that process? It was very hard to portray a young woman who’s getting over the hard blows she gets from life and how she grows up after them.

I know that in my career I haven’t been involved in many projects that have generated so much expectation as Twilight and I just have to confess that I’m just another fan of the project. I get so excited to see how the movie is wrapping up, what the first trailers look like, etc.

I know that fans are worried that Edward is not in this movie that much, but trust me, you’ll see him enough, and if the character Edward Cullen didn’t leave, then how were we going to miss him?” concludes the actress.

New Pictures of Chaske Spencer and Alex Meraz at Creations Twi Tour in Phoenix

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 11:09 AM PDT

New Moon wolf pack members Chaske Spencer and Alex Meraz (aka Sam and Paul) attended the Creations Twi Tour in Phoenix, Arizona, over this past weekend!

They also had a little visit from the brooding Vamp we all love .. he let us all know what he really thinks of the wolves …

hehehehe

You can view the rest of the pictures over at TwiFans.com!

Catherine Hardwicke Reveals the Edward Cullen Wannabes

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 10:32 AM PDT

Twilight director Catherine Harwicke recently revealed that the other candidates to play Edward Cullen were while at? Twi Tour in Phoenix -

• Jackson Rathbone
• Ben Barnes
• Shiloh Fernandez

She also stated that she referred to them as Bachelor’s 1, 2, 3, and 4 (that is including Robert Pattinson!). As we all know, Jackson was cast in the movie as Edward’s brother, Jasper Hale.

What do you think? Loaded question I know! We obviously are very happy with Robert as Edward Cullen. Can? any of you see Jackson, Ben, or Shiloh as Edward?

MTV: What is Missing From the Newly Released New Moon Trailer?

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 09:30 AM PDT

MTV Breaks down what they feel are missing from the recently released New Moon Trailer: Meet Jacob Black -

The Cliff Dive — Kristen Stewart told us long ago that Bella’s pivotal cinematic near-suicide will be CGI, and we’ve got to admit: We’re still a bit concerned. Fan-made videos like this one give us an idea of some things to expect from what could be the most powerful moment in “New Moon,” but so far, nothing official. Come on, Chris Weitz — cough it up!

Fight Scenes — Although Catherine Hardwicke’s “Twilight” won the hearts of millions of women, it won’t be stealing men away from sports and “Star Trek” sequels anytime soon. Now, with male directors in place for the next two films — and increasingly darker, more action-oriented plotlines to come — it’s time to start convincing the dudes that seeing “New Moon” will do more than put you in your lady’s good graces. But what have we glimpsed so far? Shirtless Jacob, shirt-open Edward, shirtless wolf pack. “Fight Club” gave the same number of abs, but also brought along just as many punches to the face — so bring back the honey and chicken, already!

The Vanishing Volturi — As any good Twilighter knows, the Volturi feature prominently not only in “New Moon,” but also in the overall arc of the “Twilight” saga. So, why have they become the J.D. Salinger of the film series? We want full-on, official shots of Aro, Caius, Marcus and the rest. No more slowing down video clips to see if that’s Michael Sheen in the background — it’s time to bring out the big guns.

Quil Be Seeing You — Everybody’s got their own favorite quasi-obscure “Twilight” character, and mine is Jacob’s “wingman” Quil Ateara. We know he’s played by Tyson Houseman in the film, but we haven’t seen so much as a publicity shot yet. Sure, some might laugh — but I’ll be wearing a “Team Quil” shirt when I see the film on opening night. Which reminds me of a second complaint: Why has no one invented “Team Quil” T-shirts yet?

It Ain’t Easy Being Human— They’re the nicest people in the world and the backbone of the “Twilight” film series: Mike Welch, Christian Serratos, Justin Chon, Anna Kendrick, Billy Burke and others. But although these fan favorites are among the most visible at “Twilight” conventions and other events, we haven’t seen so much as a glimpse of them in the “New Moon” trailers. It’s bad enough that these guys don’t get to pretend they have superhuman powers, the ability to live forever or even a clue as to all the craziness going on in Forks. “Twilight” is nothing without the humanity that Stephenie Meyer injected into it — here’s hoping that Weitz remembers that element as he’s working all those long hours and late nights in the “New Moon” editing bay.

Do you guys agree? Want more? We do!

Will Hot Topic See Big New Moon Merch Sales?

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT

Forbes has a new article where they wonder if retailer Hot Topic will see the same big sales for New Moon that they saw for Twilight.

The apparel based on the “Twilight” hit book and movie series about teenage vampires had helped Hot Topic ( HOTT – news – people ) post big gains in sales late last year and earlier this year while other retailers struggled.

But other stores are also releasing “New Moon” product, and Van Sinderen said the company felt it would be hard to be better than flat with last year’s “Twilight” sales.

Given that Hot Topic was pretty much the only place to get Twilight merch last year, and we’ve seen big sales pushes from mainstream retailers like Wal-Mart into Twilight land in the last few months, it’ll be interesting to see if the lack of exclusivity can be made up with a higher profile movie.