New Moon Panel at Comic-Con: Hall H 1:45 PST

The New Moon panel at Comic-Con has concluded. Highlights from G4TV’s coverage by Stephen Johnson include:

• (after first exclusive clip) Uh oh…Jacob took off his shirt in the clip and the fans went nuts-o-crazy-go-nuts.
• Fan to Rob: Would you ever do open-mic nights for music, ever again? Rob: Yes. I’d love to do it again. It’s good for your soul.
• Fan: for Taylor, how was it filming in different weather conditions, half-naked? Taylor: It was cold. There was a day when I was only wearing jean shorts (Cheers from crowd.) It was really really cold, but I’m doing it all for you guys!
• I should point out that all questions are interupted by screams of “I love you!” and “You’re awesome!” and “wooo!” at random.
• Rob: Edward’s who character is about restraint, so I always found it difficult to move as the character. So in the new movie, a lot of the shots are set up so that I can move as little a possible. The camera moves more often.
• Chris Weitz is going to show another scene! The fans go insane. The scene: Alice and Bella racing to save Edward. You remember that scene right?

Rotten Tomatoes has an extensive write-up on the scenes that were shown, including these spoilers for the first clip:

Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) are bent over an antique light blue motorcycle. Jacob wears jeans, a brown t-shirt, and his hair is long. As Bella sits on the motorcycle, Jacob guides her hands (touching!) over the handles. “Brake. Clutch. Gas,” he reminds her. Bella revs the engine. “Slowly release the clutch,” says Jacob.

Suddenly, Bella sees the translucent apparition of Edward, a concerned look on his face, standing in front of her. We can see him, but also see through him. Bella takes off on the bike.
As she zooms down the road, Bella gains speed. She zooms by another apparition of Edward, standing in her path. She speeds by another. Losing focus, Bella swerves and falls from the bike, hitting her head on a rock.

Jacob speeds over to Bella on his own bike, coming to a stop with a flourish. He hops off the bike and rushes to Bella’s side. She is bewildered, and blood gushes from a gash on her forehead.

“Are you trying to get yourself killed?” Jacob asks. Bella apologizes for the blood, but it doesn’t bother Jacob.

He takes a step back, the camera following his every move. Jacob strips off his shirt, revealing a six-pack, and bends down to dab Bella’s wound with it. Their faces come very close.“You’re so beautiful,” she tells him. Emotion flashes across his face.

CORRECTION: It's not "You're so beautiful". It's - "you're sort of beautiful".

Find out what happens in the other scene at Rotten Tomatoes. You can also check out the rest of G4TV’s excellent liveblog coverage as well as the Twitpics from Buzznet.

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Videos from New Moon Comic-Con Panel with Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart

If you couldn’t make it to San Diego, fear not–ETOnline is promising to stream coverage live from the New Moon event! –

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner are in San Diego today to help kick off this year’s star-studded Comic-Con and ET is there for all of the fun! And starting at 9:30 am PDT, ETonline will be live streaming from the ‘New Moon’ trio’s press conference! Check back here then to see if they spill any ‘New Moon’ secrets!

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UPDATE: The live stream is going very slowly, but it’s working now

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UPDATE2: HitFix has an excellent LiveBlog of the event if you can’t get the stream to work! For example–

10:03 a.m. How has Stewart changed? “I cut my hair off.”

10:04 p.m. Lautner’s grateful to the fans, “It’s awesome that we get to see them all waiting for us again a year later.”

10:05 a.m. “I pretty much live an almost identical life apart from being recognized and that’s not necessarily the worst thing in the world.” He adds, “I never did anything normal anyway. I just get other people to do it now.”

10:06 a.m. “Sometimes it gets me nervous because I’m trying to live up to the fans expectations and represent Team Jacob in the right way.” – Lautner on Team Jacob.

10:07 a.m. Don’t worry. The stars all reassure us that Edward is in the movie plenty. You won’t miss him. [read the rest]

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UPDATE3: Rob has just revealed that one of the scenes they’ll show later today at Comic-Con involves the ghost-like apparition version of Edward!

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UPDATE4: “10:21 a.m. Pattinson says he has no musical contribution to “New Moon.”.

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UPDATE5: And that’s it for now. Come back later for the New Moon event at 1:45pm PST (FYI: this was the Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart press conference, not the main event with the clips from the movie.)

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UPDATE6: Pictures of Rob, Taylor and Kristen leaving the press conference: [Source, 2 ]

UPDATE7: Here are the videos of their appearance!

[thanks rpattzproject for the still via Bella&Edward. Here's the explanation of the above picture. Pic from TwiSource and TwiSource2 , Twilighters.org, thx sparks and Newmoonmovie.org for this article!]

Chris Weitz Interview on His Vision of the Volturi & Much More!

Check out this 21-questions style interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz, where he goes into depth on a lot of the aspects of the movie that are on the mind of fans, including the camera-shy Volturi:

The Volturi. Can you talk about your vision for this new group of characters?

CW: No matter how strange one of the characters is in a work of fantasy, I think you kind of have to approach them as people, and so you start to think, well, they’ve been around for 2,000 years. How would they live? How would they interact with one another? The conclusion really was that after 2,000 years, you would probably be more than mildly insane, no matter how cultured or gracious you appear on the surface.

I think that’s what Michael Sheen really managed to convey in portraying Aro, the head of the Volturi, which is that on the surface, he’s terribly gracious, warm, a wonderful host, and yet at the same time he’s absolutely lethal and frightening, and it’s also kind of what Dakota Fanning kind of conveys as Jane. She’s this, in appearance, very innocent-looking, harmless-looking almost kind of a teenager, but she’s absolutely deadly.

The first thing I wanted to do was to put them in a setting that wasn’t sort of Dracula’s castle. Because I feel that’s been done, there have been so many vampire movies and werewolf movies and horror movies where everything is dreary and dark and everything is blue or green, and instead for their headquarters to be surprisingly light and crisp, and then the characters that they play have kind of a tactile reality to them, in spite of how kind of bizarre their situation is. And the whole point is not to leave kind of Forks, Wash. where everything has been very realistic, and then suddenly go to a location that completely throws you out of the movie.

So that’s kind of a difficult balance to achieve. And the set, although it’s huge and grand and magnificent, actually kind of feels like a real place. One always has the option in these kinds of situations of shooting everything in green screen and adding the set later, and I’ve done that before, but in this case, it felt really important to actually build something that surrounded the characters, that they could interact with and that had a real sense of existing in in actual space.

Read the entire interview over at Hollywood.com to learn about the proposal scene and much more, it’s a great article!

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New Action Figures: Edward, Bella and Alice

There will be three awesome new action figures for New Moon besides just Jacob Black–Edward Cullen, Bella Swan and Alice Cullen.

They should arrive in October and have different looks than the previously seen Edward, Bella and Alice action figures.

Check out all the pics from Comic-Con over at SuperHeroHype!

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First Look: Wolf Tribe Tattoo and Volturi Symbol Merchandise

The very first products featuring the wolfpack tribe tattoo and Volturi symbol featured in New Moon have been revealed!

This shot from the New Moon merchandise display at Comic-Con shows the wolfpack tribe tattoo on a bag and a medallion. It also shows the Volturi symbol on what looks like a belt buckle and a key ring.

Lookin’ good!

Check out more pics from Comic-Con at SuperHeroHype.

Twilight Vigil at Comic-Con with 500+ Fans in Overnight Line

More than 500 Twilight fans are camping overnight in a line so they won’t miss that New Moon panel in Hall H at Comic-Con Thursday afternoon.

The most dedicated fans started lining up two days early just to make sure they could get a front row seat to see Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and other stars of the movie. As the final night before the big panel
begins now, there are already more than 500 people camping out to attend the most anticipated panel at Comic-Con.


Aura Reynolds and Liberty Griffen nabbed the first spot in the long line by getting here Tuesday night at 9 p.m. with their daughters Rebecca and Kristen. Their yellow and blue tent marks the beginning of rows upon rows of tents, chairs and blankets that form the twisting line outside Hall H, where the panel takes place at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow. The landscape looks like a giant family picnic, with bright-colored folding chairs and sleeping bags littered with black Twilight T-shirts and banners.

Check out the spontaneous celebration over at MTV, including an informal poll on what fans are hoping to see tomorrow during the exclusive New Moon footage. (Hint: It starts with “Volt” and ends with “I”)

After the break, check out a report from reader Ashley, including a pic of the Volturi Throne they are showing off at Comic-Con!

Ashley had the chance to sit in the Volturi throne at Comic-Con Wedneday night, and she says–

Here is a quick pic of me in the “volturi chair” as they like to call it…. yes,
that was my evil face. the new moon booth is awesome. I scored some posters and
exclusive new moon trading cards. one pack is vampires and the other pack has
wolfpack cards.

New Moon Trading Cards Burger King Hats at Comic-con

New Moon trading cards and Burger King “crown” hats in both Team Edward and Team Jacob guise are among the exclusive schwag that lucky attendees of Comic-Con San Diego have received.

Does this mean we’ll be seeing New Moon stuff at Burger King in November? They do have Star-Trek glasses now, after all.

HiFix has a surprise concerning the first people in the huge line awaiting the New Moon panel Thursday afternoon–at least one has been waiting since Midnight Wednesday morning for Team Jacob, not Robert Pattinson!–

“My nephew was here at midnight saving us a spot,” one pass holder told HitFix adding she was “relieved” no one had beaten them to the prime spot. All the members of the group are first timers and the number one reason they are waiting in line all night for a presentation that doesn’t begin until 1:45 PM the following day? No, not a chance to see rising superstar Robert Pattinson, but his co-star; Taylor Lautner.

“They all hate me for it, but I’m Team Jacob,” a teenage member of the crew said.

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New Moon Fashion Collection to Debut at Nordstorm

The Twilight merchandise world is expanding, and soon you’ll be able to find attire not only at Hot Topic and Wal-Mart but Nordstrom as well. The line includes “everything from tops and tunic dresses to jewelry and key chains.”

The new gear will be available in October exclusively at Nordstrom. Check out more items from the new line over at InStyle.

The clothes will be available at Nordstrom starting October 1st.

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Shirtless Jacob Black Action Figure

A new action figure for New Moon has been revealed at Comic-Con: and it’s a shirtless version of Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black!

I have three questions: where, where and how much? WANT!

After the break, see the version of the action figure with a brown shirt on.

[thanks to NMM.org]

New Moon Official Movie Site Screen Caps!

Official New Moon Movie Website!!

I almost screamed when I saw this.

The official New Moon website is here. features include–

• "Enter the Cullen House” interactive exploration


• "Enter La Push Reservation” interactive exploration


• "About” section with “Story”, “Cast”, “Crew” and “Worldwide” section


• "Media” section with photos and videos includes upcoming film clips, TV spots and brand new images


• "Downloads” Section with widgets, wallpapers and IM icons
  “Mobile” section (coming soon)


• "Community” section with links to Twilight sites


• “Official Store”


• “The World of Twilight” section (coming soon)

Check out all the cool features (that will surely send your heart racing) at www.newmoonthemovie.com

Nikki Reed in Greece with Paris Hilton's Ex!

New Moon star Nikki Reed has finally been found: she’s in Greece with Greek shipping magnate heir Paris Latsis, who is Paris Hilton’s ex.

The young American actress has completely stolen his heart and they have been together for 6 months now. He claims to be madly in love with her, and has introduced her to his parents and will adapt his schedule according to the actresses schedule. In August she filming for her new movie so they will stay in Greece until the end of July and will return together in LA. Paris wants to stay with her and encourage her and because he can’t stay away from her.

Sorry, but he has douchetastic hair.

After the break, check out a pic of Nikki walking around with…a knotted shirt! The K-Knot returns!

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Huge New Moon Advertisements

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Crazy, huh? Thats why we love it! Look at this enormous New Moon poster ad looming over the escalator in the mall. It’s at the XXI Ciwalk in Bandung, Indonesia.

I have to ask–when will we see this in the rest of the world? We’re ready!

[Thanks: NMM]

New Jacob Black Promo Pic Shirtless Over the Shoulder Plus Tattoo!

There’s a new pic of Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black in New Moon that’s hit the web, and it’s a doozy. Taylor Lautner gives his bedroom eyes while looking over his shoulder with his shirt off, showing off his wolfpack tribe tattoo.

Howl!

[Thanks: NMM]

Chris Weitz says Muse, Band of Skulls, Radiohead on New Moon Soundtrack

New Moon Director Chris Weitz has a new interview with the LA Times where he details, among other things, some of the bands we’ll see on the New Moon soundtrack–including a repeat performance from Muse and newcomers to the Twilight universe Radiohead and Band of Skulls.

Driving home from a day of post-production, Weitz says he understands what’s at stake. There are 450 visual effects shots to complete, in addition to the score and the movie’s soundtrack, which he says will feature songs from Radiohead, Muse and Band of Skulls, among others. But the sequences he’s readying for the event — one, an action scene that will feature some of those effects, the other, a love scene sure to elicit hysteria from the crowd — will be done in time.

HitFix New Moon Vancouver Set Visit: Day 2

HitFix has Day 2 of its behind-the-scenes coverage of New Moon filming in Vancouver from May, including some new scenes with the Volturi as well as an unexpected scene involving a truce between the Cullens and Volturi–

After a few minutes, they change the angle of the camera and we see Jane —
in the same scene — inflicting pain on Edward. Yes, she’s the cause and she does
it with little gesturing and without speaking a word. A powerful vampire
indeed.

The production has a lot to get through today, so the shot then changes
to a close up on Bella who is being held by Alec stopping her from racing to
Edward’s side.

“Please stop,” Stewart says, “Don’t hurt him.”

At first, during rehearsal as the camera operator sets up the shot,
Stewart says the lines comically with deadpan effect causing some snickers from
the crew. But when the take is ready for real, she says it with the expected
dramatic resolve. The coverage also expands to find Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene)
being allowed to race to Edward’s side. She gesture’s that he’s “OK.”

While Weitz talks to the actors on the set about the next shot, we take time to talk
to newcomer Chrisopher Heyerdahl who plays Marcus, a member of the Volturi. The
role is a huge break for the struggling British actor, but he seemed to be
playing it cool. Intriguingly, he also revealed a flashback scene had been shot,
including his character, Aro and Dr. Carlisle Cullen (”Nurse Jackie’s” Peter
Facinelli) that set up the “truce” between the two parties way back in the 18th
Century. To the other writers on the visit, this seemed to be a scene they
didn’t expect would make the movie and were pretty psyched about it being
included.

[Thanks to NMM.org]

New Picture from the Set of New Moon

Check out this brand new picture taken from inside the house with Bella, Alice Cullen, and Jacob Black on the couch! Probably from the Alice/Bella reunion?

Director Chris Weitz is in the foreground.

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Chris Weitz on Noot Seear as Heidi: “Unearthly Beauty” with “Menace”

New Moon director Chris Weitz gives his take on the addition of fashion model Noot Seear to the role of Heidi in the film–

The striking beauty is stepping up her career and appearing in the second
installment of the Twilight films, entitled New Moon, where she will play a
cliquey vampire named Heidi who runs in the exclusive Volturi circle. And with
those killer green peepers and razor-sharp cheekbones, it’s unsurprising her
main talent is luring human prey.

New Moon director Chris Weitz told WWD : “We wanted someone who had an unearthly and unlikely beauty, but could also convey humour and menace. It’s rare to find a stunningly attractive person who also happens to have the ability to act.” According to reports, Weitz also considered Beverly Hills 90210 actress AnnaLynne McCord for the role.

Noot also talks about the continued difficulties with the contacts she had to wear in order to play the role of Heidi–

She admits she was worried her modeling years would hinder her acting chops. “I
was really scared because you’re not allowed to look in the camera [when filming
a movie], but in the modeling world, you’re supposed to,” recalls Seear, whose
problem was solved by the heavy-duty violet contacts she had to wear on-screen.
“I literally couldn’t see 2 feet in front of me. They would tell me, ‘Look at Kristen [Stewart],’ and I was like, ‘OK. Where is she?’”

[thanks to NMM.org]

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New Moon Hearts Desire Chocolate Candy at Blockbuster

The newest piece of New Moon merchandise is–get this–a creme filled milk chocolate heart. Jessica found this candy at Blockbuster. The chocolate hearts feature three different packages with the faces of Edward Cullen, Bella Swan and Jacob Black. The candy is named “Heart’s Desire” and is made by Skybar.

Inside the package, you’ll find the same chocolate design in all three wrappers. The shape of the chocolate is two hearts on top of a base, the top heart has “Bella” written on it and the heart below it has the Cullen family crest.

Jessica says they cost $0.79 each and are “quite tasty as well.”

It has Robert Pattinson’s face and has cream inside. I’m sold.

Thanks to NMM

On the Set of New Moon in Vancouver: The Volturi In-Depth

Rounding out the media outlets that visited the set of New Moon in Vancouver is Rotten Tomatoes. They have a set report where they go into detail on the Volturi interior shots. This description of Jane sounds amazing–(spoilers!)–

Focus fell particularly on Fanning, dressed in a soft, vintage-style white
dress, a dark velvet cape, and Mary Janes. Her blonde hair swept into a bun,
with pale skin and scarlet lips and dark eye makeup, she had the look of a
textbook Little Red Riding Hood — albeit one with blood-red eyes and a steely
eeriness about her.

“She’s immune to all of us,” Michael Sheen as Aro mused,
directing his warrior to turn her pain-inducing powers on Bella. “Shall we,
Jane?” With nary a peep, Fanning’s eyes lit up. She turned her head towards
Bella/Kristen Stewart, and gave a slight, cruel smile. Well, the hint of a
smile, really.

The tension was palpable; in that miniscule movement I was sold
on Fanning — at 15 years of age, one of New Moon’s seasoned veterans — and her
ability to convey unadulterated malice. On film, you’ll see her bring poor
Robert Pattinson to his knees, and you might even enjoy it.

Check out the rest of the report over at Rotten Tomatoes. [THANKS TO: NMM]

What we're imagining...

The dark velvet cape...

The tight bun..

The white vintage dress..

(Cute!) Mary Janes..

What do you think, Twilighters? Is this just adding to the anticipation? For me, it's making it worse! Because we have to wait so long!!

Thom Yorke of Radiohead

Will Radiohead mastermind Thom Yorke contribute a track to the New Moon soundtrack? It’s still undetermined, but the earlier interview with Chris Weitz revealed this possibility, and it bears repeating with its own post. Chris Weitz said–

Fortunately, I’m not at the stage where I have to turn anybody down yet, because everything is still kind of up in the air, but I am surprised at some of the bands that have said they’re interested. It’s kind of great. The criterion will still always be what’s right for the movie at that given moment, but Thom Yorke is interested. We might, if we’re very lucky, get Kings of Leon to do something… It’s exciting to be able to have access to this kind of talent

[Thanks to NMM]

New Moon Set Report from Fandango

The New Moon madness continues as the veil of non-disclosure was lifted today, with another media outlet sharing their set report from Vancouver.

Lizerne Guiting has a report for Fandango, and she notes–

The Voluturi! Oh the Volturi! They’re straight from the pages of Stephenie Meyer’s book! The freaky red eyes, pale skin, the chic Italian clothes, a family crest pendant – everything down to the smallest detail — suits their coven perfectly. They make a deliciously deadly vampire mafia. We got to watch Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart film a bunch of scenes near the film’s ending, and also interviewed a LOT of the cast and crew: Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, and Rachelle Lefevre to name a few.

Read the report over at Fandango.

UPDATE: There’s another report from MSN that covers similar territory from a fan’s perspective.

[thanks to: NMM]

Michael Sheen: "Sets are Amazing" On New Moon Vancouver Set

Michael Sheen, who will play Aro in New Moon, reveals some new details from when he was on the set in Vancouver–

“The first day of filming we did the 18th century stuff and then one of the modern scenes,” Sheen says. “It was a lot to deal with; the wig, and contact lenses all day and the make-up, but it was fantastic. These sets are amazing. And the look of everyone is so strong so it was great to just kind of get right into it straight away. “

Other actors purposely don’t read the original source material for their big screen creations because they don’t want to veer from the direction the screenwriter and director have laid out. I asked Sheen where he stood on the issue.

“Oh no, if I’m doing something that’s based on a book, then I’ll definitely read the book,” Sheen says. “I look for anything that will give a little clue or something, a little help, a little hint… just things like that. Like one word that Stephenie uses in the book will kind of tee off my imagination.”

Check out the rest at HitFix.

[thanks to: NMM]

Video: Ashley Greene on Alexa Chung with Hot Leather SHorts

New Moon star Ashley Greene appeared on It’s On With Alexa Chung today looking fabulous, and she talked about her dress charity, Robert Pattinson, and even shows off a vamp-baseball pitch–in heels!

Just Jared has pics of Ashley Greene on her way to the show in hot leather shorts.

[THANKS: NMM]

New Interview with Taylor Lautner on New Moon

There’s a new interview with Taylor Lautner from when he filmed New Moon in Vancouver, and it reveals that he’ll actually be doing dirtbike stunts on his own–

Q: Were you doing any stunts today? I’ve been doing a lot recently, yeah. The cool thing is, they’ve pretty much let me do most of my stunts. I got to do all the dirt bike riding, I got to do this really cool sequence that I’m actually not going to tell you about, because I want you to wait to see it. But yeah, the stunts have definitely been my favorite part so far.

For those wondering about how much we’ll see of Taylor shirtless in New Moon–

Q: What percentage of time would you say you spend shirtless? 

I’d say the same as the books. I’m not going to give you a specific percent, but the great things about this series, and the movies , is we stay true to the books. So if you read the books, you know what the movie’s going to look like.

Check out the whole interview at HitFix.

[THANKS TO: NMM]

Julia Roberts in New Moon? Plus How Film is Cast!

New Moon producer Wyck Godfrey has an excellent new interview with HitFlix where he details some of the finer points of making the Twilight Saga happen, including the logic behind casting in the film–

Q: Some franchises like the ‘Star Trek’ movies, for example, are notorious for inserting celebrity cameos. Now that ‘Twilight’ is so big and now that you have so many Hollywood fans, do you think that will happen in any of the future movies?

Well you were on-set earlier right? You noticed Julia Roberts? (Laughs.) She’s just an extra standing out there. I always liked to feel like people want to immerse themselves in a world and not be distracted by gimmick casting. I kind of in general like…we’ve always just wanted to put the best actors in the role, not the biggest reality TV stars or whatever. We want to put great actors in the roles and let them become the character that people have read in these books and fallen in love with. And I sometimes think like if you try to like stunt-cast things, people notice and for that split second in the movie it pulls them out of the movie and they whisper to their friend ‘Oh, that’s so-and-so’ to me you don’t immerse yourself in the world of the movie. So, I don’t know. We’re not ever going to consciously try to put extra surprising stars in the movie.


Q: Well to that point, when Dakota Fanning was cast it seemed a little surprising because she was such a big name especially at her age. So was there any trepidation that she might be almost too distracting because she is so well known in such a smaller role?

Well, the finding is that for a lot of websites you’d see like who’s your favorite Jane and she’d almost be at the top of the list. So, as long as you feel like it’s the right casting, it doesn’t matter how big or small a person’s name is. I mean, I think if Jane were written as a 35-year-old transvestite you’d be like that’s kind of weird they’re putting Dakota Fanning in it, but it really felt like the right call. We’re just glad that she was…and again, she was a fan of it. She was interested and that made it easy to get someone of her stature.

Later in the interview, Godfrey gives 100% confirmation from the horse’s mouth that Breaking Dawn will not be rated R. He also confirms that Breaking Dawn is not even official yet.

Read the interview at HitFlix.

[THANKS TO: NMM]

Interview With New Moon DIrector, Chris Weitz; Tons of New Info!

There’s an amazing new interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz, and he reveals tons of new information that fans have been dying to get their hands on. Among them?–

• Even Weitz was surprised with how quickly Phil Tippet’s company turned around the Jacob wolf shot at the end of the first teaser trailer. The shot has gone through numerous iterations and is much more photorealistic than that version.
• He’ll be submitting a director’s cut of the film to Summit within the next two weeks.
• Thom Yorke and Kings of Leon are interested in contributing to the film’s soundtrack.
• The movie within a movie, “Facepunch,” will only be heard — not seen.
• His vision of the Volturi is very much like the book and unlike a number of fan inspirations that have hit the web. He also sees them as having gone slightly insane after living for 2,000 years.
• He’s met with David Slade and expects the filmmaker’s vision for “Eclipse” to be different than what he’s doing with “New Moon,” but with the same actors and visual effects team.
• He’s flattered that fans want him to direct “Breaking Dawn” without seeing “New Moon,” but thinks the fans will want Slade to do it by the time “Eclipse” comes out.
• Weitz needs to turn the film in by Oct. 30 to strike prints or if not, they are in “big trouble” to make the release date.

There is boatloads more, so check out the whole interview over at Hitflix to read all the additional information!

Rotten Tomatoes also shares some info from Chris Weitz, where he reveals the proposal scene has not been cut–

“It hasn’t been cut out, I can tell you that much,” Weitz carefully shared. He paused to compose his answer, making sure not to reveal too much. “It’s not going to hit them in exactly the way that they think it’s going to, but I will say that — how can I put it? –it’s going to be quite special. I kind of saved all of my gusto for that moment. I don’t think it will disappoint.

[Thanks to NMM]