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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