Rachelle Lefevre–New Moon’s Victoria–has a new interview with the London Free Press where she talks about the director switcheroo between Twilight and New Moon. Rachelle says she felt better because this type of change had been proved effective with Harry Potter–
“It could have been bad,” Lefevre admits. “But I think because Harry Potter went through it first to their benefit, we were like, ‘The Potter kids went through a director shift and they were OK, so we’ll be OK, too.’
There’s a new interview with Jackson Rathbone and his band 100 Monkeys, and while most of the interview is about the band there are a couple of mentions of the projects Jackson is currently working on–
To feed the elephant in the room, Jackson, can you tease anything about “New Moon” for the yearning “Twilight” fans out there?
This picture seems to show a new costume for Ashley Greene’s character in New Moon, Alice Cullen. It was taken inside the Albergo Duomo hotel that was used for character makeup while filming in Montepulciano, Italy.
MTV has a new interview with New Moon dad Peter Facinelli concerning his aim to make it to 500,000 followers on Twitter by Friday. As we mentioned earlier, he’s now promising his Twilight director’s chair backing to a lucky fan if he reaches his goal–and he told MTV why it’s very special:
MTV: How will you decide who gets it?….Facinelli: I like riddles. I think I might do some kind of riddle, and the first person that posts the correct answer will win the chair backing. That sounds more fun than a raffle, right?
Ashley Greene has revealed that denim is a no-no for Alice Cullen in New Moon, and top designers are in. The couture of Michael Kors will be making an appearance with a gray ombré jacket while she darts around Volterra in the Yellow Porsche. “We had a lot more [money and time] to work with,” she said.
According to a reader, the New Moon trailer that was first shown at the MTV Movie Awards may begin showing up in theaters on Friday with, at the very least, Sandra Bullock’s new film The Proposal, as it was shown at a sneak preview of the film last night–
I just thought I’d let you know, because there has been a lot of speculation as to when they would start putting out the trailer for New Moon…I SAW IT TONIGHT AT THE THEATRE.
There is a column at the Gainesville Sun entitled “Sexy vampires are destroying our nation’s children”–which explains why Twilight and True Blood are the cause of all evil with our nation’s youth. No, I’m not kidding–
Despite the recent influx of vampire-related content into the mainstream media and the youthful enthusiasm that accompanied it, vampirism still remains a dangerous threat to our nation’s children.
A fan asked the “Oracle” at the official Coldplay site whether “The Scientist” by Coldplay would be featured on New Moon, as indicated in Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon soundtrack playlist. Though the official “Oracle” didn’t commit to that specific song, it did note today that–
It’s very likely that a Coldplay song will end up on the soundtrack to the Twilight sequel given that Stephenie Meyer has credited Coldplay, amongst others, on the inner sleeve for “being instrumental in staving off the writer’s block”.
Jackson Rathbone was asked why they didn’t get much into his backstory during New Moon, and he told TeenMag–
Jackson被問到為什麼在新月中沒有提到很多他的背景故事,然後他告訴TeenMag
“Well it doesn’t really come out too much in the book. It’s one of those things were it’s understood but in the third book it really comes out like the back story and everything.
Check out this new article on MTV where the cast talks a bit about some of the scenes they shot for new Moon, including a last-minute addition for Michael Welch:
“Kristen [Stewart] and Taylor [Lautner] had to lobby to get this one scene in the film that wasn’t originally in — and I am forever indebted to them for that,” revealed Mike Welch, citing a beloved moment from Stephenie Meyer’s “New Moon” novel. “There’s a scene that’s in the book, the three-way date between Jacob and Bella and Mike, where Mike ends up getting sick, and it’s just very awkward.”
MetroNews has a great new interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz. In it, he talks about some of the differences we’ll see in New Moon compared to Twilight, including the visual look of the movie–
Q. You’re a very visual director. What’s your vision for New Moon?
Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight, is aiming to work with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart again in some upcoming projects –
凱薩琳哈德維,Twilight的導演想要在之後的計畫中再度和Robert、Kristen一起合作。
“We’ve got ‘Maximum Ride,’ ” she said. “That’s a really wild, big-action fantasy film with bird kids. Then I have a cool project at Overture with Emile Hirsch that’s a modern retelling of ‘Hamlet’ — a very radical version. And then at Summit, we have ‘If I Stay,’ which is another really nice novel that we’re adapting.”
「我們得到了"Maximum Ride"」她說。「和幾個小不點一起真的很古怪的大動作科幻片。然後我有一個很酷的計畫在Overture中和Emile Hirsch一起合作,這部片是重拍Hamlet中的現代人-一個非常徹底改編的劇本。然後製片廠是Summit,我們有了"If I Stay"的拍攝權,這是我們改寫的另一個非常棒的小說。
The NY Post interviews Peter Facinelli concerning his TV series that premieres tonight, Nurse Jackie, and they manage to ask a bit about his thoughts on New Moon–
Kelly Clarkson is a big Twilight fan, and she talks about her love for the series as well as a song called “Empty as I Am” that she wrote on a whim inspired by New Moon. No word on if it will be in the movie or not, but Kelly has previously blogged about reading the books.
Kelly Clarkson 是Twilight的忠實粉絲,並且她談到她為了這個系列寫了一首非常好的歌叫做“Empty as I Am”,並且這首歌的靈感是來自新月。
In news sure to disappoint fans of the Twilight soundtrack, Paramore has told Billboard that they don’t think they’re interested in appearing on the New Moon soundtrack. According to Paramore drummer Zac Farro,
MTV has this new video interview with MTV Movie Awards producer Mark Burnett where he talks about how important New Moon is to the awards show, and he also talks about how he thinks Twilight is such a great series–
“People love the movie, love the books. I’ve seen nothing like it,” he said, explaining that he is also a fan. “Even when the poster was revealed it created news. I love when new things come out in America, things that touch people in a positive way. There’s so much negative news … this is positive. ‘Twilight’ is love. It’s a forbidden love story. I love the movie, I’ve seen it a number of times. It’s great for us.”
The crew was very quick and organized, and divided all the extras into groups: “the drivers”, “the reds”, and “the blacks”. We felt like the prey of the production company. They then offered us breakfast, which I was grateful for since my stomach was complaining more than Rosalie. Me and all the other drivers (there were about a hundred of us), were then told to park in the front of the main entrance of the town, where a yellow Porsche was also parked! My God, what a beautiful car! The rest of the extras were taken inside the city wall, where they would be shooting the reunion between Edward and Bella later in the week.
A visitor to Montepulciano Italy captured these shots of the fabled twin set of yellow Porsches for Alice’s fateful drive in New Moon. They are parked near a production area which seems to be busy with a tent of crew members working behind the scenes.