We’re thrilled to share a new feature–the New Moon movie chat room! You can meet your fellow TwiFans, talk about all the New Moon gossip, and just generally goof off with like-minded friends.
The chat room will be open 24/7, but to celebrate the launch, we’re going to have a very special gab session tonight–Thursday, February 19 at 8pm EST–where everyone can meet up in the chatroom and have a blast, and talk one-to-one with yours truly and the rest of the die-hard fans that visit the site.
I have a very special surprise in store as well. Let’s just say that we’ll be giving away anamazing giftas a door prize to one lucky visitor to the chat room in a random drawing sometime between 8pm EST and 10pm EST, so you’ll definitely want to be there!
We’ll also be having a Virtual Viewing Partyduring the Oscars on Sunday, so you can get a play-by-play of all the Twilight action as it takes place in Los Angeles, and we can all squee together about the Robert Pattinson presenation and other potential Twilight-themed segments that have been hinted about as they occur. The Academy Awards start at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern.
Are you Canadian? I have something to tell you aboot, eh? Sunrise Records is running a massive $400 gift pack contest which includes:
Edward Twilight Wall Mural
Edward Watch
Twilight Bracelet
Twilight Makeup Box
Twilight Umbrella
Twilight Music Box
Twilight Score CD
Twilight Soundtrack CD
Sounds fantastic! Too bad only Candians are eligible. First, you get the most reasonably priced, most awesome DVD set out there–and now this. Hmmph! However–I have to say–Twilight umbrella? Wow! We’ve seen some crazy merchandise, but I think this takes the cake.
MTV interviewed NECA, maker of tons of Twilight schwag, as well as the Twilight action figures, and they report that they’re going to be pumping out the wares big time for New Moon–including a full line of dolls to be released at the same time as the movie. Though I’m defintely feeling the Twilight merchandise tie-in fatigue, I gotta say, I’m kinda excited about the action figures–if only because it promises the possibility of some really wicked fan created YouTube videos, Robot Chicken style. Check out the interview–
Peter Facinelli talked about New Moon last night at the Costume Designers Guild Awards and he says that they “start Rehearsals in about 3 weeks and start filming in April.” Is filming pushed back a little or is the March 23rd date we’ve heard so far just for rehearsals?
Check the break for super-cute pictures of Peter Facinelli in his boxers at the show from Lion & Lamb Love!
Kellan Lutz and AnnaLynne McCord, who hopes to play Heidi in New Moon, definitely have some chemistry, as witnessed by the recent photo from the Playboy Mansion. E! notes that they were recently spotted at New York Fashion Week together–where Lutz, , who played Emmett Cullen in Twilight, had this to say on their “friendship”
“You know, we’re really close and we’re all for each other’s careers. And we actually bounce a lot of career choices and the like off each other, so it’s nice to have someone in the industry who you can really, you know, be honest with versus your agent, versus your manager, the lawyer, who really want to do stuff for the money and for the wrong reasons a lot of times. So it’s nice to have friends who are smart and intelligent who know the business side of the business. That’s what AnnaLynne is. Therefore we’re friends.”
AnnaLynne McCord, most notable for having a whopping 4 capital letters in her name, had this to say about New Moon–
“[The audition] went really well,” she said. “We haven’t found out yet. I’m just sitting here, crossing the fingers, hoping it’ll work out. I really loved meeting with Chris Weitz. He’s a darling director, and it would be cool to work on it. Obviously, I’m a fan of Twilight. I’m a huge vampire fan, so that, in general, makes me want to do the film.”
Taylor Lautner had a hairy situation with his wig in Twilight– and is hoping for a strand of relief in New Moon–
Taylor told Teen mag: “When I first heard that I was going to be wearing a wig I was really excited.
“I was like “Cool, I have never worn a wig before, this is going to be fun change my look up a bit.”
“But then, after the first day of filming I was through with it. It was really itchy, it was always getting in my face! I’d be trying to eat lunch and it’s in my mouth and, yeah, even when were filming the scenes and I’m talking and it’s in my mouth and agh! It was quite the adventure with the wig.”
He won’t be wearing the wig much in New Moon.
Taylor explains: “The good news is when he (Jacob) transforms into a werewolf he cuts the long hair off, so I’d have regular hair.”
The Dazzle Awards is currently taking nominations for the best sources of Online Twilight Fandom. NewMoonMovie.org is eligible for four awards:
Best Twilight Fansite- The highest Dazzle Award. This Catetgory is open to all Twilight Fansites (with the exception of Myspace and Facebook Groups) [http://NewMoonMovie.org]
*These 2 categories are recommend for individuals. However sites can enter these categories too.
You may not know this, but NewMoonMovie.org is entirely the work of one person. So you can nominate us for any of these as you see fit.
To nominate, all you have to do is send an email to dazzleawards@yahoo.com with the category you are nominating NewMoonMovie.org for, and the name/web address of the website. Thanks!
Just a reminder that you should cast your ballots before Midnight EST tonight for the New Moon Movie Poster Contest! It’s a very close race, with CarloAdrian, Llanos73 and LindseyArcher nose-to-nose, each garnering about 10% of the vote so far. Make sure your voice is heard and vote now! If you have any trouble loading all the graphics, you can also vote directly on the Polldaddy page.
YouTuber Tiffanyd666 has made an entirely new high quality remix/recut of her amazing New Moon trailer, and it is more stunning than ever. She says–
To honour breaking the 3 million views milestone, and also (it is a bit early) to celebrate 1 year of being a very proud Twituber (Twi-vidder technically) this is a gift to the hard core fans of my New Moon Trailer; here is a HQ version, ‘remade’ with Sony Vegas Pro 8.0. Tweaked slightly with a little bit of different footage and some stylish font, (to seem a tad more realistic) I kept the trailer mostly the same, seeing as the majority of fans seem to have already, and whole heartedly accepted it. I did keep Steven Strait as Jacob because I really wanted to make a re-vamped (no pun intened) version of my original trailer, but I am currently working on a new ‘New Moon trailer’ with Taylor Lautner, which I will post sometime after the (Australian) DVD release of twilight.