Extra is doing another special where you can ask your questions to the New Moon cast–and this time they’re getting almost everyone to participate!

Get ready to sink your teeth into something special, Twilighters… because “Extra” is bringing you closer than ever to your favorite vampires! We’ll have the entire cast of “Twilight” on our set next week — and they’ll be answering questions from YOU!

Rob Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone — they’re all waiting to hear from you! Just upload your video questions!

And no, folks–”Kristen, why you gotta be like that?” is not a valid question. Play nice!

Ask the ‘Twilight’ Cast!

Here’s a bonus video from a recent episode of Extra where they talk about Robert Pattinson in Japan–and get his word on New Moon from the Red Carpet.

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UPDATE: The Official New Moon Movie Contest is Now Open!!!

Does it get any better than this? Summit is about to launch a contest which will give one lucky contestant from the US or Canada the chance to BE IN NEW MOON. This contest will take place at the Official Twilight The Movie Website–and we’ll let you know as any new details on how to enter emerge!

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Twilight is now #1 on the movie sales in the iTunes store, and it’s no surprise why–they’ve just upped the ante with a new special deal.

They are now offering two hours of special bonus material–including “deleted and extended scenes, interviews, music videos, and more” for pre-ordering the movie. It’s available now for pre-order for $14.99, which seems a pretty good deal with all the bonus stuff now included!

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Hot Topic has several new pieces of Twilight gear, including this pretty choice Forks High School t-shirt for the covert Twilight operatives among us.

There’s also the spinning arrow necklace for those on Team Switzerland that could come in handy for playing a game of spin the bottle on your neck if you happened to have two boys named Edward and Jacob handy.

Finally, there’s a slap bracelet–which–when I was in school and they first came out, were banned because you could use the metal inside as a shiv. Hopefully they’ve fixed that by now. Just saying.

Twilight – Hottopic.com

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The following cast summary was taken from Production Weekly, which is a–let’s see if you can guess–weekly production newsletter–and was found by the same TwiMom responsible for the previous Production Weekly post with a summary we hadn’t seen before.

“THE TWILIGHT SAGA’S NEW MOON” Feature Film 02-12-09

VOLTERRA FM PRODUCTIONS CANADA INC.

STATUS – March 23 LOCATION – Vancouver – Italy

PRODUCER: Patrick Wachsberger – Wyck Godfrey WRITER: Melissa Rosenberg DIRECTOR: Chris Weitz LP: Bill Bannerman PM: Barbara Kelly

CAST: Robert Pattinson – Kristen Stewart – Taylor Lautner – Billy Burke – Gil Birmingham – Peter Facinelli -Elizabeth Reaser -Ashley Greene – Jackson Rathbone – Kellan Lutz – Nikki Reed – Dakota Fanning

All is not well between demon-magnet Bella and Edward Cullen, her vampire Romeo. An innocent papercut at Edward’s house puts Bella in grave danger when various members of the Cullen family can barely resist their hunger at the smell of blood. The Cullens promptly leave town, afraid of endangering Edward’s beloved, and Bella sinks into an overwhelming depression. Months later, she finally emerges from her funk to rebuild her life, focusing on her friendship with besotted teen Jacob from the reservation. Bella’s unhealthy enthrallment to Edward leads her into dangerous and self-destructive behavior despite her new friends, and supernatural complications are bound to reappear. Bella’s being hunted by an evil vampire, and Jacob’s adolescent male rage turns out to be incipient lycanthropy: It seems many Quileute Indians become werewolves in the presence of vampires, their natural enemies. (March 23 – May 20 / will shoot in the ancient Tuscan city of Volterra for two weeks in May – Release date Nov. 20, 2009)  

Of note is that Dakota Fanning is now listed as in the cast–so she may have officially signed. But, at the same time, it also claims the film will be shooting in Volterra–which as we just reported, is still up in the air.

UPDATE: As I mentioned in the last paragraph, this doesn’t mean Fanning is definitely in, since the information is not consistent with other news we’re hearing. The ever-lovable Twilight Lexicon makes the point even more succinctly–

Now here’s the thing were not saying Dakota won’t eventually be cast because that’s honestly our gut impression here based on a number of factors. However, we are not so sure this is 100% official yet:
1. It doesn’t make any sense for this confirmation not to have been picked up by Mark Malkin, Nikki Finke, and several others given that they all had the insider track. The Dakota Fanning story leaked like a sieve. It seems odd that they’d allow themselves to get upstaged by a two-week old production memo that lots of people had access to.
2. The cast list (other than Rob, Kristen, and Taylor who obviously have top billing in that order) are in alphabetical order. Dakota’s name got stuck in at the end. It seems weird that the format would not be consistent especially in Hollywood where name position is everything

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A while ago, we reported on a Variety article in which New Moon was seemingly confirmed to be shooting in Volterra, Italy–the place in the New Moon book where the Volturi reside. However, the Tourism Commission of Volterra seems to have heard different news, and just today Luciano from their group shares this with us–

Municipality of Volterra has written many letters to Summit Entertainment with only one short answer (we read it..and sounds like: “oh, thank you..we are thinking about it…”) but has no more been contacted by New Moon production.

I know that Variety.com wrote “Volterra, two weeks in may”. But, the day after, “Eagle Pictures” (Italian distribution) said to italian press that everything was misunderstood by the columnist Nick Vivarelli.

If you visit the website they have set up–they being the group of the Municipality of Volterra, Tourist Office, Bank of Volterra and Fondazione CRV, you can read a heartfelt letter (in Italian) that was sent to Summit, and more news concerning their attempts to have New Moon filmed in their lovely home city.

If you’d like to help them, they’ve set up a petition for you to sign that is fairly easy to understand whether you speak Italian or English if you believe New Moon should be filmed in Volterra. Hhopefully we’ll be hearing more insight into this situation!

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (Italian)

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (auto-translated to English)

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