You may have heard rumors that Robert Pattinson won’t be contributing to the New Moon soundtrack–but fret not, he’s still working on music–in fact, he might just be releasing a whole album of songs! He aims to DIY–and keep it indie:

He reveals, “I might make an album but not through a record company or anything. I’d like to do something independent.

“I don’t care if people buy it or not. I’d just like to have it just for myself so I can work with good musicians and stuff.

“All my friends are musicians in London. They’re very talented. My best friend wrote one of the songs on the soundtrack with another friend of mine, this guy Marcus Foster who did Bobby Long.

I think self-releasing the album is a fantastic idea. With distribution costs being so low nowadays, he could self-release it on iTunes and release the physical album through a service like CDBaby. The only real costs would be the costs of recording and publicity–and I think he would receive more than enough plenty of publicity without paying a dime, since entertainment news sources and websites would cover it like a hawk. Go for it, Robert!

Robert Pattinson: ‘I Might Make an Album’

[image via Twilight Singapore's awesome coverage of the Twilight Tokyo premiere]

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MTV has an update to the article we mentioned the other day about the best fake New Moon rumors–this time, ones collected by fans–among the doozies are:

You’ve probably heard that Drew Barrymore is rumored to be one of the candidates for director of “Eclipse,” but she’s also going to star in “Breaking Dawn”! She’s going to recruit Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz for the film, and they’ll play the Amazonian coven, Zafrina, Senna, and Kachiri.

Among the ones we heard here at NewMoonMovie.org were–Sam sez–

how about miley as bella, zac as edward, the jbros as the volturi, and vanessa as tanya. vanessa and miley have a cat fight over zac then zac starts singing “bet on it” when miley leaves him for jacob who will be played by judge judy. : ) and in breaking dawn they replace miley with jamie lynn spears : ) renesmee is played by a hairless cat.

and lovevampolves sez–

American Idol Judges will be in NM. Paula Abdul will be Leah, Simon Cowell will be Aro, Randy Jackson will be the new Sam, and kara says she wants her “perfect voice” in the soundtrack.

and lisaaa goes totally crazy and sez–

jackson rathbone to replace kristen stewart as bella…. edward falls in love with jasper, bella is edwards sister…. its a gay but hilariously funny vampire romance…

Check out more of what the MTV fans said as well!

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With all the proceeds of filming, plus the fans visiting after the movie is released, Oregon is bummed more than anyone else that New Moon is filming in Vancouver.

Vince Porter, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Film and Television estimates producers spent $20 million in the state. New Moon, which is reportedly budgeted at $50 million, up from the $37 million Twilight budget, would likely have brought in even more.

Porter says filmmakers were partly concerned that Oregon wouldn’t have the production resources to support two Twilight sequels being made back-to-back. The lower Canadian dollar also made filming in British Columbia cheaper.

It looks like a Harrison Ford film is of the major reasons that New Moon couldn’t film in Oregon, as it was eating up resources–

Then just as the film office was trying its best to lure back Twilight producers, CBS Films committed to film The Untitled Crowley Project starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Frasier in Oregon, eating up the state’s film resources and crews, he says.

Porter says the Crowley project, set to begin filming in April, will replace any money lost from the move and could bring even more spending to the state because producers plan to use more local film companies.

Twilight sets on Oregon as film heads to Canada

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The casting for New Moon is complete …..but we don’t know a thing yet. According to live-pr:

   The casting director for New Moon, Joseph Middleton, has announced that “We are finished with the casting process”. No details on the cast list has been released by Summit Entertainment.

   The rumor mill has been on fire with talk of Madonna, Vanessa Hudgens, AnnaLynne McCord, and Dakota Fanning being hired for a coveted spot on the New Moon cast, however there has been no official confirmation of any of them being hired.

It’s great to hear progress is being made, and we hope to bring your more info soon!

New Moon Casting Complete, Eclipse Gets New Director

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