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February 2009

twilight  200902020842 Will New Moon be a Lionsgate Film?

The Canadian film and television distribution company Lionsgate Entertainment is reportedly in talks to merge with Summit. Lionsgate has already gobbled up several other production facilities and distributors, such as Trimark, Cinepix and Artisan Entertainment. This from

Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment are in talks to merge their two companies, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. The plan, if the deal goes through, is for Lionsgate to buy Summit’s library of six films and the rights to the “Twilight” franchise. Early talks last year involved the merger of only the domestic divisions, under the terms of the reported deal. Executives at Lionsgate and Summit declined to comment for this story. But one Lionsgate executive, who declined to speak for attribution, said: “At this time there are no new conversations.” Rumors of a proposed merger have abounded for months, and other executives familiar with the terms said the deal made sense.

Notable films from Lions Gate have included American Psycho, Gods and Monsters, Dogma, Saw, and Fahrenheit 9/11–and Lionsgate is in the works with MGM and Paramount/Viacom to launch a new premium TV channel that will be similar to HBO or Showtime.

If the studios do merge, what does this mean for New Moon? I’m thinking not too much will change, except the distribution of the film may improve since Lionsgate is a larger company than Summit. Oh, and the titles you see at the beginning of the film may say Lionsgate!

Lionsgate In Talks To Buy Summit?

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twilight funny  amazing twilight cakes 28 Creative and Amazing Twilight Cakes

What better way to show your love for Twilight than with a cake? Here is a collection of 28 amazing Twilight cakes for birthdays, release parties, and Sweet Sixteens. Which is your favorite? Know of any others we didn’t find? Share in the comments!

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newmoonmovieorg  200902011601 New Mini Site News Widget! We’re super-excited to bring you this new widget, that lets you embed a miniature version of our website onto your page! It will automagically update every time we post something new, so you can keep instantly up-to-date on the newest New Moon news…

Just click the “Share” button to post it on your Myspace, iGoogle, Facebook, blog, etc!

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Pwease Vote For Us!

by Will on February 1, 2009 · 36 comments

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newmoonmovieorg  pwease vote1 Pwease Vote For Us!

The magazine PopStar is checking on which Twilight fansite to cover in an upcoming issue for their PopTastic awards. If you like our site, we’d really appreciate you adding a word about us in in the comments of this post on their site! Pwease?

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kellan lutz interview ashley greene  200902011243 LXTV Exclusive Interview with Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz Here’s a fantastic new video from the set of Warrior, the new film from Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz–including a tidbit from Twilight producer Jillian about who has the funniest line in New Moon!–

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casting  starbuckstribe Native American Casting Scandal, Sam Uley Out? Has Sam Uley lost his role? Are the Native American roles being bastardized with newly realized “Native American” actors–like Taylor Lautner–that are stretching the interpretation of their heritage so they can hitch a ride on such a huge movie? Those are the tough questions that are being brought up as casting for Native Americans begins for New Moon

Native Americans are outraged over what they hold as deceptions in and around the production of the Hollywood film series “Twilight.”

With the commercial success of Twilight, Hollywood is abuzz with agents molding, fitting, and pushing their celebrity actors to pass as Native Americans.

“The Twilight Series is one of few commercial films, a script, and a story with Native American roles.” said Lydia Ponce. “It is a sad day to see that the big power agents are marketing Filipino and Asian celebrity actors to play Native Americans. These are such rare opportunities. When films like Twilight knowingly and willfully select non-Native American actors to play Native roles, it sends the message that we’re not good enough to represent ourselves.”

Not so long ago Old Western films hired Caucasian actors who were painted a brownish-red and wore wigs to portray Native peoples. Continued insult and injury further perpetuating bias, stereotypes, and racism, was so very wrong and evil then and now. Hollywood is using the tan spray and hair extensions again.

Twilight Vampire Movie Hollywood agents are instructing their talent to dig and find those ‘Native Roots’ and publicize their newfound Native American heritage in interviews conveniently in sync with current casting needs and trends.

Twilight’s lead actor Taylor Lautner, who allegedly just found his Native American roots, was given the extraordinary opportunity to play the lead in the film well after the “discovery” of his ethnicity.

In a recent MTV interview Lautner stated, “I am part Native American. We learned that through [preparing for] this film. I’m French, Dutch and German, and on my mother’s side, she has some Potawatomi and Ottawa Indian in her.”

However, in a film with such a strong Native American theme, only two actors of Native American decent were hired. But due to reasons unknown, Solomon Trimble (Apache) who played and established the character of Sam Uley, has suddenly lost his role.

Sam Uley’s character has been re-posted onto the Hollywood-casting breakdown, and it is obvious that Hollywood is now looking for a more marketable teen heartthrob celebrity actor to play the more substantial and very desirable part.

NativeVue adds

Jacob is a Native American; a member of the Quileute tribe from northwest Washington. Taylor Lautner, by contrast, is not Quileute. In fact, he’s not Navajo, Cree, Lakota, Cherokee, Mohawk, Seminole, or Ojibwa. He’s not Native at all (unless you consider his recent “discovery” of a long-ago Indian ancestor lurking in the family tree).

Yet the winsome 16-year-old from Holland is Hollywood’s idea of Quileute’s werewolf teen heartthrob. Look at it this way imagine casting Kate Bosworth as Celie in The Color Purple.

The part about Sam Uley is speculation at this point, but it does seem odd that he was posted in the leaked casting notes recently. TwiCrack has two great articles about these controversies here and here.
What do you guys think? Sound off in the comments!

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