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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That’s right, New Zealanders! You’ll be the first in the world to see New Moon–

A release date’s been set for New Moon in New Zealand.

So, Twihards, mark this date in your calendar.

November the 19th, 2009.

Because that’s when Bella, Edward, Jacob and the gang will be back on the big screen.

America has a release date of November the 20th, 2009 – so with the time difference you’ll get to see it before the American market.

If I figure correctly, the midnight showing in NZ coincides with around 6pm New York time on the 19th–so the lucky Kiwis will finish watching New Moon before the USA can even start!

Twilight: New Moon gets NZ release date

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Amazon has put up the full tracklisting for the Twilight Soundtrack Special Edition CD/DVD that’s coming March 17th, and it looks pretty sweet!–Here’s the new stuff that has been added–

Disc: 1

13. Love Is Worth The Fall (O.A.R.)

14. Decode (Acoustic) (Paramore)

15. Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Live) (Iron & Wine)

16. Spotlight (Sun Lux Remix) (MuteMath)

17. Full Moon (Applebum and Komonazmuk Remix) (The Black Ghosts)

Disc: 2

1. Interview with Alex Patsavas, Music Supervisor for Twilight (DVD)

2. Interview with Hayley Williams, Paramore (DVD)

3. Paramore- Decode Music Video (DVD)

4. Paramore- Decode (Beyond the Video)(DVD)

5. The Black Ghosts- Full Moon Music Video (DVD)

6. Iron & Wine- Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Live)(DVD)  

Plus, they’ve dropped the price to $19.99 from the previously announced $24.98. Check it out or pre-order it now over at Amazon!

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One of the best Twilight sites, Twilight Lexicon, has a terrific exclusive interview with Solomon Trimble that they’ve just posted. The whole thing is worth reading–but perhaps most of interest is the news that–

Have you heard any news on your participation in New Moon?

No, I have not been confirmed for New Moon as of 2/25/2009.

Bad news for Team Solomon fans. Trimble seems such a genuine and down-to-earth person in this interview, it’s very odd indeed that that he still doesn’t know whether he’s been cast. Could newcomer Bronson Pelletier be taking his place in New Moon?

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Hmmm…whatever is the Queen Bee Stephenie Meyer doing arriving at the Vancouver airport?   New Moon is due to start filming in Vancouver in March, and there are already some preparations being made. TMZ and Bauer list her arrival as doing “press” in Vancouver–but I don’t see any press opportunities listed on her official website. We can only wish for a super-secret press conference to announce the cast soon….we’re dying here! [via TwiCrack]

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