Access Hollywood talked to Kristen Stewart at her Adventureland press junket and she spoke a bit about the New Moon cast–in particular, leading man Taylor Lautner and newcomer Dakota Fanning–

  “We’re so proud of [Taylor Lautner],” she said at the junket for her latest film, “Adventureland.” “It’s been a year since we shot the last one and he’s been working on it the entire time. Not just physically — he’s gotten buff and everything but he’s [also] so [into] it.”

And “New Moon” will feature new additions as well — Dakota Fanning has joined the cast of the film, news which Kristen thinks is “awesome.”

“It’s cool to have small characters be really vivid and have them stick out,” she said. “I feel like she’ll do something really interesting with it. It’s a crazy character she plays.”

Kristen Stewart so Proud of New Moon Cast

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Smile! You’re on Kellan camera! Kellan Lutz was spotted at the Vancouver Airport on the way to Las Vegas with Edi Gathegi on Friday night, and Rahcelle LeFevre and Nikki Reed were headed out on Saturday morning. Check out the rest of the pics at Lainey Gossip (thanks, TwiCrack!)

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NewMoonMovie.org reader Julie met Peter Facinelli at the UK Twilight Convention recently, and she had this interesting tidbit to share–

He talked to us about the script for New Moon and said he was happy with it. He mentioned his concerns at a man directing a story told from a woman’s (Bella’s) viewpoint, but how he was then totally reassured after meeting Chris Weitz the director. My favourite bit of insiders gossip that he gave us was one of the stage directions. In the New Moon script it says ‘the sunlight catches Edward’s skin and we see him sparkle’ ,it then says in brackets underneath (BUT BETTER THAN IN TWILIGHT) I guess they really are trying to improve the special effects!

Haha! Good to know that the New Moon team has a sense of humor about what went wrong in Twilight.

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There is a breaking rumor that the Italian scenes of New Moon may not be shot in Volterra–but instead in Montepulciano, Italy, which is 100km to the Southeast. According to a blog post by Piera Detassis, who is a veteran Italian film journalist and Artistic Director of the Rome Film Festival–

At lunch in Los Angeles with one of the producers of Summit Entertainment, responsible for, and now Twilight, New Moon, the continuation of the saga is from the books of Stephenie Meyer, the bomb explodes: Despite ads, previews and generous offers of all sorts by Mayor and City, the sequel vampiresco not running in Volterra in the places of the novel, but in Montepulciano, where the troupe has found location “to be the most beautiful film.” [autotranslated English]

A pranzo a Los Angeles con uno dei produttori della Summit Entertainment, responsabile di Twilight e ora di New Moon , il seguito della saga tratta dai libri di Stephenie Meyer, esplode la bomba: nonostante annunci, anticipazioni e munifiche offerte d’ogni sorta da parte di Sindaco e Comune, il sequel vampiresco non si girerà a Volterra nei luoghi del romanzo, ma a Montepulciano dove la troupe ha trovato location “più belle da filmare”. [original Italian]

This has also been reported at the Official Italian Twilight Fanclub, and a reader at TwiCrack who speaks Italian summarizes the post–

they say that New Moon won’t be shot in Volterra but in Montepulciano because the locations are “more beautiful for the movie”

the source is the official italian fanclub of the twilight saga. They took the news from Piera Detassis, the director of the main movie magazine in Italy. she was at dinner with the producers of the movie when the bomb was dropped!

So, this is just a rumor currently–but considering the ongoing push by Volterra to have the film shoot there, the Italian location was always up in the air. This is despite the report by Variety that stated New Moon would definitely be filming in Volterra. Piera Detassis seems to be very well-connected in the Italian film world. We’ll have to wait and see, but things aren’t looking good for Volterra right now.

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The Vancouver Sun suggests shooting locations for the scenes of New Moon–showing just how versatile the city of Vancouver is:

Producers are revealing nothing of their plans for shooting the Twilight sequel New Moon. But they are here in Vancouver and they are shooting, under a fake name no less.

The reasons for the high security are obvious. Crowd control.

Reports that teenaged girls from all over North America are planning to travel to Vancouver for a mere glimpse of the production have been flowing in for many weeks.

The producers aren’t talking, but we aren’t hurt (well, maybe a little). But in the spirit of Canadian politeness and good business we’d like to offer the producers our suggestions for great backdrops for their bloody tale of chaste vampire love.

Check out the locations they suggest at the Vancouver Sun! [thanks, RaeIsSwitzerland!]

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Kellan Lutz and Edi Gathegi were spotted in Las Vegas celebrating their Birthdays together at Privé. They had this cool Twilight-themed cake that fits in perfectly with the other Twilight cakes we’ve seen. Happy Birthday guys! Check out the rest of the photos at Kellan Lutz Online . [via TwiCrack]

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