Despite reports that Eclipse will begin filming in August, no exact date is set in stone yet. The filming schedule is “still being drafted” according to Lainey Gossip. Also according to Lainey, the following characters have been added to the casting process–

• Maria-”Maria found Jasper during the Southern vampire wars. At this point, Jasper was a major in the Confederate Army, and Maria was looking for humans that she could turn to vampires to create a newborn army, using the idea pioneered by Benito. After turning Jasper, she found that he was extremely useful to her, because he was able to control the emotions of the vampires around him, and make them work together. In Eclipse, Maria is described as a tiny brunette with a soft and musical voice that has a tendency to be sharp. She was able to control her thirst, though she still preyed humans’ blood. ” [1]
• Bree-”Bree was created by Victoria as part of her newborn vampire army to avenge James’ death. She never saw Victoria, as her “assistant”, Riley, was the one who told the newborns what to do. Bree was described as beautiful and slender with short dark hair to her chin and glowing blood red eyes. She was also very young, around the age of 15 and the height was around 5′1″ and 5′3″. When she screams Bree has a high, shrill voice. [2]
• Royce King–”Royce King II was a human who lived during the time of the Great Depression. He was engaged to Rosalie Hale for a short period of time before being killed by her. He is perceived as being quite out-spoken but is liked by Rosalie because of her vanity.” [3]

Note that the descriptions I’ve used are from the TwiWiki, and are not the official summaries from the casting process.

[Eclipse Poster by Grodansnagel]

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New Moon wolfman Taylor Lautner was spotted meeting with his manager in Beverly Hills yesterday. He was waring the secret handshake garmet of the Twilight cast–a hoodie–as well as a black polo and some jeans.

Check out more pics at TwiFans.

UPDATE: More Taylor Lautner goodness from yesterday at JustJared.

[thanks, TeamSpaceHeaters!]

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New Moon actress Kristen Stewart took place in a gorgeous new photoshoot wearing some very seductive and sultry clothes yesterday by the Santa Monica pier.   

No word on who the fashionable photos are for, but you can check out the photos of her glamorous photoshoot being photographed by the press at Bauer-Griffin and PopSugar.

[thanks, Allison, Lygia & Monica!]

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Robert Pattinson was spotted on the streets of New York City yesterday between attending meetings. He’s evidently in NYC to begin work soon on his new film Remember Me.

Check out all the pics of Robert Pattinson in New York at EntertainmentWise.

[thanks, LMCullen!]

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In news sure to disappoint fans of the Twilight soundtrack, Paramore has told Billboard that they don’t think they’re interested in appearing on the New Moon soundtrack. According to Paramore drummer Zac Farro,

Speaking to Billboard, the 18-year-old who celebrates his 19th birthday tomorrow, revealed: “It was really fun to be a part of that, and great exposure, but I think Twilight was it for us. We don’t want to seem like we’re trying to get in every single movie they put out.” He adds: “We don’t want to be, like, the vampire house band.”

Paramore was up for an MTV Movie Award this weekend for the song “Decode” from the Twilight soundtrack, but they lost out to Miley Cyrus and her Hannah Montana movie.

Paramore say no to The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack

[thanks, Lydia & LMCullen!]

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The New Moon trailer is seeing huge viewership numbers online, Nikki Finke reports–

Summit Entertainment has a count of 4.2 million views for the New Moon trailer from MySpace, and another 1.6 million from MTV.com, so that’s 5.8 million combined views in the first 24 hours from its two domestic online launch partners. By comparison, the 3rd (and last) trailer for Twilight received 3.2 million views in its first 48 hours on MySpace, piddling compared to viewership for the sequel’s trailer.

This number doesn’t even include all the versions uploaded to YouTube–including the one we added with the permission of Summit–so the actual number is even higher.

[via @TwiCrackAddict]

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Peter Facinelli’s new project Nurse Jackie starts airing next week, and the New Moon doc went on Fox to start promoting the new show, you can check out the video above.

The first episode of Nurse Jackie is now available to watch for free in advance of the show’s premiere.

[via TwiLex, thanks TeamSpaceHeaters!]

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