New pictures of New Moon-ers Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for their EW photo shoot.

Absolutely gorgeous! I can’t even pic a fav picture, they are all great!

You can view the rest of the pictures at Breaking-Dawn.fr and some more at TwiCrack!

[Thanks, Patty, Bam6am88, and TSH!]

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Now I’m off to sit in a corner and sulk! humph!

[Thanks, McNutters!]

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Yesterday The Killers and Grizzly Bear were both confirmed to be on the Twilight Saga – New Moon Soundtrack. We are supposedly going to know at some point today all the artists/bands that are on the New Moon soundtrack -

Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor on both films, was hired for “New Moon” in January but said in an interview this week that the pitches for the soundtrack started coming in even before then. And although the list of songs for “New Moon” is still being completed, music executives say they have already begun pushing to have their artists included in the third film, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” scheduled for release next June.

Ms. Patsavas, known for her work on television shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Gossip Girl,” said she was confident that the “New Moon” soundtrack would include Thom Yorke, Bon Iver and Band of Skulls. Death Cab for Cutie’s “Meet Me on the Equinox,” the first single, had its premiere on MTV.com on Sunday, as part of a “Twilight” promotional blitz surrounding MTV’s Video Music Awards. There has been extensive speculation in the music industry all summer about who else would be included. Representatives of Grizzly Bear and the Killers said those groups would be on the soundtrack, but Ms. Patsavas declined to comment, saying that the track list would be completed and announced on Friday.

Maybe thats why Peter Facinelli was wearing that shirt on the Eclipse set? lol

You can check out the NYTimes interview here!

[Thanks, TSH, JayPat, Cyndi, and Windett_Rob!]

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Happy Funny Friday! LOL

[Thanks, Jenn!]

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Looking beautiful ladies! Rachelle LeFevre (aka Victoria) and Anna Kendrick (aka Jessica Stanley) were photographed with photographer (that sounded funny!) Merlin Bronques. Both Rachelle and Anna attended the Toronto Film Festival to promote their films: Barney’s Version (Rachelle)and Up In The Air (Anna).

Check out all the pics here!

[Thanks, Zoe, and TSH!]

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BoxOffice.com has an excellent new interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz.  In the interview they discuss topics from staying faithful to the book, New Moon conspiracy theories, to Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner taking off their shirts -

How do you direct a film when everyone knows the story and ending?

In a way, that’s an advantage. That people know and love the book means that people know and want to see the movie, which is what you hope for when you’re making a film. It’s a fine balance between being as faithful as possible to the spirit of the book, and bringing changes. I regard myself as fan as much as any other, and the way that I see the book in my head is just like any other fan’s ability, except that I happen to have tens of millions of dollars at my disposal to realize that vision. One hopes that it’s a strong enough envisioning of the book that people will be amused and entertained and excited even though they know how things are going to end.

One of my favorite New Moon conspiracy theories is that the producers are ordering Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson to keep their love hidden because it will affect the way people will perceive the story, even though the story is already known even until the next two books.

The fans know what the Volturi look like or what Taylor Lautner as Jacob’s amazing bod is going to look like—the producers know these things are big points of curiosity about whether we’ve been able to be faithful to people’s notions. And they want to parse these things out over time. [Laughs] It is a conspiracy, but the conspiracy is called marketing.

It’s got this operatic tone that’s like soma for anyone with a broken heart.

We’re probably going to put out one of the greatest breakup mix albums of all time on the soundtrack. Alexandre Desplat doing the music means there’s this sense of French Romanticism that goes back to Alexandre’s mentor Maurice Jarre and everything he did for David Lean’s movies—going back to Debussy and Ravel and that kind of stuff. There is a lot of luxuriating in the emotionalism of the piece. I think I’m probably now supposed to add at this point that there’s great stuff for guys as well. But leave that aside for the moment.

Exactly. You always hear about the male gaze in films, but this seems to have such a strong female gaze. One of the prerequisites is how many times Pattinson and Lautner take off their shirts.

It’s there in the script, and that’s one for the ladies, really. Women have been objectified plenty in Hollywood films. And there’s still sort of a chasteness to the objectification in Twilight and New Moon. One approaches it hopefully with a bit of tact—not just an exercise in beefcake peddling. You hope when you’re shooting any kind of above-the-waist nudity that it suits the demand of the moment, it isn’t just in there for the hell of it. That being said, I think we did come to Comic-Con with a lot of muscles and it was really fun to see the reaction to it. I’ve tried to make films that take into account the female members of the audience. Even American Pie, which comes from a genre that is notoriously misogynist.

You can check out the rest of the awesome interview here!

[Thanks, TSH!]

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