Ashley Chow, a student at David Thompson secondary in Vancouver, has less than kind words to say about the fact that New Moon filmed at her school–

It seemed pretty cool at first, but when you mix in the hottest celebrities with a horrible film crew, the school turns into chaos. Closing the cafeteria for two days, taking over the foyer and forcing students to make detours and stop dead in our tracks during our break and lunch because they were filming a big-shot movie was not cool.

If they had wanted us to be quiet, perhaps they should’ve thought that through before taking over our school for two days. The crew acting like our school was theirs didn’t help either.

Read the rest of her letter at the Vancouver Sun.

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Will the production of Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight Saga, begin in Spring 2010? There’s no official word yet, but that’s the timeline that The Wrap is proposing. They also have some interesting tidbits about the tight security on the forest set as well as the current filming schedule–

Most days, the production has had two units shooting. This past week, work began in the suburb of Coquitlam during the day and in the forests bordering the hilly neighborhood of West Vancouver at night.

Visiting the set has been impossible for locals, fans and the media, both local and international. “Last week the production tried to keep me back by claiming that they owned Burnaby Park while shooting there,” said Rik Fedyck, one of Vancouver’s most successful paparazzi. “They said their permit gave them the whole park,” he laughs, “I checked their permit with City Hall and it was only for the parking lot in the public park.”

‘Breaking Dawn’s’ Early Greenlight

[thanks, Carmen!]

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New Moon faces some stiff competition at theaters this year. The new Harry Potter movie comes out in July, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out in June, and X-Men Origins and Star Trek hit in May. Despite all these big-name movies coming out this year, do you think New Moon will reign supreme at the box office? The Twilight Examiner thinks so–

Not only will The Twilight Saga: New Moon be within the top 50 most successful films of 2009, but I dare say it will rank number one.

While, as a fan of the Harry Potter series myself, I can anticipate that this summer’s release will be on par with the success of the prior films, and could see it lingering at the number one spot for the year for some time, New Moon’s unprecedented fan community (who, one can safely imagine, will see the film once, twice, three times or more) will propel the film to the top instantaneously. With up-coming films such as Where the Wild Things Are and Transformers 2, it is imaginable that New Moon will have sturdy competition in the blockbuster arena, but I still think that with the millions of eager nail-biting fans out there for New Moon that the film will take the number one spot and that it will close the year as the number one film for 2009.

What do you think? Will New Moon be the film to beat in 2009?

[thanks, Melissa!, New Moon poster by Izzy1991]

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How far would you go to get a chance at a glimpse of New Moon? For 26-year-old LeAnne Autry of Nashville, TN, the answer is simple: 2,582 miles. After her loving husband won a free pair of plane tickets, he suggested that she and her sister head to Vancouver to feed her second love–Twilight.

LeAnne Autry and her sister Sara Bennett will land in Vancouver Friday and begin stalking the lanes of Yaletown is search of their favourite movie star, Robert Pattinson known to fans as RPattz, who plays the romantic lead Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies.

Devoted fans, even the kind that travel at great expense for a chance to see an actor, should not be confused with the dangerous, pathological stalkers who try to involve themselves in the lives of famous people, Baxter cautioned.

Fans know better, they just want to be part of something fun and exciting. And if it’s a little bit sexy – and here I am thinking of Rob Pattinson – that’s so much the better.

Check out the rest of the story over at the Vancouver Sun.

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Now that we’ve seen some pictures from filming on the set of New Moon, what can we learn from them? What about the camera that Kristen Stewart is holding in one photo?–

In New Moon, Bella receives the camera, and it becomes a major part of her tormentous break-up with Edward. Yet, this is a digital camera, and in the book, the camera is not. I’m sure this remediable, since digital photos, too, are erase-able.
Nevertheless, as this is, to fans, a most important scene for The Twilight Saga: New Moon to get right, this photo may give us a reason to believe it shall.

Another, of Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella might make one think they might be in the middle of filming the break-up scene also. The look on Kristen’s face says it all, don’t you think?

Check out the whole article over at the Examiner.

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Boxwish has a new article on whether the fashion in New Moon will have the “Midas Touch” on items picked to be in the movie, like the BB Dakota cargo jacket in Twilight–and further, if New Moon will be able to improve style-wise, and make the wardrobe closer to what is described in the books–

Actress Nikki Reed (aka Rosalie Hale) has been very vocal in her opinion that the Cullens didn’t look quite right in Twilight and of her hopes that these problems will be addressed in New Moon. Likewise, some fans have complained that Alice is more about haute couture than vintage chic, and so should have been dressed in designer labels during Twilight rather than boho one-offs.

Can New Moon’s fashions prove as popular as Twilight’s?

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There’s a new article up about why the New Moon crew decided to film in the Tofino area at Pacific Rim Park in March. The wild nature of the area, despite the relative closeness to Vancouver, was a big selling point–

Bannerman, who has family on Vancouver Island, said there was a good reason the filmmakers chose to shoot scenes for New Moon (due Nov. 20) on the rugged West Coast before they started principal photography in Vancouver.

“We knew what we were looking for had to be extreme and close in proximity to Vancouver,” said Bannerman, who came over with a downsized crew.

“We needed those swells and sunset shots, aggressive waves and agitated water in a coastal region that reflects the Forks and La Push (Wash.) area.”

And, in what may be the most incredibly dense logic train I’ve heard in a while, Keven Drews, who wrote the recent story about New Moon filming in Tofino, can’t believe how much traffic his story got–then expresses frustration that other media and fansites “mined” the story–

“Our traffic skyrocketed. We got more readers in a day than we get in a month,” said Drews, who was also contacted by publications as far away as New Jersey. To his frustration, he also saw his story “mined” by other media and fansites.

Ok, I’m not sure what exactly he means by “mined”–but how could he not realize the attention from other media and fansites is exactly why he received more hits in a day for the small-town paper than it usually gets in a month? Why in the world would you care if your news stories was picked up and spread by other media and fansites?

That’s not called news–that’s called a secret.

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The Deadbolt summarizes five questions that don’t yet have certain answers surrounding New Moon. Chief among them–when will we see the first trailer for New Moon, and what will be in it?

So the first teaser trailer for New Moon will be included on the upcoming May 5 Amazon release of Twilight Blu-Ray Ultimate Collector’s Set. Now that Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and the rest of the New Moon cast is currently on-set in Vancouver, just three weeks into New Moon, what can we expect from the first teaser? Well, I could be wrong on this (and if so, c’est la vie), but I’m guessing not a lot.

But …

The BD Live feature on the Blu-Ray allows for the trailer to be uploaded to the disc, which certainly bypasses the traditional deadline based method of including teaser trailers in the first press process of DVDs. If the teaser hasn’t already been made – ie: it wouldn’t be hard to have voice over and narration set to a black screen and the New Moon logo fade in – the BD Live buys the production more time to work on something more substantial between now and the first week of May. Either way, I’m curious to see if it lives up to the hype and the New Moon teaser proves me wrong.

Check out the answers to the rest of the five questions at the Deadbolt.

[thanks, Naomi! Fan Poster by NMM.org reader Erica/AngelLuv678]

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The words “I love you” were not spoken in Twilight–so will the words “Will you marry me?” be spoken in New Moon? That’s the question that Amanda Bell over at the Twilight Examiner has posed–

Yes, the famous “Lion and Lamb” scene did make its way into Twilight the film, but, in Twilight the novel by Stephenie Meyer, the scenes of the first unambiguous “I love you” exchanges (first from Bella, then from Edward) were very important still.

In New Moon, Edward’s proposal to Bella takes place shortly after Bella explains to Edward that, of all the things she could want in the world, she would want him to be the one to bring her to “the change.” The conversation, though beginning as a fairly casual one, becomes serious in the span of a moment.

Since the engagement is really made official in Eclipse, will Chris Weitz just allow the next director to handle the big talk about marriage?

Also: Check out Amanda’s new article on whether Kristen Stewart should sing in the Runaways!

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