The Little Nickel, a classified-ads newspaper from Washington, has been contacted by the New Moon prop department in order to provide authentic set dressing for a pivotal scene in New Moon–

A little background. I work at a classified paper in Washington called the Little Nickel. We have 12 editions in Western Washington, 5 in Eastern Washington and 4 in Oregon and 1 Southwest Washington Edition. I am the receptionist in one of the main offices, I usually get most of the calls, but this call went straight to the other admin. assistants.

I was working on Thursday March 12th, and I was you know doing the work thing and all of a sudden one of my co-workers Julie, tells me, ” Did you do that?”

“Do what?” I asked confused.

“Tell the ‘Twilight’ people to use our paper in the new movie?”

“WHAT?!?” I exclaimed. I had no hand in this.

Just my luck, the story is that someone from the what I assume is the production team who works with the props picked up one of our papers and asked permission to use it in the movie and requested 20 of Peninsula/Kitsap edition to be sent them in Vancouver. Of course I asked if I could deliver them or have Robert or anyone from the cast come pick them up. But Julie mailed them out that afternoon.

But for which scene will the papers appear in? The blogger notes that–

I just found out that they called asking for more papers today about 6 bundles of this week’s paper. That’s way over 240 papers for the rack they will be using in a scene tomorrow.

The scene I heard it will be used for is the ‘movie theater’ scene. We all know what scene that is, where Bella tries to organize a group outing to the movies, and slowly couple by couple people start to flake out and all that’s left is Bella, Jacob and Mike!

The Twilight Files [via TwiLex]

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Word is that the New Moon cast–or at least some of the cast–will be attending the ShoWest movie convention awards ceremony on Thursday. Twilight was chosen as the fan favorite movie for the Fandango Fan Choice Award, and it will be presented on Thursday.

Parts of the Strip this week will look like a Hollywood movie lot because of the large influx of stars headed to town for the annual movie convention ShoWest. It kicked off yesterday at the Paris and Bally’s.

Among the superstars here in Vegas are teen heartthrob Zac Efron, legendary veteran Sir Michael Caine, Dennis Quaid, Sienna Miller, Patricia Clarkson, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pine, Transformers director Michael Bay and TV film critic Roger Ebert. In addition, the casts of Twilight and The House on Sorority Row are expected to attend the Thursday night awards ceremony.

All-star lineup heads into Las Vegas for ShoWest 2009

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Some of the top Twilight Saga fan sites have offered some advice to Chris Weitz for the New Moon movie in the form of a group post at ReelzChannel. Among the advice–

• Please don’t think of New Moon as just a cash cow! Many of us have imagined this book in our head for years. -TwilightersAnonymous
• If he gets nothing else right, Chris Weitz had better get the pacing of the movie right. The book is slow — some people think it’s too slow, but most fans agree the slow pace is necessary to show how devastated that Bella Swan becomes. If he tries to speed up the movie too much to appease the taste of people who haven’t read the book, the fans will be in an uproar.” -NewMoonMovie.org
• Contrary to beliefs that we want Rob in every scene, it is not true. How can we feel the same emotions as Bella if we are still seeing Edward every 15 minutes? It will make the reunion all the sweeter in the end if we are missing Edward just as much as Bella. -Twilight20Somethings
• Don’t be afraid to bring the emotion into the story that I felt was somewhat lacking in Twilight. This is, first and foremost, a love story riddled with strife and angst. Let those emotions out and the story will flow. -TwilightMoms

Check out all of the suggestions for Chris Weitz over at ReelzChannel! [New Moon poster by sparksflyout]

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GQ, hot off a spicy covershoot with Robert Pattinson, has listed five vampire movies you shouldn’t miss if you enjoyed Twilight. I haven’t seen all of these, but I definitely concur with this recommendation:

1. Let the Right One In (2008)

Here’s why film buffs were buzzing about this Swedish horror flick last year: because the movie, about a 12-year-old boy who falls for the fanged girl-next-door, is composed of some of the most gruesomely beautiful shots you’ll never forget

Check out the whole list over at the GQ Blog. [thanks, Andrew]

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MTV has a new article up where they talk to the cast about their thoughts on the new found popularity with the paparazzi both in America and abroad–

A year ago, they were young actors with few credits, traveling to Portland to shoot a low-budget vampire film with an indie director. This week, they’re returning to Vancouver as A-listers, filming one of the most eagerly anticipated sequels of the year.

“It’s kind of bizarre,” Ashley Greene told us over the weekend, discussing the stalker-iffic photos that popped up all over the Web recently — some even dissecting their beverage selections as they began “New Moon” pre-production. “We would walk out of our hotel, and there would be people there taking pictures, and the [headline] would be, like, ‘Jackson and Ashley Get Coffee!’ It’s new.”

According to Edi Gathegi, there might even be a double agent in the midst of the “Twilight” stars, leaking details about their movements. “There is a mole, and the mole is feeding information,” Gathegi marveled, remembering recent pictures of the group flying out of Vancouver last week. “[The paparazzi] took pictures of every single one of us leaving the airport! It’s like, how are they getting this information?”

Read the rest of the article to find out about pranks Edi Gathegi and Kellan Lutz are pulling, as well as how they think Canadians are more polite than Americans in the world of the the paparazzi.

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Starpulse has an article with three main items that they have reservations or expectations about in the New Moon movie. One thing I’m curious about your feedback on is if you agree they should be careful in cutting down the length–

Many fans criticized the book for being too long. There were several pages that could’ve been eliminated. Ok, Bella misses Edward. We get it. Let’s not have Bella dwell so heavily on his absence. We need to see that she misses Edward and that he truly was what she wanted, but not to an obnoxious degree. Personally, I think it will be interesting to see how director Chris Weitz will handle Edward’s voice cautioning Bella in her head when she tries her stunts.

What do you guys think? Check out the rest of the article at StarPulse. [New Moon movie poster by ticoclamp ]

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Buddy TV has a pretty cool list of things that New Moon needs to get right–I’d say most are pretty spot-on. Here’s a small sampling:

10. Victoria’s plan must loom ominously.

Obviously we shouldn’t know exactly what she’s planning or what she’s up to, but we should know that she is actively pursuing a way to get to Bella.

7. Be careful with Jacob’s heart.

At times, Bella’s interactions with Jacob can seem cruel. The girl is already really depressed and if the viewers are to sympathize with her, they can’t see her as insensitive when it comes to Jacob.

6. Edward and Bella in love.

Although New Moon is told from Bella’s point of view, it’s pretty obvious that we’ll need to see a lot more Edward Cullen than the amount of time he is in the book.

2. The Volturi are straight from a horror film.

The scene with the Volturi needs to be terrifying. There’s a whole lot of talking and scheming but the truth is that the Volturi are extremely dangerous and Bella, Alice, and Edward come very close to being killed.

Twilight: 10 Ways to Turn ‘New Moon’ Into an Awesome Movie [ via TwiCrack, New Moon Poster by ERD]

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Amanda Bell over at the Examiner is quickly becoming ones of my favorite writers on all things New Moon. Just recently she hit the nall on the head on the balancing act that Chris Weitz will have to strike in New Moon, and today she has a lovely article summarizing the scenes the fans want in New Moon if it hopes to be a success. I love the way Amanda describes each in such vivid detail. Here are my favorite three of the scenes she describes–(WARNING: SPOILERS!)–

• Break-up – After Jasper’s near attack, Edward becomes estranged from Bella, and it is heart-breaking to her even then. I dare not describe here what the scene entails for fear of sullying it with my own unworthy descriptions. Let’s just say that the conversation between Bella and Edward which leads him to depart, to the fans, needs to be spot on. Gut-wrenching as it was in the book, you say, so it must be in the movie. You also want to see the disappearance of all things Edward, as promised, from Bella’s possession (another factor which rips Bella Swan apart in the story).
• Motorcycles – Enter Jacob Black and his mechanical skills… not to mention Bella’s motorcycle. Bella, you say, needs to be there while Jacob builds those motorcycles. Bella has a scheme to make Edward’s voice return to her – get in as much danger as possible. Oh, Bella… This is when she gets to know and trust Jacob, though, and Bella is reintroduced to the world, at least in part, and when we get to meet the La Push community. The playfulness and serenity, you say, should be seething from Bella in these scenes. Oh, and we get to see Bella go head first over her motorcycle in a fairly major car crash that she is hardly shaken by (Edward’s voice numbing her senses, of course).
• Showdown Alice versus Jacob – In the book, Alice and Jasper have a verbal spat over who’s the better species. Should make for a very interesting scene.

Be sure to check out all 15 scenes on the two-page article.

(New Moon poster by Elle ♪♫)

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