New New Moon stills found exclusively from TwilightsItalia.com. Featuring Bella, Aro and Carlisle, and Edward. Plus a behind the scenes stills with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Chris Weitz. And an awesome aerial view of the Volterra set in Italy!

[Thanks, Will (LOL)]

“[The only thing I've been nominated for until now] is just ensemble,” Greene said. “Oh my gosh, it’s so cool. I got the phone call, and I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ It’s exciting.”

Ashley also talked about filming in Italy, and how crazy it was with all the fans and extras around!

“We were in Italy for those four or five days, and it was nutty,” Greene remembered of the shoot, which director Chris Weitz has said had a Twilighter in virtually every spot that wasn’t on camera, watching them film. “The amount of people that were in this tiny little town, it took 45 minutes to go, like, 5 feet.”

You can read the rest of the interview here if you are not in the US and are unable to see the video.

Hangin’ on one of the barrier about the set of New Moon in Montepulciano, a girl won’t be stopped to do an indecent proposal to one of the bodyguards. “If you let me go take some pictures of Robert Pattinson at the end of this street, I swear I’ll give you 100€”.

Check out this rest of this translation of an Italian article from Ciak after the break.

She won’t be the only one. At Relais San Bruno, where Robert Pattinson is staying, every night until midnight more than 20 girls are guarding the gateway weaponed with pens, books and sheets.

And this isn’t the craziest thing they’re doing. If you’re
one of the many who thought twilight was at the apex of
success with the movie (43 million books sold), you’ll
have to set your heart at rest: that was only the tip of the
iceberg.

In the five days of shooting in Montepulciano there isn’t
anymore one single room available for booking: girls came
from Germany and France, some of them arriving, loaded with
blankets, at 4 AM to have a ringside seat. Some of them
instead stood 15 hours in front of the exit of the set.

Robert Pattinson, voice low and a magnetic presence, is
pacing the floors of the city hall like an an hunted animal,
while Kristen Stewart, much more tense and actually jumpy,
is hiding in the hotel room equipped for the make up.

The wish to see and (hopefully) touch the two main
characters of Twilight is so much that often, even the
extras, cloated in red hoods in the main square, needs to be
berated for turning towards them while a shot is being
filmed.

Anything and everything with a twilight logo nowadays moves
masses of money. Catherine Hardwicke understood it. She was
fired, her place taken by Chris Weitz for this second
chapter, but she tought well and published a book, Twilight
– director’s notebook, in which she tells secrets and behind
the scenes of the first movie.

Weitz -that in the meantime, with his wife and son, is
touring the alleys of Montepulciano- admitted that he never
spoke with Catherine Hardwicke because he knows that the
third movie, eclipse, is going to be directed by someone
else, David Slade.

What’s New Moon aiming for? Raise the cash earned with
twilight since this time, beside a (far) better CGI work,
there would be actors -like Dakota Fanning and Michael
Sheen- that would deliberately draw attentions.

The wait has began and the countdown for november20th
started the very same moment in which the filming process
ended, here in Montepulciano, among fans disappointed
because they couldn’t see anything. Not even Pattinson’s
nape. “And if I’ll give you 200€, you’ll let me take that
picture?”"

[thanks, TwilightersItalia!]

Here’s a newly-surfaced video from the New Moon shoot in Montepulciano, Italy. It features spoilers, including shots of Bella running, the yellow Porsche, and Alice Cullen’s fugly poncho-outfit.

[Thanks, Michelle & Anja!]

This picture seems to show a new costume for Ashley Greene’s character in New Moon, Alice Cullen. It was taken inside the Albergo Duomo hotel that was used for character makeup while filming in Montepulciano, Italy.

Several other interesting shots have been added to the hotel’s website.

UPDATE: This shot gives a clear view of what Ashley looked to be wearing in a previously seen picture with Dakota Fanning.

[thanks, Krista!]

The cast of New Moon has recorded a special video greeting for the residents of Italy that will premiere before the film My Best Friend’s Girl with Kate Hudson on June 19th.

The message will express gratitude towards the residents of Italy for the time they spent filming New Moon there, and apologize to the some of the more than 6000 fans that gathered in Montepulciano that weren’t able to meet the stars after waiting hopefully the hot Italian sun.

This is defintely a nice gesture, and will surely boost the ticket sales of My Best Friend’s Girl to boot!

Edward e Bella salutano i fans italiani

[thanks Eleonora!, photo from TwiFans]

Italian Twilighter YuN shares an excellent report in English of three days in Montepulciano, Italy watching the New Moon shoot go down. It’s well worth a read, and starts off with a bang–

On the highway everything is ok until we get near Chiusi: a car with a blue police flashing makes its way and I move aside to let it go ahead. As soon as it surpasses me I look back filled with curiosity and I’m about to collapse: Robert Pattinson and his agent are being escorted to Montepulciano on a police grey BMW, so it’s time for the first updates on Twitter, all while driving! Then I tried to keep the contact going at 140km/h {10 over the limit!} but they were driving so damn fast that a few minutes later the car was gone. I wonder who pays the fines!?

Read the rest at YuN’s Corner.

Here’s a new picture from the “fountain scene” in New Moon from Italy. Chris Weitz in the background is directing Kristen Stewart during this pivotal scene. See the rest of the (more spoilery) pics at TwiFans and Popsugar

[thanks, TeamSpaceHeaters!]

The scene they were filming that day was the one where Ashley and Kristen make their way up Volterra to the Piazza in the yellow Porsche. We were supposed to act as if we didn’t notice the car trying to get through the crowd until it honked and was near us, because obviously we had to get out of the way. We did the take several times, from all different directions and angles. They were using the body doubles that day and Ashley’s double was a man, which we found pretty hilarious! (Alice doesn’t have a ’stache!) We figured they chose him because of his driving experience. He was clearly very adept at maneuvering the car through the narrow streets.

Check out the rest of the entry at RadarOnline.

The fans were really out of control and some of them broke down in tears after seeing him walk around shirtless! In fact, sometimes the hysteria caused a lot of trouble for the filmmakers during the day. There were times where they’d line up the lighting and actors, start rolling, call action…and no sooner had Kristen begun to run towards Robert, they’d shout “Stop!” Then they’d begin yelling at us through the speaker in Italian to look at the door, because so many people had been staring at Rob. We had all been told to keep our hoods up and our cloaks closed, and to look only at the church—not what was happening between Rob and Kristen.

Check out the rest at Radar Online.

[thanks, everyone!]