Lucky UK fans have a chance to win a trip to the set of New Moon in Italy! Enter here. [thanks, Sara H.!]

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New Moon author Stepehenie Meyer takes a few Italian fans on a tour of on of the locations in Volterra, Italy most important to New Moon in this old video clip shot on location in Italy. [thanks, Jacqueline!]

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With word that New Moon will be filming in Montepulciano, Italy, we thought this commercial that was filmed on the streets of Montepulciano was worth sharing–just imagine a yellow Porsche instead of this Mercedes!

[thanks, Kelly!]

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The official Twilight blog from Eagle Pictures, distributors of Twilight in Italy, have denied rumors of New Moon being shot between May 25th and May 30th in Montepulciano, Italy. It is important to note that they do not deny that the movie will be shot in Montepulciano, only that the dates are incorrect.

In Italian: “Dobbiamo invece darvi una brutta notizia: la Pro Loco di Montepulciano ci ha scritto comunicandoci che l’amministrazione comunale ha smentito i rumour sulle date delle riprese italiane di New Moon nella città: le date 25/30 maggioattualmente non sono certe, né confermate. L’unico organo che potrà dare notizie certe a riguardo sarà il comune di Montepulciano stesso, dal quale ci aspettiamo un comunicato ufficiale quanto prima. Questo non smentisce le riprese, ma solo le date precedentemente segnalate…”

English Translation: “We have to give you some bad news: the Pro Loco (tourism office) of Montepulciano wrote us to say that the municipality administration denied the rumours on the dates of the shooting of New Moon in Italy: The dates of 25-30th of May actually are neither certain, nor confirmed. The only official channel enabled to provide sure information regarding this matter will be Montepulciano’s municipality, from which we’ll be expecting an official communication shortly. This does not deny the shooting in Montepulciano, just the dates reported before…”

Thanks to TwilightItalia for the translation!

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New Moon will be filming in Montepulciano, Italy from May 25th till May 30th, if a post on the official Italian Twilight fan site is to be believed. The site is in Italian, but essentially the post says that they were contacted by the Montepulciano tourism board confirming the news in order to organize all the Italian fans that will be swarming the production.

NEW MOON IN ITALIA A FINE MAGGIO!

[thanks for the comment, VaLdeMar!]

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There is a breaking rumor that the Italian scenes of New Moon may not be shot in Volterra–but instead in Montepulciano, Italy, which is 100km to the Southeast. According to a blog post by Piera Detassis, who is a veteran Italian film journalist and Artistic Director of the Rome Film Festival–

At lunch in Los Angeles with one of the producers of Summit Entertainment, responsible for, and now Twilight, New Moon, the continuation of the saga is from the books of Stephenie Meyer, the bomb explodes: Despite ads, previews and generous offers of all sorts by Mayor and City, the sequel vampiresco not running in Volterra in the places of the novel, but in Montepulciano, where the troupe has found location “to be the most beautiful film.” [autotranslated English]

A pranzo a Los Angeles con uno dei produttori della Summit Entertainment, responsabile di Twilight e ora di New Moon , il seguito della saga tratta dai libri di Stephenie Meyer, esplode la bomba: nonostante annunci, anticipazioni e munifiche offerte d’ogni sorta da parte di Sindaco e Comune, il sequel vampiresco non si girerà a Volterra nei luoghi del romanzo, ma a Montepulciano dove la troupe ha trovato location “più belle da filmare”. [original Italian]

This has also been reported at the Official Italian Twilight Fanclub, and a reader at TwiCrack who speaks Italian summarizes the post–

they say that New Moon won’t be shot in Volterra but in Montepulciano because the locations are “more beautiful for the movie”

the source is the official italian fanclub of the twilight saga. They took the news from Piera Detassis, the director of the main movie magazine in Italy. she was at dinner with the producers of the movie when the bomb was dropped!

So, this is just a rumor currently–but considering the ongoing push by Volterra to have the film shoot there, the Italian location was always up in the air. This is despite the report by Variety that stated New Moon would definitely be filming in Volterra. Piera Detassis seems to be very well-connected in the Italian film world. We’ll have to wait and see, but things aren’t looking good for Volterra right now.

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TwilightItalia has a cool new set of graphics and videos on a timeline in support of the City of Volterra becoming the location for filming of New Moon in Italy–which is still unofficially decided, apparently.

We went there. We tracked the “real” steps of Alice, Bella and Edward in Volterra with beautiful photos and videos.

Watch our footage, completely translated in english for your users: you’ll realize why having a fake Volterra in New Moon would mean stripping the film of a part of its magic.

Here’s one of the videos they made–of the tolling of the bell in Volterra, as seen in New Moon. Check out the whole feature!

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Eagle Pictures, the distributor of New Moon in Italy, has just posted a notice on their official site that indicates there is still no decision on where New Moon will be filmed in Italy–contrary to a previous report from Variety that marked Volterra as the definitive filming site. However, it is certain that part of New Moon will be shot somewhere in Italy–

And ‘now official: New Moon will be shot partly in Italy! At this time we do not yet know where, nor the exact date, but we will keep you updated and as soon as you know all the announcing on the blog. [Auto-translated Italian]

E’ ormai ufficiale: New Moon verrà girato in parte in Italia! Al momento NON sappiamo ancora dove, né le date precise, tuttavia vi terremo aggiornati e appena si saprà tutto lo annunceremo sul blog. [Original Italian]

Concorso: vinci il set italiano di New Moon!

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A while ago, we reported on a Variety article in which New Moon was seemingly confirmed to be shooting in Volterra, Italy–the place in the New Moon book where the Volturi reside. However, the Tourism Commission of Volterra seems to have heard different news, and just today Luciano from their group shares this with us–

Municipality of Volterra has written many letters to Summit Entertainment with only one short answer (we read it..and sounds like: “oh, thank you..we are thinking about it…”) but has no more been contacted by New Moon production.

I know that Variety.com wrote “Volterra, two weeks in may”. But, the day after, “Eagle Pictures” (Italian distribution) said to italian press that everything was misunderstood by the columnist Nick Vivarelli.

If you visit the website they have set up–they being the group of the Municipality of Volterra, Tourist Office, Bank of Volterra and Fondazione CRV, you can read a heartfelt letter (in Italian) that was sent to Summit, and more news concerning their attempts to have New Moon filmed in their lovely home city.

If you’d like to help them, they’ve set up a petition for you to sign that is fairly easy to understand whether you speak Italian or English if you believe New Moon should be filmed in Volterra. Hhopefully we’ll be hearing more insight into this situation!

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (Italian)

Volterra “Volturi Town Blog” (auto-translated to English)

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