Summit Entertainment created a twitter account as of today. Right now only New Moon director Chris Weitz has been tweeting. He stated that this is the official New Moon twitter account, however it is listed under Summit Entertainment.

Chris shared an awesome pic of himself at the sound mixing stage. As you can see there is a huge screen with a picture of Bella Swan. It appears to be the scene in New Moon when she returns to the meadow (trying to ’see’ the visions of Edward again) and she is closing her eyes trying to remember being there with him (in Twilight).

Here are some of the other tweets that Chris has shared with us so far today. Including updated information on New Moon’s running time -

You can follow Summit Entertainment’s Official New Moon Twitter (aka Chris Weitz) here!

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When we brought you news of the official New Moon website, it was still a work in progress. One of the big sections, “The World of Twilight”, was not yet available.

Starting today, though, you can now explore that part of the official website. Tantalizing details include a menu item for Breaking Dawn that claims it is “Coming Soon”, and there are also widgets, wallpapers, characters bios and more.

Visit World of Twilight now!

[thanks, Eternity_with_Edward, only_ever_true_love!]

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Summit has updated the official Twilight Saga Website to reflect New Moon. The site is pretty sparse right now, but you can now download wallpapers, send e-cards or grab the official New Moon widget.

Check out the new site at TwilightTheMovie.com.

[thanks, Candy!]

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A salon owner from St. Louis happened upon the scripts for New Moon and the upcoming Robert Pattinson film Memoirs in the trash bin outside the Chase Park Plaza Hotel. Instead of selling the scripts or leaking them, she contacted Summit–

Casey Ray found two scripts, one for the vampire sequel “New Moon” and one for a different movie titled “Memoirs.” She decided to return them to the studio making the films. In return, she was invited to attend the movies’ premieres, her lawyer said.

Watkins helped her return them to Los Angeles-based Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio making the movies. He said the studio invited Ray to premieres for the two films, and will certify the scripts as authentic after the movies are released.

A local news source, WLTX, reports that the scripts were left at the hotel by New Moon star Anna Kendrick–

The scripts had been left and ended up in a dumpster outside the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis by actress Anna Kendrick, who had been in St. Louis to shoot the George Clooney film, Up in the Air, according to Ray’s attorney, Albert S. Watkins.

Just goes to show, doing the right thing can pay off.

Woman Finds New Moon Script in the Trash

[via TwiCrack, thanks Josh!]

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Summit has announced the winner of the contest to take part in the filming of New Moon. The winner is–guess what, a TwiGuy–Ky Wildermuth, and the judges have issued a special thank you to all the entries.

You can view the winning entry as well as some finalists at the film’s official website.

Finalists included Alexandra, Becky, Colby, Kristina, Leah, Melissa, Natalie, Rachel, and Tarren. Congrats to the winner and good job to everyone that entered–the videos that are up are all great!

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Turns out that despite the rumors, EW says the likelihood of Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate merging are slim–

A source tells EW that those discussions actually occurred before Summit took the $37 million Twilight and turned it into a $340 million worldwide franchise. Now that they’ve got a real hit on their hands, Summit is going it alone for the time being, with the Dakota Fanning-starrer Push releasing on Friday, and New Moon, the studio’s Twilight sequel, scheduled for a Nov. 20 bow.

However, with the economic conditions being as they are, everyone in Hollywood is talking about ways to enhance their business strategically while simultaneously reducing overhead, so it’s certainly not out of the question that we’ll see some kind of changes taking place at various studios in coming months. We’ll just have to wait and see how it all shakes out.  

‘Twilight’ studio Summit unlikely to merge with Lionsgate

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I don’t even know what to say about this–so I’m just going to press Command-V and hope for the best:

“It could mean, in short, that New Moon will be a little bit bloodier than anticipated. Or certainly the Twlight film after that. Is there any filmmaking/distribution outfit with a more pronounced reputation for being deeply in love with arterial gushings? That’s Lionsgate in a nutshell.”

So declares Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere, in response to Sharon Waxman’s report (for which “executives at Lionsgate and Summit declined to comment”) that Lionsgate (home of the Saw, Hostel and Tyler Perry franchises) may be buying Summit Entertainment, including the company’s library and slate, which includes teenage necrophilia phenom franchise Twilight.

Of course, the author does note that Lionsgate seems eager to change its image–and perhaps the purchase of Summit is a step in this direction:

But of course, Wells’ “nutshell” definition of Lionsgate is out of date. It’s an open secret that Lionsgate is so desperate to distance itself from its bloody past that the distributor has spent the past year engineering the failure of its remaining genre stock — dumping Midnight Meat Train in rural dollar theaters; taking the ultra-cinematic The Burrowers off its theatrical release schedule entirely; killing Cabin Fever as a theatrical franchise by releasing its Ti West-directed sequel straight to DVD. If anything, in Lionsgate’s hands, the Twilight sequels are likely to go even more tame.

TWILIGHT Sequels to go Torture Porn?

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Chris Weitz signing autographs at the Golden Compass premiere in London [source]

Here is the official press release from Summit about the choice of Chris Weitz as director of New Moon. In the synopsis it lists both Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan and Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, but the “irresistible Jacob Black” is suspiciously not tagged with Taylor Lautner’s name:

In NEW MOON, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested. Production on NEW MOON is scheduled to begin in the coming months and the studio is planning to release the film towards the end of 2009 or early 2010.

Seems like a pretty glaring thing to leave out if Lautner is going to play Jacob. The rest of the press release follows– [click to continue…]

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