October 12

Breaking Dawn News
There are tidbits of all kinds coming in today for an Eclipse update for you. Yesterday David Slade tweeted a picture of the crew in rain. Today Lainey is reporting some major spoilers from the Eclipse set that focus on Riley and also some big news concerning the possible future filming of Breaking Dawn.

Read more below:

You can follow David on twitter here.

Lainey Gossip has some pictures of Xavier Samuel filming as Riley, but they have some spoilers so you can view them here. Not exactly Eclipse news, but Lainey also has some interesting news regarding the possible future filming on Breaking Dawn, and how it could be coming back to the USA:

The first movie was shot in Oregon. Oregon desperately wants Twilight to return for the 4th film and they’ve introduced major tax incentives etc to lure the production back. British Columbia on the other hand is getting pounded by Ontario and Quebec (other Canadian provinces with historically active film industries) as both have also pushed tax incentives forward in a bid to take back British Columbia’s business.

British Columbia however has not answered, has not presented incentives of its own to match the competition. As such, British Columbia has already lost out on several productions and now faces the probability of losing Twilight’s final installment.

The crews that are working on Eclipse also worked on New Moon. They were booked back to back well in advance, schedules held for both films. My sources tell me exclusively that the crew was informed weeks ago that they had the all clear to book new jobs when Eclipse wraps. The studio will NOT hold them for Breaking Dawn. I’m told that as of press time the intention is to begin production on the fourth and final in September. In Portland.

Things are fluid, of course. And it could change. But unless British Columbia changes its film tax structure, it’s more financially feasible for Summit to shoot elsewhere. Say goodbye Vancouver.

Last we have a picture from Malicious Mandy of Bella’s house, you can view more from Mandy here.

New Moon New Movie Footage
Spike TV has issued a press release today revealing some exciting news about their Scream 2009 Awards, which will be taped in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 17th, but will air on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27th from 10pm-Midnight (ET/PT). Not only will some of the New Moon cast be making an appearance at the awards (no word on who yet), but they will also be premiering brand new footage!

New Moon Soundtrack News
On a good day, film soundtracks enhance the movie going experience. At their best, they transcend it. The latest sonic accompaniment to Twilight's inescapable teen-vampire juggernaut — a swooning conveyance of girl-meets-undead-boy romance, delivered by some of the best established and emerging names in the indie stratosphere — may sway even the most committed Twi-loathers.

After the success of the first installment, music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas (Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy) gets her pick of the alt litter here, with each contributing original, previously unreleased material: From the opening chords of Death Cab for Cutie's dusky guitar rapture ''Meet Me on the Equinox'' to the spooky robot-ennui of Thom Yorke's ''Hearing Damage'' 
 and Grizzly Bear's gorgeous folk-pop pastoral ''Slow Life,'' New Moon rarely falters. A peacocking remix of Muse's shamelessly operatic ''I Belong to You'' becomes a Bowie-esque glam-rock stomper. In its wake, Bon Iver and St. Vincent quietly unfurl ''Rosyln,'' a duet of hushed, almost church-like beauty.

Moon (due in stores Oct. 20) yields several happy revelations from its lower-marquee names: Nordic songstress Lykke Li's nearly a cappella ''Possibility'' is a lovely little Swedish snowflake, and jokey rockers OK Go achieve an impressive sort of Flaming Lips-y quirk-gravitas on the sprawling, cinematic ''Shooting the Moon.'' Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's acoustic campfire lament ''Done All Wrong'' segues seamlessly into the jaunty, Strokes-ian guitar fuzz of Hurricane Bells' ''Monsters.'' Think of New Moon as a sort of survey course in new-now-next rock: a mixtape with teeth. A (for those interested, the Twilight Soundtrack received an A-)

Hot Topic has fun New Moon soundtrack news for us today. The Hot Topic stores will be hosting listening parties next week on Friday October 16th at 7pm. You can listen to the upcoming soundtrack (released on the 20th) and hear special messages from the bands involved.

Attendees will also get a special gift if they pre-order the New Moon soundtrack while at the party. In addition as with Twilight, Hot Topic has once again partnered with Summit Entertainment to bring cast tours back through Hot Topic.

To find out more on the listening party at Hot Topic click here, and to find out more about the cast tours click here.

New Moon Merchandise
Nordstrom will be hosting some Twlight events to launch their exclusive fashion and jewelry collection in partnership with Summit Entertainment, Awake, Inc. and N.E.C.A inspired by The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Included in the events is an online sweepstakes for tickets to the movie premiere in Los Angeles on November 16th, advanced movie screening tickets with purchases and in-store styling events. You can pre-order from the collection now, or wait until October 15th when it hits stores. Read below for details:

Online Movie Premiere Sweepstakes
Nordstrom will hold an online sweepstakes at nordstrom.com/newmoon from October 6 through November 2 where customers can enter to win two tickets to The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie premiere on November 16 in Los Angeles (no purchase necessary to enter; please see above website for details). The winner will be notified on or about November 5 and will receive roundtrip airfare for two, two-night hotel accommodations, car transportation, premiere get-ready styling party hosted by the BP. team at Nordstrom at The Grove (includes swag bag), and two tickets to the movie premiere.

Advanced Movie Screening Tickets Gift with Purchase
When the collection hits stores on October 15, customers who purchase $50 or more of BP. department merchandise in select Nordstrom stores (promotion excludes online purchases) will receive one movie ticket to an advanced screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the evening of November 19 (limit four tickets per person; please see store for details; while supplies last).

Participating stores include those within and surrounding the following markets: Atlanta; Baltimore; Boca Raton, Fla.; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Los Angeles; Miami; Orange County, Calif.; Paramus, N. J.; Portland, Ore.; Sacramento; Salt Lake City; San Diego; San Francisco; Scottsdale; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

Twilight Takeover Styling Events
Nordstrom stores will host Twilight Takeover Parties in the BP. department on November 14 and 15 (depending on the participating store) where fans can work with stylists to create looks from the exclusive collection. Customers can visit nordstrom.com/newmoon to learn what events are taking place at their nearest Nordstrom store and sign-up for email alerts.
Created by Awake, Inc. for Nordstrom, The Twilight Saga: New Moon fashion-focused apparel collection includes T-shirts, tanks, hoodies, dresses and jackets that reflect the mood and spirit of the film. Prices range from $30 for a T-shirt to $48 for a jacket. The collection of silver and gold-plated fashion jewelry created by N.E.C.A. for Nordstrom includes necklaces, bracelets, earrings and key chains.

Read more here.

Both Forbidden Planet and Play.com have some brand new New Moon merchandise up for sale on their websites. Included in some of the new merchandise are Cullen Crest socks and a duvet cover featuring the poster artwork with Edward, Bella and Jacob.

From Forbidden Planet we have Cullen Crest socks and a beautiful New Moon jewelry box. You can pre-order these and more New Moon products for release on October 20th here.

From Play.com we have the New Moon duvet double cover (single also available) and the candle short glass with floral design. You can pre-order these and more New Moon products for release on October 30th here.

September 29th

New Moon Movie Posters

Summit Entertainment has released official New Moon movie promotional images for you. The new posters, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, feature some beautiful outdoor artwork of Bella and the Cullen family, the Volturi, and the Wolfpack. Check out a preview below:

Summit Entertainment has just announced that there are official Twilight Tour Convention t-shirts available through Creation Entertainment. Now before you head to your convention, you can order a shirt to wear to the event!

The shirts feature the New Moon promotional art on the front with Edward, Jacob and Bella and the tour cities on the back. They come in sizes small, medium, large, XL and XXL. The shirts also come in “girly” style or regular.

New Moon Merchandise at Hot Topic

Word on the street is that Hot Topic has boxes upon boxes of New Moon Merchandise just waiting to be opened. All the items will go on sale on Friday, October 2nd. Some Hot Topic stores are opening an hour early for those die-hard Twilight fans. I can't wait to see what they have.

September 21

New Moon Soundtrack track list - it is official
It’s finally here – the New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack track list is below!! Because you pre-ordered the New Moon Soundtrack, you get to be the VERY FIRST fans to learn what songs will be on the compilation! The album features all original and exclusive music!

Alexandra Patsavas, music supervisor for the compilation, explains “This is a much more somber movie than ‘Twilight.’ There is a lot of love lost, so the artists that make up the soundtrack reflect that longing — a lot of acoustic instruments, a lot of acappella singing. This soundtrack definitely feels a bit more indie than the last one.”

Stay tuned for exclusive first-listens to some of the songs below!


NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK TRACK LIST
1. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX
2. BAND OF SKULLS - FRIENDS
3. THOM YORKE - HEARING DAMAGE
4. LYKKE LI - POSSIBILITY
5. THE KILLERS - A WHITE DEMON LOVE SONG
6. ANYA MARINA - SATELLITE HEART
7. MUSE - I BELONG TO YOU (NEW MOON)
8. BON IVER & ST. VINCENT - ROSYLN
9. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - DONE ALL WRONG
10. HURRICANE BELLS - MONSTERS
11. SEA WOLF - THE VIOLET HOUR
12. OK GO - SHOOTING THE MOON
13. GRIZZLY BEAR - SLOW LIFE
14. EDITORS – NO SOUND BUT THE WIND
15. ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – NEW MOON (THE MEADOW)

Coming Up Next Week: Exclusive screen shots from the music video for ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’ plus a behind-the-scenes interview with Death Cab for Cutie!

September 17

Need something to do on a Weekend night? Well look no further. Check out what some creative Twilight Fans did in their corn maze. Too bad Edward isn't just a little bigger. :(

If you are interested in going to this corn maze, the farm is call Black Island Farms and is located in Syracuse, Utah. Click here to check out their website.



New Moon Movie News
New Moon Receives Motion Picture Association of America Rating
We are getting closer to November! New Moon has officially received a rating from the MPAA according to RopeOfSilicon.com -



It was pretty much a given that it was going to be rated PG-13.


Ben Fritz at The Los Angeles Times is reporting on the pre-sales for New Moon from Fandango and MovieTickets. So far between the two, 63 shows are sold out.

Fan frenzy is already breaking records for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Online ticket sellers MovieTickets and Fandango report that the follow-up to last year's hit from Summit Entertainment, which sold $191.5 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada, is selling out screenings earlier than any other movie to date. "New Moon" has sold out 50 showtimes of nearly 22,000 offered on Fandango and 13 showtimes of 2,912 offered on MovieTickets. Most of the sold-out shows are at or around midnight Nov. 20, when the movie debuts. The two websites started selling "New Moon" tickets extraordinarily early -- Aug. 31 for Fandango and Sep. 10 for MovieTickets -- as the theater chains they work with began scheduling screenings in anticipation of a huge first weekend. The first "Twilight" grossed a stellar $36 million on its Friday opening, reflecting pent-up demand among fans of the best-selling books.Read the entire article here.

I guess it is a good thing I already have an entire theater reserved for my party!

New Moon Soundtrack Update
MTV has huge, exciting news for us this morning. The New Moon soundtrack track list will be revealed tomorrow. The article goes on to talk about music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas’, comments on the soundtrack so far.

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is one of the most feverishly anticipated film releases of the fall (out November 20), and with it comes one of the most talked-about soundtracks since, well, last year’s “Twilight” soundtrack. One song has already been unleashed, as Death Cab for Cutie unveiled their contribution “Meet Me on the Equinox” on MTV.com during Sunday’s VMAs. The full track list will be announced tomorrow, but there are already more details emerging about the album, due out October 20.

Music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas told The New York Times that she was “confident” the soundtrack would include already-rumored tracks from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, wintry indie folker Bon Iver and British alt-rockers Band of Skulls. Citing “group representatives,” the Times also asked about rumors that the Killers and Grizzly Bear would have songs on the soundtrack, but Patsavas would not comment on either band.

She did talk about the album’s thematic elements, though, explaining that it would be married to the film much closer than the “Twilight” soundtrack was. “This is a much more somber movie than ‘Twilight,’ ” Patsavas said. “There is a lot of love lost, so the artists that are going to make up the soundtrack reflect that longing — a lot of acoustic instruments, a lot of a cappella singing.”

When the “Twilight” soundtrack was released last year, it was brought to Hot Topic stores for premiere listening parties, but this time around, they hope to take the promotion up a notch: Atlantic Records, the label that distributes the soundtracks, plans to do a tour of Hot Topics with some of the contributing artists in tow.

In addition to premiering the Death Cab song, MTV News confirmed on Sunday that Muse were finalists for making the “New Moon soundtrack. Following the inclusion of their “Supermassive Black Hole” in the “Twilight” album, this which would make them the only band to appear on both movies’ soundtracks.

Read the entire article here.

Remember the Soundtrack will hits stores and itunes on October 20th. The first single from the New Moon soundtrack is now available for purchase. Meet Me on the Equinox was penned exclusively by Death Cab for Cutie for the soundtrack.

You can grab the song from Amazon for $0.99 or iTunes for $1.29.

The New York Times has an article up about the soundtrack for New Moon, highlighting the huge sales of the original soundtrack for Twilight.

How will the soundtracks differ? Music Superviser Alexandra Patsavas says–

The first soundtrack had a loud, full-throttle sound in artists like Paramore and Linkin Park, but the songs on “New Moon” have a soft, melancholy touch.

“This is a much more somber movie than ‘Twilight,’ ” Ms. Patsavas said. “There is a lot of love lost, so the artists that are going to make up the soundtrack reflect that longing — a lot of acoustic instruments, a lot of a cappella singing. This soundtrack definitely feels a bit more indie than the last one.”

Twilight Saga Related Merchandise
Bath and Body Works, we can now expect a Twilight related fragrance to hit shelves in November - just in time for the New Moon movie. Here’s what Leslie had to say:

“I currently am an employee of Bath and Body Works and I have news about an upcoming frangrance that was inspired by Twilight. It is called Twilight Woods. It is not available in stores until November 2, 2009, but is currectly available in a travel size for $1 at bathandbodyworks.com and will be available in a travel size in stores on Sept. 28. Hope the Twilight fans love it…it’s a great new fragrance!”



Check out the product listing below and see what you can expect from the fragrance:
Our Signature Body Lotion takes ultra-pampering to the next level. Fortified with aloe vera, grape seed extract and vitamins C and E, it glides on easily and evenly to condition and hydrate skin. This non-greasy, sheer formula absorbs quickly to leave skin soft, smooth and beautifully fragrant.This hypnotic fragrance was inspired by a romantic walk in enchanted woods

You can now purchase the 2.0 oz. travel size fragrance online at Bath and Body Works for a special price of just $1. To do so, click here.

September 9

New Moon Premiere Info

Official confirmation from Summit that the premiere will be held on Monday, November 16th 2009, as reported by the Mann Theatres website here. Road trip anyone?