Twilight Coven Philippines

It's only 8 days til New Moon! There are a lot of local promos currently celebrating the movie's release this month, so if you want to participate in some of them, check out our tagged posts! Who knows? You might get lucky and even win premiere tickets!

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If you haven't caught up with the stories from last week's Twilight Saga: New Moon press junket, click here for our last news round-up where all the links have been organized. :)

Our fellow fans from Twilighters Malaysia were lucky to have experienced the Tokyo fan event with Robert Pattinson and Chris Weitz! Go here to view their pics and read about their exciting Twilighter adventure.

Likewise, friends from Twilight Singapore have also shared their member's coverage from the Tokyo fan event which you can view here and here.

Thanks to the admins from Twilighters Malaysia and Twilight Singapore! :)

For the rest of the latest Twilight news on the net:

Chuck the Movie Guy has videos of his interviews with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner on his channel on Youtube.

Popsugar has posted their video interview with Robert Pattinson, where he talks about "The One", Edward's humor and the NM soundtrack.

EW's Popwatch has a short article on Alex Meraz's guesting on Rachel Ray, and he is also featured on Fear.net, where he talks about his scene with Kristen!

Moviehole.net has an interview with Taylor Lautner.

About.com has an exclusive interview with Ashley Greene!

The Twilight Lexicon has posted an interview producer Wyck Godfrey did with MakingOf.com.

Yet again, a bunch of stuff over on MTV.com:
Is KStew Team Edward or Team Jacob? Taylor also gives his two cents worth on which side you should be on. This story is also on MTV's Hollywood Crush sub-site.
RPattz wants Gus Van Sant for Breaking Dawn?
Dakota Fanning enjoyed playing a bad girl in New Moon.
You want Chris Weitz to direct Breaking Dawn? Me, too!

I wasn't able to link to this the last time (since I filled most of that round-up with junket links), but if you haven't seen it yet, they've covered the piece where Taylor Swift spoofs Twilight on Saturday Night Live. (She also mentioned Taylor Lautner during her monologue--so cute!--but you'll have to Youtube that one, I think. It won't be hard to find.) Speaking of SNL, don't hold out on Robert Pattinson doing a stint on it anytime soon, according to this MTV news bit.

MTV also has coverage/pics of the New Moon cast tour in Virginia, New Jersey, and Illinois.

If your room isn't full of magazines yet, here's another one to look out for: EW's cover with the Twilight trio.

Finally, peeps, Twilight has been nominated for The People's Choice Awards, and yes, we can participate! So go and vote here! (Oh, and in case you don't have a personal preference for Choice TV Comedy or Choice TV Comedy Actor, we highly recommend The Big Bang Theory and Jim Parsons!)

Okay, before I write anything else, I would just like to drop this link to the Teen Choice Awards site for our 13-19 y/o members who live in the U.S. (Sadly, this isn't like MTV where we get to go crazy on the voting, wherever we live.) As usual, Twilight has been nominated for a lot of categories! So if you want to spread the fandom love around and show people the power of the fans, go vote! :)

Now that that's out of the way, let's go for some movie news. Let's start with something about the 3rd movie, to begin filming on August 17 in Vancouver.

Twilight Saga: Eclipse now has its Riley! Riley, the newborn vampire that aids Victoria in her quest for revenge, will be played by 25-y/o Australian actor Xavier Samuel, as scooped by popular Hollywood movie blogs. Apparently those who also auditioned for the role were G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum and Harry Potter's Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy). Hm, from big franchises to another? You guys have had your share, give the new kids a chance, yeah?

On to New Moon. Things are starting to pick up as we reach the November due date of the screen sequel of Stephenie Meyer's literary baby. It's slow, but it's moving.

First off, we have two exclusives from HitFix.com: an interview with producer Wyck Godfrey and, finally, a very in-depth one with director Chris Weitz! If you're curious how far they are in post-production, here's a snippet from the latter's interview:

I am about two weeks away from showing the director's cut to the studio. I've got some wolves with fur. Some wolves are still invisible basically and some wolves are like -- you've all probably seen the claymation versions. We are still in the light RD phases of what Edward looks like when he's hit -- what the vampires look like when he's hit with light and the diamond effect. Also, the kind of hallucinatory effect Bella has when she hears Edward's voice and she imagines him there. And then we are Alexandre Desplat has just started working on his music for the film. And we are just starting to put together what acts will be on the soundtrack, so it's kind of like keeping ten plates spinning at once, but it's all good because we've got Alexander Desplat who I think is one of the greatest film composers living and because of the kind of the strength of the franchise that I inherited, a lot of bands are really interested in working on the soundtrack and we got visual effects people. And that just leaves me hopefully not dropping the ball in terms of editing together the story.

Oh, and he mentioned something about horse-sized wolves, too. So maybe we won't be seeing puppies in the final cut? Crossing fingers now.

Set visit reports have also gradually been posted. Here's Day One of HitFix's featured set visit. Here's another by Hollywood.com. Even Rotten Tomatoes has its own set report! [minamic: I'm surprised, is all.] All three of them seem to have stumbled on the Volturi scene, and judging from the descriptions, it seems like Dakota Fanning's short scenes will be something to watch out for.

More on New Moon: Thom Yorke and Kings of Leon for the soundtrack? And a better look at the character designs for Edward, Bella and Jacob of the Twilight Graphic Novel from Everglow.

Since we're on the subject of graphic novels, Comic Con is upon us once again, and although Robert Pattinson will be attending, unfortunately, he will not be in any backstage interviews. Although this greatly reduces our RPattz eye-candy quota for the year, there are a few others to make up for it, namely four extra-hot wolves, Jamie Campbell-Bower, and Michael Sheen.

And if that still doesn't make up for it, maybe consider curling up under a Twilight throw blanket while eating your New Moon chocolate.