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The Twilight: The Graphic Novel Vol. 1 is now available in local bookstores! To know more information regarding the graphic novel, USA Today discusses the material and its contribution to the Twilight franchise.

The next anticipated release for Twilight fans is The Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD which will be out in stores next week. If you're planning to buy other versions aside from / other than the local version, here's a Summit-approved New Moon DVD guide to help you decide.

Also on the New Moon DVD front, here's an interview of CNN with Chris Weitz talking about making the film and what we can expect from the DVD.

MTV on the other hand released a few clips that will be featured in the DVD. Access Hollywood also sent in this clip (below) regarding the cliff diving scene:



Now from New Moon to Breaking Dawn news, Entertainment Weekly has some leads on the possible directors that might take the helm for the final movie. Moreover, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning talked about the major plot points that will be considered in the last movie.

In celebration of Lykke Li's birthday, the music video for Possibility has been released. This song is part of the The Twilight Saga: New Moon Official Soundtrack.

We've been receiving many repetitive questions here and on Twitter about several topics. Instead of answering every single one of the same tweets and emails and comments, we're gonna take the time to address the frequently asked questions here. :)

Q. When is the New Moon DVD going to be released locally?
A. Pioneer Films says they're also aiming for a March release, same as the US. There are no definite details yet, though. Keep monitoring this site for updates.

Q: When will "Twilight: The Graphic Novel" be released locally?
A: In March as well, according to Hachette Book Group USA (Phils). But this will be highly dependent on whether the stores put in their orders on time, and whether their forwarders/shippers don't encounter any logistics problems.

Q: When will "Remember Me" be released locally?
A: As we said before, it's showing March 12th, and will be distributed locally by Pioneer Films. No, TCP isn't planning a Block Screening. :P

Q: What about "The Runaways" and "Welcome to the Riley's"?
A: Again, we already posted about this; we haven't got any information on who will be distributing these movies locally, if any. I didn't see these films in the line-ups of 3 big distributors that I personally work with. Don't worry, we haven't stopped asking around about these movies yet. We will let you know here and on Twitter/Plurk as soon as we have more information.

Q: When will "Eclipse" be released locally?
A: Pioneer Films has no final decision on that yet, but expect a date very close to or the same as the US release.

Q: Will "New Moon: The Score" be released locally?
A: We're not sure yet. We'll update this info as soon as we get an answer to the inquiry we already posted to the publishers. Warner Music Phils. says that "New Moon: The Score" is already available locally. Please let us know if you spot them in stores. In addition, we haven't seen the sheet music for the New Moon soundtrack around yet either. If you're looking for the sheet music for the Twilight soundtrack, they're available at Sound Essentials branches around Metro Manila and occasionally, at Fully Booked stores.

This is an update to our previous post regarding films starring actors from The Twilight Saga.

We finally got word from Pioneer Films that they will be releasing Remember Me, starring Robert Pattinson, on March 12th.

So here's the updated list of release dates:

Case 39 - 3 Feb. 2010 - Starring Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, with Jodelle Ferland (Bree in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Valentine's Day - 12 Feb. 2010 - Starring Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, and more, with Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga)

Up In The Air - 3 March 2010 - Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, with Anna Kendrick (Jessica in The Twilight Saga)

Remember Me - 12 Mar. 2010 - Starring Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin

The Last Airbender - 21 July 2010 - Starring Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, with Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga)

Other films that have no definite local release dates yet:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 - November 2010 - Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, with Jamie Campbell Bower (Caius in The Twilight Saga)

Other films that have no known local distributor yet (at least, as far as I know):

Welcome to the Riley's - January 2010 US Release - Starring Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini

The Runaways - March 2010 US Release - Starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (Jane in The Twilight Saga)

Happy New Year, Pinoy Twilighters!

A stream of info has been coming in from my friendly neighborhood sources among local film distributors, so I thought of compiling a list of the Philippine release dates of films that are starring actors from The Twilight Saga:

Case 39 - 3 Feb. 2010 - Starring Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, with Jodelle Ferland (Bree in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Valentine's Day - 12 Feb. 2010 - Starring Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, and more, with Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga)

Up In The Air - 3 March 2010 - Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, with Anna Kendrick (Jessica in The Twilight Saga)

The Last Airbender - 21 July 2010 - Starring Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, with Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga)

Other films that have no definite local release dates yet:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 - November 2010 - Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, with Jamie Campbell Bower (Caius in The Twilight Saga)

Other films that have no known local distributor yet (at least, as far as I know):

Welcome to the Riley's - January 2010 US Release - Starring Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini

Remember Me - March 2010 US Release - Starring Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin

The Runaways - March 2010 US Release - Starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (Jane in The Twilight Saga)

If I missed a film, do let us know in the comments. :)

New Moon News
Chris Weitz shares in an interview with MTV mostly on how he dealt with the CGI for the Edward sightings and the cliff-diving scene, and also that Vitamin T (aka a dose of Taylor Lautner) can cure the Robert Pattinson deficiencies in the New Moon film.

Check out Jackson Rathbone’s comparisons between playing Jasper in the Twilight saga and his portrayal as Sokka in Avatar: the Last Airbender.

Justine Wachsberger, who is playing Gianna in the New Moon film, talks with Fanbolt.com on her experiences during filming.

Noot Sear talks about her preparation for her role as Heidi in New Moon and her peculiar name in this article with MTV.

See these fascinating photos of Dakota Fanning in the New York Times. She also talks briefly about her character Jane in the film.

Eclipse Film News
Filming for the third movie is fully underway, as was posted by Examiner.com. Click on that link for easy to access set filming updates.

Summit Entertainment has announced the remaining actors to round up the cast list for Eclipse: Booboo Stewart to play Seth Clearwater and Julia Jones for Leah Clearwater. Get to know more about BooBoo’s background via Examiner.com. He surprised all fans when he remarked in his interview with Access Hollywood that he has signed up for three films (instead of the expected two) for the film franchise. Check out the video below where he mentions this (thanks to Rachel of Access Hollywood).



Summit Entertainment in response has sent a statement over to Access Hollywood that BooBoo’s statement on the number of films to be produced “are unfortunately uninformed and not accurate”. Soon afterward, BooBoo Stewart retracted his earlier statement.

Julia Jones talks with SEGN.com about auditioning for the role and on reading the books in the Twilight saga. Get to listen to the interview here.

Other News
One of the TCP admins recently got married (we leave it to you to find out who!) so this is a cute tidbit—In Style asked designers for their respective visions of Bella’s wedding dress. What do you think of the designs given Stephenie Meyer’s own description of the wedding dress?

Here’s a brief article regarding Stephenie Meyer’s choice of music. Also in response to her recent post on the music she enjoyed this summer, MTV reports that the bands she cited like her too :D

Check out these yearbook photos featured in WTForks?! with some of the Twilight cast and Stephenie Meyer herself.

Do not forget to vote Peter Facinelli as the ultimate World Mr. Twitter!

Those who would not mind getting their EQ shot would be excited over a leak of the New Moon trailer which was online since yesterday in French. MTV reports that a new scene in this trailer which was not previously released is a look at Dakota Fanning as Jane (I won't mention other scenes I saw in case you don't want to be spoiled - mabelletaka). Summit Entertainment is reported to be pulling out the videos online due to copyright claims.

Speaking of new scenes, Empire posted an announcement that two new scenes from New Moon will be shown during the weekend at Movie-Con II. Hopefully, we also get to see footages of the event online so that us non-US fans can get in the action. Empire says that these two new scenes include 1.) brooding and 2.) pining for an absent true love. So just speculate on what those two scenes might be!

ET showed behind the scenes footage on Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner's photoshoot for the cover of Entertainment Weekly. You can watch the video here.

As we reported, Jack Huston is set to play Royce King II in New Moon. Get to know more about him and his upcoming projects here.

MOVIE and CAST NEWS
With New Moon looming on the horizon, Eclipse, apparently, isn't very far behind.

Variety.com reports a new addition to the Eclipse cast: Jodelle Ferland. No details on who she's playing, except that it will be a "vampire who has been turned". Maybe we're seeing our future Bree? What do you think?

In any case, if she's joining the Twilight franchise, maybe you'll be interested in following her twitter account, where she shares this little tidbit. Hmm... curiouser and curiouser. Gotta expect another Summit announcement in the next few days.

As for the rest of the cast, they have landed in Vancouver, everyone! Kellan, Elizabeth, Nikki, Ashley, as well as Twilight newbies, Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel, were caught on cam arriving at the airport. Pictures are here on Twilight Indonesia. No Kristen and Robert sightings yet, however, RobPattzNews on Twitter has spotted him at LAX, so at least he's back from New York!

Rachelle Lefevre is auctioning Twilight items, some signed by the rest of her castmates, for favored charity School on Wheels. She is also donating $100 to Susan G. Komen for The Cure (breast cancer research) for every 10,000 people who follow her on Twitter. More here.

Though we've been deprived of MTV's Twilight Tuesdays this year, they still continue to look for Twilight stuff for us fans. At TwiCon, they caught up with Jackson Rathbone, who described a bit more of New Moon's "intense birthday scene".

Rathbone: Yeah, there's a little bit more violence. It's definitely longer. It's really about the moment where Bella is realizing what kind of world she's into. We spent the entire time with "Twilight" delving into the vampire world, but now in "New Moon," it's like you're in the vampire world, and what happens when you get a paper cut? What happens when everyone you love turns around on you and suddenly could kill you? She's in that world right now, and she's kind of scared by it. She's also getting into the werewolf world, and suddenly she's got these two new worlds on her — and there's love in both. It's an amazing script.

Remember how Chris Weitz said there are no nude Volturi in New Moon. Let's have another go at it: There's No Nudity in New Moon.

My fellow admins are going to absolutely LOVE this, but, in Danag Podcast Episode 16, we touched up on how Taylor must have convinced Chris Weitz to let him play Jacob, and see how close we were:

Weitz: When I first met with him, I took off my shirt and I said, "You've got two months to look this good." And he said, "I'm willing to try that." Finally, he came back, and the results were just about as good as my abs.

MTV: You must have a real six-pack.

He also mentioned Dakota's acting prowess and how they wanted "force-ghost" Edward to turn out... which isn't so "force-ghostey", we hope. Read more here.

He may not be a werewolf, but "Emmett", Kellan Lutz, can definitely hold his own among Jacob and his team, abs-wise (Vampire represent!), and he didn't have to show it to Chris Weitz! His secret to maintaining his physique on MSNBC.com here.

FANDOM NEWS

Curious about the 2010 New Moon calendar? MTV has a peek at all the gorgeousness here.

Recently, Stephenie Meyer has again been accused of plagiarism. Jordan Scott alleged that a lot of scenes from Breaking Dawn matched up to an online piece of fiction she wrote when she was 15 years old, among them, the wedding, the baby, and the fact that both heroes call their heroines "love".

Hachette Book Group said in a statement that Meyer's books "have been a phenomenal sensation" and that "it shouldn't be surprising to hear that other people may seek to ride the coattails of such success."

More on this piece of news here on EOnline and MSNBC.

Online, that is. Seems like the Volturi couldn't keep themselves hidden for long. Hot off the Hollywood gossip sites this morning is a scoop on what looks to be a very authentic, very long-awaited first view of that very elusive royal vampire clan.The "leaked scoop" includes headshots of the majestic trio, Aro, Marcus and Caius, and vamp twins Jane and Alec, over the Volturi crest. Still kind of on-the-fence about JCB's Caius (although we know one person who fully supports him!) I love Dakota Fanning! She is really rocking her role!

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.

NECA's Edward and Bella Action Figure 2-Pack is now available for pre-order at Hot Topic. [CdL is silently cursing Hot Topic for creating long and weird URLs for their pages. Blogger doesn't want to accept your URL! Thank goodness there's TinyURL. Sheesh.]

Twilight: Director's Notebook is debuting at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List at the end of this week! Catherine Hardwicke posted a video thanking all of the people who supported the book, especially the Twilight fans. Congrats, Catherine! Don't forget that we're giving away a copy of the book in our Anniversary Contest here.

Christian Serratos won the Best Supporting Actress Award (Feature Film) at the Annual Young Artist Awards for her role as Angela Weber in Twilight. Meanwhile, Dakota Fanning snagged the Best Leading Young Actress Award for her performance in The Secret Life of Bees. Click here and here for the full stories.

Before Google Chrome decides I've opened too many tabs and crash, let's round-up today's Twilight news and relieve Chrome of the stress. :)

Style.com has posted the full article about Rob Pattinson that appears on the latest issue of GQ, entitled "He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Undead". Click the link to read and to see more photos from his GQ photoshoot. [I've always loved GQ's feature articles. Their write-up on Robert Downey Jr. was fantastic! This one isn't any different. You see a very different side of Rob that other articles don't focus much on. The next person I want on GQ is, of course, Peter Facinelli... oh, what the heck, do a feature on all the men of Twilight! It'll be exciting to find out what a day with Edi Gathegi will be like. -CdL]

Twilight is nominated for Best Fantasy Film in the 35th Saturn Awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. Twilight is up against pretty stiff competition (with no less than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the list), so keep your fingers crossed.

Twilight Italia is asking everyone to sign a petition for Summit to shoot the last part of New Moon in Volterra. They present a very convincing case, showing us in photos in videos the real places that Stephenie Meyer wrote about, including the alleyway where Bella finds Edward, the dead end with the manhole, the subterranean tunnels, the Clock Tower at Piazza del Priori, and more. Click here to learn more about the petition and to see photos and videos. [Normally, we would say that online petitions don't work, but I certainly hope this one does! -CdL]

Variety has also joined the ranks of the sites confirming that Juan Antonio Bayona has been chosen by Summit to direct Eclipse. While Variety is a very reliable source, nothing is really confirmed until Summit posts an official press release.  UPDATE 11:35am - Well, what do you know! I did say it's not confirmed unless Summit says so, right? Well the LA Times spoke to Erik Feig himself, the president of Summit, and he says that they haven't offered the Eclipse job to anyone. He adds that nobody even bothered to ask them if this is true before running the story (we're looking at you, Nikki Finke!) Thanks, Twilight Lex!

Examiner.com looks into the Twilight fandom and answers the question "Does Twilight appeal only to teens?" [Well, we've known for a while now that it appeals to a much wider demographic than that! After all, the TCP Admins are working professionals, we have a bunch of Twilight guys and moms, and we even have a Twilight Gay! -CdL]

Forbes.com has listed the 10 of Hollywood's Most Valuable Young Stars, and The Twilight Saga newcomer Dakota Fanning secured the #3 spot behind Daniel Radcliffe and Miley Cyrus.

InStyle went shopping with Ashley Greene!

BuddyTV lists 10 suggestions to ensure we get an awesome New Moon movie. [I would agree regarding the Volturi, but only the part about the audience feeling the threat they impose. I'd rather not see them looking like they're typical horror film vampires. If Rosenberg and Weitz are any good, they will give us something new but very effective. -CdL]

E! Online features a new video where the "Twilight Villains Talk New Moon".

In Episode 12 of the Danag Podcast, we mentioned Pocket Edward. We also mentioned that everyone seems to be working out, except for Rob. Well, at least Pocket Edward is working out enough for two people - himself and Life-Size Edward. There's even sparkly work-out equipment involved!

Spoiler TV has posted a LOT of photos from the set of New Moon. It looks like the pics were taken during dress rehearsals down in Vancouver. Peter is blonde again [poor Peter, I hope that's a wig. No matter, he still looks fabulous. -CdL], Jackson's hair is looking good [maybe because he's now actually bald and they don't have to deal with his real hair -CdL], Ashley's back in the short wig [uh, I kinda like the Twilight wig better... -CdL], Kellan's hair is dark again, Rob's hair is looking good [Dear make-up people, please don't touch Rob's hair. kthnxbai. -CdL], Taylor has that long wig again [ugh, they didn't change it! When he "cuts" his hair in the story, please don't slick it back, make-up people! We love Taylor's regular hair. -CdL], and the biggest surprise is Nikki's new blonde wig [Okay, I think I like Nikki's real hair dyed blonde than this wig. It looks really fake, and doesn't seem to suit her looks. -CdL]. And since I've said way too much already, just click that link above to view the pics for yourselves. Let us know what you think by posting a comment. :)

Wow, the search for the director of Eclipse seems more exciting than the New Moon search ever was. First, there was talk of Drew Barrymore being short-listed to direct the third film in The Twilight Saga. Now, Juan Antonio Bayona, director of The Orphanage, has apparently been included in that list. There are also rumours surfacing that Paul Weitz, brother to Chris who is directing New Moon, actually got the job. The next few weeks will probably see the announcement of the winner of this race. Thank you to Mary Grace for the link.

E! Online caught up with Taylor Lautner, and he seems very excited to start filming New Moon. He is also very optimistic that Summit will eventually close a deal to make a Breaking Dawn film if fans continue to support the Saga. Anticipating the inevitable rivalry that New Moon will spawn among fans, Taylor has a message for Team Edward/Robert supporters: "Don't hate on me too much." Click here to read the full story. Thank you to Mary Grace for the link.

Kristen Stewart told MTV during promos for her latest film, The Cake Eaters, that she's excited to work with Dakota Fanning in their two upcoming films, The Runaways, and New Moon.

Lastly, Myx has a Twilight promo to celebrate the release of the Twilight DVD. Go to the Myx Philippines website to join! Thanks to tim_09 for the alert!

MTV spoke to Kellan Lutz just before he's scheduled to go in for New Moon rehearsals, and he dished on some New Moon casting rumours. Apparently, AnnaLynne McCord's casting isn't a sure thing, and Chris Weitz is going for REAL Native Americans to play the werewolves.

Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Drew Barrymore has confirmed that she is indeed being considered to direct Eclipse, but nothing has been decided yet.

FearNET has a really cool session with Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lefevre, and Kellan Lutz where they talk about working on New Moon.

Everglow has desktop wallpapers of the illustrations from the Japanese editions of the Twilight books. You can download them via their galleries.

EW.com has a new poll up, and they want to know who you think should play Alec opposite Dakota Fanning. Click here to vote.

From Summit Entertainment's TwilightTheMovie.com Newsletter:

DAKOTA FANNING JOINS NEW MOON – Acclaimed actress Dakota Fanning has officially joined the cast, and will play fan favorite Jane in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

*applause, applause!*

[Also, I guess that settles the debate about the official title of the film, which we discussed in the soon-to-be-online Danag Podcast Episode 12. The official title is "The Twilight Saga: New Moon". -CdL]