Making New Moon: Behind-The-Scene featurettes

Here are three more behind-the-scenes videos and featurettes from the New Moon DVD. These feature making the “Bella cliff diving scene”, filming in Italy and getting back together to film New Moon.

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Deleted New Moon Scene

With the New Moon DVD only a few days away before its release, here is another deleted scene from the movie. This features Bella and Edward driving home from her disastrous birthday party.

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Twilight in Forks: the men behind the documentary

Document makers York Baur and Jason Brown talked to Moviefone regarding their experience in making a documentary about the town of Forks, Washington and on why they decided to chronicle the town that served as the backdrop of the Twilight success.

Did you have a plan on how to film this?
Brown: We kind of said, “Let’s bring a camera out and see what’s happening.” Our approach came out from a trip out to Forks, and having seen the town, you couldn’t not be aware that ‘Twilight’ had an association with Forks. We packed our cameras and went out, and decided to let the story tell itself.

What were the locals’ reactions?
Baur: I would attribute their reaction to our stylistic approach. First, we tried to make it more like a conversation, and not overwhelming people with gear and hoopla. And second, because of my relationship with folks out there … we were able to reference and be sensitive to, and understanding of, what the context of the town was. That helped us gain access to people in a non-threatening setting. Everyone was wonderfully open to us, and certain people were very excited about ‘Twilight’ and are tremendous fans. Others … it’s a big change for them, in terms of what’s going on with the town. You have to keep in mind how remote it is, people are there for a reason; so the exposure is not always a huge positive for everyone there. But even people in that category were friendly to us, and saw how important this was for this area.

Was there a difference between how the younger residents reacted, versus the older ones?
Brown: For the most part they’re all aware of it; many of them have read the books and seen the movie. When you put yourself in the shoes of a high school kid, they’re a little confused by it: “I grew up here, I don’t get what’s the big deal?” But nobody was dismissive or angry, or thought it was weird. Everybody in Forks, regardless of their age, can see there’s a huge benefit, to the spirit of the town, the vivaciousness of what’s going on there. Regardless of how they feel about the story, it’s had an impact on their life which is positive; for that reason they are excited by it.
Baur: The demographic isn’t as young as everyone thinks [I nod my head enthusiastically at this]. It’s a small town, so the connectivity amongst individual people is much greater. You have to give the school a huge credit; in a town this size the school is the center of the town. We were invited to the graduation of Forks High School, to a football game — and the entire community is there. The school has done a great job at involving the kids in it. Here’s a great example: people from around the globe are e-mailing the school, funny e-mails to ‘excuse Edward from class’ and that kind of thing. What they do is funnel these to the ASB (Associated Student Body) and they handle these e-mails.

Have the townspeople seen the film?
Baur: They haven’t seen the whole thing, but we did a sneak peek at Stephenie Meyer Day last year. They were definitely excited. It was disappointing to the town that ‘Twilight’ ended up not being filmed there, and people do understand why the decision was made to film in Oregon. So part of the reason the reaction to our movie was so favorable was they finally got their film after all. In an 83-minute film, there isn’t one word of narration– it’s all the people saying everything. So they were understandably proud.

How did Summit get involved in this project? [Summit Entertainment is the studio behind the 'Twilight' saga.]
Baur: We had a connection to one of their executives, and we were in L.A. talking to Larry Carroll from MTV. We had a meeting, and by the following week we were back showing them footage. Within two weeks we had a deal. They are absolutely the un-studio; they are doing things other studios cannot conceive of, they’re amazing. What sets them apart is from top to bottom, they think out of the box. They’re not afraid to take a risk and try something, and learn from it.

They timed your DVD release very well!
Brown: Yeah, they in fact packaged it with the ‘New Moon’ DVD exclusively at Walmart, so there’s a fan special edition that includes both. [The DVDs will be released Sat., March 20.]

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Entertainment Tonight: A first look at the New Moon DVD Special Features

Entertainment Tonight has posted an extended New Moon DVD Special Featurette featuring three specific scenes from the movie. Director Chris Weitz chronicles the behind-the-scenes actions which includes filming the scenes, the conditions, bloopers and many more.

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Twilight fans support the Twilight LA Convention

Fox News has posted a news report about Twilight fans attending a Twilight Convention in Los Angeles. Amongst the attendees are Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Charlie Bewley.

Thanks to David.

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HD Room New Moon Blu-Ray give-away

The HD Room is giving away Five (5)  New Moon Blu-Ray in celebration of the release of the Twilight Saga: New Moon on DVD and Blu-Ray. All you need to do is fill out this form here. Make sure to check back everyday so that you can increase your chance of winning.

This contest is open to all residents of the United States and Canada, and will close on April 15, 2010 at 9:59 pm EST.

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USA Today: Twilight Graphic Novels, putting a new light for Twilight

USA Today has published a new article tackling the release of the new Twilight Graphic novel. Published by Yen Press, the newest addition to the Twilight Saga will be in stores today.

If the original Stephenie Meyer teen vampire novels, movies, DVDs, posters and T-shirts aren’t enough, now comes Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 (Yen Press, $19.99), on sale today.

The 350,000 first printing is believed to be the biggest for any graphic novel in the U.S. market.

Because of the original Twilight novel’s length, the graphic novel will be published in two volumes. No date has been announced for the second. Nor is there any word on whether the last three books in the series will be adapted to the format.

The hardcover book, illustrated and adapted by South Korean artist Young Kim, was created with author Meyer’s oversight.

“When it comes to really seeing Stephenie Meyer’s personal vision of the Twilight property, this is as close an opportunity there is to accomplishing that,” says Yen’s Kurt Hassler. “Stephenie was very specific and has very clear images of what the characters look like in her head.”

Meyer likes what she sees in Kim’s depictions of sexy teen vampire Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, the girl he loves. She writes in the introduction that seeing Kim’s drawings “brought me back to my first Twilight experience … suddenly I would be feeling all the same things I felt that first summer while I was writing their (Edward and Bella’s) story.”

In an e-mail interview, Kim says: “It is always difficult to visualize text, since everyone has a different interpretation of it, but I tried to be as faithful as possible to the descriptions in the book, and Stephenie’s review and input were greatly helpful.”

Becky Anderson of Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Ill., wonders how fans will react after seeing the movies and envisioning Robert Pattinson as Edward and Kristen Stewart as Bella.

“People are really possessive of this book and how they feel about it,” Anderson says. “It will be interesting to see how they accept this new visual image.”

Fans and booksellers aren’t sure what the response will be to the graphic-novel format or how the book will sell.

“It’s been tough for us — this whole business of creating graphic-novel versions of popular series,” says Meghan Goel of BookPeople, an independent Austin bookstore.

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Three New Behind-The-Scenes Clip from the New Moon DVD (Updated)

MTV premiered today three new Behind-The-Scenes clip from the New Moon DVD. They feature Taylor Lautner talking about making the action sequences of the film, focusing on Bella’s maturity and the focus on Taylor’s character, Jacob Black.

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Access Hollywood also posted the same videos plus news that they are going to show an exclusive clip from New Moon tomorrow!

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Clevver TV analyze the Eclipse Trailer

With the Eclipse Trailer hitting webs last week, Twilight fans were offered a first glimpse of the third Twilight film. Clevver TV has posted a video about it, where they analyzed the trailer.

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Eclipse Sneak Peak: From the New Moon DVD

A sneak peak of the third Twilight film, Eclipse has been posted online. This video is included in the New Moon DVD, which will be out on March 20.

Here are also three New Moon TV spots, still included in the New Moon DVD.

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