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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Starts Principal Photography

Source:Summit Entertainment
April 16, 2009


Principal photography has begun on Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon, it was announced today by Erik Feig, Summit's President of Production. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and Jacob Black. Academy Award-nominee Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass, About a Boy) is the director. "New Moon" is filming on locations in Vancouver, BC and Tuscany, Italy.

Also rejoining the movie are Ashley Greene as Alice, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Kellan Lutz as Emmett, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Edi Gathegi as Laurent, Rachelle Lafevre as Victoria and Billy Burke as Charlie Swan.

New cast members include the legendary Volturi, a venerable coven of vampires who weigh and impose the laws of the vampire world, as well as two new members of the Quileute Indian Nation. The Volturi include Charlie Bewley as Demetri, Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, Daniel Cudmore as Felix, Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, all Volturi enforcers. Dakota Fanning plays Jane, a high ranking and powerful Volturi member and Cameron Bright is Alec, her brother. Noot Seer plays Volturi member Heidi. Michael Sheen plays Aro, the Volturi leader. Graham Greene appears as Harry Clearwater, Quileute tribal leader and old friend of Bella's father Charlie. Tinsel Korey is Emily, the fiancé of Sam Uley.

In "New Moon," Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love Edward (Robert Pattinson) but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and she finds her loyalties tested.

COMMENTS (45)

Posted by:
Joeker
April 16, 2009
Only a matter of time before Dakota Fanning got involoved lol. God I hated Twilight, the books were half way decent (my wife made me read them honest). The movie was shoddy at best. LOL Hell if anyone can put it right Ms. Fanning can. Anybody seen the Dakota Fanning rape movie? It was f**ked up! Cameron Bright is bad ass though, he was GREAT in Running Scared, X-3, and Butterfly Effect oh and Frailty. Not so much in Ultraviolet though.

I hope people stop watching this ****e so they can go back to making GOOD vamp flicks like John Carpenter's Vampires, these watered down vamps just ain't my thing. Vampires in love with a human, Anne Rice S**T if you ask me.
Posted by:
SarahBeth
April 16, 2009
Anne Rice is WAY Better! The majority of Twilight readers don't even know who Anne Rice is!
Posted by:
Darum
April 16, 2009
ok yes definitely not anywhere near Anne Rice's level. In fact its a completely different audience because Rice novels are much darker and way more adult. You really can't compare them but I don't understand why so many Twilight haters come on these headlines and comment on them. If you don't like the books or movies, why are you reading this?

I've read the books, they are very whiny but I don't hate them and I didn't think the movie was that bad compared to the book. New Moon is looking to turn out great. It has a strong cast and Weitz isn't bad either. It's a serious film and I think it will no doubt be better than the first. Weitz definitely knew what he was doing by "vigorously pursuing" Sheen to play Aro. That's perfect casting. I hope everything turns out great.
Posted by:
Chip
April 16, 2009
.........Hear that? Crickets.
Posted by:
superorange
April 16, 2009
Are you serious? Twilight fans don't know who Anne Rice is because most of them are in middle school right?
I really hate that stereotype that is always associated with Twilight.
Posted by:
Kevin
April 16, 2009
Dude, regradless about what is said about the flix, its going to make bank. its the same reason why those high school musicals movie made so much money. its target audience isnt those who love girtty vampire movies like john Carpenter's Vampires or Blade or Let The Right One In. its teenage girls and their mothers, honestly the truth is that if you dont like dont watch it if you do then watch it. Paul Blart: Mall Cop was a piece of S##T and i didnt even need to see to know that while Observe and Report was funny as hell and i saw that but which one made more money. I must say though that I think Michael Sheen is a great actor so it could end being a good movie and i do like Chris Weltz's movies but it is what it is, i mean it isnt meant for anyone who is usually on this website but remember in the end it doesnt matter what anyone says it matters how make the movie makes and trust me that nopp one can deny that the movie is going to make money in not only the cinema but through merchandise. How knows maybe with a little more money, better special effects and a better director it might actually be a good movie. But come on guys i understand that you hate it or what not but wait till the thing comes out and then make up ure mind. in other words i know that im going cause my girl loves this stuff and i know she is dragging me to it but i'm gonna keep an open mind to it and if in the end i dont like it at least i can tell her that i gave it a chance
Posted by:
dude
April 16, 2009
there are some major special effects in this movie that they are going to have to turn around before November...interesting...
Posted by:
Abby
April 16, 2009
Hmm ...

I am a Rice fan and I adore the Twilight Series. I can appreciate both writing styles, though.

One thing no one can debate is the fact that Ms. Meyers' writings have gotten people - young people in particular - reading. For me, personally, I came to really care about the characters. I'd hoped Twilight would stay closer to book's plot, but overall I did like it. I'm loking forward to viewing New Moon. I think the new director will make a huge difference.
Posted by:
Calum
April 16, 2009
Rice is a far better writer than Meyer is, and you are right, her writing has gotten people, young females who don't know the first thing about proper writing and correct grammar use and even how to actually pick up a thesaurus to use variations of words instead of writing the same thing over and over again, plus the absolute fantastic talent of making up words.

Seriously, this is how low the literary industry has sunk? This is what makes money? How pathetic.

Go read something worth reading, like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or Harry Potter novels or Stephen King books or The Conqueror Worms instead of this. Read classic poems like Beowulf, Homer's Odyssey and Illiad. Meyer keeps referencing Wuthering Heights, making a big deal out of it any chance she got but...Twilight will never be as good as Wuthering Heights was and is. I read four chapters and have no interest in reading the rest of the book or the series. I'm mildly interested in the film as Kristen Stewart is beautiful, but luckily for me she's made more movies than Twilight, so I don't need to give my money to Summit to see her - maybe Miramax for Adventureland, etc.

Seriously, Stephanie Meyer is the antithesis of a good writer, and it just angers me that someone can spout out words and make millions, and the sentences aren't even put together well enough to be 100% coherent.

The story was interesting as far as I got, but her writing is absolutely horrible, and it isn't even a writing style, it's just wannabe-writing.

These should have been practice writings, because you can't just sit down, say you're going to be a writer and write four novels and make millions of dollars even though it appears that is what has happened. She even said herself she never planned on being a writer and this was a dream, she woke up and just started writing.

It shows.

She thanks her editor, Megan Tingley, in the Acknowledgements at the start of the book, but I doubt her editor did a damn thing, or if she did, she hardly knew what she was doing.

It's like your carpet stuff, spray a little bit on an inconspicuous area and if it doesn't discolour, then go ahead and use it on the entire carpet. Meyer's gone, shaken the can vigorously and sprayed it all over the carpet and the entire carpet has become dicoloured and ruined, yet she think's the carpet looks fine.

I'm so sorry I gave you $AUD16, Ms Meyer, but thankfully that isn't as much as tweeny girls have given you for the film tickets, books, books on CD, and all other useless Twilight merchandise.

And I'm not wasting my time complaining about something for no reason like most internet nerds do; I'm genuinely complaining about genuinely poor writing.

I'm all for reading books, I grew up in a literary household, my mother is an English teacher, and I've been writing ever since I was four (I am now 18), but please, Ms Meyer, please, improve your writing and, now that you CAN AFFORD IT, get a better editor to help improve your writing as well - as I said, I'm happy to read future books from you, but please - practice makes perfect.
Posted by:
Shannon
April 16, 2009
What most of those who disliked the Saga fail to comprehend is that it was not meant to be a creepy horror novel. I am 35 years old and read ALL of the Anne Rice vampire novels, as well as the Mayfair Witches I loved them for a different reason. Twilight is a LOVE STORY, romantic and sensual. It was never supposed to be an action packed horror/thriller. It is the modern day Romeo and Juliet, no matter the writing style or level of synonyms. Stephenie was just a woman with a typical mother's life who had a dream one night, wrote it down and indirectly took it to the next level. She never intended it for anyone other then herself. She made it farther than most on just a simple dream. What have you done lately?

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