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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is still going strong at the box office:

• The Domestic Total as of November 30 was $233.3 million (keep in mind that "Twilight" has a lifetime Domestic Total of $192.8 million).
• The Foreign Total as of November 30 was $243 million.
• Which means that after a mere 10 days in the theaters, "New Moon" had a worldwide box office total of $476.3 million. W.O.W.

If you missed my post about the record-breaking opening weekend that "New Moon" had, read it here.



You have seen "New Moon," right? If not, get to it! If you have, then please take the polls and share your thoughts about the film:

• Poll: What Did You Think of "New Moon"?
• Poll: Did Seeing "New Moon" Make You Switch Teams?
  

Sources: Box Office Mojo

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"New Moon" director Chris Weitz spoke to MTV recently, giving us some scoop on the "New Moon" DVD:

"There will be probably about 20 minutes of deleted material," he explained, promising some meaty footage. "It really is good stuff and a bonus for the fans."

Among this bonus footage could be several moments MTV knows were shot but did not make the final "New Moon" cut, including:

• A scene with Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria driving to Forks in a car, snacking on a dead human. It was one of the final moments the actress filmed as the nomadic vampire.
• A scene with the human characters eating Burger King.
• Another scene with the humans, this time with Justin Chon and Michael Welch expressing jealousy over Edward's car.
• More scenes with the Volturi in Italy.
• An extended cut of the scene where Mike Newton quotes Shakespeare to Bella in the Forks High parking lot; in it, he does a Marlon Brando impersonation.
  
• Scenes alluding to the ongoing breakup between Newton and Anna Kendrick's Jessica.

Gee, I wonder if I should buy it...


See the entire MTV interview here.



Weitz also had a Q&A with Entertainment Weekly, where he talks about all things "New Moon":

What were the highest and lowest points of making New Moon?
The lows had to be shooting at 5 a.m. in a forest and struggling to get certain shots so a sequence would string together properly. It was a very cold forest in British Columbia, and we knew we’d have another night shoot just like it the next day. The highs were the moments of real identification with the actors. With Taylor, the moments early on when he realized he was going to do it. That was very gratifying to me.

What do you think is Taylor’s best scene?
When he jumps into Bella’s room. There is so much pathos there even though it’s melodrama, there’s something touching about it. Or maybe the last moment he has, just when he says Bella’s name. You sort of understand just how crushed he is at that moment. There are a few times where he’s absolutely that guy and it’s really lovely. He’s that guy for the fans and that’s what I always thought he could do.

Do you think you’re going to get some boys into the theater for New Moon?
I think so. I just hope it’s not just guys who were dragged there. And if they were dragged there, I hope some part of them is enjoying it. And I hope they can admit it if that’s the case. But if not, I hope they have a nice night with their girlfriend. I had an imaginary ad campaign saying “Will your girlfriend go in thinking of Edward, Jacob, or you.” I thought that would force men to go.

Read the whole EW.com piece here.



And last but not least, Cinematical talks "Breaking Dawn" and Summit Entertainment's desire to have Chris Weitz direct it:

The other big question mark (aside from how you adapt the predominately darker Breaking Dawn into a film that will appeal to the tween and teen set) is who will direct. David Slade is currently helming Eclipse, the third installment in the Twilight franchise, and from the sound of things that's the only segment he'll be directing. Right now it looks like Summit wants Chris Weitz to finish out the series, which is why -- according to Variety -- they haven't yet closed the deal on The Gardener, which is the smaller, more personal film he wanted to direct next. But will Weitz commit to the back-to-back films, which are sure to keep him away from his family for several months?

See the rest of Cinematical's article here.


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Still more TV guest appearances by the "New Moon" cast!

Taylor Lautner on "Lopez Tonight," parts 1 and 2:



"Unscripted" on MovieFone with Jamie Campbell Bower, Dakota Fanning, and Michael Sheen:



Rob Pattinson on "The Today Show":



Kristen Stewart on "The Today Show":


Whew! That's all for right now. More to come, I'm sure.

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NBC confirms that Taylor Lautner will be hosting "Saturday Night Live" on December 12, with musical guests Bon Jovi. [Maybe that's why Richie Sambora was at the
"New Moon" premiere...]

I would be almost 100% sure that the SNL writers will come up with at least one skit where Taylor has to show off that famous eight-pack ("Don't worry Bella, it's just vomit," as he stands up and whips it off, Chippendale's style). And there has got to be at least another skit that spoofs "New Moon." I wonder if Taylor Swift, who hosted just a couple weeks ago, will make a guest appearance.

MTV's The Hollywood Crush has come up with a few sketch ideas for Taylor Lautner, including a Cougar's Den episode (please do a cameo, Courteney Cox Arquette!) and another that addresses the issue of what happens to their briefs/boxers when a guy phases into a wolf. Check out the article here.

SNL will still be in "Twilight" mode the following week, when James Franco is host and the musical guest is Muse, the only band who has earned a spot on both the "Twilight" and "New Moon" soundtracks.


Source: HitFix

Entertainment Weekly chatted up Tish Monaghan, the costume designer for "New Moon" and "Eclipse." Does she dish on whether Edward Cullen is a boxers or briefs guy? Or if they needed the Jaws of Life to remove the wolf pack's snug denim cut-offs? Well, no. But she does talk about a lot of other very interesting costume-related issues!

Some juicy bits about costuming Robert Pattinson:

At the very beginning of the film, he has one school outfit, and then there’s Bella’s birthday party and disaster strikes. So Edward ends up in that same costume for the remainder of the film. I was thinking of just putting him in a dress shirt and a pair of pants, but Robert wanted to be in a suit.

So I found a modern contemporary look that would be appealing to him and to the massive fan base, a very slim cut, and a fabric that to me was a bit Old World — this beautiful tweed fabric that we got out of England. It had the gray base, which is kind of essential for the Cullen characters in their cool tones, but also had little interesting flecks of blue, which is also Cullen, and a tiny little bit of rust, which I liked because Bella wears earth tones and that kinda linked her into the picture.

When he goes to sacrifice himself, he’s in disrepair. Robert and Chris wanted his shirt to have a rip across the chest, so that’s what we gave him. It’s really kind of tragic to watch him take off his shirt, because he really is sacrificing himself. It looks like he’s just giving up. He’s exposing himself and he’s completely vulnerable, and he just takes his shirt off and he drops it at his feet with his eyes downcast. Then he gets attacked by Bella, who shoves him inside the doors. [Laughs] I don’t find it like a beefcake moment. It really is a moving moment, and I think Robert did a really amazing job for that scene.

And more juicy bits...this time on Taylor and the wolf pack:

They wanted the shorts as close-fitting to the leg as possible, whereas the natural tendency of the guys would be to have something baggier so that they didn’t look like they were wearing hot pants. [Laughs] So if I knew they were going to morph, then they had tighter-fitting shorts, and if they didn’t have to morph, then we would give them something a little bit looser and longer. There were lots of Levi’s, American Eagle, Old Navy. Quite honestly, I tried to shop where I figured the wolves would shop. [Laughs] So we went to Wal-Mart.

Everything was geared towards making sure that his [Taylor's] arm muscles really showed. There’s a scene where he’s working on a motorcycle, and his muscles are really pulling against this plaid shirt he’s wearing. He looks very strong and very built, and we tried to do the same with this T-shirts. There was no way since it was the same actor that we could show somebody that had grown like six inches. So it was Chris Weitz’s genius idea to tailor his clothes, to make the sleeves a little bit shorter, a little bit tighter — make it look as if he’d grown out of his clothes in a couple of months and hadn’t had time to go get new ones.

There's a whole lot more on the Volturi and the Cullen women. Read it all here.

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Rick Thurber, owner of Artisan's Designs--a three-person company working out of a funky office building in downtown Portland, Oregon--had never heard of "Twilight" in February 2008. He's still not quite sure how his little company was chosen by the prop master for "Twilight," but the team was happy to take on the "challenge of turning drawings provided by the filmmakers into actual jewelry."

Thurber and his team--which include goldsmiths Kelli Alton and Randy Estes--had no idea that their creations would become a part of the cultural phenomenon that is the "Twilight" franchise:

So for Thurber, Alton and Estes, crafting the Cullen family crest pieces in silver was just another job.

"We weren't thinking it was going to be as big as this," Alton says.

"No clue," Estes agrees.

"We kind of thought the movie was going to go to video," Alton adds with a laugh. "I mean, vampires?"

Artisan's Designs has crafted jewelry for "Twilight," "New Moon," and "Eclipse." Thurber estimates that they've created close to 75 pieces for the first three films--this includes jewelry for the "Cullens," as well as duplicates for their stunt doubles.

They also created the Volturi crest for "New Moon," which appears on the chairs in their coven.

Read the whole article here.

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Box Office Mojo has some amazing statistics for the opening weekend of "New Moon."

• It shattered the midnight opening record with $26.3 million, moving past
  last July's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (which earned
  $22.2 million at its midnight opening).
• It now claims the record for Biggest Opening Day, with $72.7 million.
  "The Dark Knight" previously had this record, with $67.2 million.
  
• Its Opening Weekend (Nov 20-22) brought in $142.8 million, making it
  the #1 Opening Weekend for 2009. "The Dark Knight," though, still holds this record overall, with $158.4 million.
  
• Its Domestic Total Gross as of November 23 is $153.3 million.
  
• Its Foreign Total Gross as of November 23 is $132.1 million.
• Its Production Budget was $50 million.
  

In comparison, here are the figures for "Twilight," which opened November 21, 2008:

• It drew about $7 million for its midnight opening.
• Its Opening Day earned almost $36 million.
  
• Its Opening Weekend (Nov 21-23) grossed $69.6 million.
• Its Domestic Total Gross is currently at $192.8 million.
• Its Foreign Total Gross is currently at $192.2 million.
• Its Production Budget was $37 million.
  

Box Office Mojo also reports that "Summit Entertainment's exit polling [for New Moon] indicated that 80 percent of the audience was female and 50 percent was under 21 years old, which means the sequel skewed more female and younger than the first Twilight. The sequel's success speaks to how pleased with the first movie moviegoers were, and the marketing upped the ante with the promotion of a new werewolf love interest in addition to the vampire one as well as a grander canvas for the story."

Box Office Mojo's charts also show "New Moon" to have the #1 ranking in the following categories:

• Yearly Opening Weekends 2009
• Opening Day Gross
• Single Day Gross
• Single Day Friday Gross
• Opening Weekends - November
• Opening Weekends - Holiday
• Widest Independent Releases
• Widest Opening Independent Releases
• Fastest to $100 million
  

What a weekend! A big congratulations to Summit, Chris Weitz, Melissa Rosenberg, Wyck Godfrey, and the entire cast and crew of "New Moon"!


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This is a great video from Life in the City, featuring red carpet interviews with many of the "New Moon" cast, director Chris Weitz, and author Stephenie Meyer, during the world premiere of "New Moon" on November 16 in L.A.


The video also gives great panoramic views of the entire premiere area, from the red carpet to the two theaters to the intersection that is clogged with thousands of Twifans. You'll see why it's so exciting!

If you haven't yet seen my piece "TwiSuperfan Hits the Red Carpet!", have a look! I give the "regular" person's red carpet experience, along with some great interview videos.

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