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New Moon Experience Auction goes LIVE Today!

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

The auction for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation at the New Moon Experience begins today at 3 pm MST.The auction includes items autographed by Peter Facinelli, Edi Gathegi, and Rachelle Lefevre. It also features customized Punk Your Chucks, a hand made New Moon Quilt and more.

The auction runs until tomorrow at  7:00 pm Mountian Time.  You can see all the items up for auction and bid here.

(This post is stickied at the top of our blog until the auction is over- please see below for news updates)

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New Moon Shatters Box Office Records

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

The numbers are in for the midnight shows of The Twilight Saga: New Moon-

Summit has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon has officially set a new all-time midnight box office record, taking in $26.27M from 3514 theaters.

This shatters The Dark Knight’s $18.4M midnight debut for a 3-day weekend. It also easily surpasses the all-time record for midnight showings which was held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which took in $22.2M on a Tuesday night on its way to a 5-day weekend total of $158M. The Dark Knight went on to take in $67.17M that opening day, dropped 29.1% from Friday to Saturday to bring in another $47.65M, and ended with $43.6M on Sunday for an opening weekend total of $158.4M.

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Robert Pattinson on his Vanity Fair cover

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

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Yes, I’m an adult, and I love Twilight. And?

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by JulieAndJasper.

Do any of these from a new Washington Post article with the tag line “Good, smart, literary women tried to resist the romantic-vampire phenomenon. And then, alas, they bit.” sound familiar to you at all?

“Prior to ‘Twilight,’ my favorite books were by Anthony Burgess and Ayn Rand,” says Jenny West, 32. “I bought ‘Twilight’ [the book] with the full intention of ripping it apart.” Then she read it. In one night. Bought “New Moon” the next day. “I was kind of horrified with myself, and I had to keep going.” When she finished the last book, she reopened the first one and started again.

“I noticed in that first week of reading that I was feeling things I hadn’t been able to feel in a long time,” says Lauren Ashlock, 27. She’d avoided the “Twilight” series ever since the 2005 release of the first book, because when she saw the passion of so-called TwiHards, she thought, Wackos.

The Washington Post has an article examining the conflict of adult Twilight fans, who may have come to love the series a bit reluctantly. The article is a good read, especially for anyone not completely out and proud in their Twilight Love. And I think echos what many of our readers may feel as well.

I particularly liked this part:

Men feel perfectly comfortable slathering their chests in greasepaint and screaming like half-naked ninnies at football games, but women too often over-explain their passions, apologizing for being too girly or liking something too trashy.

The grown women of “Twilight” will no longer apologize. They will go to those midnight “New Moon” screenings.

But as for telling them how silly they’re being, how Edward is not real and neither is Jacob, how their brains are rotting and their sense of reality is being distorted and this obsession is crazy, just crazy? There’s really no need.

They already know.

And we don’t care.

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Robert Pattinson on Regis & Kelly

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

Robert Pattinson was on Regis and Kelly yesterday.  He earned some major brownie points with the TwilightMOMS in the audience and with the rest of us!!! (You look great Kelly, Kara, Gabby & Lee!!!)

Here’s the first part of the interview-

See the entire interview here.

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ABC: Moms Over the Moon About ‘Twilight’

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

ABC World News Tonight takes a look at the non-tween (that’s us! ) demographic that loves the Twilight Saga. This interview features 3 of our TwilightMOMS- Melissa, Sarah & Charlotte.

But what you may not realize is that some of the most fanatical Twi-hards are their mothers.

“We don’t act like teenagers. I mean, we are still moms, we’re still adults,” said Melissa Peterson, 42.

Peterson is one of more than 30,000 members of a group called Twilight Moms who don’t just enjoy the story. They travel around the country for Twilight Moms.

The video clip in not embeddable so you will have to go here to see it.

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Chris Weitz’s ‘New Moon Orientation Guide’

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by JulieAndJasper.

If your attention span is anything like mine today (nine hours, EEEEEEE!!!), you can’t concentrate on anything for very long. So I won’t belabor this post with a bunch of introduction. Besides, I’m not sure I could say this any better than MTV did:

By now it’s the stuff of legend, as much a part of “Twilight” history as Stephenie Meyer’s dream, Catherine Hardwicke’s bed or Taylor Lautner’s workout bench. Incoming director Chris Weitz asserted himself on the “New Moon” set by greeting each of the returning actors with a 20-page “orientation guide,” explaining what would be different from Catherine Hardwicke’s “Twilight” experience. Robert Pattinson read it; so did Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — and soon, so can you.

“I’ve been thinking about it, and I’ve decided not to do it,” he said of publishing the book. “Instead, I think I will eventually give the orientation book to the fans — if it’s OK with Summit — for free.”

Keep in mind that nothing is official with regards to this yet. But isn’t it great to know that they’ve already discussed plans to get the guide into the fans’ hands? Twenty pages is like the Twilight Director’s Notebook on overdrive.

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Eclipse Poster available on Twilight Tracker

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

If you have an iPhone or iTouch you will want to make sure you have the Twilight Tracker Application. Summit has posted the Eclipse Teaser Poster on the app today.  If you don’t have the app you can download it here.

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Robert Pattinson on Today Show

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

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Extra interviews from the red carpet

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

Extra has a bunch of video interviews with New Moon cast members from the red carpet premiere.

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Collider Interview with Melissa Rosenberg

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

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Reminder: readergirlz/TwilightMOMS New Moon Frenzy

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by gypsy wings.

TwilightMOMS don’t forget to join us over at the readergirlz blog November 21st to chat about seeing New Moon! I am sooo excited for this, I absolutely LOVE readergirlz!!!

Join the fun for a chance to win a Twilight necklace from Gypsy Wings (that’s me…) and other fantastic swag!

The frenzy begins at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST at the readergirlz blog!

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Robert Pattinson on the Late Show with David Letterman

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

To read the real story of the Twilight Baby go here.

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Peter Facinelli & Jennie Garth play with Barbies

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

Access Hollywood has posted this hysterical video of Peter Facinelli and his wife Jennie Garth reinacting New Moon with the Twilight Barbie Dolls.

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Kristen Stewart on the Today Show

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

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Reelz Channel Interviews Robert Pattinson

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

Reelz Channel has posted video of their interview with Rob at the New Moon press junket.

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Peter Facinelli’s Vampire Transformer iPhone App

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

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New Moon Pre-Screening Discussion

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

If you are one of the lucky TwilightMOMS that has had the opportunity to attend a pre-screening and are dying to talk about it we have a spot just for you! We’ve set up a thread on our forums for you to gush, rant, and swoon all about New Moon.  Our pre-screening thread can be found here.  Warning! If you haven’t seen the movie yet enter at your own risk! The thread will be full of spoilers!

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MySpace Red Carpet Coverage Recap

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by AmyO.

MySpace has posted a video of the highlights of their Red Carpet coverage of the New Moon Premiere.

The Twilight Saga New Moon Red Carpet Premiere

New Moon Premiere | MySpace Video

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LA Times Q&A with Chris Weitz

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31.

Leading up to the Friday release of New Moon, the Los Angeles Times is posting recaps each day this week from their visit to the Vancouver set of the film last spring. Today’s Q&A is with New Moon director Chris Weitz.

GM: Did “Twilight’s” visual aesthetic at all shape your approach to the look of “New Moon”?

CW: I wanted to approach it fresh. There is a point where it links up, which is in the school life of the main character, where we do maintain some of the hand-held quality of the camerawork. But I’m kind of old-fashioned in terms of my references. I go back to much more composed romances that I love. Those are my influences rather than what I think is a more pop contemporary sensibility that Catherine Hardwicke has. I don’t think I’m very contemporary or cool. What will result is probably a much more romantic, classically framed old-fashioned epic for this one. We’re going to these big sets and Italy, the world expands, the mythology of the piece expands. It fits better in a way with a sweeping approach, although one uses these metaphors really loosely. Sweeping, what does that mean? One hates to quote filmmakers who are great because it sounds like you’re comparing yourself to them and I’m not at all, but David Lean and Kurosawa who composed on this grand level, that’s the inspiration for this movie. It kind of has been for the last couple of movies for me in terms of building the visuals. “Golden Compass” was a biggie.

Read the full Q&A with Chris here. And, if you missed their Q&As from Monday and Tuesday, check out Melissa Rosenberg here and Wyck Godfrey here.

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