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Entertainment Weekly: 5 More New Moon Secrets Revealed
19 December 2009 9:45 AM, PST
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Yesterday we showed you five New Moon secrets that Chris Weitz revealed in the pages of this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly view it here if you missed it and now were back with five more! Check out numbers 610 of Chris Weitzs New Moon secrets below6. Tower of glower You can see Volterras tower and the redcloaked revelers from the festival of San Marco on the cover of Bellas copy of Romeo and Juliet when she wakes up in her bedroom.7. Hope it was a rental...In the wolffight we purposely knocked over the camera when the wolves tumble towards it you can also hear the microphone thumping as if an actual onset animal had run into the camera and boom.8. Quileute cultureWhen prepping to visualize Jacobs and Emilys houses production designer David Brisbin and his team visited La Push and met the Quileute executive council. While they were there
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Things fans missed in ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
18 December 2009 9:37 AM, PST
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Let’s just see how big your fandom stretches for Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Director Chris Weitz has come up with ‘10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
That’s right. Weitz hid some things in the film. We have a couple of the nuggets here for you. For the rest you’ll have to pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly, or the Twilight Saga iPhone App. Plus, then you’ll have to see the movie again. I see I’m not really twisting your arm with that idea.
Again, these are straight from the director’s mouth.
On Friday, Entertainment Weekly will have 5 exclusive facts from Chris’ list. Two of the five include the following:
– Hidden wolves – Look for an upside-down engraving of a wolf in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first aid equipment; on Jacob
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- Jeff Bayer
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Black Christmas (1974): A Retrospective
17 December 2009 2:13 AM, PST
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It’s the holiday season and, for most, that means it’s that very special time of year when you get see your family; That large group of people you hate and utterly despise but, do to some arbitrary blood relation, feel provoked to associate with at least once during the bleakest, darkest, and most devastatingly cold part of the year. And, as always, what makes the company of these cringe inducing kin barely tolerable is that wonderfully distracting invention known as the television. For most kids, the holidays mean more than just Santa, and gifts, and honey-glazed ham. It means you get to crowd around the tele (in much the same way that imaginary family, in those invented greeting cards, sit around a fire) and melt away your brain on usually mindless seasonal programming.
Now whilst most children grew up on flicks such as The Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph The Red-nosed Raindeer,
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Danes: 'College Made Me A Better Person'
14 December 2009 12:06 AM, PST
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Actress Claire Danes has no regrets about risking her movie career by quitting Hollywood to go to college, insisting she needed the experience to "balance" her life out.
Danes shot to fame at 15 as the star of teen show My So Called Life.
After making the successful transition from small to big screen, with roles in Little Women, U Turn and Romeo and Juliet, the actress walked away from acting in 1998 to enrol at the prestigious Yale University.
Danes made a successful return to acting after graduating, but she insists swapping Hollywood for college was worth the risk, even if the move had backfired.
She tells Moviehole.net, "I stopped acting for three years, and I went to college, which was the right thing for me to do. I think I probably did sacrifice a lot by working so young, but I made up for it later.
"There were parts of me that were really overdeveloped, and other parts that were kind of underdeveloped and I did balance out during that time at school."
And she feels much better equipped to handle Hollywood with a degree under her belt: "I kind of just hung out, and learned how to socialise, made friends outside of the industry, and I kind of defined myself as a person, in a safe place, so I feel quite fortified now."
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Faith in The Family | Poorna Shetty
13 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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For all the criticism, if Channel 4's documentary prompts one Asian family to reconsider disowning a child, it's been a success
In some conservative sectors of the Asian community, there are several ways to get disowned by your parents. Dating someone from a different race or religion, refusing to marry the person earmarked for you since birth, falling pregnant while unmarried, marrying someone from a different caste or even having the temerity to choose your own husband. Shay Grewal, one of the main female characters in the Channel 4 documentary The Family, falls in the latter two categories, having been disowned by her mother for choosing to marry 33-year-old Sunny Grewal. Despite feedback from several people that they're embarrassed about the way the Grewals represent the Asian community, I have to agree with the Times's Sathnam Sanghera, who points out that it has been a great platform for bringing some of
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- Poorna Shetty
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Danes Saves Movies For Kids
11 December 2009 5:41 PM, PST
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Claire Danes has never seen herself onscreen, insisting she's saving her movies to watch with her kids.
The actress admits she's too insecure to sit down for a screening of any of her films - but will overcome her fears so she can show off her achievements to any future children she has with new husband Hugh Dancy.
The Romeo and Juliet star - who married Dancy this summer - tells Moviehole.net, "I never watch my movies; I get too squeamish. But I'm kind of saving them for my kids."
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'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies' Marks The Dawn Of Zombified Literary Classics!
11 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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Seth Grahame-Smith is a smart man. He took something that millions already love and he widened its appeal. No easy task. Yet that's exactly what he accomplished with "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," cleverly introducing the living dead into Jane Austen's story of a young woman's search for love and independence in early 19th century England. It's a remarkable effort on Grahame-Smith's part and a seamless fusion in its execution. And now it's going to be turned into a movie, produced by and starring Natalie Portman.
I think it's universally agreed that the presence of zombies elevates any work of fiction. The popularity of "Zombies" led to another Austen remix, Ben H. Winters' "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters," but I think it's folly to shift the focus away from the walking dead. So with the Portman/adaptation news hitting the trades today, I got to thinking. What other
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- Adam Rosenberg
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Review: 'New Moon'
4 December 2009 2:47 PM, PST
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Like an emo edition of Tiger Beat put to film, The Twilight Saga's New Moon is everything one would expect from the follow-up to the monstrously successful 2008 film Twilight: slow-motion entrances, topless guys and a bevy of brooding and melodramatic sappiness (Edward's voice is not the only thing that drips like honey). For its mammoth fan base with an insatiable appetite for anything related to this series, New Moon will be an instant classic. Yet, beneath the 24/7 coverage of series stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, along with the millions of adoring and moonstruck fans, there is a simple story of love, passion and CGI wolves.
If New Moon appears a lot like the classic Shakespearean tale Romeo & Juliet, it's no coincidence. The film, and series author Stephanie Meyer, lifts many themes from the story and then signals to audiences that, yes, this is Romeo and Juliet only
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Twilight: New Moon - A review for the uninitiated
30 November 2009 6:46 AM, PST
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For many people past the age of adolescence, the success of the Twilight series of supernatural romances was both surprising and a bit unsettling, what with their strongly devoted fan-base smitten with the tale of feisty teen Bella and her relationship with vampire Edward, as well as numerous detractors claiming that the books were anti-feminist, promoted abstinence and were badly written. However, the appeal of the series becomes very clear in watching this adaptation for the second book. By using a supernatural character as part of the central romance the film delivers a tale where the hyperbole of first love is actually genuine (although the Romeo and Juliet references that occur throughout the story seem somewhat obvious and clunky), and with the target audience of teenage girls being rather under-served by popular cinema, the character of Bella provides an interesting role-model, despite her over-dependence on Edward, and in this film
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- Mark Davison
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Ta Book Club: 'New Moon' Chapters One And Two - Party And Stitches
28 November 2009 1:59 PM, PST
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The Ta Book Club is back! We have a new and improved book club to bring you as we open up with New Moon. Every Saturday were going to bring you a chapter or two of New Moon complete with a brief summary a quote some thoughtprovoking questions a song and even a little book and movie comparison. So tell your Twilight friends and come reread New Moon with Ta! This week we bring you Chapter One Party and Chapter Two Stitches.Ta Book Club New Moon Chapter One Party by littlelambBellas birthday begins with a frightening nightmare. The nightmare portrays Bella as a reflection of her elderly grandmother standing next to a perfect 17 year old Edward. When she wakes up dread fills her body. She is now one year older than Edward.Later on that day Edward and Bella watch Romeo and Juliet for a school assignment. Although Edward
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Ta Book Club: 'New Moon' Chapters One And Two - Party And Stitches
28 November 2009 1:36 PM, PST
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This week we bring you Chapter One Party and Chapter Two StitchesTA Book Club New Moon Chapter One Party by littlelambSummaryBellas birthday begins with a frightening nightmare. The nightmare portrays Bella as a reflection of her elderly grandmother standing next to a perfect 17 year old Edward. When she wakes up dread fills her body. She is now one year older than Edward.Later on that day Edward and Bella watch Romeo and Juliet for a school assignment. Although Edward finds Romeo superficial he remarks that he is jealous of Romeos mortality. Bella panics as she discovers that Edward had planned go to the Voluri to cease his existence had anything happened to her in the horrific scare with James. Although Bella is determined to have her birthday go unnoticed everyone around her is trying to celebrate. Alice plans an extravagant exclusive party for her at the Cullens house. Despite her
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‘New Moon’ Rife With Mistakes
27 November 2009 2:14 PM, PST
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For as large and intense as the Twilight fanbase is, you’d think the makers of New Moon would have expected that viewers would be going over the movie’s details with a fine-tooth comb and done everything to ensure there were no mistakes in the film.
Or maybe they just assumed the largely female crowd of fans would be too distracted by Robert Pattinson’s smoldering gaze and Taylor Lautner’s chiseled abs to notice any discrepancies.
Either way, the makers of New Moon did seem to overlook a few details.
Moviemistakes.com, a site that catalogs errors in movies, has added a total of 17 mistakes from the new Twilight sequel.
Among the most obvious mistakes are:
- Continuity: After Bella awakes from the first nightmare, we see her Romeo and Juliet on the pillow beside her. When Charlie comes in the book is gone, but then reappears on the pillow between shots.
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'Letters to Juliet' - Trailer and images from the film starring Amanda Seyfried.
24 November 2009 2:58 AM, PST
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We have the trailer as well as images in from Summit Entertainment's "Letters to Juliet" romance starring
Gary Winick ("Bride Wars," "Charlotte's Web") directs from the screenplay written by Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan. Pic sees theatres on May 7th next year and is produced by Caroline Kaplan, Ellen Barkin and Mark Canton.
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated from 1957, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love, which sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they have ever imagined
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New Moon Review
23 November 2009 2:44 AM, PST
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“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is the second movie based on the series of four vampire-based fantasy and romance books by author Stephenie Meyer. The New Moon movie continues the story of the first Twilight movie about the ill-fated romance between mortal Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, and vampire Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson.
New Moon goes through great pains to present itself as a descendent of Romeo And Juliet, except without all that icky tragedy in the end. There are warring clans—in this case, werewolves and vampires—a rival suitor, tragic miscommunication, and at the center of it all, two self-absorbed teenage lovers. Throw in a revenge subplot and an ancient, power-hungry clan of evil Italian vampires, and it all sounds potentially thrilling. But in spite of its wealth of conflict, New Moon suffers from a dearth of accompanying tension and excitement, thanks to the increasingly tedious relationship at its center…
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- Allan Ford
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Do I Have to See Twilight New Moon?
22 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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The film has been unleashed upon the masses and the tween-shrieking has subsided. Records have been broken, and boatloads of cash have been made. The big topic on everyones' lips this week is about a certain series of vampire films that don't contain the word "Blade" in the title. Everywhere you go, the words "New Moon" adorn theater marquees and Hot Topic stores and fast food burger joints. People are sporting shirts that read "Team Edward", and I don't even know what the hell that means. Frankly, I don't care to know what it means, either. This is one of the few times I truly am happy to not be part of the conversation.
I ask you this: Do you, the readers of this fine site who keep me afloat in Shasta Cola and Mexican Twinkees (They're like regular Twinkees, but cheaper, staler, and filled with strawberry creme) really need
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
20 November 2009 10:33 AM, PST
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Directed by Chris Weitz
Are we to expect more from a feature film than from an average episode of a daytime soap? That's one of many questions to be begged not only of casual moviegoers but of even the most hardened fan of Stephenie Meyer's socially negligent Twilight series as they take in the latest installment of what's sure to be a tortuously long series. At 130 minutes, New Moon rivals Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control for sheer uneventfulness - and even that movie had the good sense to kill off a character.
Taking place some months after the first, the film opens on Bella (Kristen Stewart) dreaming creepily of her boyfriend, centenarian-by-way-of-19 vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), courting her dead grandmother - promising a more interesting movie, wherein we delve into the creepy, dependent nature of the entire relationship. Instead, Edward and the rest
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Twilight New Moon Review: Faithfully Vapid
20 November 2009 8:17 AM, PST
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon will make girls scream as its young male leads, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson, yank off their shirts. Gasps will erupt when two close friends move in for a first kiss, a wolf's eyes debut through foliage or when four powerful words turn into an ill-timed cliffhanger. Fans of the book will eat up the heartbreaking script Melissa Rosenberg has crafted with their blind loyalty; unfortunately everyone else will feel like a vampire is slowly draining their energy as the plodding supernaturally fueled breakup tragedy plays on.
The technical complexities of handling CGI wolves crucial to the plot of New Moon fell beyond the qualifications of Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke so more experienced director Chris Weitz was brought on board. His time spent working with a myriad of digital creatures on The Golden Compass proves a perfect match to capture the ferocity of and track
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
20 November 2009 7:28 AM, PST
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen
Running Time: 2 hrs 30 min
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Plot: Bella (Stewart) and Edward (Pattinson) are happily entrenched in human/vampire coupledom, when near tragedy forces Edward to leave Bella behind. In this installation, Bella’s friendship and attraction to the werewolf Jacob (Lautner) is the main focus.
Who’S It For? Fans of the book and twitterpated young girls everywhere.
Expectations: I thought it would blow. I loved the books and the first movie was an embarrassment. I know what you’re thinking, all you semi-psychotic Twilight fans! You’re thinking: “We need something to burn in angry, hateful effigy.” Well, hold that thought and read on!
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Actors:
Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan: Kristen Stewart bugs the hell out of me, but she’s a fantastic actress and she
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- Morrow McLaughlin
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'New Moon': The Reviews Are In!
20 November 2009 6:21 AM, PST
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Still on the fence about the 'Twilight' sequel? Maybe the critics will help.
By Eric Ditzian
Dakota Fanning in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
It's Friday morning, and the opening midnight screenings of "New Moon" have come and gone. But it's not just devoted vampire lovers and werewolf fiends who got early looks at the film. Premieres and screenings have taken place across the country, and loads of folks have already been able to see the second installment in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" vampire series.
Now, let's be honest, if you're a committed Twilighter, you surely already plunked down some cash for an opening weekend trip to the cinema and are counting the minutes until showtime. Or maybe you're sitting on the "Twilight" fence, unsure if all the breathless enthusiasm for Edward and Bella can possibly live up to the hype. Well, the "New Moon" reviews have flooded in to help you decide.
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Review: Only Fervent Fans Will Believe New Moon Shines Brightly
20 November 2009 2:55 AM, PST
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Romeo and Juliet have nothing on lovebirds Bella and Edward, who pointedly are seen studying Shakespeare's tragedy in a high school English class in New Moon, the stylish but water-treading sequel to 2008's Twilight.
When it comes to star-crossed teenage love affairs - though to be literal, the immortal Edward (Robert Pattinson) is 104 but passes for 17 - this chaste duo didn't pick the easy road. She's human and he's a vampire. If that wasn't problematic enough, it turns out that her best bud and would-be beau, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), is a werewolf, the sworn enemy of vampires. What's a girl to do?
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- Leah Rozen
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