'Twilight: New Moon' updates and new images (video and clips)

Bella and Jacob

Over 1,000 Twilight fans, some camped  in front of San Diego's Comic Con since Tuesday night, eagerly awaited their chance to see Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who appeared today at 1:45pm.

In other Twilight news, Summit Entertainment has launched the official “New Moon” website!  Check it out and bookmark it as it will be updating as the countdown begins to the movie's release November 20, 2009.

Following are a couple of questions asked of Chris Weitz, and his answers.
 

Can you tell us about how far along you are to completion right now?
CW: Well, let me see. I am about two weeks away from showing my director’s cut to the studio. I’ve got some wolves with fur, and some wolves are still invisible [laughs] ... basically. Some wolves are still kind of like, you’ve probably all see the ones that are kind of claymation versions. We are still in the late R & D [research and development] phases of what Edward looks like when he’s hit with sunlight, what the vampires look like when they’re hit with sunlight, the diamond effect and also kind of the hallucinatory effect that Bella has when she hears Edward’s voice, and she imagines him. 

Alexandre Desplat has just started working on his music for the film. And we are just starting to put together what bands are going to be on the soundtrack, so it’s kind of like keeping 10 plates spinning at once. But it’s all good because we’ve got Alexandre Desplat, who I think is one of the greatest film composers living, and because of the kind of great strength of the franchise that I inherited, a lot of people are really interested in working on the soundtrack, and we’ve got great visual effects people. That just leaves me hopefully not dropping the ball in terms of editing to gather the story.

What was your favorite scene to film?
CW: There were a lot of fun scenes to film, frankly. I really did enjoy the scenes in the Volturi headquarters, although it’s a tremendous logistical headache. In a way, it’s the scenes that you dread the most, because they are so time-consuming and you have to get it just right, which is like the stuff in the Volturi headquarters, or the stuff that was shot in Montepulciano. I suppose that has to be my favorite scene, because it’s kind of the highpoint of the movie, when Bella goes to try to stop Edward from killing himself.

We had 1,000 extras in this medieval town square in a hill town in Tuscany in the most beautiful country on Earth. It’s just such an extraordinary opportunity to get to work there, and it was also kind of surreal because every Twilight fan who could make it from all over continental Europe and further had gotten by hook or by crook to Montepulciano and booked a hotel room, sometimes at the very hotel at which the cast and crew were staying. And so there was this kind of weird Beatle-mania sort of thing going on in this small, beautiful hill town, and so for five days it was kind of this bizarre festival atmosphere. And it really wasn’t bothersome at all. It was incredibly gratifying that all these people would applaud after every single take. Whether or not we had screwed it up. They had no idea because they weren’t close enough to hear, but if you look down any alley down which the camera wasn’t pointing, you’d see hundreds of these young girls who’d come to kind of just touch a piece of what they really loved.