It’s true that New Moon is rocking its way on the top of all other movies with great audience and reviews, but still some people give it NEGATIVE reviews which to me doesn’t really make sense! Anyways, Chris Weitz replied to these reviews.

What do you do after traipsing around the world for two weeks promoting a film, especially one that soared to a $285 million worldwide opening weekend? One might assume that you take a long, long nap. Not “New Moon” director Chris Weitz, who sat down for one more interview to discuss his fears about the release and his reaction to negative reviews.

“Nothing surprises me in terms of reviews,” Weitz told Entertainment Weekly. “Having been a reviewer myself, there are only two ways to spin this story. You can either be the one guy who says this is a great movie, or more likely, take a more jaundiced view of the whole thing. And given the media blitz that has accompanied ‘New Moon,’ it’s rather unsurprising. I do wish there was more appreciation for cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe. I think he’s a genius, and I think he made something beautiful.”

Given the enormous pressure involved with taking on a wildly popular franchise and the intense media attention focused on his stars, Weitz hoped he wouldn’t disappoint studio Summit Entertainment. “If one could imagine their …

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The cast of “The Twilight Saga” movies keep gracing the cover of many fabulous magazines. Next up are once again Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner who get one cover each of the next issue of Entertainment Weekly, one for each team! Enjoy them in the gallery and read the great article about the success “New Moon” has made in the article below.

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NEW YORK – Hot off the tail of the New Moon premiere, this week’s Entertainment Weekly explores the phenomenon that is the Twilight series.

Chris Weitz opens the door to his beach house looking like a wilted rose. He’s unshaven, pale and wearing clothes he appears to have found wadded in a ball on his bedroom floor. It’s exactly the way you’d expect to find the director the morning after his movie The Twilight Saga: The New Moon opened around the world to numbers no one thought possible. But Weitz isn’t recovering from a long night of revelry. He’s just exhausted. In the last ten days, he’s been in more time zones than the sun, on the last stretch of promotional duties for his movie. “I’m at the point of physical collapse,” says Weitz, 40. “Hopefully I will now lapse into obscurity. That’s my plan.”

We can think of 140 million reasons that’s not going to happen – all of them dollars. On opening weekend, New Moon made the kind of money usually reserved for comic-book heroes and boy wizards, breaking records for midnight screenings and Friday box office. More significantly, Weitz has made the highest grossing female-oriented movie since James Cameron opened Titanic in 1997. And, with Sandra Bullock scoring a career best opening with $34.5 million for The Blind Side, he’s taken part in one of the most female-driven weekends in history–one that should wake up whatever Hollywood executives still underestimate the spending power of the purse. Still, Weitz won’t make any grand claims for himself. “The degree of credit I can take is limited,” he says. “I’m just the glorified conductor.”
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LA Times has posted an article concerning Summit’s future work and it’ll be put in the mega-franchise business due to ‘The Twilight Saga.’

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” has been exploding all sorts of box office records — my colleague, Ben Fritz, says, for example, that it is the least expensive movie ever to open to more than $200 million worldwide. But the most important record that it’s on track to break is one that might give a serious new shot in the arm to everyone in the indie film world.

When you factor in the original film’s $383.8 million in worldwide grosses with the $700 million or more in worldwide grosses that “New Moon” could eventually roll up, Summit Entertainment will soon find itself having the biggest true independent film franchise in recent history. (By true independent, I’m disqualifying New Line, which made even more money with its “Lord of the Rings” franchise but wasn’t a true independent since it was already owned by Time-Warner by the time the “LOTR” series was launched.) …

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New Moon stars Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli and Nikki Reed remember their first kisses in this article that People has posted.

Bella and Edward steam up the screen with their smooches in New Moon, but what about the real-life first kisses of the film’s stars? Kellan Lutz confesses he first locked lips at the tender age of 7, and Peter Facinelli’s first kiss almost landed him a black eye.

“I was playing truth or dare when I had my first kiss,” Lutz said last week at the movie’s Cinema Society and D&G star-studded screening in New York. “I was probably 7. I learned to hold the girl and I won as best kisser.”

So why was he so good at it? “They picked me because I actually held the girls when I kissed them,” said Lutz. “I loved kissing them because they had flavored lip glosses on, which was great.” …

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ClevverTV released its Official New Moon review Check it out below!

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Fearnet has an interesting article between the differences in the ‘New Moon’ book and movie.

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Way more shirtless boys!

We all hoped to get a glimpse of Edward’s alabaster chest in Volterra, but who knew we’d get to see so much hot werewolf skin? Thankfully, the Wolf Pack run such high temperatures and explode away their clothes so frequently that cut-off jeans and no shirt are their shared ensemble of choice.

We get more fights, including an awesome Volturi throw down.

New Moon the book is infamous for its slow pacing, thanks to Bella’s crippling depression (see below). So it’s a good thing that the film throws in fistfights, wolf skirmishes, and chase scenes to liven things up a bit more. Our favorite: watching Volturi guard Felix put the smack down on our precious Edward, a scene crafted for the film.

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‘New Moon‘ is the third-biggest opening weekend movie of all time with $140.7 million!! WAW

#1 “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” ($140.7 million)
#2 “The Blind Side” ($34.5 million)
#3 “2012” ($26.5 million)
#4 “Planet 51” ($12.6 million)
#5 “A Christmas Carol” ($12.2 million)

On Friday alone, “New Moon” managed to earn $72.7 million, surpassing “The Dark Knight” as the single best opening day in cinema history. A hefty $26.3 million chunk of that Friday change came purely from midnight showings, propelling “New Moon” past “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” with the highest-grossing midnight opening of all time. “New Moon” also debuted with the biggest November opening ever and the third-best opening weekend of all time, taking that distinction away from “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” …

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**Although I wanted ‘New Moon’ to have the biggest opening weekend ever but it’s still the first weekend, a lot of days are coming and two more installments are coming on its way!

Only one weekend and “New Moon” keeps breaking all these records. The movie has now grossed an estimated $140.7 million!

Marking the third best weekend opening of all time, Summit Entertainment’s female-driven sequel “New Moon” grossed an estimated $140.7 million from 4,024 theaters at the domestic B.O.

Moreover, “New Moon” led what’s expected to be the second-best weekend ever at the domestic B.O. in terms of overall ticket sales, trailing only the weekend that Warner Bros.’ “The Dark Knight” opened, and that was in summer.

Assisting this weekend’s boom was Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment’s sports drama “The Blind Side,” which far overperformed in opening to an estimated $34.5 million from 3,110 locations.

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Mirror posted an article that explains 10 things Taylor Lautner fans need to know about him.

So who exactly is this guy?
Taylor Daniel Lautner was born on 11 February 1992 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. …

1. He’s a clever bi-lingual type.
In New Moon, Jacob speaks Spanish to Bella, and even some Quileute, the language of the American Indian tribe he belongs to. He says, ‘I did speak a little bit of Quileute, when I was leaning in to kiss Bella in the kitchen, and I’m not gonna tell you what I said. …

2. He’s a karate kid
He may be a kick-ass werewolf in Twilight, but the boy can handle himself in real life too. …

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A great article about the “Twilight” phenomenon and how it came to be has been posted on TIME. Check it out below!

The story begins with a dream. It wasn’t the Great American Dream — Stephenie Meyer, then a 29-year-old Mormon housewife living in Arizona, wasn’t sitting at home trying to figure out how to be the next mega-best-selling author. It was a different kind of dream.

On the morning of June 2, 2003, Meyer woke up with the fading afterimage of a vision in her head, of a young woman and a vampire, talking, in a meadow. She didn’t want to forget it, so she wrote it down. Then she kept on writing. Sometimes you have the dream, and sometimes the dream has you.

Everybody knows where the story ends up. Meyer has sold 45 million books in the U.S. and 40 million more worldwide. Altogether her books have spent 235 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 136 of them at No. 1. The movie version of Twilight, which came out a year ago, made $350 million. New Moon opens on Nov. 20; the third installment, Eclipse, arrives in theaters next June.

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