Stephenie Meyer wrote in her official site about her upcoming appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show:

Hi everybody!

I wanted to apprise you all of a few upcoming things.

You know I’ve been doing the hermit thing this last year, in so far as media is concerned, and I’m not changing that now, but I am making an exception. I’m doing this for a good reason: I am so pleased and amazed and thrilled with what Chris Weitz has done with New Moon that I want to talk about it, and to show my support for him. And since I’m only doing one interview, better make it big. Really big. So….I will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, November 13th. Check the local listings on Oprah’s website to find out what time it will be on where you live.

Of course, most of the questions for Oprah will be designed for a broader audience than just die-hard Twilight fans, and I imagine people who read this site and other fansites will already know most of the answers. To rectify this, I’m going to answer your more specific questions on-line. The official Twilight Saga website (www.TheTwilightSaga.com) will be taking any New Moon movie-related questions you might have for me, and then I’ll answer those most frequently asked. I’ll post the answers on the Twilight Saga website and also here on my own site. Questions can be submitted to TheTwilightSaga.com from noon (Eastern Standard Time) on Monday, November 9th through noon Tuesday, November 10th. The answers will be posted Monday, November 16th—or New Moon Premiere Day, as it is known around my house. (Details about submitting the questions will be posted first thing Monday morning at TheTwilightSaga.com)

I’m so very excited that you’ll all get to see New Moon in just two weeks! Then you’ll see what I’m going on about. Until then, think up some good questions for me.

Love,

Steph

Collider talked with ‘New Moon’ director Chris Weitz about the DVD:

On my way to do an interview with producer Wyck Godfrey, I happened to run into director Chris Weitz. Since I didn’t have a chance to ask a question during the press conference, I used my shared elevator ride to find out what extras would be on the DVD and how many minutes of deleted scenes “Twilight” fans could expect. While he confirmed the usual stuff like a commentary with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, the big news is he told me there would be around ten minutes of deleted scenes.

From the way Weitz spoke, I believe the DVD is going to have the deleted scenes placed back into the scene so you can watch the full scene play and not just see the stuff that was cut out. I’m not sure if the movie will be an extended edition, or if the deleted scenes will be in a separate area of the disc. I’m sure we’ll hear about that soon enough.

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New Moon stars, Robert, Kristen and Taylor alongside the Cullens, wolf pack andf the Volturi are going to answer your questions, so are you ready??

MTV’s resident “Twilight” expert Larry Carroll will be doing what he does best this week: hanging out with the cast of “New Moon.” And, while you might think he has enough material to use when he gets to chat with the stars … guess again! We want to hear YOUR questions, too!

Who to direct your burning questions at:
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will speak to us individually (exciting, right?), as well as director Chris Weitz. A series of group interviews will also occur: the Cullens, the Wolf Pack and the Volturi. So that’s seven interviews in total: four individuals plus three groups. Our time is limited (these are important people after all, right?), so when you send us a question, please keep it to one question apiece per interview.

Here’s How:
Send over your need-to-know-now inquiries to tips@mtvmoviesblog.com or upload yourself asking a question to http://your.mtv.com/. Label it, “New Moon Question for: _______”

**DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY (11/4) NIGHT!! **

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**I know it’s a little late but you still have a chance till tomorrow’s night, so hurry and send in your questions! And I’m gonna send one

Robert Pattinson and director Chris Weitz attended today the “New Moon” Japan Press Conference in Tokio. Pictures were added to the gallery, we will add more as we find.
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In a recent interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz, he revealed some of his muses for the film and where his inspirations came from when he was crafting New Moon.

Little did you know there is an educational lesson on history of cinema tucked away inside a teensy little movie you might have heard of called “New Moon.”

When the soundtrack for the film was on its way out, we got a similar lesson on previous generation’s soundtracks from OK Go and Lykke Li. OK Go said the hype surrounding the music in “New Moon” reminded them of their experience when “Pretty in Pink” first came out. For Lykke, it was Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.”

Director Chris Weitz had a similar sort of inspiration when he was crafting “New Moon,” though his stretched back to far before the ’80s. In a recent interview with Chris, he told us some of his muses for the film. We have detailed them below so everyone can go into the cinema and watch the movie with an enlightened mind.

INSPIRATION: PRE-RAPHAELITE ART

What it is: A group of English painters, poets and critics …

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Here’s a new interview MTV did with New Moon director Chris Weitz concerning the movie.

“[I] was reading the book and really trying to pay attention to what I thought the devoted reader would want out of the film,” he said. “And I thought, ‘Well, they want something grand.’ “

“New Moon” will be much more of a blockbuster film than Hardwicke’s indie take on “Twilight,” Weitz confirmed. But he made sure to clarify that it won’t be a blockbuster in the “Transformers” sense — there won’t be objects exploding left and right — but in the classic “Doctor Zhivago” or “Seven Samurai” way.

“I think that Catherine Hardwicke had a very current pop sensibility and rock sensibility. I’m a complete square,” Weitz said with a laugh. “['New Moon' has] more of an old-school ethic, which won’t mean very much to most of the fans that are watching it, but in terms of how we set about shooting it, it probably feels a bit more like my sad attempt to echo David Lean or [Akira] Kurosawa or something like that.”

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New Moon director Chris Weitz says he hasn’t seen any of ‘Eclipse’s footage yet.

With filming on “Eclipse” wrapping up, we couldn’t resist asking “New Moon” director Chris Weitz whether he had seen any of the footage from next summer’s blockbuster. He hadn’t, he said, because he’s been busy working hard to bring fans “New Moon,” which hits theaters in less than a month. Surprisingly, he said he didn’t really want to see the footage yet.

“As a fan and a filmmaker, I’m excited to see finished stuff from ‘Eclipse‘ rather than anything in progress,” Weitz said. “When you see works in progress, there’s always some guy standing in front of some big green curtain, and it’s all terribly disappointing. You really want to see the good stuff once it’s all finished.” …

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‘It’s more fun to play a bad person than a good person,’ Dakota Fanning adds in a recent interview she did with Extra.

If director Chris Weitz’s shining endorsement of Jane’s evil nature wasn’t enough to prove to Twilighters that Dakota Fanning has officially joined the dark side in “Twilight: New Moon,” a new interview with Fanning herself adds fuel to the fire about just how bad Jane is.

“I think it’s more fun to play a bad person than a good person,” Dakota told “Extra” about the evil Volturi vampire. “She almost blows your mind how evil she is.”

Weitz recently shared with MTV News that the dark role seemed like a perfect career move for the normally sweet Fanning. “She’s never really gotten to play a bad person before, probably because she is a very good person. She is really a lovely young person. But I think she had some fun playing, really, the most evil of all the bad guys,” Weitz said. “[Jane]’s bad news. Very bad.” …

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Chris Weitz talks about the kiss Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner share in New Moon as Bella & Jacob.

“New Moon” trailers have established fairly clearly the basic premise of the film: Edward leaves Bella. Bella is sad. Jacob helps Bella feel better.

For anyone familiar with “Twilight,” they know the central love story surrounds the human Bella Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen. It is the onscreen interaction between stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson that fans are paying their good money to see — to the point, Bella’s aural hallucinations in the novel have become visual onscreen, so that the two can have more screen time.

So fans were a bit concerned when they saw what looked to be a kiss between Bella and Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black in the second theatrical trailer. As a quick spoiler, in the novel Bella and Jacob do have an almost-kiss, but it is interrupted. …

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“Eclipse”-director David Slade has posted a new photo of Xavier Samuel as Riley on the set of the movie between set ups which has now been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

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In celebration of wrap first Eclipse cast photo Xavier Samuels between set ups as Riley Biers.

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