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Interactive Experience to Include Virtual Items and Chats with Cast Members
Hosted by the Largest Global Virtual World for Teens

LOS ANGELES – November 5, 2009 – Summit Entertainment and Habbo Hotel (www.habbo.com), the largest virtual world for teenagers, today revealed new details for the exclusive The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed activities, rooms, virtual goods and much more planned to kick-off at Habbo Hotel this week to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on November 20.

Beginning November 6, log in to Habbo Hotel or join for free by going to www.habbo.com and clicking on the “Register Now” button. Habbo Hotel will introduce The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed virtual items and activities throughout its 31 communities worldwide. Users will have the opportunity to decorate their online rooms with virtual goods based on the film, including a dreamcatcher, a piano, the Volturi crest and a table topped with a birthday cake and gifts.

To show support for all the activities happening in Habbo Hotel, a select actor from The Twilight Saga: New Moon is scheduled to log in, which may be announced or may be a surprise, to check out the festivities and conduct an in-world chat. You never know who may be stopping by Habbo Hotel during the festivities. Will it be your favorite Twilight Saga character? Log in and don’t miss out.

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Summit Entertainment is planning to a one-night-only screening of “Twilight” before New Moon’s arrival!

Wanting to capitalize on the teen vampire movie craze it stirred last year, Summit Entertainment is planning to re-release “Twilight” in more than 2,000 theaters on Nov. 19, the night before the arrival of the highly anticipated sequel, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”

Summit’s distribution executives have been in conversations with the nation’s theater owners about a one-night-only screening of “Twilight” at 9:00 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. just prior to the 12:01 a.m. showings of “New Moon.” Plans are just now being formalized, according to one person with knowledge of the matter, who said that exhibitors (who naturally have dollar signs in their eyes) are very high on the idea…

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If you didn’t bought your ‘New Moon’ tickets yet, that’s a great time to do it!

Summit Entertainment Offers Free Music Downloads
with Online Movie Ticket Purchases for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.

With Every Ticket Purchase on Fandango and MovieTickets.com,
Advance Ticket Buyers will Receive an Exclusive Remix of “Satellite Heart” from
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack

Summit officially launched a Twitter account for the Twilight Saga Movies. So far Chris Weitz posted the final run time of ‘New Moon’ and a picture of him in the sound editing room. So click here and start to follow rite now!! And if you are not following us yet: lionandlamblove

The final run time of The Twilight Saga: New Moon is 2 hours and ten minutes!

From Chris Weitz – Hi! Welcome to the official New Moon twitter account. This is my first ever tweet so be gentle with me.

Summit just informed us that all the cast rumors regarding the production of ‘Breaking Dawn’ areFALSE!!

Please disregard any information regarding casting for BREAKING DAWN.

Lana Veenker also contacted us about the rumors:

For the record, we have not yet been contacted by production about this possibility and have not been hired to provide casting services.

There is no need to inundate our mailboxes with materials (or goodness forbid, swamp our phone lines or email inboxes). Our small staff and limited resources make it impossible for us to consider ANY submissions or inquiries at this time. Please save your money and spare us from the onslaught!

More informations at Lana’s blog.

If “Breaking Dawn” is going to be made into a movie is something that has pretty much already been confirmed by Summit. MTV talks to Ashley Greene about it.

The cast of “Twilight” has already wrapped the second film in the franchise, “New Moon,” and is just in the beginning stages of filming the third, “Eclipse.” But there has yet to be any official word that the series will extend to a fourth film.
With a fourth book in the “Twilight” series, there’s a good chance that Twilighters will get to see all their favorite vampires, werewolves and mortals come back for a film version of “Breaking Dawn.” But Ashley Greene, who will be MTV News’ VMA fashion correspondent on Sunday, can’t make any promises just yet.
“I think it’s expected to do a fourth one. I definitely think that they want to,” she told MTV News. “But again it depends on how the second one does, and the third one.”

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Remember the documentary about Forks and the Twilight phenomenon we previously reported about? Summit Entertainment has now announced that they will be distributing the film and release it on DVD along with the release of the “New Moon” DVD next year.

LOS ANGELES — Over the last few weeks, the team behind the first-ever documentary on the “Twilight” phenomenon has come to MTV News to unveil the initial details of their movie, as well as its one-sheet and teaser trailer. Now, they have even bigger news for Stephenie Meyer fans eagerly awaiting their flick: In a surprise move, Summit Home Entertainment has acquired the rights to distribute “Twilight in Forks.”

MTV News has learned that the studio behind the “Twilight” movies has spent the last several days negotiating with director Jason Brown and producers York Baur and Peter Cowles to distribute their independent film about the tiny Washington town that inspired a phenomenon. Summit plans to release the documentary in conjunction with the “New Moon” DVD release, both of which will hit stores in early 2010.

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This just came in from Summit:

Death Cab for Cutie unveil preview of their New Moon single / Soundtrack available to pre-order now!

We have exciting news today! First of all – you can now listen to a snippet from the 1stsingle from the soundtrack, Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’! Just go to the audio player on the homepage of www.newmoonthesoundtrack.com to hear it now. Then visit www.mtv.com this Sunday, September 13th during the Video Music Awards to hear the entire song!

If you want to be one of the very first people to download the song, you can now pre-order (www.newmoonthesoundtrack.com/preorder) the soundtrack through the Official New Moon Soundtrack Pre-Order site. Every option will deliver ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’ to your inbox on the evening of September 13th, before it’s available anywhere else! Click HERE to check out all the great stuff that you can get as a part of the official pre-order!

Summit Entertainment and Habbo (www.habbo.com), the largest virtual world for teenagers, today announced an exclusive, first-time global partnership that will extend the Twilight film franchise and brand experience to the online virtual community of Habbo. The deal will provide Habbo licensing rights to produce virtual furniture and accessories for the Twilight series of films.

Beginning this fall, in conjunction with the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (November 20, 2009), Habbo will launch a New Moon-themed virtual space within Habbo’s 31 communities worldwide. Habbo users will have the opportunity to decorate their personal rooms with virtual goods from the Twilight series of films.

“Habbo’s understanding of the teen online audience means they can build a unique virtual experience for their users and increase the scope and interaction of the brand with our fans.” said Jack Pan, executive vice president of Marketing for Summit Entertainment. “This is the first time Summit has partnered with a virtual world, so we wanted to be sure to
work with a company with a proven track record for providing exciting, engaging activities.”

The Habbo virtual environment will provide a unique opportunity for teens to interact and hang out with other fans of the Twilight film series. It will include the creation of movie-branded rooms, new movie-related virtual items, activities and polls.

“Habbo is an established promotional platform for entertainment properties. We are extending Twilight’s brand presence online and creating innovative interactions between the biggest, most successful movie franchise for teens and its primary audience,” said Teemu Huuhtanen, executive vice president, Marketing and Business Development, Sulake Corporation and president, North America, Sulake Inc. “The campaigns within Habbo will allow us to link fans of the Twilight film series to their favorite movie series in a multitude of meaningful ways.”

There are currently Habbo communities in 31 countries on six continents. To date, over 142 million Habbo characters have been created and more than 13 million unique users worldwide visit Habbo each month. (source: Quantcast). More than 90% of Habbo users are 13-18 years old and the gender split is roughly equal (56% boys; 44% girls). Habbo users spend an average of 43 minutes on the site per visit.

**Thanks Summit for the news!

Booboo Stewart recently spoke with Access Hollywood in a video interview (a few posts down) in which he told them that there will be a fifth installment of the Twilight saga. This is something Summit Entertainment now are confirming is false, there are no guarantees at this state that the movie will be split into two parts.

However, a rep for Summit Entertainment – the studio behind the hit vampire film franchise – has now told Access that BooBoo (who will join the big screen saga as wolfpack member Seth Clearwater in the next installment) was premature in his statements.

“We appreciate our young actor’s enthusiasm for the franchise and his role, but his comments about the number of films were unfortunately uninformed and not accurate,” the Summit rep said in a statement to Access.

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