MOVIE OPENING: 'TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON'

11/20/2009

Opening today (November 20th) is the highly anticipated second installment of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga, New Moon, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Rachelle Lefevre and Dakota Fanning. New Moon follows Bella Swan, played by Stewart, who gets deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she wants to be a part of only to find herself in greater danger than ever. New Moon was directed Chris Weitz.

New Moon is rated PG-13 and running time of 2 hours and 10 minutes.

New Moon is has taken over the top place in Fandango's record breaking pre-ticket sales. The top five advance tickets sellers on Fandango are New Moon (2009), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009), The Dark Knight (2008) and Twilight (2008).

According to movietickets.com, 2,150 screenings of New Moon have already sold out.

Kristin Stewart on the next film in the saga, Eclipse: "Just like New Moon sort of starts and becomes a completely different movie, so does Eclipse. It's like, just as soon as you think you're gonna get like just the same story, it's sort of like all of a sudden just completely changes. Bella is much more, she's back to herself. She's content now. She's again comfortable and self-assured in a way that she wasn't in New Moon."

Kristin Stewart on Taylor Lautner's bike riding skills: "Taylor rode motorcycles really well. There's this one part that's sort of undeniably him. He like, rides up and skids and I left that to him. I wasn't about to do that. I don't even think they would let me necessarily. They have more faith in Taylor to do that kind of stuff."

Kristin Stewart on the break up scene wtih Rob: "The break up scene I feel with, that I did with Rob. That's not where it happens yet. That's not what I was intimidated by. That was still like she doesn't even believe it yet. It's when he goes. It's the absence of him that I was scared of is how am I by myself in the woods with a hundred guys standing around filming me die. Basically literally have the equivolent of like, a death scene, but stay alive and get up and keep walking."

Kristin Stewart on Bella: "Bella's so sure all the time. And this is the one movie where she actually is baffled and totally like, I don't know. And it's weird to play Bella like that because she's so not like that. And that was difficult. I can't think of a particular scene. It was really hard to go back and forth, because you don't shoot a movie in sequence, obviously. I had to do stuff with Jacob where I was alive and happy and out of this depression thing. And then after lunch go back and scream in my bed for six hours."

Robert Pattinson on breaking up the ideal relationship: "I mean, what really helped was people's anticipation of the movie and people's, I guess fans of the series' idea of what Bella and Edward's relationship is and what it represents to them and it's, you know, some kind of ideal for a relationship and so just playing a scene where you're breaking up the ideal relationship, I mean, you feel, I mean, I felt a lot of the weight behind that."

Robert Pattinson on the franchise: "The francise itself is nothing, there's really nothing scary about it. I mean, I like all the people I work with, like it's , I generally like, I generally have very few disagreements about the script or anything like when we're doing it. Especially on New Moon, I mean, it was just, it just seemed so relaxed and easy."

Taylor Lautner on Jacob's transformation: "Jacob transforms a lot in New Moon. Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it, but also reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well."

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