::Team New Moon:: Chris Weitz talks DVD Release, Breaking Dawn and Regrets.

BuzzSugar has an interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz. The New Moon DVD release is coming fast, out in stores March 21st. Chris discusses his favorite
scene in New Moon and what he wished
ended up on the cutting room floor. Great interview!

There are lots of different editions of the New Moon DVD. Which bonus features are you particularly excited about?
I’m excited that my voice will finally be heard! For me, the fun thing
was doing the commentary with Peter Lambert, my editor, because it kind
of re-created the atmosphere in the cutting room. Peter’s a really
funny guy, and we were able to delve into not only the
behind-the-scenes moments, but to explain why certain things were shot
or cut together in certain ways. So that, for me, was the most fun.

When you go back and watch it again, are there things you’d like to change if you could?
I would like to never have shot Rob and Kristen running through the
forest and Kristen’s just turned into a vampire. Because everybody
always laughs and it makes me feel terrible. [Laughs] I would have shot
it a different way so it wouldn’t get that response. But otherwise, I’m
very happy with things.

You must get lots of questions abut Rob and Kristen. Do you laugh it off or are you totally sick of hearing about it?
I’m somewhat clueless — when you’re the director, you’re kind of like
the school principal. Nobody really tells you anything. You really have
no idea what’s going on. I’m the last person who would know about this
kinda stuff. I’m sure you could get more from reading the paper.

What was your favorite scene to shoot in New Moon?
I’m very fond of the memories that a lot of the scenes invoke in me. My
favorite scene is probably somewhere between the very last scene, and
the cliffhanger that it’s left on, and the scenes in Italy. Just the
experience shooting those scenes was so magnificent. We were in this
beautiful hillside town in Tuscany, and going home to fresh-made pasta
every night, and surrounded by thousands of fans of the series while we
were shooting it. I know I’ll never experience anything like that ever
again.

What’s your take on the rumors that Breaking Dawn will likely be two movies, possibly in 3D?
3D seems to be the new thing that everything has to be. I think the
good thing about 3D is that it can lend tremendous depth to a picture,
and really make it extraordinarily lush, visually. And also that it
gets people to go out to the theater. Film directors want people to see
things in the theater, on the big screen, at least the first time. So
that’s a good thing. As for the book being broken up into two films, I
think it’s a good idea. There’s so much material in the final book that
I think it’s warranted.

How would you direct Breaking Dawn?
Very carefully, because I think that you want to deliver the fans a
faithful version of the book that they love. Yes, there’s a lot of
extraordinary goings-on. So it’ll have to be done carefully.

How do you think the movie franchise has been affected by using different directors?
I think it’s good for it, because I think there’s a tremendous amount
of coherence thanks to a very strong cast, who care about getting their
characters right. And I think that the fans’ interested will be
un-dimmed, and I think it’s interesting to see the different visual
approaches, different stylistic versions, different choices that
different filmmakers take.

Are you excited to see Eclipse, or will you inevitably be thinking about how you would have done it differently?
I’m really excited to see it. I’m very excited to see it. I’m sure he’s
done a really great job. I think that he’s, amongst other things, a
much better action director than I am. So I’m really keen to see the
action sequences. I think that there are a lot of things that I would
have been very daunted by the prospect of shooting, which he will have
taken in stride. I’m excited to see it whenever I can.

SOURCE: Buzzsugar.com

::Team New Moon:: More Easter Eggs in New Moon

From the "Twilight Tracker" app:

* On Bella's copy of Romeo & Juliet, a picture from Volterra covered the book.

* The camera drop during Paul and Jacob's in-transformation tussle was intentional to recreate the look of an actual animal knocking over the camera.

* In front of Emily's house, there was a drum actually given to the production crew by a member of the Quileute Nation.

* The opening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon with the moon phasing backwards was also intentional to reflect accuracy in phasing.

* Aro says "Fore ... ne il vostro l'uno o altro" to Bella in the Volturi lair, meaning "Perhaps ... nor yours either" (regarding whether he understands Edward's soul).

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::Team New Moon:: Chris Weitz reveals a few hidden secrets in the movie.

1. Hidden wolves
”Look for an upside-down engraving of a wolf in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first-aid equipment; on Jacob’s T-shirt when he meets Bella in the school parking lot for the first time; and a wolf trinket on the dream-catcher that he gives her.”

2. Vampire elevator music
”When Edward, Bella, and Alice get into the elevator on their way to see the Volturi, the music playing in the elevator is from Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (a.k.a. The Bat).”

3. Emotional baggage?
”When Bella is looking for the meadow where she and Edward are seen lying down together, she carries a golden compass clipped to her backpack — part of my baggage!”

4. Speedy suitor
”We did a little trick when Edward gets out of Bella’s truck and they’re arguing. We wanted to show Edward moving impossibly quickly, so we put Rob right next to the camera but out of sight, and used a double dressed like Rob in the driver’s seat. When Edward gets out, it’s the double, and then Rob steps in front of the camera, and it looks as if he got there faster than humanly possible.”

5. Look it up
”And last but not least: If you want to know what Jacob says before he almost kisses Bella, ask a Quileute! The address of the Quileute tribal council is quileutenation.org. I can tell you this much: He says, Kwop kilawtley.”

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::Team Twilight:: Chris Weitz comes to the defense of fan arrested for piracy.

He’s dismayed about Samantha Tumpach’s arrest Nov. 28 at a Rosemont movie theater on a felony charge of illegally copying his new hit film, and he’s contacted the film’s studio about his concerns.

“Needless to say, the case seems to me terribly unfair and I would like to do what I can to address this,” Weitz wrote in an e-mail.

Tumpach told the Sun-Times last week that she was taping parts of her sister’s surprise 29th birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater — including her and other family members singing “Happy Birthday.”

The three minutes of footage she shot inside the theater, Tumpach said, also included film previews and ads, along with short segments of the film — and her talking about the camera and the movie.

“It was never my intention to record the movie,” Tumpach said. “You can hear me talking the whole time.”

Weitz questioned whether her arrest was justified.

“There is, needless to say, a difference between trying to protect the copyright of a film and making an unfair example of someone who clearly seems not to have any intentions towards video piracy,” Weitz wrote.

He said he had contacted the studio that released the film, Summit Entertainment, to express his concern about her arrest, but he acknowledged there’s probably little he can do to influence the outcome of her case.

“I am not sure what effect I would have on the case,” he wrote, noting “the film is, after all, not my property.”

SOURCE TWI-FANS