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Chris Weitz: Teen Girls Should Vote for the Oscars

Friday, March 5, 2010

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In an amusing new interview with People, The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz jokes that New Moon could’ve been a major Oscar contender if only teen girls were allowed to vote: “If only the Academy were composed of teenage girls, I might be looking at a Best Picture nom,” he joked. “It’s a [...]

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New Moon Goes on Pre-Sale Today

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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The DVD and Blu-Ray releases of The Twilight Saga: New Moon go on pre-sale today; at Amazon you can pick them up for $21.99 and $24.99, respectively. You won’t receive your copy until it comes out on March 20th, of course, but…might as well get the whole “paying” thing over with now, right? As we mentioned before, [...]

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New Moon Officially Out on March 20th

Friday, January 15, 2010

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon will officially come out on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 20th, according to the Twilight Twitter account.  Can’t come soon enough! It’ll come as a 2-disc special edition DVD or a special edition Blu-Ray. According to Amazon, special features will include a commentary track with director Chris Weitz, a six-part behind-the-scenes documentary, [...]

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Charlie Bewley Says Eclipse Will Be ‘More Real’

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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Twilight Saga actor Charlie Bewley, who plays the Volturi’s Demetri, talked to OK! about what to expect from Eclipse and the differences between New Moon director Chris Weitz and Eclipse director David Slade: David is a master of mood. Eclipse has this different mood about it, it’s dark and vicious. You get to see the brutal [...]

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Chris Weitz’s Original New Moon Scouting Photos

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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The Twilight Twitter account just linked to a bunch of New Moon director Chris Weitz’s personal photos from when he went scouting in Italy for the location to shoot the Volterra scenes. The gallery also includes Weitz’s own notes on the locations, so check it all out here.  But here’s a sample shot: Looks a lot different [...]

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Charges Dropped in New Moon Piracy Arrest

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Yesterday we reported on a story about New Moon director Chris Weitz publicly coming to the defense of a young woman who inadvertently taped a couple minutes of his movie in a theater — and was arrested on felony charges. Weitz is apparently a pretty powerful guy, because the charges were dropped today.  From the Hollywood [...]

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Woman Charged with Felony for Taping Parts of New Moon

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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A young woman who was arrested on felony charges for taping three minutes of video in a theater playing The Twilight Saga: New Moon has director Chris Weitz on her side. The incident, which happened on November 28th, was apparently an accident — the woman, twenty-two years old, was goofing around by taping herself and friends [...]

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Kristen Stewart on How to Be a Good Director

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Kristen Stewart talked to MTV recently about her experience on New Moon and revealed how impressed she was by director Chris Weitz.  She said: Chris did a very different thing that I’ve never had a director do.  He put together a syllabus of what we were supposed to achieve and how he was going to make [...]

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Summit Wants Chris Weitz to Direct 2 Breaking Dawn Movies!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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An interesting article in Variety today suggests that, via “multiple” unnamed sources, Summit Entertainment wants to make Breaking Dawn two films, and they want New Moon director Chris Weitz to come back and direct both of them. Two films might seem like a no-brainer — double the money — but it’s more complicated than that: Multiple sources [...]

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Chris Weitz: Looking Back on New Moon

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Entertainment Weekly talked to The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz today for a postmortem on the film’s massive box office success, mixed reviews, and experience in general.  As many of the Twilight actors have said about him, Chris seems very Zen about the entire experience.  Here are three of his answers that stood [...]

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