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Posts Tagged ‘Chris Weitz’
What the Press is Saying about New Moon!!!
Looks like we have a winner folks, here’s what press that saw New Moon at a pre-screening are saying on Twitter, and mind you they pretty much aren’t allowed to say much. Off the record, we are getting thumbs ups! 13 days and counting!!!
THANK YOU CHRIS WEITZ!
“I was very impressed not only by the visual effects and the movie, but by the acting itself. Chris Weitz is bad ass.”
“Just saw New Moon. Better than Twilight and crowd just applauded at end. Leaves on a soap opera sting….”
“I’m not allowed to say anything! But be sure to follow me tomorrow at @celebuzz – Big day for RPattz news!”
“I enjoyed it more than Twilight, lot of frenching! RT @mytwitherapy: @JasonKennedy1 so….how was the new moon press screening?!?!? 
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“@shaunssanctuary just came frm seeing NM.I guess it’s every girl’s dream to have a vampire & werewolf fighting over her!”
“One word: amazing! I was very impressed all around – visuals were stunning. The underwater scene..le sigh. And Summit was fabulous!!”
“ @LarryCarroll: “New Moon” was genuinely awesome. A lot of people are about to be very happy.”
Rob Pattinson & Chris Wetiz in Japan
MTV has some pics up of Rob Pattinson and New Moon director Chris Weitz from their promo tour in Japan!!
You can see all the pictures HERE
New & Improved ‘Wolf’ Jacob Black
In June we saw the first trailer for New Moon featuring Jacob phasing into his wolf (top picture), then low and behold check out the new and improved JB Wolf from the newly released NM Clip (now on iTunes) (bottom picture)!!
Top wolf = kinda cute and fluffy. Bottom Wolf = down right mean looking!!! What does this prove…Chris Weitz is down right awesome!!! Lets hope we use the same wolves in Eclipse!!
THR Interview with Chris Weitz
The Hollywood Reporter has an awesome interview up with New Moon director Chris Weitz!! Plus check out the awesome animation by Chris Morris
The Hollywood Reporter: Why did you want to do a “Twilight” movie?
Chris Weitz: The tonality of the movie, which has a lot to do with heartbreak and longing, depression and reunion and ecstasy — these were emotions that struck a chord in me. I really loved the cast; Kristen (Stewart) and Rob (Pattinson) both are exceptionally talented. And I wanted to get my hand back in the game. There were a lot of things in this movie that I knew how to do: A combination of telling a character-based story but also handling special effects and working with young actors.
THR: And adding another genre of film to your resume?
Weitz: It gets a bit boring to be in a particular zone. I like the idea of switching genres and different types of stories to keep things interesting. But it might be the way to become unmemorable as a director, I suppose. There aren’t that many dilettante directors who get remembered. John Ford did all kinds of movies. Billy Wilder did too, but they get remembered for one particular kind.
THR: So how do you want to be remembered?
Weitz: I’m not sure. I don’t think I have to be remembered. I’ll be dead anyway (laughs).
THR: How much did you interact with Stephenie Meyer?
Weitz: A lot; we’ve had a real good collaboration. Crucially, she approved me as director, and she didn’t have to. We had some discussions that were very important — my convincing her that I didn’t want to take her baby and run away with it, or tell a story that was counter to the spirit of what she was trying to tell. I see myself, in the last few movies I’ve done, as adapting literary properties into film, so that’s how I treated this one. We got along like a house on fire.
THR: What kind of suggestions did she give you?
Weitz: It would normally be me e-mailing her and running things by her when I felt I was on the edge of getting a detail wrong, everything from the powers of a given vampire to the look of a particular scene or what she imaged a location looked like. And sometimes, when I felt that I was creating something new within the framework she had set up, making sure she was aware of it and that it didn’t make her sick.
THR: For example?
Weitz: A good example is the headquarters of the Volturi. The oldest vampire family lives in Italy, and it was important to me there be nothing in their surroundings that reeked of any other vampire movie. So the interiors are done in a very classic Renaissance style and are very crisp and very bright, which you would not normally expect from a vampire movie.
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