New Moon: It’s Almost a Wrap

According to his Twitter, Charlie Bewley has finished his part.  Pretty much you can logically infer that if he’s done so is Daniel Cudmore, and quite possibly Dakota Fanning.
extras marching in on piazza grande on TwitpicI'm pretty sure that's kristen... blurry too *crying* on Twitpic

Photos via Twitter, Bauxine7.

On today’s agenda is the Bella dashes across the plaza with 1,500 extras in red cloaks scene. Given the temperatures (over 90 degrees yesterday) we hope they have plenty of water on hand, because those folks in the cloaks are going to be dropping like flies otherwise. Of course, since the weather never cooperates, it was uncharacteristically cloudy this morning.

There are masses of people who have flocked to Montepulciano from all over the world.  Barricades are up for the crowds to stand behind. Yesterday the crowds could see the walk through and rehearsal in the main piazza, but today all has been blocked off.

Robert Pattinson After a Hard Days Work

According to all reports, the weather in Montepulciano is postivitely stiffling. Hot doesn’t begin to describe it.  After spending months in the Pacific Northwest, we can only imagine how the cast feels to be in yet another temperature extreme.

Robert Pattinson Who has photos(one seen above) a fan snapped from behind the public barricade of rob leaving the set.

Red Hood Alert: And We Don’t Mean Little Red & Granny

Twilighters 2.0 just sent us in this report:

We’ve some pictures to share about the extras that were roaming Montepulciano today.
Each one of them was clad in red. Hoods, robes, t-shirt, caps…everything was red!

They couldn’t really say anyhing because the producers have told them that if they were caught they would be expelled from the set and nobody wants to lose the chance to be in the movie.

It’s said that this afternoon there was a little commotion and they think Robert Pattinson was there, but nobody would say that plainly. There are no pictures of him at the airport because he went out through a side exit allowed to the airport staff only.

Today the porsche crew finished working and, from what we understood, tomorrow Robert Pattinson himself will shoot some scene, maybe something related to Edward’s desperation before the Volturi’s verdict.

It won’t be Kristen Stewart to jump in the fountain but hers stunt double, an Italian girl.
Right now, Alan Cappelli, the stunt double for Robert Pattinson is waiting in his car to be called to set. We don’t know though what scene they’ll shoot.

The Eagle Has…er…Robert Pattinson Has Landed

Robert Pattinson’s whirlwind Cannes experience is now over. He has landed in Italy and will await the arrival of Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, and presumably Dakota Fanning, Charlie Bewley, and Daniel Cudmore to shoot the the exterior Volterra scenes in Montepulciano.

Things on the town square set are progressing. According to Twilighters 2.0 They just field tested the fountain, and it was a success: the water ran and it didn’t cause a flood. (Photo credit to Twilighters Italia)

It remains to be seen whether or not any interiors are shot since Michael Sheen and Jamie Campbell Bower both Tweeted awhile back that they wrapped shooting. Michael also commented to a reporter in Wales this week that he had finished shooting New Moon. An even better indicator of whether or not they are shooting New Moon interiors may be Justine Wachsberger who tonight is appearing on Vamp Talk Radio. Presumably, as Gianna, she is only involved in the interior scenes. So, if she’s talking about having finished filming tonight, it looks like they are pretty much sticking to outdoors.

Speaking of Twitter, ET’s Thea Andrews Tweeted, “Just got word of another top secret mission for an ET on-set exclusive. Booking my ticket to Europe. Sworn to secrecy on this one for now…” So it looks like ET will again be on the set.

Two Words: Yellow Porsche

This in from Twilighters Italia 2.0

“Today our forum mods were in Montepulciano and look what they’ve found:

Alice’s Yellow Posche!

At the beginning our loved racing car was covered by a grey robe, but our
indefatigable facilitator/ moderator, suspicious of the dimensions and by
the chromed wheels, have began questioning people around.

Mauro Pellegrini the owner of the tow truck, had orders by the production
not to uncover the car, but after explaining him who they were to his boss,
our heroines have even been invited to remain till the end of the
shooting!!

The big man youcan see in some pictures is one of the stuntmen. He had an
Alice wig, a bandana, a couple of elbow high red gloves, and seemingly from
far he actually looked like our loved little vampire/pixie

Mauro secretly told us that there are two yellow porsche in Montepulciano,
placed in different places of the town. As they were not exactly identical,
one had yellow brake pad cover and another had them red, Production was
willing to spend to the incredible amount of €5800 PER PIECE to have them
all red!!!

Luckily they found out a way to paint them, but this episode says a lot on
how high is this movie’s budget!!!

The helicopter we told you about ealier, has kept low-flying whole day long
filming aerial of the main square.. The fountain is not finished yet, so
probably this was a rehearsal or shooting for the DVD’s extra-contents .

It also flown over where the porsche was, so probably we’ll see some
Twilighters on the big screen : our Marghe’s car has been filmed by Alice’s
car!!

We are honoured!!”

There’s also some great footage taken of the square looking down from the clocktower.

Montepulciano: Preparations Continue

This just in from Shire, of Twilightitalia.com

Today we’ve got a couple of very interesting news/rumors from Montepulciano!

A friend of ours had the chance to record a video and take some pictures (of the fountain, the Mayor and road signs), that we included  in this article in Twilightitalia , written in Italian, whose title translates in “Report from Montepulciano: the fountain is being built, various pictures and mysterious calls!”

Essentially, in this article we say that yesterday, the Mayor of Montepulciano was in the town square (where the fountain is being built) in person and it seems like they were working on security.

The most interesting (and strange) fact is that our friend found a lot of road signs around town saying that some streets will be closed on friday, May 22nd, from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.

Could this mean that the filming of some scenes has been preempted? (The official communication from Montepulciano Municipality reported the filming from May 25 to May 29).

You can find all the pictures embedded in the video that we report on Twilightitalia.

Some rumors state that Robert will be here in Italy on Friday.

Volterra Fountain Under Construction

Seemingly Montepulciano and Volterra are among the few towns in Italy without a fountain in the town square. No fear, the book and script call for a fountain, and a fountain is currently being built!

TY to Twilighters 2.0 Italia for the heads up.

Equipment Arrives in Montepulciano


This just in from Twilighters Italia.

“Today there were in Montepulciano some trucks unloading benches and fake gothic statues in the main square, piazza grande. Then all the stuff was carried in the municipality hall.

It is said that the crew took also a red flag and some spears from a near building (since in Montepulciano most of the buildings have colorful flags hanged on the doors).”

Jacob’s House Before and After

Malicious Mandy on live journal knows the folks that own Jacob’s House. She talked the about how the house was used in the movie and has before and after pictures.

Read it all on Mandy’s blog.

Kristen Stewart: Biking Riding, Not With Taylor

Vancity Allie visited another location the other night. From what bystanders could tell, Bella (Kristen Stewart) jumps on the back of a motorcycle of a biker guy.  Onlookers are guessing that it’s a tweak of the scene in the book (call it artistic license) where Bella approaches a dangerous crowd while out with Jessica.

“And let me just say this — Kristen Stewart is one HECK of a cool chica. She did ALL her stunts tonight, at least the ones that I saw. Props for braving it out in the cold Vancouver night on a motorcycle all evening. Major Kudos, Kristen!”

Be warned that if you click to read the full story on the Vancity Allie blog that Allie was close enough to hear dialoge and to see people standing in interesting locations. Don’t worry, Allie was standing behind established barricades, and none of her coverage was illegally obtained, but, if you are trying to stay spoiler free on non-book stuff, you probably want to miss this particular story.