New Moon
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Last week, Xavier Samuel was announced as the latest Twilight Saga hottie. He'll play Riley in Eclipse.

Now, the franchise is welcoming another beauty to its cast, as Candian model Noot Seear has nabbed the key role of Heidi in New Moon and is signed for at least one film in the series beyond that.

Seear has posed for a number of major fashion brands, such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. New Moon will mark her acting debut, though director Chris Weitz assures fans:

“We wanted someone who had an unearthly and unlikely beauty, but could also convey humor and menace. It’s rare to find a stunningly attractive person who also happens to have the ability to act.”

In the book series, Heidi is an evil Volturi vampire. Her dangerous talent? The seduction of human prey.

It's not difficult to imagine Seear pulling this off.

We've got a couple of interesting New Moon updates for fans.

First, a new photo from the movie has been leaked.

In it, Bella and Jacob lock eye in the front seat of car, as the character recreate one of the most memorable scenes from Stephenie Meyer's novel. Will Bella give in to temptation and lay a kiss on Jacob?

Edward, after all, has been absent from her life for a long time at this point in the story.

Meanwhile, director Chris Weitz gave an in-depth interview to Rotten Tomatoes about the movie. We've excerpted the part where he describes his favorite scene:

"There were a lot of fun scenes to film, frankly," Weitz recalls. "I really did enjoy the scenes in the Volturi headquarters [filmed on Vancouver soundstages], although it was a tremendous logistical headache. In a way, it's the scenes that you dread the most, because they are so time consuming and you have to get them just right, which is like the stuff in the Volturi headquarters, or the stuff that was shot in Montepulciano.

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Young movie fans around the nation were likely excited enough for Bandslam.

The musical comedy stars Vanessa Hugens in a lead role, as she's one of several students that start a band and enter a competition together.

But now every reader under the age of 19 will be lining up for Bandslam on opening weekend. Why? Because an exclusive new trailer for New Moon will be shown prior to the feature.

Watch the Bandslam preview below and wait until the end to see the news for yourself:

As any loyal fans of the Twilight Saga knows, Edward Cullen is scarcely present in the book New Moon.

Bella is heartbroken by her breakup with the vampire, but soon realizes that dangerous activities - motorcycle riding, cliff diving, etc. - enable her to hear her former lover's voice in her head.

How will this be depicted on the big screen? It won't be easy, says Michael Welch (Mike Newton).

"They figured out a very clever way to get Edward back in the film much more than he is in the book," Welch told MTV. "It's tricky. I mean, [Edward] leaves for months. In the book, she just hears his voice. In the film, it's more of like a hallucination kind of thing. He will be [in the movie more than the book] for sure."

Millions of Robert Pattinson fans just let out a sigh of relief.

Yes, Robert Pattinson is hot, young and talented.

But let's not forget about Kellan Lutz.

The actor plays Edward's brother, Emmett, in the Twilight series, the latest of which recently wrapping filming.

In an interview with Social Life magazine, Luts was asked about the New Moon shoot. He said:

New Moon was a very relaxed film to work on and it all starts with how easy going director Chris Wietz is. That vibe rolls down to the crew and actors. It makes it so easy when we've all worked together before. Everything was so well organized, making it easy for the actors to do our job. We had more time to just laugh and make jokes and hang out; it's important to have a cast that gels the way we do and you'll see that more in the second film.

It's a beloved, unusually comedic moment in the New Moon novel:

Bella tries to get over Edward by going on what becomes a three-way date with Jacob and Mike Newton.

In a new interview with MTV, actor Michael Welch - who plays Newton - goes into detail about the outing. He specifically explains the unique movie-within-the-movie that viewers will see on the big screen.

On the date, Bella, Mike and Jacob take in a horror film. But director Chris Weitz chose to actually insert his own made-up film into the mix.

"The film is called Face Punch," said Welch. "It's an action film. We started out with a few other comical names, but it turned out those were actual films so we couldn't use those titles."

Does this fake movie play any significant role in the story? No. But are fans clamoring for every nugget of New Moon news they can get? Oh yes.

The New Moon publicity machine is just getting started.

A few months before the Twilight sequel hits theaters, Little, Brown Book Group will release a cover of the book that ties in to the movie. In what way?

By featuring a pair of the film's stars: Taylor Lautner (as Jacob) and Kristen Stewart (as Bella).

Edward, of course, is never out of sight or out of mind in the story. Robert Pattinson is lurking in the background of the new cover below...

Jackson Rathbone portrays vampire Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

In a recent conference call, he told reporters that he and the cast of the sequel are feeling the weight of the franchise's popularity more.

"We have a bigger budget, and we have a little bit more pressure to keep that [indie] feeling going," Rathbone said. "But the nice thing is that we are delving more into the story now of New Moon. But I will say that Twilight is my favorite, because it takes you into this realm, from reality into this fantasy reality, and it makes that fantasy more real. As the films progress, you get deeper into the mythical world that we are establishing, with the werewolves and what the actual vampire society and legacy is with the Volturi."

As for the scene in the New Moon trailer, where Jasper gets thrown into a piano:

"I was flying and got to do some stunts on that, and that's only the beginning of it. They didn't show the entire [scene]. It's going to be a really action-packed movie. And then you have the other side of the love story. It has a lot of elements that I think the fans have been waiting to sink their teeth into."

In case you've been living under a rock, New Moon comes out on November 20.

With that in mind, and with millions of fans wondering about the film, MTV asked its stars to comment on the sequel to Twilight.

"There's definitely a difference in scale," Robert Pattinson said, comparing the movies. "I liked doing Twilight, but it felt very much like an indie movie - and [New Moon] definitely feels like it's a big movie."

As for specific scenes, Mike Welch (who plays Mike Newton) spoke to the music network about a major one.

"Kristen [Stewart] and Taylor [Lautner] had to lobby to get this one scene in the film that wasn't originally in - and I am forever indebted to them for that," he said, citing a popular moment from Stephenie Meyer's novel. "There's a scene that's in the book, the three-way date between Jacob and Bella and Mike, where Mike ends up getting sick, and it's just very awkward."

Lautner, meanwhile, said the cast created its own lines during various takes.

"We did a lot of improv on set," Lautner said. "We'd just be in a random forest and, after Jacob transforms [into a wolf], he all of a sudden becomes very agile, and I wanted to show that, because pre-transformation, he's clumsy. But as soon as he transforms, he's agile. So we'd be in a random forest, and I'd be looking around going, 'What can I do to show Jacob's agility in here?'

"Sometimes [director] Chris [Weitz] would be like, 'No, Taylor, we don't want you getting hurt, spraining an ankle.' But I was like, 'Well, how about I just jump off that and then jump through this?' And he was like, 'All right, give it a shot.'"

We can't wait to see how it all looks on screen.

Another day, another exciting round of New Moon casting news!

The Twilight sequel has added a pair of actors to its cast:

• Cameron Bright will star as Alec, the brother of Volturi member Jane (Dakota Fanning);
• Graham Greene will play Quileute tribal leader Harry Clearwater.

Summit Entertainment released a statement on the studio's website yesterday that revealed the names of all New Moon cast members, some of whom have already been announced:

New cast members include the legendary Volturi, a venerable coven of vampires who weigh and impose the laws of the vampire world, as well as two new members of the Quileute Indian Nation. The Volturi include Charlie Bewley as Demetri, Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, Daniel Cudmore as Felix, Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, all Volturi enforcers.

Dakota Fanning plays Jane, a high ranking and powerful Volturi member and Cameron Bright is Alec, her brother. Noot Seer plays Volturi member Heidi. Michael Sheen plays Aro, the Volturi leader. Graham Greene appears as Harry Clearwater, Quileute tribal leader and old friend of Bella's father Charlie. Tinsel Korey is Emily, the fiancé of Sam Uley.