New Moon (film)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is the second installment of the Twilight film series, based on Stephenie Meyer's novel of the same name. The release date is scheduled for November 20th, 2009. Summit Entertainment officially announced that they would move forward with the production of the film on November 22, 2008, following the early success of Twilight. Meyer stated that she is very happy to be able to continue working with Summit Entertainment on the production of the saga, saying, "I don't think any other author has had a more positive experience with the makers of her movie adaptation than I have had with Summit Entertainment. I'm thrilled to have the chance to work with them again on New Moon."

On February 2, 2009 it was announced that in the Blu-Ray edition of Twilight a teaser trailer for New Moon would be released

Director
It was announced that Catherine Hardwicke, who directed Twilight, will not be directing New Moon due to time constraints. Summit has hired Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass, American Pie) as the director for New Moon, and he stated that he is very happy to be working on New Moon.



Production
Summit Entertainment has started pre-production for New Moon, and announced that filming will begin on March 23, 2009. Filming will take place in Vancouver, Canada and in Volterra, Tuscany, Italy.

Release
Summit's goal is to release New Moon on November 20, 2009 in the US and November 27, 2009 in the UK.