From Examiner.com

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has become a part of Guinness World Records 2011 for its successes in the box office.

Reports MTV, “‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ earned a place in the book for having the Highest Opening-Day Gross, $72.7 million, beating previous record holder, ‘The Dark Knight.’”

The Twilight Saga: New Moon also has number one opening day and single day gross totals.

The Guinness World Records book was released on Tuesday, September 14th.

Last year, both Twilight and its director, Catherine Hardwicke, were placed in the 2010 edition for “Highest-Grossing Movie by a Female Director.”

Each year, the Guinness World Records book chronicles the biggest, smallest, longest, and shortest records associated with nearly every conceivable aspect of the world, but being placed in the text is a very coveted feat, so it’s a pretty big deal that New Moon made this year’s cut.

GossipCop reports about Eclipse:

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse hit a major milestone.

It’s official! Summit Entertainment confirms the film has now earned more than $300 million in North America.

Eclipse became the fourth release to cross the $300M threshold in 2010, joining Toy Story 3,Alice in Wonderland and Iron Man 2.

The movie is also closing in on $700 million worldwide

In celebration of 8 million fans we are bringing you a fantastic contest! This contest is all about you, the fans!

Here is what you do…Send us a video on how you are the #1 Twilight Saga Fan – 30 seconds or less! What makes you the #1 Fan?

We will pick the best 5!

The prize – The Limited Edition Twilight Saga: Eclipse Score in Vinyl signed by 3-time Academy Award Winning Composer Howard Shore!

To enter submit your 30 seconds or less video to twifbcontest@gmail.com . You must include your first, last name and state.

Contest is open until July 11th 11:59 est. Any entries received after the deadline will be void. You must submit a video to be considered for this contest.

Only one entry per person.

Open to US residents only – per Vendor Requirements! This is something we sadly have no control over.

Winners will be notified on or around July 12th

Please note all videos become the property of TwilightFacebook and we reserve the right to post the videos at our discretion.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE FANS!

From Melissa Rosenberg’s Facebook, a chance to win signed Twilight Saga scripts:

We’ve crossed over 10,000 fans! You are all so amazing, and to express my gratitude, I want to start a little contest.
If you can all recruit your friends and we get to 20,000 fans by the time the film opens on June 30, I will send three people a signed copy of the script for either TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, or ECLIPSE.
So get all your friends involved – only nine more days to go!

Sign up and let us know if you win!!!!!!

Oh my goodness! I WANT TO WIN THIS!!!!! If only I could write….

DEi iTALY Divine Tours begin their new VOLTURI Audio Tour with the release of Eclipse on June 30, 2010 and to kick it off, they are organizing a contest for all Twlight Saga-Fans waiting for Eclipse and still remembering NEW MOON and the romantic kiss between Bella and Edward in Montepulciano/Tuscany!
Here’s the details:

ECLIPSE VOLTURI CONTEST: Win a holiday in Montepulciano, Tuscany and sleep in the room Kristen Stewart & Rob Pattinson spent their time when shooting NEW MOON

DEi iTALY Divine Tours, tourdesigner in Rome & Tuscany, in cooperation with STRADA DEL VINO NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO, the tourist board of Montepulciano, and HOTEL ALBERGO DUOMO in Montepulciano, is offering one lucky winner a holiday in Tuscany/Italy for 2 persons. Spend six wonderful days with your best friend or any other person in the room Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson spent their time when shooting NEW MOON in Montepulciano, Tuscany.

How to win: Show your passion for Bella and Edward and write down how you think the VOLTURI might threat their lifes in future.
Write a DIN A4 or letter size long chapter (350 to 400 words) about the VOLTURI. Think of all aspects Stephenie Meyer has not yet written about. You may write your story from Bella’s point of view – as Stephenie Meyer did in most of her novels – or choose any other point of view or style you find appropriate for your story and send it to volturi@newmoontour.com Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. .

Members of the FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION in Rome will select the winner!

Grand Prize includes:
- 5 nights in doubleroom in Hotel Albergo Duomo in Montepulciani, breakfast included
- one free NEW MOON MOVIE TOUR for 2 in Montepulciano including gadget and map
-  one free VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR for 2 in Volterra including brandnew MP3 Player

And their is more: 13 other fabulous prizes like free VOLTURI AUDIO TOURS, NEWMOONTEPULCIANO Shirts and Phone Socks are waiting for you!

DEi iTALYs NEW MOON MOVIE TOUR in Montepulciano is already a hit in Italy and on June 30, 2010, we are releasing our newly designed VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR: Learn everything about the VOLTURI and their life in Italy by listening to this very special AUDIO Tour at home or during your stay in Volterra or Montepulciano.
You can update your VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR with VIP Elements like a spicy drive to Volterra in a yellow Porsche and much more. For more information and listening to one chapter of the VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR click
http://www.volturitour.com
http://www.newmoontour.com

Deadline for entries is July 1, 2010. See their site for more details.

Those 2 in the handle bar mustaches - priceless!!!

HollywoodCrush

I am SO happy and ecstatic, I can feel my pulse racing!!! THE POWER OF TWILIGHT IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Here is a list of EVERYTHING that New Moon/ Kristen / Anna / Rob won tonight!!! *cheers, screams, loses breath, cheers some more and goes off to watch repeats of the acceptance speeches and the NEW Eclipse clip*

As the host Aziz Ansari said: “Twilight won everything!” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Female Performance – Kristen Stewart

Best Breakout Star – Anna Kendrick

Best Kiss – Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Global Superstar - Robert Pattinson

Best Male Performance – Robert Pattinson

Best Movie – New Moon

Click to enlarge.   From Larry411

Since Larry’s seem to be down right now, here is another one from twilightmoviegifs:

Thanks to Twilightish for kiss caps

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were triumphant for the second year in a row, winning Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards tonight. Their New Moon lip lock got the most votes, and just like last time, they took it upon themselves to tease us during their acceptance. This time, however, it looked like Robert actually snuck in a small peck at the end of their joking around. Some fans are saying that she looked a little bit pissed and perhaps taken by surprise by his gesture, while others say it was all part of their routine. So check out the video and tell us — was it totally planned or was Kristen caught off guard?

From PopSugar

“[I hope] you guys will vote for ‘New Moon’ for the MTV Movie Awards, because this is a fan[-voted] award, and we need you guys,” Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Esme Cullen, said in a campaign video for MTV News. “We worked really hard, and it seems like maybe you liked it, since we’re nominated.

“So hopefully, we’ll win! Thanks!”

MTV

Our friends at QuileuteWolfPack.com have an exclusive interview with Alez Meraz and we are happy to bring it to you. Written by Sprucey, the QWP rep in Australia, the interview took place during Alex’s visit to Brisbane. It is an article that looks more closely at Alex – who he is as an artist/actor/person and a glimpse into his thoughts and the filming of New Moon.

During Alex Meraz’s weekend in Brisbane, Australia, I was privileged enough to spend some time with him and his wife. I had the chance to get the low-down on Alex’s inspirations and his experiences preparing for his role in Savage Innocent and New Moon, his time in Australia, and on the set of New World- all exclusive to QuileuteWolfPack.com.

Alex Meraz is well known for his multitude of talents, which makes him an inspiration for thousands of people. But who inspires Alex? Alex tells that he admires people who go through a physical change for their work. He comments that actors like Tom Hardy are the kind of people he aspires to work with. Tom Hardy, lead actor of the British-made Bronson, went under a major physical transformation which included gaining 42 pounds (or 20 kilos) of muscle. Alex comments that he would love to work with Alejandro González Iñárritu, who is best known as the director for Babel, but Alex recalls his other great, but generally unknown, movies such as 21 grams and 11’09’01- September 11.

However, New Moon is now a universally recognized film, and Alex has taken a part of that home with him…literally. Alex made sure he secured himself a souvenir (or several) while on the set of New Moon. Alex laughs as he explains that when he was onset he worried that the production team would mix up his ‘picture-underwear’ with everyone else’s (picture-underwear is the underwear they have to wear while filming). Alex got so anxious over it that he took the underwear home each day instead of returning them to the production team. When he came back the next day he denied any knowledge of the picture-underwear’s whereabouts. He would watch them open a fresh packet of picture-underwear for him each day; just to make sure it wasn’t anyone else’s underwear. He laughs as he tells that he now has a drawer full of official New Moon picture-underwear at home.

The way he got to New Moon, Alex says, is unconventional. He followed no Actor 101 guidelines that Hollywood stars live by- he lived in Arizona (not LA), he auditioned by video (not in person) and he got the agent, manager and publicist all after he got the big gig of New Moon. Alex tells that he didn’t actually audition to be Paul at all. He auditioned for Sam, while Chaske auditioned for Jared, Bronson for Embry, and Kiowa for Paul. It wasn’t until Chris Weitz had a visionary dream in the middle of the night that he pieced together the actors with the different characters. It becomes obvious why Alex is such a big believer in destiny. Alex describes it as a “backward process”. Nevertheless, Alex now anticipates filming for Breaking Dawn, which he agrees should be split into 2 movies. Alex is only now trying to bulk up again after plans to film Savage Innocent this season fell through. Savage Innocent follows the sad story of a child who suffers a hard childhood, and is found by a family. The director, Larry Clark, is well known for other shocking stories, such as 1995’s film Kids. Alex comments that his character is suppose to be a frail, lean man who has spent a lot of time in a basement. To perfect this role, Alex explains that he had to lose 30 pounds which meant he had to drop the muscle he gained for New Moon and Eclipse.

Alex tweeted that he had to grow his beard and nails out, as well as going on major weight loss diets. Now that production for Savage Innocent is at a stand still Alex has chosen to regain all his lost weight and muscle for the much anticipated finale to the Twilight Saga.

On the topic of much anticipated: Alex has been twitter-happy about coming to Australia. He tweeted a friendly three times about coming to Australia and a further three times while he was here. Although he likes humid weather (strange man) he packed for a chilly Australian autumn. I’m sure that Alex was happily surprised when he found that Brisbane had pleasant weather. Alex probably wasn’t as equally joyful when he realized that all Australian cities weren’t based on a beautiful white beach, like he anticipated. Alex did learn two things about Australia on his weekend here. The first thing was the way Aussie’s say “yeah”. He tried to adopt it over the weekend by saying “yeeeeeeah” in all his Q&A sessions. The other thing Alex learned was that Australians really do eat kangaroo, which he says he wanted to try.

To get heretoday, Alex remembers back to his first film that initially pushed him into the spotlight- not New Moon, but New World. On the threshold of his 20’s, Alex comments about how quiet and meek he was on set with world class actors such as Collin Farrell and Christian Bale. After the camera stopped rolling, he would quietly just stand there until further directions. This is different from the free spirited, boisterous and energetic Alex we know today, huh? It’s because of men like Collin Farrell and Christian Bale, Alex says, who tried to make him feel at ease, from throwing his arm freely around Alex, to simply buying Alex a drink. However, there was two pieces of advice that Christian and Collin gave Alex, both of which Alex has obviously kept in mind to maintain level-headedness in Hollywood. The first was “Not to take yourself too seriously,” which Alex does apply with his hilarious and embarrassing shenanigans on twitter, including dressing up as a woman, posing in his Spongebob PJs, getting a speeding ticket, a dog sniffing his crotch, sleeping on the job, being rejected on Valentine’s Day, locking himself in an optometrist’s bathroom, and being mistaken for a yard worker.

Then, suddenly, Alex comes out with deep thoughts like “you are what your deep driving desire is, as your desire is your will, as your will is your deed, as your deed is your destiny,” and “you are not a human being having a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being having a human experience,” which brings me to the last piece of advice that Christian and Collin left Alex, and that Alex now leaves us with:

“Be a student of life”