Taking a Twilight Bite Out of the New Moon Rumors

by Larson Hill

Now that a lot of rumors surrounding the Twilight sequel New Moon have been proven false, it’s kind of funny to traverse the web and look back at the apparent and so-called bogus New Moon craziness. The latest to come down the Twilight pike is the revelation by Ashley Tisdale that Vanessa Hudgens never auditioned for New Moon at all. Since we live in an online entertainment age where the gap between confirmation and speculation has been reduced to minutes, if not seconds, it’s become increasingly difficult for larger, mainstream entertainment outlets to prevent from getting out-scooped by smaller websites that number in the thousands. In fact, it’s easier than ever for fans to get Twilight hoodwinked and New Moon hornswaggled now that the web seems to be one big message board.

Given the massive popularity of the Stephenie Meyer based Twilight saga and its upcoming big screen adaptations of New Moon and Eclipse, there’s such a groundswell of demand for New Moon that outlets, websites, blogs - you name it - are jumping on any shred of Twilight related information, true or false. The interesting thing is that when you strip away all of the rumors and gossip about New Moon, there’s very little real or official “news” on a weekly basis from a headline to newsworthy information ratio.

Here’s a deeper look inside some of the Twilight and New Moon rumors that we’ve seen in recent months and a few questions that came to mind before and after all of the apparent and alleged innuendo:

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