After this weekend’s record-shattering open­ing, “New Moon” is now offi­cially the biggest film of 2009. In a few months, it will inevitably become one of the biggest DVD releases of 2010.
So what can we expect from the “New Moon” DVD? Recently, we caught up with direc­tor Chris Weitz and got the scoop on the disc you’ll soon want sit­ting next to “Twi­light” on your shelf.
“There will be a com­men­tary track,” Weitz revealed, say­ing that he’ll soon head into the record­ing booth with his three big stars, Robert Pat­tin­son, Kris­ten Stew­art and Tay­lor Laut­ner. “It’ll just be us riff­ing off each other in our inti­mate way,” he grinned. “We kind of like each other, so that should be fun.”

In addi­tion, fans can look for­ward to pick­ing up a copy of “Twi­light in Forks,” the inde­pen­dently made doc­u­men­tary that teased fans with brief glimpses of its explo­ration into the real-life town that inspired Stephe­nie Meyer, only to be snatched up by Sum­mit in Sep­tem­ber. An insider told MTV recently that the film will not be re-edited but will hit DVD along­side “New Moon” with all-new pack­ag­ing and artwork.
Judg­ing by the insa­tiable appetite of Twi­lighters, they’ll be fill­ing DVD stores in the first quar­ter of 2010, eager to glimpse the deleted scenes Weitz plans to unveil for the first time.
“There will be prob­a­bly about 20 min­utes of deleted mate­r­ial,” he explained, promis­ing some meaty footage. “It really is good stuff and a bonus for the fans.”
Among this bonus footage could be sev­eral moments MTV knows were shot but did not make the final “New Moon” cut, including:
» A scene with Rachelle Lefevre as Vic­to­ria dri­ving to Forks in a car, snack­ing on a dead human. It was one of the final moments the actress filmed as the nomadic vampire.
» A scene with the human char­ac­ters eat­ing Burger King.
» Another scene with the humans, this time with Justin Chon and Michael Welch express­ing jeal­ousy over Edward’s car.
» More scenes with the Vol­turi in Italy.
» An extended cut of the scene where Mike New­ton quotes Shake­speare to Bella in the Forks High park­ing lot; in it, he does a Mar­lon Brando impersonation.
» Scenes allud­ing to the ongo­ing breakup between Michael Welch's Mike and Anna Kendrick’s Jessica.
“When I made the film, I wanted it to arrive at a cer­tain kind of flow and cadence,” Weitz said of why he had to leave so many scenes on the cutting-room floor but hopes to restore many for the DVD. “[They would have affected] how the movie worked, and they didn’t com­pletely fit. But there’ll be some groovy stuff in [the DVD].”