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True, he'd already made one iconic teen movie. But Twilight fans were initially shocked when American Pie director Chris Weitz was handed the reins for New Moon. TIME spoke with Weitz about his immersion in the Twilight world, dealing with Internet rumors and winning over the fans in the run-up to New Moon's Nov. 20 release...
...reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie. I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too. I tried not to take it personally. I just tried to reassure the fans as much as I could, I even wrote a letter. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it. I gathered from people who were monitoring the fan sites that people were willing to give me a shot. After that, I figured the next message was going...
...much do you pay attention to what the fans are saying on the Web? During shooting I tried to not go onto the Internet at all if possible. I started to pay attention to fan reaction to the trailers that have been out and what kind of stuff they like, just in order to get a temperature of where things were heading. I think you end up being a politician responding to polls if you pay too much attention to the Internet. Because it's a quick way to convince yourself that one particular person who happens to be Twittering...
Loth, who first covered Dukakis during his campaign for governor in 1974 and went on to work for several Boston-area newspapers, talked about the changing dynamics of the media industry with the advent of the Internet and around-the-clock coverage...
...country the broadcast networks did not carry the feed. The White House website streamed the video, but it was not immediately apparent that any of the major Chinese Web portals had done the same. A TIME reporter tried to find Chinese residents watching the event in Beijing Internet cafés, but a survey of a half-dozen establishments found no one watching. Customers were playing online games instead...