We have many updates for you regarding our NewMoonMovieRelease.com event! For those that don’t know, TwilightersAnonymous.com is having a Movie Release Event for New Moon movie here in the Bay Area/San Francisco, CA. We’ve posted it here a little over a month ago. Since then, our event has grown and has received many ticket sales. Our event was even featured on the radio! Since we’ve heavily promoted and marketed the event, many vendors and sponsors have approached us to be a part of our event so now we have a lot of swag to give to our attendees!

Other exciting news!

• Our event has also been extended! Doors open at 930pm but event starts at 10pm and it’ll be 2 hours of fun! With New Moon movie showing at midnight.
• Mitch Hansen Band has a video just for us of them performing their hit song, “Jacob Black”
• Fans will enjoy a complete Red Carpet Experience entrance to our event!
• We have books provided by Scholastic for EVERYONE! Some of the books are Shiver, The Vampire’s not that into you, Kith Good Neighbors, and Lips Touch
• Hot Topic and Cafe Press are both providing amazing prize packs! So much swag!

Here’s the event details overview:

When: November 19, 2009

Time: NOW EXTENDED! Party begins at 10:00 pm with movie following at 12:00 am
Where:Brenden Theaters in Concord, 1985 Willow Pass Road, Concord, CA 94520. MAP: CLICK HERE
Cost: $19*
Includes: Movie, party time activities, goodie bags, and a chance to win door prizes!

Tickets are still for sale but won’t last long as seats are filling up fast!

Hurry since the last day to purchase tickets is November 18 at 10pm -pst

Goodie Bags:
- 1st 200 Purchased Tickets Get Xtra Goodies!
- Randomly Chosen 40 Bags Get Twilight Edition Scene It DVD Board Game!
- Also Featuring Hot Topic, Phone Charms, New Moon Bookmarks, Decals, Candy And More!

Door Prizes:
- Hot Topic Prize Packages
- Cafe Press Prize Packages
- Gold Ticket & Weekend Convention Passes
- Twilight Music Packages Feat. Mitch Hansen Band & Twilight Music Girls
- Movie Posters And Autographed Items

Activities:
- Play Twilight Scene It
- Be Bella Photo Opportunity
- Pin The Tail On Jacob
- Sign The Forks High Yearbook
- Watch An Exclusive Video Of Performances, Cast Member Message And More!

PLUS! Merchandise will be available for sale! Still in time for the holidays!

Hope to see many of you there!

Below are the prizes:

First Prize:
One (1) first prize winner will receive:

• A personalized Phone Greeting from Mitch
• A copy of the Limited Edition Endless Day CD
• A personally signed poster of Mitch Hansen and Brent Cook
• And a personally designed “one of a kind” T-Shirt from the band exclusively for the winner!

Second Prize:
One (1) second prize winner will receive:

• A signed poster and limited edition Endless Day CD

Third Prize:
One (1) third prize winner will receive:

• An Endless Day CD

Contest Instructions:

• Winning is easy! In 200 words or less, write an essay telling us which Mitch Hansen Band song is your favorite and and why the song should be on the New Moon soundtrack!
• To enter, follow these steps:
  1. Click on the ENTER CONTEST link below or CLICK HERE

  2. Fill out the form completely with your contact information and make sure to include your essay submission.

  • FULL NAME
  • EMAIL
  • LOCATION (CITY, STATE)
  • ESSAY

  3. Hit SUBMIT ESSAY

  4. Then click on the SIGN UP FOR MITCH HANSEN’S NEWSLETTER

Rules:

Deadline: All entries must be submitted by Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 12pm PST.

We know our TA’ers are a creative bunch so we can’t wait to receive the submissions and see what you all come up with.

GOOD LUCK!

ENTER CONTEST

Edit: This contest is now closed. Any submissions sent in after this point will be discarded. To view the winners, click here.

We have super exciting news to bring you TA’ers! The Twilight-inspired group, Mitch Hansen Band, will be joining us on May 27th for an exclusive video chat interview! Not only are they going to grant us a live video chat interview, but they will also be performing a few lives songs for us!

You may know the Mitch Hansen Band from their super-popular song “Jacob Black” on YouTube. If you haven’t heard the song click here.

Mitch Hansen and Brent Cook make up the Mitch Hansen Band.

Mitch has been writing songs since the age of 12. He explains how he began writing Twilight related music:

“My day job put me in the path of an unknown book around August of 2007. That book was Twilight. I had never heard of it or anything about, so I turned it over and checked out the back. “Vampires!” I thought, “Cool!” I decided to give it a try and I was hooked instantly. I read all three books in about a week, which is a lot of reading for someone who doesn’t read a ton.

After finishing Eclipse I was playing guitar and messing around with a little finger-picking riff I wrote. My wife walked by and said, “Hey, that sounds cool. Does it have any words yet?” I told her, “No,” and she suggested that I write some lyrics about Bella and Edward. The books were very fresh in my mind and I thought that was a pretty sweet idea! That’s how the song Twilight Hour was born.

I was interested to see how the public would react to such a crazy idea, so I created a MySpace music page for fun and posted the song. It was very well-received, so I figured another song was in order. The reactions continued to be positive, so I just kept on writing Twilight songs. After a while I it became apparent that I needed to make these songs available to everyone. I went to work in my studio (a walk-in closet) and after nearly a month of work, the CD was done and Twilight Hour the album was released on December 21, 2007. By January it was available on iTunes and to my complete shock, people started buying it!”

Mitch on playing the songs live:

“I needed another guitar player to recreate the sounds from the CD. The search began, and luckily I didn’t have to look too far to find the right man for the job.

A coworker of mine told me that her son played guitar and that he was very good. “Riiiiiiiight,” I thought. I’ve heard that from plenty of doting mothers before. I decided to see if he was the real deal or not, though. To my amazement, he wasn’t just good, he was awesome, and he was a nice guy, too! So, not long after that Brent and I made our stage debut with the help of our friend, Taylor, on the bass guitar. Though we still weren’t an official “band” yet, we continued to play small clubs and acoustic-style shows for a while. Brent became an official member of the Mitch Hansen Band in May of 2008 and we just kept on doing our thing for the next few months.”

Endless Day was released in December 2008 - a collection of 10 songs from Twilight Hour fully re-recorded and remastered in a recording studio.

Read more about the Mitch Hansen Band here.

Listen to their music on MHB’s MySpace Page.

The Mitch Hansen Band will be at Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium June 25-28th where they will again be performing LIVE just for us! (More info on Summer School in Forks.)

Make sure to tune into the chat because we will be releasing details on a Mitch Hansen Band-sponsored, TA Exclusive Contest that will run next month! They are contributing some HUGE prize packages to the TA winners, and during the interview, the Mitch Hansen Band will reveal the great prizes.

Please sign up/register for UStream account before the event (it’s free to sign up!) You will need your user name and password to participate in the live interview/chat.

Interview will happen at: May 27, 2009 @ 6 p.m. Pacific (9 p.m. Eastern)