Twilight is continuing it's press promotional tour with premieres in the UK, Paris and Germany. The movie has been so successful that the sequel New Moon was greenlit and an Edward and Bella doll line was launched.
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Despite Twilight's record-breaking $70 million opening — the highest ever for a movie directed by a woman — director Catherine Hardwicke is out for the upcoming sequel. What happened? According to an insider, Catherine clashed with Stephenie Meyers, the author of Twilight and New Moon, who wants the sequel to stay truer to the second book. And Catherine also butted heads with star Robert Pattinson. source
There have been some behind the scenes comments that Catherine Hardwicke's success as a female director on what has turned into a blockbuster series has not caused her to hit a proverbial "glass ceiling" in the industry. There are now rumors that the offer to direct the Twilight sequel has been made to Chris Weitz who directed About a Boy and the Golden Compass.
Yes, he's had tremendous success working with tweens and teens (About A Boy as director and writer, American Pie as producer and uncredited director). But Chris Weitz also did The Golden Compass (as writer and director), and my source says Summit Entertainment liked the look of that even if it didn't heat up the domestic box office (but did better overseas). I don't have official confirmation yet that this Twilight sequel offer has gone out to Weitz. But my insider says another reason it came down is because Weitz and Summit's president of production Eric Feig are longtime pals. The source tells me Weitz is "still considering" the offer to helm New Moon and possibly also Eclipse if the sequel and threequel movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's series of vampire books are made back-to-back. But let's also not forget Weitz's behavior on Golden Compass. On December 15, 2004, Weitz announced his resignation as director of the trilogy, citing the enormous technical challenges of the epic and later admitting he was worried about dissing by the book's fans. source
EXCLUSIVE: So the rumors are true. I've confirmed that Summit Entertainment has rejected Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke from heming the sequel in this big new franchise. No doubt my news will speed up the studio's announcement, and Summit will surely spin this as all going down amicably along the lines that "she couldn't fit the film into her time frame". (Summit does want a ridiculously speeded-up sked for the next installment.) But this terrible news for Hardwicke comes just as she and the Twilight cast are on their European press tour. Tomorrow's interviews in France will now focus entirely on what, if anything, Catherine did to deserve this treatment. source
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Watch the third Binside TV Twilight fan series episode. Robert Pattinson talks about his vampire role at the red carpet premiere for the smash hit. Binside TV took a trip to Twilight star Robert Pattinson's handprint ceremony at Planet Hollywood in New York City. Diehard Twilighter fans screamed for joy to catch glimpse of the the handsome Robert Pattinson who plays Edward Cullen in the hit vampire saga by Stephenie Meyer. Watch for the first video in our Twilight fan series about Edward Cullen and Bella. Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke is now playing in theaters. Download and watch the other episodes in the Binside TV Twilight fan series if you missed them. We would like to mention that the Planet Hollywood Twilight Fan Cam footage in Episode 3 was shot by diehard Twilighter Cassie Snyder.
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A wildly popular vampire love story bit into the box office with a vengeance, helping to deliver a banner weekend for the industry as Hollywood brushed off one of the worst weeks ever on Wall Street.
" Twilight," the film that drew scores of fans of Stephenie Meyer's vampire book series, delivered on the advance hype, generating $70.5 million in domestic box office receipts during its opening weekend, marking the fourth best November opening weekend of all time.
That's an extraordinary result for an independently produced film that cost just $37 million to make and was passed over by Paramount's MTV Films.
ndeed, Hollywood was confounded by the popularity of the film, which tells the story of a "Romeo & Juliet" type romance between a mortal and a vampire. Estimates of the movie's opening had ranged wildly from $35 million to $60 million.
"This certainly exceeded our expectations by a great deal," said Richie Fay, president of domestic distribution for Summit Entertainment. "The fan base was huge."
Summit is a new independent distributor and finance company that until recently had struggled to establish its footing in Hollywood but now has plenty of bragging rights.
"Twilight" contributed to a strong weekend at the box office, where revenues have been running slightly ahead of last year. The top 12 films grossed $137.6 million, up 16% over the same weekend a year ago, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media by Numbers.
"This is another example of how the economy has not slowed people at all from going to watch movies," he said. "We're set up to have one of the biggest Thanksgiving weekends ever." source
Summit Entertainment's low cost blockbuster Twilight opened huge as expected because of heavy pre-sales with $35.8M Friday. But the front-loaded pic dropped a big but expected 41% to $21M Saturday. (Similarly front loaded Sex And The City also had a big Friday to Saturday fall...)With an estimated $13.6M Sunday from 3,419 theaters, including $7M worth of Thursday midnight shows, Twilight will end up with $70.5M for its first North American weekend in release. Exit polling showed audiences were 75%/25% female to male, and 55%/25% under or over the age of 25. Fangirls -- or should I say fang-girls -- were buying 5 Twilight tickets per second as of early Friday morning, making it online ticket-seller Fandango's fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight last July. Then the tween and teen females in store bought or homemade Twilight clothes (and even Twilight tattoos) flocked to the first Big Screen version of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series of Romeo & Juliet-style vampire romance books. Yet the movie adaptation by Melissa Rosenberg was made by start-up studio Summit for only $37M. This will be the start of a big new franchise since a sequel is already in the works -- New Moon, based on Meyer's second book in the series. The first box office records have already been broken by Twilight's girl power. This is the biggest opening for a female director. Catherine Hardwicke is easily beating Mimi Leder's $41.1M for 1998's Deep Impact. source
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