Twilight Movie

Seeking to capitalize on the teen vampire movie craze it launched last year, Summit Entertainment will re-release its original "Twilight" movie Nov. 19, hours before the midnight debut of its highly anticipated sequel, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Summit is in talks with U.S. theater operators about how many screens they will make available, for a single night, to show the picture. The studio said some theaters would sell tickets for "Twilight" at a reduced price. A person familiar with the plan said other theaters might charge full price.

Robert Pattinson has all the traits of a Hollywood heartthrob -- photogenic features, a lovely British accent and a starring role as the brooding but devastatingly handsome good guy vampire Edward Cullen in "Twilight," the big-screen adaptation of the first installment in author Stephenie Meyer's wildly successful young-adult book series due in theaters Nov. 21. The only thing that doesn't quite fit? Pattinson is one seriously self-deprecating guy.

If you haven't heard about "Twilight" until now, then all we can say is congratulations on emerging from that coma. The movie, based on the first book in a bestselling series of novels by Stephenie Meyer, is about a girl, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who moves to the Northwest only to fall for the stunningly handsome and somewhat mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Edward's secret?

Catherine Hardwicke knew exactly what she was getting herself into when she signed on to direct the big-screen adaptation of "Twilight," the first installment in author Stephenie Meyer's bestselling young adult franchise about everygirl Bella Swan and her vampire beau Edward Cullen. The filmmaker had turned up to see the author on an L.A.-area stop on her 2007 book tour and witnessed firsthand the near hysteria the books inspire among legions of largely young, largely female readers.

That timeworn teenage vampire wooing ritual of taking your girl climbing high into the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest looks a lot simpler on screen in "Twilight" than it was in real life.

Mania is almost too sedate a term to describe the ongoing frenzy surrounding "Twilight," Stephenie Meyer's mega-hit young adult series about a devastatingly handsome vampire and the plain-Jane human he wants to sink his teeth into. Since 2005, when the first of the four books was published, more than 25 million copies of the "Twilight " saga have been sold worldwide. At least 350 fan sites have cropped up online. And the movie, which opened Nov.

There's no way to put a pretty frame around this picture. After Catherine Hardwicke delivered an immensely lucrative franchise starter with "Twilight," a film that will put Summit Entertainment on the map, wiping away all the company's other losses and missteps, she was rewarded by being pushed aside, with Summit making it clear over this past weekend that it's beginning work on a "Twilight" sequel without her. There is an enormously complicated back...

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