The Twilight Saga: New Moon

It was speculated something such and the makers of the vampire saga were not let down. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” wolfed $140.7 million in its opening weekend. On the first three days the movie minted total $258.8 million worldwide as per reports of studio estimates on Sunday.

A year back “Twilight”, the first installment of Stephenie Meyer’s popular vampire series, grossed $69.6 million haul over the same weekend. A year after the picture was completely changed. The No. 1 domestic debut for Summit Entertainment’s “New Moon” was more than twice.

“Obviously, with the success of ‘Twilight’ itself, sequels being what they are will generate X-number of dollars more, particularly if it’s a satisfying sequel”, Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit, was quoted as saying.

“New Moon” ranked third on the all-time domestic chart, with Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” ranking 1st with a gross of $158.4 million opening weekend and “Spider-Man 3″ ranking 2nd with a gross of $151.1 million. On the opening day itself, “New Moon” earned $72.7 million, which is an all time domestic high for opening day. This surpassed the previous record of $67.2 million by last year’s “The Dark Knight”. “New Moon” is also the second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever in Hollywood, the top being none other than the July 18, 2008 release of “The Dark Knight”.

Outside “New Moon” debuted in 25 countries and took in $118.1 million over the first weekend. There was no doubt that “New Moon” would emerge this big.

The third installment of Meyer’s next “Twilight” chapter, “Eclipse,” arrives in the heart of summer, next June 30 and is expected to do as big as this.

Twilight had showcased the supernatural teen romance between a school girl and a vampire (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson) and New Moon adds a love triangle with a werewolf (Taylor Lautner) to the plot. Both the films have been hot favorite among female fans resulting to around 80% of the audience for “New Moon” being female. The “Twilight” franchise “taps into something primal and visceral that drives women crazy, and they’re willing to pay for the privilege” commented Dergarabedian. The viewers for the film were mostly young who apparently left to chance to fall in love with vampire and werewolf heartthrobs.

The five films that grossed highest during last weekend are:

1. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” ($140.7 million)
2. “The Blind Side” ($34.5 million)
3. “2012″ ($26.5 million)
4. “Planet 51″ ($12.6 million)
5. “A Christmas Carol” ($12.2 million)

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Its a one year anniversary of the most popular vampire movie “Twilight” and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson remembers how they were simply floored by the welcome they received from thousands of eager fans of the the Stephenie Meyer’s book. Throngs of fans had gathered to greet the stars at the premiere of the big-screen adaptation.

At the same location the stars were caught unveiling the sequel “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” amid thousands of eager fans. Monday night in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Kristen Stewart and the hottest vampire on screen, Robert Pattinson arrived for the premiere of their forthcoming film. The stars, surrounded by fans waiting for them impatiently, quite knew what was coming their way this time.

“I’m not as scared as I was last year. At some point, the security guy said, ‘This is very unsafe.’ And I was like, ‘Uh.’ Other than that, everything was cool”, Stewart said while she signed autographs finding moments out of her very short visit.

The biggest heartthrob and “The Sexiest Man Alive”, Robert Pattinson, said the crowed was much larger than the previous year’s and this they had expected. “And it seems different to me because we have done this world tour in the last week and it has just been unbelievable in every single city. It is about 10 times bigger than any other city in the world”, the star, who plays Edward Cullen in the movie, added.

A group of fans who called themselves as “Twi-Hards” reached the venue on early Thursday afternoon to secure a place in the line for get the tickets to watch their favorite stars’ arrivals on the red carpet from close.

Taylor Launter, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

The “Twilight: New Moon” stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Launter finally landed in Tokyo for the promotion of the film. New Moon will hit the theaters on November 20th. The stars have been recently all over from Vancouver to Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Brazil and finally to Tokyo promoting their film. And all these in less than a week’s time. Well, it almost requires a vampires sleeping habit to carry on with such a routine.

Rob, Stewart and Launter arrived in Japan early Tuesday morning. The photographs of the stars soon were all over the internet. The most handsome vampire on screen arrived at the press conference in a sharp dark suit. The 23 year old actor spoke about their forthcoming release, New Moon, at the event sponsored by Volvo. Rob was later joined by Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who arrived straight from Brazil.

All the three tried too look less tired but it seems that they only get to sleep once in a “New Moon”. Rob, Stewart and Launter have been really busy with their last minute promotion of Twilight’s first sequel to be released on 20th November.

Pattinson, the heartthrob of millions across the globe, wore a charcoal suit, a deep chocolate shirt, brown striped skinny tie and fit brown shoes. Ahem! Rob is a perfect Englishman, no doubt about that! Kristen Stewart flaunted a short black leather-esque number with a fitted bodice, barely-there straps and a jagged ivory hem. Bella surely looked romantic and sensuous! Taylor Lautner simply stole the hearts of all those present all in black.

With “New Moon” all set to hit the theaters on 20th, Summit Entertainment has already decided to re-release “Twilight”. The first sequel of the vampire series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, is highly anticipated to win the heart of millions again. Twilight will be re-released on 19th, a day before New Moon’s release.

Twilight and New Moon all set to release

Summit is right now negotiating with US Theater Operators about the number of screens they will allow or make available for a one night show for Twilight. The blockbuster vampire film will be screened for a single night. A reliable source reports that some of the theaters have also agreed upon selling tickets of Twilight as a discounted rate, while the other theaters might charge full rate. There is also news of Twilight being screened at the same venue where New Moon will open on November 20th.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the modern vampire love tale “Twilight” is a film based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling teen book series. Starring Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella, the movie went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year generating a sum of $383.5 million in worldwide ticket sales. Twilight also sold about 8 million DVDs in US and Canada alone.

The decision of re-releasing Twilight has been souly taken to gratify the demands of the fans who wanted to see the film on the big screen again, reported the summit. Speculations are going on that double ticket sales from both “Twilight” and “New Moon” would be a highly beneficial to Summit. This will also benifit the Theater owners.

New Moon

The “Twilight” saga promises to keep its fans glued to their seats through every possible means. The music of New Moon has been released and the fans have already given it a green signal. In fact the music of New Moon fulfills the hype as the most awaited soundtrack of the year.

The sound track of Twilight’s forthcoming sequel, New Moon, brings in the alt/indie-rock genre. Well known names such as Death Cab For a Cutie, The Killers, Muse, Bon Iver and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have come together to create this fascinating music. Following the innense success of Twilight’s music, the producers didn’t want to take any risk with the upcoming sequel.

The soundtrack of New Moon gives its audience a change to experience elements of the ridiculous and supernatural: vampires, werewolves and the rush of adrenaline. The producers promises to give the fans a chance to hear some of the music clubbing together the supernatural and depression.  There is a rare mix of songs that avoids the already familiar tunes. It would definitely be an unforgettable experience to hear those left-of-center rock right from the beginning till the end.

Groovy female voice and electronic fairy tale soaked melodies gives you the perfect paranormal feel while you watch Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart make romance. As a whole the music of New Moon will drive you through the rural and snowy countryside, sometimes giving you ample comfort and sometimes setting your spine on fire. A magical surrealism brings alive the melodrama between Bella, Edward and Jacob.

New "New Moon" Posters

New “New Moon” posters are available on the net and fans from all over the world are downloading them at large. “New Moon” is all set to hit the screen on November 20th. Months before its release the production house of the film have released  some larger-than-life stills from their Twilight sequel to give some more of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to you.

The Summit Entertainment released three new outdoor banners featuring Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, Stewart’s Bella Swan, Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black and other starts from the “Twilight” family. The most popular poster shows Edward and Bell embracing each other along with  other vampires like Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene), Rosalie Hale (Nikki Reed), Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz), Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Esme Cullen (Elizabeth Reaser) in the background.

The second poster shows Jane (Dakota Fanning) standing in front. She is looking deadly yet innocent. Fanning is followed by Aro (Michael Sheen), who is the founder of the Volturi, Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower), Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl) and Jane’s brother Alec (Cameron Bright).

The third poster is lethal showcasing the wolf pack of Northwest Native Americans. The whole focus of the poster is on Lautner. Behind him are Sam Uley (Chaske Spencer), Embry Call (Kiowa Gordon), Paul (Alex Meraz) and Jared (Bronson Pelletier).

The posters were initially designed for New York and Los Angeles to be used for outdoor bus shelters and other spots. But it has also been posted on the Web and is widely being downloaded.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

The news keeps flowing in of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s intimacy. The latest update is that the couple are said to be truly in “In Love” again.

With New Moon all set to hit the screen soon, the flames of love between the two Twilighters have swayed in a lot of attention to the couple. A reliable source have shortly reported that Pattinson and Stewart have quite dramatically fallen for each other. It is also suggesting a strong threat to the the success of the film after its release this November.

The news must have broken hearts of millions of teenagers who are said to be in love with the duo across the globe. More so, the heartthrob of countless girls, Robert Pattinson, might lose his popularity due to this. So check out Rob before you indulge into something serious.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been spotted together publicly everywhere from dinner dates to music concerts and premiere shows.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

All the Twilight stars like Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and all the others are all set to get real close and personal with the millions of fans across the world.

Inspired by the raging success of the “Star Trek”, the Summit Entertainment, which is the movie producer of “Twilight”, is planning to set up a series of new formulas for Twilight fans over the next three years during the course of the film series’ run.

The convention will begin on August 28th just outside New York at the Hilton Parsippany Hotel in Parsippany, N.J. The several other conventions will take place in Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Nashville, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Charlotte, N.C., Minneapolis, Phoenix, Boston, Toronto and Portland, Ore.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Summit Entertainment has joined hands with Creation Entertainment to create the “Twilight” fan conventions. The conventions will closely replicate the extremely successful Star Trek conventions that have very successfully carried off to keep that franchise popularly alive for over 40 years.

The Twilight conventions will sport onstage appearances by “Twilight” stars including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, screenings of exclusive footage from the Twilight Sequel, panel discussions, parties, musical performances, costume and trivia competitions, auctions, autographing, merchandising and photo opportunities.

The Twilight Stars

This is a grand news for all those crazy fans of Twilight. The whole star cast of the film will be seen at the Teen Choice Awards. After presenting a lot of fun filled moments at the MTV Movie Awards earlier this year, now, its time for the audience at the Teen Choice to get entertained.

The younger fans would certainly be happy and many would also start planning up for the night of Nickelodeon’s Teen Choice Awards to catch glimpse of the Twilight stars. The award is scheduled to be held on August 10th, which is on Monday. The Twilight stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, and Kellan Lutz are all set to appear and dazzle the show.

Until now Taylor Lautner is the only star who has been scheduled to present an award at the show. But we can certainly expect the producer to fit in more actors from the film to help the ratings of Teen Choice Awards go high.

The biggest blockbuster of 2008, Twilight, has received a maximum number of nominations this year, which includes: Choice Romance Movie, Best Villain (Cam Gigandet), Fresh Face Female (Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed), Fresh Face Male (Taylor Lautner), Liplock (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson), and Rumble (Robert Pattinson and Cam Gigandet). And we bet the film will sweep away all.

Besides showcasing the Twilighters, the award show will all feature the cast of Glee, Megan Fox, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Vanessa Hudgens. Not only the teens, we too are waiting anxiously for the night.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

The New Moon stars have enough hanged around in  Vancouver alleys and dive bars. Now the whole cast and crew have packed up their bags and baggages and have headed towards Italy. Well its almost the whole gang that have been spotted in Italy.

Teen wolf Taylor Lautner who  was sent back to Los Angeles was spotted enjoying at the local Burbank Olive Garden in Italy last week. But the biggest buzz of the town now is that the most charming vampire on screen, Robert Pattinson was spotted dining with his lady love, Kristen Stewart, from the film Twilight, in a cozy restaurant in Italy.

Rob, who was in Cannes attending the International Film Festival there, flew to Italy to join his ladies Ashley Greene and Kristen Stewart, who made the trek from Vancouver. Right after the shoot Ashley headed towards the pool for some cool swim. But Rob and Stewart didn’t miss the chance to delve into some Italian gastronomies and enjoy a romantic lunch together. Well the lunch didn’t seem as private as it should have. The couple were also followed by cast and crew and paparazzi.

A recent report have stated that Robert Pattinson is all set to play a soldier-turned-journalist in the upcoming film Bel Ami and Radar.