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The Twilight Saga

The Twilight Saga is a series of five romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $3 billion in worldwide receipts and consists, to date, of five motion pictures. The first installment Twilight was released on November 21, 2008. The second installment, New Moon, followed on November 20, 2009, breaking box office records as the biggest midnight screening and opening day in history, grossing an estimated $72.7 million. The third installment, Eclipse, was released on June 30, 2010, and was the first Twilight film to be released in IMAX. Eclipse grossed close to $700 million. The two-part adaptation of Breaking Dawn began shooting in November 2010 with November 18, 2011, and November 16, 2012, release dates. Breaking Dawn Part I grossed over $700 million worldwide and Breaking Dawn Part II beat that with over $800 million in worldwide box office revenue. Additionally, the movies have generated over $650 million dollars of revenue in DVD sales.

The series was in development since 2004 at Paramount Pictures, during which time a screen adaptation of Twilight that differed significantly from the novel was written. Three years later, Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the film. After Twilight grossed $35.7 million on its opening day, Summit Entertainment announced they would begin production on New Moon; they had acquired the rights to the remaining novels earlier that same month.

Trivia

  • The author of the original books, Stephenie Meyer, has a cameo appearance in the first and fourth movies. In the first movie, she is seen next to a laptop ordering a sandwich in the diner at the beginning of the scene where Charlie asks Bella if she likes the boys in town. In the fourth movie, she is one of the wedding guests when Bella gets married.
  • The movie, New Moon, was released in the United States during a "new moon".

 

 

 

 

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