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Press Release from Summit Entertainment:

Summit Entertainment’s THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will be filmed in both Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Vancouver over the next year starting this fall. The next chapter of THE TWILIGHT SAGA will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011.

Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner along with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan as well as returning members of the Cullen Family including Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett.

The project, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.

‘Eclipse’ director David Slade has issued a Thank You to all Twilight Fans via the Twilight Facebook Page:

When you put your heart and soul into something as intense as the duration of a film production, you become completely lost in it. You focus on doing your very best to get it right each day and you work on this for so long that you assume an ownership of it.

When shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I always felt an awareness of how many people this film would reach and as a result, knew that this film did not just belong to myself, the producers and the studio, but more so, to all of you, the fans of The Twilight Saga.

Continue reading David Slade’s Thank You

Entertainment Weekly has just posted it’s review of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’.

Along with THR and Variety, EW seems to be liking the latest Twilight Saga film giving it a grade of B+

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is like some broodingly repressed wide-screen youth-pop melodrama from the 1950s — and I mean that as a compliment. The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren’t fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity. In case you haven’t been keeping up, the plot — and the blood — have thickened a lot since the first Twilight film two years ago. In that initial, relatively uncomplicated chapter, the ever-so-mildly dark and alienated Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) fell for the dashing vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) because of his pasty-faced erotic appeal (sideburns, James Dean hair, golden eyes, eternal stricken look), but also because he offered himself up as the ultimate protector: swoony and chivalrous, a spangly-skinned knight of the woods who vowed to guard her innocence.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20397975,00.html

Who doesn’t like free Twilight Swag??

Twilight Fan Source and Cafepress.com are giving one lucky reader the chance to win any t-shirt from the Cafepress.com Twilight Store!!

Want to win???

Here’s how:

1) Visit the Cafepress.com Twilight Store and find the shirt you want.

2) Come back to this post and leave a comment with a link to the shirt you what shirt you want (be sure to include size, color, etc) along with your email address   (please note that multiple entries will not increase your chance of winning).  I will pick one winner by random.

This contest will end on July 2, 201 at Midnight EDT.

We all know ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ is going to be big as far as box office numbers are concerned.  Currently, the movie is generating 82% of the daily sales on Fandango.com and is to date the highest advance ticket seller the site has had all year.

But, what kind of records/previous box office numbers will Eclipse have to beat out?

We already know ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ was one of 2009’s top earners with a box office total of $296.6 million, however its opening day total was record breaking, the film brought in $72.7 million on its opening day, $27 million of that was just from midnight showing.  ‘New Moon’s opening weekend was also massive with $142.8 for all 3 days.  ‘Eclipse’ has a slight advantage with that its opening on 1) a Wednesday 2) a holiday weekend (4^th of July), the film also doesn’t have much in the way of competition, the only other film opening this weekend is ‘The Last Airbender’.

There are other records to break, Last summer ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ nabbed the top spot for an Opening Day – Wednesday with $62 million.  Back in 2008 ‘The Dark Knight’ grossed $203.7 million during its 5 day opening and so far no one has topped that.  The highest ‘4^th of July’ weekend gross goes to ‘Spider Man 2’ with $88.1 million.

What does all this mean for ‘Eclipse’ in order to beat all those records listed above, ‘Eclipse’ will need to generate at least $203.8 million this weekend.  Now, the chances are slightly greater due to the film having a limited release in IMAX, which does have its higher ticket prices.

Twilight Fans are known to see the movie during repeat viewings over opening weekend, so hopefully with the holiday weekend, IMAX viewings, and the multiple viewing I know Twilight fans are sure to do, there is a good chance ‘Eclipse’ could be the biggest earner during this rather bleak “Blockbuster” summer.