Twilight Lexicon has some updates numbers and interesting facts of the Twilight premiere.

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES

Domestic:	$150,045,826	81.0%
+ Foreign:	$35,272,100	19.0%
= Worldwide:	$185,317,926

FACTS
- Twilight is the third most popular women’s focused film this year right behind Momma Mia and Sex in the City. It should easily overtake Momma Mia this weekend, and Sex in the City by next weekend if not sooner.

- Twilight is the 12th highest grossing film this year and climbing. It should easily break the top ten by the end of the weekend. It will probably finish out in the number 7 slot or higher.

- The country outside the USA where Twilight is the biggest success is Italy where Twilight has brought in 12 million followed by Mexico at 6 million and Spain at 5 million

- The movie hasn’t opened yet in the UK, Ireland, Germany, and much of South America, all major Twilight hot spots.

- Twilight is the top grossing vampire movie of all time.

**Numbers updated, thanks to Lili Ju.

Hot ”Twilight” stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are hot under the collar — unhappy their director, Catherine Hardwicke, won’t be back to direct them in ”New Moon,” the next film based on Stephenie Meyer’s second novel in her megabest-selling vampire love story.

”They are both very upset,” a good Hollywood source told me Monday. ”They are committed to doing at least the next ‘Twilight’ film — and probably the one after that — but they really wanted to do them with Catherine.”

Stewart in particular, is furious about it, reportedly telling a close associate, ”I sure hope they don’t f— it up,” referring to the “New Moon” movie.

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There are some rumors that Chris Weitz will be the new director chosen by Summit to direct New Moon and Eclipse.
Personally I think that would be a bad ideia.

You know it’s a slow news day when we’re doing stories on who will be in the director’s chair for New Moon, the upcoming Twilight sequel that Catherine Hardwicke recently stepped away from due to creative differences.

Deadline Daily Hollywood are reporting that Summit have the project out to Golden Compass director Chris Weitz (About a Boy). There’s a chance New Moon and Eclipse, the third book in the series, will be shot back-to-back, and if so Weitz will be on board to direct both. Nothing is confirmed as of yet, though, so don’t start blogging about it or anything till we can tell you for sure

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Summit gave a press release yesterday at night, saying that Catherine will not be the director of New Moon.

Los Angeles, CA, December 7, 2008 – Summit Entertainment and director Catherine Hardwicke jointly announced today that the filmmaker will not be directing the next installment in the newly minted TWILIGHT film franchise. Summit’s targeted end of 2009 or early 2010 release of the film, NEW MOON, does not work with Ms. Hardwicke’s required prep time to bring her vision of the film to the big screen. Thus as has been done before with many successful film franchises, the studio will employ a new director for NEW MOON.

“I am sorry that due to timing I will not have the opportunity to direct NEW MOON,” said Hardwicke. “Directing TWILIGHT has been one of the great experiences of my life, and I am grateful to the fans for their passionate support of the film. I wish everyone at Summit the best with the sequel– it is a great story.”

“Catherine did an incredible job in helping us to launch the TWILIGHT franchise and we thank her for all of her efforts and we very much hope to work with her on future Summit projects,” said Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production. “We as a studio have a mandate to bring the next installment in the franchise to the big screen in a timely fashion so that fans can get more of Edward, Bella and all of the characters that Stephenie Meyer has created. We are able to pursue an aggressive time frame as we have the luxury of only adapting the novels into screenplays as opposed to having to create a storyline from scratch.”

Twilight star Kristen Stewart is featured in the latest second annual issue of New Regime from BlackBook, which highlights emerging talent from film, fashion, music, art and literature.

The 18-year-old actress is featured amongst 25 other rising stars including Weeds hottie Hunter Parish and new IT model – ENIKO.

Kristen says of scripts that call to her, “I commit to projects that do something to my stomach. It’s all about what it does to your stomach when you read it.”

Source: Just Jared Jr.

With only 9 days in the theaters, Twilight is over the 100 Million Dollar mark:

Domestic: $119,688,000 – 92.4%
+ Foreign: $9,836,346 – 7.6%
= Worldwide: $129,524,346
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According to Acting Auditions, New Moon shooting begins in March, 2009:

“New Moon”, Summit Entertainment’s sequel to the highly successful feature film “Twilight”, is now currently in pre-production and casting directors are accepting photos and resumes from talent. Filming begins in March, 2009. Open casting calls will be posted here also, as soon as dates and locations are released.
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The marketing company that did all the marketing/promo for Twilight, The Cimarron Group, has their Twilight work up on the website, and under ‘Creative Content’ they include some extra feature that look like they’ll be on the DVD.

DVD Extra Content & Blu-Ray Features:
- Becoming Bella
- Becoming Edward
- Music: The Heartbeat of Twilight
- A Conversation with Stephanie Meyer
- The Adverture Begins: Twilight’s Journey – From Page to Screen
– The Beginning
– The Partnership: A Look At Pre-Production
– Vampires
– Capturing the Action: A Look At Production
– Vampire Baseball
– The Final Word on the Final Battle
– Putting It All Together: The Magic of Post-Prodcution

Thanks to Pika for the new.

With “Twilight” rising at the box office this weekend, Summit Entertainment has officially announced its first sequel, “New Moon,” Variety reported on Saturday.

“Twilight,” the teen vampire romance that’s generated an obsessive following among young audiences, earned $35.7 million on Friday, including a whopping $7 million from Thursday midnight screenings.

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Thanks to edward-cullen.net

USToday has some nice numbers about Twilight box office. Check it out!

You know you’ve got a big movie when the sequel is announced on opening weekend.

After months of anticipation among fans of the best-selling book, Twilight delivered in theaters over the weekend. It took in $70.6 million, according to estimates from Nielsen EDI.

“People have responded in a way we hoped but could have never expected,” says Summit’s Richie Fay. “I think we’ve got a solid start to a new franchise.”

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Rumors have been flying about who the “10,000 B.C.” star, Camilla Belle is dating. Currently the rumor in the tabloids is that she is currently dating Robert Pattinson. What do you guys think about this? Is this rumor true or false?