News about Twilight

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New Moon' Already Setting Ticket Sales Record
by Matt McDaniel · November 18, 2009
Summit Entertainment's 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'

The film doesn't start spooling through projectors until midnight Thursday, but "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is already setting records for ticket sales.

Online ticket seller Movietickets.com announced today that the second "Twilight" movie has taken the top spot on their list of the "Top 10 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time." It passed the record set four years ago by "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith." Even established franchises like "The Lord of the Rings," "Harry Potter" and "The Dark Knight" couldn't match the early sales of this highly anticipated sequel.

"New Moon" also became the top pre-selling movie ever for the other major online ticket seller, Fandango.com. Both Movietickets.com and Fandango report that the movie accounts for 94% of all the tickets currently being sold on their sites.

Fandango also points out that its second-highest ticket seller yesterday was Thursday night's re-release of "Twilight," which is playing in some theaters before "New Moon" debuts at midnight.

While many of the earliest screenings of the film have been sold out for weeks, Movietickets.com is quick to note that there are still thousands of tickets still available for other showings this weekend. There has been speculation that news stories of advance sellouts for "Michael Jackson's This Is It" kept some potential viewers at home on its opening weekend last month.


And this is an article/news report on NPR:

Sexing Up The PG-13 Vampire ... But Not Too Much

by Beth Accomando

November 18, 2009



Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a still from The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
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Robert Pattinson as a vampire heartthrob, with Kristen Stewart in a still from New Moon.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a still from The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Courtesy of Summit Entertainment

Robert Pattinson as a vampire heartthrob, with Kristen Stewart in a still from New Moon.
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November 18, 2009 from KPBS

Unless you've been living under a cultural rock, you probably know that New Moon, the second installment in the wildly successful Twilight human-vampire romantic saga, opens Friday.

This time around, brooding vampire Edward must compete with werewolf Jacob for the attentions of Bella, the human heroine of the books and movies.

But with its sexy-but-chaste leads, this teen bodice-ripper series may be sending its target audience of teen and tween girls a mixed message, some fans say.

Then And Now

Back in the '70s and '80s, Hollywood preached a clear message in its teen horror films: have sex and die; stay a virgin and live.

"Let's look to Halloween," says Kevin Doughty, 17, referring to a classic example of the genre. "Jamie Lee Curtis, virgin through the entire movie. Lived."

A student at Mount Miguel High School in Spring Valley, Calif., Doughty thinks the Twilight films promote conflicting values. Bella and her vamp boyfriend, Edward, don't have sex, but in one scene, Edward comes into her room at night to watch her sleep in her underwear.

" I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore," Edward says to Bella. "Then don't," she responds.

Chastity Sells?

But Mykah Johnson, a senior at Mount Miguel, insists that Twilight is all about the romance.

When I watch the movie, I don't think about sex. It's like totally innocent to me. I feel like I'm watching an innocent vampire movie with teenagers.

- High school senior Mykah Johnson

"When I watch the movie, I don't think about sex," Johnson says. "It's like totally innocent to me. I feel like I'm watching an innocent vampire movie with teenagers."

Part of the appeal for female fans is that Edward makes caring for Bella more important than getting into her pants.

As a vampire, Edward has superstrength. But he's afraid he could hurt Bella if he loses control.

"When he crawled into her window and they were making out," Johnson says, "and yada yada yada, they were about to go for it. But he blows himself toward the wall, and he says he can't lose control when he's with her. So after that, their relationship got stronger."

Bloodthirsty Bad Boys

Mount Miguel student Sierra Haley, 17, thinks the Twilight movies are cheesy.

"It's just pathetic," Haley says. "If that was me, my friends would have slapped me. I think it's more like that they're in love with love, like, 'If you die, I'm gonna die.' Oh, it's just sad."

Fellow senior Jesus Gomez is a Twilight hater as well. He thinks Edward the sparkling vampire is lame, but he can see the appeal.

"I think girls just like the fact that he's acting like a bad boy," Gomez says.

Pop-culture vampires over the years have tended to be bad boys — from the oversexed vampires of HBO's adult-oriented True Blood series to the teen bloodsuckers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the more recent TV show The Vampire Diaries.

'Completely Selling Sex To Kids'

Sexual tensions heat up even more in the upcoming New Moon. In this installment, Edward leaves Bella. That provides an opening for Jacob — Bella's childhood friend, who happens to be a werewolf and is played by actor Taylor Lautner — to make his move.

"In New Moon, Edward's not even gonna matter," says Mount Miguel student Tashiya Harris. "It's all about Taylor."

Johnson agrees. "The fact that he comes in with his shirt off," she says with a laugh.

To which Doughty replies: "That's not selling sex to kids at all?"

"That is completely selling sex to kids," Doughty says. "You guys are contradicting yourselves. You say it is all about romance. But how is looking at Taylor Lautner without a shirt on romance at all?"

So if Twilight is trying to send a new message about teen abstinence, it might not be getting through.


So why do you think Twilight is generating this much news????

The way we're going to find out the reasons for people's love/obsession for the Twilight saga is by doing interviews with the people at the midnight premiere of New Moon on Friday, November 20. We are also going to interview other people and use polls to find out the reasons for the love of Twilight. We're going to post pictures, interviews with fans, interviews with the cast members, and towards the end a video (digital storytelling?) that shows why Twilight is the phenomenon it is. We would really like it if you would post comments about what you think about Twilight. Why do you watch or read the Twilight saga?

Here's some quotes from the cover of the Twilight DVD:

"A full-blown pop culture phenomenon."
"The most epic romance since Titanic."

How do you feel about these quotes?