Twilight Saga Board Games & Scene-It Bundles
Posted by Ginger
The board games for Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse from Cardinal Games are being packaged up and re-released at a much lower price: $30 for the whole set.
You can pre-order the board game bundle now!
Also up for grabs is a trilogy of the DVD-based Scene-It board games. A new trilogy of the DVD Scene It games is clocking in at the same price!
[thanks FreezeBurn~TwilightGirlForever!]
Hey fangbangers, preview “Don’t Stop Bleeding” from True Twilight: A Glee Club Musical
Posted By Tai
**From the “You know it had to happen” files:
The kids over at Gorilla Tango Theatre have really got their finger on the pulse with True Twilight: A Glee Club Musical, premièring Sept. 1. Combining all the best camp from True Blood,Twilight, Glee, and High School Musical, this play should hit the spot for any fangbanger, Gleek, or respectable adult woman who thinks Robert Pattinson is the cat’s pajamas.
The plot’s wacky, so hang in there: Suckie Stickhouse moves to Wiccan Park and finds herself torn asunder by two swarthy but boring dudes, Ted Mullen and Shirts On The Ground. While she hems and haws over the impossible choice, she bides her time by trying out for the local musical, where she draws the ire of Rachel Sharpay, town priss. Hijinks ensue, songs are sung, and somehow Bill Nye The Science Guy helps solve everyone’s problems.
This collaborative effort runs Wednesdays through most of September, and is definitely over the top, with campy jokes about glitter dicks and fleeting virginity. But according to director Andrew Kraft, that’s the whole point. “It’s a silly parody,” he says. “Audiences are coming because they love the characters, and they want to watch people have a ton of fun doing the show.”
The A.V. Club popped in on dress rehearsal and caught some of the big musical climax, “Don’t Stop Bleeding.” Good luck getting this earworm to go away. It’s about to become your own personal brand of heroin.
Click on image below to watch the video:
Twilight Musical Parody: Grease Twilightin’
Posted By Tai
From the “Just when I thought I’d seen it all” files:
Eclipse Box Office Update
Posted by Ginger
The extremely awesome Larry411 has the latest box office numbers for Eclipse, as of Thursday August 26 -
UPDATE THURSDAY, AUGUST 26:
Box office numbers are in for Wednesday, August 25. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took in another $71,270 from 557 locations for a per theater average of $128, representing a decrease of 5.5% from Tuesday. This adds up to a cumulative domestic total of $297,439,330 after 57 days in release. Adding in overseas returns of $380.6M gives Eclipse a current worldwide total of $678,039,330.
Theater counts for the week of Friday, August 27 – Thursday, September 2 reflect a decrease of 81 for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to 476 locations, dropping it from #18 to #20.
For those comparing the films in The Twilight Saga, at this point in its release history (after 57 days) New Moon had taken in $291,550,109. Eclipse is now at $297,439,330. Both films hit the $250M mark on the 16th day. The total domestic gross for New Moon was $296,623,634 (after 132 days). Eclipse has now broken that total by $816,696 (after 57 days). The film is now within striking distance of the elusive $300M mark. It needs about $2.56M to get to that number. It took New Moon 22 more days to earn an additional $2.56M after its 57th day, and Eclipse is clearly doing better. On the other hand, New Moon was in 724 theaters after 57 days while Eclipse is dropping to 476 locations tomorrow. Still, even after New Moon’s theater count had dropped to 444 (after 63 days) it still went on to take in another $3.8M. Therefore, it should take no more than one more month for Eclipse to earn another $2.6M and pass $300M.
Now wouldn’t be a bad time to start planning for your DVD release parties. The street dates for Twilight and New Moon were both on day 121 of their theatrical runs (Saturdays). Following that line of thinking, Eclipse’s 121st day will be October 28th, a Thursday. The following Saturday would be October 30th — Halloween weekend. On the other hand, sources have told me that Summit is planning for a holiday season release — some say November while others say Christmas time.
Forks! Forks! Forks!
Posted By Tai
Here is something interesting I came across on YouTube. A tour of Forks from LiveSeattleOnline. This is great for all of you unfortunate enough, (like me) who haven’t had a chance to get to Forks yet. Hmmm… Think I’ll order me that Jacob Black Shake!
Here is a video about Forks from KalebNation:
Here is a video from 2008, but it’s a pretty good tour of Forks:
Forbes Magazine: Successful Author List 2010
Posted by Ginger
By Twilight_News |
Stephenie Meyer ranks second on Forbes Magazine’s successful author list. She’s number two, and right behind fellow megaseller James Patterson.
“Vampire romance author Stephenie Meyer ranks second this year. Her Twilight series has become such a juggernaut that despite not releasing a new title in 2009, she earned $40 million over the year. About $7 million of that came from the movies adapted from the Twilight series. In June the third Twilight installment pulled in $175 million in its first six days, the most successful first week of any movie of 2010.”
Other women authors on the list include JK Rowling, Danielle Steele, Janet Evanovich.
Twilight about to eclipse ‘New Moon!’
Posted by Ginger
Another box office milestone in the “Twilight” saga is about to howl at the moon as Summit Entertainment’s “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” prepares to suck the life out of its predecessor’s revenue generating superiority.
$296,623,634 is the total final domestic box office for “New Moon.” Through Tuesday, August 17 its successor, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” has a running total of $296,268,343 – a difference of $355,291. Here is the breakdown: earlier this week “Eclipse” earned $214,712 on Monday, August 16 and $211,187 on Tuesday, August 17.
If we conservatively put Wednesday’s gross at $200,000 and another $200,000 on Thursday, the film will surpass its box office brethren this Thursday. This is no small feat considering that “Eclipse” is the third film in the series, opened in the much more competitive summer movie season (the first two films opened in late November) and had a first weekend gross ($64.8 million) that was smaller than “New Moon’s” first day!
Clearly “New Moon” was no slouch at the box office when it debuted in late November of 2009 and it still holds the distinction of generating biggest single-day gross in history with $72.7 million, the third biggest weekend opening ever with $142.8 million and had the biggest opening weekend of any film released last year.
And even though these two films share much of the same cinematic DNA, their box office trajectory could not be more different. Notably, “New Moon’s” theatrical run was super front loaded with a final domestic total that was just 2 times its opening weekend gross of $142,839,137 whereas “Eclipse’s” running total will be 4.5 times its $64.8 million weekend debut.
The three main stars of the “Twilight” saga, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have all been richly rewarded for their role in all of this success (a $25 million payday awaits each for “Breaking Dawn”) and rightly so; this is probably one of the few instances where the stars are just as essential to the film’s success as the concept and are clearly worth their collective weight in box office gold.
For more on “Twilight” read my story from last June entitled The Twilight Saga is set for a total eclipse of the box office excerpted in part below:
“The Twilight Saga” has already established itself as one of the most successful movie franchises in box-office history and when the film opens on Wednesday, June 30, that reputation should be further solidified with huge lines of fans, press reports of fan fever, strong reviews and mind-blowing box-office numbers. All that and then we have “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” to look forward to on November 18, 2011.
Some Vampires Suck Stills
Posted By Tai
Here are some awesome stills from the “Vampires Suck” movie, that I can’t wait to see!
I Wanna Be a Vampire (Parody of Billionaire by Travie McCoy & Bruno Mars)
Posted By Tai
Check out this parody of Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars’ song “Billionaire” made into “I Want To Be A Vampire.”
