Description:
In her best selling book “Twilight” Stephenie Meyer tells the story of a forbidden but irresistible romance that fascinates millions of readers all over the world. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke the modern vampire saga around Bella and Edward now enters the silver screens as a mixture of romance, horror, fantasy, and love story. The young main actors Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattison perfectly represent the unusual lovers: When her mother remarries, 17-year-old Bella Swan moves to Forks to live with her father. But Forks seems to be the dullest small town in Washington, until she meets mysterious and alluring Edward at school. Both feel the almost magical mutual attraction, but one thing prevents them from having a normal relationship: Edward is a vampire …
Reason why:
- The movie "Twilight" exceeded all expectations in the USA and jumped right to the top of the movie charts with overwhelming 70.6 million US $ box office sales in 3419 theatres. That marks the most successful film release of a female director and the forth best debut ever experienced in November.
- Due to the huge success Summit Entertainment already works on the second instalment of the Twilight saga.
- The four books of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer have won several awards, including The New York Times Editor’s Choice (2005), Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year (2005), Buxtehuder Bulle für das beste Jugendbuch des Jahres (2006), and have been nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2007)
Cast:- Main actors are the young stars Kristen Stewart (Panic Room, Into the Wild) and Robert Pattison (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).
Twilight – The Movie:- Movie by Summit Entertainment, Script: Melissa Rosenberg, Director: Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown)
- Release in the USA: 17 November 2008
- Release in Germany: 15. January 2009
- Based upon the bestselling book "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
- With more than 730,000 viewers TWILIGHT is the unchallenged No. 1 of the German movie charts.
- Also in Austria Catherine Hardwicke’s bestseller adaptation effortless took top ranks.
Twilight – The Book"Twilight - Biss zum Morgengrauen" is the German version of the novel by youth authoress Stephenie Meyer and was first published in 2005 by Little Brown and Company as the first book of the Twilight tetralogy. Other Titles: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), Breaking Dawn (2008)
Even today the Twilight series has reached Harry Potter dimensions in Germany with more than 1 million sold copies (monthly clicks on the web page: 300,000).