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Twilight Saga production company Summit Entertainment has announced that it will be re-releasing Twilight, the first film in the highly popular franchise, to select theaters November 19th to celebrate the release of the sequel, New Moon on the following day. 

The catch is, Bella and Edward's first encounter will only be in theaters for one day.

From the Summit Entertainment press release:

"Responding to the fans of THE TWILIGHT SAGA, Summit Entertainment announced today that it will re-release TWILIGHT, the first film in the franchise, at select theatres nationwide on November 19th, a day before the highly anticipated release of the movie’s sequel, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON. Despite the first film already being on DVD, fans across the nation have been calling out to see the film once again on the big screen and the studio is honoring their request.

Summit is working with exhibitors to screen TWILIGHT one night only with screenings in the evening just before THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON arrives in theatres. Select theatres will offer tickets at a reduced price."

Attention, Twilight Saga fans:

Prior to this week's Teen Choice Awards, director Catherine Hardwicke revealed a rather juicy bit of news:

It turns out that Bryce Dallas Howard - who will replace Rachelle Lefevre in the role of Victoria for Eclipse - was the director's first choice for that character.

However, Howard balked because she considered the role too minor at the time. With Victoria featured prominently in Eclipse, the actress was glad to accept.

This seems to lend credence to Lefevre's argument that she was forced out of the project. Watch the revealing Hardwicke interview below:

What's next? Will we find out that Robert Pattinson was never the original Edward Cullen? We'll keep readers posted.

In news that ought to shock no one at all, the midnight launch Twilight on DVD over the weekend was an unparalleled success. Fans bought up up more than 3 million copies of the special-edition double-disc on its first day alone.

Such success launched the movie into the top-five best first-day DVD releases in the past two years, joining the company of blockbusters Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Transformers.

"We are incredibly appreciative that Twilight fans came out to once again support this film at our midnight events across the nation," said Summit Home Entertainment President Steve Nickerson. "With such a successful first-day sales, it is apparent that our fans remain passionate about the Twilight saga and want to own a piece of the Edward and Bella story they have come to love."

The second installment in the franchise, New Moon, began filming earlier this month in Vancouver and is due out on November 20.

As Twilight fans surely know by now, the Special Edition DVD comes out this Friday.  Now what you may not know is that there's no need to put on pants to get your copy!

In just two short days, Twilight will simultaneously be released on Video on Demand and DVD on the same day.  TVN Entertainment will be in charge of distributing the movie for VOD in North America.  Luckily, TVN is by far the biggest VOD service, servicing over 46 million homes, so most likely it will be available in yours.

So Twilight fans, are you going DVD or VOD?

Attention, Twilight fans: the highest-grossing vampire love story of 2008 comes to DVD on March 21.

Moreover, director Catherine Hardwicke told MTV recently that the DVD would include at least 12 deleted scenes, including one from “Midnight Sun”, the book that tells the story from Edward’s perspective (author Stephenie Meyer abandoned when it was prematurely leaked online).

Here's the cover for the upcoming Twilight DVD:

The Twilight stars shone brightly in London last night.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pose here on the red carpet for the overseas event. It looks like the actress forget the bottom half of her dress...

MTV recently caught up with Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

Check out the video below to see what Hardwicke has to say about making the follow-up novel New Moon into a movie:

Twilight star Kristen Stewart is excited about the recently-announced sequel to her her movie: New Moon, which will be based on the best-selling novel by the same name begins shooting in March.

"A lot of the book takes place in Italy, and I think we're going to get to go to Italy, which is so cool," Stewart said. "For a while there, they were like, Oh, we don't know if we have the money, but now I think we may have the money!"

Melissa Rosenberg, one of the screenwriters behind Twilight, has spoken out about the challenges of adapting a best-selling novel into a blockbuster movie.

The executive producer on Dexter told TV Guide she tried to adapt the novel, rather than using it as a "jumping off point."

"We knew that if we were true to the book, if we honored it, fans would come with us," she said.

Rosenfeld saw a significant numbers of parallels between writing Twilight and writing for Showtime's Dexter, which chronicles the double-life of a serial killer.

"In both cases there is, at the center, a character who is not human, and seeks to be human," she said. "He passes as human, and is fascinated by humanity. What you get with characters like that is their exploration of what it is to be human, so it's a wonderful exploration, storytelling-wise, of that question exactly, and all the subtleties of it.

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The grandest scope of love and commitment and the smaller things, like physical warmth, that appeals to me. That's what storytellng is at its heart, the exploration of the human condition."

A Twilight sequel, based on Stephenie Meyer's book, New Moon, is already confirmed.

Moreover, the movie's director and star have thoughts on what the next movie will feature.

"It's got werewolves, it's got visual effects that turn people into werewolves, it's got motorcycle stunts, you go to Italy. It's probably twice as much as this [to film]," director Catherine Hardwicke said when asked about a New Moon movie.

And while the novel reduces Edward's presence, Robert Pattinson insists that New Moon is the installment he enjoys the most.

"I'm looking forward to doing the re-emergence ... at the end of the second book, when he's killing himself," the actor said. "I think that'd be kind of spectacular seeing that. And the second book is my favorite book, so I'm quite looking forward to doing it."