Melissa Rosenberg just signed on to write the screenplay for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Breaking Dawn will be adapted into a movie; that is a fact. However speculation is growing that the story will be split into two movies. The Twilight saga author, Stephanie Meyer, has stated on her website that it is hard for her to imagine the book being fit into a 90 minute movie. She’s right. There is just too much going on…you got the complexity of vampire/human sex, Bella’s pregnancy with a half vampire baby, Bella becoming a vampire and the battle with the Volturi family. According to several reports, it’s beginning to look like Summit is beginning to agree with her too. The Twilight saga is their meal ticket and I’m sure they would love to make more money from it.
However, before the movie could officially become several things must happen. The biggest deal breaker in this situation is the fact that Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart and the rest of the gang are only signed on to do four movies. If a fifth one is to be made, Summit must get everyone to sign on for another movie and it will cost them. With the success of Twilight and New Moon, the actors could be commanding a large salary.
Either way Twilight Saga: Eclipse is coming out on June 30th, 2010. Breaking Dawn should then come out sometime in 2011 and if it gets made into two then the second movie will probably be out in 2012.
Do you think Breaking Dawn should be made into two movies? As much as I would love to have another Twilight movie, I don’t know if I’d want to wait any longer than I have to.
from this website:
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Two weeks after receiving a cease-and-desist order over claims that the fourth book in her "Twilight" series, "Breaking Dawn," plagiarized another novel, Stephenie Meyer was sued on Wednesday over the alleged infringement. According to TMZ, lawyers for little-known author Jordan Scott filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that "Breaking Dawn" shows "striking, articulable and substantial" similarities to Scott's "The Nocturne," in "plot lines, themes, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, characters, sequence of events [and] ideas."
A statement from Meyer's publisher, Hachette Book Group, called the copyright-infringement suit "completely without merit and simply a publicity stunt to further Ms. Scott's career," adding that "it is indisputable that Ms. Meyer's 'Breaking Dawn' was based on her original 'Twilight' sequel 'Forever Dawn,' which Meyer wrote in the fall of 2003 and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office on January 5, 2004. That is nearly two years before Ms. Scott allegedly posted portions of her novel on the Internet and approximately five years before Ms. Scott filed her copyright in September 2008."
Though actress/singer/author Scott's book is set in 15th century France and details a love affair between a young sorcerer and a teenage girl, while Meyer's book chronicles a doomed teenage love triangle between a human, vampire and werewolf set in modern times, lawyers for Scott have claimed that there are many similarities in the texts of the two novels.
When the cease-and-desist was issued, Meyer's publisher had initially dismissed the plagiarism claims as "completely without merit," but a lawyer for Scott, Craig Williams, told MTV before the filing of the suit that it was "highly unlikely" that the many similar plot points were simply a coincidence. In the suit, noted copyright attorney Williams claims that Scott began writing "The Nocturne" in 2003 when she was just 15 and published the book in 2006. "Breaking Dawn" was released in 2008.
While Meyer's books have topped best-seller lists around the globe, Scott's novel does not appear to have been widely stocked in bookstores and has been available mostly through her official Web site and other online distributors. In dismissing the claims, Meyer's publisher said neither the author nor the publishing house had ever heard of "this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim."
Among the claims made by the suit is that "Breaking Dawn" represents a "significant literary departure" from the tone of the first three "Twilight" books and reads as if it were "written by a teenager." The suit is seeking damages and asking the court to impound all copies of "Breaking Dawn" currently on bookstore shelves. Williams could not be reached for comment at press time.
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1619110/20090820/story.jhtml
read here too:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6709713.html?industryid=47151
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Samantha Tumpach, 22 was celebrating her sister's 29th birthday with some friends in Chicago, Illinois. They went to see "Twilight Saga:New Moon" and Tumpach was escorted out of the theaters and arrested. She spent two days in jail and was charged with one count of criminal use of a motiona picture exhibition, and may face three years in prison. She was caught using a point and shoot camera (like a digital camera). Police and Manager of the Theater say it was only 3min of video that was taken (and possibly not even the first three min of the movie!). She has been released on bail. More to come!
read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/new.moon.arrest/
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23779848-twilight-fan-arrested-after-filming-robert-pattinson.do
http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/12/03/woman-arrested-for-taping-new-moon/
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