Director of Twilight given the green light to start work on a sequel

From The Telegraph (UK):

A fantasy romance in which a girl falls in love with a vampire, it has taken $70.6m (£46m) in its opening weekend in the US.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, it set a new record for the biggest opening weekend for a female directed film.

Film company Summit Entertainment has now agreed to the sequel, New Moon, according to Empire magazine.

The story focuses on Bella Swan, a human played by Kristen Stewart, and her vampire lover, Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson.

Based on the first of a series of novels written by US author Stephenie Meyer, Twilight is proving extremely popular with the same teenage audience that enjoyed Harry Potter.

In fact, producers of the film have brought forward its UK release to fill a gap in the market created by the delay of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which will not hit British screens until July next year.

Mrs Meyer, a Mormon housewife, has been hailed as the new J K Rowling.

Her most recent book knocked Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows from the top of international bestseller lists.

The Twilight series has sold close to 14 million copies worldwide – most of them in the United States - and has spawned dozens of internet sites for fans, who refer to themselves as ‘Twilighters’. (cont.)

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