{"id":7059,"date":"2009-11-18T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:33:41","slug":"twilight-new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/11\/18\/twilight-new-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Twilight fans<\/a> New Moon<\/a><\/strong> will be their equivalent of The Empire Strikes Back<\/a> although for everyone else it’s going to be another teen vampire movie.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated the Twilight films are based on the mega-selling\u00a0novels<\/a> by\u00a0Stephenie Meyer<\/a> which have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide.<\/p>\n

There are currently four books:\u00a0Twilight<\/a> (2005),\u00a0New Moon<\/a> (2006),\u00a0Eclipse<\/a> (2007) and\u00a0Breaking Dawn<\/a> (2008) and they have a combined sale of over 25 million copies.<\/p>\n

\"NewWhen someone at MTV films<\/a> made the (now catastrophic) decision to pass on making the film adaptations, newcomer\u00a0Summit Entertainment<\/a> stepped up and a lucrative film franchise was born.<\/p>\n

The first film Twilight<\/a><\/strong>, directed by\u00a0Catherine Hardwicke<\/a>,\u00a0came out last year and starred\u00a0Kristen Stewart<\/a> as Bella, a teenage girl who falls in love with a\u00a0vampire<\/a>, played by\u00a0Robert Pattinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It grossed over $383 million worldwide, making instant stars of Pattinson and Stewart and also causing wild scenes of fandom<\/a> at various premieres around the world.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Pattinson last year<\/a> and the resulting podcast<\/a> was one of the most popular things on this site as Twilight fans downloaded it in droves.<\/p>\n

At the premiere later that evening, the massed ranks of teenage girls screaming at him<\/a> and the cast was something like The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new film is expected to do even better: a ‘fan event’ attended by the stars last week in Battersea<\/a> (complete with red carpet interviews) was so big some radio stations even mistook it for a premiere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I got a sneak peak of New Moon yesterday at a press screening in London and the audience mostly consisted of media folk (like me), teenage girls and their parents.<\/p>\n

The story involves Edward having to go away, Bella discovering new things about her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner<\/a>) and a mysterious vampire from the past named Aro (Michael Sheen<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Bearing in mind that I am way out of the target demographic for this material, here are my main thoughts:<\/p>\n