SUMMIT IS OFFICIALLY MAKING NEW MOON MOVIE??
CINEMABLEND.COM and Deadline Hollywood (Nikki Finke) are reporting that Summit is officially going ahead with the making of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Read more below:
For those of us who have been following the online frenzy surrounding Twilight, it seems like a no-brainer that the production company, Summit Entertainment, would go ahead and make a sequel based on the next book in Stephenie Meyer’s series. Now the company seems to have the same faith in their franchise that the teen girl fans do, and is officially going ahead with the Twilight sequel, New Moon.Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting the sequel news; she doesn’t cite any sources, but Finke is often the first to know these things regardless. Much of the rest of the article is what many of us already know– Twilight cost virtually nothing ($37 million) to make and is setting all kinds of records for trailers viewed online, soundtrack sales, and all the rest.
When your soundtrack isn’t even completed much less released (not until November 4th), yet it’s already in the Top 5 Best-Selling Albums on Amazon based on pre-sales alone, you know you have a hit. When Borders makes an exclusive calendar and sells out the first printing in a matter of days, you know you have a hit. And when the new trailer to your movie surpasses 3.5 million views less than 48 hours after its online debut, you know you have a hit. Which is why Summit Entertainment’s CEO Rob Friedman is already readying a Twilight sequel even though the vampire tween/tween movie isn’t set for release until November 21st which is the date vacated by Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Oh, and did I mention that Twilight has the fastest selling licensed merchandise since — you guessed it — Harry Potter?The trailer was streamed through Twilight’s widget from 8 PM to 9 PM for fans, then debuted for the general audience in HD on MySpace Trailer Park at 9 PM. The result: 2 million views in the first 24 hours on MySpace alone and 3.5 million views in cyberspace within the first 48 hours.
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Wow! We knew it was possible that New Moon would be made, depending on the amount of money Twilight brought in. But now it’s official (sort-of) – we should probably consider this a rumor until it comes from the horse’s mouth….but squeal! How do you feel about New Moon being made?
