Bonus features include about 10 to 12 extended or deleted scenes, montages and music videos, behind-the-scenes interviews, a "making-of" segment, and commentary featuring Hardwicke, Stewart, and Pattinson. In addition, the film was nominated for Best Fantasy Film at the 35th Saturn Awards [115] and two Grammy Awards.

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I like money just as much as the next guy, but the desire to break up books into two parts – especially books that have very little content (I’m looking at you, The Hobbit) – is incredibly annoying. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Our greatest critic, Stephenie Meyer, loves the screenplay, and that tells me that we made all the right choices in terms of what to keep and what to lose.

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When Paramount Pictures let the rights to Twilight expire in April 2007, Summit acquired them, agreeing with Meyer that their film adaptation would be more faithful to the novel than MTV Films' version. Christian Serratos initially auditioned for Jessica Stanley, but she "fell totally in love with Angela" after reading the novels and successfully took advantage of a later opportunity to audition for Angela Weber.

And then, when I was on set and I got to watch him go from being Rob to shifting into being Edward and he actually looked like the Edward in my head, it was a really bizarre experience. Gigandet incorporated mixed martial arts fighting moves in this sequence, which involved chicken and honey as substitutes for flesh. The film received a rating of PG-13 from the Motion Picture Association of America for "some violence and a scene of sensuality". The fight sequence between Gigandet and Pattinson's characters in a ballet studio, which was filmed during the first week of production, involved a substantial amount of wire work because the vampires in the story have superhuman strength and speed.

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I remember the books I used to own had a warning label on them that people who read them had a chance to become obsessed with the stories. He criticized the "gazes" both Edward and Jacob give Bella throughout the movie, and noted that the mountain range that appears in the film looks "like landscapes painted by that guy on TV who shows you how to paint stuff like that.He was recognized as playing the part of Embry in the Twilight film, though his role was uncredited. However, as is most often the case with film adaptations, differences do exist between the film and source material. Principal photography for Twilight took 44 days, [41] after more than a week of rehearsals, [42] and completed on May 2, 2008. In January 2009, Weitz and Summit Entertainment announced that Lautner would continue as Jacob in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Christian Serratos won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress.