New! 'Eclipse' Movie Stills...

It’s a big day for Twi­hards. It’s been announced that a new “Twi­light” novella will be released on June 5th. The Huff­in­g­ton Post reports that Lit­tle, Brown Books for Young Read­ers will release “The Short Sec­ond Life of Bree Tan­ner” on June 5. The novella is told from the view­point of Bree, a new­born vam­pire fea­tured in “Eclipse.” That’s one of the books in Meyer’s best-selling teen-vampire saga.



Meyer said in a state­ment Tuesday, reported by The Huff­in­g­ton Post, that the novella had orig­i­nally been planned for “The Twi­light Saga: The Offi­cial Guide.” The mate­r­ial soon becaume too long to fit into the guide, and it was deter­mined it would be bet­ter to pub­lish it as a stand-alone.


The pub­lisher says one dol­lar for each book sold in the U.S. from the first print­ing of 1.5 mil­lion copies will be donated to the Amer­i­can Red Cross Inter­na­tional Response Fund. It sup­ports dis­as­ter relief efforts such as those in Haiti and Chile.


And today Sum­mit Enter­tain­ment, which pro­duces and dis­trib­utes the enor­mously suc­cess­ful movie adap­ta­tions of Meyer’s “Twi­light” movies, has released three new stills from the upcom­ing fea­ture “Twi­light Saga: Eclipse,” which opens on June 30th. The pho­tos are pub­lished here for the first time.


Accord­ing to the offi­cial syn­op­sis released by Summit:

"In ECLIPSE, Bella once again finds her­self sur­rounded by dan­ger as Seat­tle is rav­aged by a string of mys­te­ri­ous killings and a mali­cious vam­pire con­tin­ues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friend­ship with Jacob — know­ing that her deci­sion has the poten­tial to ignite the strug­gle between vam­pire and were­wolf. With her grad­u­a­tion quickly approach­ing, Bella is con­fronted with the most impor­tant deci­sion of her life."

“Eclipse” is directed by David A. Slade, direc­tor of the movies “Hard Candy” and “30 Days of Night,” which is also vampire-themed. The movie stars Kris­ten Stew­art, Robert Pat­tin­son, Tay­lor Laut­ner, Ash­ley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Eliz­a­beth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kel­lan Lutz, Jack­son Rath­bone and Dakota Fan­ning, all of whom reprise their roles from the hit movies “Twi­light” and “Twi­light Saga: New Moon.”


Last weekend, “Twilight Saga: New Moon” was offi­cially released on DVD. It sold just over 4 mil­lion DVD units in its first week­end of release, surpassing the first week­end sales of “Twi­light,” in 2009 which sold 3.8 mil­lion DVD units, and went on to be the top sell­ing DVD title of the year with 9.2 mil­lion units sold. Thou­sands of “Twi­light” fans across the nation par­tic­i­pated in the “NEW MOON at Mid­night” event and some were treated to sur­prise appear­ances by mem­bers of the cast as well as the film’s direc­tor Chris Weitz.


The final novel in Meyer’s saga, “Break­ing Dawn,” is expected com­mence pro­duc­tion as a movie some­time this fall. It still isn’t actu­ally known whether Sum­mit will release the film as one movie or two, as Warner Broth­ers is doing with “Harry Pot­ter and the Deathly Hal­lows.” That film is being con­verted to 3D. Ana­lysts are also spec­u­lat­ing that “Break­ing Dawn” will be filmed in 3D, but again, no announce­ment has been made.

source: TwiExaminer