Twilight Eclipse News – June 12, 2010

Yes, Twilight 3 aka Twilight Eclipse is less than 3 weeks away! What a way to start off the summer.. and we could not be more excited to see continuation of the Saga on the big screen! (as if the books weren’t good enough!) Apparently, we are not the only ones excited.. as search results for ‘watch twilight online’ or ‘watch twilight eclipse’ begin to climb, so do the news results and, of our most liking, the extended eclipse trailers. But, before we get into all the buzz.. we must digress into a little bit of Twilight history — in case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past 2 years!

Twilight Novels History
One night the idea of Twilight was born, and, as we where hoping came from a dream which Stephanie Meyer’s quickly acted on. After finishing writing her first book, Twilight, she signed a 3 book contract to continue into a series or saga with the publishing house Little, Brown and Company. Within just 3 years, the saga would be completed with New Moon being released in 2006, followed by Eclipse in 2007 and finally Breaking Dawn in 2008.

Twilight Movie Summary/History
The Twilight saga began in 2008, as the blockbuster hit crushed the box offices just before Thanksgiving of 2008 on past Christmas time and into 2009 with Twilight. The movie, which is based off the novel — starring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan and Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen — chronicles the events of the rainy town Forks in Arizona, from the perspective of Bella. Bella, who is only 17 years old and has just moved from Phoenix, befriends Edward, where she quickly discovers her life will never be the same because Edward is a vampire. Throughout the movie, Edward is at ends with controlling his urge for her human blood and protecting her from the 3 other Vampires.

Twilight New Moon Summary/History
The young adult fantasy-romance saga continued to gross hundreds of millions of dollars at the international box office with Twilight New Moon in 2009. Even with the release of James Cameron’s record-setting Avatar release only a few weeks later, New Moon still kept pace with the results of its previous grossing. The movie, based off the novel New Moon continues the saga from Bella’s perspective. As Bella’s 18th birthday party, events of that evening transpire, leaving Bella in a world of hurt as Edward decides to break-off their relationship. To cure the pain and help relinquish the gaping hole in her heart, Bella turns to her best friend Jacob (Jake) for support and protection. As Bella spends more time with Jake, she learns that there’s more than vampires in the town of Forks.

Twilight Eclipse Summary/History
With the monumental success worldwide of the Twilight saga, not just at the box office, but more importantly with the brand’s added strong revenues in retail and home entertainment licensing such as DVD’s, toys, video games, and other licensed products — we can only see the trend continuing. Once the saga finishes–although they just announced that the Twilight Breaking Dawn movie will be split into 2 movies/parts one in 2011 and another TBA–there is still enormous revenues to be had in studio output deals, such as pay-tv in which the big networks will likely get into a bidding war to exclusively have the Twilight saga or a certain movie exclusively on their network. Also, exclusive contracts with foreign distributors are equally as important for added revenues, out of the box-office. Not to drone on, but you can clearly see that revenues extend far beyond the box office, in which profits are nominal, if any, due to distribution fees and P&A, which can gobble up 50-75% or more of the gross. Moving on to the Twilight Eclipse plot now..
In Eclipse, Bella and Edward are once again reunited, but an evil vampire still seeking her revenge threatens to tear their relationship apart. As the struggle continues between werewolves and humans, Bella is forced to choose between her true-love with Edward and her friendship with Jake. Yet the real question still lingers.. will she choose mortality or immortality?

Twilight Eclipse News

Well, although not directly relating to Eclipse.. the big news of the week is the splitting of the fourth Twilight film, Breaking Dawn, into two parts. Of course, this is simply a strategy to earn more money, as why have Twilight fans see one when we can get them for two? Twice the money right? Well, that is what they hope.. plus an added pop in retail sales on each release and other merchandise. After-all, what could be so bad about another year of Twilight..?

Eclipse Extended Clip: Doesn’t He Own a Shirt?

What are we talking about..well, see for yourself?

Eclipse Raven Chase Scene

Well, that’s all for today.. we’ll be updating with more Eclipse and other Twilight News as the weeks progress. Get ready to watch twilight eclipse online! Stay tuned!