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Breaking Dawn, Part 1 takes box office by storm

Although it fell shy of the record set by the original TWILIGHT, BREAKING DAWN, PART 1 set the pace for box office last weekend, raking in $138 million in its first weekend of release. Nothing else even came close, so it appears none of the cast will ever need to utilized the services of Zyngle free online dating. Which is nice for them.

Happy Feet 2 did okay, thought, considering the movie casting its shadow over the weekend. The animated sequel debuted drawing $21.2 million. The much-hyped Immortals took third place with $12 million and change and still hasn’t come close to making its $75 million budget back. Adam Sandler’s JACK AND JILL drew $11 million in fourth place, while PUSS IN BOOTS, a spinoff of SHREK, drew $10 million.

Early indicators are that BREAKING DAWN Part 1 will dominate the long Thanksgiving Day weekend as well.

Breaking Dawn release announced

A tentative release date has been leaked for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, and it appears the franchise has decided to stay out of the way entirely of the other huge children’s-lit-to-film franchise, Harry Potter.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will be made as two separate movies, just as is the case with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Deathly Hollows releases part one this coming November, while part two will release late next spring.

Breaking Dawn Part 1 will then follow in November 2011, well removed from any possible lingering Potter-effect on the box office, with Part 2 likely to follow in the Summer of 2012. The two-part finale of the Twilight Saga will be filmed in Baton Rouge and Vancouver with filming expected to start this fall and last for several months.

Hopefully those Twilight fans already lining up for the next installments will be well-supplied on the best fat burner, since they’ll be sitting there a LONG time this time…

Breaking Dawn gets a director

Summit Entertainment’s two-movies-from-one-book finale of the Twilight saga, inspired by the Stephanie Meyer book series, Breaking Dawn, finally has a director: Bill Condon.

A quick credit report on Condon reveals he was the director behind Dreamgirls, Kinsey, Gods and Monsters, and even scripted the movie version of Chicago. So he’s directed a lot of well-received movies but has no genre direction credits to speak of.

Still, he’s a big name and that counts for something; in fact, he’s probably the most established and decorated director to take on the teen angst vampire series to day. And considering the decidedly adult content of Breaking Dawn, it might be just the sort of director-to-material match the series needed at this point. Time will tell how well his treatment of the material is received.