Twilight **½ You already know that this is the big-screen version of the first in Stephenie Meyers' blockbuster book series about young vampires, with "New Moon" and "Eclipse" soon to follow. What does the DVD offer that you didn't get on your first dozen trips to the theater, besides the ability to watch The Kiss over and over? Commentary by director Catherine Hardwicke and stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson; five extended scenes; five deleted scenes; and a documentary. ...more

March 19, 2009

Taylor Lautner will be back to morph into the monstrous Jacob Black in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon." ...more

January 8, 2009

The vampire romance "Twilight" drained the box office in its opening weekend, taking in $70.6 million. Catherine Hardwicke's film also enjoyed the biggest opening ever for a female director, blowing away the previous standard of $41.1 million set by Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact" in 1998. ...more

November 23, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. ...more

November 20, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. That's when the hundreds of teenage girls at the screening I attended began shrieking. We're talking Beatles-at-Shea Stadium sort of shrieking. ...more

November 20, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Girl-meets-boy stories are not the usual stuff of Hollywood blockbusters, even when it's girl-meets-vampire. Neither are stories created by women, with a predominantly female audience, shot on a bargain budget with a cast of relative unknowns and released by an independent distributor trying to establish a niche among Hollywood's half-dozen studio behemoths. ...more

November 17, 2008