Fri Oct 31, 5:52 PM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Sure it's Halloween, but Christmas trees are already up—and so are Twilight ticket sales.

Fandango reported that as of noon today the teen vampire movie was accounting for 51 percent of all daily ticket sales. (E! Online and Fandango are both owned by Comcast.) At MovieTickets.com, business was less frenetic—Quantum of Solace was the No. 1 attraction, followed by High School Musical 3—but Twilight still came in as the site's third-hottest ticket. 

All in all, not a bad showing considering the movie isn't already in theaters (like HSM3) and isn't opening in two weeks (like the new James Bond). It's opening in three weeks.

"Twilight is the type of movie with a hard-core fanbase that wants to get its seat secure as soon as possible," says Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray.

Still, Gray cautions that advance ticket sales don't tell the full box-office story.

"Sometimes it leads to a massive opening, like Sex and the City and Harry Potter," Gray says. "But it doesn't always."

The blood will tell. In about 21 days. Around the time when Valentine's Day cards go on sale.

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                      Dressed as Victoria, a character from the novels...
                      photo credits belong to Diana Bonebrake




(WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS. If you wish to wait to read the novels before
you find out certain details, please be advised that this article does reveal certain plot details).

breaking dawn

 
When I decided to write about Breaking Dawn, I knew I was getting myself into a difficult subject. Was this a difficult book in the sense that it had long words and utterly complicated story lines? No, not at all. In fact, it is essentially a young adult book. However, I find this to be a difficult book to write about- let alone explain- because of a few things. First, the fan base is so huge that with Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment of the Twilight Series came a lot of controversy about the character’s fates. Second, there is an excess of information to explain about the eight hundred pages in this book plus a quick review of what happened in the first three. Third, the books have morals that can easily go over a young reader’s head. But in defense of my decision to explain the “difficult” Breaking Dawn, I must remind you that the things that make the Twilight series difficult to explain are also the things that separate it from other teen fiction novels. I am hopeful that the reader of this essay will keep an open mind when trying to understand my views of Breaking Dawn, as I did when reading the highly anticipated final book of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series.  

Our story begins with Twilight, in which Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to gloomy and wet Forks, Washington. She soon meets Edward Cullen, a forever 17 vampire and his family, also damned to supernatural existence for all of eternity. But these are not your average Bram Stoker vampires. In fact, the Cullens (Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, and Alice) are outcasts in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire world. Like the others, they have ice cold, deathly pale skin, perfect features, super strength, and pearly white teeth (no fangs). However, the Cullens differ in one way: they go against their nature, hunting wild animals instead of people.  

               



Bella quickly falls for Edward’s irresistible charm and intensely interesting life, or death in this case. He objects at first, wishing to keep her safe from his lust for her blood, which smells better to him than anyone’s blood he has come across in his 107 years of existence. Calling himself “selfish”, Edward eventually gives up on trying to stay away from Bella and she gets swept into the secret of the undead.   
 

In book two, New Moon, Edward becomes insecure about Bella’s safety in his world after she is nearly killed by a vampire in the end of Twilight and then threatened by Edward’s brother, Jasper, on her 18^th birthday due to a paper cut. He believes that the best thing to do is leave and Bella is absolutely heartbroken. She lives through months of zombie-like emotions, scaring her father, until she finds a bit of comfort in the company of a sixteen-year-old boy named Jacob Black from the near by Native American reservation for the Quileute tribe: La Push. Of course, with Bella’s luck, Jacob ends up turning into a werewolf when he hits puberty. She decides, as she did with Edward, that it doesn’t matter to her. They remained friends. In the meantime, Bella is slowly going mad at the loss of her “soul-mate” and hears Edward's voice in her head when doing any combination of stupid and dangerous things.  She goes alone cliff diving into dangerously rough waters, and is saved by Jacob. However, Alice, Edward’s psychic sister who has been watching over Bella behind Edward’s back (a difficult task, considering the fact that Edward can read minds) only sees her jump, and a misunderstanding leads to Edward believing Bella is dead. Alice and Bella save Edward in the end from an elaborate suicide attempt involving the vampire law enforcers, the Volturi.   



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