Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books are indeed a phenomenon. The first book, Twilight, has 928 holds in our system at this time. The movie opens today and it seems self-evident that film makers would have jumped to make this popular vampire love story into a movie. In yesterday’s New York Times, For Studio, Vampire Movie is a Cinderella Story, it came out that small studio Summit Entertainment bought the movie rights for all four books when Paramount Pictures let it go because someone at the studio decided in 2006 that the series was a dud. Little did they know, and finger pointing is going on at Paramount over who deserves the blame.
The Los Angeles Times discussed this in more depth in How the big studios missed the boat on ‘Twilight’ and Variety looks at how fans have turned the movie into an event in Teens twitter for ‘Twilight”
(via EarlyWord and Children’s Bookshelf from Publishers Weekly) post by Lorraine
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