Academy producers plan to bring together Stephenie Meyer and JK Rowling

In one of their moves to attract more viewers for the Academy Awards, producers Alan Shankman and Bill Mechanic were planning to bring together two of the world’s most popular authors: Harry Potter’s JK Rowling and Twilight’s Stephenie Meyer.

Their plan however didnt push through as Ms. Rowling declined due to conflict of schedules while Ms. Meyer as a Mormon, doesnt work on Sundays.

The pair even wanted ” Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer to present the adapted screenplay category, but Rowling was unavailable because of scheduling conflicts and Meyer, who is a Mormon, does not work on Sundays.

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Bluewater’s Collectors Edition: The Stephenie Meyer story

Last Year, Bluewater Productions has released their first edition of the Stephenie Meyer comics, where it chronicles the rise to fame and the success of the Twilight Saga author. This was released through their Female Force Series which looks at the influential women in society today.

Now, Bluewater is releasing a collector’s edition of the Stephenie Meyer Female Force Series.

Dubbed as Twilight Unbound: The Stephenie Meyer Story, this collector’s item will update the previous one with news and images from the New Moon success, a look at the future of Bella and Edward and an overload of extras for the fans. This will be released in hardcover, marking it as a first to be released in that format by Bluewater.

“The fan reaction to our original release of Female Force: Stephenie Meyer was amazing,” said Darren G. Davis, president of Bluewater Productions.

“The positive response took even me by surprise. That’s why I’m so excited to release this new version of Meyer’s story. I hope her fans appreciate the new information and extras we were able to dig up for this edition of the book.”

This can now be pre-ordered in Amazon.

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Stephenie Meyer thanks Twilight fans for helping Haiti Recovery

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer updated her website, thanking Twilight fans for their efforts in helping the recovery of Haiti. Several Twilight sites have organized donation drives and campaigns to donate money or things to their local Red Cross or  donation centers to aid in rebuilding Haiti.

- I’ve been very impressed with the world in general and the Twilight fansites in specific in the support and love everyone is giving Haiti. It’s amazing to see how Twilight fans have come together to help. You are wonderful people. At this point, I think it’s important for all of us to remember that the situation in Haiti is not going to be cured overnight, so… keep up the good work, and let’s all keep the Haitians in our thoughts and prayers.

We here at Twilight-Movie.Org still encourages Twilighters out there to still help in recovery of Haiti. You can either donate money or your old clothes/things to your local donation centers or the Red Cross/Red Crescent. To know more on how you can help, click on the link we have attached to our sidebar to be taken to the American Red Cross website.

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Stephenie Meyer:Europe’s Top Authors of 2009

According to UK’s Best Seller, Stephenie Meyer is one of the author that dominated Europe’s book charts in 2009. Ms. Meyer placed second in a list of Europe’s Top Authors of 2009. The list was compiled through an analysis of the top 10 international fiction bestsellers published by book trade magazines, including The Bookseller, Germany’s Buchreport, and France’s Livres Hebdo, over the past 12 months.

The Twilight Series is big in Europe hitting best seller charts in the UK, Sweden,Germany, Italy and Spain.

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Introducing Twilight: The Graphic Novel

Last year, we posted news that Twilight will be republished as a graphic novel. The art will be done by Young Kim and will be published by Yen Press.

Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly posted the first exclusive look of the manga including the front cover.

Yen Press will release the Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol.1 on March 16, with a first printing of 350,000 copies. Author Stephenie Meyer was heavily involved in the project. In a sneak peak of her interview with Entertainment Weekly, the reclusive author talked about getting involved with the manga adaptation as well as writing more Twilight novels.

The text of your original novel is boiled down so carefully that it doesn’t feel like anything is missing. Were you the one who did that?

I was definitely involved.  I didn’t do the original “script” for the book, so to speak.  But when I got the dialogue with the images, I did a lot of tinkering. In a couple of places, I asked for missing scenes to be inserted.  For example, the conversation in the car that Bella and Edward have after she faints in Biology.

How does the feeling of reading the graphic novel compare to that of reading the original? Does it bring something new to the experience for you?

For me, it takes me back to the days when I was writing Twilight.  It’s been a while since I was really able to read Twilight; there is so much baggage attached to that book for me now.  It seems like all I can see are the mistakes in the writing.  Reading Young’s version brought me back to the feeling I had when I was writing and it was just me and the characters again.  I love that.  I thank her for it.

When this project is done, are you done with Twilight?

I can’t say that I am done with Twilight forever.  I’m not working on anything new Twilight-related now, and probably not for a while.  But there’s still a possibility that I’ll go back and close some of the open doors.

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Stephenie Meyer dominates USA Today’s Best-Selling Book List of 2009

“Meyer had an unbelievable impact,” says Michael Norris, books analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm. He wonders what publishers will do when what he calls ” ‘the vampire industrial average’ falls. Every cycle has an end.”

But for now, Meyer — who has also benefited from Twilight movie adaptations, with more to come — has turned “the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books,” he says. “She’s not just read by tweens and teens, but by a lot of 30-year-old women.”

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Twilight: More Year-end lists

Youtube has released their year-end list of the Most Watched Videos of 2009. The second Twilight film, New Moon, placed fourth in the list garnering 31 million views. It joined UK sensation Susan Boyle and the Evian Roller babies on the list.

Also, Total Film released their list of 100 Most Influential People in the Movies List. Among those included are Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and actor Robert Pattinson.

Stephenie Meyer

The vampire queen, post-Anne Rice. Connecticut’s superstar scribe of emo-bloodsucker splash Twilight consolidated her standing with the record-busting success of movie sequel New Moon, tearing into franchise terrain soon to be vacated by Harry Potter. Andrew Niccol’s adaptation of her sci-fi novel The Host should spread her web further.

Robert Pattinson

Emo-goth pin-up and va-va-vamp with a heart-spearing quiff.

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The Twilight Saga: Amazon’s Best Selling books of the decade

Amazon has released the list of the Best Selling Books and Authors of the Decade and the Twilight books were all part of the list as well as author Stephenie Meyer.

Sitting behind the Harry Potter books, the Twilight Saga occupied the number 3,4,5 and 7th positions in the Best Selling Books List. Author Stephenie Meyer also sits comfortably behind Potter author JK Rowling in the Best Selling Authors List.

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Stephenie meets Muse!

Muse Tweeted this photo of lead singer Matthew Bellamy with Stephenie Meyer. Finally! Stephenie was able to meet one of her favorite bands.

Thanks to Twilight Lexicon.

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Stephenie Meyer vindicated in lawsuit filed against her

A few months ago, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer was sued for plagiarism by Jordan Scott, who claimed that Stephenie used some plotline in her book for Breaking Dawn.

Yesterday, the Honorable Otis D. Wright II of the US District Court dismissed the claim and ruled in favor of Stephenie Meyer. According to the judge, both books (The Nocturne and Breaking Dawn) have little in common and that the “characters in the two works are vastly different”. The decision scolded Scott for “the deceptive presentation of the alleged similarities” and noted that she ” has twice manipulated aspects of the subject works in order to create the appearance of similarity”.

The judge also confirms that Breaking Dawn is wholly an original work by Stephenie Meyer and this was a frivolous lawsuit brought for the purpose of publicizing the plaintiff’s personal publishing aspirations.

Following Wright’s ruling, a Hachette spokesperson said today, “While an attempt to ride on someone else’s success may not be surprising, it is encouraging that the courts and the public are not so easily misled.”

Source: Twilight Lexicon and Publishers Weekly

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