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UPDATE: More photos of global Twi-Hards at the Summit Entertainment-hosted tent city in Downtown LA and are assigned their “camping spot” at LA Live in front of the Nokia Theater. Fans line up for Monday’s premiere of the last movie in the Twilight Saga series – Breaking Dawn Part 2:
Do not diss these fans from around the world today braving the rain and beginning to arrive at the Summit Entertainment-hosted fan camp in Downtown LA. Given the precarious state of the North American box office, an event pic like this is just what the doctor ordered for Hollywood’s up-and-down box office. If you’re experiencing deja vu, that’s because this mania happens every time Summit has released one of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga novels as a film since 2008. But now the series is coming to a end. Here are photos of Twi-hards waiting to be assigned their ”camping spot” at LA Live in front of the Nokia Theater. All to glimpse the stars of the final installment Breaking Dawn Part 2 walk the red carpet at Monday’s premiere — especially Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson, together again — and live-streamed on Yahoo Movies. 
This year Summit is offering camping spots to 2,200, making this the franchise’s largest camp to date and nearly double last year’s. The studio has planned various events to relieve the inevitable boredom of the campers this weekend: fitness workouts, musical concerts, cast breakfasts, and Twilight Saga screenings. Meanwhile the big online ticket-sellers already are doing a brisk business for the film which releases in North America at 10 PM on November 15 at many local theaters and then around the world via multiple show times November 16th. Theater owners will be scrambling all Thursday to add more screenings to meet fan demand. Advance ticket sales for the film accounted for nearly 30% of MovieTickets and Fandango sales for Wednesday. Here’s the LA Live weekend schedule:
Thursday PM - Twilight screens.
Friday 10:30 AM – Jamba Juice will host a morning workout for campers on the Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE with award-winning fitness instructors, a Twilight-themed workout, with smoothie samples. New Moon and Eclipse both screen.
Saturday 1 PM – The Twilight Fan Camp Concert presented by Time Warner Cable with performances by A Boy and His Kite, Anya Marina, Paul McDonald & Nikki Reed, and Christina Perri. Breaking Dawn Part 1 screens.
Sunday 10:30 AM – Fans will be treated to breakfast from The Corner Bakery sponsored by Time Warner Cable with surprise appearances from the cast.
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Thank God I don’t have to deal with the teenybopper crowds that will be flocking to the theatres for this flick, as I attended an advance screening last week.
And thank God this series has FINALLY come to its (disappointing?) end.
Amen to that, and then some.
Hope you guys aren’t in the film business. Those of us working in the business, are (or should be) ecstatic that young fans are this passionate about films and their sequels enough to literally build a studio with their dollars.
We should be so lucky that the kids love this enough to put down the xboxes and iphones and facebook accounts long enough to go to the movies. If you are in the business and don’t understand that, you should find another profession.
We need more book franchises to do this!
Not just book franchises but NEW Franchises. I also agree 100% with the rest of your post.
Yes, you’re right. We should be so lucky that young fans are so passionate that they would put down their mobile devices long enough to go see Twilight.
Now if we can get them to see so many other worthy films that don’t star R-Patz or K-Stew, then we’d really be in business.
My point, exactly.
And, yes, we should be ecstatic that these young fans are building a studio to churn out more crap like “Twilight” to further dumb down the already dumbed down young generation.
And I, for one, certainly want more film franchises like “Twilight”, so that sophisticated, intelligent, provocative and artworthy films will no longer be produced.
Though Cosmopolis didn’t do well at the BO and is a difficult, unaccessible movie, you can hardly tell that it’s not worthy, on the contrary and .. it has Pattinson in every scene of it. For this performance he got a lot of praise from critics worldwide. It got also Cronenberg wanting to shoot his next film with him, Viggo Mortensen and Rachel Weiz. It got other very reputed directors like Werner Herzog and David Michôd wanting him into their movies.
If a part of his fans will go see these movies, they will see worthy movies with.. Pattinson in it. Just saying.
Actually, Cynicalcritic, the producers of Twilight, Temple Hill, made enough money off of the series that when they found something provocative and unique, they put up their own money out of pocket and financed the budget themselves.
You can study the business–it was John Ford who is famous for saying that he made one movie for the studios wallet and one for his own art.
The lesson is simple: don’t criticize anyone going to the movies ever, unless you want Google and Youtube to own the world and there to be no movie theaters.
huh? kids have been “passionate” about movies since the beginning of movies. That’s the majority movie industry demographic. Teen girls.
I believe that I will waited for the DVD to be release. It will be interested to learn which of the star of the film will still have a career in 2014.
Anna Kendrick will.
These fans were in love with the books and the book characters. Sure, some will support the cast to an extent, but studios need to realize that they would’ve been this excited over any actors/actresses who took on the roles.
I’m very sure the fans wouldn’t have been as excited at all over any actor who played their Edward. Out of more than 3000 candidates, Catherined Hardwicke choosed Rob Pattinson and he brougth Edward to life, causing by that the worldwide phenomenom.
In Europe the books weren’t known at all at the time the first movie came out. It was after the Twilight movie and after almost every female fell in love with the movie Edward that the books became very successful too.
Robert Pattinson will. He proved it in Cosmopolis, Water for Elephants. He is leading man material.
Teenyboppers? Those people in line are in their 30′s.
I love how bundled up in coats and hats everyone is. It might be a little gray and drizzly, but it’s still like 65 degrees. Not exactly coat weather.
They’ll line up for a movie, but not to vote in an election.
Missed all those stories of people lining up for 6 hours to vote then? Idiot.
If you’re a celebrity like Usher, you get to be taken in the back way like he was in Atlanta to vote. This is fun for the fans and the real purpose is to simply be happy!
More people voting would of helped on Tuesday. Doesn’t matter now. I’m not sure what some of us are supposed to do now. I don’t see things getting better in the jobs market.
Are they sure these people just aren’t homeless and have no where to go?
Any chance we can get Comic The Insult Dog down to that walk of shame?
That would be amazing!
“Jamba Juice will host a morning workout for campers”
Are they trying to tell the fans something?
Hey Mommy Wants… great comment. I was thinking the same thing.
You can get young(ish) folks to line up, not bathe, not sleep, not work ALL in order to see a middling albeit popular flick but you can’t get them in equally passionate droves to VOTE, or to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS OR CALL FOR AN END TO WARRING IN IRAQ/AFGHANISTANT, or DEMAND BETTER FUNDING/TUITION AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES…
But hold a Twilight premiere? And the “Sheeple” flock en masse to watch mediocre talent in a mediocre story.
Something’s wrong with that picture (not to mention the other one they are lining up to see!) And we wonder why America is circling the drain!
I absolutely cannot believe that people would stand in line, let alone spend the night waiting to see this kind of garbage!
That’s what parents said when kids camped out to see the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964. And The Empire Strike Back in 1980. Unbelievably those tasteless kids grew to enjoy deeper things, get jobs, pay their taxes and vote.
Get over it and stop judging. Every generation has their fads. You may not like the films, but your parents probably didn’t like your choices of entertainment when you were growing up either.
Let the kids have their harmless fun with this. Or go chase the rotten little buggers off your lawn if you feel like you need to.
That was a nice comment and I totally agree with it. The hippies, who were almost crucified by the older generation, came back with their feet to the ground and lived almost the same life their parents did.
I know a lot of girls who went crazy for Twilight and its Edward in 2008 and who are now going to watch the last movie with their mothers and grandmothers and aunts, while going to college, reading and studying difficult books, not stupid teens at all anymore. But they keep loving that love story and why not?
How is this not a South Park episode yet?
Cause the season finale was yesterday and it was nothing short of phenomenal X).
I just can’t with those “fans”. They will line up for 3 days, they will see Twilight 10 times and buy every magazine with Pattinsons face on it, they will love him to death on Internet… And then none of them show up for his other movies. What an epic flop in box-office was Cosmopolis. Domestic Total Gross of this movie is $763,556. It did not even make million….
Who needs enemies when you have such fans.
You have a good point. The subject matter of Cosmopolis was a fairly hard sell, but it had Cronenberg and Pattinson…I would have thought the Cronenberg fans and the Pattinson fans (plus the ridiculous amount of public sympathy…seriously, I saw him on Jon Stewart and I thought he was about to hold his hand) would have pushed it easily over 5-7 million domestic even with the mixed reviews. Didn’t the film cost around $20 million when you add in p & a? Fans are fickle, after all. That said, I can’t hate on the twi-hards because the amount of revenue they generate is good for the industry…just wish they would place that energy into more quality films
You’re right. I’ve loved Cosmopolis very much, but even for the majority of the Cronenberg fans it was a bridge too far and they aren’t teens. The mature fans of Pattinson went watch the move for as far as they could because of the very limited release.
The limited release of Cosmopolis I think caused alot of the problems it had. I live in Ohio and only 2 places in the entire state had it. I belong to a website that posted where it was showing and it was few and far between!! I bet the DVD sales does way better!!
Because they love the BOOK characters, not the actors themselves.
Actually that’s not true. Pattinson’s movies Water for Elephants and Remember M both made TRIPLE their budgets in worldwide box office and were profitable. Cosmopolis was too difficult and weird a movie, even weird for Cronenberg. It did better a lot better than The Paperboy which didn’t even make a million dollars, made 6m worldwide and had Matthew McConahey, Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman.
Correction: Cosmopolis made 6 million more than The Paperboy worldwide. The Paperboy mae only 600 thousand and had stars Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman.
We are talking about Robert Pattinson and not about Kidman or Efron. There are lots of indie movies with famous actors that don’t even get to wide release and go straight to DVD.
Water for Elephants and Remember Me were having big promotions. Expectations were very high for those movies. They should have had bigger box-office. A lot bigger based on that craziness around Pattinson at that time. His fans always mention that elusive worldwide box-office of those two movies. Like it doubled or tripled it’s budget… It’s not that easy. It’s not like producers put those money to their pocket. Every dollar… 50% of those money take local theaters. It’s not like budget was 16 million and worldwide gross is 56 millions and producers put 40 millions to their pockets and threw a big celebration party… Thing are not that simple kids.
You know when world-wide box office matters? When movie gets at least 150-200 millions there.
Expectation for those movies – “Elephants” and “Remember Me” were higher. If his real fans would show up for Remember Me and it would make 25 millions opening weekend and some 60-70 millions oberall and Elephants would make 100 millions overall then it would prove to producers that Robert Pattinson can carry movie on his own and right now we would see him shooting some big-budget movie as Lead Actor. But since his fans failed him and did not support him then he stars in small movies like Cosmopolis and then those 2 others he has in production.
And Twilight is over. He will not have free publicity every year anymore. This is how he will end – starring in small budget indie movies that no one cares about.
This is because nobody cares about Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner too. Kristen Stewart is the real lynchpin of the saga. Rob’s and Taylor’s fans make noise, but they are a tiny minority. I’m a teenager and I can tell you that we love the books, we love Bella, we love her story and we love Kristen who plays her, and we don’t care about anybody else. So there is no reason for me and my friends to see a weird movie about a man sitting in his limo for 2 hours doing nothing.
Your post is so biased, it’s silly. Her indies, The Runaways, Welcome to the Rileys, The Yellow Handkerchief, and now On the Road have all done worse at the box office than Cosmopolis and Pattinson’s indies.
Yes, that poster was obviously biased…but On the Road isn’t being released until December. I do believe it will do okay, because there are enough fans of the book who will check it out…it’s a dumb release date though, because those last few weeks of December are chock full of good films. In addition, like Pattinson with Cosmopolis, Stewart has chosen indie films that are a hard sell (hard R movie about teenage 80s girl rockers, sexually abused kids…)…So it’s kind of impossible to judge her or Pattinson on their drawing power simply by examining their indie films. As long as they choose interesting projects and try not to turn themselves into a brand (a la Jennifer Aniston), I bet Pattinson and Stewart will be fine despite that overblown tabloid mess the latter was attached to last summer. Anna Kendrick will probably fare the best, though.
They both don’t have enough talent to shine in Indie fims. They are literally the worst actors in the world. After Taylor Lautner of course. Kristen is not capable to show any emotion. When script requires her to show different emotions – she bites her lip. When producers of Show White probably forbid it to her because everyone was laughing – then she opened her mouth every time. And whole movie she was waking with open mouth. It’s embarrassing to profession.
Her movies get PR in press because she is actress from Twilight. Just like Pattinsons do too. But when Twilight will be over – their indie movies won’t even get that free press.
Per capita, Cosmopolis did well in the box office considering that there were only 5 theaters who showed it at the opening. Compared to the one that got the box office at the time, it actually earned about 40,000+ pounds per capita compared to the 5,000 of the one that opened number 1 on the box office that day.
Short term gain, long term pain. Producers mistake fans’ devotion to a specific character (e.g. Bella ) for loyalty to the actor and end up inflating salaries for mediocre actors whose fans don’t follow to other projects. Kristen Stewart the highest paid actress in Hollywood? The answer to why studio economics continue to deteriorate.
If her fans don’t follow to other project, why an awful movie like Snow White and the huntsman managed to make 400 million worldwide?
I voted, I donate supplies to the troops every month, I pay attention to politics, I am here camping out for Twilight..don’t generalize all of us. Some of us just have something to be passionate about that let us forget for a little while of a cruel world we are a part of. I will agree that some fans here may be like that but not all of us
+2, Katie, well said. I’m a Twilight fan only in the business sense, but everybody should have something to get passionate about, and that doesn’t mean they can’t think about other stuff too. Enjoy the movie.
“This is because nobody cares about Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner too. Kristen Stewart is the real lynchpin of the saga. Rob’s and Taylor’s fans make noise, but they are a tiny minority. I’m a teenager and I can tell you that we love the books, we love Bella, we love her story and we love Kristen who plays her, and we don’t care about anybody else.”
Sorry, don’t buy into that. Saw the pictures on the tents? Just the guys. Also, ever heard of ‘Team Edward’ or ‘Team Jacob’?
Your weird rant does nobody any favours. It even has a strange anti-male bent to it.
And if anything, post-cheating, Kristen Stewards is pretty disliked by a lot of people in the Twi-hard community.
But that being said, I agree with the broader point that the main thing is the book characters.
But it’s not just about Bella.
And that’s how you just shut up all the haters katie, good for you
People, stop judging already. Different ppl enjoy different things. That’s it. That doesnt make Twilight fans a flocK of idiots uninterested in life around them
5 day on the private property of L.A. Live HA! Thats nothing. They have nothing on the star wars fans who camped out for 6 WEEKS for Star Wars Episode I, II and III in front of Graumans Chinese Theatre, on Hollywood blvd. Six weeks in all the elements, no concerts or screenings, just keeping company with the fellow fans who also chose to celebrate the saga with others like them.
Movies like this are Grateful for the High Unemployment … a lot of workforce age young people with nothing better to do than WASTE TIME … and Buy into the CRAP put out by Hollywood !! And we wonder WHY are Nation is largely on WELFARE ?
This is the “entertainment” industry producing films and staging camp outs for premieres to interest the FANS of this particular series NOT a world conference for peace in the Middle East or selecting another world leader. Enough of the naysayers on these sites! If the negative commenters would actually READ the Stephanie Meyer Twilight novels they would learn that they were geared to a teen base who enjoyed the romance and angst that a young teen girl goes through when she meets this boy Edward at her new school. Then, after Twilight hit the screens in 2008, the world of film watchers learned quickly that this series did not just appeal to a “teen base”. Many different age groups liked the story and loved the actors who portrayed the characters in Meyer’s books….and to the tune of billions worldwide for Summit! And THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! It’s not rocket science nor does it pretend to be.
I wonder how many of these people are giving any thought to Veterans Day today.
Can you say “Idol Worship”?
What is “Twilight”? Is it a ‘chick-flick’? There’s nothing but women in line.
I am so sick of people my age (70) trashing the Twilight Series. When I watch the movies I remember how it was to be 15, 16, 17, 18. I don’t have Alzheimer’s, thank you very much, but if it weren’t for these movies, I wouldn’t remember. Maybe I didn’t think about falling in love with a vampire back in 60′s. but I sure did think about falling in love with someone who would get me. And I’m also sick of people my age talking about how kids don’t vote and they don’t care about their education. What crap! I go to college now (some people get started late) and the kids I meet are creative and informed and I learn from them. I like Hamlet – I watched the Kenneth Branagh version 3 times. But I am just as excited about Breaking Dawn 2. Get in line people!