Fearnet: What ‘New Moon’ means for Hollywood

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In a new article for Fearnet, Jen Yamato discusses the changes that will be made in Hollywood with the wild success of New Moon. Here are the main points.

So how could the increasing successes of Twilight and New Moon affect how movies are made and sold? We consider what New Moon’s popularity could mean for Hollywood.

Female audiences demand to be catered to.

Twilight was always a female-oriented property, thanks to a high quotient of moony eyes, forbidden love, and romantic longing courtesy of author Stephenie Meyer. And studio execs perked up when the fantasy book-turned-indie film raked in over $69M its opening weekend, making back its budget by double. But as evidenced by worldwide masses of screaming fans, a sprawling fansite community, and its blockbuster box office performance, New Moon is no accidental success – women will buy tickets, they will go multiple times to the movies, and they will bring their friends/daughters/mothers. And they’ll even go to horror-themed movies – that is, if the movie gives them what they want.

To read her other points (listed below), click here.
Summit is now a studio model.
Moms are getting in on the action.
Fangirls are a force to be reckoned with.
Beefcake is critic proof.


  • team_jacob_hot
    well littlelisa inot just team jacob cause the hot bod im on his team because he is hart he lony and he loves his best friend and i agree with all the robs the better man but when it came to charile dission he likes jacob better if you had a choice and your dad said you can chose which one but for edward you could only stay out unitl 10:00 at night he cant be oer unitl your dads home and he watching you or jake where you can stay as long as you want he can come over went you want and im watching the game plus rembemer rob/edward left you and you were hurt even thoe it wasfor your good health but when it came to your best firend you had to skip halfthe whole story and couldnt even fill in the blankes
  • Theshanee
    Bella realize that her feeling's for Jacob was just a human weakness in Breaking Dawn. Edward's Love for her is not just Love It's everything. Because He waited for her more than 100 years and he knows the pain and he knows what she need. Jacob is her best friend and the way Bella attached herself for him tells us why she needed it. The reasons we love this saga is their Love for each other and the way they accept life for who they are and how they were able to carry on with each and every obstacles they have faced. I love Jacob (Jake) as my own brother. I love Bella and Edward like their my best Friends and oh Renesmee<3 she's the best.................................................
    Team Swiss............
  • 3fif5000
    Oh man just finished watching the movie.....all i can say is OMG!!!!!
    At first i love you MS mayer for writing this awesome story and series......
    Secondly i loved jacob's role in the new moon ...... a werewolf ?who would ever think about that?And never forget the love that collected bella and jacob....That's was weird but great...and i can simply say i'm in jacobs team for both these reasons:
    1 : My favourite animal is the wolf lol....i'm not kidding
    2 : I found the love between bella and jacob better the bella/cullen one....dunno why but i prefered it :D

    i give the new moon 10/10 cuz of the story .... if you guys want to talk about the movie just add my email :D

    mylove_3_f@hotmail.com
  • Jo_Marie
    New Moon was absolutely amazing for one...and when it comes to what she should choose I think it should be Jacob. In the movie her dad says that you need to learn to love whats good for you...and although she is head over heals for Edward...Jacob is actually better for her. Edward is what she wants but jacob is what she needs...! Ever notice how lucky she is (besides the fact that they are both gorgeous) But every time she goes somewhere she has either Jacob or Edward...and they always run home...wouldnt that be convenient! :)
  • gracietay
    I LUV JACOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • teelady<3' z__taylor
    a lot of females have started liking jacob/taylor all because of his body but there are some ladies out here like myself who have like him since the days of sharkboy and lavagirl lol
  • mezmerizing
    i agree with littlelisa.......in the books and movies i LOVE edward because of the strong love that he feels with bella, its just really mesmerizing. But unfortunatly thats just a character he plays. But on the other hand jacob is a younge foolish 16 year old but you can really tell he loves her.Like i said the book is very mezmerizing it feels like your watching the movie or like your playing bellas part in the book ( like thats ever gonna happen..LOL) i think its the love and romance every girl wish they could have with a guy, that draws people in to reading the book and watching the movies. GO TEAM EDWARD AND JACOB!!!!....lol i couldent decide <3333 love em to much =)
  • beautifultragedyx21
    I agree with Kori B. That being said...it will probably only work (as well) for this movie. Because it's not just the concept, it's the characters and it's the themes and the emotion. They act like they can sell anybody on how all of us were sold on Twilight. This type of thing (at least for our generation and the generations in love with Twilight) will probably never happen again. Everything else will just become generic. I hate how these editors act like we're a 'market' on a one track mind like a bad product. I mean...we don't go out and read these books and watch these movies for half naked guys and "moony eyes." It's a perk, but (at least for me) doesn't match up to the whole. There is a whole other dynamic in twilight that I do not think can be re-created. In fact, I seriously hope they don't even try.
  • Kori B
    Perhaps, but it is better that it is less generic than "shopping + sparkly jewelry + fashion".
  • juicystar2315
    LOL...
    My L.arts teacher (Who is by the way 65) Went to watch it the day it came out..
    And she said quote " It was so awesome, but I could barely focus on the movie when jacon came out" LOL My mom was all jacob too....Edward may be better for bella metally but Jacob is better for bella PHYSICALLY!!! ( Team I change my mind every minute of the day)
  • juicystar2315
    Hahahah....lol
    my 65 year old teacher(L.arts) watched it the day it came out...and when she came to school she was like. "It was so AWESOME" "Jacob was the handsome one" lol
  • Team Robert/Edward all the way.....its a shame how some ppl are switching teams now.....Anyway true fan never fickels...JUST WAIT FOR ECLIPSE AND BREAKING DAWN :P
  • I thought Jacob was hot but Edward is perfect he totally captivated me and I didn't like the part in the movie of when Edward called Bella's house and Jacob told him something it made me PISSED. I HATE absolutely HATE Jacob and LOVE absolutely LOVE Edward.
  • twihard_twilighter
    i love new moon bc without it we wont be able to see the intensity and depth of edward's love for bella and how lifeless, miserable bella is without him i think it makes the sense of loving twilight. new moon may be all about jacob and how-he-makes-bella-human-again but just when alice comes and edward gets to know bella is dead all we or atleast i could think about is edward and bella loved each other, edward left her, she was in pain and now edward is dying bcz he thinks bella is dead.
    it makes me more eager to be team EDWARD or EDWARDIAN as i like to call it
  • twihard_twilighter
    I LOVE EDWARD
  • vanessa
    I finished all four books in a period of around 5 to 6 months, and for twilight and the first third of new moon I was completly team Edward. after finishing new moon, eclipse,and a big part of b.d I was team Jacob. I could not believed how much i liked the character,-- specially after I was heartbroken by Edward's decison to leave alongside with Bella , and i feel that in a way I might be team Edward again, just as Bella ended up with him at the end. in addition to that, I started to read midnight sun and oh boy....it has brought me back to feel the way edward did in twilight, that I may have to consider join the Jedward team hahaha
    I loved jake's point of view in b.d that is so hard to take a side, now that i have all three perspectives.
  • littlelisa
    That's just it though, knowing how the series turn out there isn't really a side to take because we all know how it ends. The reason why Jacob and Bella love each other is because of his imprinting on her daughter that they don't know is going to exist yet. That's why in Breaking Dawn he asks her (right before she tries to kill him) if she can feel how that yearning is gone and says that it was Nessie the whole time. After she begins thinking about it she can understand what he meant is while she isn't happy with the imprinting, she knows that he will love her daughter unconditionally as he had for her all that time. So in saying that, the love that Jacob and Bella share is painful for them to endure during the series, however they are only bound to one another because of the powerful phenomena that imprinting has over Jacob. If Bella and Edward had never procreated then Jacob might love Bella, but that love could potentially fall apart after some time and since she wouldn't have had Nessie he wouldn't have imprinted. I can't even imagine this story turning out differently. There is only Team Edward in my opinion. I could understand if these were movies only and not books so we didn't know what was going to happen so we could argue about who's side we would be on but Jacob wins in the end anyways...be happy people! :)
  • i started reading the book series in the summer of 2005, when twilight was new on the shelves, because i always look for new book series, and i was totally team Edward, but then New Moon came out in 2006, and i really felt sorry for Jacob.. and sorta wanted her to be with him, then Eclipse came out in 2007, and i started wanting her to be with Jacob more.. and i turned to Team Jacob.. but then, in 2008, when the 'movie Twilight' and the last book in the series came out. Breaking Dawn, i turned back to Team Edward, first because of the movie, and then because Jacob imprinted, and wasn't hurting anymore, and they stayed friends, which is how it was supposed to be, now that i see the whole picture, and the New Moon came, and it was almost enough to change me back to Team Jacob, but, that was only because in the movies, Jacob is so much hotter than Jacob, which is weird, because the Vampires are supposed to be inhumanly beautiful, and well, he wasn't, whoever was his makeup crew for New Moon, did not do a very good job, but im getting off topic, i almost switched to Team Jacob because of his hottness, but i didn't, because i remember the ending of the series, and i started taking into account how Edward would feel, if Bella ever left him, and then i realized, she cant ever leave him, because they are like eachothers other half, and its a really good series, but you know somthing? i really dont think that Stephanie Meyer is all that good of a writer, her story is good, like the plot and the idea and all that, but the way she wrote it out, it sounded like a story from a teenager, sorry to those who think she's really good, but thats just my opinion, i mean, major book critics has raved about her work, so maybe its just because im so used to reading teenage storys haha.. anyway, this comment is starting to get way to long, so im going to stop writing now lol
  • team_jedward
    Sorry but I am Team Jedward all the way...Why can't I have them both?
  • littlelisa
    Have people forgotten Jacob's role in the series???? The only reason the he and Bella love each other doesn't present itself until Breaking Dawn. I have never believed that Jacob would have been able to handle Bella's heartbreak because as she told him, she could never be whole. Edward is literally her other half. He completes her. In the books it delves into more of the relationship and the "fun times" that Edward and Bella share as well as the funny little tiffs they get into. Their love is ancient. What I mean by that is they never have to speak it to remind the other, they physically hurt when they aren't near each other, they admire one another so much that they both believe they aren't worthy of the other's love, and best of all they would lay down their lives without question for one another. Jacob would do much of the same, but Bella could NEVER deny herself of Edward because he is her heart. Jacob will always be there, but he is still immature and irrational and cannot be the better man so to speak because he's so blinded by his hatred. I mean c'mon! In Breaking Dawn Edward tells Jacob that he can have kids with Bella if he can convince her to let them take the "thing" out of her...what kind of person would do that?!! Of course we all know how things end and personally, I prefer things the way they are in the series. Everything fits into place and there really is a happily ever after. I am not just Team Edward because of RPattz because frankly Robert Pattinson is a great actor but he is NOT Edward Cullen; I am Team Edward because having a love like that is something that is not common and even just reading the books or seeing the movies doesn't do that love story justice. I've felt her pain, cried her tears, smiled her smiles, and lived her journey and without Edward's love, she wouldn't have experienced things the same way. I just wish it wasn't just a four book series so I could keep reading and feeling the story. All great things must come to an end! I can't wait for Eclipse!!!
  • Nic1976
    littlelisa I couldnt have said it better myslef....... I would never change from team Edward! It takes more than a nice body to wooo me. its the whole package and thats what Rob/Edward has!
  • fanpire102
    AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • dw0357
    I totally agree! Very well put!
  • juicystar2315
    Agreed!!
    (Though I absoluty love jacob...and in eclipse I felt so sad for him, but Edward is better for her)
  • jenpatz
    Amen to that...
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