Twilight - the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's teen lamia novels ? is to be released early by Warner Brothers as a replacement for the delayed Harry Potter film.
The film's US release was to be December 12th but has been pushed forward to November twenty-first. It is not even known if the UK release testament follow immediately.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back to July 2009.
Meyer is soundless relatively unknown in the UK but in the US her books create the kind of exhilaration enjoyed by those of JK Rowling.
The Twilight photographic film from Summit Entertainment stars Kristen Stewart, recently seen in Into the Wild, and Robert Pattinson, world Health Organization played Cedric Diggory in two Harry Potter films.
Rob Friedman from Summit explained the changed release date for Twilight, following the move for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
"We saw a unique chance to slot in our film, which has been gaining fantastic awareness and momentum over the past several months," he told Hollywood Reporter.
"We by no means are trying to fill the shoes of the incredible Potter franchise for 2008. Rather, we are just now looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer's incredible rule book series the film series as presently possible."
Meyer has said on her web site that neither she nor Summit had anything to do with the change to the Harry Potter schedule.
In the US, Meyer's books ar highly anticipated. Earlier this month, thousands of fans, many clad in the outfits of Meyer's characters, gathered at midnight bookshop parties.
The understanding for this frenzy was the press release of Breaking Dawn, the fifth and final part in Meyer's vampire serial, The Twilight Saga.
Meyer's Twilight books follow the report of Bella Swan, an ordinary high student world Health Organization falls in love with the "vegetarian vampire" Edward Cullen.
Though Meyer is non yet a household name in the UK she certainly has a growing body of largely teenaged fans, world Health Organization mainly instruct about her books through word of mouth.
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