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Gregory Tyree Boyce, who played Tyler Crowley in Twilight, was found dead last week along with his girlfriend in a Las Vegas condominium, local police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was 30. Few details were announced, but Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told the paper that Boyce and…

Midnight Sun, the hotly anticipated Stephenie Meyer Twilight follow novel will be out August 4, the writer revealed on her website Monday and in a clip on Good Morning America. Arriving 15 years after the original installment of the smash hit book and film series, Midnight Sun revisits the Twilight saga from the point…

Lionsgate Entertainment World, the studio's first Asian theme park, opened its doors today in Hengqin, China. Featuring over 30 attractions, it includes seven based on The Hunger Games, Twilight, the Divergent series, Now You See Me, Gods Of Egypt and Escape Plan. Each of the properties is well known in China, with…

Lionsgate will revive its $3.3 billion grossing Twilight Saga franchise, with a Twilight live-to-film world tour that will begin in Brazil this August, followed by stops in Australia and the UK. The event will feature a full orchestra performing Carter Burwell's original film score timed to a screening of the first…

Actress Susan Sarandon claims she once suffered an incident akin to the recent Mark Wahlberg/Michelle Williams salary disparity issue, wherein male colleagues were paid more for equal work. In an interview with BBC 5 live, Sarandon said she discovered that Paul Newman and Gene Hackman, her two male co-stars on the…

Twilight producer Marty Bowen shifts to real life youngsters in the feature documentary The Roughnecks, the chronicle of an emotional season in the life of a Texas pee-wee football team that The Orchard has scooped up for a 2015 digital release. Pic is co-directed and co-produced by Richard Cameron White (The Sleeping…

8:50AM: The domestic opening day estimate for Mockingjay  – Part 1 looks to be $55M, the highest opening day of 2014 and the sixth highest single day bow in November. 2009’s Twilight Saga: New Moon owns the month’s record at $72.7M. Again, that’s a healthy number.  Exhibs should be happy, seeing spillover into…

Five features wasn’t enough. Lionsgate said today that it is partnering with author Stephenie Meyer, Facebook, Women in Film and Tongal to launch a social media campaign to develop and produce short films by female filmmakers based on the characters in The Twilight Saga. The venture, called The Storytellers – New…

While Fox’s Red Band Society drama deals with the grave topic of ill-stricken teenagers in a Los Angeles children’s hospital, the potentially grim subject matter didn’t daunt network executives, the show’s executive producers said today at TCA.  Commenting on the recent string of illness-centered dramas, including The…

The Twilight Saga films may be over, but the battle for money from the blockbuster franchise is not. Financier Goldcrest Film Distribution hit Summit today with a multimillion-dollar breach of contract lawsuit (read it here) over the movies. "As a direct result of Defendant’s deceptive accounting practices in which…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter behind the multi-billion dollar Twilight franchise, has sealed a deal to redraft an untitled female actioner from a comedy to a fast-paced female-ensemble spy pic at Summit Entertainment for producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian with Benderspink executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Patricia Burke, long a champion of book-to-film adaptations as an executive at Columbia Pictures, Fox, Jaffe/Lansing and when she headed the Gotham office of Paramount Pictures, has joined the New York-based literary agency Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. Burke takes the post of Director of Dramatic Rights…