Of course, as far as "The Twilight Saga" is concerned, 18 isn't always 18.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is the fourth instalment in the vampire series.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" won the highest honor, movie of the year, in the fan voting that continued online even as the show was underway.
This all makes the Twilight saga not just the first great Mormon work of literature (pace Orson Scott Card), but the first great cultural product of the 21st century.
One bright spot, even in the depths of this recession, has been the movie business, as films like the Twilight Saga, Avatar and a half-dozen or so IMAX releases have ignited box office numbers.
Bridesmaids and The Twilight Saga were potential game-changers.
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The teenagers request young adult books from the Latin American classics to modern international literature such as Harry Potter and the Twilight saga and there is one very talented young artist who lends books on Leonardo DaVinci and drawing techniques.
Bella Swan is, of course, the heroine in the Twilight Saga series, the vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer that have been adapted to film with the latest installment, Breaking Dawn, coming out on Nov. 18 starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
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The Twilight Saga of course turned Kristen Stewart into a mega-star and gave us Anna Kendrick, who remains one of the best actresses of her generation and who, along with Rebel Wilson, powered Pitch Perfect into the proverbial Bring It On of this generation.
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Not only has The Twilight Saga begat Snow White and the Huntsman and The Hunger Games, genuine mega-action franchises fronted by Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence respectively, but the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host were not held up as proof that Twilight was a fluke.
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However, teenage fans were still seduced by the film, which references Romeo and Juliet and was produced by Lionsgate, the film company behind the teen saga Twilight.
Mark Rachesky, a Wall Street investor who likes to stay under the radar, has made a paper fortune this year off of Twilight and another hit movie, The Hunger Games, thanks to his own investment saga that saw him take on his mentor, the billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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