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.

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"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.

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Bridesmaids and The Twilight Saga were potential game-changers.

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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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