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LOS ANGELES — Once upon a time, a little film called "Twilight" was scheduled to come out within a few weeks of a "Harry Potter" movie, and Hollywood prognosticators found it absurd to suggest that the vampire series posed any sort of box-office threat. Months after that, buzz on the red carpet at the "Twilight" premiere was that the film could open with a weekend between $40 or $50 million — it ended up with $69.6 million.
Now, it's a year later and "New Moon" has become the biggest advance-ticket seller in Fandango history. So, we took the obvious question to the film's stars at Monday's (November 16) red-carpet premiere: How big will this weekend's "New Moon" opening be?
"We have a bet about that," revealed Chaske Spencer, who plays wolf pack member Sam Uley in the sequel, divulging that the shirtless stars have a friendly wager going on. "There's a guy — a member of the wolf pack, I can't tell you who — but we have a bet, and the loser buys dinner. I think it's going to gross triple [what the first film made]. And I think somebody's going to be buying me some dinner."
We didn't think it was possible for New Moon's Alex Meraz to look quite as sexy fully-clothed while out and about at the T-Mobile Sidekick LX Launch party. But he and Q'orianka Kilcher were definitely a stunning couple on the red carpet for the event. Alex's New Moon co-star Nikki Reed was in attendance as well, and looked stunning.
"Put it this way: I am not in any of the scenes in Italy, but we've already made sure that I am going to Italy while they shoot that," Nikki Reed laughed, revealing plans to witness the Volturi firsthand. "Because I am sort of obsessed with that portion of the book."
As Twilighters know, Nikki's no-nonsense vampire Rosalie will check out of the film along with many other key characters once the Italian scenes begin. But Reed promised her fans that if you want Rosalie to be there when Alice and Bella rush to save Edward, well, she kinda will be.
"Basically [I'm just going to watch them shoot]," Reed said. "And also, it is a chance to be in Italy and pretend like it's a work [excuse]. I have to be there — because I am in the film, so it's really important that I go along."
Reed did promise us, however, that she won't be going to Italy with hopes that Weitz will see her on set and decide he might as well interject Rosalie into some additional scenes. "Absolutely not," she promised. "No. I feel so strongly about them sticking to the books.
"In fact, there was a scene in a very early draft of the 'New Moon' [script] that they had invented that was not in the books," Reed revealed. "And there was a discussion, and that scene is no longer in the script.
"I don't want to be in more of the movie just to be in more of the movie — and I think if they do that with any of the other actors that it is ridiculous, because I think that the only way that we can succeed is to stick to the books," she insisted. "If you are worried about how to please the fans, you will fail if you don't stick to the books."
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