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Looking back on the way that the three Twilight series soundtracks have been composed, marketed, and revealed, there is certainly a trend.

With Twilight’s soundtrack, artists like Paramore and Robert Pattinson contributed exclusive songs for the album, and they themselves became a part of the process – doing interviews, promotions, and the like.

Do you think it is possible that the reason why Twilight’s soundtrack success so vastly outweighs the recent two (which were also successful, for sure) is because so many new fans came in and saw the film before purchasing the album – thusly getting that association concept mentioned by Patsavas? Or do you think that it is because it had two songs sung by Robert Pattinson, who has been chosen the “World’s Sexiest Man” for two years running? Hint hint (Breaking Dawn can circle back on this, cough cough).

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Box office numbers are in for Monday, August 16. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took in another $214,712 from 1,212 locations for a per theater average of $177 representing a decrease of 44.5% from Sunday. This gives the film a cumulative domestic total of $296,057,156 after 48 days in release. Adding in overseas returns of $380.6M gives Eclipse a current worldwide total of $676,657,156.

For those comparing the films in The Twilight Saga, at this point in its release history (after 48 days) New Moon had taken in $288,798,541. Eclipse is now at $296,057,156. Both films hit the $250M mark on the 16th day. The total domestic gross for New Moon was $296,623,634. Eclipse only needs about $566K to break that. It should happen after Wednesday’s returns come in. That would put the film within striking distance of the elusive $300M mark, which it may pass by the end of next weekend.

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UPDATE THURSDAY, AUGUST 12:

Box office numbers are in for Wednesday, August 11. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took in another $340,325 from 1,704 locations for a per theater average of $200 representing a decrease of 12% from Tuesday. This gives the film a cumulative domestic total of $294,218,322 after 43 days in release. Adding in overseas returns of $372.8M gives Eclipse a current worldwide total of $667,018,322.

The film stays in 11th place behind The Other Guys, which drops 20.9% from Wednesday but stays on top with $3,769,202 at 3,651 locations for a per theater average of $1,032, Inception, with $2,216,375 at 3,418 locations for a per theater average of $648 and a domestic cumulative total of $235,007,121 after 27 days in release, Step Up 3-D with $1,508,824, Despicable Me with $1,382,265, Dinner for Schmucks with $1,345,515, Salt with $1,260,639, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore with $1,073,288, Charlie St. Cloud with $708,445, Toy Story 3 with $514,837, and Ramona and Beezus with $344,753.

For those comparing the films in The Twilight Saga, at this point in its release history (after 43 days) New Moon had taken in $285,802,158. Eclipse is now at $294,218,322. Both films hit the $250M mark on the 16th day. The total domestic gross for New Moon was $296,623,634. Eclipse only needs about $2.4M to break that. It should happen by the end of the week. That would put the film within striking distance of the elusive $300M mark, which it may pass by the end of next weekend.

Theater counts for the week of Friday, August 13 – Thursday, August 19 reflect a decrease of 492 for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to 1,212 locations. It drops from #12 to #13 behind The Other Guys with 3,651 (no change), The Expendables, opening at 3,270 locations, Inception with 3,120 (loss of 298), Eat Pray Love, opening at 3,082 locations, Dinner for Schmucks with 3,046 (gain of 42), Despicable Me with 2,918 (loss of 495), Salt with 2,834 (loss of 483), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, opening at 2,818 locations, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore with 2,728 (loss of 977 to drop from #1 to #9), Step Up 3-D with 2,439 (gain of 4), Charlie St. Cloud with 2,078 (loss of 647), and Toy Story 3 with 1,219 (loss of 495).

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Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster Twilight series is to be republished this Christmas with a new white jacket design.

The four limited-edition titles: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, will be published by Atom on 14th October as £7.99 paperbacks, available only in the UK and Ireland, and Little, Brown’s territories including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. The white editions will not be available in the US.

The white titles will only be published between October and Christmas 2010, replacing the usual black jackets. The titles will have crimson-edged pages and crimson back covers, with text confined to the spines.

A £75 hardback box-set of the Twilight Saga, plus the novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, is also being released on 12th October. The paperback edition of the fourth title, Breaking Dawn, is published on 19th August.

(note: sadly these are not available in the U.S.)

Source: The Bookseller.com