THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON - Visual Hollywood

The Twilight Saga: New MoonProduction NotesRosenberg is set to return to television as both head writer and executive producer of the Showtimeoriginal series Dexter, which begins its fourth season this September. Her work on the show helped earnit the prestigious Peabody Award, an Emmy nomination, and a Writer’s Guild of America awardnomination. “On this show, I’m allowed to take risks, with the character development, as well as thestory,” said Rosenberg. “When you’re doing 22 episodes a year for network, you may not get the timeyou need to do your best work. On a cable show, doing 12 episodes, I have the time to develop mythoughts, to connect all the dots and make a strong, well-rounded story.”Rosenberg launched her screenwriting career with the box-office smash Step Up. A trained dancerherself, Rosenberg was perfect to the write the film, an urban romance between a naturally giftedtroublemaker (Channing Tatum) and an upper-class ballerina (Jenna Dewan). Released in 2006, the filmhas earned over $114 million worldwide and launched Tatum into Hollywood heartthrob status.Rosenberg was no stranger to writing for the teenaged set; before signing on to write Step Up,Rosenberg wrote several episodes of Fox’s series The O.C.Inspired by character-driven projects, Rosenberg’s other credits include Ally McBeal, Party of Five,Boston Public, The Outer Limits and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Although she appreciates her start innetwork television, she feels she has found a comfortable niche in cable programming.Rosenberg earned her B.A. in dance and theatre from Bennington College in Vermont, with a goaltoward becoming a choreographer. When Rosenberg moved to Los Angeles, she pursued a differentavenue: writing. While working as an assistant to a television producer, Rosenberg went on to earn anMFA at the University of Southern California, through the Peter Stark Producing Program at the Schoolof Cinematic Arts.STEPHENIE MEYER (Based on the Novel By) was a stay-at-home mother of three young sons in 2003when she had a vivid dream about a group of characters she could not get out of her head. Puttingeverything she could on the back burner, Meyer invented the plot during the day and wrote it on hercomputer late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel,Twilight.Picked out of a slush pile at Writers House, the manuscript quickly made the rounds among publishers.Megan Tingley at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers made a major six-figure preemptive bid forthree books. Within weeks of its release in 2005, the book debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times bestseller list. The rights to Twilight have been sold in 45 countries around the world.The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at No. 1on the New York Times best seller list. The book was so highly anticipated by Meyer’s eager fans thatAdvance Readers Copies were being sold on eBay for as high as $380. The third book in Meyer’s Twilightsaga, Eclipse was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on sale. The bookdebuted at No. 1 on best seller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.It was also a No. 1 best seller in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Argentina.The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with afirst printing of 3.2 million copies—the largest first printing in the publisher’s history. Breaking Dawn28