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Fri May 24 11:45:46 SAST 2013

Final 'Twilight' film the most anticipated this season

Reuters | 11 September, 2012 08:54
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in a scene from 2008's 'Twilight' film.

The final installment of ‘The Twilight Saga’ is the most anticipated film this season, and fans are hoping for Oscar glory for the adaptation of stage musical ‘Les Miserables’, according to a survey by movie going destination website Fandango.

According to the site’s 2012 [northern hemisphere] fall film survey, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, earned 32% of votes for “most anticipated fall movie” and 51% of the “best date night movie” votes. The survey polled more than 1 00 moviegoers.

Based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels about a young girl’s torn affections between a vampire and a werewolf, the Twilight film series has grossed $2.5 billion at the global box office to date.

“The Twilight franchise has delivered some of the all-time top advance ticket sellers in Fandango’s history, so it’s not a huge surprise that moviegoers are most looking forward to the final instalment,” said Fandango Editor-in-Chief, Chuck Walton.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is sure to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the fall season.”

Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth movie in the series, will be released on November 16.

If Fandango users were members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, then bring out the gold statuettes for the December release of Les Miserables, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

The film, an adaptation of the hit stage musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, was voted by 49% of those questioned as the “film that could sweep the Oscars”.

“We caught a glimpse of ‘Les Mis’ stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman singing at the Oscars a few years ago, and clearly movie fans liked what they saw and are highly anticipating the film’s December release,” said Walton.

And who says there is no such thing as bad publicity? Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said that Clint Eastwood’s speech to an empty chair at the recent Republican National Convention, made them more interested in seeing the actor-director’s upcoming baseball film, Trouble With Curve.

Curve, which also stars Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman, is due out in the US on September 21.

When it comes to individual actors, Daniel Day Lewis’ performance in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (November 16) was voted most anticipated, while Joaquin Phoenix’s turn in The Master (September 21) was picked as the most welcome return to the screen.

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