Catherine Hardwicke

Chris Weitz knows who not to piss off: the fans.

The newly-anointed director of New Moon will be taking over the franchise from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and has promised to stay true to the original source material so as not to upset the franchise’s loyal followers. 

Summit has already announced November 20th, 2009 as the release date for New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, and they don’t care how they get there.

You know Catherine Hardwicke is BUMMED!

It has been announced that the Twilight director will not be returning to the franchise she helped launch. Despite her intense desire to direct New Moon, the second story in the Twilight series, Hardwicke will be replaced by a yet unnamed director.

We already assume that if you are a fan of the Twilight series, nothing we say here will deter you from seeing the film and relishing every moment. We respect that.

However, if you are not a 12-17-year-old girl who voraciously devoured Stephanie Meyer’s four-part epic of teenage vampire love, be warned!

Twilight, opening today, is one of the worst film’s we’ve seen all year, a fact the filmmakers obviously realized since reviews were forbidden until today; they didn’t want word spreading about the dog they have on their hands.

Preparing to play a vampire presented all sorts of challenges for Twilight star Robert Pattinson, including playing an American and conquering our pastime, baseball.

“I never really thought of him as American,” Pattinson reveals. “I’m not playing, like, The Jock which is typically American and you have to know things about American culture. You don’t have to do any hand signs or anything. I don’t know what any of those are. Or little handshakes,” he laughs as he pantomimes some sort of odd gang sign.