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Twilight Sells Out. Trade Roughage 11/18/08
SpoutBlog —
Twilight has already sold out around 500 midnight shows for Thursday and at least 400 shows throughout the weekend. Thanks to the report from The Hollywood Reporter, I finally understand the appeal: apparently it’s a movie about an “interspecies love affair.”
It’s no coincidence that movie rights for another “vampyre” series of young adult novels has just been optioned. House of Night: Marked will be the link between Twilight and Harry Potter with its plot of pubescent bloodsuckers attending a special school just for their ...
Could ‘House Of Night’ Be The Next ‘Twilight’?
MTV Movies Blog —
... We know how you “Twilight” fans love your sexy vampires — it’s hard to resist a guy as perfect as Edward Cullen. But is there room in your heart for another vampire series? Producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik are hoping there is. According to Variety, they’ve just optioned the screen rights to “House of Night,” a series of young adult books by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. ...
More Teenage Vampires Coming Your Way
Cinema Blend News —
More Teenage Vampires Coming Your Way Here's one unsurprising result of the amazing, still not entirely understood Twilight phenomenon-- young adult novels featuring vampires are about to become required reading for studio execs. Already two producers, Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik, have put up their own money to buy the rights to House of Night , a nine-book series featuring adolescent bloodsuckers. As described by Variety , the books actually sound more like Harry Potter than Twilight -- vampires possess a genetic anomaly that only manifests at puberty, so ...
Is This The New Lame Fantasy Phenomenon?
Hollywoodtuna —
... With Twilight set to break all kinds of records for screaming superfans and gay emo vampires, Variety reports that producers have optioned “House of Night,” a nine-part series of young adult novels. The series supposedly takes the vampire myth in a whole “new” direction, aka it turns Twilight into Harry Potter with fangs: ...
Another vampire series comes to big screen
The Screening Log —
I guess vampires are pretty much the hottest thing out there at the moment. While the first "Twilight" is currently awaiting release, news comes of a new vampire series being prepped for a transition to the big screen.
Variety reports producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik have acquired the rights to adapt "House of Night," a series of novels written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.
In the series, so-called "vampyres" are already accepted in society, although they carry special marks and attend a special school where they get the right training to become adult vampyres.
The protagonist in ...
'House of Night' acquired
FilmWad —
Producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik have acquired House of Night. Variety is reporting that the two producers used their own funds to option the screen rights to the novels by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. "House of Night" takes the vampire myth in a "Harry Potter"-esque direction. In the series, "vampyres" are accepted in society; they possess a genetic anomaly that manifests itself in some people at puberty. Vampyres are "marked" and sent to the House of Night, a school that offers training necessary to become an adult vampyre. Protag is Zoey Redbird, whose ordinary ...
