The idea for Twilight came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream she had where a girl and a vampire were in love.Narrative device and development of the story Part of the success has been attributed to releasing the movies quickly in consecutive years before the hype died down rather than waiting long times between releases.

With the exception of Eclipse, each movie did better at the box office than the last.Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 each had an even larger budget of over $100 million.New Moon and Eclipse had their budgets raised to over $50 million after the success of the first film.At one point, the production team had to find a way to cut $4 million from the budget to ensure the movie could continue.Twilight was not expected to be a huge box office success so the first movie was shot with a relatively small budget of $37 million.The movies have made over $3.3 billion dollars at the box office globally.The fourth book was split into two movies that were released in 20. The film versions of the first three books were released in 2008, 2009, and 2010.When were the Twilight books published? Publish Dates Book # All 4 books filled the top 4 positions of USA Today’s bestseller lists for the year in 20 – Stephenie Meyer was the first author to do this.Midnight Sun was going to be released in 2008 but was scrapped after an initial draft was leaked online, Meyer and her publishers eventually decided to publish it in 2020.

The latest book, Midnight Sun, sold more than 1 million copies in its first week.It sold 1.3 million copies on the first day Breaking Dawn, the 4th book, was published with an initial run of 3.7 million copies.

Twilight spent 235 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list.

The Twilight series has sold over 160 million copies worldwide between the 4 main novels and the 2 major additional books.

Twilight is the most popular vampire series in history with an estimated 160 million copies sold in 49 different languages.

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