The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has smashed the 2010 opening weekend record at the UK box office.

The vampire romance, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, took in £13 million to best Alice In Wonderland‘s £10 million debut from March.

Eclipse‘s total is also ahead of the last Twilight film, New Moon, which earned £11 million in ticket sales last year on its first weekend on release.

Shrek Forever After falls to second place, the Adrien Brody-led Predators is a new entry at number three and comedies Get Him To The Greek and Killers round out the top five.

Elsewhere, two Bollywood films make appearances in the chart. I Hate Luv Stories falls to number eight and new release Milenge Milenge bows at ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:

1. (-) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – £13,756,653
2. (1) Shrek Forever After – £4,591,105
3. (-) Predators – £2,203,193
4. (2) Get Him To The Greek – £610,705
5. (3) Killers – £157,615
6. (4) Sex And The City 2 – £107,884
7. (6) Heartbreaker – £84,417
8. (5) I Hate Luv Stories – £78,353
9. (7) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – £48,268
10. (-) Milenge Milenge – £48,172

SOURCE: Digital Spy.

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A man reportedly died during a screening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in New Zealand on Sunday night.

Police are investigating the 23-year-old’s death, which happened at the Reading Courtenay cinema complex in central Wellington.

The man’s body was discovered by a security guard after a 6pm screening of the movie, according to TVNZ.

Authorities have yet to determine his cause of death.

“There’s no obvious injuries… and the post-mortem tomorrow will help us establish his cause of death,” said detective senior sergeant Scott Miller.

Police are still to reach the man’s next of kin. He apparently attended the showing alone.

Source: Digital Spy

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Why has the “Twilight” series become such a phenomenon?

Facinelli: You have the vampire folklore, which is always interesting, and then you mix it with a love story. That’s a timeless tale: the “Romeo and Juliet” story. What I liked about it is that somewhere along the line, Hollywood made vampire movies horror movies. And so when my agents called me and said, “Do you want to do this vampire movie called ‘Twilight’?” I said, “No.” And then I read the books and I fell in love with them.

What do you think about the Cullen family being non-traditional family that isn’t related to each other?

Facinelli: Well, you were lying in the gutter. And you were pretty. It’s true, why he chose these people. It’s like forming this and this group of people he hand-picked to be his family. That means a lot to him. I think I struggle as Carlisle, in that in some ways I feel like I gave them a gift — and in some ways that wasn’t my gift to give. I know some of the characters struggle with that — that they didn’t have a choice in it. Rosalie didn’t have a choice. And Edward’s not that happy, because he didn’t have a choice.

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You have a teenage daughter; is she a Twi-hard? Or just like, ehhh, that’s my dad.

She’s more like ehhh, that’s my dad. I ruined it for her in that way. She can’t be a full-on die-hard Twi-hard, because it’s like, “My dad is in the movie and that would be weird.” She loves the movies, but it’s not like she can wear Twilight merchandise. Her friends would be like, “That’s kind of weird.”

But she could declare Team Edward or Team Jacob.

She has mentioned Team Edward before. But she wears Carlisle t-shirts. She’s a Carlisle supporter.

Is your wife (actress Jennie Garth) a big fan as well or does she keep her distance?

She’s excited for the movie; she’s read all the books. She really enjoyed the movie.

You have a family of supporters, but not fanatics.

Exactly

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“Eclipse” is an action-heavy chapter of the series, with near-constant fighting. There are torrential emotional moments as well, with some major revelations about the feelings Bella has for Edward Cullen and Jacob Black, played by the dreamy Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, respectively.

For six weeks, the cast of the movie participated in “fight training,” a combination of workouts and fighting choreography, in order to build enough strength to endure shooting the action-packed movie. That’s Fit caught up with Facinelli in New York City at a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity organized by Dockers and Esquire. Facinelli shared what it was like to put so many hours into training.

“That’s all we had to do for six weeks,” Facinelli said. “We did fight choreography mixed in with working with a personal trainer so that we’d have the stamina to be able to pull off the fight sequences.”

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