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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How do you feel about your sex god status?
Wow, I’m getting red in the face. I don’t know, am I a sex god? The fans of the Twilight films have always been wonderful, so I can’t complain whatsoever.

Do you think Robert Pattinson steals a lot of the attention away from you?
If Rob takes the attention off me then I’m happy to take whatever is left over because there’s plenty to go around for everyone in the cast. I don’t know how Rob handles it. I know how much attention I get and it’s crazy and he gets so much more than me, I can’t imagine how he does it. To have your life under a microscope like that when you’re only 24. He can’t even walk down the street to get a coffee without paparazzi jumping out of the bushes. If it was me I think I’d go crazy, it must be very difficult.

But you must also experience a lot of screaming female fans?
I’ve definitely had my fair share. When the whole cast shows up anywhere it’s kind of like the Beatles. I’ve been working for 15 years and I’ve never experienced that level of fandomonium. It’s amazing really because when we started out we were all convinced the film was destined to fail. We thought that, because it was based on a book, it would never live up to people’s expectations. We had no idea people were going to love it as much as they do.

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Nikki Reed has revealed that Twilight co-star Peter Facinelli accidentally “clocked” her during filming.

The actress – who plays Rosalie Hale in the vampire series – told Digital Spy that it happened while the she was filming one of the movie’s action sequences with Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen).

“Peter was describing something to the director and because of those contact [lenses] we don’t have any peripheral vision and he swung his arms open and clocked me right in the forehead!” she explained.

“I was dizzy and went to sit down and he kept talking. He didn’t even realise he did it! Someone said, ‘Do you realise you just hit Nikki?’ He said, ‘Oh my God, I thought that was a tree!’ It just happens.”

Source: Digital Spy

The Twilight Saga has, to date, taken over $1 billion worldwide at the box office and turned actors like Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Peter Facinelli into global superstars. 36-year-old Facinelli plays Carlisle Cullen, who topped Forbes magazine’s 2009 list of the wealthiest fictional characters in the whole world ever, which is what accumulating interest for 370 years (he’s a vampire, obviously) will do for you. Now, a week before The Twilight Saga: Eclipse hits the cinema to break all box office records and delight vamp fans the world over, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to do a fashion shoot with Facinelli in which he looks sharper than a cactus in the best of Americana inspired fashion. The full shoot and an interview will appear in the August 2010 issue of FHM.

Source: FHM