Word: summiter
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...Hardwicke saw something there, and she wanted in. She read the Twilight books. Then she threw the Paramount script away and called Rosenberg, who worked with Summit before, and they started over. She also began the hunt for her leading couple...
Selling Pattinson to Summit was tougher. He wasn't a star - his biggest role was Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - and he didn't look like a star. "He was disheveled," Hardwicke says. "He was a different weight. His hair was different and dyed black [he had just played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes]. He was all sloppy. The studio head said, 'You want to cast this guy as Edward Cullen?' I said yeah. And he said, 'Do you think you can make him look good?' I said...
...Summit gave Hardwicke 48 days and $37 million to make Twilight. That's not a lot, especially in retrospect, but nobody knew whether the book's popularity would translate into box-office success. "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, that was successful," Hardwicke says, "but it made $30 million with this kind of fan base." That led to some improvising. In the book, the crucial scene between Bella and Edward in the school parking lot happens on a snow day, but snow is expensive. "So the snow became the rain. And then I had to cut the rain out and show...
...Moon Rising But when it came time to film the sequel, Hardwicke balked. Summit was pushing hard to get the new movie done fast, to keep up the momentum, and she was burned out. Enter Chris Weitz, who was not, by his own admission, the obvious choice. "There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie," he says. "I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too." But after a 2½-hour phone conversation with Meyer - a fan of Weitz's About a Boy - she gave him her blessing...
...cleaning machine can run more than $100,000. Cleaning green "does take longer and cost more," admits Kistner. How much more? Green Apple charges at least $6.16 to clean a shirt using wet methods or CO2. (See TIME's special report on the climate change summit in Copenhagen...