Word: twilight
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...Most Enthusiastic Fans: The Twihards, devout readers of Stephenie Meyer's series of vampire books, Twilight, were the loudest and proudest in Hall H, starting a Twilight chant while they waited, shrieking anytime a cast member, Meyer or director Catherine Hardwicke said anything, and asking lots of questions about vampire hotness. After the panel was over, so many Twihards rushed the movie's booth that fire marshals briefly closed it down. Fanboys, don't look back. The fangirls are gaining on you fast...
...Best Party: EW (which, like TIME, is a division of TIME Warner) and the Sci Fi Channel's Saturday night bash on the roof of the Hotel Solamar. Sure, there were cast members from Heroes, Twilight, Lost and Battlestar Galactica, but any party where J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are the guys holding court is a geek's dream night...
Comic-Con audiences sank their fangs into two hotly anticipated vampire projects Thursday, as the makers of Twilight, the movie inspired by Stephenie Meyer's best-selling young adult novels, and True Blood, the new HBO show adapted from the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris, showed footage, fielded questions from expectant, sometimes hysterical fans and tackled the enduring appeal of the undead...
...Twilight is the story of a teenage girl, Bella (Kristen Stewart), who falls in love with a vampire, Edward (Robert Pattinson). When Stewart and Pattinson took the stage, the deafening squeals of the Twihards - Meyer's ardent readers, chiefly young and female - reverberated through the San Diego Convention Center's 6,500-seat Hall H. With Meyer's 7th book due out in early August and the film opening in December, the Twihards are in a lather - a phenomenon not lost on the film's stars. "This is kind of the first time I've seen any of them," said...
...Asked about a rivalry between the two vampire projects, Harris, a feisty Southerner, took the bait, imagining a bite-off between the vampire clan in Twilight and the staff of a vampire bar called Fangtasia from her books. "If it came to a Cullen Family-Fangtasia smackdown, I think the Fangtasia staff would win," she said, to whoops and cheers...