'Twilight' fans flock to LI theaters for screenings
Photo credit: Summit Entertainment | Scene of Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon".
Trailer: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
'Twilight: New Moon' premiere
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Four hours and two minutes before the 12:02 a.m. showing of "New Moon," Theresa Wilson, 13, and her aunt, Lisa Gimber, showed up at the Regal Stadium 10 Theatre in Farmingdale.
Gimber, 41, knew that the theater would be overrun by fans who couldn't wait to see the second flick in the romantic four-part "Twilight" vampire saga. She wanted a good parking spot and a prime theater seat. So she and Theresa went into the adjacent Starbucks Thursday evening, ordered coffee, a java-chip frappuccino and a chocolate cookie, and settled in to wait for the hordes to descend.
And descend they did. By 10 p.m., the line extended around the corner of the theater. This theater, like many across Long Island, had several midnight showings - 12:01, 12:02, 12:03, 12:04, 12:05, 12:06, adding one after the other as they sold out.
Several thousand theaters across the country had sold out in advance for the show, making it the most Fandango and MovieTickets.com have ever sold prior to a film's release date, surpassing even "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" sales, according to the company.
For the first Twilight movie in the four-book series, Theresa and her aunt were behind the masses. They only saw it after it was released on DVD. This time around, things were different. Gimber and Theresa, who live in North Massapequa and Massapequa, respectively, bought their tickets online two weeks ago. Theresa got permission from her mom - who also attended Thursday night's show - to go into middle school late Friday, in time for her fifth period math test.
The eighth grader was looking forward to seeing how the cinematographers captured Jacob's character morphing into a werewolf, and to the scenes when vampire Edward traveled to Italy. "I can't wait to finally get to the movie theater after waiting for so long," Theresa said. "I'm just going to be so excited; I'm finally watching it."
With Reuters
