Is Twilight the next Harry Potter?

At the heels of the disappointment that is The Golden Compass comes another fantasy novel bestseller movie franchise.

Twilight stars Robert Pattinson of Harry Potter fame. After Cedric Diggory's demise in Potter movie 4, Robert returns and survives as one of the undead in this dark romantic tale from author Stephenie Meyer. Robert is paired against Kristen Stewart from the movie Jumper and Zathura.

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"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."

As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella (Kristen Stewart) adores beautiful Edward (Robert Pattinson), and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.

This movie has a lot of promise but we will hold our judgment until at least a trailer comes out.