Twilight movie sets pre-release records

Being a teenager sucks. Being a teenage vampire? Now that's the sort of misery worthy of an obtusely titled album. But if you just happen to be an adolescent bloodsucker on a Washington peninsula poised to cash in on the (lucrative) intersection of J.K. Rowling and Stephen King, life is actually pretty good right now.

The film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's vampire non-bodice-ripper has already climbed to #7 on Fandango's top 10 advance ticket-sellers list. Critics may be weighing in to pan the flick's languid bite, but that hasn't stopped the Jonas Brothers of the literary set from selling out 2,000 showings, including 600 midnight premieres. Collider is also reporting that the film accounts for a whopping 94% of Fandango's daily ticket sales.

If scattered reports of bizarre acts of self-mutilation are any indication Twilight is well poised to firmly plant itself in our cultural zeitgeist, probably because of the pull of sexy vampires on teenagers and their mothers. Moviefone recently revealed in an online poll that Twilight leading man Robert Pattinson supplanted Brad Pitt's turn in Interview with a Vampire as the sexiest male movie vampire (Selma Hayek and Kate Beckinsale dominated the females).

It might be good to get some fresh blood in the genre, since Anne Rice seemed to be getting sick of the whole thing anyway. Twilight opens today in theaters around the country.

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