{"id":2020,"date":"2008-12-07T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:11:18","slug":"twilight-director-shown-the-door-wont-direct-sequel-new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/07\/twilight-director-shown-the-door-wont-direct-sequel-new-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"TWILIGHT Director Shown The Door, Won&#8217;t Direct Sequel NEW MOON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/catherinehardwicke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2021\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"She's smiling because she doesn't know she's fired yet...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/catherinehardwicke-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>The old Hollywood adage used to be that you are only as good as your last film, but even that doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case any more as Catherine Hardwicke, the director behind the successful teen vampire romance <strong>Twilight<\/strong>, has been removed from working on the film&#8217;s follow-up by production\u00a0 company Summit Entertainment. The story has been broken by industry gossip columnist Nikki Finke at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com\/hardwicke-fired-from-twilight-franchise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors have circulated for some time that Hardwicke has always been a difficult person to work with, something that Finke mentions in her report as one of the reasons for Hardwicke&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the reason, Summit is going to have to hustle to get a director lined up for <strong>Twilight<\/strong>&#8216;s sequel <strong>New Moon<\/strong>, if they want to get in front of the camera as early as the spring as is currently being planned. Sliding into the director&#8217;s chair on a project that has a definite start date is often a tough proposition for even an experienced helmer. I would also imagine that Summit is going to be scrutinizing very closely whomever gets the job. With an opening weekend gross of $70 million and a current box office take of $138 million, Summit&#8217;s adaptation of the popular <strong>Twilight<\/strong> series of teen novels has rapidly become the company&#8217;s only golden-egg laying goose. With Twilight&#8217;s budget coming out at a skimpy $37 million, there&#8217;s a lot of profit to pay for some of Summit&#8217;s recent misfire&#8217;s like <strong>The Hottie &amp; The Nottie<\/strong> and <strong>Disaster Movie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The old Hollywood adage used to be that you are only as good as your last film, but even that doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case any more as Catherine Hardwicke, the director behind the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/07\/twilight-director-shown-the-door-wont-direct-sequel-new-moon\/\" title=\"TWILIGHT Director Shown The Door, Won&#8217;t Direct Sequel NEW MOON\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[355,1143,1144,902,1142],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-book-to-screen","8":"tag-catherine-hardwicke","9":"tag-new-moon","10":"tag-sequels","11":"tag-twilight"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}