Twilight (novel series) the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009, for being "Sexually Explicit", "Unsuited to Age Group", and having a "Religious Viewpoint". A screenplay for "Twilight" was written by Melissa Rosenberg and has been adapted into a film by Summit Entertainment. The film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the leading roles of Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen, respectively. The movie was released in the United States on November 21, 2008. "Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion", written by Mark Cotta Vaz, was released October 28. On November 22, 2008, following the box office success of
The Twilight Saga (film series) "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is the ninth-highest opening weekend in domestic history with $142,839,137. The film also has the sixth highest worldwide opening weekend with $274.9 million total. While "The Twilight Saga" has been successful at the box office, critical reception of the films was mixed, and declined as the series continued. "New York Press" critic Armond White called "Twilight" "a genuine pop classic", and praised Hardwicke for turning "Meyer's book series into a Brontë-esque vision". "USA Today" gave the film two out of four stars and Claudia Puig wrote: "Meyer is said to have been involved in the