'Romeo and Juliet' with a bite: 'Twilight'

FROM THE BOOK TO THE BIG SCREEN it’s just another one of those typical high school romance movies. You know: Lonely boy meets lonely girl, each falls hard for the other, boy turns out to be a vampire.

OK, so maybe it’s not so typical. The source material is a four-part series of books that’s taking on aspects of “Harry Potter” popularity among adolescent girls and, in many cases, their moms also.

Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight,” has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for over a year. In the story of shy 17-year-old Bella Swan, who shuttles between her divorced parents, and mysterious 17-year-old Edward Cullen (or is he really 109?), a forbidden romance ensues, something along the lines of “Romeo and Juliet.”

The Vampire That Rocked The Chart

The soundtrack for the upcoming teen vampire romance TWILIGHT debuts at #1 on The Billboard 200.

TWILIGHT is the first soundtrack to hit #1 in advance of the movie's release since 8 MILE six years ago. That album topped the Nielsen/SoundScan chart for the week ending Nov. 3, 2002. The Eminem movie was released on Nov. 8.

Only five other soundtracks have ever hit #1 in advance of the movie's release. In 1997, PRIVATE PARTS hit #1 five days before the Howard Stern comedy opened. In 1994, MURDER WAS THE CASE hit #1 four months before the Snoop Dogg movie opened. In 1975, THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD hit #1 one month before the little-seen Earth, Wind & Fire movie opened. In 1964, A HARD DAY'S NIGHT hit #1 two weeks before The Beatles movie opened. And in 1951 (hey, I said "ever"), SHOW BOAT hit #1 six weeks before the MGM musical opened.

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LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: just in time for Halloween

“VAMPIRE LORE RARELY COMES ACROSS AS INSPIRED AND ALIVE AS IT DOES IN THIS EXQUISITELY CRAFTED FILM." – Film Comment

“THIS IS A VAMPIRE MOVIE LIKE NO OTHER. MESMERIZING.” – David Ansen, Newsweek

A fragile, anxious boy, Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back.

As much a coming-of-age story as vampire tale, Let the Right One In does its unsettling work quietly. Twelve-year-old Oskar lives in a drab village outside Stockholm, where by day he's the victim of relentless bullying, and by night he dreams of revenge.

Slipping out of sight of his single mother, Oskar fills a notebook with news on the gruesome killings that have set neighborhood nerves on edge-someone is tying people up, breaking their necks, and draining their blood. Oskar rehearses knife moves in the icy courtyard of his apartment complex...