The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, commonly referred to as Breaking Dawn: Part 1, is a 2011 American romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Constituting the first of a two-part adaptation of the novel, the film serves as the fourth and penultimate installment in The Twilight Saga film series, and was followed by Breaking Dawn: Part 2 in 2012. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner reprised their roles.

Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt served as producers of the film, along with the author of the series, Stephenie Meyer; the screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter of the first three entries. It was released in theaters on November 18, 2011, and released to DVD on February 11, 2012, in the United States. Although negatively reviewed by critics, the film was commercially successful, having grossed over $712 million at the box office.

Plot

A few months after the events of the previous film, it is the day of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen s wedding. They happily exchange vows and are married. During the reception, Jacob Black, who had left town upon receiving an invitation to the wedding, returns. Bella is pleasantly surprised to see him, and they share a dance in the woods. Bella admits that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage on their honeymoon while she is still human. Jacob becomes furious, knowing that such an act could kill her.

After the wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Isle Esme for their honeymoon, and they make love for the first time. Two weeks after the wedding, Bella vomits after waking and notices her period is late. Carlisle, Edward s adoptive father, is told by Bella she believes she is pregnant. Edward is distraught, as it is highly unlikely a human will survive giving birth to a vampire s baby.

Edward tells Bella Carlisle should perform an abortion; she refuses, and convinces Edward s sister, Rosalie, to be her bodyguard. They fly back home to Forks, Washington. Jacob rushes to the Cullens house and finds Bella pale, underweight, and visibly pregnant. He is upset by Bella s failing health, saying Carlisle should terminate the pregnancy as soon as possible to save her life. Bella opts to continue her pregnancy.

Jacob storms out of the Cullens residence, shapeshifting and arranges a meeting in the woods with his packmates regarding Bella s pregnancy. Sam believes the baby will not be able to control its craving for human blood once it is born. He thinks they should kill Bella to ensure that her unborn child does not harm anyone. Jacob does not want any harm to come to Bella because he still has feelings for her and she has done nothing wrong. Sam believes if they do not kill Bella, her unborn child will. Disagreement over this issue causes Jacob and a few other wolves to disperse from Sam s pack to form their own.

As Bella s pregnancy progresses, her health declines rapidly. However, a snide comment from Jacob makes her realize the baby is craving blood. When she begins drinking human blood obtained by Carlisle from the hospital, her health improves. Bella s pregnancy continues to progress at an alarming rate; as a half-vampire, the fetus s development is far more accelerated than that of a human fetus. Edward s dislike for the baby dissolves as he notices he can read the baby s thoughts.

Bella is sharing her ideas about baby names with Edward and Jacob when she collapses. Edward, Jacob, and Rosalie begin performing an emergency cesarean section, as Carlisle is out obtaining blood. The procedure is excruciatingly painful for Bella, and she falls unconscious. Following the procedure, Bella wakes up and sees her healthy newborn daughter. After she chooses Renesmee (a combination of her mother s name and Edward s mother s name) as the baby s name, Bella s heart stops.

Jacob desperately attempts CPR. Edward injects Bella s heart with his venom in an attempt to transform her into a vampire, but his action appears to be futile as Bella remains lifeless. Panicked, Edward begins chest compressions. A distraught Jacob decides to kill Renesmee, as he believes she was the cause of Bella s death; however, when they look into each other s eyes, he imprints on her. The imprint prevents the werewolves from killing Renesmee, as their most absolute law is not to harm anyone who has been imprinted on.

Bella is cleaned and dressed. Over the course of two days, her injuries heal and her figure returns to normal. Finally, the transformation is complete; her eyes open, and they are blood-red. Bella has become a vampire.

In a post-credits scene, the Volturi s secretary, Bianca, delivers a message from Carlisle. Aro reads the message, which basically states about Bella and Edward s wedding and Bella s transformation into a vampire. Aro has Bianca killed by Demetri and Felix for spelling Carlisle s name without an s . The two other Volturi banter about how Carlisle is growing his coven and that the Volturis dispute with the Cullens is over. However, Aro disagrees, saying they still have something he wants.

Cast

• Kristen Stewart as Bella Cullen (nee ‘Swan’), Edward s wife, Jacob s best friend and Renesmee’s mother. She marries Edward in this installment and, soon after, falls pregnant with his child, eventually giving birth to a half-vampire, half-human daughter. This is the film where Bella also becomes a vampire due to Edward’s venom penetrating her heart and to save her life after giving birth to Renesmee.
• Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Bella s vampire husband, Jacob s romantic rival and Renesmee’s father. Despite his reluctance to turn her the entire series, after Bella seeming dies giving birth to their daughter, Edward is forced to transform her into a vampire like him.
• Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, Bella s werewolf best friend and Edward s romantic rival. He was heartbroken over Bella s choice to marry Edward, but eventually he imprints on Bella and Edward s daughter, Renesmee. He is also the great-grandson of a Chief, and the Alpha of the Black Pack.
• Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen, Esme s husband and the patriarch of the Cullen family. He is a doctor who helps Bella during her unnaturally accelerated pregnancy and provides human blood for Bella to drink to maintain her strength.
• Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen, Carlisle s wife and the matriarch of the Cullen family.
• Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen, a member of the Cullen family who can see subjective visions of the future and who is close friends with Bella. She is Jasper s wife.
• Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen, the strongest member of the Cullen family until Bella becomes a vampire and replaces him as strongest. He is Rosalie s husband.
• Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale, a member of the Cullen family who helps Bella through her pregnancy. She is Emmett s wife.
• Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale, a member of the Cullen coven who can feel, control and manipulate emotions. He is Alice s husband.
• Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, the Chief of the Forks Police Department, and Bella s father.
• Sarah Clarke as Renée Dwyer, Bella s mother, who remarried to Phil Dwyer.
• Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater, Seth s older sister and the only female werewolf in existence.
• Booboo Stewart as Seth Clearwater, Leah s younger brother and Edward and Jacob s friend.
• MyAnna Buring as Tanya, the leader of the Denali coven.
• Maggie Grace as Irina, a member of the Denali coven whose lover, Laurent, was killed by the werewolves.
• Casey LaBow as Kate, a member of the Denali coven who has the ability to release an electric current over her body.
• Michael Sheen as Aro, Caius and Marcus s brother who has the ability to read every thought a person has ever had once he has made physical contact. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, Aro and Marcus s brother. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, Aro and Caius s brother who has the power to sense the strength and nature of relationships. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley, the Alpha of the main werewolf pack.
• Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee Cullen, Bella and Edward s half-mortal, half-immortal daughter and Jacob Black s imprintee.
• Christian Camargo as Eleazar, a member of the Denali coven who has the ability to identify the special powers of other vampires.
• Mía Maestro as Carmen, a member of the Denali coven and mate of Eleazar.
• Olga Fonda as Valentina, a secretary to the Volturi who announces Edward and Bella s wedding.
• Stephenie Meyer makes a cameo as an attendee of Edward and Bella s wedding.

Production

Development

Talks for a Breaking Dawn film started after Summit Entertainment approved the second and third adaptations of the franchise, and scheduled the two films to be released six months apart. Wyck Godfrey, producer of the previous films in the series, stated in mid-2009 that they had every intention to make the film version of Breaking Dawn, but Stephenie Meyer, author of the series, explained on her website s Breaking Dawn FAQ that if an adaptation were to be created, it would have to be split into two films because The book is just so long! , saying that she would have made the book shorter if it were possible. She also believed it to be impossible to make a film due to Renesmee, writing that an actress could not play her because she is a baby that has complete awareness, The one thing that I ve never seen is a CGI human being who truly looks real ; however, she did acknowledge the film might be possible due to the quickly-advancing technologies. Moreover, because of the mature and explicit nature of the Breaking Dawn book, fans and critics questioned if the studio would be able to keep a PG-13 rating, noting that the movie should not be rated R for the ever-growing fan base. In March 2010, Variety reported that Summit Entertainment was considering splitting the 754-page book into two films, along the same lines as Warner Bros. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Since under contract for only four films, the status of Stewart s, Pattinson s, and Lautner s contracts were in question, making the possibility of a split unlikely. Producer Wyck Godfrey stated that all three main cast members were signed onto one Breaking Dawn film.

I got very nervous. There were, like, 15 people. I had never really auditioned or gone into a job interview in that way since maybe 1988 or 87. I guess I was unprepared for it. In this case, they wanted me to talk about their project, which really needed to follow very closely the book I was talking about the book, and really all I was saying was, OK, this is great, let s go to it. That was the pitch. I think they re used to something else. They re used to, for those of you who might audition for film jobs, a 40-minute dissertation with perhaps visual aids and a pep talk about how fantastic this project is going to be. I just didn t know how to do that.

In March 2010, it was announced that Summit was searching for Academy Award-nominated directors to helm the project, with names like Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant, and Bill Condon rumored to have been approached to direct. On April 28, 2010, Summit announced that Bill Condon, who directed Dreamgirls, would direct Breaking Dawn; Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, and author Stephenie Meyer would be producing the film. I m very excited to get the chance to bring the climax of this saga to life on-screen. As fans of the series know, this is a one-of-a-kind book—and we re hoping to create an equally unique cinematic experience , said Bill Condon. Condon spoke about Summit approaching him saying, The very nice folks at Summit… they sent me the novel. I loved it. I quickly imprinted on the material . Another reason Condon cited was the desire to collaborate with Stewart. Gus Van Sant later explained that Robert Pattinson mentioning him as the ideal director for Breaking Dawn was what made him audition for the job and described the audition as very nerve-wracking . However, after Condon was hired, Sant suggested that the reason behind not getting hired was his style and way of auditioning being different from what the executive producers were used to.

In June, Summit officially confirmed that a two-part adaptation of the fourth book would start filming in November. The first part was released on November 18, 2011, and the second part s release date is set for November 16, 2012.

The Twilight Saga also helped motivate Rosenberg into launching a female-centric production company, Tall Girls Productions: The charter of it, if there is one, would be to create some strong roles for women… the female Batman, the female Tony Soprano. She explained that, despite the fact of the many hours of hard work ahead of her, it is what she wants to do.

After confirming one film, Summit had been keeping their eye on a fifth installment. In May 2010, Billy Burke and Peter Facinelli were the only cast actors who were confirmed for both parts of Breaking Dawn, while other cast members such as Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz were still in negotiations for a second part. If the actors holding Summit back from making an official announcement did not reach an agreement with them, the studio would not have minded recasting their roles, as was done in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with Bryce Dallas Howard s character, Victoria. However, in June 2010, Summit officially confirmed that a two-part adaptation of the fourth book would start production and it was made clear that all major actors, including the three lead roles, the Cullen family, and Charlie Swan, would return for both parts. Actresses Christie Burke, Rachel St. Gelais, Sierra Pitkin, and Eliza Faria play Renesmee at her various ages in the film.

Pre-production

Since the first film was released, fans and critics speculated whether Breaking Dawn would be adapted into a film considering the adult nature of the book. In March 2010, Rosenberg spoke about adapting the book saying, It s the big one, it s gonna be a big challenge, and I guarantee you that not all of the fans will be happy, and I guarantee you some of them will be. You have to give up the ideal of making everybody happy, it s just not gonna happen, but you hope you make the majority happy. Again, for that last book it is about taking that specific character Bella on her journey. It s a big journey, it s a massive change for her, and you hope to realize that. One of the scenes that aroused the speculations that the film would be rated R is the infamous graphic birth scene in the novel. In August, Rosenberg addressed such speculations saying, On the fan site, on Facebook, all the comments are It has to be R rated! You have to show the childbirth! Gore and guts and sex! For me it s actually more interesting to not see it. You know, you can do childbirth without seeing childbirth … it doesn t mean it s any less evocative of an experience. Producer Wyck Godfrey addressed those speculations further saying, it would be a crime against our audience to go R-rated as the core fans of the series are below 18 years old, but insisted that the film is based on a mature book, so more progress and sophistication are needed. To compromise the necessary sophistication in adapting such a mature book and the need for maintaining a PG-13 rating, Rosenberg stated that the scene would be shown from Bella s point of view. Godfrey described it saying, She is looking through the haze, experiencing pain and everything rushing around her. We only see what she sees .

You start with, and you end with, what is the emotional journey for these characters. That is the most important thing to capture, that is the only thing to capture. Everything else is up for grabs, but you must take these characters on the same emotional journey that they took in the book, and hence take the audience on the same emotional journey that they took in the book and that s the goal, you hope that you achieve that.

Melissa Rosenberg, writer of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, about adapting the book to film

In June, Rosenberg stated in an interview that the decision on where to split the film had not been decided, as she was still in the drafting stage of the scripts. I think it comes down to Bella as human and Bella as vampire , she said, hinting at a potential splitting point. She thought that Condon would probably disagree with the statement, explaining that the decision is ultimately up to him. Later in January 2011, Godfrey confirmed that the Part 1 will cover the wedding, honeymoon, pregnancy and birth and ends just before her transformation into a vampire as the filmmakers wanted to take the audience through the emotional part of Bella s journey as she becomes a vampire . Part 2 will follow her transformation, the first exhilarating moments of her vampire life and the final confrontation with the Volturi. Godfrey also confirmed that Part 1 will follow the book s storyline as it breaks away from Bella and switches into Jacob s perspective. There is a sense that as Bella and the Cullens (Edward s makeshift vampire clan) deal with her pregnancy, the world is still turning outside with Jacob , he explains. However, in March 2011, Meyer said in interview with USA Today that Part 1 will end when Bella opens her eyes as a vampire.

By August, Rosenberg said that the scripts for Part 1 and 2 were 75 to 85 percent completed. She found the greatest challenge in writing the scripts to be the final sequence of Part 2: The final battle sequence is a big challenge because it lasts 25 pages , she said. It s almost an entire three-act story in and of itself. You have to track hundreds of characters. It s an enormous challenge to choreograph on the page and for Bill to choreograph on the stage. She had written various drafts of the scene but, at that, hadn t revised or discussed them with Condon yet. She said, That s the next big hurdle to sit down with the stunt coordinator and create the ballet. It s a lot of work. I m exhausted, but we re intent on making them the best scripts yet. Godfrey called Part 2 an action film in terms of life-and-death stakes and said that in Part 1 there are the pangs of newlywed tension that occur that are relatable even in a fantasy film. Marriage is not quite the experience that they thought it was. Condon thought of Part 1 as a real companion piece to Catherine Hardwicke s movie . Condon explains, Like, everything that got set up there gets resolved here. I think you ll find that there are stylistic and other nods to that film.

Godfrey considered releasing the second film in 3D to differentiate between the time before and after Bella becomes a vampire, an idea originally proposed for Eclipse, but said that the decision is up to Condon. However, he said that if the second film were to be released in 3D, he would like to shoot it with the proper equipment in real 3D as was done with Avatar (2009), not convert it into 3D in post-production as was done with Clash of the Titans (2010).

Filming

In order to keep the budget on both parts of Breaking Dawn reasonable, even though it is substantially greater than the previous installments in the series, much of the film was shot in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Celtic Studios in Baton Rouge. Shooting in Louisiana provided larger tax credits, which a small studio like Summit Entertainment would find favorable. Summit announced in a press release on July 9, 2010, that filming was to take place in Baton Rouge, Ucluelet, and Vancouver, with the wedding being shot in Squamish. (Also shot in near by Pemberton, British Columbia.) Both parts will be shot back-to-back as one project. The film will attempt to keep its PG-13 rating, and it will not feature any of the gruesome scenes from the novel with Kristen Stewart confirming that the birth scene wasn t as grotesque as described in the book and that she didn t puke up blood , though director Bill Condon said that they shot everything as powerful and potent as they could . Though there were many reports of the cast in Whistler, British Columbia, none of the actual filming took place in Whistler itself, but to the north and south of the town in nearby Pemberton (north) & Squamish (south). The Stars were housed in Whistler at 4 and 5 star hotels, the crew in Squamish & Pemberton.

Filming officially began on November 1, 2010 in Brazil, with locations in Rio de Janeiro and Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. The first scenes were shot in the Lapa District in Rio de Janeiro for one night. A long city block was rented for shooting, and Summit Entertainment paid residents 50 to 500 reais (30 to 300 U.S. dollars) to not allow paparazzi or fans to overlook filming from their windows. Moreover, owners of bars and restaurants were paid 10,000 and 20,000 reais (6,000 to 12,000 U.S. dollars) to stay closed for the evening to eliminate noise and provide a clear street.

Shooting then moved to Paraty, Rio de Janeiro where the honeymoon scenes were shot. According to Paraty s Tourism Office, filming took place in the Taquari area, near an unidentified waterfall and at Mamangua Bay where a mansion is located. It rained on every day of shooting. In late November, shooting moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where most of the indoor scenes were shot on a sound stage and in a house. Stewart had to wear heavy make-up to look thin and ghastly to show Bella through a phase of pregnancy where the baby starts breaking her bones. The birth scene took two nights to shoot after the cast had a long conversation with Meyer, a midwife, and a doctor to discuss the mechanics of the scene, particularly to decide the area where Edward should place his mouth to bite into Bella s placenta if this situation could ever occur in real life. An animatronic baby was used to film a few scenes of newborn Renesmee. The cast and crew spent two months of the filming process shooting in a green-screen room on fake snow. Reportedly, a few scenes were also shot in Arsenal Park using green screens.

In late February and early March, filming of most of the exterior shots, along with Bella s vampire scenes, occurred in Canada. The film s first shooting location in Canada was Vancouver. However, the cast and crew were evacuated from the set due to the tsunami advisories resulting from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Toni Atterbury, a spokeswoman for the film, said that the crew was moved to higher ground as a safety precaution and the shoot was delayed for a few hours, but the day s work was accomplished . Therefore, filming relocated to Squamish, British Columbia, but a few scenes were shot in the Orpheum theater in Vancouver with the Vancouver police covering all the entrances of the theater.

The wedding scene in Part 1 was the last scene the cast and crew shot. It was also shot under tight security. A helicopter hovered above the set, off-duty police officers surrounded the location, and sheets and umbrellas were used to protect the set from aerial shots being taken. Stewart spoke about the wedding at Comic-Con, describing it as insane . She went on to say that it was secret service style. The crew was incredibly inconvenienced. No cell phone, etc. They wanted to keep the dress secret. Concerning the wedding dress, Stewart was locked in a room wearing a Volturi cloak to cover the dress.

Stewart further talked about filming the scene, saying I wanted to run down the aisle. I was literally pulling away from Billy Burke. Now it s a trip to watch the wedding scenes. It was so volatile and emotional—I was being such a crazy person. Condon spoke about it saying, The last scene we filmed was the dance scene between Jacob and Bella at the wedding. The last shot is Jacob leaving. I called Cut! and then Kristen yelled, Jacob! and hiked her dress up and started running after him into the woods, saying, Come back! Don t leave!

Filming wrapped—for most of the cast—on April 15, 2011. However, on April 22, what is believed to be additional scenes that will fit into the honeymoon sequence were filmed on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, which was officially the last day of shooting. The crew, Stewart and Pattinson were shooting in the sea all day long, then went out for cocktails on the beach and watched the sunrise. On the subject of the final day and her final moment as Bella, Stewart stated, After that scene, my true final scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I ve ever felt in my life. Pattinson thought the day was amazing and commented, I then asked myself why we didn t do this in those four years. Every difficult moment just vanished.

Costume design

In October 2010, it was announced that Michael Wilkinson would be the film s costume designer. However, Bella s wedding dress was designed by someone other than Wilkinson. Meyer s description of the dress was a simpler style than the frillier Edwardian stuff. …Elegant white satin, cut on the bias, with long sleeves. At first, Zac Posen was rumored to be the designer of Bella s wedding dress; however, these rumors proved false when Posen tweeted: Heard the Bella/Twilight rumor and it s just that. I design for real women like Kristen Stewart and Anna Kendrick . In April 2011, Summit announced that Carolina Herrera is the designer of the dress. Stewart described the dress as very tight, but still liked it and thought that it was very pretty . Meyer told USA Today that the dress was an interesting mix and has a vintage feel, but at the same time, there s an edge to it .

Concerning Alice s bridesmaid dress, its designer remains unknown, however it was presumably designed by Wilkinson. Ashley Greene described the dress as magical and beautiful and spoke about the design process, saying, We wanted to have all the bridesmaids fit together and also have their own identity. So, we took a little bit of Alice s past and put it into her dress. Corsets were added to all the cast s wedding dresses, but were removed during filming because the cast felt uncomfortable wearing them while dancing.

Alfred Angelo has been named the exclusive and official licensed manufacturer of Bella s bridal gown. The gown will be a replica of Bella s wedding dress and marketed under the brand Twilight Bridal by Alfred Angelo. It will be revealed in late November 2011, following the release of Part 1, and will be available in Alfred Angelo Signature Stores and independent retailers worldwide.

Post-production

In October 2010, Condon announced that Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Bruno, along with his team, would helm the visual effects for Breaking Dawn, including the effects necessary to show Renesmee in her various stages of life in Part 2. Later in February, Adam Howard was added to the Breaking Dawn visual effects team to help create the visual effects for Renesmee, due to his notable work on a similar issue in The Social Network. Condon revealed that Mackenzie Foy s face and expressions will be placed digitally on the bodies of the other actresses playing the same character through her various stages of life. Condon spoke about the process saying, Sometimes it was hard because the other actresses were actually just there. It was always going to be just Mackenzie s expressions and things like that, so it was a very specific technical thing that even I was learning as we did it. But I have to say, they were real troopers these girls. Furthermore, special effects were also used to illustrate the invisible powers and forces between the vampires in the final battle sequence of Part 2.

Montreal-based Modus FX created subtle CG effects for Part 1. It created stylized effects to emphasize the supernatural capabilities of the main characters without making them too obvious or noticeable. A team of 12 artists spent six weeks working on the film. Shots included creating the belly of a pregnant Bella, removing a wrist brace Stewart was wearing in the wedding scene due to an injury, and a variety of subtle cosmetic refinements. Bella s pregnancy was a challenge for Modus; the production team wanted the baby to kick and move around inside her belly, so the artists and cinematographer had to match the camera moves, the lighting, even the film grain, along with the subtleties of Stewart s skin. On the subject, CG supervisor Martin Pelletier said,

For this project, we had to be really quick in terms of turn around. We made use of very complex lighting from the set, adding 3D layers, and a matchmove of her stomach, to make her look pregnant. We took our time at the start to get the recipe right and that paid off in efficiency once we got going. We were soon able to turn around several shots each day.

During the wedding scene, the camera pans around Pattinson and Stewart. Due to a minor wrist injury Stewart had, she was wearing a brace on the day of the shoot. Therefore, Modus was required to create a CG model of the hand and then carefully craft a rig to create natural motions. Once that was finished, every minute movement of the hand had to be matched exactly. The rotational panning shot totals 300 frames and called for elaborate camera and object tracking. Modus used subsurface scattering to accurately capture the partial translucence of her skin to make it look more authentic. Pelletier explained that tracking was particularly challenging, because when they were shooting it, they weren t thinking about it as an effects shot. There was no camera metadata for the sequence. The solution was to do a series of careful manual adjustments until the light sources were correctly replicated on the set.

In July, Condon said that the first cut of Part 1 would be finished in a few weeks, but the visual effects were still in development. Godfrey later stated that they were very close to locking picture on part one , and that its running time is equal to Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, therefore approximately two hours. A few weeks later, Godfrey announced that he had seen numerous cuts of the film and called it incredibly powerful already. …It definitely captures what the book captures. Concerning the subject of the MPAA rating, Godfrey said that the studio does not have any word yet on the rating , but insisted that it is going to be rated PG-13. Condon discussed the matter further saying, I think it s a good challenge because the thing that makes something R is literally showing it and if you give yourself that rule: I m not gonna show, it s not going to be frontal nudity, no one wants that , and added, we re not going to, again, show splattering blood against the walls but it s gonna be very visceral. It actually becomes a fun challenge to make sure you feel like you have the same experience without having to watch something clinical. I think it makes it better.

Music

On January 14, 2011, it was announced that Carter Burwell, composer of the first film in the series, will be returning to score both parts of the final installment. The score of Part 1 was recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London in early September. Alexandre Desplat and Howard Shore, the composers of New Moon and Eclipse, respectively, happened to be in London at the time of the recording session and stopped by to visit Burwell.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on November 8, 2011. In July, Condon said that they are still under negotiations for the soundtrack and have 15 songs to choose from, but no deals have been signed with any artists. He also hinted that there s a good chance that the cast s musically-inclined members would feature on the soundtrack, which leaves chance to Robert Pattinson, Jackson Rathbone, Booboo Stewart, and Jamie Campbell Bower. American rock band Evanescence expressed interest in landing a song on the Breaking Dawn soundtrack. Will Hunt, the drummer of the band, said, I ve been screaming for My Heart Is Broken to land in that, because I think it would fit the story so well. The lead singer of the band, Amy Lee, agreed, adding, I think that would be awesome, actually. Also notable is the fact that the band had attempted to land songs on the soundtrack of Twilight, but Summit did not approve of the songs they presented. This is the first soundtrack not to feature a song from the band Muse.

On September 22, 2011, it was confirmed that the lead single of the soundtrack is a song by American pop singer Bruno Mars called It Will Rain to be released exclusively on iTunes on September 27.

Marketing

Promotion

The teaser poster of Breaking Dawn was released on May 24. After giving fans a sneak peek on June 2, MTV released the first official teaser trailer on June 5, the night of the MTV Movie Awards. It was released online shortly before the awards show began and then made its television debut during the broadcast.

On July 21, Summit held a sold-out Comic-Con panel in Hall H, which held 6,500 fans, promoting Part 1. Condon, Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner attended the panel and answered the fans questions along with showing them exclusive clips from the film. Cast members arrived early in the morning and signed autographs and posters for the midnight-camping fans and Summit booths offered them Breaking Dawn: Part 1 character trading cards.

Breaking Dawn: Part 1 footage was screened in Empire Movie Con in the UK on August 13. In addition, Alfred Angelo will host a private screening of Part 1 for forty-nine selected fans on November 15 and another screening for twenty friends two days later via sweepstakes.

Leaks

When the filming started on November 7, 2010 in the Lapa District and Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaked set photos and footage videos surfaced online. Summit Entertainment responded to the leaks by removing the photos and videos from YouTube, fansites and gossip websites. On January 13, 2011, scans of a still of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in one of their honeymoon scenes in an Entertainment Weekly article ran online, prior to the magazine s official release of the still. On March 31 and April 1, 2011, a mass leak of a 14-second video and numerous low-quality stills hit the Internet resulting to enthusiastic fan reaction and speculations that the film wouldn t be able to maintain a PG-13 rating. Summit Entertainment released an official statement in response to the leaks saying:

As some of you may know, pictures and screen grabs of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as a work in progress have leaked on the internet. We are extremely proud of this film and also extremely heartbroken to see it out there at this stage. The film and these images are not yet ready or in their proper context. They were illegally obtained and their early dissemination is deeply upsetting to the actors, the filmmakers and Summit who are working so hard to bring these movies to fruition to you in November 2011 and November 2012. Please, for those who are posting, stop. And please, though the temptation is high, don t view or pass on these images. Wait for the film in its beautiful, finished entirety to thrill you. Sincerely, Stephenie Meyer, Bill Condon, Wyck Godfrey and Summit Entertainment.

Additionally, the first teaser trailer leaked online hours before its debut at the MTV Movie Awards.

Lawsuit

On August 1, 2011, Summit released a press release announcing the identification of some of the alleged people responsible for the leak of images and video from Breaking Dawn on March 31 and April 1 and the decision to take legal action. Summit claimed that the leak came from Posadas, Argentina, but due to the possibility that other people might be involved in the leak, the investigation is still ongoing. The only person Summit named was a woman called Daiana Santia, resident in Posadas, allegedly being involved in the group that stole the images and footage. Civil action has been filed in the U.S. and Argentina, while criminal action has also been filed in Argentina. Summit hired law firm Keats McFarland & Wilson LLP to search four continents, North America, South America, Europe and Australia, to find the other people behind the leak.

Santia hosted a press conference in her town and denied Summit s claims. She claimed that she only saw the images while surfing the Internet and didn t send them to anyone. She also stated that she didn t log in anywhere to see them and denies having the technical knowledge of hacking, specifically saying that she in no way be considered a hacker because has no computer skills other than simple user level . Her attorney confirmed that Santia and her family are considering a counterclaim against Summit due to defamation of character and continual harassment by the film s producers who kept requesting that she would let them check her computer to see if she still has the images on her hard disk, although she refused more than once claiming that she is innocent and her computer contains personal items. Her attorney called the situation a harm to privacy and personal right .

Summit s official response to the press conference said, First and most important this is NOT about greed or the Studio wanting to bully a woman from a small town in Argentina—rather, it is about stolen material that is private and sensitive which was obtained by illegally accessing private/secure servers as well as personal email accounts. Summit gave details about the case stating that the studio has been in contact with Santia since May 2011, but with no resolution or further good faith efforts on their part, thus the only alternative left was to pursue legal action to ascertain that Ms. Santia no longer holds the images and video in any shape or form . In the response, Summit announced the following claims:

Specifically on June 8, 2011, Ms. Santia confessed in the presence of her attorney that she accessed servers and email accounts via a systematic attack—stealing photographs, unfinished images and video footage over several months. Additionally there is indisputable evidence linking her directly to IP addresses that were used in the unauthorized access. Her actions appear to be premeditated and not done on a whim, but rather using technology and tactics that require thought as well as time and skill. Because Ms. Santia decided that she does not want to cooperate, Summit has been unable to settle this matter privately with Ms. Santia and her representatives in Argentina.

Home media

According to the entertainment site MovieWeb, the DVD and Blu-ray Disc for Part 1 was made available to purchase on February 11, 2012. Both editions include bonus features such as Bella and Edward s wedding video, fast-forwarding to favorite scenes, audio commentary with director Bill Condon, and a 6-part Making Of documentary. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal Studios. In North American DVD sales, Part 1 has currently grossed $94,845,346 and has sold more than 5,234,876 units.

An extended version was released on March 2, 2013; this version features an additional seven minutes of footage, making the film 124 minutes, including eight additional scenes, two missing scenes, and three alternate scenes.

Reception

Box office

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 grossed $281,287,133 in North America and $430,884,723 in other countries, bringing its worldwide total to $712,171,856. It earned a franchise-best $291.0 million on its worldwide opening weekend, marking the tenth-largest worldwide opening of all time. It reached $500 million worldwide in 12 days, a record time for the franchise. It ranks as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2011 worldwide and the second-highest-grossing film of the franchise.

North America

Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (which opened on November 18, 2011 in 4,061 theaters) was projected to reap at least $140 million in its opening weekend. The film earned $30.25 million in midnight showings, which was the second-highest midnight gross ever, at the time, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($43.5 million) as well as the highest midnight gross of the franchise, until it was surpassed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 s gross of $30.4 million. On its opening day, the movie topped the box office with $71.6 million (including midnight showings), which is the fifth-highest opening and single-day gross of all time. On its opening weekend, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 claimed first place with $138.1 million, which was the second-highest opening weekend of the film series, at the time, behind New Moon ($142.8 million), as well as the fourth-highest November opening ever behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn – Part 2. It is also the tenth-highest opening weekend of all time. The movie also had the second-best opening weekend of 2011 in North America behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($169.2 million).

It retained first place on its second three-day weekend, declining 70% to $41.9 million, and earned $61.8 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. Breaking Dawn – Part 1 remained No. 1 for a third weekend, marking the best third-weekend gross for a Twilight film ($16.5 million) and the second film of 2011 to top the weekend box office three times, along with The Help. Closing on February 23, 2012, with $281.3 miilion, it is the third-highest-grossing movie of 2011. It is also the fourth-highest-grossing film in the series, only ahead of the first film ($192.8 million).

Markets outside North America

The film earned $8.9 million in its first two days from five markets. By the end of its first weekend, it earned $152.9 million at about 9,950 locations in 54 markets, which was a new franchise high. Its biggest debut was in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Malta with £13,910,877 ($22.0 million), which was a new high for the series. It was also huge in many European and Latin American countries. It remained in first place at the box office outside North America for three consecutive weekends. With $423.8 million, it is the highest-grossing film of the franchise and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2011. Its highest-grossing region after North America is the UK, Ireland, and Malta ($48.8 million), followed by Brazil ($35.0 million) and Germany ($33.1 million).

Critical response

Breaking Dawn – Part 1 received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% of critics (of the 207 counted reviews) gave the film a positive review with an average rating of 4.35/10, and the site s consensus reads, Slow, joyless, and loaded with unintentionally humorous moments, Breaking Dawn Part 1 may satisfy the Twilight faithful, but it s strictly for fans of the franchise. The review site Metacritic gave the film a 45 out of 100, based on reviews from 36 critics. It is the lowest-rated installment in the franchise, which was previously New Moon. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a B+ grade, the audience was 80% female and 60% over 21 years old. Among females only, the film received an improved A− grade.

Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a negative review, calling the film disappointing . Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review, calling Part 1 bloated . Brent Simon of Screen International called the film soapy and melodramatic . Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film one star out of a possible five, and referred to it as the next stage of an emo-operetta that sweeps us away on a new riptide of mawkish euphoria . Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars, saying that it is filled with a lot of unanswered questions, but calling Stewart s portrayal of Bella pretty good . The television show Film 2011 s Claudia Winkleman gave the film a negative review, calling it hilarious . Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie yet and thought Taylor Lautner looked like a petulant five-year-old . Mary Pols of Time magazine named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011, saying this entry, which held within it the teasing promise of explosive consummation, instead delivered soap-opera-level dry humping in high-thread-count sheets , and concluded, This was the bloodiest of the Twilight movies but somehow the most bloodless.

Conversely, Gabriel Chong of Movie Exclusive gave the film four stars out of a possible five, praising the dialogue, wedding and action scenes, and particularly Condon s direction, stating, In the hands of a lesser director, the turn of events could very well descend into farce—thankfully then, this movie has found a masterful helmsman in Condon. He went on to praise Stewart s performance, calling it mesmerising and saying that she makes every emotion keenly felt that runs the gamut from joy, trepidation, anxiety, distress and above all quiet and resolute determination. Mark Adams of Daily Mirror also gave the film four stars out of five and said, The Twilight films manage to cleverly blend melodrama with supernatural thrills, and while the film is not without its silly moments and cringeworthy dialogue it does deliver the drama and emotional highs we have come to expect . He also praised the wedding, describing it as beautifully staged , and Stewart s performance. Other positive reviewers from The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer said the dialogue was improving and the whole movie played out with style, while being faithful to the book and servicing hardcore fans. MSN Entertainment critic Alaina O Connor gave Condon some praise for bringing a certain visual elegance that helps with some of the more-absurd elements of the story. O Connor also felt that the film did a good job of examining the relationship between Edward and Bella , but felt that the narrative was weak otherwise. The film was also ranked the tenth best film of 2011 by E!. Will Brooker, writing for Times Higher Education, makes the case that Breaking Dawn has a feminist element, stating that it reverse(s) the embedded cinematic conventions of male voyeur and female-as-spectacle , and that the lack of attention to (Bella) as sex object is remarkable.

The film also drew both criticism and praise for having what was seen as a pro-life theme. Natalie Wilson, writing for the Ms. magazine blog, described what she saw as the book s latent anti-abortion message as problematic from a feminist perspective and found this element heightened, not diminished, in the film , citing scenes in which Rosalie scolds Alice for using the word fetus . Richard Lawson of The Atlantic said that Bella s pregnancy serves as the narrative dais from which Meyer, and in complicity Condon and the screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, delivers a startlingly direct and uncovered anti-abortion sermon , adding it seems there was no escaping the firmly anti-choice themes of this leg of the story, and so we must sit and grumble while sickly Bella is scored by plaintive strings as she chooses the one true moral path . Neil Morris of Independent Weekly said that the film takes up a radically pro-life mantle when Bella refuses to abort her baby, even though her life may depend on it . Sandie Angulo Chen of Moviefone described the bulk of the film as one long pro-life debate , in which Bella says it s her body, her choice (terms usually used in the pro-choice movement), but her decision is pro-life to the extreme, because the baby can and will kill her . In contrast, John Mulderig of the Catholic News Service praised the strongly pro-life message being conveyed via Bella s unusual plight , saying it presents a welcome counterpoint to the all-too-frequent motif in popular entertainment whereby pregnancy is presented as a form of disease or an almost unbearable curse .

In an interview with Screen Rant, screenwriter Rosenberg addressed the perception of an anti-abortion message in the film, stating, If I could not find my way into it that didn t violate my beliefs (because I am extremely pro-choice very outspoken about it, very much a feminist) I would not have written this move. They could have offered me the bank and I still wouldn t have. In order to embrace it I had to find a way to deal with it. I also had no interest in violating Stephenie s belief system or anyone on the other side .

On February 25, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was nominated for eight Razzie Awards, including: Worst Picture; Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel; Worst Screen Ensemble; Worst Director (for Bill Condon); Worst Screenplay; Worst Actor (for Taylor Lautner), and Worst Actress (for Kristen Stewart). The Worst Screen Couple award for Kristen Stewart with either Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson was also included. The film lost all categories to Jack and Jill.

Health issues

A week following the film s release, incidents began occurring of the birthing scene having triggered epileptic seizures in moviegoers. The visual effects during the scene involves several pulsating red, white, and black flashing lights, which creates an effect similar to a strobe light. Reports of such photosensitive seizures have been reported in Sacramento, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The incidents have become more widespread as news of the incidents began to flood several news sites, making people aware that health issues that attendees were experiencing might have been caused by the scene. Famed comic book artist Jim Lee tweeted that he and his family had to leave a screening of the film after our 11 year old son literally threw up during the birthing scene. The people who have experienced seizures during the film are reportedly perfectly healthy people .

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, commonly referred to as Breaking Dawn: Part 1, is a 2011 American romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Constituting the first of a two-part adaptation of the novel, the film serves as the fourth and penultimate installment in The Twilight Saga film series, and was followed by Breaking Dawn: Part 2 in 2012. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner reprised their roles.

Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt served as producers of the film, along with the author of the series, Stephenie Meyer; the screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter of the first three entries. It was released in theaters on November 18, 2011, and released to DVD on February 11, 2012, in the United States. Although negatively reviewed by critics, the film was commercially successful, having grossed over $712 million at the box office.

Plot

A few months after the events of the previous film, it is the day of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen s wedding. They happily exchange vows and are married. During the reception, Jacob Black, who had left town upon receiving an invitation to the wedding, returns. Bella is pleasantly surprised to see him, and they share a dance in the woods. Bella admits that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage on their honeymoon while she is still human. Jacob becomes furious, knowing that such an act could kill her.

After the wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Isle Esme for their honeymoon, and they make love for the first time. Two weeks after the wedding, Bella vomits after waking and notices her period is late. Carlisle, Edward s adoptive father, is told by Bella she believes she is pregnant. Edward is distraught, as it is highly unlikely a human will survive giving birth to a vampire s baby.

Edward tells Bella Carlisle should perform an abortion; she refuses, and convinces Edward s sister, Rosalie, to be her bodyguard. They fly back home to Forks, Washington. Jacob rushes to the Cullens house and finds Bella pale, underweight, and visibly pregnant. He is upset by Bella s failing health, saying Carlisle should terminate the pregnancy as soon as possible to save her life. Bella opts to continue her pregnancy.

Jacob storms out of the Cullens residence, shapeshifting and arranges a meeting in the woods with his packmates regarding Bella s pregnancy. Sam believes the baby will not be able to control its craving for human blood once it is born. He thinks they should kill Bella to ensure that her unborn child does not harm anyone. Jacob does not want any harm to come to Bella because he still has feelings for her and she has done nothing wrong. Sam believes if they do not kill Bella, her unborn child will. Disagreement over this issue causes Jacob and a few other wolves to disperse from Sam s pack to form their own.

As Bella s pregnancy progresses, her health declines rapidly. However, a snide comment from Jacob makes her realize the baby is craving blood. When she begins drinking human blood obtained by Carlisle from the hospital, her health improves. Bella s pregnancy continues to progress at an alarming rate; as a half-vampire, the fetus s development is far more accelerated than that of a human fetus. Edward s dislike for the baby dissolves as he notices he can read the baby s thoughts.

Bella is sharing her ideas about baby names with Edward and Jacob when she collapses. Edward, Jacob, and Rosalie begin performing an emergency cesarean section, as Carlisle is out obtaining blood. The procedure is excruciatingly painful for Bella, and she falls unconscious. Following the procedure, Bella wakes up and sees her healthy newborn daughter. After she chooses Renesmee (a combination of her mother s name and Edward s mother s name) as the baby s name, Bella s heart stops.

Jacob desperately attempts CPR. Edward injects Bella s heart with his venom in an attempt to transform her into a vampire, but his action appears to be futile as Bella remains lifeless. Panicked, Edward begins chest compressions. A distraught Jacob decides to kill Renesmee, as he believes she was the cause of Bella s death; however, when they look into each other s eyes, he imprints on her. The imprint prevents the werewolves from killing Renesmee, as their most absolute law is not to harm anyone who has been imprinted on.

Bella is cleaned and dressed. Over the course of two days, her injuries heal and her figure returns to normal. Finally, the transformation is complete; her eyes open, and they are blood-red. Bella has become a vampire.

In a post-credits scene, the Volturi s secretary, Bianca, delivers a message from Carlisle. Aro reads the message, which basically states about Bella and Edward s wedding and Bella s transformation into a vampire. Aro has Bianca killed by Demetri and Felix for spelling Carlisle s name without an s . The two other Volturi banter about how Carlisle is growing his coven and that the Volturis dispute with the Cullens is over. However, Aro disagrees, saying they still have something he wants.

Cast

• Kristen Stewart as Bella Cullen (nee ‘Swan’), Edward s wife, Jacob s best friend and Renesmee’s mother. She marries Edward in this installment and, soon after, falls pregnant with his child, eventually giving birth to a half-vampire, half-human daughter. This is the film where Bella also becomes a vampire due to Edward’s venom penetrating her heart and to save her life after giving birth to Renesmee.
• Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Bella s vampire husband, Jacob s romantic rival and Renesmee’s father. Despite his reluctance to turn her the entire series, after Bella seeming dies giving birth to their daughter, Edward is forced to transform her into a vampire like him.
• Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, Bella s werewolf best friend and Edward s romantic rival. He was heartbroken over Bella s choice to marry Edward, but eventually he imprints on Bella and Edward s daughter, Renesmee. He is also the great-grandson of a Chief, and the Alpha of the Black Pack.
• Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen, Esme s husband and the patriarch of the Cullen family. He is a doctor who helps Bella during her unnaturally accelerated pregnancy and provides human blood for Bella to drink to maintain her strength.
• Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen, Carlisle s wife and the matriarch of the Cullen family.
• Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen, a member of the Cullen family who can see subjective visions of the future and who is close friends with Bella. She is Jasper s wife.
• Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen, the strongest member of the Cullen family until Bella becomes a vampire and replaces him as strongest. He is Rosalie s husband.
• Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale, a member of the Cullen family who helps Bella through her pregnancy. She is Emmett s wife.
• Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale, a member of the Cullen coven who can feel, control and manipulate emotions. He is Alice s husband.
• Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, the Chief of the Forks Police Department, and Bella s father.
• Sarah Clarke as Renée Dwyer, Bella s mother, who remarried to Phil Dwyer.
• Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater, Seth s older sister and the only female werewolf in existence.
• Booboo Stewart as Seth Clearwater, Leah s younger brother and Edward and Jacob s friend.
• MyAnna Buring as Tanya, the leader of the Denali coven.
• Maggie Grace as Irina, a member of the Denali coven whose lover, Laurent, was killed by the werewolves.
• Casey LaBow as Kate, a member of the Denali coven who has the ability to release an electric current over her body.
• Michael Sheen as Aro, Caius and Marcus s brother who has the ability to read every thought a person has ever had once he has made physical contact. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, Aro and Marcus s brother. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, Aro and Caius s brother who has the power to sense the strength and nature of relationships. One of the three main founders of the Volturi.
• Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley, the Alpha of the main werewolf pack.
• Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee Cullen, Bella and Edward s half-mortal, half-immortal daughter and Jacob Black s imprintee.
• Christian Camargo as Eleazar, a member of the Denali coven who has the ability to identify the special powers of other vampires.
• Mía Maestro as Carmen, a member of the Denali coven and mate of Eleazar.
• Olga Fonda as Valentina, a secretary to the Volturi who announces Edward and Bella s wedding.
• Stephenie Meyer makes a cameo as an attendee of Edward and Bella s wedding.

Production

Development

Talks for a Breaking Dawn film started after Summit Entertainment approved the second and third adaptations of the franchise, and scheduled the two films to be released six months apart. Wyck Godfrey, producer of the previous films in the series, stated in mid-2009 that they had every intention to make the film version of Breaking Dawn, but Stephenie Meyer, author of the series, explained on her website s Breaking Dawn FAQ that if an adaptation were to be created, it would have to be split into two films because The book is just so long! , saying that she would have made the book shorter if it were possible. She also believed it to be impossible to make a film due to Renesmee, writing that an actress could not play her because she is a baby that has complete awareness, The one thing that I ve never seen is a CGI human being who truly looks real ; however, she did acknowledge the film might be possible due to the quickly-advancing technologies. Moreover, because of the mature and explicit nature of the Breaking Dawn book, fans and critics questioned if the studio would be able to keep a PG-13 rating, noting that the movie should not be rated R for the ever-growing fan base. In March 2010, Variety reported that Summit Entertainment was considering splitting the 754-page book into two films, along the same lines as Warner Bros. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Since under contract for only four films, the status of Stewart s, Pattinson s, and Lautner s contracts were in question, making the possibility of a split unlikely. Producer Wyck Godfrey stated that all three main cast members were signed onto one Breaking Dawn film.

I got very nervous. There were, like, 15 people. I had never really auditioned or gone into a job interview in that way since maybe 1988 or 87. I guess I was unprepared for it. In this case, they wanted me to talk about their project, which really needed to follow very closely the book I was talking about the book, and really all I was saying was, OK, this is great, let s go to it. That was the pitch. I think they re used to something else. They re used to, for those of you who might audition for film jobs, a 40-minute dissertation with perhaps visual aids and a pep talk about how fantastic this project is going to be. I just didn t know how to do that.

In March 2010, it was announced that Summit was searching for Academy Award-nominated directors to helm the project, with names like Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant, and Bill Condon rumored to have been approached to direct. On April 28, 2010, Summit announced that Bill Condon, who directed Dreamgirls, would direct Breaking Dawn; Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, and author Stephenie Meyer would be producing the film. I m very excited to get the chance to bring the climax of this saga to life on-screen. As fans of the series know, this is a one-of-a-kind book—and we re hoping to create an equally unique cinematic experience , said Bill Condon. Condon spoke about Summit approaching him saying, The very nice folks at Summit… they sent me the novel. I loved it. I quickly imprinted on the material . Another reason Condon cited was the desire to collaborate with Stewart. Gus Van Sant later explained that Robert Pattinson mentioning him as the ideal director for Breaking Dawn was what made him audition for the job and described the audition as very nerve-wracking . However, after Condon was hired, Sant suggested that the reason behind not getting hired was his style and way of auditioning being different from what the executive producers were used to.

In June, Summit officially confirmed that a two-part adaptation of the fourth book would start filming in November. The first part was released on November 18, 2011, and the second part s release date is set for November 16, 2012.

The Twilight Saga also helped motivate Rosenberg into launching a female-centric production company, Tall Girls Productions: The charter of it, if there is one, would be to create some strong roles for women… the female Batman, the female Tony Soprano. She explained that, despite the fact of the many hours of hard work ahead of her, it is what she wants to do.

After confirming one film, Summit had been keeping their eye on a fifth installment. In May 2010, Billy Burke and Peter Facinelli were the only cast actors who were confirmed for both parts of Breaking Dawn, while other cast members such as Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz were still in negotiations for a second part. If the actors holding Summit back from making an official announcement did not reach an agreement with them, the studio would not have minded recasting their roles, as was done in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with Bryce Dallas Howard s character, Victoria. However, in June 2010, Summit officially confirmed that a two-part adaptation of the fourth book would start production and it was made clear that all major actors, including the three lead roles, the Cullen family, and Charlie Swan, would return for both parts. Actresses Christie Burke, Rachel St. Gelais, Sierra Pitkin, and Eliza Faria play Renesmee at her various ages in the film.

Pre-production

Since the first film was released, fans and critics speculated whether Breaking Dawn would be adapted into a film considering the adult nature of the book. In March 2010, Rosenberg spoke about adapting the book saying, It s the big one, it s gonna be a big challenge, and I guarantee you that not all of the fans will be happy, and I guarantee you some of them will be. You have to give up the ideal of making everybody happy, it s just not gonna happen, but you hope you make the majority happy. Again, for that last book it is about taking that specific character Bella on her journey. It s a big journey, it s a massive change for her, and you hope to realize that. One of the scenes that aroused the speculations that the film would be rated R is the infamous graphic birth scene in the novel. In August, Rosenberg addressed such speculations saying, On the fan site, on Facebook, all the comments are It has to be R rated! You have to show the childbirth! Gore and guts and sex! For me it s actually more interesting to not see it. You know, you can do childbirth without seeing childbirth … it doesn t mean it s any less evocative of an experience. Producer Wyck Godfrey addressed those speculations further saying, it would be a crime against our audience to go R-rated as the core fans of the series are below 18 years old, but insisted that the film is based on a mature book, so more progress and sophistication are needed. To compromise the necessary sophistication in adapting such a mature book and the need for maintaining a PG-13 rating, Rosenberg stated that the scene would be shown from Bella s point of view. Godfrey described it saying, She is looking through the haze, experiencing pain and everything rushing around her. We only see what she sees .

You start with, and you end with, what is the emotional journey for these characters. That is the most important thing to capture, that is the only thing to capture. Everything else is up for grabs, but you must take these characters on the same emotional journey that they took in the book, and hence take the audience on the same emotional journey that they took in the book and that s the goal, you hope that you achieve that.

Melissa Rosenberg, writer of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, about adapting the book to film

In June, Rosenberg stated in an interview that the decision on where to split the film had not been decided, as she was still in the drafting stage of the scripts. I think it comes down to Bella as human and Bella as vampire , she said, hinting at a potential splitting point. She thought that Condon would probably disagree with the statement, explaining that the decision is ultimately up to him. Later in January 2011, Godfrey confirmed that the Part 1 will cover the wedding, honeymoon, pregnancy and birth and ends just before her transformation into a vampire as the filmmakers wanted to take the audience through the emotional part of Bella s journey as she becomes a vampire . Part 2 will follow her transformation, the first exhilarating moments of her vampire life and the final confrontation with the Volturi. Godfrey also confirmed that Part 1 will follow the book s storyline as it breaks away from Bella and switches into Jacob s perspective. There is a sense that as Bella and the Cullens (Edward s makeshift vampire clan) deal with her pregnancy, the world is still turning outside with Jacob , he explains. However, in March 2011, Meyer said in interview with USA Today that Part 1 will end when Bella opens her eyes as a vampire.

By August, Rosenberg said that the scripts for Part 1 and 2 were 75 to 85 percent completed. She found the greatest challenge in writing the scripts to be the final sequence of Part 2: The final battle sequence is a big challenge because it lasts 25 pages , she said. It s almost an entire three-act story in and of itself. You have to track hundreds of characters. It s an enormous challenge to choreograph on the page and for Bill to choreograph on the stage. She had written various drafts of the scene but, at that, hadn t revised or discussed them with Condon yet. She said, That s the next big hurdle to sit down with the stunt coordinator and create the ballet. It s a lot of work. I m exhausted, but we re intent on making them the best scripts yet. Godfrey called Part 2 an action film in terms of life-and-death stakes and said that in Part 1 there are the pangs of newlywed tension that occur that are relatable even in a fantasy film. Marriage is not quite the experience that they thought it was. Condon thought of Part 1 as a real companion piece to Catherine Hardwicke s movie . Condon explains, Like, everything that got set up there gets resolved here. I think you ll find that there are stylistic and other nods to that film.

Godfrey considered releasing the second film in 3D to differentiate between the time before and after Bella becomes a vampire, an idea originally proposed for Eclipse, but said that the decision is up to Condon. However, he said that if the second film were to be released in 3D, he would like to shoot it with the proper equipment in real 3D as was done with Avatar (2009), not convert it into 3D in post-production as was done with Clash of the Titans (2010).

Filming

In order to keep the budget on both parts of Breaking Dawn reasonable, even though it is substantially greater than the previous installments in the series, much of the film was shot in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Celtic Studios in Baton Rouge. Shooting in Louisiana provided larger tax credits, which a small studio like Summit Entertainment would find favorable. Summit announced in a press release on July 9, 2010, that filming was to take place in Baton Rouge, Ucluelet, and Vancouver, with the wedding being shot in Squamish. (Also shot in near by Pemberton, British Columbia.) Both parts will be shot back-to-back as one project. The film will attempt to keep its PG-13 rating, and it will not feature any of the gruesome scenes from the novel with Kristen Stewart confirming that the birth scene wasn t as grotesque as described in the book and that she didn t puke up blood , though director Bill Condon said that they shot everything as powerful and potent as they could . Though there were many reports of the cast in Whistler, British Columbia, none of the actual filming took place in Whistler itself, but to the north and south of the town in nearby Pemberton (north) & Squamish (south). The Stars were housed in Whistler at 4 and 5 star hotels, the crew in Squamish & Pemberton.

Filming officially began on November 1, 2010 in Brazil, with locations in Rio de Janeiro and Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. The first scenes were shot in the Lapa District in Rio de Janeiro for one night. A long city block was rented for shooting, and Summit Entertainment paid residents 50 to 500 reais (30 to 300 U.S. dollars) to not allow paparazzi or fans to overlook filming from their windows. Moreover, owners of bars and restaurants were paid 10,000 and 20,000 reais (6,000 to 12,000 U.S. dollars) to stay closed for the evening to eliminate noise and provide a clear street.

Shooting then moved to Paraty, Rio de Janeiro where the honeymoon scenes were shot. According to Paraty s Tourism Office, filming took place in the Taquari area, near an unidentified waterfall and at Mamangua Bay where a mansion is located. It rained on every day of shooting. In late November, shooting moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where most of the indoor scenes were shot on a sound stage and in a house. Stewart had to wear heavy make-up to look thin and ghastly to show Bella through a phase of pregnancy where the baby starts breaking her bones. The birth scene took two nights to shoot after the cast had a long conversation with Meyer, a midwife, and a doctor to discuss the mechanics of the scene, particularly to decide the area where Edward should place his mouth to bite into Bella s placenta if this situation could ever occur in real life. An animatronic baby was used to film a few scenes of newborn Renesmee. The cast and crew spent two months of the filming process shooting in a green-screen room on fake snow. Reportedly, a few scenes were also shot in Arsenal Park using green screens.

In late February and early March, filming of most of the exterior shots, along with Bella s vampire scenes, occurred in Canada. The film s first shooting location in Canada was Vancouver. However, the cast and crew were evacuated from the set due to the tsunami advisories resulting from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Toni Atterbury, a spokeswoman for the film, said that the crew was moved to higher ground as a safety precaution and the shoot was delayed for a few hours, but the day s work was accomplished . Therefore, filming relocated to Squamish, British Columbia, but a few scenes were shot in the Orpheum theater in Vancouver with the Vancouver police covering all the entrances of the theater.

The wedding scene in Part 1 was the last scene the cast and crew shot. It was also shot under tight security. A helicopter hovered above the set, off-duty police officers surrounded the location, and sheets and umbrellas were used to protect the set from aerial shots being taken. Stewart spoke about the wedding at Comic-Con, describing it as insane . She went on to say that it was secret service style. The crew was incredibly inconvenienced. No cell phone, etc. They wanted to keep the dress secret. Concerning the wedding dress, Stewart was locked in a room wearing a Volturi cloak to cover the dress.

Stewart further talked about filming the scene, saying I wanted to run down the aisle. I was literally pulling away from Billy Burke. Now it s a trip to watch the wedding scenes. It was so volatile and emotional—I was being such a crazy person. Condon spoke about it saying, The last scene we filmed was the dance scene between Jacob and Bella at the wedding. The last shot is Jacob leaving. I called Cut! and then Kristen yelled, Jacob! and hiked her dress up and started running after him into the woods, saying, Come back! Don t leave!

Filming wrapped—for most of the cast—on April 15, 2011. However, on April 22, what is believed to be additional scenes that will fit into the honeymoon sequence were filmed on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, which was officially the last day of shooting. The crew, Stewart and Pattinson were shooting in the sea all day long, then went out for cocktails on the beach and watched the sunrise. On the subject of the final day and her final moment as Bella, Stewart stated, After that scene, my true final scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I ve ever felt in my life. Pattinson thought the day was amazing and commented, I then asked myself why we didn t do this in those four years. Every difficult moment just vanished.

Costume design

In October 2010, it was announced that Michael Wilkinson would be the film s costume designer. However, Bella s wedding dress was designed by someone other than Wilkinson. Meyer s description of the dress was a simpler style than the frillier Edwardian stuff. …Elegant white satin, cut on the bias, with long sleeves. At first, Zac Posen was rumored to be the designer of Bella s wedding dress; however, these rumors proved false when Posen tweeted: Heard the Bella/Twilight rumor and it s just that. I design for real women like Kristen Stewart and Anna Kendrick . In April 2011, Summit announced that Carolina Herrera is the designer of the dress. Stewart described the dress as very tight, but still liked it and thought that it was very pretty . Meyer told USA Today that the dress was an interesting mix and has a vintage feel, but at the same time, there s an edge to it .

Concerning Alice s bridesmaid dress, its designer remains unknown, however it was presumably designed by Wilkinson. Ashley Greene described the dress as magical and beautiful and spoke about the design process, saying, We wanted to have all the bridesmaids fit together and also have their own identity. So, we took a little bit of Alice s past and put it into her dress. Corsets were added to all the cast s wedding dresses, but were removed during filming because the cast felt uncomfortable wearing them while dancing.

Alfred Angelo has been named the exclusive and official licensed manufacturer of Bella s bridal gown. The gown will be a replica of Bella s wedding dress and marketed under the brand Twilight Bridal by Alfred Angelo. It will be revealed in late November 2011, following the release of Part 1, and will be available in Alfred Angelo Signature Stores and independent retailers worldwide.

Post-production

In October 2010, Condon announced that Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Bruno, along with his team, would helm the visual effects for Breaking Dawn, including the effects necessary to show Renesmee in her various stages of life in Part 2. Later in February, Adam Howard was added to the Breaking Dawn visual effects team to help create the visual effects for Renesmee, due to his notable work on a similar issue in The Social Network. Condon revealed that Mackenzie Foy s face and expressions will be placed digitally on the bodies of the other actresses playing the same character through her various stages of life. Condon spoke about the process saying, Sometimes it was hard because the other actresses were actually just there. It was always going to be just Mackenzie s expressions and things like that, so it was a very specific technical thing that even I was learning as we did it. But I have to say, they were real troopers these girls. Furthermore, special effects were also used to illustrate the invisible powers and forces between the vampires in the final battle sequence of Part 2.

Montreal-based Modus FX created subtle CG effects for Part 1. It created stylized effects to emphasize the supernatural capabilities of the main characters without making them too obvious or noticeable. A team of 12 artists spent six weeks working on the film. Shots included creating the belly of a pregnant Bella, removing a wrist brace Stewart was wearing in the wedding scene due to an injury, and a variety of subtle cosmetic refinements. Bella s pregnancy was a challenge for Modus; the production team wanted the baby to kick and move around inside her belly, so the artists and cinematographer had to match the camera moves, the lighting, even the film grain, along with the subtleties of Stewart s skin. On the subject, CG supervisor Martin Pelletier said,

For this project, we had to be really quick in terms of turn around. We made use of very complex lighting from the set, adding 3D layers, and a matchmove of her stomach, to make her look pregnant. We took our time at the start to get the recipe right and that paid off in efficiency once we got going. We were soon able to turn around several shots each day.

During the wedding scene, the camera pans around Pattinson and Stewart. Due to a minor wrist injury Stewart had, she was wearing a brace on the day of the shoot. Therefore, Modus was required to create a CG model of the hand and then carefully craft a rig to create natural motions. Once that was finished, every minute movement of the hand had to be matched exactly. The rotational panning shot totals 300 frames and called for elaborate camera and object tracking. Modus used subsurface scattering to accurately capture the partial translucence of her skin to make it look more authentic. Pelletier explained that tracking was particularly challenging, because when they were shooting it, they weren t thinking about it as an effects shot. There was no camera metadata for the sequence. The solution was to do a series of careful manual adjustments until the light sources were correctly replicated on the set.

In July, Condon said that the first cut of Part 1 would be finished in a few weeks, but the visual effects were still in development. Godfrey later stated that they were very close to locking picture on part one , and that its running time is equal to Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, therefore approximately two hours. A few weeks later, Godfrey announced that he had seen numerous cuts of the film and called it incredibly powerful already. …It definitely captures what the book captures. Concerning the subject of the MPAA rating, Godfrey said that the studio does not have any word yet on the rating , but insisted that it is going to be rated PG-13. Condon discussed the matter further saying, I think it s a good challenge because the thing that makes something R is literally showing it and if you give yourself that rule: I m not gonna show, it s not going to be frontal nudity, no one wants that , and added, we re not going to, again, show splattering blood against the walls but it s gonna be very visceral. It actually becomes a fun challenge to make sure you feel like you have the same experience without having to watch something clinical. I think it makes it better.

Music

On January 14, 2011, it was announced that Carter Burwell, composer of the first film in the series, will be returning to score both parts of the final installment. The score of Part 1 was recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London in early September. Alexandre Desplat and Howard Shore, the composers of New Moon and Eclipse, respectively, happened to be in London at the time of the recording session and stopped by to visit Burwell.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on November 8, 2011. In July, Condon said that they are still under negotiations for the soundtrack and have 15 songs to choose from, but no deals have been signed with any artists. He also hinted that there s a good chance that the cast s musically-inclined members would feature on the soundtrack, which leaves chance to Robert Pattinson, Jackson Rathbone, Booboo Stewart, and Jamie Campbell Bower. American rock band Evanescence expressed interest in landing a song on the Breaking Dawn soundtrack. Will Hunt, the drummer of the band, said, I ve been screaming for My Heart Is Broken to land in that, because I think it would fit the story so well. The lead singer of the band, Amy Lee, agreed, adding, I think that would be awesome, actually. Also notable is the fact that the band had attempted to land songs on the soundtrack of Twilight, but Summit did not approve of the songs they presented. This is the first soundtrack not to feature a song from the band Muse.

On September 22, 2011, it was confirmed that the lead single of the soundtrack is a song by American pop singer Bruno Mars called It Will Rain to be released exclusively on iTunes on September 27.

Marketing

Promotion

The teaser poster of Breaking Dawn was released on May 24. After giving fans a sneak peek on June 2, MTV released the first official teaser trailer on June 5, the night of the MTV Movie Awards. It was released online shortly before the awards show began and then made its television debut during the broadcast.

On July 21, Summit held a sold-out Comic-Con panel in Hall H, which held 6,500 fans, promoting Part 1. Condon, Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner attended the panel and answered the fans questions along with showing them exclusive clips from the film. Cast members arrived early in the morning and signed autographs and posters for the midnight-camping fans and Summit booths offered them Breaking Dawn: Part 1 character trading cards.

Breaking Dawn: Part 1 footage was screened in Empire Movie Con in the UK on August 13. In addition, Alfred Angelo will host a private screening of Part 1 for forty-nine selected fans on November 15 and another screening for twenty friends two days later via sweepstakes.

Leaks

When the filming started on November 7, 2010 in the Lapa District and Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaked set photos and footage videos surfaced online. Summit Entertainment responded to the leaks by removing the photos and videos from YouTube, fansites and gossip websites. On January 13, 2011, scans of a still of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in one of their honeymoon scenes in an Entertainment Weekly article ran online, prior to the magazine s official release of the still. On March 31 and April 1, 2011, a mass leak of a 14-second video and numerous low-quality stills hit the Internet resulting to enthusiastic fan reaction and speculations that the film wouldn t be able to maintain a PG-13 rating. Summit Entertainment released an official statement in response to the leaks saying:

As some of you may know, pictures and screen grabs of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as a work in progress have leaked on the internet. We are extremely proud of this film and also extremely heartbroken to see it out there at this stage. The film and these images are not yet ready or in their proper context. They were illegally obtained and their early dissemination is deeply upsetting to the actors, the filmmakers and Summit who are working so hard to bring these movies to fruition to you in November 2011 and November 2012. Please, for those who are posting, stop. And please, though the temptation is high, don t view or pass on these images. Wait for the film in its beautiful, finished entirety to thrill you. Sincerely, Stephenie Meyer, Bill Condon, Wyck Godfrey and Summit Entertainment.

Additionally, the first teaser trailer leaked online hours before its debut at the MTV Movie Awards.

Lawsuit

On August 1, 2011, Summit released a press release announcing the identification of some of the alleged people responsible for the leak of images and video from Breaking Dawn on March 31 and April 1 and the decision to take legal action. Summit claimed that the leak came from Posadas, Argentina, but due to the possibility that other people might be involved in the leak, the investigation is still ongoing. The only person Summit named was a woman called Daiana Santia, resident in Posadas, allegedly being involved in the group that stole the images and footage. Civil action has been filed in the U.S. and Argentina, while criminal action has also been filed in Argentina. Summit hired law firm Keats McFarland & Wilson LLP to search four continents, North America, South America, Europe and Australia, to find the other people behind the leak.

Santia hosted a press conference in her town and denied Summit s claims. She claimed that she only saw the images while surfing the Internet and didn t send them to anyone. She also stated that she didn t log in anywhere to see them and denies having the technical knowledge of hacking, specifically saying that she in no way be considered a hacker because has no computer skills other than simple user level . Her attorney confirmed that Santia and her family are considering a counterclaim against Summit due to defamation of character and continual harassment by the film s producers who kept requesting that she would let them check her computer to see if she still has the images on her hard disk, although she refused more than once claiming that she is innocent and her computer contains personal items. Her attorney called the situation a harm to privacy and personal right .

Summit s official response to the press conference said, First and most important this is NOT about greed or the Studio wanting to bully a woman from a small town in Argentina—rather, it is about stolen material that is private and sensitive which was obtained by illegally accessing private/secure servers as well as personal email accounts. Summit gave details about the case stating that the studio has been in contact with Santia since May 2011, but with no resolution or further good faith efforts on their part, thus the only alternative left was to pursue legal action to ascertain that Ms. Santia no longer holds the images and video in any shape or form . In the response, Summit announced the following claims:

Specifically on June 8, 2011, Ms. Santia confessed in the presence of her attorney that she accessed servers and email accounts via a systematic attack—stealing photographs, unfinished images and video footage over several months. Additionally there is indisputable evidence linking her directly to IP addresses that were used in the unauthorized access. Her actions appear to be premeditated and not done on a whim, but rather using technology and tactics that require thought as well as time and skill. Because Ms. Santia decided that she does not want to cooperate, Summit has been unable to settle this matter privately with Ms. Santia and her representatives in Argentina.

Home media

According to the entertainment site MovieWeb, the DVD and Blu-ray Disc for Part 1 was made available to purchase on February 11, 2012. Both editions include bonus features such as Bella and Edward s wedding video, fast-forwarding to favorite scenes, audio commentary with director Bill Condon, and a 6-part Making Of documentary. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal Studios. In North American DVD sales, Part 1 has currently grossed $94,845,346 and has sold more than 5,234,876 units.

An extended version was released on March 2, 2013; this version features an additional seven minutes of footage, making the film 124 minutes, including eight additional scenes, two missing scenes, and three alternate scenes.

Reception

Box office

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 grossed $281,287,133 in North America and $430,884,723 in other countries, bringing its worldwide total to $712,171,856. It earned a franchise-best $291.0 million on its worldwide opening weekend, marking the tenth-largest worldwide opening of all time. It reached $500 million worldwide in 12 days, a record time for the franchise. It ranks as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2011 worldwide and the second-highest-grossing film of the franchise.

North America

Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (which opened on November 18, 2011 in 4,061 theaters) was projected to reap at least $140 million in its opening weekend. The film earned $30.25 million in midnight showings, which was the second-highest midnight gross ever, at the time, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($43.5 million) as well as the highest midnight gross of the franchise, until it was surpassed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 s gross of $30.4 million. On its opening day, the movie topped the box office with $71.6 million (including midnight showings), which is the fifth-highest opening and single-day gross of all time. On its opening weekend, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 claimed first place with $138.1 million, which was the second-highest opening weekend of the film series, at the time, behind New Moon ($142.8 million), as well as the fourth-highest November opening ever behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn – Part 2. It is also the tenth-highest opening weekend of all time. The movie also had the second-best opening weekend of 2011 in North America behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($169.2 million).

It retained first place on its second three-day weekend, declining 70% to $41.9 million, and earned $61.8 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. Breaking Dawn – Part 1 remained No. 1 for a third weekend, marking the best third-weekend gross for a Twilight film ($16.5 million) and the second film of 2011 to top the weekend box office three times, along with The Help. Closing on February 23, 2012, with $281.3 miilion, it is the third-highest-grossing movie of 2011. It is also the fourth-highest-grossing film in the series, only ahead of the first film ($192.8 million).

Markets outside North America

The film earned $8.9 million in its first two days from five markets. By the end of its first weekend, it earned $152.9 million at about 9,950 locations in 54 markets, which was a new franchise high. Its biggest debut was in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Malta with £13,910,877 ($22.0 million), which was a new high for the series. It was also huge in many European and Latin American countries. It remained in first place at the box office outside North America for three consecutive weekends. With $423.8 million, it is the highest-grossing film of the franchise and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2011. Its highest-grossing region after North America is the UK, Ireland, and Malta ($48.8 million), followed by Brazil ($35.0 million) and Germany ($33.1 million).

Critical response

Breaking Dawn – Part 1 received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% of critics (of the 207 counted reviews) gave the film a positive review with an average rating of 4.35/10, and the site s consensus reads, Slow, joyless, and loaded with unintentionally humorous moments, Breaking Dawn Part 1 may satisfy the Twilight faithful, but it s strictly for fans of the franchise. The review site Metacritic gave the film a 45 out of 100, based on reviews from 36 critics. It is the lowest-rated installment in the franchise, which was previously New Moon. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a B+ grade, the audience was 80% female and 60% over 21 years old. Among females only, the film received an improved A− grade.

Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a negative review, calling the film disappointing . Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review, calling Part 1 bloated . Brent Simon of Screen International called the film soapy and melodramatic . Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film one star out of a possible five, and referred to it as the next stage of an emo-operetta that sweeps us away on a new riptide of mawkish euphoria . Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars, saying that it is filled with a lot of unanswered questions, but calling Stewart s portrayal of Bella pretty good . The television show Film 2011 s Claudia Winkleman gave the film a negative review, calling it hilarious . Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie yet and thought Taylor Lautner looked like a petulant five-year-old . Mary Pols of Time magazine named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011, saying this entry, which held within it the teasing promise of explosive consummation, instead delivered soap-opera-level dry humping in high-thread-count sheets , and concluded, This was the bloodiest of the Twilight movies but somehow the most bloodless.

Conversely, Gabriel Chong of Movie Exclusive gave the film four stars out of a possible five, praising the dialogue, wedding and action scenes, and particularly Condon s direction, stating, In the hands of a lesser director, the turn of events could very well descend into farce—thankfully then, this movie has found a masterful helmsman in Condon. He went on to praise Stewart s performance, calling it mesmerising and saying that she makes every emotion keenly felt that runs the gamut from joy, trepidation, anxiety, distress and above all quiet and resolute determination. Mark Adams of Daily Mirror also gave the film four stars out of five and said, The Twilight films manage to cleverly blend melodrama with supernatural thrills, and while the film is not without its silly moments and cringeworthy dialogue it does deliver the drama and emotional highs we have come to expect . He also praised the wedding, describing it as beautifully staged , and Stewart s performance. Other positive reviewers from The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer said the dialogue was improving and the whole movie played out with style, while being faithful to the book and servicing hardcore fans. MSN Entertainment critic Alaina O Connor gave Condon some praise for bringing a certain visual elegance that helps with some of the more-absurd elements of the story. O Connor also felt that the film did a good job of examining the relationship between Edward and Bella , but felt that the narrative was weak otherwise. The film was also ranked the tenth best film of 2011 by E!. Will Brooker, writing for Times Higher Education, makes the case that Breaking Dawn has a feminist element, stating that it reverse(s) the embedded cinematic conventions of male voyeur and female-as-spectacle , and that the lack of attention to (Bella) as sex object is remarkable.

The film also drew both criticism and praise for having what was seen as a pro-life theme. Natalie Wilson, writing for the Ms. magazine blog, described what she saw as the book s latent anti-abortion message as problematic from a feminist perspective and found this element heightened, not diminished, in the film , citing scenes in which Rosalie scolds Alice for using the word fetus . Richard Lawson of The Atlantic said that Bella s pregnancy serves as the narrative dais from which Meyer, and in complicity Condon and the screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, delivers a startlingly direct and uncovered anti-abortion sermon , adding it seems there was no escaping the firmly anti-choice themes of this leg of the story, and so we must sit and grumble while sickly Bella is scored by plaintive strings as she chooses the one true moral path . Neil Morris of Independent Weekly said that the film takes up a radically pro-life mantle when Bella refuses to abort her baby, even though her life may depend on it . Sandie Angulo Chen of Moviefone described the bulk of the film as one long pro-life debate , in which Bella says it s her body, her choice (terms usually used in the pro-choice movement), but her decision is pro-life to the extreme, because the baby can and will kill her . In contrast, John Mulderig of the Catholic News Service praised the strongly pro-life message being conveyed via Bella s unusual plight , saying it presents a welcome counterpoint to the all-too-frequent motif in popular entertainment whereby pregnancy is presented as a form of disease or an almost unbearable curse .

In an interview with Screen Rant, screenwriter Rosenberg addressed the perception of an anti-abortion message in the film, stating, If I could not find my way into it that didn t violate my beliefs (because I am extremely pro-choice very outspoken about it, very much a feminist) I would not have written this move. They could have offered me the bank and I still wouldn t have. In order to embrace it I had to find a way to deal with it. I also had no interest in violating Stephenie s belief system or anyone on the other side .

On February 25, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was nominated for eight Razzie Awards, including: Worst Picture; Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel; Worst Screen Ensemble; Worst Director (for Bill Condon); Worst Screenplay; Worst Actor (for Taylor Lautner), and Worst Actress (for Kristen Stewart). The Worst Screen Couple award for Kristen Stewart with either Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson was also included. The film lost all categories to Jack and Jill.

Health issues

A week following the film s release, incidents began occurring of the birthing scene having triggered epileptic seizures in moviegoers. The visual effects during the scene involves several pulsating red, white, and black flashing lights, which creates an effect similar to a strobe light. Reports of such photosensitive seizures have been reported in Sacramento, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The incidents have become more widespread as news of the incidents began to flood several news sites, making people aware that health issues that attendees were experiencing might have been caused by the scene. Famed comic book artist Jim Lee tweeted that he and his family had to leave a screening of the film after our 11 year old son literally threw up during the birthing scene. The people who have experienced seizures during the film are reportedly perfectly healthy people .

Year	2011
ReleaseDate	2011-11-18
RuntimeMins	117
RuntimeStr	1h 57min
Plot	The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people of Forks.
Awards	Awards, 11 wins & 22 nominations
Directors	Bill Condon
Writers	Melissa Rosenberg, Stephenie Meyer
Stars	Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Produced by	Roberto Bakker,Bill Bannerman,Marty Bowen,Wyck Godfrey,Barbara Kelly,Stephenie Meyer,Greg Mooradian,Mark Morgan,Guy Oseary,Carlos Paiva,Karen Rosenfelt,Isabelle Tanugi
Music by	Carter Burwell
Cinematography by	Guillermo Navarro
Film Editing by	Virginia Katz
Casting By	Debra Zane
Production Design by	Richard Sherman
Art Direction by	Daniel Flaksman,Lorin Flemming,Nate Fredenburg,Troy Sizemore
Set Decoration by	David Schlesinger
Costume Design by	Michael Wilkinson
Makeup Department	Denise Adams,Jean Ann Black,Erica Brunson,Samantha M. Capps,Bonnie Clevering,Daina Daigle,Beatrice De Alba,Richard De Alba,Karola Dirnberger,Margeaux Fox,Ebraham Francis,Susan Germaine,Christina Gonzalez,Allison Gordin,Lisa Hazell,Stacey Herbert,Daniel Jouet,Rolf John Keppler,Krystal Kershaw,Bob Kretschmer,Erica Kyker,Jack Lazzaro,Courtney Lether,Karen Lovell,Darryl Lucas,Aimee Macabeo,Patricia McAlhany Glasser,Amanda McGowan,Sara Michael,Clariss Morgan,Chrissy Morris,Angela Nair,Jessica Nelson,Stacey Panepinto,Rita Parillo,Cristina Patterson,Burgundy Pons,Paige Reeves,Kellie Robinson,Lesley Rodriguez,Jami Ross,Forest Sala,Remi Savva,Monty Schuth,Adina Shore,Andrea Simpson,Brian Sipe,Gianna Sparacino,Sarah Bergeest Still,Vicki Syskakis,Emily Tatum,Arjen Tuiten,Fay von Schroeder,Melizah Anguiano Wheat,Beka Wilson
Production Management	Valeria Costa Amorim,Shawn Boyachek,Pica Pau do Norte,Rafael Favilla,Mary Guilfoyle,Sara Irvine-Erickson,Andrea Isaacs,Barbara Kelly,Andrew G. La Marca,Colleen Mitchell,Irina Neves,Fernando Pestana,David Price,Angela Quiles,Luiz Henrique Salvino,Waldeco,Andrea Wertheim,Bryan Yaconelli
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Bill Bannerman,Karin Behrenz,Josy Capkun,Gabriel Correa,Charles Crossin,Jordan Edwards,E.J. Foerster,Scott Kukurudz,Steve Lonano,Bryant Marshall,John M. Morse,Justin Muller,Cali Pomes,Ann C. Salzer,Ted Voorhies,Greg Zenon,Dawn Charette
Art Department	Alexandra Adduci,A. Russell Amdal,Michael Arena,Aimee Athnos,Sean Blackie,Janice Blackie-Goodine,David Keith Broome,Kenneth Brown,Shane Buckallew,Ed Burcham,New York Carmona,Tammy Carmona,Cassie Catalanotto,John Chaschowy,John B. Clarey III,Randall S. Coe,Iggie Colomer,Sonia Zimmerman Costa,Delaney Davis,Bruno De Laurentis,Carl Denooyer,Byron Denson,Ken Deubel III,Abigail Drury,James Dupuy,Stephen P. Durante,Jaime Fernandez,Matthew Gatlin,William Groebe,Luiza Hakme,Anthony J. Henderson,Sam Jacobs,John Jarhead Gorman,Zoe Jirik,Carl Johansen,Jerod Johnson,Thomas V. Johnson,Jaclyn Kenney,Ty Landry,Leo Lauricella,Stacy Lauricella,Blake Le Vasseur,K. Emily Levine,Ken Lewis Jr.,Lindanne Lewis,Jerad Marantz,Michelle Marchand II,Steve Martemucci,Robert McKinnon,Molly Mikula,Sheila Millar,Steve Miller,Scotty Morris,Rick Newsome,Michael O Sullivan,Slaid Parker,Derek Pineo,Citlali Quintana,Roberta Raposo,Steffen Reichstadt,Megz Reynolds,Janna Roach,Clara Rocha,Monica Rochlin,Michael Sabo,George Sanchez,Carlos Savant,Richard Schultz,Aaron Sims,Tyler Smith,Alexander Sasha Stolin,James Summers,Nevin Swain,Jason Sweers,Courtney Talbot,Gary Damian Thomas,Darryl Tifenbach,Brendan Turrill,Trinh Vu,Joel Watts Jr.,Richard Blake Wester,David O. Whatley,Chris M. Wilson,Tom R. Wilson,Ralph Chabaud,Melisa Coby,Macleod Sinclaire,Geoff Wheeler
Sound Department	Steve C. Aaron,Christopher Alba,Darren Brisker,Alvaro Correia,Dane A. Davis,Ryan Farris,Stephanie Flack,Nerses Gezalyan,Gary A. Hecker,Mike Hibberson,James Hyde,Matthew W. Kielkopf,Tony Lamberti,Kevin Meier,Michael Minkler,Chris Navarro,Whit Norris,Kevin J. Summers,Greg Townsend,Robert Ulrich,Jared Watt,David A. Whittaker,Ryan Young
Special Effects by	Alex Burdett,Ana Carvalho,William Catania,Lela Checco,Diana Choi,Michelle Deville,Sergio Farjalla Jr.,Damian Fisher,Skylar Gorrell,Jared Guenther,Heath Hood,Mike Hyrman,Jeremy Johnson,Walter Kiesling,Aimee Macabeo,Lindsay MacGowan,Shane Mahan,Cristen Martemucci,Jason Matthews,Heidi Mistic,Michael O Brien,David A. Poole,Jacob Roanhaus,John Rosengrant,J. Alan Scott,Russell L. Smith,Mike Splatt,Adam Tayler,Jeffrey Scott Thomas,Richard Terry Tjelmeland,Rebecca Walker,Patrick Edward White,Brad Zehr,Michel Martins Zigaib,Cole Taylor,Michael Watson
Visual Effects by	Samuel Accardo,Neishaw Ali,Casey Allen,Peter Allendale,Jordan Alphonso,Holli Alvarado,Adrienne Anderson,Mathieu Archambault,Spencer Armajo,Kenneth Armstrong,Jean Arousi,Jim Aupperle,Marie-Ève Authier,Nicholas Avallone,Patrice Avery,Natalie Baillie,Pharoah Barrett,Dan Bartolucci,Sophie Beck,Barb Benoit,Mathieu Bertrand,Zena Bielewicz,Patrick Bissonnette,Bruno Blain,Vincent Blin,Tim Bobyk,Jonathan Boisvert,Lisa Bolan,Jason Bond,Kristen Borges,Guy Botham,Marc Bourbonnais,Aharon Bourland,Peter Bowmar,Nadège Bozzetti,Neal Bradshaw,Robert Branam,Devin Breese,Hans Brekke,Kirk Brillon,A.J. Briones,Aaron Brown,John Bruno,Shauna Bryan,Sabrina Bucci,Karen Bushnell,Xavier Callamand,Heather Behl Cameron,Wilson Cameron,Howard R. Campbell,Jeff Campbell,Michael Caplan,Tim Carras,Michael Cavanaugh,Andy Chan,Chun-Ping Chao,Alexis Chapman,Fred Chapman,Catherine Chase,Freddy Chavez Olmos,Daniel Chavez,David Chen,Jeremy Cho,YouJin Choung,Patrick Clancey,Trent Claus,Dug Claxton,Nicolas Cloutier,Valérie Clément,Joshua D. Comen,Eric Covello,Brandon Criswell,Jonathan Cronk,Brian Cuartero,Jacinthe Côté,Michael Côté,Rif Dagher,David Dang,Sanjay Das,Amy Daye,Dean Deakyne,Justin Denton,Chris Derochie,Philippe Desiront,Anouk Deveault-Moreau,Gabriel J. Diaz,Natalia Diaz,Victor DiMichina,Gus Dizon,Thai Son Doan,Eric Doiron,Becca Donohoe,Anand Dorairaj,Jason Dowdeswell,John Duke Duquesnay,Nadav Ehrlich,Nicholas Elwell,Nathan Englbrecht,Andrea Espinal,Patrick Esposito,Maggie Evans,David Fix,Adam Folse,Q Fortier,Jean-Sébastien Fortin,Nicolas Fourcroy,Page Frakes,Adam Francis,Fortunato Frattasio,Michael Frattasio,Alan Fregtman,Miles Friedman,Nicolas Gaffiero,Jason Gandhi,Andrew Gardner,Demitre Garza,Dominic Gaudreau,Peter Giliberti,Neil Greenberg,Robin Griffin,Raoul Grosser,Miguel A. Guerrero,Robin Hackl,Lee Hahn,Chris M. Halstead,Matt Hansen,Rachel Faith Hanson,Trey Harrell,Peter Hart,Andy Hass,Adam Hazard,Oliver Hearsey,Jason Heinze,Erica Henderson,Irit Hod,Amanda Hollingworth,Justin Holt,Nathan Hopkins,Adam Howard,Bryan Howard,Don Howe,Colin Hui,Vivien Hulbert,Ivan Imanishi,Chris Ingersoll,Amanda Instone,Mark Intravartolo,Elbert Irving IV,Tracy Nicole Irwin,Imraan Ismail,Stephen James,Robbie Janda,Daniel Jauregui,Zahid Jiwa,Julie Joannoteguy,Jeremy Johnson,Kirk Jung,Dana Jurcic,Bora Jurisic,Mark Justison,Rachael Kent,Jin Yong Kim,SeungJang Jack Kim,Sylvia Kim,Daniel Klöhn,Ken Kokka,Athena Kouverianos,Jason Kozsurek,Katya Krotenko,David Labrecque,Louis Laflamme-Fillion,Jeremy Lambolez,Wendy Lanning,Francis Larouche,Miles Lauridsen,Mike Leben,Jongju Lee,Kate Lee,Marco Lee,Woei Lee,Woohyuck Eric Lee,Eric Leven,Dave Levine,Joe Lewis,Samuel Loriault-Goulet,Daniel Lu,Kodie Mackenzie,Chris MacLean,Alastair Macleod,Jonathan MacPherson,George Macri,Allan Magled,Philippe Majdalani,John Mann,Paul Maples,Eric Marko,Greg Massie,Jim Maxwell,Corey Mayne,Matt Mcewan,Tom McHattie,Mare McIntosh,Ray McIntyre Jr.,Claire McLachlan,Scott McLain,Liz McLelland,Steve McLeod,Jim McVay,Philip Melancon,Douglas Melville,David Michaels,Scott Michelson,Brad Minnich,Ronald B. Moore,Ian Morehead,Christian Morin,Michael Morley,Stephen Moros,Henrique Moser,Grant Moyer,Brad Moylan,Christopher Mullins,Suzanne Murarik,Ross Nakamura,Emilio Navarro,Bruce Nicholson,Ken Nielsen,Thomas Nittmann,Kelly Noordermeer,Roula O Regan,Dave Olivares,Robert Olsson,Zai Ortiz,Richard Owen,Caleb Owens,Chris Paizis,Dax Pandhi,Blaise Panfalone,Nathaniel Park,Clark Parkhurst,Todd Patterson,Todd Patteson,Stephen J. Pavelski,Chris Payne,Aaron Peak,Martin Pelletier,Philippe Pelletier,Chi Pham,Mathieu Phaneuf,Shaun Potts,Mark Powers,Akie Prapas,Brennan Prevatt,Rob Price,Sebastien Proulx,Jeanne-Élise Prévost,Janet Quen,Stevie Ramone,Satish Ratakonda,Cory Redmond,Alejandro Restrepo,Carrie Richardson,Stéphane Rioux,Lauren Ritchie,Ryan Robertson,Pau Rocher,Jules Roman,Niketa Roman,Michael Roth,Sean Rourke,Craig Rowe,Maya Roza,Vishal Rustgi,Krystal Sae Eua,Diganta Saha,Juwana Samman,Julian Sarmiento,Mag Sarnowska,Milan Schere,Jordan Schilling,David Schnee,Alvaro Segura,Richard Servello,Laura Sevilla,Joseph Shahood,Ahmed Shehata,Yuta Shimizu,Tim Sibley,Aaron Sims,Scott Singer,Nitin Singh,Nik Slotiuk,Andrew Smith,Dane Allan Smith,Rick Smith,Gavin Soares,Doug Spilatro,Dottie Starling,Joe Statham,Darryl Stawychny,Mark Stern,Mary Stuart,David Sullivan,Tammy Sutton,Adam Swaab,Sarah Swick,Aleksander Szkudlarek,Guillaume Terrien,Nick Tesi,Sky Tesi,Alexandre Tessier,Chonnanit Na Thalang,Natalie Thorsley,Phil Tippett,Jan Toensmann,Yimi Tong,Nathalie Tremblay,Matthew Trivan,Tom Truscott,Donald Tse,Jerry Tung,Nadia Tzuo,Yuki Uehara,Ryan Valade,Luke Vallee,Mark Van Ee,Benito Vargas,Frederick B. Vega,Biren Venkatraman,Andres Vergara,Elinor Villaflor,Kenneth Voss,Daanish Wain,Shawn Walsh,Jessica Wan,Francis Meade Warner,Gregory Watkins,Mark H. Weingartner,Aaron Weintraub,Larry Weiss,Cliff Welsh,Yanick Wilisky,Edson Williams,Terry Windell,Andrew Winters,Bruce Woloshyn,Hiroyuki David Yabu,Shyam V. Yadav,Yoshiya Yamada,Mattaniah Yip,Christopher Bozzetto,Thomas Mathai,Mark Prusten,Corey Rosen,Antony Vannapho
Stunts	Ed Anders,Brett Armstrong,Scott J. Ateah,Shawn Beaton,Krista Bell,Ian Binnie,Curtis Braconnier,Greg Bray,Byron Brisco,Dustin Brooks,Marcio Caldas,Clint Carleton,Janene Carleton,Mike Carpenter,Kimberly Chiang,Fraser Corbett,Garvin Cross,Colin Decker,Dave Dunaway,Marny Eng,Ryan Ennis,Caroline Field,Corbin Fox,Lani Gelera,Christopher Gordon,Lars Grant,Kory Grim,Leif Havdale,Adrian Hein,Brian Ho,Brian Imada,Jeff Imada,Ernie Jackson,Zandara Kennedy,John Koyama,Jon Kralt,Dave Lane,Sam Looc,Reg Milne,Atlin Mitchell,Anthony Moyer,David Mueller,Gabriel Nunez,Hugh Aodh O Brien,Rochelle Okoye,Darryl Quon,Bridgett Riley,Matthew Rugetti,James Ryan,Patrick Sabongui,Todd Scott,Luke Sexton,Karin Silvestri,Grant Smith,Monte Thompson,Aaron Toney,Steve Upton,Jon Valera,Kye Walstrom,Owen Walstrom,Mike Wilson,Kofi Yiadom,Peng Zhang,Jay Amor,Stanton Barrett,Krista Bell,Freddy Bouciegues,Curtis Braconnier,Solomon Brende,Chris Brewster,Stacey Carino,Richard Cetrone,Brett Chan,Anis Cheurfa,Paul Darnell,Elizabeth Davidovich,Holland Diaz,Jayson Dumenigo,Kofi Elam,Christian J. Fletcher,Jeff Galpin,Christopher Gordon,Guillermo Grispo,Adam Hart,Leif Havdale,Kiralee Hayashi,Brian Hite,Jake Huang,Jacob Kabel,Shawn Kautz,Rochelle Okoye,Travis Wong,John Zimmerman
Camera and Electrical Department	Dustin Allen,Matt Almas,Skylar Almas,Allan Almeida,Michael Applebaum,Scott Andrew Armstrong,Grant Babbitt,Israel Basso,Bob Bates,Melissa Beaupre,Christa Beth Watkins,Dane Bjerno,Hans Bjerno,Jeffery Bjorgum,Giovanni Bommarito,John Bramley,Guy Broussard,Bryan Bubba Carlisle,Sasha Chrosciewicz,Andrew Jason Clark,Kenneth Coblentz,Andrew Cooper,Chris Cove,Jimi Covert,David Crone,Rob Crone,Mark Shane Davis,Luiz Gonzaga de Almeida,Matthew Devitt,Stephen Early,Cam Esau,Eli Everhard,Ryan French,Cody Gautreau,David Goldsmith,Doane Gregory,Braden Haggerty,Grant Hamakawa,Sean M. Harding,Christian Hardy,Jeff Harvey,Thairon Harvey,Patrick Hogue,Richie Hollis,Stan Hoyt,Harrison Huffman,Franklin Jones II,Timothy James Kane,André Keller,Gary Kelso,Phil Klapwyk,Adam Kolegas,Jeff Kuzyk,Kevin Lippincott,Lisa Long,Josh Lovig,Daryl Makortoff,Byron Marigny,Paul Go Mayne,Kevin McCloy,Adam Mitchell,Brent Swampy Mullins,Stuart Nascimento,Cesar Nery,Robert Owen,Sean Oxenbury,Philippe Palu,Max Patrucco,Rachel Perlis,Eduardo Duque Pimenta,Felipe Fil Reinheimer,Ronald Richard,Jonathan E. Robinson,Peter D. Roome,Donald Roth,Martina Rupp,Declan Ryan,Rigney Sackley,Courtland Sandover-Sly,Ted Sapp,Mike Satterfield,Joe Schroeder,Codie Scott,James Selph,Jonathan Stoll,Rick Stribling,Brandon Swain,Jeff Taylor,Todd Thompson,Jon Thurner,Kris Tobiasson,Brendan Van Meter,Chad Vanko,Roger Vernon,Jason Vowell,Robin West,Jordan Whaley,Lance White,Jared Wilcox,Carrie Wilson,Darin Wong,Earl Woods,Don Yockey,Kurt Zelmer,Nick Zinobile,Amie Gibbins,Trenton McRae
Animation Department	Jimmy Almeida,Ryan Bradley,T.J. Burke,Scott Fritts,Tom Gibbons,Louis Jones,Gary Mau,Jess Morris,Phil Morris,Christopher Mullins,Yuhon Ng,Carol Prince,Danny Southard
Casting Department	Andrea Brown,Patty Connolly,Elizabeth Coulon,Tara Feldstein,Andrea Hughes,Candi Lei,Shayna Markowitz,J.J. Ogilvy,Pamela Pearl,Sebastian Rey,Mark Sussman,June E. Watson
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Lindsay Borowko,Phillip Boutte Jr.,Stacy Caballero,Jordan Carper,Suzanne M.B. Chambliss,Anne Cicero,Megan Coates,Meghan Cornay,Luisa Dalmagro,Annette Farnsworth,Alison Fraser,Carolina Herrera,Tara R. Hinecker,Shonta Hylton,Aurora Knox,Sarah P. Koeppe,Rosalie Lee,Janet Melody,Mollie Middleditch,Heather Rae Miller,Susan O Hara,Heather Osborne,Renee Ragucci-Shelton,Reba Saul,Paul Sinnott,Patty Spinale,Michelle Toledo,Britany Viguerie,Rodney Williamson
Editorial Department	Joey Amron,Pete Conlin,Jason Dale,Leeza Diott,Tom Erickson,Ben Estrada,Vanessa Galvez,Jermaine R. Gill,Rob Grant,Jonathan Hoffman,Élodie Ichter,Jeremy Kirkland,Curtis Lindersmith,Yvan Lucas,Carl McKay,Harry Muller,Tom Reiser,Frank Robinson,Shae Salmon,Zachary Quinn Scheuren,Leslie Adkins-Garza,Gérard Estival,Nathaniel Lee Voelker
Location Management	Michael J. Burmeister,Lisa Calhoun,Christina DeCharles,Sean J. Donnelly,Abraham Fraser,Laura Fuller,Bret Jolliffe,Sue Kittler,Jedrzej Kowalski,Michael J. LeGresley,Bonnie Marquette,Patrick Mizell,Jason Waggenspack
Music Department	Leo Abrahams,Ian Balmain,Ayan Banerjee,Donald Barrett,Christine Bergren,Mark Berrow,Richard Bissill,Robert Burger,Carter Burwell,David Daniels,Alison Dods,Liz Edwards,Jonathan Evans-Jones,Michael Farrow,Richard George,Ian Humphries,Magnus Johnston,Lewis Jones,Paul Katz,Patrick Kiernan,Sonny Kompanek,Joely Koos,Boguslav Kostecki,Rick Koster,Peter Lale,Julian Leaper,Katia Lewin Jablonsky,Martin Loveday,Dan Lutz,Charlotte Matthew,Everton Nelson,Andy Parker,Dean Parker,Alexandra Patsavas,Tom Pigott Smith,Ian Rathbone,Jonathan Rees,Emlyn Singleton,Adam Milo Smalley,Emil Tchakarov,Kevin Teasley,Ian Thomas,Chris Tombling,Kasey Truman,Allen Walley,Vicci Wardman,Bruce White,Brittany Whyte,Jonathan Williams,Dave Woodcock,Rachel Bolt,P.K. Hooker,Aled Jenkins
Script and Continuity Department	Jessica Lichtner
Transportation Department	Simon Aubin,Rodney Beech,Annette Chambers,Rick Demers,Chris Dunn,Monte Emery,Jim Filippone,Robert Foster Jr.,Monica W. Fuller,David Greenbaum,Matthew Habgood,Beau Holden,Herb Langill,Charles Lanoue,Lance Leis,Danny Lewis,Fernanda Mandriola,Jeffrey L. McLaughlin,Robert Oxford,Beverly Reeves,Kyndra Short,Wayne Short,Mike Witherington
Additional Crew	Christy Adair,Ehren Adams,Caellum Allan,Sheila Allen,John Arbuckle,Diana Ascher,Adam Assad,Toni Atterbury,Liz Barker,Karen Barna,Frank Barnett,Paul Becker,Bob Bedard,Nicholas Bencriscutto,Chuck Bennethum IV,Melanie Berthelo,Mauro Blanco,Kofi Boateng,Kameron Bodaly,Daniel Bonjour,Daniel Booko,Kara Bowman,Barbara Branch,Beau Brasseaux,David E. Burke,Kris Butler,Steve Cainas,Nadine Charleson,Ariane Chatman,Chris Clinton,Rudy Coblentz Jr.,Kyle Cooper,Michael Craig,Jeff Croft,Zane Crump,Angel De La Vina,Fernando de Souza,Brittney Diez,Jessica Drake,Steven Eddy,Manija Emran,Lea Enslin,John Fahrendorf,Cristiane Façanha,Erik Feig,Lucien Fernandez,Hazen S. Finnerty Jr.,Shayne Fiske,Erin Foster,Naomi Galatas,Taylor Gerrity,Jesse Goodman,Tom Goodrich,Grant Grabowski,Justin Groetsch,Marcelo Guerra,Joe Hagg,Danielle Halagarda,Steve M. Hammond,Shelley Hatch,Sanford Hatcher,Jeffrey Hawkes,Corbin Heide,Andre Herrera,Meghan Hibbett,Dylan Hickey,Saraya Hickey,Jaclyn Huntling,Lana Jackson,Anne Jacobsen,Ian Jarvis,Paul Jasper,Katye Kalivoda,Tarik Kanafani,Katia Kieling,Brynn Kinnee,Catherine Koehler,Iran Kuykendall,Natalie Lapointe,Amy Law,Loui J. LeRoy,Danielle Loosemore,Jason Lopes,Giovanni Lopez,Julie Lopinto,Megan MacFadgen,Muite Macharia,Caroline MacVicar,David Magee,Evan Michael Magers,Corey S. Mah,Michael Andrew Mann,Brad Dirk Martin,Benjamin Jeran McGinn,Dean McManus,Jill McQueen,Phil Miler,Taylor Milne,James Moffat,Charlie Morrison,Emily Morrow,Stephanie Moseley,Heidi Brook Myers,David B. Oliver,Jekisha Omiyewo,Mike Park,Harley Pasternak,Allie Paterson,Brandon Perry,Danielle Poret,Liam Powell,Michael Prokop,Krystle Rakestraw,Benjamin R. Reder,Jeremy Roberts,Ryan Robertson,Natalie Robison,Ashley Romain,Ashlynn Ross,Ricardo Juliano Rossi,Michael Schulz,Michael James Scotty Scott,Mary Senn,Lisa G. Shillingburg,Cherie Smid,Davida Chanel Smith,Natalie Zara Smith,Todd Steiner,A.J. Timmcke,Marc Uddo,Chanda Venable,Kathleen Whelan,Konrad Damian Wieclawski,Alexander B. Williams,Alex John Wiseman,Stanley Wong,Greg Yolen,Elisa Christophe,Karen Dean,Jeff Dimitriou,John Duke Duquesnay,Eric Kops,Nicole Mak,John McBride,Regan B. Pederson
Thanks	Jack Morrissey
Genres	Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Companies	Summit Entertainment, Sunswept Entertainment, TSBD Canada Productions
Countries	USA
Languages	English, Portuguese
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	4.9
ImDbRatingVotes	240326
MetacriticRating	45
Keywords	human vampire romance,human vampire relationship,human vampire marriage,pregnancy,age difference
Year	2011
ReleaseDate	2011-11-18
RuntimeMins	117
RuntimeStr	1h 57min
Plot	The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people of Forks.
Awards	Awards, 11 wins & 22 nominations
Directors	Bill Condon
Writers	Melissa Rosenberg, Stephenie Meyer
Stars	Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Produced by	Roberto Bakker,Bill Bannerman,Marty Bowen,Wyck Godfrey,Barbara Kelly,Stephenie Meyer,Greg Mooradian,Mark Morgan,Guy Oseary,Carlos Paiva,Karen Rosenfelt,Isabelle Tanugi
Music by	Carter Burwell
Cinematography by	Guillermo Navarro
Film Editing by	Virginia Katz
Casting By	Debra Zane
Production Design by	Richard Sherman
Art Direction by	Daniel Flaksman,Lorin Flemming,Nate Fredenburg,Troy Sizemore
Set Decoration by	David Schlesinger
Costume Design by	Michael Wilkinson
Makeup Department	Denise Adams,Jean Ann Black,Erica Brunson,Samantha M. Capps,Bonnie Clevering,Daina Daigle,Beatrice De Alba,Richard De Alba,Karola Dirnberger,Margeaux Fox,Ebraham Francis,Susan Germaine,Christina Gonzalez,Allison Gordin,Lisa Hazell,Stacey Herbert,Daniel Jouet,Rolf John Keppler,Krystal Kershaw,Bob Kretschmer,Erica Kyker,Jack Lazzaro,Courtney Lether,Karen Lovell,Darryl Lucas,Aimee Macabeo,Patricia McAlhany Glasser,Amanda McGowan,Sara Michael,Clariss Morgan,Chrissy Morris,Angela Nair,Jessica Nelson,Stacey Panepinto,Rita Parillo,Cristina Patterson,Burgundy Pons,Paige Reeves,Kellie Robinson,Lesley Rodriguez,Jami Ross,Forest Sala,Remi Savva,Monty Schuth,Adina Shore,Andrea Simpson,Brian Sipe,Gianna Sparacino,Sarah Bergeest Still,Vicki Syskakis,Emily Tatum,Arjen Tuiten,Fay von Schroeder,Melizah Anguiano Wheat,Beka Wilson
Production Management	Valeria Costa Amorim,Shawn Boyachek,Pica Pau do Norte,Rafael Favilla,Mary Guilfoyle,Sara Irvine-Erickson,Andrea Isaacs,Barbara Kelly,Andrew G. La Marca,Colleen Mitchell,Irina Neves,Fernando Pestana,David Price,Angela Quiles,Luiz Henrique Salvino,Waldeco,Andrea Wertheim,Bryan Yaconelli
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Bill Bannerman,Karin Behrenz,Josy Capkun,Gabriel Correa,Charles Crossin,Jordan Edwards,E.J. Foerster,Scott Kukurudz,Steve Lonano,Bryant Marshall,John M. Morse,Justin Muller,Cali Pomes,Ann C. Salzer,Ted Voorhies,Greg Zenon,Dawn Charette
Art Department	Alexandra Adduci,A. Russell Amdal,Michael Arena,Aimee Athnos,Sean Blackie,Janice Blackie-Goodine,David Keith Broome,Kenneth Brown,Shane Buckallew,Ed Burcham,New York Carmona,Tammy Carmona,Cassie Catalanotto,John Chaschowy,John B. Clarey III,Randall S. Coe,Iggie Colomer,Sonia Zimmerman Costa,Delaney Davis,Bruno De Laurentis,Carl Denooyer,Byron Denson,Ken Deubel III,Abigail Drury,James Dupuy,Stephen P. Durante,Jaime Fernandez,Matthew Gatlin,William Groebe,Luiza Hakme,Anthony J. Henderson,Sam Jacobs,John Jarhead Gorman,Zoe Jirik,Carl Johansen,Jerod Johnson,Thomas V. Johnson,Jaclyn Kenney,Ty Landry,Leo Lauricella,Stacy Lauricella,Blake Le Vasseur,K. Emily Levine,Ken Lewis Jr.,Lindanne Lewis,Jerad Marantz,Michelle Marchand II,Steve Martemucci,Robert McKinnon,Molly Mikula,Sheila Millar,Steve Miller,Scotty Morris,Rick Newsome,Michael O Sullivan,Slaid Parker,Derek Pineo,Citlali Quintana,Roberta Raposo,Steffen Reichstadt,Megz Reynolds,Janna Roach,Clara Rocha,Monica Rochlin,Michael Sabo,George Sanchez,Carlos Savant,Richard Schultz,Aaron Sims,Tyler Smith,Alexander Sasha Stolin,James Summers,Nevin Swain,Jason Sweers,Courtney Talbot,Gary Damian Thomas,Darryl Tifenbach,Brendan Turrill,Trinh Vu,Joel Watts Jr.,Richard Blake Wester,David O. Whatley,Chris M. Wilson,Tom R. Wilson,Ralph Chabaud,Melisa Coby,Macleod Sinclaire,Geoff Wheeler
Sound Department	Steve C. Aaron,Christopher Alba,Darren Brisker,Alvaro Correia,Dane A. Davis,Ryan Farris,Stephanie Flack,Nerses Gezalyan,Gary A. Hecker,Mike Hibberson,James Hyde,Matthew W. Kielkopf,Tony Lamberti,Kevin Meier,Michael Minkler,Chris Navarro,Whit Norris,Kevin J. Summers,Greg Townsend,Robert Ulrich,Jared Watt,David A. Whittaker,Ryan Young
Special Effects by	Alex Burdett,Ana Carvalho,William Catania,Lela Checco,Diana Choi,Michelle Deville,Sergio Farjalla Jr.,Damian Fisher,Skylar Gorrell,Jared Guenther,Heath Hood,Mike Hyrman,Jeremy Johnson,Walter Kiesling,Aimee Macabeo,Lindsay MacGowan,Shane Mahan,Cristen Martemucci,Jason Matthews,Heidi Mistic,Michael O Brien,David A. Poole,Jacob Roanhaus,John Rosengrant,J. Alan Scott,Russell L. Smith,Mike Splatt,Adam Tayler,Jeffrey Scott Thomas,Richard Terry Tjelmeland,Rebecca Walker,Patrick Edward White,Brad Zehr,Michel Martins Zigaib,Cole Taylor,Michael Watson
Visual Effects by	Samuel Accardo,Neishaw Ali,Casey Allen,Peter Allendale,Jordan Alphonso,Holli Alvarado,Adrienne Anderson,Mathieu Archambault,Spencer Armajo,Kenneth Armstrong,Jean Arousi,Jim Aupperle,Marie-Ève Authier,Nicholas Avallone,Patrice Avery,Natalie Baillie,Pharoah Barrett,Dan Bartolucci,Sophie Beck,Barb Benoit,Mathieu Bertrand,Zena Bielewicz,Patrick Bissonnette,Bruno Blain,Vincent Blin,Tim Bobyk,Jonathan Boisvert,Lisa Bolan,Jason Bond,Kristen Borges,Guy Botham,Marc Bourbonnais,Aharon Bourland,Peter Bowmar,Nadège Bozzetti,Neal Bradshaw,Robert Branam,Devin Breese,Hans Brekke,Kirk Brillon,A.J. Briones,Aaron Brown,John Bruno,Shauna Bryan,Sabrina Bucci,Karen Bushnell,Xavier Callamand,Heather Behl Cameron,Wilson Cameron,Howard R. Campbell,Jeff Campbell,Michael Caplan,Tim Carras,Michael Cavanaugh,Andy Chan,Chun-Ping Chao,Alexis Chapman,Fred Chapman,Catherine Chase,Freddy Chavez Olmos,Daniel Chavez,David Chen,Jeremy Cho,YouJin Choung,Patrick Clancey,Trent Claus,Dug Claxton,Nicolas Cloutier,Valérie Clément,Joshua D. Comen,Eric Covello,Brandon Criswell,Jonathan Cronk,Brian Cuartero,Jacinthe Côté,Michael Côté,Rif Dagher,David Dang,Sanjay Das,Amy Daye,Dean Deakyne,Justin Denton,Chris Derochie,Philippe Desiront,Anouk Deveault-Moreau,Gabriel J. Diaz,Natalia Diaz,Victor DiMichina,Gus Dizon,Thai Son Doan,Eric Doiron,Becca Donohoe,Anand Dorairaj,Jason Dowdeswell,John Duke Duquesnay,Nadav Ehrlich,Nicholas Elwell,Nathan Englbrecht,Andrea Espinal,Patrick Esposito,Maggie Evans,David Fix,Adam Folse,Q Fortier,Jean-Sébastien Fortin,Nicolas Fourcroy,Page Frakes,Adam Francis,Fortunato Frattasio,Michael Frattasio,Alan Fregtman,Miles Friedman,Nicolas Gaffiero,Jason Gandhi,Andrew Gardner,Demitre Garza,Dominic Gaudreau,Peter Giliberti,Neil Greenberg,Robin Griffin,Raoul Grosser,Miguel A. Guerrero,Robin Hackl,Lee Hahn,Chris M. Halstead,Matt Hansen,Rachel Faith Hanson,Trey Harrell,Peter Hart,Andy Hass,Adam Hazard,Oliver Hearsey,Jason Heinze,Erica Henderson,Irit Hod,Amanda Hollingworth,Justin Holt,Nathan Hopkins,Adam Howard,Bryan Howard,Don Howe,Colin Hui,Vivien Hulbert,Ivan Imanishi,Chris Ingersoll,Amanda Instone,Mark Intravartolo,Elbert Irving IV,Tracy Nicole Irwin,Imraan Ismail,Stephen James,Robbie Janda,Daniel Jauregui,Zahid Jiwa,Julie Joannoteguy,Jeremy Johnson,Kirk Jung,Dana Jurcic,Bora Jurisic,Mark Justison,Rachael Kent,Jin Yong Kim,SeungJang Jack Kim,Sylvia Kim,Daniel Klöhn,Ken Kokka,Athena Kouverianos,Jason Kozsurek,Katya Krotenko,David Labrecque,Louis Laflamme-Fillion,Jeremy Lambolez,Wendy Lanning,Francis Larouche,Miles Lauridsen,Mike Leben,Jongju Lee,Kate Lee,Marco Lee,Woei Lee,Woohyuck Eric Lee,Eric Leven,Dave Levine,Joe Lewis,Samuel Loriault-Goulet,Daniel Lu,Kodie Mackenzie,Chris MacLean,Alastair Macleod,Jonathan MacPherson,George Macri,Allan Magled,Philippe Majdalani,John Mann,Paul Maples,Eric Marko,Greg Massie,Jim Maxwell,Corey Mayne,Matt Mcewan,Tom McHattie,Mare McIntosh,Ray McIntyre Jr.,Claire McLachlan,Scott McLain,Liz McLelland,Steve McLeod,Jim McVay,Philip Melancon,Douglas Melville,David Michaels,Scott Michelson,Brad Minnich,Ronald B. Moore,Ian Morehead,Christian Morin,Michael Morley,Stephen Moros,Henrique Moser,Grant Moyer,Brad Moylan,Christopher Mullins,Suzanne Murarik,Ross Nakamura,Emilio Navarro,Bruce Nicholson,Ken Nielsen,Thomas Nittmann,Kelly Noordermeer,Roula O Regan,Dave Olivares,Robert Olsson,Zai Ortiz,Richard Owen,Caleb Owens,Chris Paizis,Dax Pandhi,Blaise Panfalone,Nathaniel Park,Clark Parkhurst,Todd Patterson,Todd Patteson,Stephen J. Pavelski,Chris Payne,Aaron Peak,Martin Pelletier,Philippe Pelletier,Chi Pham,Mathieu Phaneuf,Shaun Potts,Mark Powers,Akie Prapas,Brennan Prevatt,Rob Price,Sebastien Proulx,Jeanne-Élise Prévost,Janet Quen,Stevie Ramone,Satish Ratakonda,Cory Redmond,Alejandro Restrepo,Carrie Richardson,Stéphane Rioux,Lauren Ritchie,Ryan Robertson,Pau Rocher,Jules Roman,Niketa Roman,Michael Roth,Sean Rourke,Craig Rowe,Maya Roza,Vishal Rustgi,Krystal Sae Eua,Diganta Saha,Juwana Samman,Julian Sarmiento,Mag Sarnowska,Milan Schere,Jordan Schilling,David Schnee,Alvaro Segura,Richard Servello,Laura Sevilla,Joseph Shahood,Ahmed Shehata,Yuta Shimizu,Tim Sibley,Aaron Sims,Scott Singer,Nitin Singh,Nik Slotiuk,Andrew Smith,Dane Allan Smith,Rick Smith,Gavin Soares,Doug Spilatro,Dottie Starling,Joe Statham,Darryl Stawychny,Mark Stern,Mary Stuart,David Sullivan,Tammy Sutton,Adam Swaab,Sarah Swick,Aleksander Szkudlarek,Guillaume Terrien,Nick Tesi,Sky Tesi,Alexandre Tessier,Chonnanit Na Thalang,Natalie Thorsley,Phil Tippett,Jan Toensmann,Yimi Tong,Nathalie Tremblay,Matthew Trivan,Tom Truscott,Donald Tse,Jerry Tung,Nadia Tzuo,Yuki Uehara,Ryan Valade,Luke Vallee,Mark Van Ee,Benito Vargas,Frederick B. Vega,Biren Venkatraman,Andres Vergara,Elinor Villaflor,Kenneth Voss,Daanish Wain,Shawn Walsh,Jessica Wan,Francis Meade Warner,Gregory Watkins,Mark H. Weingartner,Aaron Weintraub,Larry Weiss,Cliff Welsh,Yanick Wilisky,Edson Williams,Terry Windell,Andrew Winters,Bruce Woloshyn,Hiroyuki David Yabu,Shyam V. Yadav,Yoshiya Yamada,Mattaniah Yip,Christopher Bozzetto,Thomas Mathai,Mark Prusten,Corey Rosen,Antony Vannapho
Stunts	Ed Anders,Brett Armstrong,Scott J. Ateah,Shawn Beaton,Krista Bell,Ian Binnie,Curtis Braconnier,Greg Bray,Byron Brisco,Dustin Brooks,Marcio Caldas,Clint Carleton,Janene Carleton,Mike Carpenter,Kimberly Chiang,Fraser Corbett,Garvin Cross,Colin Decker,Dave Dunaway,Marny Eng,Ryan Ennis,Caroline Field,Corbin Fox,Lani Gelera,Christopher Gordon,Lars Grant,Kory Grim,Leif Havdale,Adrian Hein,Brian Ho,Brian Imada,Jeff Imada,Ernie Jackson,Zandara Kennedy,John Koyama,Jon Kralt,Dave Lane,Sam Looc,Reg Milne,Atlin Mitchell,Anthony Moyer,David Mueller,Gabriel Nunez,Hugh Aodh O Brien,Rochelle Okoye,Darryl Quon,Bridgett Riley,Matthew Rugetti,James Ryan,Patrick Sabongui,Todd Scott,Luke Sexton,Karin Silvestri,Grant Smith,Monte Thompson,Aaron Toney,Steve Upton,Jon Valera,Kye Walstrom,Owen Walstrom,Mike Wilson,Kofi Yiadom,Peng Zhang,Jay Amor,Stanton Barrett,Krista Bell,Freddy Bouciegues,Curtis Braconnier,Solomon Brende,Chris Brewster,Stacey Carino,Richard Cetrone,Brett Chan,Anis Cheurfa,Paul Darnell,Elizabeth Davidovich,Holland Diaz,Jayson Dumenigo,Kofi Elam,Christian J. Fletcher,Jeff Galpin,Christopher Gordon,Guillermo Grispo,Adam Hart,Leif Havdale,Kiralee Hayashi,Brian Hite,Jake Huang,Jacob Kabel,Shawn Kautz,Rochelle Okoye,Travis Wong,John Zimmerman
Camera and Electrical Department	Dustin Allen,Matt Almas,Skylar Almas,Allan Almeida,Michael Applebaum,Scott Andrew Armstrong,Grant Babbitt,Israel Basso,Bob Bates,Melissa Beaupre,Christa Beth Watkins,Dane Bjerno,Hans Bjerno,Jeffery Bjorgum,Giovanni Bommarito,John Bramley,Guy Broussard,Bryan Bubba Carlisle,Sasha Chrosciewicz,Andrew Jason Clark,Kenneth Coblentz,Andrew Cooper,Chris Cove,Jimi Covert,David Crone,Rob Crone,Mark Shane Davis,Luiz Gonzaga de Almeida,Matthew Devitt,Stephen Early,Cam Esau,Eli Everhard,Ryan French,Cody Gautreau,David Goldsmith,Doane Gregory,Braden Haggerty,Grant Hamakawa,Sean M. Harding,Christian Hardy,Jeff Harvey,Thairon Harvey,Patrick Hogue,Richie Hollis,Stan Hoyt,Harrison Huffman,Franklin Jones II,Timothy James Kane,André Keller,Gary Kelso,Phil Klapwyk,Adam Kolegas,Jeff Kuzyk,Kevin Lippincott,Lisa Long,Josh Lovig,Daryl Makortoff,Byron Marigny,Paul Go Mayne,Kevin McCloy,Adam Mitchell,Brent Swampy Mullins,Stuart Nascimento,Cesar Nery,Robert Owen,Sean Oxenbury,Philippe Palu,Max Patrucco,Rachel Perlis,Eduardo Duque Pimenta,Felipe Fil Reinheimer,Ronald Richard,Jonathan E. Robinson,Peter D. Roome,Donald Roth,Martina Rupp,Declan Ryan,Rigney Sackley,Courtland Sandover-Sly,Ted Sapp,Mike Satterfield,Joe Schroeder,Codie Scott,James Selph,Jonathan Stoll,Rick Stribling,Brandon Swain,Jeff Taylor,Todd Thompson,Jon Thurner,Kris Tobiasson,Brendan Van Meter,Chad Vanko,Roger Vernon,Jason Vowell,Robin West,Jordan Whaley,Lance White,Jared Wilcox,Carrie Wilson,Darin Wong,Earl Woods,Don Yockey,Kurt Zelmer,Nick Zinobile,Amie Gibbins,Trenton McRae
Animation Department	Jimmy Almeida,Ryan Bradley,T.J. Burke,Scott Fritts,Tom Gibbons,Louis Jones,Gary Mau,Jess Morris,Phil Morris,Christopher Mullins,Yuhon Ng,Carol Prince,Danny Southard
Casting Department	Andrea Brown,Patty Connolly,Elizabeth Coulon,Tara Feldstein,Andrea Hughes,Candi Lei,Shayna Markowitz,J.J. Ogilvy,Pamela Pearl,Sebastian Rey,Mark Sussman,June E. Watson
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Lindsay Borowko,Phillip Boutte Jr.,Stacy Caballero,Jordan Carper,Suzanne M.B. Chambliss,Anne Cicero,Megan Coates,Meghan Cornay,Luisa Dalmagro,Annette Farnsworth,Alison Fraser,Carolina Herrera,Tara R. Hinecker,Shonta Hylton,Aurora Knox,Sarah P. Koeppe,Rosalie Lee,Janet Melody,Mollie Middleditch,Heather Rae Miller,Susan O Hara,Heather Osborne,Renee Ragucci-Shelton,Reba Saul,Paul Sinnott,Patty Spinale,Michelle Toledo,Britany Viguerie,Rodney Williamson
Editorial Department	Joey Amron,Pete Conlin,Jason Dale,Leeza Diott,Tom Erickson,Ben Estrada,Vanessa Galvez,Jermaine R. Gill,Rob Grant,Jonathan Hoffman,Élodie Ichter,Jeremy Kirkland,Curtis Lindersmith,Yvan Lucas,Carl McKay,Harry Muller,Tom Reiser,Frank Robinson,Shae Salmon,Zachary Quinn Scheuren,Leslie Adkins-Garza,Gérard Estival,Nathaniel Lee Voelker
Location Management	Michael J. Burmeister,Lisa Calhoun,Christina DeCharles,Sean J. Donnelly,Abraham Fraser,Laura Fuller,Bret Jolliffe,Sue Kittler,Jedrzej Kowalski,Michael J. LeGresley,Bonnie Marquette,Patrick Mizell,Jason Waggenspack
Music Department	Leo Abrahams,Ian Balmain,Ayan Banerjee,Donald Barrett,Christine Bergren,Mark Berrow,Richard Bissill,Robert Burger,Carter Burwell,David Daniels,Alison Dods,Liz Edwards,Jonathan Evans-Jones,Michael Farrow,Richard George,Ian Humphries,Magnus Johnston,Lewis Jones,Paul Katz,Patrick Kiernan,Sonny Kompanek,Joely Koos,Boguslav Kostecki,Rick Koster,Peter Lale,Julian Leaper,Katia Lewin Jablonsky,Martin Loveday,Dan Lutz,Charlotte Matthew,Everton Nelson,Andy Parker,Dean Parker,Alexandra Patsavas,Tom Pigott Smith,Ian Rathbone,Jonathan Rees,Emlyn Singleton,Adam Milo Smalley,Emil Tchakarov,Kevin Teasley,Ian Thomas,Chris Tombling,Kasey Truman,Allen Walley,Vicci Wardman,Bruce White,Brittany Whyte,Jonathan Williams,Dave Woodcock,Rachel Bolt,P.K. Hooker,Aled Jenkins
Script and Continuity Department	Jessica Lichtner
Transportation Department	Simon Aubin,Rodney Beech,Annette Chambers,Rick Demers,Chris Dunn,Monte Emery,Jim Filippone,Robert Foster Jr.,Monica W. Fuller,David Greenbaum,Matthew Habgood,Beau Holden,Herb Langill,Charles Lanoue,Lance Leis,Danny Lewis,Fernanda Mandriola,Jeffrey L. McLaughlin,Robert Oxford,Beverly Reeves,Kyndra Short,Wayne Short,Mike Witherington
Additional Crew	Christy Adair,Ehren Adams,Caellum Allan,Sheila Allen,John Arbuckle,Diana Ascher,Adam Assad,Toni Atterbury,Liz Barker,Karen Barna,Frank Barnett,Paul Becker,Bob Bedard,Nicholas Bencriscutto,Chuck Bennethum IV,Melanie Berthelo,Mauro Blanco,Kofi Boateng,Kameron Bodaly,Daniel Bonjour,Daniel Booko,Kara Bowman,Barbara Branch,Beau Brasseaux,David E. Burke,Kris Butler,Steve Cainas,Nadine Charleson,Ariane Chatman,Chris Clinton,Rudy Coblentz Jr.,Kyle Cooper,Michael Craig,Jeff Croft,Zane Crump,Angel De La Vina,Fernando de Souza,Brittney Diez,Jessica Drake,Steven Eddy,Manija Emran,Lea Enslin,John Fahrendorf,Cristiane Façanha,Erik Feig,Lucien Fernandez,Hazen S. Finnerty Jr.,Shayne Fiske,Erin Foster,Naomi Galatas,Taylor Gerrity,Jesse Goodman,Tom Goodrich,Grant Grabowski,Justin Groetsch,Marcelo Guerra,Joe Hagg,Danielle Halagarda,Steve M. Hammond,Shelley Hatch,Sanford Hatcher,Jeffrey Hawkes,Corbin Heide,Andre Herrera,Meghan Hibbett,Dylan Hickey,Saraya Hickey,Jaclyn Huntling,Lana Jackson,Anne Jacobsen,Ian Jarvis,Paul Jasper,Katye Kalivoda,Tarik Kanafani,Katia Kieling,Brynn Kinnee,Catherine Koehler,Iran Kuykendall,Natalie Lapointe,Amy Law,Loui J. LeRoy,Danielle Loosemore,Jason Lopes,Giovanni Lopez,Julie Lopinto,Megan MacFadgen,Muite Macharia,Caroline MacVicar,David Magee,Evan Michael Magers,Corey S. Mah,Michael Andrew Mann,Brad Dirk Martin,Benjamin Jeran McGinn,Dean McManus,Jill McQueen,Phil Miler,Taylor Milne,James Moffat,Charlie Morrison,Emily Morrow,Stephanie Moseley,Heidi Brook Myers,David B. Oliver,Jekisha Omiyewo,Mike Park,Harley Pasternak,Allie Paterson,Brandon Perry,Danielle Poret,Liam Powell,Michael Prokop,Krystle Rakestraw,Benjamin R. Reder,Jeremy Roberts,Ryan Robertson,Natalie Robison,Ashley Romain,Ashlynn Ross,Ricardo Juliano Rossi,Michael Schulz,Michael James Scotty Scott,Mary Senn,Lisa G. Shillingburg,Cherie Smid,Davida Chanel Smith,Natalie Zara Smith,Todd Steiner,A.J. Timmcke,Marc Uddo,Chanda Venable,Kathleen Whelan,Konrad Damian Wieclawski,Alexander B. Williams,Alex John Wiseman,Stanley Wong,Greg Yolen,Elisa Christophe,Karen Dean,Jeff Dimitriou,John Duke Duquesnay,Eric Kops,Nicole Mak,John McBride,Regan B. Pederson
Thanks	Jack Morrissey
Genres	Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Companies	Summit Entertainment, Sunswept Entertainment, TSBD Canada Productions
Countries	USA
Languages	English, Portuguese
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	4.9
ImDbRatingVotes	240326
MetacriticRating	45
Keywords	human vampire romance,human vampire relationship,human vampire marriage,pregnancy,age difference