Golden Valley Shoppers Scoop up Latest Twilight Movie

Twilight Fans addicted to the vampire saga got their fix this past weekend as the fourth movie, Breaking Dawn, was released on DVD. Sales are expected to “eclipse” three million in the first few days.

“I went right to the store to get a copy,” Lindsay Merrille said. This Golden Valley teenager saw the movie five times in the theater and still couldn’t wait to buy it.

“It’s like an action/love movie,” she said. “It’s great.”

She planned to have a viewing party at her house with her sister and a few of their friends.

“We’re going to order pizza and get junk food and watch the movie again,” she said. “We’ve all seen it already, but we’re still excited.”

The series, which started as a set of books in 2005, has created so much buzz that some stores hosted DVD release parties on Friday night. Target and Walmart stores across the nation stayed open late to attract “Twi-hards” to the store. Some locations even offered free gifts and showed a preview of the fifth and final movie in the Twilight series which is set to hit theaters this winter.

“It’s hard to believe there is only one movie left,” Merrille’s younger sister, Katy Merrille said. “My sister and I read all the books and saw all the movies together.”

Breaking Dawn, which includes the long awaited wedding between Bella and Edward, begins to draw the supernatural story to a close. Toss in the birth of a half vampire child and a fight with werewolves and fans get to finally see how the Bella-Edward-Jacob love triangle will play out.

The fifth movie, Breaking Dawn Part II, is already shot and scheduled to hit theaters in mid November and will undoubtedly draw crowds of fans like the Merrille sisters.

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