“TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN” TO BE BITE-SIZED

There will be two installments of the fourth Twilight saga, with the first coming on November 18, 2011, Summit Entertainment said on Thursday. (The third Twilight flick, Eclipse, is due to open on June 30 of this year.) The two episodes are based on author Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn book. The decision was understandable and expected: the book is more than 900 pages long. But a hitch in making it official developed when it was discovered that the contracts for the principal actors covered four Twilight movies and therefore had to be renegotiated for a fifth. Reports indicated that all of them have signed on for the Breaking Dawn films, which will be shot back-to-back.