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BREAKING NEWS! SATURDAY 6:45AM UPDATE : "The night definitely belongs to Twilight ." This is what my Hollywood insiders are now telling me early this morning after NEW MOON 's late Friday night numbers came in.  

Teen vampire movie New Moon , the second in the Twilight series, is setting box office records around the world. Already destined to be the top grossing film in New Zealand this year, according to projections by Sky City Cinemas, the country's largest exhibition chain, it has broken two box-office records in one day in the US, where it opened at midnight on Thursday. It set a record for midnight ticket sales and was expected to record the biggest single-day sales ever at the box office in North America.  

It's a role Tim McGraw signed to play for the rest of his life -- the husband of a steel-spined southern belle. "I have a wife that runs everything at home," says the 42-year-old country star, who's married to Faith Hill. "So I think I could relate to Sean in a lot of ways." In the new movie The Blind Side, McGraw co-stars with Sandra Bullock as Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, an upper-class conservative Memphis couple who took a homeless Afr ican-Amer ican teenager named Michael Oher off the streets, and helped him excel both academically and on the gridiron.  

Robert Pattinson spent his Friday night out in NYC at dinner at La Esquina, still smiling after a rigorous few weeks promoting New Moon around the world. The night before he attended one final screening of the movie before sneaking off to a private afterparty with Kristen Stewart. Have you checked out the movie - watch our Pop review here and Buzz's here .  

This movie wasn't good enough to be released in theaters, but Lifetime is taking some initiative and airing Personal Effects (Lifetime, 9 PM), an Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer sobfest about (what else?) a younger man falling in love with a much older woman. Dear Joseph Gordon Levitt, I believe in you. Please be funny on Saturday Night Live ( NBC , 11:30 PM) this week.  

Famed Beverly Hills Courier columnist George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities. Vampires have bared their fangs for centuries on the printed page, long before Stephenie Meyer struck bestseller gold with her novels of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan's vampire love. Her books have sold more than 5.5 million copies, with Twilight translated in 20 languages.  

New Moon has raked in US$26.3mil (RM89.42mil) to set a new record for midnight openings at its North American box office Friday, industry reports said. Entertainment industry sources said the highly-anticipated sequel beat Batman: The Dark Knight, which took US$18.4mil (RM62.56mil) in 2008, and even the sixth Harry Potter film. Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince earned US$22.2mil (RM75.48mil) earlier this year in midnight screenings.  

The new Twilight vampire movie took a record $26.3m (£15.9m) in midnight showings at North American box offices, studio Summit Entertainment has said. That beats the previous North American record of $22.2m (£13.5m) for midnight openings, taken by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in July. Experts have predicted that New Moon will have one of the biggest opening weekends for a non-summer film. The first movie in the series, starring Robert Pattinson, made $69.6m (£42.1m). It is expected ...  

Sandra Bullock has revealed she accidentally flashed her private parts on the set of her latest film 'The Proposal' - in which she starred opposite Ryan Reynolds. Sandra Bullock flashed her private parts on the set of her latest film. The actress had to bare all in 'The Proposal' and although she had something to protect her modesty she ended up showing more of her body to the cast and crew than she meant to.