What is the name of the movie Chris Weitz directed based on a series by Stephenie Meyer?
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Chris Weitz Christopher John "Chris" Weitz (born November 30, 1969) is an American film producer, screenwriter, author, occasional actor, and film director. He is the brother of filmmaker Paul Weitz. He is best known for his work with his brother on the comedy films "American Pie" and "About a Boy," the latter of which was Oscar-nominated for adapted screenplay. Weitz directed the film adaptation of the novel "The Golden Compass" and the of "New Moon" from the series of "Twilight" books, as well wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" and co-wrote "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" alongside with Tony Gilroy.
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Twilight (novel series) Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. Released annually from 2005 through 2008, the four books chart the later teen years of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of "Eclipse" and Part II of "Breaking Dawn" being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished "Midnight Sun" is a retelling of the first book, "Twilight", from Edward Cullen's point of view. The novella "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner", which tells the story of a newborn vampire who appeared in "Eclipse", was published on June 5, 2010, as a hardcover book and on June 7 as a free online ebook. "", a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full color illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12, 2011.
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Poltergeist (film series) Poltergeist is an American horror film series distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the 1980s. The original trilogy revolves around the members of the Freeling family, who are stalked and terrorized by a group of ghosts lead by a demon known as the Beast that are attracted to the youngest daughter, Carol Anne. The original film was co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg. The "Poltergeist" films collected a total of approximately $132 million at the United States box office.
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Percy Jackson (film series) Percy Jackson & the Olympians (also known as Percy Jackson) is an American feature film series based on the novel series of the same name by the author Rick Riordan. The series is distributed by 20th Century Fox, produced by 1492 Pictures and currently consists of two installments. The first film, "" (2010), was directed by Chris Columbus, and was released on February 12, 2010. The second installment, "" (2013) was originally intended to be released in March 2013 but was instead pushed back to August 7, 2013, and was directed by Thor Freudenthal. The series has grossed nearly $430 million at the worldwide box office.
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Apocalypse (film series) Apocalypse is an eschatological science fiction-thriller film franchise written and produced by brothers Peter and Paul LaLonde, the makers of the similar "." Like the latter, the films were and produced and released by Cloud Ten Pictures. It focuses the events that take place during the Great Tribulation period after the Biblical Rapture. Although there are four films in the series, the only end-time events that are depicted in them are the Rapture, the War of Ezekiel 38-39, and the Mark of the Beast. The series' primarily follows characters Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis), a reporter who becomes an Evangelical Christian following the rapture, and Franco Macalousso (played by Sam Bornstein in the first film, and Nick Mancuso in the following three films), the Biblical Anti-christ that claims to be the messiah and is the chancellor of the O.N.E. (One Nation Earth). Other cast members include Jeff Fahey, Gary Busey, Carol Alt, Tony Nappo, Howie Mandel, Margot Kidder, Corbin Bernsen, and Mr. T. The films were released direct-to-video between 1998 and 2001. There are four entries, not including a planned but ultimately cancelled fifth film. The films have generally received mixed-to-negative critical reception.
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Hollows (series) The Hollows series (also called the Rachel Morgan series) is a series of thirteen mystery novels, eight short stories, two graphic novels, and one compendium resource by Kim Harrison, published by HarperCollins Publishers, in an urban fantasy alternate history universe and set primarily in the city of Cincinnati and its suburbs. The alternate history is built upon two premises: the recent open existence of magical and supernatural species, primarily witches, vampires, and werewolves, with the human population; and the historical investment of Cold War military spending in genetic engineering as opposed to the Space Race, which resulted in the accidental release of a genetically modified tomato in the 1960s that killed a significant portion of the human population. The series is set approximately forty years after this plague, referred to as 'The Turn' within the series.
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The Survivors Club (film) The Survivors Club is a 2004 CBS television film directed by Christopher Leitch. It is based on Lisa Gardner's novel-of-the-same-name. It stars Roma Downey, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Lee Smith as rape survivors. It premiered on 7 March 2004.
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Has Fallen Has Fallen is a series of action thriller films based on the characters written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. It features Gerard Butler as Secret Service agent Mike Banning and Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher, the President of the United States. The series also features Morgan Freeman as the Speaker of the House Allan Trumbull. The series consists of "Olympus Has Fallen" (2013) and "London Has Fallen" (2016), with the third film titled "Angel Has Fallen", in development. The series has grossed over $376 million worldwide.
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The Amityville Horror (film series) The Amityville Horror film series is a series of American horror films that currently consists of 18 films. The films center on events in a haunted house in Amityville, New York, as depicted in Jay Anson's 1977 book of the same name. The first film, released in the summer of 1979, was a major box office success, and went on to become one of the most commercially-successful independent films of all time. A series of sequels would be released throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s through various distributors; some of the films received theatrical distribution, while others were direct-to-video releases. In 2005, a re-imagining of the first film was released.
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The Internship The Internship is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, and produced by Vaughn and Levy. The film stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as recently-laid-off salesmen who attempt to compete with much younger and more technically-skilled applicants for a job at Google. "The Internship" is the second film with Vaughn and Wilson in the lead roles, after the 2005 film "Wedding Crashers"; the two had also both appeared in the 2004 film "Starsky & Hutch". This is also the second collaboration of Levy, Vaughn, and Stern after the 2012 film "The Watch", and the third of Levy and Wilson after the first two "Night at the Museum" films.
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Sorority House Massacre Sorority House Massacre is a 1986 American slasher film directed by Carol Frank. The plot follows a potential sorority pledge who experiences deja vu regarding the sorority house she's visiting, followed by a murderer who begins killing the sorority residents over Memorial Day weekend. The film is in the same realm as the "Slumber Party Massacre" series, and was marketed as part of the "Massacre Collection". It is often criticized for being "too similar" to "Halloween".
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole Guardians of Ga’Hoole is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series, which was intended to end in 2008 with the publication of "The War of the Ember" until a prequel "The Rise of a Legend" was published in 2013, has a total of sixteen books. Apart from the main series there are a few more books and spin offs set in the same universe. The first three books of the series were adapted into the animated 3D film "", directed by Zack Snyder.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) is a 2014 American neo-noir action crime film and follow-up to the 2005 film "Sin City". Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, the script is written by Miller and is primarily based on the second book in the "Sin City" series by Miller.
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Christine (novel) Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released in the same year; this adaptation starred Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. In April 2013, PS Publishing released "Christine" in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition.
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Doctor Strange (2016 film) Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Scott Derrickson, who wrote it with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. In "Doctor Strange", surgeon Strange learns the mystic arts after a career-ending car accident.
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The Black Stiletto The Black Stiletto is a thriller novel written by Raymond Benson; it was published in the US in September 2011. The first book in a series, it is the story of Judy Cooper, a young woman in late 1950s New York City, who becomes a masked vigilante. A parallel storyline in the present involves Judy as an elderly Alzheimer's patient being cared for by her grown son, Martin Talbot, who learns of Judy's secret through a series of diaries and ephemera that she kept hidden and in trust for him should she become incapacitated. Book series was optioned by Lonetree Entertainment in 2012. On October 14, 2015, it was announced that Mila Kunis will be executive producing a television series based on the book series for ABC Studios.
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Leslie Morgenstein Leslie Morgenstein is the president and chief executive of Alloy Entertainment. He has been credited with facilitating the adaptation of a number of book titles into television series. Examples include "Gossip Girl", "The Vampire Diaries", "Pretty Little Liars", "How to Rock", "The Secret Circle", "The Lying Game", "Privileged", "666 Park Avenue", "The 100" and "The Nine Lives of Chloe King". Morgenstein has also been involved in feature film projects, credited as an executive producer on the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series and as a producer on the 2008 sex comedy film "Sex Drive".
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The Host (novel) The Host is a romance novel by Stephenie Meyer. The book is about Earth, in a post apocalyptic time, being invaded by a parasitic alien race, known as "Souls", and follows one Soul's predicament when the consciousness of her human host refuses to co-operate with the takeover of her body.
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Kara Taitz Kara Eve Taitz (born May 11, 1981) is an American actress, who starred as Lily Miran, a socially awkward and sex-crazed girl who has feelings for the main character on the now cancelled sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger". Her on-screen debut was as Millicent, a recurring character on "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody". Millicent was a quirky candy counter girl who often fainted out of panic. Other appearances include episodes of "Samantha Who?", "Wizards of Waverly Place" and the USA television-movie "Operating Instructions" as Christine Lahti's meek, lovestruck assistant
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Hotel Transylvania: The Series Hotel Transylvania: The Series is an animated fantasy television series produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana in association with Corus Entertainment. It is based on and serves as a prequel to the 2012 film "Hotel Transylvania". The series takes place four years before the events of the first film, focusing on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania. The first season, consisting of 26 episodes, premiered on June 25, 2017, on Disney Channel, with the first episode released earlier on June 20, 2017, on the WATCH Disney Channel app, YouTube, and VOD.
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Summer of 8 Summer of 8 is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ryan Schwartz. It is Schwartz's directorial debut.
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Chris Meyer Chris Meyer (born June 4), sometimes credited as Christopher Scott Meyer, is an American film and television actor.