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With a $167.3 million overall domestic take as Sunday, per Box Office Mojo, Twilight made more than four times its reported $37 million production budget—the best rate of return on any film in the 2008 Top 10, including The Dark Knight.

The Batman epic was a pretty good investment, too, very nearly tripling its gargantuan $185 million budget with a $530.8 million domestic take, Hollywood's second-biggest ever.

Still, The Dark Knight was nothing compared to these off-the-charts performers: High School Musical 3: Senior Year ($89.7 million), which grossed about eight times its $11 million budget; the Hannah Montana concert movie, which made about nine times its $7 million budget; and Cameron's Fireproof, which cost $500,000 to produce, and made $33.1 million—or, more than 60 times its budget.

usmagazine.com

The only thing I can compare it to is, I was in a Star Trek movie when I was like 11 and that was a big deal for a 11-year-old kid," star Mike Welch told Us. "But this is unlike anything I've seen before or been apart of.

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"I've never seen anything like this," added Michael Welch (Mike Newton). "I mean, I think we all had a thought or sense that this could be possible. But this is truly a dream come true, and I couldn't be more grateful."

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starpulse.com

Nikki Reed, the alluring star and co-writer of Hardwicke's startling debut "Thirteen," gets little to do but scowl as Edward's disapproving sister, Rosalie. Similarly, Peter Facinelli is just coolly creepy as the clan's patriarch, Dr. Carlisle Cullen. (Seriously, how is it possible that no one in town knows these people are vampires?) But Michael Welch and Justin Chon liven things up as a couple of classmates competing for Bella's attention. And Anna Kendrick, a scene-stealer last year in the high-school debate comedy "Rocket Science," pulls off the same feat here as Bella's saucy friend, Jessica.

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