October 6

The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
Yes! You’re reading that headline correctly. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide finally has a real release date. The long-awaited guide will be available to buy on April 12th next year according to an exclusive from EW.com’s Shelf Life. Check it all out below:

The bad news: It’s not another sequel. The good news: There will be plenty of brand-new details in The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a reference book Stephenie Meyer created to accompany her best-selling novels. According to a press release from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, the $24.99 encyclopedia, which will go on sale April 12, 2011, includes “character profiles, outtakes, a conversation with Meyer, genealogical charts, maps, extensive cross-references, and much more,” including art by by Young Kim, who illustrated Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1.

Read the full story at EW.com here.

Breaking Dawn News
Huge breaking news Twilighters! Summit Entertainment has just put out a press release announcing exactly who will be playing the members of The Denali Coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Check it all out below:

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — The Denali Coven Casting Update
The Denali Coven is comprised of Christian Camargo (THE HURT LOCKER, Dexter) as Eleazar; Casey LaBow (Moonlight) as Kate; Mia Maestro (Alias, POSEIDON) as Carmen; MyAnna Buring (DOOMSDAY) as Tanya; as well as previously announced Maggie Grace (Lost, TAKEN) as Irina.

The Denali Coven is the only other “vegetarian” vampire coven in the world, considered cousins to the Cullens.

The next chapter of THE TWILIGHT SAGA will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011 and the second coming to theatres on November 16, 2012.

Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The project, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing.