People are calling it the new Harry Potter.  And it’s not really that.  Other people are calling it the new Interview with a Vampire (since author Anne Rice suddenly decided that God was WAAAAY cooler than blood-sucking vampires and started writing Christian novels).  It’s not that either.

But it might be the next middle-school girl obsession.

Twilight’s a new movie from a four-book series written by swim-team mom Stephanie Miller.  Describing how she came up with the novel, she said that she had a dream one night about a teen couple: “One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that … the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.”  Let’s not try to read too much into her unshakable interest in the “fantastically beautiful” high school boy—being a swim-team mom gets lonely sometimes I guess.

Anyway, pre-teen girls are certain to want to get all cuddly with Twlight leading pretty boy Robert Pattinson (who also played Cedric in Harry Potter).  You need proof?  Opening nights are ALREADY selling out and the movie doesn’t come out till Nov 21st.

If you’ve got kids, buy your tickets (and Tiger Beat magazines) now.