@socratess003: Twilight (2008) was actually turned down by multiple major Hollywood studios before Summit Entertainment decided to take a chance on it. The film was made on a relatively modest budget of just $37 million — and went on to gross over $392 million worldwide, making it one of the most profitable movies of that year. What’s even more surprising is that Robert Pattinson, who played the iconic vampire Edward Cullen, admitted in interviews that he actually hated the character and found him incredibly difficult to relate to. On top of that, the famous “baseball scene” in the movie took over a week to film because the cast had to learn how to make normal baseball moves look superhuman and supernatural. The franchise went on to gross over $3.3 billion total across all five films, turning a small vampire love story into one of the biggest pop culture phenomena of the 2000s.

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