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‘Twilight’ Director Says Studio Gave Her a ‘Mini Cupcake’ to Celebrate Film’s Success: Male Directors Get a ‘Car or a Three-Picture Deal or Whatever You Want’
Catherine Hardwicke says the studio gave her a cupcake to celebrate the success of 'Twilight.' Male directors get 'three-picture deals.'
“ Twilight ” director Catherine Hardwicke said in an interview with The Guardian that the studio gifted her a “mini cupcake” as a congratulations when the vampire romance opened to an unexpectedly huge $69 million in November 2008. Whereas a successful male director with a franchise-launching huge opening weekend might be gifted “a car, or a three-picture deal, or [the chance] to do basically whatever you want,” Hardwicke continued, she was given more or less a pat on the back. The director previously revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in 2023 that the studio always underestimated how big “Twilight” could become.
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