Twilight Battles Harry Potter for Teen Audiences

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The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the potential impact the Twilight generation may have had on the Harry Potter franchise:

As a new “Harry Potter” movie opens next week, the bespectacled wizard faces a new challenge: how to compete for the attention of a young audience that has been growing up—and is starting to prefer the angsty teen romances and cooler, edgier characters of the “Twilight” books and movies.

The film moves directly into the territory where “Twilight” now rules. The sixth “Potter” movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” has a distinctly more grown-up tone than its predecessors and features a strong romantic plotline.

Read the entire article here.

Thanks, Jane!