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It has been two sad years since lions gate released the fifth and final movie of the ” Twilight ” movie series and it was supposed to be the last; But they now announced more ‘ Twilight ‘ is coming.

On Tuesday Lions Gate and Stephenie Meyer plans to select five ambitious female directors to make short films based on “Twilight” characters. The mini-movies, financed by Lions Gate and its production partners, will be shown exclusively on Facebook next year.

Michael Burns, Lions Gate’s vice chairman, said in an interview: ‘We think Facebook is a great way for us to introduce the world of ‘Twilight’ to a whole new audience while re-energizing existing fans,”

Mr. Burns added: “This is the just the beginning; a template, if you will,” “You can probably guess what might be coming next.”

Mr. Burns declined to say if there will be a similar short film series based on “The Hunger Games,” or a sixth “Twilight” movie, but he did say, “We love Stephenie Meyer.”

Dan Rose, the Facebook vice president for partnerships, said in a statement that Lions Gate’s “premium video program” was a “great opportunity” to engage the 150 million people who followed the official “Twilight” Facebook pages.

In an interview in September Chris Cox, the Facebook chief product officer, said that exclusive video or original content, like the new TV-length shows commissioned by Yahoo, were not a focus for the social network.

He said: “It’s really how do we make the experience when you’re there amazing, more relevant and more joyful,” he said. “If you’re solving those sorts of problems, it’s not on your road map to go get exclusive content to get more people to come back to Facebook. One day, maybe, but not right now.”

Ms. Meyer in a statement did not say anything specific about returning to “Twilight” but instead focused on Hollywood’s gender gap. She said: “The female voice is something that has become more and more important to me as I’ve worked in the film industry,”

The “Twilight” actress Kristen Stewart and Ms. Meyer with a group of female panelists will select the winning shorts and mentor participants.

Lions Gate said that a group of female panelists, including the “Twilight” actress Kristen Stewart and Ms. Meyer, will select the winning shorts and mentor participants.

Other panelists include the actresses Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer and Julie Bowen; Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first “Twilight” movie; the film producer Cathy Schulman; and Jennifer Lee, who co-directed “Frozen.”

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Eh...

Yeah, kinda over all of it now BUT it was a good time anticipating the movies and all back then.

Cool beans!