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The fourth "Twilight" film, "Breaking Dawn," will be split into two movies, the better to maximize profits.

May 15, 2010 at 6:44PM

Breaking down The fourth "Twilight" film, "Breaking Dawn," will be split into two movies, the better to maximize profits -- and, some of its stars figure, maximize salary. And by "stars," we don't mean Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Supporting players Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz have banded together to demand $4 million apiece for each of the two movies, as opposed to the reported $1 million or so they've been offered. Do they recall what happened to Rachelle LaFevre, whose hardball tactics got her dropped from "Eclipse" in favor of Bryce Dallas Howard?

The final reel Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") has been named director of "Mission: Impossible 4." ... Terence Howard is the young Nelson Mandela opposite Jennifer Hudson in "Winnie." ... Paul W.S. Anderson is directing a 3-D take on "The Three Musketeers," with Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan, Matthew McFadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans as the titular roustabouts and Christoph Waltz and Mads Mikkelsen as the baddies. ... Colin Farrell will star as a suave vampire in the remake of "Fright Night." He'll also play a billionaire who loses his wife (Marion Cotillard) and his fortune within 24 hours in the David Cronenberg adaptation of Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis."

CYNTHIA DICKISON

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