Twilight æðið

Robert Pattinson, the pale guy who plays Edward in the upcoming vamp-romance (vampromace?) Twilight was supposed to appear at an autograph signing at a mall a few miles south of San Francisco proper. Police were expecting 300-500 people…only to get 3,000…

Details and the Twilight footage that aired during last night’s Heroes, after the cut…

Peter from /Film reports:

Last week, I received a phone call from my local Summit Entertainment publicity rep, informing me that the stars of Twilight were going on the road for an autograph tour to publicize the release of the film adaptation next week. I posted about the appearances here. Before I got off the phone I warned my local rep, “You understand this is going to get out of control right?”

You see, Twilight star Robert Pattinson was going to appear at a small Hot Topic store in the Stonestown Galleria, a mall just miles south of downtown San Francisco (but still technically in the city limits). I explained to my nice local publicist about my experience at Comic Con, dealing with the hordes of Twilight fangirls and the ::shudder:: Twilight moms ::shudder::. She told me that they expected 300-500 people to show up, and I was shocked. That can’t be. It must be more, right?

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Over 3,000 Twilight fans, mostly teenage girls, showed up at the Stonestown Galleria early this morning. That is more than 10 times the amount of people that police officials were expecting. Apparently a few of the teenage fans were trampled, and one girl reportedly broke her nose… Some fans had traveled with their families from Los Angeles, Hawaii and Arizona.

The event was briefly canceled for safety reasons, but did happen once the crowd was wrangled.

In case you still want to be lumped in with these crazies and support Twilight, here’s the footage that aired on NBC during last night’s Heroes (which we will be watching on lunch break):