Vampires and teen angst. It's a combination I've grown to love over the last few years. And yet, despite being filled with an abundance of both, this season's smash hit Twilight wasn't a movie that managed to draw me to the box office.

However, the news that About a Boy and Golden Compass director Chris Weitz has been tapped to direct the film's sequel New Moon at least has me a bit more interested. Weitz has managed adapt a couple books with varying degrees of success in the past, while recently-fired director Catherine Hardwicke has less-than-stellar history.

Weitz' adaption of Nick Hornby's novel About A Boy managed to maintain the source material's basic charm while staying true to the characters, and though the God-destroying odyssey Golden Compass wasn't the success it could have been - or, more to the point, that The Chronicles of Narnia was - I am hopeful that Weitz will be able to translate whatever people love about Stephenie Meyer's series to the silver screen.