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With The Hunger Games opening this weekend, investors can stack the odds in their favor by considering the companies that stand to benefit from the film's likely success.

Sexy, strong, dangerous and immortal, it seems that vampires have acquired another quality: lucrative. As we prepare for Friday's release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, we examine just how much money the vampire biz has contributed to the modern economy.

Macmillan isn't the first major publishing house to jump into the film and TV waters, but with today's launch of Macmillan Films, it is the latest. Brendan Deneen, a former development executive and literary agent, will run the venture to take Macmillan's books to both the big and small screens.

Two of the largest publishing houses have demonstrated again that when authors like Stephenie Meyer or Stieg Larsson become big phenomenons, big sales -- and big profits -- are the result.

Cult classics used to rule in midnight screenings. But in recent years, blockbuster films like Eclipse, The Dark Knight and Avatar, have proven that it's a strategy that can supercharge both ticket sales and buzz.

Most authors would kill to have 350,000 copies of a book sell in their lifetime, let alone within two days of publication. Stephanie Meyer isn't most authors, so that's why the concern for Bree Tanner's "slow" start.

Profits at Lagardere, the parent of the Hachette Book Group, have been buoyed for years by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, but with no new books from Meyers, first-quarter earnings have taken a hit.

Media and newspaper companies have had dismal fortunes last year, and book publishing is no exception. Layoffs, mergers of imprints, declining sales, rising costs -- all put the biggest publishing houses deep in the red in the last two quarters of 2008. But the latest quarterly numbers coming in...

In 2009, the fangs are bared. Everywhere you look, it seems like a vampire flick is either in pre-production, post-production, or a theater. New Moon, the long-awaited sequel to 2008's Twilight, is scheduled to come out around Thanksgiving, and the third movie in the series, Eclipse, is already...

Borders Group (BGP), the second-largest bookseller in the U.S., recently unveiled Borders Ink, a store section that will target teen readers. By the end of August, the retailer hopes to have the sections in 80 to 90 percent of its 513 superstores. A few years ago, the idea of a bookstore...