Summit's 'Twilight' a franchise with bite

4:22 PM PDT 10/2/2008 by Steven Zeitchik, AP

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Nancy Kirkpatrick first noticed something wasn't quite normal when she arrived at Comic-Con in July. The head of marketing for upstart indie studio Summit Entertainment couldn't figure out why a line was snaking around the San Diego Convention Center nearly 24 hours before her panel was set to begin.