ICYMI: 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' to Premiere at Rome Film Festival

None of the cast members will be on hand to promote the latest film in the successful franchise, which will screen in the Alice in the City sidebar.

THR ROME – The world premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will be the highlight of the International Rome Film Festival’s Alice in the City sidebar, though paparazzi at the festival will be disappointed that the film’s high-profile stars, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, will not be in Rome for the premiere.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, a mega-budget adventure fantasy story directed by Bill Condon that continues the highly successful vampire franchise, is the one film in the Alice in the City sidebar that will screen in collaboration with the Rome festival itself. The rest of the program is independent of the festival.

 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was among the films listed by The Hollywood Reporter as likely to screen during the Nov. 9-17 event. But at least some of the interest in the film was centered on a possible appearance by Stewart and Pattinson, whose high profile off-again-on-again romance has been gossip magazine fodder for weeks.

The film, which goes into wide release Nov. 14, is one of the most expensive ever made, with a reported budget of more than $130 million.