One of the most interesting phenomena of the past few years has been the rise in Hollywood's box-office prognosticators, people who make a living predicting how much a film like "Quantum of Solace" will make during its opening weekend. And in this time of perceived predictability, there are few pleasures as great for a movie fan as watching a film like "Borat" or "The Passion of the Christ" come out and make those people look like... well, they're not very good at their jobs.

This week's "Twilight" Tuesday takes you to last night's premiere and afterparty for the latest film to confound the prognosticators. Although few had given the movie much of a chance to win its weekend until recently, now several are predicting that it could beat Disney's talking-dog cartoon "Bolt," and wild guesses have the $37 million film pulling in anywhere from $20 million to $60 million or more.

With "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke having gone on record saying that the film must make $150 million for its sequels to become a reality, such inside-baseball talk has suddenly become a matter that concerns every "Twilight" fan. So naturally, the talk on the red carpet last night kept turning back to the stars' optimistic uncertainty.

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Quick, when I say midnight movie, what's the first film that comes to mind? As with a lot of things in life, the answer probably depends a lot on how old you are.

For me, the first movie that comes to mind when I think of a midnight movie is "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," because that's the first film I ever saw at, well, midnight, in a National Amusements Cinema in Hazlet, NJ. I was 18 and a senior in high school.

But for a lot of other people the term midnight movie probably conjures up images of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Eraserheads," cult classics that used to run at independent theaters the second the witching hour began.

Tonight, hundreds of thousands of people will line up with the former camp, dragging themselves out to screenings of "The Dark Knight" at midnight. But when did the change occur -- when did the camp classics make way for the blockbusters? What was the first big movie to premiere at midnight?

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What's better than watching a George A. Romero zombie flick with a packed house at a midnight showing? Having the man himself in attendance of course, with a spankin' new film in tow.

"I'm a little drunk," the 67-year-old maverick told the enthusiastic crowd, introducing his eagerly-anticipated "Diary of the Dead." "We're in a cold place, and you've gotta stay warm."

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Last night we caught up with Josh Peck at the premiere of one of the most talked about films at Sundance: "The Wackness." Check out what he and his co-stars had to say about the film and their co-star Mary-Kate Olsen.

See our complete coverage of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival -- including breaking news, celebrity interviews, red carpet photos, movie clips and tons more.