Twilight was gleaming at the box office this weekend, staking its claim to $70.6 million. (Gleaming! Staking! Can you believe Variety hasn’t hired me yet?) Those are Harry Potter numbers, so it’s no surprise that the Twilight sequel New Moon has already been greenlit. Bolt and Quantum of Solace finished in a virtual tie for second place, each taking in roughly $27 million. Bolt was a bit of a disappointment by Disney standards, but Quantum has already crashed the $100 million barrier, so you can bet James Bond will return.

How about that Arrested Development movie? Apparently its development is no longer arrested, as creator Mitch Hurwitz and producer Ron Howard are close to signing on for a feature film continuation of the cult series.

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The Strangers was one of the pleasant surprises of the first half of 2008 – not a great movie by any means, but it generated maximum suspense with a minimum of torture porn before running out of steam in its last half hour. The last thing it needs is a sequel, but it looks like that’s exactly what it’s going to get. “The expectation is that Liv Tyler, along with several of the original villains, will return,” Variety reports. “Production is being slated for early 2009” with original writer-director Bryan Bertino handling the scripting duties.

George Clooney is in discussions for Up in the Air, to be adapted from a Walter Kirn novel by Jason “Juno” Reitman.

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