Pop culture really took off in the 2000s, especially when literary sagas became big franchise IPs. In 2005, the public was ...

The Batman star Robert Pattinson is tired of people criticizing Twilight, the franchise that kicked off his Hollywood career.

Twilight was greeted by some as if its teen romance and sparkly vampirism heralded the death of culture itself. Even more bizarrely, it's still happening — 17 years after the final book and 13 years ...