LOS ANGELES Ca., Dec.1 (TOTI) -- Taylor Lautner, who plays the part of Jacob Black in the box office hit movie "Twilight" was shocked by how popular the book series and movie have become.

Lautner, 16, recently told Teen magazine, "After I booked (the part of Jacob) I checked out the fan sites, like twighlightlexicon.com and twilightmoms.com and it was crazy. Then at my school, girls were reading it left and right. In my chemistry class, I looked to my left and a girl was reading Twilight, and then in another class, a girl was reading New Moon. It was pretty hilarious."

It's not only teenagers drawn to the vampire love story.

Lautner continued, "I even had a substitute teacher once who said 'I heard you were going to be in Twilight, that's my favorite book!'"

Twilight has brought in over $119 million dollars in box office receipts since its' release on November 21, 2008.

The movie was #2 film over the Thanksgiving weekend in box office receipts, beat out by the holiday comedy Four Christmases starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn.

Over the weekend Twilight brought in $39.6 million, according to the Los Angeles-based industry analysis firm Media By Numbers.

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