The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the biggest opening weekend, the third biggest opening weekend in movie history. With accolades like this to it’s name it’s hard to imagine that the film is still only reaching half of it’s intended audience – namely the girls.

It seems that despite director Chris Weitz’s intention to build on his male audience, New Moon has fallen flat in the testosterone stakes this year – however that’s not a mistake that Edward, Bella and Jacob intend to make again with their third installment – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which lands next year.

The folks at MTV have quite rightly pointed out that part of the reason New Moon fails to appeal to certain audiences is the fact that the film follows the source material very closely – something that several critics have been quick to point out. However it seems that while Eclipse is equally loyal to the source material, there’s plenty there to keep the boys interested:

More of a focus on the supernatural elements of vampires and werewolves
I’m sure Bram Stoker rolled over in his grave when sparkly, vegetarian vampires became the newest blood-sucking craze. Sure it took her two very long books to get to it, but in “Eclipse,” Stephenie Meyer finally delves into the history of her creatures and how they fit into the world as we know it.

Victoria’s newborn vampire army
That’s right, these vampires go on mass vampire-creating sprees. Turns out, newborn vampires in Stephenie Meyer’s world are significantly more powerful than your average vampire, but also a lot more unreliable. Jasper learned all about this during the Civil War, when the vampire who turned him used him to help create her own newborn army. This time — meaning the present-day of “Eclipse” — it’s both the Cullens and the Quileute wolf pack who have to face them in…

The final battle
Sure there’s the ballet studio scene at the end of “Twilight,” and the made-for-film fight between Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Felix (Daniel Cudmore) at the end of “New Moon” (and I won’t even get into the mess of an ending in “Breaking Dawn”), but at the end of “Eclipse” there is a no-holds-barred epic battle between the Cullens and their werewolf allies against Victoria (now played by Bryce Dallas Howard) and her army. Granted, in the novel Bella is far from the battle being protected from Victoria by Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and Edward, but we’re sure that will be remedied in the film.

Head over to MTV Movies Blog for the full lowdown on Eclipse and it’s promise for the hairier sex – trust me it’s a good read!