Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe are on the red carpet in New York braving the frigid temperatures for the premiere of their new movie Daybreakers which is described as:

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind

Ethan says that Daybreakers is the antidote to Twilight:

‘We are the antidote to Twilight and True Blood. We are an old school horror movie. My hope is we will end the inundation of the genre. There’s always the saturation point. Maybe [its popularity] ended two weeks ago. I actually don’t think so,’

Ethan plays a scientist that is trying to find a blood-free drink on which the vampires can feast without feeling guilty. Also at the premiere:  Tina Brown, Kristen Dalton, Gretchen Mol, and Marky Ramone.

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