Summit Entertainment Movie Updates

Robopocalypse author Daniel H. Wilson is finalizing a deal to develop his best-selling thriller Amped as a movie at Working Title Films.

Pacific Standard, the new banner formed by Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, has picked up the rights to a children’s book series titled Pennyroyal’s Princess Boot Camp.

Lionsgate has confirmed to EW that they have acquired the rights to the 1970 Jack Finney novel Time and Again.

Warner Bros has attached Guy Ritchie to direct a new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate tale Treasure Island, and has set Alex Harakis to write the script.

Emma Thompson is the latest to join the cast of Beautiful Creatures, Alcon’s adaptation of a young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

"The Side Effects" (the project has reverted to its initial title after flirting with the name "The Bitter Pill"). Announced late last year, with several companies vying to make the project, now, two weeks into 2012, The Playlist can reveal that the financing looks to be locked down, and Soderbergh has found ...

Summit Entertainment is in final negotiations to make a green light commitment on The Bitter Pill, the Scott Z. Burns script that Steven Soderbergh will direct as his next film.

Sylvester Stallone is breathing life into The Tomb for Summit and Emmett/Furla Films.

MGM has closed a deal to make the Eminem-led boxing pic Southpaw, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures.

Summit Entertainment has come aboard to remake the Dutch horror thriller Zwart Water with Charlize Theron attached to produce and star.

The writing team of Douglas Cook and David Weisberg has sold an untitled comedy-action pitch about the world of repossessing airplanes to Summit.

Summit Entertainment has acquired English-language movie rights to the international bestselling crime thriller Headhunters, by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo.

Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to Area 52, and will develop a live action adaptation based on the four-issue comic book series published in 2001. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce, and JC Spink will be executive producer through Benderspink.

Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to John Huddy's non-fiction book Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars. Summit has attached Antoine Fuqua to direct, Lorenzo di Bonaventura to produce, an ...

James Wan is in final negotiations to direct New Line's "The Conjuring."

Summit has snapped up U.S. distribution rights to action thriller ''Snitch,'' helmed by Ric Roman Waugh. Pic, which toplines Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson, is being co-financed by Exclusive Media, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi.

After co-writing his recently wrapped comedy Goon, Baruchel has signed on to write the adaptation of Kickstart Comics’ Random Acts of Violence and is in final negotiations to rewrite Summit’s Exorcism Diaries.

Paul W.S. Anderson is giving the story of Pompeii the big-screen treatment. The filmmaker behind the Resident Evil movies will direct Pompeii, a period adventure movie project recounting the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of the ancient Roman city.

Summit Entertainment is acquiring U.S. rights to a live-action adaptation of the Orson Scott Card science fiction novel Ender's Game, with Gavin Hood set to direct his script.

Summit Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to I, Alex Cross, the reboot of the James Patterson franchise. Tyler Perry stars as the title character, with Rob Cohen directing.

Summit is in negotiations to pick up Crosshair, an action comic book from Top Cow Prods. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, riding high as part of the producing team behind the Oscar-winning boxing movie The Fighter, are attached as producers, while Morgan Foehl is attached as the writer.

Summit Entertainment, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi optioned Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour, a New York Times article from last Dec. 25 that will inform a film they'll develop about the oil-rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Summit Entertainment continues its prolific book rights buying as it nears a deal for the Veronica Roth novel Divergent, with Red Wagon partners Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher attached to produce.

Another new project has been unveiled at the European Film Market in Berlin: Amanda Seyfried thriller Gone, from Summit Entertainment, Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel.

Summit Entertainment is looking to do the Unexpected, setting up the pregnancy comedy project with Todd Garner and Jennifer Eatz producing.

Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, a novel by Kenneth Oppel. Summit's Twilight Saga producer Karen Rosenfelt is aboard to produce. The novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in the summer.

The Weinstein Co. has closed a deal for worldwide rights to Jacob Aaron Estes' pic The Details, which preemed Monday night at the Eccles Theater here in Sundance.