Summit Entertainment Movie Updates

The project was being independently produced by John Malkovich and it was unclear for a while if any studios were interested. But now Vulture hears that Summit Entertainment, the home of the Twilight franchise, is in talks to pick it up and plans to begin shooting Wallflower this June.

Summit Entertainment has hired screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber to write a sequel to action-hit Red.

Summit is going to the circus, acquiring worldwide film and TV rights to Erin Morgenstern's yet-to-published debut novel The Night Circus.

Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant have just closed deals to rewrite comedy The Wee McGinty for Garant to direct, with Lennon playing a major supporting role.

Summit is dancing its way back to Step Up, tapping choreographer Wade Robson to direct the fourth, Miami-set installment in the film franchise.

With Alex Proyas poised to produce and potentially direct, Summit Entertainment has just closed a deal for screen rights to AMP, a near-future science fiction thriller novel by Daniel H. Wilson. The novel is set in a world where the technology designed to make the disabled whole, turns them into supermen. Deal was low six agains ...

Summit is getting in the game with Game Theory and is in talks to acquire Michael Alan Lerner's action-thriller spec script. Game Theory will be produced by Twilight producers Temple Hill, Alex Goldstone and Adam Shulman.

Summit Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to the romantic drama Adaline. Starring Katherine Heigl and directed by Andy Tennant from a script by J. Mills Goodloe, Salvador Paskowitz and Allison Burnett, Adaline is a turn-of-the-20th-century tale of a strangely ageless young woman who falls in love after years ...

Summit Entertainment is going time traveling via "Tempest," based on Julie Cross' upcoming novel.

Summit Entertainment is currently courting actor Jim Carrey to star in their new film, "Under Cover", according to Pajiba.

Erich and Jon Hoeber, the writers behind Summit's upcoming action thriller "Red," are in negotiations to rewrite "Man on a Ledge" for the company.

Summit Entertainment is hoping for magic, acquiring bank-heist spec "Now You See Me" from Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt.

Special effects maven-turned-helmer Patrick Tatopoulos is in negotiations to come aboard Participant Media’s eco-horror tale “The Colony.” Production begins in the fall.

Summit Entertainment's in negotiations to set up comedy "Ricky Stanicky," with James Franco on board for the lead role.

E1 said en garde to "Musketeers" for the U.K., Alliance Films took Canadian rights, Aurum Producciones nabbed Spain and DCA secured Latin American rights in a raft of deals on the $80 million film, set to begin shooting late August in Studio Babelsberg in Germany. Summit will be releasing the film stateside. Constantin, which is ...

Paul W.S. Anderson is culling actors from rising stars to Oscar winners for his 3D version of the classic tale “The Three Musketeers.” The project is slated to begin shooting in September.

As Summit Entertainment moves closer to a domestic distribution deal on his Valerie Plame drama Fair Game, director Doug Liman is circling Gambit, a Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake of the 1966 British caper comedy which originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Producer Mike Lobell has been trying to get the pro ...

Summit Entertainment is wading into the battle of the sexes by acquiring film and TV rights to John Gray's "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" franchise, and has set Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce a feature film via their BermanBraun banner.

One of the other benefits is it might keep Kinberg writing more projects for Fox, because he's got stuff going on all over town. He's currently teamed with Aline Brosh McKenna on an untitled project for Paramount and JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk's Bad Robot, after selling the project as a pitch last fall in a deal worth nearly $2 mi ...