Summit

Summit Closes $750M Refinancing Deal

March 8, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

"Twilight" studio gets $550 million loan and a $200 million line of credit

  

Summit and Participant Get Rights to NYT's Deepwater Horizon Story

March 8, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Studios looking to adapt paper's story about the final hours before the oil rig's disastrous final hours

  

Summit Close to Securing $750M in Refinancing

March 7, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Money will be used to pay down debt and finance studio's upcoming slate of films

  

Louis Leterrier to Direct Summit's 'Now You See Me'

February 18, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Project focuses on FBI squad tasked with bringing down a gang of bank robbers who are also illusionists

  

Summit Announces Fall Release Date for '50/50'

February 17, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Formerly titled "I'm With Cancer," the movie stars Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  

Summit Picks Up 'Egypt'; Sets Two Other Projects

February 10, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 2 years ago

Studio buys a "300"-esque adventure and an adaptation of the young-adult novel "Divergent"; is in talks with Alex Proyas to direct thriller "Amp"

  

Amanda Seyfried To Star in 'Gone'

February 9, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 2 years ago

The 'Letters to Juliet' and 'Dear John' star joins the cast of the thriller

  

Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan To Adapt 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus'

January 27, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 2 years ago

The 1992 book will become a romantic comedy

  

Refinance-Minded Summit Receives Two Credit Ratings

January 19, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 2 years ago

"Twilight" producer hopes to refinance $800 million in debt

  

Megan Ellison's Annapurna to Finance Bigelow & Boal's Next

January 14, 2011 By Jeff Sneider 2 years ago

Boal is still writing the script using classified information he obtained while researching the project

  

Summit CEO Robert Friedman Honored by Ernst & Young

November 15, 2010 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Studio chief named "entrepreneur of the year"

  

Mel Gibson Has a New Movie; Can Stewart Till Sell It?

November 4, 2010 By Sharon Waxman 2 years ago

In "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," Mel's back in vigilante mode. It might play better overseas.

  

Summit Acquires Katherine Heigl Movie 'Adaline'

October 31, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Distributor plans early-2012 release for Sidney Kimmel-produced romantic drama

  

Summit Lands Denali Clan for 'Twilight' Sequel 'Breaking Dawn'

September 30, 2010 By Jeff Sneider 2 years ago

MyAnna Buring, Mia Maestro, Casey LaBow and Christian Camargo will be joining the fanged franchise

  

Summit Celebrating Bella's B-Day with 'Eclipse' Re-Release

September 8, 2010 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Studio announces its summer hit will be back in theaters this Friday

  

Jamie Bell Joins Worthington & Mackie on Summit's 'Ledge'

September 2, 2010 By Jeff Sneider 2 years ago

Asger Leth will direct the crime drama from a script by Pablo Fenjves and the Hoeber brothers

  

Gavin Polone Sues Summit & Scribe for Behind-the-Back Deal

August 31, 2010 By Josh Dickey 2 years ago

Polone says he helped Pablo Fenjves write a screenplay in exchange for being attached, but that the scribe sold out to Summit

  

Rami Malek Joins Summit's 'Twilight' Sequel 'Breaking Dawn'

August 31, 2010 By Jeff Sneider 2 years ago

The "Night at the Museum" actor will play Benjamin, an Egyptian vampire with the power to control the four elements

  

Moscow Fires Halt Production on Movie 'Darkest Hour'

August 8, 2010 By The Hollywood Reporter 2 years ago

Summit alien-invasion thriller shelved for two weeks over smoke from deadly blaze in Russia

  

'Breaking Dawn -- Part 2' Gets Nov. 16, 2012, Date

August 3, 2010 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

In two years, Summit will be forced to say good bye to its major cash cow

  

Summit Set to Play Plame 'Game' on Nov. 5

July 21, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Film about outed CIA operative stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn and will have limited opening

  

Gibson Meltdown Imperils 'Beaver,' Other Projects

July 11, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Embattled figure's most recent PR crisis comes as he's ramping up his acting career -- and the fallout could be wide

  

Uni Guess Too High on 'Despicable': Actuals Say $56.4M

July 11, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Studio estimates overstated across the board, with "Eclipse" ($31.7M) and "Predators" ($24.8M) also overshooting the mark

  

'Twilight Saga' -- the Making of a Bargain Blockbuster

June 30, 2010 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Forget pricey "Pirates" and "Potter." By keeping costs low, Summit has created a moneymaking new business model

  

FX Nabs Rights to 'Karate Kid,' 'A-Team,' 'Date Night' and 'Tooth Fairy'

June 16, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

Deals are part of FX's effort to cement status as "the dominant basic cable network in acquired theatrical films"

  

Summit: Two-Part 'Breaking Dawn' a Go

June 10, 2010 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Studio to suck more money from lucreative vampire romance with an extra installment