Summit Lands Impact Award

According to HollywoodReporter.com, Summit has found a new way to be rewarded for Twilight. Millions of dollars and a countless number of fans seem enough to put Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger, the co-chairmen of Summit Entertainment, on top of the world. But being honored at the Sundance film festival with the second-annual Nielsen Impact Award topped it all. It was awarded for the impact an individual makes on the independent film community.

Wachsberger, who launched the company in 1996, and Friedman, a former Paramount Pictures executive, also credited Summit executives Erik Feig, David Garrett and Bob Hayward for “Twilight’s” monumental success. Its sequel, “New Moon,” is already in preproduction.

Read more at HollywoodReporter.com.



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