Summit Entertainment talks to Variety about their success with Twilight and the future plans for Summit Entertainment.
The mini-studio is sticking to its original strategy of releasing and distributing 10-12 films per year, including eight inhouse productions, with a focus on the mid-range films that the majors are less likely to greenlight.
The company is mindful of the pitfalls of shifting an overall strategy for the sake of quick success.
“History’s great for that reason,” says Rob Friedman, who heads Summit along with Patrick Wachsberger. “There are bodies buried everywhere in Hollywood from places that changed their focus once they had some success.”
“When ‘Twilight’ broke out, we got a lot of vampire scripts,” Friedman says, “But ‘Knowing’ has really confirmed that we’re doing a broad range of projects and that we’re not a genre company.”
Read the article here.
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eek, they gt a lot of vampire scripts. i love vampire movies and all that, especially twilight, but if people keep riding the vampire train, it going to become so trite. this is coming from someone who absolutely fell in love with vampires at the age of 12 after reading bram strokers’ dracula. please summit, if you are going to release 10-12 films a year, make sure that there are only 1-2 vampire films, and one of them has to be part of the twilight saga.
So they are making twilight 2 but i thought new moon was twilight 2 kind of thiing right i am completly confused! can somone help me pleacs
I wouldnt want to see too many vampire films gets abit too muuchh
Is that nick cage in the bottem pic?
NATALIE.CULLEN….Whata re you talking about a twilight 2? lol but anyways I saw the movie KNOWING and it wasn’t even that good =/
They probably mean Midnight Sun, as Twilight 2 or they are making a totally different movie.
that was a good article. Summit is really rolling in dough.lol. thanks 2 Twilight and all the dedicated fans obviously. $4oo million! wow. i want 2 c what other success they might have after Twilight, bcuz i know nothing is going 2 top those #.lol=]