Kommer Twilight bli en Lionsgate film?
"Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment are in talks to merge their two companies, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. The plan, if the deal goes through, is for Lionsgate to buy Summit's library of six films and the rights to the "Twilight" franchise. Early talks last year involved the merger of only the domestic divisions, under the terms of the reported deal. Executives at Lionsgate and Summit declined to comment for this story. But one Lionsgate executive, who declined to speak for attribution, said: "At this time there are no new conversations." Rumors of a proposed merger have abounded for months, and other executives familiar with the terms said the deal made sense. But Lionsgate just paid $255 million to buy the TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com, in a surprise move. So another high-ticket cash deal might be a stretch for the company. For Summit, the deal would bring a cash payout after nearly two years of operation, with success coming only recently in the "Twilight" phenomenon, which followed a string of heavily-marketed failures."
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It could mean, in short, that New Moon will be a little bit bloodier than anticipated. Or certainly the Twlight film after that. Is there any filmmaking/distribution outfit with a more pronounced reputation for being deeply in love with arterial gushings? That's Lionsgate in a nutshell.
So declares Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere, in response to Sharon Waxman's report (for which "executives at Lionsgate and Summit declined to comment") that Lionsgate (home of the Saw, Hostel and Tyler Perry franchises) may be buying Summit Entertainment, including the company's library and slate, which includes teenage necrophilia phenom franchise Twilight.
But of course, Wells' "nutshell" definition of Lionsgate is out of date. It's an open secret that Lionsgate is so desperate to distance itself from its bloody past that the distributor has spent the past year engineering the failure of its remaining genre stock - dumping Midnight Meat Train in rural dollar theaters; taking the ultra-cinematic The Burrowers off its theatrical release schedule entirely; killing Cabin Fever as a theatrical franchise by releasing its Ti West-directed sequel straight to DVD. If anything, in Lionsgate's hands, the Twilight sequels are likely to go even more tame.
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