about Summit Entertainment
Summit was originally founded in the early 1990s and launched in 1996 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett under the name of Summit Entertainment LP as production, distribution, and sales organizations. In the year 2006, it became a fully independent film studio, Summit Entertainment, with the addition of Rob Friedman, a former executive at Paramount Pictures. The new company added a big development, production, acquisition, marketing and distribution branch of the financing agreement led by Merrill Lynch and other investors to give access to more than $ 1 billion in financing.

After a series of flops, including P2, Penelope, Never Back Down and Sex Drive, Summit finally found success in November 2008 with the release of Twilight, a teen novel about vampires, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Stephenie Meyer that made $ 383,530,753 in throughout the world. In the spring of 2009, the Summit was released Knowing, the second film company to open at the box office and earned $ 182,492,056 worldwide. Recently, including films for Summit Next Day Air ($ 10,027,047), The Hurt Locker ($ 15,218,783 worldwide), an action-thriller war-themed movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow (who ended the first summit to be an Oscar winner Best Picture), animated Astro Boy movie, teen horror Sorority Row ($ 14,826,298 worldwide), and 2009′s most anticipated flick of New Moon ($ 295,114,155 in the U.S. alone).

In the year 2008, ranked 8th Summit of the studio, with a gross of $ 226.5 million, almost entirely due to the release of Twilight. In the year 2009, the Summit ranked 7th among the studio with a gross of $ 482.5 million.

At the weekend include November 21-23, 2009, Summit Entertainment, Twilight runaway hit sequel entitled The Twilight Saga: New Moon, is also based on the popular novel by Stephenie Meyer, breaking box office records on the first weekend and opened on the first weekend $ 142,839,137, posting the third best figures of all time box office last weekend, only three Columbia Pictures ‘Spider-Man 3 ($ 151,116,516) and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Batman movie The Dark Knight ($ 158,411,483).

Summit Home Entertainment from the International Entertainment E1 England from 2010

The third chapter, entitled The Twilight Eclipse has been greenlit by the Summit and filmed in August-October 2009, with a release date set for June 30, 2010.

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