Summit Entertainment has announced that Billy Burke will join Nicholas Cage in the indie comedy ‘Drive’.
Billy Burke (“Twilight“) will co-star in the indie comdey “Drive Angry” alongside Nicholas Cage, William Fitchner and Amber Heard.
The Millennium/Summit Entertainment film is produced by Michael De Luca. Patrick Lussier will direct from a script he wrote with Todd Farmer. Production begins this month in Shreveport, LA, with a February 11, 2011, release date set.
The story centers on a tough-as-nails man with a mysterious past racing through the desert in pursuit of the man who killed his daughter and kidnapped his daughter’s child. Burke portrays a charismatic cult leader whose nefarious influence leads to kidnapping and murder.
With Twilight and New Moon great successes and Eclipse in post production and scheduled for release in June of this year, the thought on every twi-mind is Breaking Dawn. There has been some controversy over whether or not it would be made into a film and now that it is, there seems to be some confusion as to what exactly this means. Everyone seems to have a different take on the movie, especially with regard to the number of films the book should warrant. Twilight Saga author,Stephenie Meyer, posted this on her website to try bring about some calm 
Don’t you worry folks, I’m sure it is all in good hands 
Just a quick note on the subject of the Breaking Dawn film: there is no drama over whether the book should be one movie or two. My personal feeling is that it would be very difficult to cram the whole story into one movie (as I’ve said in many interviews previous to this), but if a great way of doing that surfaces, I’m all for it. Two or one, whichever way fits the story best is fine by me, and everyone I’ve spoken with at Summit seems to feel the same way. We’re all excited to move forward on this, and we are slowly and surely getting there. I know people are anxious for news, and so sometimes gossip gets fabricated to stir things up, but there’s no basis to this particular story.
Steph
New Moon has just shattered records all over the movie industry this week, from pre-ticket sales to weekend earnings etc they are prominent in the top 5 on most standing records. The first record broken was for New Moon’s 
midnight release, Summit Entertainment released that New Moon had the biggest midnight opening of all time ranking in $26.27 million!!
New Moon was shown on 4024 screens and is number 3 in the all time box office opening weekend behind Dark Knight and Spiderman3.
Summit have said that over New Moon’s opening weekend and Monday it has grossed an unbelievable $153.6 million.
According to Hitfix the total earnings for the film as of Wednesday of opening week are totaled at $179 million. Last year Twilight peaked at $192 million so New Moon looks set to annihilate that total at the rate it is going
Here are some of the BIG earners:
Australia – $14.78M
Brazil – $7.86M
France – $18.9M
Italy – $15.3M
Mexico – $7.7M
Russia – $9M
Spain – $15M
UK – $19.5M
To check out if your country is one of the listed ‘big numbers’ released by Summit so far, go to gossipcop
I find it incredible that in a time of economic crisis for so many there is so much money just pouring into the film industry. but for R50 I am happy to get lost in the wonderful world of Twilight for 2 hours and ten minutes
After all the speculation and rumours, Summit have released this short statement about Breaking Dawn -
Summit Entertainment looks forward to bringing “Breaking Dawn” to the big screen but at this point any additional information is premature.
Okay – so they are going to be making it – but when??? Don’t leave it too long!!
Thanks to His Golden Eyes for this excellent news.
We all knew New Moon would do well, but it surpassed all expectations. And this being said, Summit would be really crazy to not make Breaking Dawn and soon!!
The vampire romance The Twilight Saga: New Moon sucked up $140.7 million in its first three days and pulled in a total of $258.8 million worldwide, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The No. 1 domestic debut for Summit Entertainment’s “New Moon” was more than twice the $69.6 million haul over the same weekend last year for “Twilight,” the first in the franchise based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels.
“Obviously, with the success of `Twilight’ itself, sequels being what they are will generate X-number of dollars more, particularly if it’s a satisfying sequel,” said Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit.
“New Moon” placed third on the all-time domestic chart behind last year’s $158.4 million opening weekend for the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” and 2007’s $151.1 million haul for “Spider-Man 3.”
Among the top-10 all-time openings, “New Moon” is the only one that came outside of Hollywood’s busiest time, the summer season. The movie adaptation of Meyer’s next “Twilight” chapter, “Eclipse,” arrives in the heart of summer, next June 30.
On Friday, “New Moon” set an all-time domestic high for opening day with $72.7 million, topping
the previous record of $67.2 million by last year’s “The Dark Knight.
Overall, Hollywood had its second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever, with final numbers expected to come in slightly behind the $260 million the industry rang up over the weekend of July 18, 2008, when “The Dark Knight” opened.
Compared to the same weekend last year, business was up 59 percent.
Overseas, “New Moon” debuted in 25 countries and took in $118.1 million.
Source – Yahoo News
“Responding to the fans of THE TWILIGHT SAGA, Summit Entertainment announced today that it will re-release TWILIGHT, the first film in the franchise, at select theatres nationwide on November 19th, a day before the highly anticipated release of the movie’s sequel, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON. Despite the first film already being on DVD, fans across the nation have been calling out to see the film once again on the big screen and the studio is honoring their request.
Summit is working with exhibitors to screen TWILIGHT one night only with screenings in the evening just before THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON arrives in theatres. Select theatres will offer tickets at a reduced price.”
Numetro will be screening Twilight at what looks like all of their cinemas from Friday the 13th of November so if you want to freshen up and re-experience Twilight on the ‘Big Screen’ feel free
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