November
18 How Hollywood almost let "Twilight" fall into darkness

So how did Summit Entertainment get its paws on the upcoming behemoth that is "Twilight"? Patrick Goldstein lays it out for you, but for those with latent ADD: Paramount Pictures screwed up. So did 20th Century Fox (via Fox Atomic). Then it came to Erik Feig at Summit, which had recently morphed from a sales-financing company to a full-on wannabe mini-major with the adddition of former Paramount exec Rob Friedman as partner to Summit founder Patrick Wachsberger. Cut to this Friday, when the film will be on 5,500 screens and could sell out most of them. Also of note: Goldstein sources say Paramount's Brad Weston didn't think supernatural movies were commercial, since "Cursed" flopped when he was at Dimension Films; and Goldstein describes Friedman as "the Hollywood equivalent of T. Boone Pickens, the oil tycoon suddenly turned alternative energy booster," a concept more frightening than marauding bands of undead teenagers. [LAT]

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