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  • Summit Teams Up with HGTV for Ender’s Game Home Makeover

    Summit Teams Up with HGTV for Ender’s Game Home Makeover

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    As we’ve discovered earlier today (see photo above), Summit has teamed up with Home and Garden TV for its Ender’s Game Experience. According to several news outlets, Summit and HGTV have issued a press release concerning HGTV’s involvement in the Experience as well as the home makeover visitors can hope to win.

    Inside the “Ender’s Game” activation, located outside the Hilton Gaslamp district, HGTV showcases its “Journey Begins at Home” space—an interpretation of the Wiggins home living room—among eight elaborate, specially constructed, unique rooms that represent the most iconic environments of Ender’s world, complete with original film props and set pieces used in the movie.

    Visitors will be able to “enter the sweepstakes for the chance to win $10,000 courtesy of HGTV for their own “out of this world” home makeover.”

     

    Sources: CNBC, The Slanted

     

  • Summit Releases Official Synopsis for ‘Ender’s Game’

    Summit Releases Official Synopsis for ‘Ender’s Game’

    Summit Entertainment has released the official synopsis for Ender’s Game. As a fair warning to people who have not read the book, this synopsis contains book SPOILERS.

    In the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young children to find the future Mazer. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite.

    Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect amongst his peers. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military’s next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he’s trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

    Note that I say book spoilers. With Summit pulling Mazer Rackham’s presence as Ender’s teacher this early on, it sounds like the movie will possibly be eliminating the long timeline put forth in the books to condense the story down.

    What do you all think? Will Mazer’s relativistic space travel be cut and the story’s timeline be altered for the film?

  • ‘Ender’s Game’ Release Date Pushed to November 1, 2013

    ‘Ender’s Game’ Release Date Pushed to November 1, 2013

    Ender's ChairAlthough it’s been reported that Ender’s Game is nearing the halfway point of it’s production, currently happening in New Orleans, Louisiana, Summit Entertainment announced today that the release date for the movie has been pushed back nearly 8 months from March 15, 2013 to November 1, 2013.

    This slates the movie to open just three weeks before Lionsgate’s already highly anticipated The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire.

    Lionsgate and Summit hope to boost interest in Ender’s Game by opening it so closely to Catching Fire, since they can use the Hunger Games sequel to publicize Ender’s Game. Also, delaying the release will allow Summit and Lionsgate to market and publicize a fully finished film.

    This is rather disheartening news, since 8 months is quite a long time when we just recently passed through the one year mark until the movie’s release. However, with the additional time, perhaps it will give Lionsgate the time needed to build buzz for the film adaptation, which has been through numerous failed attempts to bring the movie to the big screen over the last 30 years.

    Source: THR

  • Summit Entertainment Acquired by Lionsgate for $412.5M

    Summit Entertainment Acquired by Lionsgate for $412.5M

    In a press released issued today, Lionsgate announced their acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the studio currently holding the rights to the Ender’s Game movie, for the sum of $412.5 million.

    Approved by the Lionsgate board earlier this week, the deal will keep the two studios operating as distinct brands, but it’s unclear at this point what will happen to Summit executives Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger. In a meeting with Summit employees this afternoon, they informed staff that they would continue to operate on a day-to-day basis on their current projects, so at this point, the merger does not seem to affect the production schedule of Ender’s Game.

    With Summit closing out their mega Twilight franchise and Lionsgate about to unleash their potential smash hit The Hunger Games, the merging of the two studios seems to make a lot of sense, bringing together two small studios to create one powerhouse studio with a lot of potential to corner the young adult movie adaptation market.

    It sounds like a great opportunity for Ender’s Game, whose “young adult” fanbase has since grown into middle adulthood since the book was first published, because the film can benefit from the combined knowledge and expertise on marketing a young adult film.

    Source: Variety