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  • Lionsgate Executive Has Seen ‘Ender’s Game’ Trailer

    Lionsgate Executive Has Seen ‘Ender’s Game’ Trailer

    It won’t be long now, hopefully!

    Yesterday, Lions Gate Vice Chairman Michael Burns appeared on CNBC’s Fast Money to talk Oscars and Lionsgate’s upcoming franchises with Melissa Lee. When asked about their 2013 pipeline, he had something really interesting to say for Ender’s Game fans.

    Melissa Lee: You’ve got a big pipeline in 2013. What’s the one film that we need to be watching for out of Lionsgate? What’s gonna the gamechanger for you guys in terms of earnings.

    Michael Burns: I’m pretty confident that actually Catching Fire which comes out in November will do well. We’ve also got some potential big hits and franchises. Red 2 is obviously the sequel coming out after Red 1, out of the first Red. I feel very good about… I saw the trailer yesterday for Ender’s Game, that looks very exciting. I’d also have to say that Divergent which we start shooting in Chicago in the next couple of weeks, the book sales are doing better than the trajectory of Twilight and Hunger Games at this point. And that’s Neil Berger, Kate Winslet, and we’ve got Shailene Woodley from The Descendents. We think that could be the next franchise for us. You never know, but we feel really good about it.

    Sounds like they’ve got a trailer done! Hopefully we’ll see that within the next month and also the first official poster for Ender’s Game. It’s funny that I’ve been so focused on when the trailer will land that I’d totally forgotten to wonder about a poster.

    What are you guys hoping they’ll show in the trailer? And what kind of poster would excite you the most? Ender? Battle School? A space battle? All three?

    Thanks to Ender News for the find!

    Skip to 32:20 for the part where he talks 2013 movies.

  • Michael Burns Talks ‘Ender’s Game’ with CNBC

    Michael Burns Talks ‘Ender’s Game’ with CNBC

    Michael BurnsLast week, Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns talked to CNBC’s Fast Money regarding their upcoming strategy for the summer and eventually the topic came to Ender’s Game.

    Host Melissa Lee hinted that Burns had pegged Ender’s Game as their next big YA franchise, but he remained cautious about it’s prospects.

    Melissa Lee: Last night when we were exchanging emails you said, “Have you read Ender’s Game. You were saying Ender’s Game is going to be the next big young adult franchise after Hunger Games, how excited are you about this? Can you give us sort of a… when you read the books, do you think it’s going to be as big, as resonating as ‘The Hunger Games’?

    Unfortunately, he seemed to get the book confused with The Hunger Games, citing how great it was that it was back on the NYT Bestseller list four years after it originally came out. Still, he said he has high hopes for it.

    Michael Burns: You never want to try to pick your hits. The book is terrific, I’m not going to put a spoiler out here right now. We have a great cast. Our head of production and his team think this movie is going to be a great addition to the young adult franchise, so yeah I have high hopes for it.

    It’s interesting to hear them talk franchise, since book readers know very well that the Ender’s Game book sequel Speaker for the Dead wouldn’t fall into the YA category by a long shot, but Ender in Exile, which was published just under four years ago, would be the likeliest candidate for a chronological sequel.

    To watch the video, head over to CNBC. (skip to 3:50)