Summit Entertainment (formerly Summit Entertainment NV) is an independent American film studio headquartered in Santa Monica, California with offices in London.
Summit was originally founded in the early 1990s and launched in 1996 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett under the name Summit Entertainment LP as a distribution and sales organization. In April 2007, it became a fully independent film studio, Summit Entertainment, LLC,...
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Summit Entertainment (formerly Summit Entertainment NV) is an independent American film studio headquartered in Santa Monica, California with offices in London.
Summit was originally founded in the early 1990s and launched in 1996 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett under the name Summit Entertainment LP as a distribution and sales organization. In April 2007, it became a fully independent film studio, Summit Entertainment, LLC, with the addition of Rob Friedman, a former executive at Paramount Pictures. The new company added major development, production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution branches with a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and other investors giving it access to over $1 billion in financing.
After a string 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 romance about vampires based on the best-selling book of the same name by Stephenie Meyer....
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