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Summit Sets Release Dates for ‘Red 2,’ ‘Ender’s Game’ and More

Summit Entertainment, the youngest of the major studios producing and distributing major films these days, struck gold (or blood?) in acquiring the rights to the “Twilight” series. After launching into the big leagues with Twilight in 2008, the studio brought Best Picture-winner The Hurt Locker to movie theaters the following year. Despite several misteps in terms of box office success, including this year’s flop Drive Angry and this past weekend’s The Three Musketeers, the studio has begun to shape a promising calendar for 2012 and 2013, including a sequel to last year’s Red.

According to Box Office Mojo, Red 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on August 2, 2013, scoring that “last major weekend of the summer” spot which was proved all the more valuable by this year’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Jon and Erich Hoeber, writers of the first film and next summer’s Battleship delivered the initial script for the sequel. It’s unclear who from the original (Bruce Willis, Mary Louise-Parker, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich among other) would return including director Robert Schwentke, who’s now filming R.I.P.D. starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges.

DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 10.25.11)

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 classic The Conservation is a highly regarded movie from The Godfather director and also by us at Player Affinity, making it as our Recommendation of the Week. Another highlight of the week is the release of the superhero hit
Captain America: The First Avenger, a must have if you want to complete your Marvel collection.

Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar Announce ‘The Secret Service’, ‘War Heroes’ Set for Universal?

It’s another day and another news piece on how Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar seem to be working/sleeping together. Not long after announcing his intention to adapt Superior to the screens, Vaughn, along with Millar and artist Dave Gibbons (of Watchmen fame) have announced a new comic called The Secret Service, one in which Vaughn holds the movie rights.

Warner Brothers Hires Writer for “Sherlock Holmes 3”

Despite Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows still a couple months away, Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is already planning to make “Sherlock Holmes 3.” There is a lot of positive buzz towards the highly anticipated sequel and Drew Pearce has been hired to script the follow-up.

‘Paranormal Activity 3’ Scares Up Box Office Records

The reaper commeth. As if the largest opening of the franchise wasn’t enough, Paranormal Activity 3’s mammoth $54-million opening also shattered the record of another threequel (Jackass 3D) for the biggest October opening and biggest fall opening, not to mention it now lays claim to the largest horror movie opening — ever.

Will Bradley Cooper Be ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?’

Bradley Cooper, who broke out in 2009’s The Hangover and proved himself to be a moderate box-office draw withLimitless earlier this year, has been offered the leading role in Soderbergh’s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., based on the 1960s spy series of the same name.

‘Assasin’s Creed’ Film To Be Made by Sony

The big screen exploits of Ubisoft’s assassins are becoming more of a reality. Sony Pictures, the same studio looking to turn the “Uncharted” and “inFamous” games into blockbusters as well, has closed a deal with Ubisoft to adapt their “Assassin’s Creed” series for film.