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EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-emptive deal, Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Divergent author Veronica Roth’s latest short story, Inertia. Temple Hill partners Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce with Pouya Shahbazian. The short story was published last spring in the Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin anthology Summer Days…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Schwentke has dropped out of directing Divergent: Ascendant, the final installment of the Veronica Roth novel series that stars Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, Theo James and Naomi Watts. Lions Gate will now scramble to find a director to keep the series on schedule, as it’s dated for June 9, 2017…

UPDATE, 2:17 PM: Slightly more kids are off for spring break this weekend than last, with a third of all colleges off per Rentrak (vs. 27% last Friday) and 19% K-12 schools out (vs. 17%). As such, that young demo flocks to movies at night and hourlies for Lionsgate’s Insurgent are bound to improve. But currently, Insur…

The start of Summit Entertainment’s trajectory began when the mini-major convinced Stephenie Meyer to sell her Twilight Saga book series after she’d been left so frustrated by how Paramount Pictures let it languish. Was it a billion dollar lucky break? As the vampire-werewolf series that fueled Summit’s recent $750…

Summit Entertainment continues its prolific book rights buying as it nears a deal for the Veronica Roth novel Divergent, with Red Wagon partners Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher attached to produce. The book is compared to The Hunger Games because of the age of the characters and the violence that takes place in a futuristic…