Under the new deal, FX will start airing the first “Twilight,” movie in the fall of 2011. “New Moon,” which hauled in $142.8-million in the US alone last weekend, will air a year later, and “Twilight: Eclipse,” which debuts nationwide on June 30 next year will begin its commercial-riddled tenure on FX in 2013.
Twilight’s fourth installment, however, is still up in the air – “Breaking Dawn” the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series has yet to receive a firm production commitment from Summit, the saga’s producers.
But such box-office gold does not come cheap – Fees for a movie are based on its US box-office performance, so on current intake alone Twilight II could cost FX around $17-million. And that fee more than doubles if New Moon takes over $200-million within the US.
With their huge fan appeal, all four films could thus cost the channel over $100-million to play.
Summit’s new Oscar hopeful, “The Hurt Locker,” the Nicolas Cage thriller “Knowing” and Dakota Fanning’s new action-drama “Push” are also included in FX’s upcoming schedule, and all will start airing in mid-2012.
And vampires are not all FX has been hunting – The Hollywood Reporter reveals they’ve also signed deals to play “2012,” “Star Trek,” “Night at the Museum II,” “Transformers” “The Proposal” and “Zombieland,” plus every movie in the “X-Men” and “Ice Age” series.
But, by then who would watch?…
