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FX Wins Cable Rights to 'Twilight'

Cabler pacts with Summit for franchise

By Stuart Levine--Variety -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/24/2009 9:59:28 AM

Vampires are set to descend on FX. On the heels of New Moon's sizzling opening weekend, the cabler has struck a deal with Summit Entertainment for basic cable rights to the red-hot pics in the Twilight franchise.

New Moon, the second of the four planned pics, bowed to the third-best opening weekend of all time with $142.8 million.

Cabler's purchase also includes theatrical rights to 2008's Twilight; the forthcoming third installment, Eclipse; and the planned fourth pic, Breaking Dawn.

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• Where was MTV in acquiring the Twilight franchise? If MTV wants to change so bad in going in a more scripted series/ movie direction, why were they not flies on honey over Twilight? I mean, their sister network, Showtime has the pay cable rights to Twilight franchise. How could that not have extended onto Viacom's basic cable entity, MTV? Is MTV that financially strapped for cash that it couldn't acquire something white-hot as Twilight? Or deep down, MTV's really unsure of its' new direction it wants to go in?

  
  Daniel Quintanilla - 11/24/2009 11:30:20 AM EST
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