Summit Entertainment Celebrates Edward Cullen's 111th Birthday On June 20th With Debut Of New Teaser Trailer For The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2

Summit Entertainment Celebrates Edward Cullen's 111th Birthday On June 20th With Debut Of New Teaser Trailer For The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2



SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To help fans worldwide celebrate Edward Cullen's 111th birthday on June 20, 2012, Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE(®) (NYSE: LGF) company, will debut an exciting new teaser trailer for the highly anticipated THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2.

A 10-second sneak peek of the teaser trailer will be available for download via EPK.tv at 5:30 AM PDT/8:30 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.

Following the release of the first-look, the full teaser trailer will be made available for download on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 5:30 AM PDT/8:30 AM EDT via EPK.tv.

Media can download all materials at https://www.epk.tv/view/#/campaign/breaking-dawn/. First time visitors to the site will have to register to gain access and registration may be done in advance.

The next and final chapter in THE TWILIGHT SAGA, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 will arrive in theatres on November 16, 2012. Academy Award(®) winner Bill Condon directed both the first and second part of the two-part finale starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The film, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series, was written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing.

About THE TWILIGHT SAGA film series
THE TWILIGHT SAGA film series stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction that pulls them together...even when Edward confides that he and his family are vampires. The action-packed, modern day vampire love story TWILIGHT, the first film in the series, was released in theatres on November 21, 2008 to a blockbuster reception. The second installment of the film franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was released November 20, 2009 the third installment, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE was released June 30, 2010, and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 was released on November 18, 2011.

About SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE(®) company, is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio. The company handles all aspects of marketing and distribution for both its own internally developed motion pictures as well as acquired pictures.

Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of primetime cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 23 shows on 16 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning "Mad Men," "Weeds" and "Nurse Jackie," along with the drama "Boss," the new network series "Nashville" and "Next Caller," the syndication successes "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," its spinoff "Meet the Browns," "The Wendy Williams Show" and "Are We There Yet?" and the upcoming "Anger Management," starring Charlie Sheen, and "Orange Is The New Black," an original series for Netflix.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of "The Hunger Games" franchise, which has already grossed nearly $650 million at the worldwide box office, "The Expendables," "The Lincoln Lawyer," "Cabin In The Woods," "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family" and "Margin Call." With the January 2012 acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the Company now has added the blockbuster "Twilight Saga" franchise, which has grossed more than $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, to a slate already including "The Hunger Games ," giving Lionsgate the two premier young adult franchises in the world. Recent Summit hits include "Red," "Letters to Juliet," "Knowing," the "Step Up" franchise and the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, "The Hurt Locker."

Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 13,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.

Press Contacts
Mike Rau West Coast Publicity 310-255-3232 mrau@summit-ent.com
Clarissa Colmenero East Coast Publicity 212-247-7112 ccolmenero@summit-ent.com
Sabryna Phillips Regional Publicity 310-255-8420 sphillips@summit-ent.com
Ryan Fons Online Publicity 323-445-4763 ryan@fonspr.com
Melissa Martinez International Publicity 310-309-8436 mmartinez@summit-ent.com






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